The impact rendered the man's abilities ineffective, and he emerged from the ground. After tossing Xiaoyu aside, he clutched his head and exclaimed, "Ouch, that hurts so much! What happened? I can pass through rocks, but how come the soil here is harder than rocks?"
Qi Ling looked at the disheveled man before her and said, "What, you think the hardness of a stone can compare to my Divine Power of the Earth? How laughable."
"You're lucky, no, I should say I'm in a good mood. Otherwise, I would have just sealed you up in the ground and seen if you were an earthworm, able to live underground."
The man finally realized that the hardening of the soil was definitely Qi Ling's doing, which undoubtedly meant that Qi Ling had seen through his trick and knew his abilities.
The man's expression turned serious. He stood up and said, "It seems you do have some skill! Worthy of our effort! You're just unlucky to have been targeted by us; you can't escape now!"
As the man finished speaking, two chains suddenly flew out from either side of Qi Ling and began to entangle her.
Qi Ling reacted the moment the chains appeared, immediately turning to dodge, but the chains seemed to have a life of their own, relentlessly following her movements, as elusive as two snakes.
Left with no other choice, Qi Ling reached out to block, but as soon as she touched the chains, Qi Ling realized she had been tricked, because the chains had no physical substance at all!
After the two chains passed through Qi Ling's hands, they immediately materialized again, and Qi Ling Qi Ling was now surrounded by the chains, which bound her tightly.
Then, two bald men appeared from both sides, one of them holding a chain. Clearly, the strange chain binding Qi Ling was made by the two of them.
Seeing Qi Ling bound by chains, the man who had Earth Release couldn't help but feel extremely smug. He said to the two bald men, " Jin Suo, Yin Suo, you two arrived just in time! Well done! You truly are a golden duo!"
One of the bald men said, "Enough talk, Tu Yan, get to work! After we've dealt with these two, we need to find our next target!"
"Oh, no rush. You two take a closer look and see what's on that person's chest," Tu Yan said to the two of them.
Upon hearing Tu Yan's words, Jin Suo and Yin Suo immediately looked at Qi Ling's chest and were surprised to find that Qi Ling's score had reached 5! This meant that if they defeated Qi Ling, they would directly gain five points!
This is definitely a sure-fire way to make money, the two said happily, "Haha, this is truly a stroke of luck! Tu Yan, what are you waiting for? Get started!"
"I know, I know, I was just about to do it!" Suddenly, he said, his hunched body jumping around like a shaman, while making a series of unintelligible chanting sounds.
As the Tu Yan moved, the soil on the surrounding ground slowly rose into the air, and under the Tu Yan's control, it formed hundreds of sharp cones made of soil, with their sharp tips naturally pointing towards Qi Ling.
Qi Ling had never seen such an ability before, and couldn't help but feel a bit curious. It was just like the skills in online games, and at least it looked quite flashy.
Seeing Tu Yan Qi Ling remain silent, Tu Yan assumed he was frightened by the situation and said gleefully, "Hehehe, never seen such a powerful ability before! This is my Earth Spike Technique. Enjoy the pain of being pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows!"
Qi Ling then laughed and said, "That's really impressive. I thought you were just a plumber digging tunnels, but I didn't expect you to have this skill! If you used it for performances, you could probably charge admission, right?"
"Damn it, still so stubborn! I bet you won't learn your lesson until you're faced with death!" Tu Yan said angrily. "Since that's the case, then prepare to die! Earth Spike Technique, go!"
Hundreds of sharp cones, under Tu Yan's command, pierced towards Qi Ling simultaneously! Tu Yan was smiling smugly, waiting to see Qi Ling riddled with holes, but what happened next left him speechless.
The Earth Spike Technique, which had previously been invincible, turned into a pile of dirt after it struck Qi Ling, just like soft soil. It not only failed to cause any harm to Qi Ling, but instead turned into a pile of dirt!
The only use of the hundreds of earthen cones he made was to Qi Ling in dirt, making him look quite disheveled.
Qi Ling frowned and said, "So, this skill of yours is just for getting other people's clothes dirty? How despicable!"
"This is impossible! Even if you were made of copper and iron, you should have turned into a hedgehog under my earthen spike. How could you be completely unharmed!" Tu Yan said in disbelief.
Qi Ling chuckled and said, "A body of steel? Please, don't be so disparaging. I don't have such a weak body."
"Hmph, don't be so smug. Even if you can defend against a stab, what are you going to do about this kind of attack!" Tu Yan said, stretching out his hands again. This time, he placed his hands on the ground, seemingly doing something.
Then, a rumbling sound came, and two huge boulders, as big as small mountains, slowly rose from the ground and, under Tu Yan's command, slowly came to Qi Ling's sides.
"Hehehe, get crushed into mincemeat by my boulder! Boulder Heavy Strike!" Tu Yan said, as two boulders suddenly slammed together, trapping Qi Ling between them.
With a loud "bang," the two boulders closed together without a single gap, Tu Yan couldn't help but smile triumphantly again.
But when Tu Yan opened the two boulders, he could no longer laugh. The bloody mess he had imagined did not happen. Qi Ling, standing perfectly intact in the middle of the boulders, remained there.
Moreover, when Tu Yan looked at the boulder again, he was shocked to find that a human figure had formed in the middle of the boulder, and judging from the figure, it was Qi Ling.
This infuriated Tu Yan. What was going on? Had he come here to demold? How come his two huge stones had suddenly become more fragile than plaster?
In a fit of anger, he suddenly tried to clamp down several more times, but each time he could only leave Qi Ling's figure on the stone, without actually hurting him, which made Tu Yan very frustrated.
Although Tu Yan still had other moves he hadn't used, Qi Ling was already bored. He said helplessly, "Alright, alright, I'm not wasting any more time with you. You three, are you ready to die?"