Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 358 – Skill Combination

Lin Fan hovered in the dark underwater rift, a wild smile tugging at the corner of his lips.

The numerical display just now was merely an appetizer—without real-world testing, data would forever remain cold, lifeless numbers.

What she needed to test was the true limit.

“Heart of Envy, activate!”

BOOM—!

If the earlier mental eruption was like a breached dam, then this was the entire ocean being brought to a boil.

The once-calm Sea of Consciousness instantly erupted into towering waves.

In those deep black pupils, the left eye was suddenly consumed by an eerie violet glow, while the right eye blazed with emerald light of life.

She was feeling it.

Feeling that power capable of crushing everything in its path.

Fifty-two thousand base Mental Strength, the moment Heart of Envy activated, doubled instantly.

One hundred four thousand!

A number that made one’s scalp tingle.

If the threshold for early Stage Eight was fifty thousand, then in the dimension of Mental Strength alone, Lin Fan had just kicked open the door to late Stage Eight—or even peak Stage Eight.

Crack, crack, crack—

The surrounding rock walls let out groans of unbearable strain.

The Omniscient Domain, originally only three hundred meters in radius, now expanded outward like an inflated balloon.

Four hundred meters… six hundred meters… eight hundred meters…

Until one thousand meters!

Within a kilometer in every direction, even the squirming of a microorganism or the rise and fall of a speck of dust was rendered with perfect clarity in Lin Fan’s mind.

This god’s-eye view brought a sense of absolute control that was intoxicating—but equally lethal.

“Here it comes.”

Lin Fan let out a muffled grunt.

Accompanying the ultimate power, her stamina began to plummet like a deflating balloon.

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This was the price of Heart of Envy.

It was like an engine that burned the body itself for horsepower—the harder you pressed the accelerator, the faster the fuel tank drained.

90%… 80%…

Energy within her body was draining at a terrifying rate.

Based on past experience, she’d be forced out of this state within three minutes at most when her stamina ran dry.

But this time, it was different.

When her stamina dropped to half—

The ancient tyrannosaur slumbering deep within Lin Fan’s genes awakened.

Talent: Tyranny, passive trigger!

A scorching warmth surged from the depths of her bone marrow—the primal life force of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. It roared through her limbs and meridians, desperately trying to fill the bottomless pit.

The rate of decline slowed.

But it wasn’t enough.

Heart of Envy, that prodigal bastard, consumed energy at an utterly unreasonable rate. Relying solely on Tyranny’s regeneration was like going from “massive hemorrhage” to “moderate blood loss.”

“Still not quite enough…”

Lin Fan’s gaze sharpened, and the emerald light in her right eye blazed even brighter.

“Hymn of Life, get moving for me!”

Mythic Grade bloodline talent, derived from the Child of Nature bloodline.

The next second.

The entire underwater rift seemed to come alive.

The Spirit Energy contained in the water currents, the vitality of moss in rock crevices, even the geothermal energy seeping from deep within the earth’s crust… all “life” and “energy” surged into Lin Fan’s body as if answering a summons.

In that moment, Lin Fan was like a massive humanoid black hole.

On the left, Heart of Envy frantically draining blood.

In the center, Tyranny desperately staunching the flow.

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On the right, Hymn of Life frantically replenishing it.

Three utterly different forces achieved a bizarre yet perfect dynamic equilibrium within Lin Fan’s body.

“It worked!”

Lin Fan clenched her fists, feeling the endless, ever-renewing cycle of power circulating within her body.

As long as the natural energy in the outside world didn’t run dry, and as long as her mental will didn’t collapse, she could maintain this state of peak burst output indefinitely!

Who needed a three-minute limit?

She could keep this up until the end of time!

“Phew…”

Lin Fan exhaled a breath of turbid air, and the breath transformed into emerald life energy in midair, carrying dense Spirit Energy potent enough to drive low-level organisms to evolve.

She looked at her own hands.

This feeling was too incredible.

It was like playing a game where you unleash your ultimate—normally it only lasts three minutes and drains your health like crazy—but then you stumble upon a bug that not only stops the health drain but makes the ultimate last forever.

What did they call that?

That was a mechanic exploit!

“But… this thing seems to have other uses too.”

Lin Fan narrowed her eyes, sensing the [Omniscient Domain] that covered a full kilometer in every direction.

With the integration of [Hymn of Life], this Domain—originally meant only for reconnaissance and target-locking—seemed to have undergone a qualitative transformation.

The originally cold, god’s-eye view now carried a trace of warmth.

That was the life force spilling out of Lin Fan’s body.

Because [Hymn of Life] absorbed external energy at such a breakneck pace, and her body’s container had a limit, the excess life energy flowed out along her Mental Strength tendrils, spreading throughout the entire Domain.

“Let’s test it out.”

With a flicker of thought, Lin Fan locked onto the fat-headed fish trembling at the entrance of the Rift.

That creature had been scared half to death by the commotion of Lin Fan’s earlier fusion, and had buried its head in the mud.

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“You’ll be my guinea pig.”

A mischievous smile curled at the corner of Lin Fan’s lips.

Hum—

Omniscient Domain… fuse with life force!

Life Domain!

The water within a one-kilometer radius was instantly dyed a pale green.

It was life force so dense it had liquefied.

The fat-headed fish, which had been playing dead, suddenly jolted all over.

The ancient scars on its bone armor began to mend at a visibly discernible speed.

Not only that.

It felt the Qi-Blood in its body—which had been gradually drying up due to old age and frailty—beginning to boil anew!

“Glub?”

The fat-headed fish yanked its head out of the mud, staring around in utter bewilderment.

That feeling was like being transported back countless years to when it was still a fry, brimming with vitality and restless energy.

Even its pectoral fins—which had been injured long ago and never worked quite right—were now moving with incredible agility.

“ROAR!”

The fat-headed fish let out an excited bellow, sending the surrounding water into violent tremors.

It could sense that as long as it stayed within this green circle, it was unkillable!

“Just as I thought.”

Deep within the Rift, Lin Fan nodded in satisfaction.

This ability was several levels above Sun Jing’s simple group healing.

This was clearly a super-enhanced version of a “mobile fountain”!

As long as one was within this Domain, every unit Lin Fan designated as “friendly” would enjoy this absurd level of life restoration.

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That was just ridiculous.

From now on, in any group fight, she’d just stand in the middle, activate the Omniscient Domain, and—

Her entire side would be at full health and full mana, revived on the spot, complete with built-in wallhacks.

And the enemy?

Not only would they have to face Lin Fan, a monster at the peak of Level Eight, but also a swarm of cockroaches that couldn’t be killed no matter how hard they tried.

How were they supposed to fight that?

They might as well surrender on the spot.

“This should max out both my support and damage output.”

Lin Fan deactivated the Heart of Envy state, and the hollowed-out feeling that had gripped her body vanished instantly, replaced by a sense of fullness and satisfaction.

Though maintaining this state for extended periods would be taxing, leaving her mentally drained, at least in terms of hard metrics, she no longer had any weaknesses.

Level: early Stage Eight.

Combat power: peak Stage Eight.

Life form: Legendary Grade.

Add to that this shameless Omniscient Domain of Life.

If she couldn’t strip every last scale off those old mud eels and turn them into a coat this time at the Dragon Ancestral Land, she might as well change her name to Thunder Weakling!

Lin Fan was about to turn and leave the Rift to check on the mermaids she’d left hanging outside.

Suddenly.

Her footsteps came to an abrupt halt.

In that instant when she deactivated the Omniscient Domain, at the very edge of her thousand-meter perception—the deepest point of this Rift—

She caught a trace of an extremely faint fluctuation, but one with an eerily bizarre frequency.

Lin Fan’s pitch-black pupils narrowed into slits in an instant, and the aura she had just reined in once again turned dangerous.

“Now that’s interesting.”