Bruce grunted with the effort of the clash, but kept his focus. The ground beneath him broke down again into sand which erupted up between Vale and Bruce toward Vale's face. He split a bit of his ki into another chain, one of the links closed around one of the few spearheads he had left. At the same moment that he jumped backward, he whipped the chain such that it brought the spearhead off his waistband and snapped it back upward through the sand toward Vale's jaw.