Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 340 – Lasting Three Minutes at Most

That feeling was truly wondrous.

It was as if one’s vision, previously limited to what lay directly ahead, had suddenly been upgraded to a god’s-eye view.

With the Heart of Envy operating at full capacity, a torrent of Mental Strength totaling seventy-three thousand points surged through Lin Fan’s Sea of Consciousness like a tsunami, rendering the once-solid barriers of the world transparent in that instant.

Though the Omniscient Domain’s absolute control extended only three hundred meters from herself as the epicenter, this did not mean that everything beyond that radius was a blind spot.

Supported by this overwhelming, suffocating tide of Mental Strength, Lin Fan’s sensory tendrils—like countless invisible nerves—instantly blanketed the entirety of Border Dragon City.

In that moment, the entire city was no longer a collection of buildings in her mind, but a three-dimensional model constructed from countless streams of data.

A hundred meters beneath the earth, several mutated rats were crawling through the sewers toward the granary, their hearts beating at three hundred beats per minute.

In the eastern barracks of the city, a few collateral-branch officers on night watch were whispering in hushed tones, discussing how they might pledge their loyalty to the new city lord tomorrow in exchange for better positions.

She could even sense the black market several kilometers away, where that shrewd rat-man Jiji was directing his underlings to load crate after crate of valuables onto a carriage bound for Azurewood City, humming some unknown tune as he worked.

No secrets remained.

So long as her Mental Strength swept across a target, their power, location, and even emotional fluctuations were laid bare with perfect clarity.

“This is… absolute control.”

Lin Fan lay on the soft couch, her golden-purple vertical pupils shimmering with an eerie luster of data.

If she so wished, she could even shatter the brain of that scheming officer several kilometers away with a single mental shock, killing him without a sound.

“However…”

Lin Fan frowned slightly, sensing her stamina and Mental Strength plummeting at an alarming rate.

Fast.

Too fast.

Even with Long Xuan’s peak seventh-rank physique, it could not withstand such expenditure.

In just two and a half minutes, most of her stamina had already been consumed.

“Three minutes.”

Lin Fan set a limit in her mind.

“In my current state, this godlike Domain can only be maintained for three minutes. Once that time is exceeded, my body will be forced into shock from overexertion, and I may even suffer double the Mental Backlash.”

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These three minutes were her ultimate trump card for life-or-death struggles!

Unfortunately, her original body’s passive skills could not be directly carried over to the Skin.

A different talent surfaced in Lin Fan’s mind: Tyranny.

That Tyrannical Overlord talent derived from Long Xueqi: the lower one’s health, the faster one recovers.

If she could fuse the health-locking cheat of [Tyranny] with the burst-output cheat of [Heart of Envy]…

One side frantically draining health to fuel mana, the other frantically regenerating health at critical levels.

It would be nothing short of a perpetual motion machine.

“It seems fusion must be moved to the top of my agenda.”

Lin Fan took a deep breath, and with a thought, forcibly severed the operation of the Heart of Envy.

Hum—!

The god’s-eye view that commanded everything vanished in an instant, and the world returned to its original form.

Immediately after, a powerful wave of exhaustion crashed over her like a tide.

Though she had applied the brakes in time and avoided backlash, the sheer drop from extreme motion to extreme stillness, coupled with the hyper-focused concentration demanded by the Omniscient Domain, had elevated her sensory acuity by several notches.

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(Approximately one thousand words of Lin Fan being exhausted and leveling up were cut here)

Yui’s meridians, which had been dried and depleted from forcibly using “Reality Rewriting,” were instantly flooded with this violent surge of Spirit Energy.

BOOM!

There was no such thing as a bottleneck.

Before the cheat that was Spirit Qi Purification, evolution was just that simple, crude, and unreasonable.

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The kimono formed by Yui’s Special Ability instantly shattered, dissolving into specks of light that scattered away.

Her skin rapidly flushed with an eerie crimson, and massive amounts of white steam burst from her pores, shrouding the entire room in a hazy mist.

Crack, crack, crack—

The Spirit Energy within her body was erupting.

That was the sound of a leap in the hierarchy of life itself.

Lin Fan half-closed his eyes, leaning against the headboard, watching the scene before him with great interest.

Though the Omniscient Domain was off, his basic Mental Strength remained.

Yui’s physical energy was skyrocketing at a rate that would make anyone’s jaw drop.

Just ten seconds passed.

Only then did that terrifying climbing speed finally come to a halt.

“ Burp… “

Yui lay sprawled on the ground, letting out a completely ungraceful, Spirit Energy-scented belch.

She raised her hand somewhat dazedly, staring at her fingertips that now brimmed with power.

Peak Level Five.

On Blue Star, that made her a regional overlord.

Even here in Border Dragon City, where experts were as numerous as trees in a forest, she would be a core combat force qualified to hold the rank of squad leader.

And all of this had cost merely…

“This is way too…”

After all, in this world—whether human or Dragon Clan—who hadn’t needed years of grueling cultivation and massive amounts of Crystals to evolve from Level Four to Level Five?

That kid Long Yan had spent a long time in the Mist Forest just to recover his strength and go from Level Four to Level Five.

But when it came to her…

“How do you feel?”

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Yui lay on the ground, her voice slightly hoarse from the impact of the energy surge, but her eyes were blazing with an alarming brightness.

“I feel like I have endless strength in my body, and using that ability is much easier now.”

She was, of course, referring to her “Reality Rewriting” ability.

At peak Level Five, her Mental Strength had undergone a qualitative leap—no longer would she nearly die just from reshaping her body like before.

“Not bad.”

Lin Fan withdrew his feet and casually draped a thin gauze robe over himself, concealing that mature body capable of driving any male wild with desire.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and yanked open the heavy curtains.

On the eastern horizon, the first pale light of dawn was already breaking through.

Morning light pierced the mist, spilling over this pitch-black steel giant of a city, gilding those ferocious dragon sculptures with a bloody golden trim.

A new day had arrived.

The master of this city had changed, but the rats hiding in the gutters were probably still dreaming sweet dreams of carving up the spoils.

“Go take a shower and change your clothes.”

Lin Fan spoke with his back to Yui, his voice reverting to that cold, commanding tone befitting one of higher standing.

“Now that you have peak Level Five strength, stop looking like a pushover.”

“After dawn, many people will want to see just what this ‘new city lord’ is made of.”

“And when that time comes…”

Lin Fan turned around, backlit by the light, those gold-violet Vertical pupils gleaming with a bone-chilling sharpness.

“If you mess up the performance, I’ll turn you into a real skin.”

Yui shuddered violently. Forgetting the heat surging through her body, she immediately dropped to her knees and kowtowed.

“Yes! Yui… no, Long Wu understands!”

She raised her head, and the timidity belonging to “Yui” in her eyes was rapidly receding, replaced by a deliberately imitated, almost obsessive arrogance.

Lin Fan nodded in satisfaction.

The materials had been fully reinforced, and the tools had been sharpened.

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Next.

Lin Fan turned around—by now, she had completely entered the role of “Long Xuan.”

That languid, alluring, yet slightly unhinged Fifth Elder.

She reached up and traced her fingers over the pair of golden-purple dragon horns, a meaningful smile curling at the corners of her lips as she gazed into the distance—toward the very heart of the Dragon Spirit Continent—

The Dragon Ancestral Land, Dragon Emperor Hall.

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The night was as dark as ink, and outside the window, Border Dragon City remained brightly lit.

In this city forged of steel and violence, the shift in power had not affected the workings of the lower strata; if anything, a suppressed excitement was fermenting in the air.

Lin Fan lounged sideways on the soft couch.

Beside her, Yui was curled up at the foot of the bed, breathing steadily—clearly exhausted.

“System.”

Lin Fan called out in her mind.

“Calculate: if I wanted to fully fuse this ‘Long Xuan’ Skin into my main body right now, what would it cost?”

Those three minutes of the “Omniscient Domain” were far too addictive.

That god’s-eye view, that thrill of controlling everything—it was something that borrowing a Skin could never satisfy.

Only by completely fusing it, making it her own instinct, could Lin Fan feel at ease.

A pale blue light screen materialized before her eyes, streams of data cascading down like a waterfall.

[Analyzing target Skin: Long Xuan (Mythic Grade)…]

[Notice: Host’s main body has reached Mythic Grade. Skin energy density below Perfect Grade is too low to serve as fusion material. Investment ineffective.]

[Minimum required materials: Perfect Grade Skin x 100.]

Lin Fan’s fingers, which had been tapping the armrest, suddenly froze.

“H-… How many?”