The cat granny gurgled and lunged at Luoshan Zi, with her eye on the throat wide open and her both arms thrusting forward. Her sharp nails glimmered like freshly polished knives, ready to cut into Luoshan Zi’s flesh and bones.

A loud grunt came from the side, while a full force kick landed on the cat granny’s right waist. The cat granny was too focused to react, and was thus sent through the sliding door, almost falling off the balcony handrails.

“Luoshan, you’re injured. Go!” Gloria rushed over, with bite marks and scratches on her arms and even her neck and face. “Go go GO!!”

Luoshan Zi breathed in through her mouth, then nodded at Gloria and limped towards the door. On her way out, she was helped by Sue, who did not leave along with the Teiths but remained in the apartment near the door, with a bottle of blessed water in her hands. Gyuu Park recoiled, the kick was hard on him as well, and he needed to turn his ankles to relieve the pain and relieve the tensions on his muscles and tendons.

The cat granny growled and sprung up from the ground. Her bloodshot eye with dark yellow iris twitched left and right, staring at the three that came in. The crazed rats left a lot of bit marks on them, but did not do too much damage. Gyuu Park and Tae Kuo were standing in front of the sliding door, in fighting poses and holding talismans, bottles of blessed water, a candle and the short peachwood sword that Luoshan Zi just dropped.

The cat granny opened her mouth and hissed. Her two eyes kept bleeding black tar, and a foul and chilling smell was getting thicker by the second. But from the looks of things, she did not want to attempt to go directly over them.

At the same time, neither Tae Kuo nor Gyuu Park wanted to make the first move, for this was their first time actually dealing with a creature like this. Spirits, regular creatures, humanoid or non-humanoid, they had plenty of experience. But right now, with the exposed eye on the neck, and the dark aura with the ability to create real vivid illusions and control rats, they were more willing to wait for the cat granny to strike first, in order to get a chance to observe and strike back.

Gloria ruffled through their bags, attempting to find more talismans, artifacts they could use for battle while her eyes were fixed on the cat granny.

The cat granny’s throat eye narrowed slightly at Gloria, then curled her extremities and launched herself at the ceiling on top of Gyuu Park and Tae Kuo. In the blink of an eye, her claws dug into the ceiling and started moving on upside down aiming at the apartment’s front door. Tae Kuo was the first to react, and with a swift swing of his right arm, his short peachwood sword shot at the cat granny’s back.

The cat granny’s body bent sideways to an almost complete right angle, the peachwood sword struck the ceiling and barely grazed the edge of her body. Tae Kuo jumped backwards, kicked the wall on the side to push himself towards the cat granny. While his body was in midair, his two arms swung upwards at the same time. The bottle of blessed water in his right hand splashed up, and the talismans burned up in his left hand fingers, igniting the entire candle clutched in his left palm. With the push of his Qi, the flames of the candle shot up, meeting the blessed water in the air.

A bright, golden flash exploded from the contact. The cat granny screamed, and her claws loosened. Gloria jumped upwards, with the final piece of talisman she could find clutched in her right palm and a string of wooden beads on her right wrist, she swung her palm at the cat granny’s head like she was wielding a chopper.

Though temporarily blinded, the cat granny still raised her arms up to cover her head and her chest. Gloria’s hand chop collided with her left forearm. And with the aid of the flames from the talisman, Gloria’s attack broke the forearm in half, with only a bit of skin connecting the two parts.

A gutsy scream blasted out from the cat granny’s belly, a shockwave of chilling dark energy kicked Gloria in her face and chest, sending her towards the ground. But before her back completely landed on the hardwood floor, her left hand swung upward, with her fingers in a claw formation.

A light blue clawmark shot towards the ceiling right at the cat granny. It was but a simple Qi attack, the cat granny simply moved her right arm over and blocked most of it.

Tae Kuo roared, as he lunged forward and splashed his bottle of the blessed water at the menacing, but now injured creature. At the next moment, he struck the water in the air with a palm strike, with almost every droplet of Qi he could bring out.

His Qi and the blessed water displayed a strange synergy: the shadow of his palm absorbed every droplet of water it came into contact with, growing brighter in the process.

Another deafening scream came from the creature, a small portion of her left leg and the dangling part of her left forearm were crushed by the palm shadow. But the main parts of her body were intact, due to a last minute maneuver from her, by bending her waist to an impossible angle once again.

Gloria grunted, she was almost seeing stars from the impact and the corrosion from the dark energy. Tae Kuo was not ready to strike again, as his last attempt drained him of most of his usable Qi. Gyuu Park pushed himself off the ground, and without any plan of attacking the cat granny, he rushed to the door and simply blocked her way.

The cat granny’s mouth opened to a horrifyingly wide angle, her teeth grew long and sharp. She bit down on Gyuu Park’s arms, her razor-sharp teeth ready to tear both his arms clean off.

Blood splattered, Gyuu Park grunted in pain. The teeth pierced through his defense of Qi, his skin and his muscles and sunk into his arms. But this was all the creature could do. Her eye on her throat opened wide, as if she was surprised. Not only this, for a brief moment, her teeth started to get blackened and cracked up, as if it was being corroded by something.

A forceful scream came from Sue, and at the same moment, a metal pot of boiling hot oil was thrown all over the cat granny’s body.