287: I'll send you to your death, and that will end it all!

Maxim's pupils constricted slightly.

He recognized Ye Chen!

The target on the Dark Web worth one billion USD—he had seen the photo countless times!

But he didn't expect... the other party would deliver himself to his doorstep!

"Ye Chen!"

Maxim calmed himself down, threw away the whip, and the perverted smile on his face faded. "How did you find this place?"

Jessica walked out from behind Ye Chen and smiled charmingly. "Of course, I told him."

Maxim's expression sank instantly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"It's you, Blood Rose!"

"You actually dared to sell out information and double-cross me???"

"Are you not afraid of the Dark Web's rules? Aren't you afraid of the Tribunal coming to settle scores with you?"

"The Dark Web's rules?" Jessica acted as if she had heard a joke and giggled, her laughter filled with mockery. "Since I dared to do this, why would I care about the rules set by those rats hiding in the gutters?"

She tossed her long wavy hair, and her eyes suddenly turned cold.

"The Dark Web's Tribunal? Heh..."

"If they actually dare to come, I wouldn't mind letting the 'Blood Rose' bloom even more brilliantly."

"You!" Maxim laughed in extreme anger. The aura around him exploded, and the pressure of an Early Heaven Realm Expert swept out without reservation, making the yacht deck buzz. "Good! Very good! Blood Rose, do you think that by latching onto this kid, you can sit back and relax?"

He pointed fiercely at Ye Chen, his facial muscles twisting, murderous intent surging.

"Today, I will take this ten-billion-dollar head first, and then clean up a traitor like you for the Dark Web!"

Before the words even fell, Maxim's figure suddenly blurred!

It wasn't disappearing, nor was it space distortion; it was speed reaching its extreme, leaving an afterimage in place!

The next moment, he appeared three meters directly in front of Ye Chen. He grabbed the air with his right hand, and the True Qi around him gathered frantically, actually condensing into a long whip flowing with True Qi!

The whip body was entirely composed of True Qi condensed into substance. The air at the edges was cut and twisted, emitting a heart-palpitating aura of destruction.

"Die for me!"

Maxim grinned hideously and swung his arm wildly!

The pitch-black True Qi whip was like a venomous python looking to devour someone, carrying a sonic boom and the power to tear everything apart, lashing down fiercely towards the top of Ye Chen's head!

Wherever the whip shadow passed, the wooden surface of the deck was gouged with deep trenches by the escaping sharp energy!

This whip was fast! Ruthless! Vicious!

It was a typical method for a Heaven Realm Expert to project True Qi and condense it to attack the enemy!

An ordinary Peak Earth Realm expert under this whip would probably be split in two instantly before they could even form the thought of dodging!

Jessica and Night Owl's expressions changed slightly, and they subconsciously tensed their bodies.

However, facing this terrifying strike, Ye Chen merely raised an eyebrow.

"Flashy but useless."

He commented indifferently. He didn't even dodge; he just casually raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and gently gripped the air towards the lashing whip.

"Hum—!" A faint golden light suddenly burst from Ye Chen's palm, and then a giant golden palm materialized out of thin air in front of him!

The giant palm had distinct fingers, clearly visible palm lines, and carried a majestic momentum capable of suppressing everything!

Jessica and Night Owl watched this scene, their blood boiling uncontrollably.

It wasn't that they hadn't seen experts, or even various methods of projecting True Qi and condensing it into blades.

But a giant palm that condensed True Qi into something so massive! So solid! So lifelike! It was simply unheard of!

This had completely exceeded their cognitive scope of "True Qi projection"!

It was simply like a legendary divine ability or magic spell!

Even the bikini-clad woman tied to the driver's seat forgot to cry, staring blankly at the golden giant palm that seemed to have walked out of a myth, her mind blank.

And Maxim, who bore the brunt of it, felt the horror in his heart churning like a tsunami!

Because that golden illusory giant palm actually! Actually! Actually! Closed its five fingers, and like a pair of pliers, firmly gripped the True Qi whip that was lashing in mid-air in its palm!

The expected energy explosion and scattering of energy did not happen.

That astonishingly powerful Soul-Splitting Whip was just held there, unable to break free in the slightest!

Even... the ferocious barbs on the whip body were rapidly becoming blurry and fading under the flowing golden light!

Maxim's hideous grin froze completely, replaced by boundless horror!

He desperately urged his True Qi, trying to control the Soul-Splitting Whip to explode or retract, but he felt his True Qi was like a clay ox entering the sea; that golden giant palm was like a bottomless black hole, cutting off and devouring his connection to the whip layer by layer!

He knew the power of his Soul-Splitting Whip better than anyone, and even ordinary Heaven Realm Experts wouldn't dare to take it head-on.

But this golden giant palm before him... it not only caught his energy whip, it suppressed it!

How is this possible?

Weapons condensed from projected True Qi are essentially highly condensed energy bodies, formless and intangible.

Although they can cause physical destruction, they should have a relationship of collision and annihilation with each other!

How could it be grabbed like a physical object?!

"You... exactly what level are you?!"

Maxim stared fixedly at Ye Chen.

He had roamed the Dark Web for many years, traversed the international scene, seen countless strange people and talented warriors, and killed quite a few so-called genius experts.

But someone like Ye Chen—young, with unfathomable strength, and methods so bizarre that they completely defied common sense... he had never seen before!

Upon hearing this, the corners of Ye Chen's mouth curled into an amused arc.

"Want to know? Sure."

"Kneel down, kowtow three times, and call me Daddy."

"I'll consider letting you die with some understanding."

Maxim was furious: "You are courting death!!!"

He gritted his teeth fiercely, a flash of madness in his eyes. He stopped trying to control the Soul-Splitting Whip and instead poured all his remaining True Qi into the whip body, intending to make it self-destruct!

Even if it couldn't hurt Ye Chen, it would at least blast him into a mess!

However, Ye Chen seemed to see through his intention and chuckled.

"Boring. Not playing anymore."

As the words fell, the five fingers of his right hand, which were gripping the air, gently closed.

The golden giant palm that held the Soul-Splitting Whip made a completely synchronized movement... its five fingers tightened abruptly!

"Boom—!!!" The whip collapsed, the giant palm exploded, and Maxim was hit as if by a heavy blow on the spot. His face turned pale, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Then, he staggered back seven or eight steps, not stabilizing his figure until his back hit the yacht railing.

He clutched his chest, where his internal energy was churning, and looked up at Ye Chen. The initial madness and fury in his eyes had been completely replaced by fear.

This Ye Chen... it seems, it appears, it looks like he is more than just Heaven Realm!

He had seen Heavenly Realm Peak experts, but none were this fierce!

This is fucking a monster!

Run! Must run immediately! Otherwise, I will die!!!

This thought exploded in his mind like thunder, overwhelming all unwillingness and humiliation.

What one billion USD? What reputation as the second in the Dark Web? In the face of an absolute gap in strength... it's all bullshit!!!

Staying alive is the most important thing!

He turned around without hesitation and rushed towards a wall!

That's right! He couldn't care where the windows or doors were; right now, there was only one thought... run out! Even if it meant smashing through the wall, he didn't care!

And... that direction was the vast ocean! As long as he jumped down and dived into the deep sea, with his swimming and breath-holding skills, there might be a chance of survival!

"Want to run?" Ye Chen's playful voice rang in his ears like a ghost. "Can you run away?"

The hairs on Maxim's body stood on end!

He didn't even see how Ye Chen moved; he just felt a blur before his eyes, and that figure in dark sportswear was already blocking his path to the wall like a teleportation!

The distance between the two was less than half a meter!

"No!!!" Maxim let out a desperate roar. The instinct for survival made him frantically urge his remaining True Qi, his right fist carrying a piercing whistle that tore through the air, smashing desperately towards Ye Chen's face!

This was his final struggle! A strike with all his might!

However, Ye Chen just casually raised his left hand, spread his five fingers, and gently grabbed the incoming fist. "Slap!"

The crisp sound didn't sound like a collision between a fist and a palm; it sounded more like an adult grabbing a child's wildly flailing fist.

Maxim's punch, which was enough to shatter steel, was just held in Ye Chen's palm like that.

The violent True Qi on his fist was like crashing into an unshakable mountain; it instantly collapsed and vanished into nothingness.

Maxim despaired.

The next second, Ye Chen's empty right hand raised up, and with a backhand, he slapped Maxim's face, which was twisted with horror, hard.

"Slap—!!!" This slap was solid, so crisp and loud that it even echoed across the vast sea surface.

Maxim couldn't even let out a scream; his whole body was like a spinning top that had been whipped, rotating 720 degrees in the air, the blood and a dozen broken teeth spraying from his mouth drawing a miserable arc in the air.

"Thump!" He fell heavily onto the deck, rolled a few more times, and then lay limp and motionless.

Half of his cheek swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, his mouth was crooked, blood flowed out in streams, his eyes were unfocused, and he was left with more breath going out than coming in.

Ye Chen shook his hand, walked over to Maxim, who was lying like a pile of mud, and sighed.

"In broad daylight, kidnapping a woman, intending to commit assault."

"According to the Criminal Law of the Dragon Kingdom, this is at least three years starting, and if the circumstances are serious, ten years or even life imprisonment is possible."

He paused, his tone suddenly becoming sincere.

"However, I am a kind-hearted person and can't bear to see others suffer in prison."

"How about this, I'll save you from that prison disaster."

Maxim's remaining conscious mind allowed him to understand this sentence, and his unfocused pupils suddenly burst with a final glimmer of hope.

Save me from prison? Could it be... he is willing to let me go?

However, Ye Chen's next sentence completely extinguished his last bit of fantasy: "Me... I plan to send you directly to your death, to end it all. How nice."

Night Owl: "..." Jessica: "..." Maxim: "!!!"