Zhou Xuan was deliberately exaggerating and boasting. He could also tell that these four people were very skilled and had a strong aura that his supernatural abilities detected.
The four men were naturally unconvinced by Zhou Xuan's boast. Their initial wariness of Zhou Xuan stemmed from the fear that he might have someone lying in ambush there. However, they had now thoroughly investigated and confirmed that although the eleven men who were supposed to be there to meet them had inexplicably fallen, they were certain that Zhou Xuan was the only one present. As long as they were aware that Zhou Xuan possessed weapons such as tranquilizer guns and pistols, there was nothing to worry about in a fight that was purely hand-to-hand.
The man standing in front of Zhou Xuan took a half step forward, while the others remained still. His half-step forward clearly indicated that he was going to deal with Zhou Xuan.
It seems that martial arts practitioners really do follow those lousy rules, generally not harming people from behind or in secret. Zhou Xuan smiled faintly again, watching the man in front of him clench his fists and crack them automatically. Looking at the sharp knuckles and the aura emanating from his fists, Zhou Xuan could imagine that the power of this punch could almost shatter red bricks and break two-inch-thick wooden boards.
However, Zhou Xuan was naturally not afraid. Since the person did not hurt him from behind or make any preemptive moves, Zhou Xuan thought about it and decided not to cripple him.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the man threw a punch that was not fast. He deliberately threw the punch slowly to give Zhou Xuan time to react. Of course, he did not intend to let Zhou Xuan go. He just felt that Zhou Xuan could not escape. Although the punch was slow, the force of the punch was not light. It had a force of at least 500 jin. If it hit Zhou Xuan, seven or eight or even ten ribs would be broken.
Zhou Xuan activated his superpower early on, using his ice energy to freeze the man's shoulders. This time, he did things differently than when he dealt with the others.
When Zhou Xuan started dealing with the others, he froze their hands, feet, and mouths. Now, he only froze the two inches of this person's arms and shoulders, cutting off the blood and power flowing from their shoulders. The ends of their hands could still move, but they were like an infant, without any strength to harm a person.
Zhou Xuan's superpower detected the force of his fist, so he wasn't worried and remained motionless as the fist hit his chest, though there wasn't much of a sound.
No one but the man himself could have known about that punch, because Zhou Xuan only froze the man's shoulder after he had thrown the punch with great force. So to others, it looked like a powerful punch, but it was thrown so slowly that Zhou Xuan should have been able to dodge it.
But to their surprise, Zhou Xuan didn't dodge at all. Instead, he stood still and let the man punch him squarely in the chest.
From what others saw, the result would have been that Zhou Xuan was beaten until he vomited blood and his ribs were broken. However, Zhou Xuan stood there smiling and signaled them to continue, which left them all stunned.
Looking at his companion who had thrown the punch, he saw him rubbing his shoulders blankly, then reaching out to try it out. The action seemed strange to outsiders, but he and Zhou Xuan understood it.
Although his hands were intact, he couldn't exert any force. Although he had practiced hard skills such as the Golden Bell Cover and Iron Sand Palm, he was strangely unable to exert any force. Moreover, his shoulders felt icy cold, but he didn't feel any pain or itching, so he couldn't figure out the reason.
Zhou Xuan calmly looked at the group and said, "I already told you to come at me all at once to save time and effort. Your punches don't look like boxing at all; they're more like scratching an itch."
The man blushed instantly, snorted, and then swiftly kicked out again. This was standard Southern Tan Tui Kung Fu, which Zhou Xuan didn't recognize, as he had never practiced martial arts.
His companions were well aware of the level of his skill and the power of his consecutive kicks. He trained by strapping a 60-pound iron sandbag to one leg. Even against a large, fat pig weighing 200-300 pounds, he could kick it more than ten feet away.
Now, because he had just thrown a punch and inexplicably made a fool of himself, and his hands had inexplicably lost their strength, and everyone else was staring at him, he was furious at losing face so easily. Therefore, he used all his strength in the following series of kicks to knock Zhou Xuan down in one blow, leaving him with no power to resist.
In fact, Zhou Xuan had let him off the hook. He was a complete stranger to this person, and even when he fought, he held back some of his strength. Therefore, Zhou Xuan did not want to make him like those other people.
However, Zhou Xuan dared not be careless under the man's all-out attack of consecutive kicks. He also used his ice energy ability, and the man's thighs were immediately frozen. Although the man was in mid-air, his consecutive kicks were fast and powerful, but the power was gone.
One after the other, the man kicked Zhou Xuan in the waist, but Zhou Xuan didn't move at all. Instead, the man fell to the ground with a "thud" and couldn't get up for a long time.
Everyone else was stunned, especially his other three companions, who were all wondering if Zhou Xuan had practiced some kind of hard kung fu like the Golden Bell Cover.
The current situation is almost like having mastered hard skills to the extreme, like having reached the highest level of the legendary Eighteen Falling Techniques.
This left everyone stunned.
Zhou Xuan didn't make any move against the person, but his companion quickly stepped forward to help him up, half-pulling and half-dragging him to the back, and then asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
The man looked completely bewildered. After a moment of hesitation, he replied, "It's strange. I don't know what happened. After I threw out my hands and feet, I suddenly lost all strength. I could feel a lot of power in my body, but I just couldn't channel it into my hands and feet. It's really strange."
Seeing this strange situation, the other three men who had driven to pick up Anjie immediately pointed their pistols at Zhou Xuan and said fiercely, "Crouch down, don't move, or we'll shoot you dead."
In truth, Zhou Xuan hadn't moved at all, but it wasn't because he was afraid of what these three people said. He smiled and said, "You think I'll just stay still because you say so? Who do you think you are?"
The three men were immediately enraged. Zhou Xuan's words were too harsh, which made them furious. One of them pulled the trigger at Zhou Xuan's leg without thinking. However, when the trigger was pulled, there was a "click" sound of the firing pin, but no gunshot was heard and no bullet was fired.
Zhou Xuan snorted. There was no need to show mercy to these three. Since they had attacked him and fired, he immediately used his superpower to unleash the Sun Flame, burning the pistols in their hands to almost melting point. In an instant, the pistols turned bright red, and the gun barrels changed shape.
Then came cries of "Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" The three men hurriedly threw down their pistols, clutching their arms and screaming in agony. The air was thick with the smell of burnt pork.
Zhou Xuan unleashed an extremely fierce burst of solar flares, nearly melting even the pistol. Just imagine the temperature that must have reached.
At such high temperatures, human skin naturally cannot withstand it. Fortunately, the three people were only holding the gun with their hands, and no other part of their bodies was attacked, so only their right hand holding the gun suffered severe burns.
The temperature was so high that when those three people touched their hands, their right palms and fingers were almost burned together, leaving them crippled and unable to use a gun to hurt anyone again.
As they threw their guns, Zhou Xuan used his ice-energy ability to completely cool the three pistols back to normal temperature. After the pistols fell to the ground, they returned to their original color and were no longer red-hot, although the slightly bent barrels still revealed the original color.
However, only the three of them knew the secret; others couldn't see it, and no one else paid any attention to them until they screamed and threw their guns away.
All three of them clutched their hands and screamed in agony, as if they were in extreme pain. Their curled right hands were blackened as if they were charred, and the smell of burnt flesh filled the air. But where did the fire come from?
No one saw it, not even the three men holding the guns themselves. They didn't see any fire either; the pistol seemed to turn into molten iron in an instant. To this day, they still don't understand how it happened.
Because these three were ruthless, Zhou Xuan naturally didn't hold back and dealt them a heavy blow. Although he didn't incapacitate them, crippling their right hands was far more severe than simply freezing the hands, feet, and mouths of the others. These people would recover after an hour or two, though their movements would be somewhat sluggish for up to a week. They would fully recover in ten days to two weeks. However, the three people who suffered burns would have their right hands permanently disabled.
Zhou Xuan remained unmoved, while the other side lost three people, and inexplicably and without any apparent reason.
In addition, only the three subordinates brought by An Jie were still able to act. However, all three of them were terrified. Such a situation could not have been accidental. It could only be attributed to Zhou Xuan's trickery, but they could not figure out what methods he used.
Anjie, who was standing to the side, suddenly felt a sinking feeling in her heart. She suddenly remembered what had happened at her villa in Fengshan. It seemed that her men's pistols also couldn't be fired.
After Zhou Xuan and Wei Xiaoyu left, An Jie's men checked the pistol and found that the pistol itself was fine; the problem was with the bullets. After removing the spent cartridges, they discovered that the ammunition inside was empty.
At the time, they were wondering what the problem was with the bullets, and after thinking it over, they figured they might have been tricked into buying empty cartridges.
Anjie stared at the three screaming men, then glanced at the pistol lying on the ground. Suddenly, she felt that things weren't so simple, and Zhou Xuan didn't seem as ordinary as she had imagined. Connecting the events at the Fengshan villa with the current situation, she felt that there was something strange about the Zhou Xuan in front of her.
Could it be that he orchestrated all of this? If not, it's inexplicable, because Zhou Xuan is the only opponent here. Although it's inexplicable, the only plausible explanation is that Zhou Xuan orchestrated all these inexplicable events, but she and her subordinates just couldn't see it.
While Anjie was still in shock and uncertainty, her three other subordinates grunted and rushed forward together. Seeing the strange situation, they no longer hesitated and attacked Zhou Xuan with heavy blows.
Zhou Xuan showed no mercy. This time, instead of using the Solar Flame, he used his Ice Qi ability to freeze the hands and feet of the three people, instantly rendering them unable to move.
Seeing those three skilled fighters fall to the ground instantly, unable to even get up, but without screaming like the other three who had burned their hands, Angie's expression changed drastically.
Now, she was finally certain that all of this was closely related to Zhou Xuan, or rather, that Zhou Xuan was responsible for it. The strangest thing was that after she and her men arrived, Zhou Xuan stood there without moving, while all of them had fallen or been injured on their own. If it was Zhou Xuan who did it, there was no trace of it.