When everyone witnessed Xu Xing break the treant's torso with a single punch, they couldn't help but cheer. Having just lost four ability users, the treant was an insurmountable foe to them. They even doubted if Shen Feng had truly defeated the treant back then, as it possessed not only immense strength but also incredibly powerful defenses, strong regenerative abilities, and the capacity to use heat detection in dim environments.
Such a formidable treant was directly broken by Xu Xing's punch. Upon seeing this, everyone was astonished, and their astonishment turned into continuous cheers. The treant was no longer an invincible entity.
However, at this moment, the remaining two treants resumed their attack. Dozens of vines instantly bound Xu Xing, making her completely invisible from the outside.
The cheers abruptly ceased. Everyone clearly hadn't expected that after breaking one treant with a single blow, Xu Xing would be so easily captured by the other treants. They likely thought Xu Xing was now powerless.
Just then, the vines that had surrounded Xu Xing exploded outwards. The vines shattered and flew in all directions, all of them broken. Xu Xing reappeared before everyone's eyes.
Next, Xu Xing charged towards the treants and unleashed two more punches. As her fists struck, her ability was instantly activated, sending powerful shockwaves directly into the treants' bodies.
While the treants were indeed incredibly tough all over, even as hard as ironwood, they were ultimately made of wood. They couldn't withstand immense power. Xu Xing, having broken through the limits of her ability, had learned a new technique. When attacking enemies, her fists would carry shockwaves that directly transmitted into the treant's body. Unable to withstand such powerful attacks, the treants would instantly explode.
After continuously killing three treants, the surrounding crowd stopped running. They had expected the treants to wipe them out with their unstoppable might, but Xu Xing had stepped forward. The passage was filled with wood chips, the result of the treants' bodies exploding and scattering debris. The ground was almost instantly covered in white.
At this moment, the treants on the opposite side of the great fissure still wanted to approach and cross the suspension bridge.
The people from the Ability Administration quickly cheered Xu Xing on: "Come on, Xu Xing, cut down the suspension bridge and defeat these treants."
"Xu Xing, you are the strongest, hurry up! We'll recommend a title for you later."
"That's right, your strength is evident for all to see. Keep fighting and kill all these treants."
The crowd immediately cheered Xu Xing's name, and for a time, her name echoed through the passage, reaching Shen Feng's ears within the cave.
Qi Yunfang was the most astonished. She knew Xu Xing could break through the treants' defenses with a single strike, a feat that even a fifth-tier ability user like Xiao Sheng couldn't achieve. Yet, even so, she shouldn't have achieved victory so easily. The treants' immense power was well-known, and now, in Xu Xing's hands, they were being dealt with one by one with a single punch.
"Something's not right. I think I saw Xu Xing consume something earlier, meaning her strength is a result of medication. Her eyes look off now, indicating this power isn't constant," Qi Yunfang realized after a moment of thought.
Xu Xing, meanwhile, felt her body filled with power, as if she had inexhaustible strength. Hearing the voices behind her, Xu Xing felt a touch of pride. Seeing the treants still approaching, Xu Xing went directly to the edge of the suspension bridge, grabbed a vine on it, and then unleashed her ability. Shockwaves were transmitted, instantly tearing half of the suspension bridge apart.
The treants on the suspension bridge likely never expected such a thing to happen. As the bridge was torn in half, it tilted to the side. The treants on the bridge were caught off guard by this turn of events and fell directly into the abyss. After more than ten seconds, echoes from below indicated that falling from such a great height would be difficult to survive, and the treants likely wouldn't make it.
The suspension bridge was formed from vines, and Xu Xing had already destroyed the two strongest vines. Next, she only needed to destroy another one, and the twenty-odd treants on the opposite side wouldn't be able to cross. Treants' vines could grow, but long-distance movement required support; they could only move on the ground.
With a span of over twenty meters, the vines were soft, and any extension would sag.
Seeing that she was about to turn the tide, Xu Xing was immensely excited. She was about to destroy the last thickest vine, but as she reached out her hand, countless sharp thorns suddenly grew from the vine, turning it into a thorny branch in an instant.
Caught off guard, Xu Xing's palm was pierced by the thorns.
"Ah, it hurts!" Xu Xing felt a sharp pain in her palm as it was pierced by the thorns.
But Xu Xing persevered, still gripping the remaining thick vine and frantically unleashing her ability. Finally, the other vine also snapped.
With a twenty-meter span and no strong support, the remaining smaller vines couldn't hold. Thus, the suspension bridge on this side of the cave broke and swung towards the opposite side. The breaking of the suspension bridge caused everyone to cheer, clearly overjoyed by Xu Xing's actions.
The treants on the opposite side continued to move but faced a twenty-meter wide great fissure. Faced with such a massive chasm, returning to the cave with mutated plants was impossible.
As everyone cheered, vines suddenly began to grow from within the cave. As these vines grew, they sprouted wooden spikes, turning into thorny branches. Countless thorns appeared and began to move towards Xu Xing, attempting to entangle her at that very moment.
Upon noticing this, Qi Yunfang quickly warned, "Xu Xing, watch out behind you!"
Her warning came a moment too late. By the time Xu Xing turned her head, countless thorny vines had already surrounded her and begun to entangle her. Xu Xing's entire body was pierced by the thorns, and her clothes began to tear under their assault.
Seeing this situation, Xu Xing quickly unleashed her ability, causing her body to vibrate and break all the vines that were entwining her. Once the thorny vines around her were broken, Xu Xing appeared before everyone, covered in blood.
Seeing Xu Xing in this state, everyone couldn't help but be shocked. Even after being surrounded by so many thorns, she was still alive. This seemed too incredible.
Soon, Xu Xing answered their doubts. She bent down and scooped up water from the ground to wash away the bloodstains. As the blood was washed away, Xu Xing's skin was revealed to be pure white. It turned out that Xu Xing's injuries were healing rapidly. Such terrifying regenerative ability was unmatched even by ability users; it seemed only the tank-type zombies of the past possessed such strong recovery capabilities.
Xu Xing had thought that after she shattered the suspension bridge, the treants on the other side would no longer be able to cross, as treants couldn't fly and had to respect gravity.
However, as Xu Xing was cleaning herself, a long wooden spike suddenly grew from the ceiling of the cave and slowly approached Xu Xing in the darkness. No one else saw this, and Xu Xing was completely unprepared.
As a result, at this moment, the wooden spike fiercely stabbed down from above, directly hitting Xu Xing in the lower back and piercing her abdominal cavity.
This scene stunned everyone. No one had expected Xu Xing to be attacked like this.
Xu Xing intended to immediately use her ability to break the wooden spike, but the spike embedded in her abdominal cavity then sprayed a large amount of hot liquid. This liquid, around sixty to seventy degrees Celsius, upon entering Xu Xing's body, was essentially cooking her internal organs. Human internal organs are very fragile; once the core body temperature fluctuates, death is inevitable.
Xu Xing's abdomen instantly swelled, indicating how much the wooden spike had expelled.
Xu Xing unleashed her ability, turning and breaking the wooden spike with an elbow strike. Red liquid soon dripped from the broken spike. The once hot liquid turned into a gel-like substance upon contact with the water.
"I was ambushed. Am I going to die?" Xu Xing's mind raced with these thoughts. At this moment, Xu Xing felt her abdomen burning hot, as if there were boiling water inside. This sensation was unbearable, and her internal organs were suffering immensely.
Even though Xu Xing had consumed a seed of the century plant and possessed powerful regenerative abilities, she was still in excruciating pain from the internal attack.
Feeling the pain within her body, Xu Xing believed she couldn't survive. In this situation, she completely exploded. "Even if I die, I won't just fade away silently. Big Brother Shen Feng, let me do this one last thing for you."
In despair, Xu Xing thought of Shen Feng, who was still fighting. From the first moment she met Shen Feng, he had been her idol, and that had never changed. Now, feeling that she was about to die, Xu Xing could only fight one last time in despair.
"Ah, collapse for me!" Xu Xing roared at the sky, then slammed a fist into the ground, her ability operating at full throttle.
Desperate humans can unleash immense combat power, and Xu Xing was no different. As Xu Xing frantically unleashed her ability, the entire underground began to tremble. Initially, it was a slight tremor that no one could feel, but then the cave began to shake, and the tremors intensified. In the final moments, the ground even quaked, and rocks began to fall from the cave ceiling.
"Rumble." The cave's tremors became obvious, accompanied by the mournful cry of the earth, a sound only heard during earthquakes. Underground, this sound was amplified infinitely, as if someone were beating drums throughout the cave.
The people in the passage struggled to stand because the ground was constantly shaking, and rocks were falling from above. They had to lean against the walls, otherwise, they would easily fall.
"Clang." At this moment, the iron chains on both sides of the fissure suddenly tightened and then snapped. Sunlight shone down from above. The fissure instantly widened, and this massive crack began to extend into the distance. Looking down from high above, it resembled a wound torn open in the ground.
"What the heck, Xu Xing actually triggered an earthquake at this moment? How is that possible? Can she be this powerful?" Shen Feng, inside the cave, found this event incredible. Watching the ground tremble and bubbles appear in the lake, Shen Feng quickly recalled an incident at sea. At that time, Andorf had also caused tremors, triggering an undersea earthquake that led to the leakage of toxic gas, saving a group of ability users.
And now, the person with the vibration ability was Xu Xing. However, from the information extracted from Meng Weichang, Shen Feng knew that although this ability was powerful, it couldn't match Andorf's intensity; it could at most vibrate a small mountain.
But at this moment, Xu Xing had directly caused a massive earthquake, something Shen Feng hadn't expected.