208: What kind of monster is this?

Ye Chen remained unmoved, merely smiling.

"Old Master Wang."

"If I were you..."

"...I should be tucking my tail and trying to flee the country right now, rather than bringing so many people here for a desperate last stand."

Wang Zhenyue laughed in extreme fury, his laughter filled with a chilling coldness.

"A desperate last stand?"

"Ye Chen, do you think our two hundred-plus martial artists can't handle you alone?"

"Don't say you're just a special agent of the Dragon Group; even if the Dragon Group leader Xuanyuan Huo himself came tonight, he'd have to think twice!"

Ye Chen shrugged, his hands still tucked in his pockets.

"What's the point of taking me down?"

"Aren't you worried at all..."

"...that I've already handed over everything that needs to be handed over to Old Master Xuanyuan?"

As these words fell, the expressions of the Wang Family Members changed uniformly!

Wang Zhenyue's pupils contracted sharply, and the hand holding his cane tightened violently.

Wang Yuan, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, jumped up abruptly, pointing at Ye Chen and shouting hoarsely.

"I get it! I understand now!"

"You did it on purpose! You deliberately let me go back, deliberately let me tell Grandpa about the Black Prison!"

"You calculated that we would panic, that we would act, that we would contact the people we needed to contact and handle the materials we needed to handle!"

"And then you seized the opportunity to observe all our movements clearly!"

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow, a hint of approval appearing in his gaze as he looked at Wang Yuan.

"Oh?"

"Not completely stupid after all."

"Your brain might still be salvageable."

"You!!!" Wang Yuan was so angry he almost spat out another mouthful of blood.

The Wang Family Members were even more enraged, their eyes burning with fury, murderous intent boiling!

Without a doubt.

They had fallen into his trap!

Ye Chen had dug a pit for them to jump into!

And they... actually jumped in like fools!

Wang Zhenshan snorted coldly, the aura of the mid-stage Xuan Realm erupted from his body like an invisible mountain pressing down on Ye Chen!

"Hmph! Enough talk, kid!"

"If you had truly handed the evidence to Xuanyuan Huo, you wouldn't be here alone waiting for us!"

"What do you really want?"

"What conditions do you want to return the stuff?"

"Spit it out!"

They understood clearly... right now, the evidence was in Ye Chen's hands, and they couldn't erase the evidence from the database. Once the Dragon Group took over, it would be discovered quickly.

But since Ye Chen hadn't left, it was most likely because he wanted to negotiate conditions.

If he could negotiate, then there was still room for maneuver.

As long as they could trick him into returning the evidence first, everything else could be dealt with later!

Upon hearing this, Ye Chen gently shook his head.

"Conditions?"

"Second Master Wang, have you misunderstood something?"

"From the very beginning, I never intended to negotiate with you."

"I came to Yanjing to..."

Ye Chen lifted his gaze, his eyes sharp as knives, sweeping over the densely packed crowd below.

"...clean up the trash."

"The Black Prison has repeatedly troubled me, so I'll break their claws."

"If they still don't restrain themselves..."

"...I'll uproot them later."

"That's all."

As his words fell.

"BOOM!!!"

A terrifying aura, far more vast, violent, and astonishing than Wang Zhenshan's, erupted from Ye Chen's slender frame!

A shockwave exploded with him at the center, causing the stone steps in front of the villa to crack inch by inch!

A fierce wind howled, whipping the clothes of the crowd below, forcing many to instinctively retreat several steps under this sudden oppressive pressure!

Wang Zhenshan's expression changed drastically, revealing a look of horror for the first time in his eyes!

This aura... at least Late-stage Profound Realm!

But how old is Ye Chen!

He's just an ordinary person; even if he got an opportunity, he couldn't skyrocket like this... He might have the energy, but his body couldn't withstand it!

Ye Chen stood on the steps, his clothes fluttering without wind, his eyes as cold as millennia-old ice.

"The Wang Family colluded with the Black Prison, wreaking havoc in the southeast, harming their own people. The evidence is conclusive."

"Tonight, on behalf of the Dragon Group and those wronged souls who died in vain..."

"...I shall carry out the execution."

Arrogant!

Boundless arrogance!

The expressions of everyone around couldn't help but change uniformly!

Wang Zhenshan's face darkened further, the killing intent in his eyes soaring.

"Everyone, listen to my order!"

"This beast is arrogant and obstinate!"

"No need for more talk with him. Attack together! Kill him! Kill him! Retrieve everything!"

"After it's done, burn this place to the ground! Destroy the bodies and eliminate the evidence!"

As his words fell, the two hundred-plus Wang Family experts behind him roared in unison, their voices shaking the heavens!

"Kill—!!!"

Killing intent, like a tangible cold wave, instantly swept across the entire villa's front courtyard!

Chu Niubi shuddered in fear, but the innate, reckless streak in his bones surged up again.

He abruptly leaned half his body out from behind Ye Chen, shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Old Dog Wang! Are you fucking blind?!"

"I'm still standing right here!"

"I'm Chu Niubi! The Chu Family's Chu Niubi!"

"If you dare touch my master, dare to kill and burn here, aren't you afraid my Chu Family will come back and dig up your Wang Family's ancestral graves?!"

He tried to use the Chu Family's reputation to intimidate the other side and buy time.

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhenshan abruptly turned his head, his sinister old eyes fixing on Chu Niubi's face like venomous snakes.

"A whelp of the Chu Family?"

"Originally, I thought of leaving you a dog's life, so your Chu Family would have something to remember in the future..."

"Since you insist on seeking death, insist on tying yourself to this Ye bastard..."

"...then I'll kill you along with him!"

"The Chu Family wants revenge?"

"Heh... After we get the stuff and clean up the loose ends, would your Chu Family dare to act recklessly?"

"What can that old bastard Chu Wangba do to me?!"

"You!!!" Chu Niubi was choked with rage, his blood surging, about to curse... However.

"Whoosh!"

A faint sound of something cutting through the air sounded abruptly and without warning right by his ear!

The next second.

He only felt his vision blur!

Ye Chen, who had been standing in front of him, vanished from the steps like a ghost... without any warning?!

No!

Not vanished!

It was too fast!

So fast that only a faint afterimage remained on Chu Niubi's retina!

That afterimage, like a lightning bolt tearing through the night, plunged directly into the densely packed Wang Family crowd below!

"BOOM—!!!"

Like a red-hot branding iron thrust into solidified lard!

"Ah—!"

"Ugh!"

"Squelch!"

"Help!"

Piercing screams!

Muffled sounds of bones shattering!

Dull sounds of blades cutting into flesh!

And... the sound of blood splattering like cheap paint!

Instantly intertwined, exploding open under the silent night sky of Cloud Top Garden!

Chu Niubi stood there stiffly, mouth agape, eyes wide like bronze bells, almost popping out of their sockets!

What did he see?!

He saw that with every flicker of Ye Chen's figure in the tide of people, it was like the swing of Death's scythe!

No complex moves, no dazzling light effects, he couldn't even see the specific actions clearly!

All he could see was... one Wang Family expert after another being flung away like scarecrows caught in a hurricane, in various twisted postures!

Some spun through the air and crashed into the distant greenery, breaking trees!

Some flew sideways like ragged sacks, slamming hard into those black business vans, denting the doors and shattering the glass!

Others directly exploded into a mist of blood on the spot, limbs and internal organ fragments mixed together, pattering down to the ground!

Fast!

Too fast!

Ruthless!

Too ruthless!

Those Wang Family elites, whose auras felt solid and powerful to Chu Niubi, were like paper dolls before Ye Chen!

No!

Not even as good as paper dolls!

Like a group gathered together... ants!

And Ye Chen was that mercilessly crushing natural disaster, wrapped in flames and thunder!

Chu Niubi even saw a Wang Family retainer who charged at the front, his aura clearly at the early-stage Xuan Realm, roaring as he swung a heavy Guillotine Blade. The blade, wrapped in a shrill gale wind, chopped fiercely at the back of Ye Chen's neck!

That strike, in Chu Niubi's view, seemed utterly unavoidable, fast as a thunderbolt!

However—

Ye Chen didn't even look back.

He just casually raised his left hand backward, fingers spread, and pressed downward... as if swatting a fly.

"BANG!!!"

A dull, heart-stopping explosion rang out!

That heavy Guillotine Blade, mixed with Profound Iron, along with the Xuan Realm retainer's arm holding it, like tofu crushed by a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press... instantly!

Twisted! Deformed! Shattered!

Flesh, bone fragments, and metal shards sprayed outward in a radial pattern!

That Xuan Realm retainer didn't even have time to scream before his entire body shot backward, knocking over seven or eight companions behind him in a row, finally embedding himself in the front of a business van!

The front of the van deformed.

The hood buckled up.

Billowing white smoke rose... while the man was embedded within, his head hanging at a grotesque angle, blood gurgling out from the cracks in the van's front like a small stream, silent.

At this moment.

Even those originally roaring Wang Family experts' charge faltered!

Countless pairs of eyes, as if seeing a ghost, stared fixedly at that figure strolling leisurely amidst the crowd!

Fear!

Instantly spread through everyone's mind and body!

What the hell... is this monster?