But Anjie is cunning and always thinks much more than others. Judging from Zhou Xuan's expression and behavior, he is definitely involved. If it were an ordinary person, they would definitely be scared, but Zhou Xuan never showed a trace of fear from beginning to end.
Now it was Anjie's turn to feel a little guilty. She realized that she hadn't really figured out Zhou Xuan. She thought she could control him by exploiting his weaknesses, but now she felt a little panicked. Zhou Xuan didn't seem as easy to deal with as she had imagined.
The current situation has put her in a difficult position. The dozen or so subordinates who came to pick her up are all unable to move, and the four people she brought and the three people who came to pick her up have all been injured and lost their ability to move under unbelievable circumstances. Without Wei Xiaoyu as a bargaining chip, and without thugs to fight for her, what should she do now?
Zhou Xuan then coldly took a few steps toward An Jie, getting closer to her, causing An Jie to involuntarily take a few steps back.
The three burned men behind him were screaming pitifully, and the sound was awful. Zhou Xuan waved his hand, and his ice energy froze their mouths, stopping their screams immediately.
Anjie was even more surprised. Looking at Zhou Xuan's actions just now, it seemed that the injuries her subordinates had suffered were caused by Zhou Xuan. But what method did Zhou Xuan use? It was too amazing!
Seeing Zhou Xuan's cold gaze, An Jie took two steps back and asked in a trembling voice, "What...what are you going to do?"
"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?" Zhou Xuan said coldly. "I'll tell you a secret that your father, An Guoqing, probably didn't tell you."
As he spoke, Zhou Xuan glanced at the seven injured men, then took a few steps toward An Jie, keeping a slight distance from them. He then lowered his voice and whispered to An Jie, "You want to know, don't you? How I dealt with these people?"
Anjie was both surprised and suspicious, wondering how Zhou Xuan had managed to do it. An Guoqing had never told her that Zhou Xuan had any strange abilities or had practiced any secret martial arts.
Of course she wanted to know, but Anjie couldn't believe Zhou Xuanzhen would tell her.
However, Zhou Xuan would indeed tell her, but not the truth. He had injured a dozen or twenty of these people. It was easy to imagine that he couldn't possibly transform and devour them all. That would only cause a huge mess. Nearly twenty living people were not worthless. If things were transformed, no one would investigate, but if living people disappeared, they would definitely be investigated to the end.
Seeing Anjie's frightened and confused expression, Zhou Xuan felt that he had regained some psychological advantage. He would then think of some ways to cut off Anjie's escape route, making her unable to deal with him even if she wanted to.
Then he moved his face closer to Anjie and whispered in her ear, "Let me tell you, I've destroyed the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Whether you believe it or not, I won't keep it in this world. The Nine Dragon Cauldron had a cultivation method associated with it. I've cultivated a kind of internal energy that can be used remotely, invisibly. You could say it's internal energy—it can freeze into ice and melt pig iron. If you insist on opposing me, I'll burn you and your men to ashes, leaving no trace in this world."
When Anjie heard Zhou Xuan's words, she couldn't react at first. It took her a while to understand what Zhou Xuan meant, but she still couldn't quite believe it. Could such a thing be possible?
But then I thought again, if even a strange object like the Nine Dragon Cauldron, capable of traversing time and space, can exist in this world, then the abilities Zhou Xuan mentioned aren't so strange after all.
However, she was filled with regret. Since Zhou Xuan could obtain such skills from the Nine Dragon Cauldron, she could naturally obtain them as well. But since Zhou Xuan had been honest with her, he must not be afraid that she would have such thoughts. What should she do?
Zhou Xuan snorted, then took a few steps back and activated his ice-energy ability again, freezing An Jie's legs. This time, the ice-energy he used was at a lower temperature, enough to damage some of the muscle tissue in An Jie's legs. Even if she went to a major hospital immediately, Zhou Xuan's attack would at least keep her in a wheelchair for at least six months.
Anjie cried out "Ouch!" and fell to the ground. She struggled to crawl a few times, but couldn't get up. Her feet didn't hurt, but she just didn't have the strength. Every time she tried to stand up or exert any force, she would fall. She was immediately terrified.
Volume 1, Chapter 428: Petty Men and Women Are Difficult to Raise
Chapter 428 It's Difficult to Raise Petty Men and Women
Anjie immediately realized that her problem wasn't a sudden numbness or cramp in her legs, but rather that she had been tricked by Zhou Xuan. As he said, he had obtained unimaginable abilities from the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Could this be the ability?
Anjie was terrified. She struggled a few times, but couldn't stand up. Her feet felt cold, but otherwise numb—neither painful nor uncomfortable. This numbness only intensified her fear. She'd rather have screamed in pain like those people earlier. But her deepest fear was of being crippled.
If someone like her possesses both beauty and wealth, and believes that her intellect far surpasses that of ordinary people, then this world is a dazzling and radiant one for her. But if she becomes disabled, what is the point of gaining all of this?
Anjie struggled for a few moments, then asked in terror, "Zhou Xuan, you...you...what did you do to me?"
Zhou Xuan said coldly, "Actually, you don't need to know exactly what I did, but I can tell you that if I wanted to erase you from this world, it would be a piece of cake. I warn you, if you ever try to harm my family and friends again, I will make you wish you were dead."
After saying that, he added, "Just give up on the Nine Dragon Cauldron."
An Jie's expression shifted, her chest heaving. Zhou Xuan's words filled her with shock and fear, but she could never give up the Nine Dragon Cauldron. As the saying goes, people die for wealth, and birds die for food. Although the Nine Dragon Cauldron was neither money nor food, it could bring her enormous wealth and a carefree life. Moreover, the greatest advantage of the Nine Dragon Cauldron was that it allowed her to linger in this time period forever without worrying about birth, aging, sickness, or death.
Perhaps this is different from the immortality that ordinary people imagine, but as her father An Guoqing thought, she could truly never die. She could live for the rest of her life between her teens and thirties, whichever she chose. Although the time was always the same, her mindset and thoughts would be different, just like a person slowly growing up and getting old. But what's wrong with that? As long as the body is forever young, even if she lives the same time over and over again, it's fine.
But now Zhou Xuan is trying to shatter her beautiful dream, how can she tolerate that?
Seeing An Jie panting heavily, looking both shocked and terrified, Zhou Xuan used his supernatural ability to probe her aura. An Jie's aura was very weak, indicating that she was definitely an ordinary person who had never practiced martial arts, but her aura kept flickering, clearly indicating that her heart was in turmoil.
Zhou Xuan didn't believe she would so willingly follow his words. This woman was not content with peace and quiet, and she certainly wouldn't give up her ambition for the Nine Dragon Cauldron.
Anjie took a few more breaths, then asked in a trembling voice, "What exactly did you do to me? What...what do you want?"
Zhou Xuan's face was grim. After a moment of silence, he said again, "I didn't want anything to happen. You forced me into this. Let me tell you..."
As he spoke, Zhou Xuan glanced at the cars around him and the people lying on the ground. With a wave of his hand, he unleashed his ice-energy ability, freezing all the people on the ground and in the cars unconscious.
Anjie was watching Zhou Xuan. Seeing him move, all the injured lying on the ground, along with the three subordinates with only burns on their right hands, fainted and lay motionless. Anjie was even more terrified.
"What...what did you do to them?"
Zhou Xuan replied with a gloomy expression, "Nothing much, I just knocked them all unconscious so they couldn't hear our conversation."
Anjie's mouth gaped open and closed again. Zhou Xuan's ability was too surprising to her. Although she had known Zhou Xuan for a year, the more she saw him, the more she felt that he was extraordinary. Zhou Xuan's ability was too incredible. With a turn of his head and a wave of his hand, he made more than ten people who were more than ten or twenty meters apart dizzy and unconscious. This was too terrifying. Could this be the ability he said he obtained from the Nine Dragon Cauldron?
Anjie's heart pounded. Although she was frightened by Zhou Xuan's strange ability, she was also drawn to it. She thought it must be an ability he obtained from the Nine Dragon Cauldron, perhaps even a superpower. After all, the Nine Dragon Cauldron was such a wondrous object; its ability to travel through time was undeniably extraordinary. Zhou Xuan's claim that he obtained the ability from the Nine Dragon Cauldron was probably true. If she possessed such an ability herself, she wouldn't have been forced into this situation by Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan's actions frightened An Jie, but they also attracted her even more, strengthening her resolve to obtain the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Only by obtaining the Nine Dragon Cauldron could she achieve immortality and escape oppression and coercion.
Zhou Xuan couldn't have guessed An Jie's thoughts, but seeing her terrified expression made him feel somewhat relieved. He then said, "An Jie, let me tell you, if I wanted to destroy you, it would be a piece of cake. The restrictions on you will last for at least three months. If you stay obediently in Fengshan and don't cause trouble, I will come and heal you. But if you still do anything to my family and friends, then you'll end up like these cars."
As Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he waved his hands, unleashing his supernatural power to transform and devour the eight vehicles around him.
To Anjie's horror, the three Mercedes-Benz cars she had arrived in and the five sedans that had been there before suddenly vanished from her sight, and the people inside the cars, her subordinates, all fell to the ground, but they were all unconscious and had no feeling at all.
Where did those cars go?
There were no obstacles around, and she couldn't see where the cars had disappeared to. Moreover, each car weighed more than a ton, which was impossible for one person to move. From this, Anjie was almost certain that Zhou Xuan had used the strange ability he obtained from the Nine Dragon Cauldron.
However, Anjie could never have imagined that Zhou Xuan's abilities mainly came from the Golden Stone, not the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Although he later obtained the high-temperature ability of the Solar Flame from the Nine Star Pearl, which allowed his superpower to evolve and enable his ice-energy superpower to lower the temperature to an extremely low point, in the end, Zhou Xuan's superpower did not come from the Nine Dragon Cauldron.
Moreover, Zhou Xuan's special ability is based on ice energy. Without ice energy, no matter how good or amazing the energy of the Nine Star Pearl is, he cannot absorb it. Therefore, even if An Jie truly obtains the Nine Dragon Cauldron and the Nine Star Pearl, it is impossible for her to absorb the solar flame energy from them.
What Zhou Xuan didn't expect was that his move was truly astonishing, which surprised An Jie to the extreme. However, it also strengthened An Jie's determination to obtain the Nine Dragon Cauldron. Anyway, Zhou Xuan didn't know her thoughts, so he decided to avoid trouble and escape this predicament first.
Besides, An Jie is just a woman, not a hero. As the old saying goes, "Women and petty men are the hardest to deal with." Zhou Xuan shouldn't have offended her. However, this time she miscalculated because she didn't realize that Zhou Xuan would have such a strange ability. Losing to her because of this is not unjust for An Jie.