Chapter 742: Chapter 742
Su Fan had just managed to dodge Howard's attack quite easily.
Now, however, it was no longer easy; even if he withdrew and dodged immediately, it was still a narrow escape from Howard's kick.
Howard was wearing tactical boots, and even ordinary people wearing such reinforced boots could use them as weapons.
With such a martial artist like Howard wearing tactical boots, when he attacked Su Fan with his magic artifact, it was like someone swinging an axe, continually chopping at Su Fan's neck.
Vice Team Leader Han Yunhui, Doctor Wang Shuming, and Vice Team Leader Chen Zhenye had previously thought Su Fan had the situation under control.
They could never have imagined that in just a short moment, Su Fan and Howard would again switch from offense to defense.
By now, several snipers had been positioned around them.
Yet these snipers did not rashly open fire. On the one hand, they feared startling Howard, causing him to flee again.
On the other hand, they were worried about accidentally injuring Su Fan.
Another reason was that Su Fan had been dominating the situation until just before.
If there had been no mishap, Su Fan could have killed the criminal Howard with a thunderous force in one fell swoop.
However, the situation on the battlefield is always in flux.
Su Fan, who had previously been faring well, was now in danger.
Howard's strength was originally at the mid-stage of True Qi transformation, but now he was nearing the peak of that stage.
In the arena, as Su Fan dodged, Howard lashed out with another kick.
Facing his ax-like descending leg, Su Fan did not hesitate and continued to dodge.
This dodge caused a Santana behind him to suffer the consequences.
Howard's kick sent the car door flying over ten meters away.
Of course, Su Fan was not just dodging; when the opponent overextended his kick to the car door, Su Fan's neck-chopping hand struck Howard's neck.
Unfortunately, under the protection of True Qi, his neck-chopping hand had no effect this time.
Su Fan had to switch strategies and resort to winning with the subtle forces of Tai Chi Boxing.
Tai Chi is an internal martial art with two main features.
One feature is 'using softness to overcome hardness', which involves turning the opponent's force against him.
The other feature is 'hitting the cow on the other side of the mountain', which involves using the subtle forces of Tai Chi to directly strike Howard's vitals.
Previously, Su Fan had not expected that facing off with Howard would force him to this extent; otherwise, he would have used the subtle forces of Tai Chi earlier.
But there were benefits to deploying it late.
By now, Howard was not as alert as he had been at the beginning.
If Su Fan had used the subtle forces of Tai Chi from the start, Howard would certainly have noticed it.
As Howard attacked again, Su Fan countered with the Tai Chi move 'grasping the sparrow's tail', concurrently injecting the subtle forces of Tai Chi into Howard's body.
The subtle forces of Tai Chi were initially hard to detect and seemingly ineffective.
But these forces would continuously accumulate inside Howard.
Once the subtle forces of Tai Chi accumulated to a certain level, they would suddenly burst forth.
The moment of this explosive burst was, of course, Su Fan's moment for a counterattack.
Seeing Howard remain oblivious, Su Fan couldn't help feeling a surge of joy inside.
In reality though, Howard had already noticed his subtle maneuvers but disregarded them.
Since continuing the same tactics would soon lead to Su Fan's demise.
Su Fan's Tai Chi punches rained continuously on Howard, as wave after wave of the subtle forces of Tai Chi gathered within Howard's body.
His situation also became extremely dangerous.
Howard's tactical boots even sliced a cut on his arm.
On several occasions, Howard's True Qi barely grazed past his eyes.
This caused Han Yunhui and Chen Zhenye among others to break out in nervous cold sweats.
Even knowing it was futile, Han Yunhui still prayed in her heart for Su Fan: "May the Bodhisattva bless him! Please, let nothing happen!"