The scene returned to the martial arts arena.
At this moment, Qin Xuan had been chased by Qi Ling for more than half of the arena.
But fortunately, the chase along the way had not caused him to lose his chance to act.
As a soft murmur sounded from his mouth, a series of pre-arranged talismans were instantly detonated.
Among them were fire-attribute explosive talismans and ice-attribute slowing talismans.
Qin Xuan's objective was to counterattack Qi Ling at this location and, at the same time, attempt to launch a counterattack again.
Because if he could only escape for the next half hour, this martial arts competition would be too dull and uninteresting!
Using the firelight from the activated explosive talismans as cover, Qin Xuan turned his back to Qi Ling, stomped hard on the ground with his right foot.
He flipped backward in a full circle, landing directly on Qi Ling's head, who was stepping on the breakthrough talismans.
Qi Ling was stunned, and a strange grin stretched his mouth to the roots of his ears.
Seeing that the opponent did not move, Qin Xuan did not know what he was planning.
He could only spring up and then heavily stomp his feet on Qi Ling's shoulders.
Generally speaking, once a heavy object falls on the shoulders of an ordinary person, it is difficult to move their arms freely.
Not to mention that the falling heavy object was an adult weighing over a hundred kilograms.
However, due to his physique and the effects of the pills, Qi Ling was completely unaffected by Qin Xuan.
As his arms bent rapidly upwards, before Qin Xuan could fall off his shoulders, he grabbed his ankles from behind.
Qin Xuan knew it was bad and prepared to jump up again to break free.
But Qi Ling, with a surge of strength, slammed him down at an extremely fast speed.
To ensure that his handsome face did not have to make contact with the ground, Qin Xuan could only support himself with his hands.
After buffering the downward force, he unwillingly joined his feet together, attempting to kick Qi Ling in the chest.
"Is that all the strength you have?"
Sensing Qin Xuan's intention, Qi Ling still grinned widely.
After a sinister laugh, he even slowly released his grip on the opponent.
He leaned forward and directly took a kick with his chest.
Seeing this, Qin Xuan flipped over and threw several explosive talismans, which detonated squarely on Qi Ling.
Boom, boom, boom—!
The deafening explosions instantly spread throughout the entire arena.
But when the smoke and dust cleared, Qi Ling, with his entire body emitting a faint golden light, still stood firm.
His clothes were almost blown to shreds by the explosive talismans.
His skin was also affected by the explosion and suffered varying degrees of blast wounds.
However, under the faint golden light of the Golden Transformation Pill, the wounds did not appear too obvious.
"This Golden Transformation Pill combined with the low-grade berserk pill is truly monstrous!"
"Much of the damage caused was absorbed, and I don't even feel pain!"
"But Qi Ling's eyes are getting redder, and his expression is becoming increasingly wild."
"He looks very much like the side effects of the low-grade berserk pill are taking effect."
As if to confirm Qin Xuan's thoughts, Qi Ling's facial expression had become significantly more distorted than before.
However, he himself did not feel anything about the changes in his face.
Upon seeing Qin Xuan's momentary pause due to thinking, Qi Ling immediately seized the opportunity to attack.
He condensed his qi into his fist, which shone with golden light!
With a punch, he possessed the power to split mountains and crack rocks!
What the heck?
This normal attack is almost as powerful as a skill?!
Taking the Meridian Protection Pill, his punches are so powerful!
Feeling the destructive power contained in this punch, Qin Xuan was startled.
The reason why the Demon Subduing Fist and the Demon Breaking Fist were powerful was that they were Daoist techniques of Qi cultivators.
They required the internal vital energy to be released through a special circulation method.
They consumed a large amount of vital energy, possessed strong destructive power, and placed a relatively small burden on the meridians.
However, although Qi Ling's current attack was not as powerful as the Demon Subduing Fist and the Demon Breaking Fist, it did not require a special change in the circulation method of the internal vital energy.
It only required speeding up the circulation of internal vital energy, condensing more vital energy onto the fist.
This method of increasing attack power was simple and crude, but the impact on the human meridians was extremely severe.
Therefore, anyone who cultivated, regardless of what they cultivated, would basically not use such methods.
It was only because Qi Ling had taken the Meridian Protection Pill that he could ignore the scouring of vital energy on his meridians for a short period.
Every punch could be a violent blow filled with vital energy.
"I originally wanted to try to go head-to-head with him again, but now it seems a bit unrealistic..."
After withstanding another enhanced strike from Qi Ling, Qin Xuan forcefully suppressed his trembling arm and retreated.
The frequent use of spells had made his head start to feel dizzy.
The Daoist techniques he learned from Ke Wudi were mainly lightning techniques and martial arts.
One was difficult to use, and the other consumed too much.
If his martial arts still couldn't cause effective damage to Qi Ling, it would be more of a loss than a gain.
Now, the only thing he could do seemed to be to revert to the beginning and use speed to create distance.
But in doing so, wouldn't he be going against his original intentions?
As he retreated, Qin Xuan continuously recalled all his current knowledge, trying to find a way to deal with Qi Ling.
Unfortunately, the dizziness grew stronger.
Before his brain could process anything, he was caught up by the opponent and hit with another punch.
Thus, he retreated and he pursued, making escape impossible.
The two of them fought from the left half of the arena to the left edge.
Only a few steps away from the arena wall.
Qin Xuan gritted his teeth, his eyes glancing at the large clock in the distance.
Qi Ling sneered and mocked again, "Weren't you having fun at the beginning?"
"Why did you suddenly stop?"
"But don't worry, the effects of my medicine have only worn off halfway."
"Next, I will continue to thank you properly!"
As he spoke, Qi Ling's fist swung down heavily again.
Qin Xuan, whose mind had just recovered slightly, quickly used earth-elemental techniques.
Only then did he prevent his arm from suffering further damage.
Bang, bang!
With a muffled sound, the earth shield that Qin Xuan had urgently summoned was instantly shattered.
He himself was also sent flying several meters away by the immense force.
Fortunately, the arena wall was only a few meters to his side.
Qin Xuan conveniently bent his arm to buffer the impact, then pushed hard, jumping to a farther position and creating distance from Qi Ling.
Qin Xuan was stunned, and a brilliant smile suddenly appeared on his slightly tired face.
What was going on?
He hadn't even remembered "receive, neutralize, release," which he often mentioned not long ago?
With his feet apart, Qin Xuan extended both hands forward and squatted down.
The so-called "receive, neutralize, release" was a very popular meme on the internet not long ago.
It was said that a certain "traditional martial arts master" claimed that his traditional martial arts were much more profound than other forms of combat.
And the most core of his martial arts was receiving force, neutralizing force, and releasing force, abbreviated as receive-neutralize-release.
Later, this traditional martial arts master was severely humiliated and "secretly sucked" by young people, so receive-neutralize-release was also jokingly changed by netizens to "receive order, cremate, send funeral."
However, jokes aside, the words receive-neutralize-release were not groundless.
It originated from a traditional martial art of Dragon Country.
The basic concept was also similar to what this "traditional martial arts master" said.
Receive force, neutralize force, release force, borrow strength to strike, and use a small force to overcome a large force.
It could be said that as long as these three words were mastered, this martial art could be performed to its extreme.
Truly achieving the feat of defeating the strong with the weak and overcoming the rigid with the soft.
And while this martial art possessed considerable combat power, it also had a very philosophical name: Tai Chi!