Hearing the voice in his mind, Zhang Ergou was overjoyed. Then, he stopped moving.
"Has Zhang Ergou been scared witless? Why isn't he moving?"
Soon, the disciples watching from below noticed something was wrong.
Zhang Ergou was standing stock-still, not moving at all.
"Ha, he must be scared by Qin Lang's Ice Chill Array. That massive ice ball, even trying to block it would be futile."
"Zhang Ergou is done for. He won't be smashed into a vegetable, will he?"
Some people below even closed their eyes, unable to bear witnessing Zhang Ergou's tragic fate.
"Hmph, brat, let you know my power. Now you're stunned, aren't you?"
Qin Lang snorted coldly. He was extremely confident in his move. Seeing Zhang Ergou stop moving, he naturally assumed Zhang Ergou had been scared witless.
Then, watching the falling ice ball, Qin Lang seemed to see the scene of Zhang Ergou being smashed, his brains splattering.
But something unexpected happened. When the giant ice ball approached within ten centimeters of Zhang Ergou's head, it suddenly vanished.
Several consecutive giant ice balls exhibited this phenomenon.
Qin Lang could no longer laugh. The ice balls vanished into thin air, and he felt nothing. His connection with the ice balls wasn't strong to begin with.
When the first ice ball disappeared, Qin Lang hadn't noticed anything amiss.
But as one ice ball after another vanished, Qin Lang finally detected the anomaly. The scene he had anticipated, of Zhang Ergou being hit, knocked unconscious, or having his brains splattered, did not occur.
Instead, the ice balls formed by his Ice Chill Array suddenly disappeared, leaving him somewhat bewildered.
Qin Lang refused to believe it. The Ice Chill Array had achieved excellent results every time he used it.
Whether facing a single enemy or attacking a group, Qin Lang had never been disappointed by the Ice Chill Array. Each time, it delivered unexpected blows to his enemies.
But what was happening today? The ice balls condensed by the Ice Chill Array simply vanished into thin air.
Even more bizarre, they didn't disappear sooner or later, but only when they were precisely ten centimeters from Zhang Ergou's head.
"Heh heh!" Zhang Ergou chuckled. He hadn't expected the Old Man of Snow Mountain to be able to absorb the ice balls.
Those suddenly vanishing ice balls were naturally the work of the Old Man of Snow Mountain. Although he hadn't appeared, Zhang Ergou could still sense his actions.
To avoid attracting the attention of those with ulterior motives, the Old Man of Snow Mountain only acted when the ice balls were ten centimeters from Zhang Ergou.
Thus, the scene that unfolded earlier occurred. When the rapidly descending ice balls were only ten centimeters from Zhang Ergou, they abruptly disappeared.
Not only was Qin Lang dumbfounded, but the disciples watching from below also erupted in discussion.
"How bizarre! How did those ice balls suddenly disappear?"
"Yeah, yeah, they disappeared so strangely, leaving no trace."
"Could someone be secretly helping Zhang Ergou? Don't you remember when he fought Li Haoyu, Li Haoyu's Wind Thunder Art was ineffective?"
"Incredible! Could Zhang Ergou have cultivated some powerful spell that can absorb others' spell techniques?"
The disciples watching below chatted more and more, finding this possibility very likely. If it had only happened once, they wouldn't have considered this.
But with their opponents' spell techniques vanishing into thin air for the second time, they had to suspect that Zhang Ergou had cultivated a spell specifically for absorbing others' spell techniques.
"Brat, was that you?"
Qin Lang stared coldly at Zhang Ergou, who was not far away. After repeatedly seeing the ice balls condensed by his Ice Chill Array disappear, Qin Lang's target had locked onto Zhang Ergou.
There were only the two of them on the stage to begin with. If he didn't think Zhang Ergou was behind it, he wouldn't believe it.
However, he couldn't understand where Zhang Ergou had sent those ice balls. Had he collected them?
"What are you talking about? I don't understand."
Zhang Ergou would never admit to it and immediately feigned ignorance.
"I'm asking if you made my condensed ice balls disappear?"
Qin Lang stared coldly at Zhang Ergou. If looks could kill, he wouldn't have had to act himself.
Zhang Ergou completely ignored Qin Lang's murderous gaze. "Perhaps you lack skill, and the ice balls were of poor quality, melting in mid-air."
Qin Lang was speechless. He had seen people tell blatant lies, but never someone who could lie so convincingly.
Ice balls melting would still take time, wouldn't it? In just an instant, you're telling me they melted.
Seeing that he couldn't get any information from Zhang Ergou, Qin Lang stopped wasting his breath.
With a wave of his hand, a sharp ice blade shot directly towards Zhang Ergou's face.
"Good one!" Zhang Ergou shouted, not blocking or dodging, allowing the ice blade to hack towards his face.
"Hmph!" Seeing Zhang Ergou's overconfidence, Qin Lang snorted.
Although this ice blade was not as powerful as the ice balls condensed by the Ice Chill Array, it was not something the physical body could withstand directly.
However, just as Qin Lang expected Zhang Ergou to use his head to block it, a bizarre scene occurred again.
The ice blade, which was about to touch Zhang Ergou's face, vanished into thin air once more.
It was exactly like the abrupt disappearance of the ice balls, without any warning.
Qin Lang rubbed his eyes, as if to confirm that the ice blade had indeed vanished into thin air.
"What? Qin Lang's ice blade also vanished into thin air?"
"Zhang Ergou is too weird. Has he really cultivated a spell to absorb spell techniques?"
"Then what's the point of fighting? If this continues, Zhang Ergou will be unharmed, and Qin Lang will be exhausted to death."
The disciples below cast sympathetic glances at Qin Lang.
When Qin Lang first used the Ice Chill Array, they believed he had victory in hand and were already prepared to see Zhang Ergou being thrown off the stage.
But reality had once again slapped them hard.
However, these people felt no shame, but instead looked at Qin Lang with pity.
"Brat, what kind of dark magic are you cultivating?" Qin Lang, seeing his spell techniques vanishing into thin air one after another, naturally assumed it was all Zhang Ergou's doing.
"Heh heh, Senior Brother Qin, you can eat anything, but don't speak carelessly."
Zhang Ergou raised an eyebrow and glanced at Qin Lang with disdain.
"There are too many things in this world you don't understand. Don't call something dark magic just because you can't comprehend it."
"Doing so won't earn you attention, but will only expose your ignorance."
Pfft!
Qin Lang spat out a mouthful of blood, partly from anger and partly because his ice blade and ice balls vanished into thin air without any explanation, causing his qi and blood to surge.
"With this attitude, perhaps you shouldn't cultivate."
"Zhang Ergou, don't push your luck!" Qin Lang's bloodshot eyes seemed as if they wanted to devour Zhang Ergou.
"Hahaha!" Zhang Ergou burst into laughter.
"Senior Brother Qin, please. You are at the middle stage of Golden Core, while I am only at the early stage. Where does this talk of bullying come from?"