Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 400 – The Situation Has Changed, Western Sichuan is in Danger!

At the top floor of the City Lord’s mansion, in the office.

Su Yue led Su Xiaoxiao, who was clutching a thick ledger, scurrying over to the desk in small, quick steps.

Su Xiaoxiao’s fluffy fox ears twitched with excitement.

Lin Fan lounged back in the leather chair, holding an absurdly oversized glass water jug.

The jug was filled with mineral water. She tilted her head back, throat bobbing as she gulped down half the jug in a series of “gulp, gulp, gulp” sounds.

“Drink slowly, my lord.” Su Yue hurried forward, deftly taking the empty jug and turning to refill it at the water dispenser.

“Report the accounts.” Lin Fan wiped the water stains from the corner of her mouth.

Su Xiaoxiao flipped open the first page of the ledger and read out in a crisp voice: “This week’s financial flow is ready. Azurewood City’s top source of revenue has completely shifted from the black market run by Jiji and Huwei to your merchandise.”

Lin Fan raised an eyebrow. “Merchandise?”

“Yes.” Su Xiaoxiao nodded, pointing at the figures on the ledger. “The scaled-down statue figurines of Goddess Lei Li sold twenty thousand units. And that’s already the maximum output the artisans could manage working day and night.”

“Continue.”

“And clothes.” Su Xiaoxiao’s cheeks flushed with excitement. “That smoke-colored long dress you wore the other day—the shopkeeper on Tailor Street copied it overnight and sold out ten warehouses of stock in a week. Even… even the undergarments in your style have become hot commodities among the city’s noble ladies and merchant caravans. Jiji privately commissioned a batch of hairpins in the same style and made ten thousand first-grade Crystals in a week.”

Lin Fan listened, and instead of getting angry, a glint of satisfaction appeared in her eyes.

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These people from another world had quite the business sense. As long as it didn’t undermine her prestige, turning faith into profit was the best form of governance.

“Raise the prices.” Lin Fan made the decision on the spot. “Tell Jiji that anything sold under my name must pay a twenty percent patent fee to Azurewood City.”

Su Xiaoxiao quickly noted it down in the ledger: “Recorded. But sister, the most profitable item right now isn’t clothes—it’s the bottles.”

At the mention of this, Su Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up. “The Holy Water pool in the central plaza is free, but the ‘Blessing Bottles’ used to hold Energy Potions cost one first-grade Crystal each. Mercenaries and refugees who come from surrounding towns specifically for the Energy Potions buy tens of thousands of bottles every day. Many people who drink the Energy Potion and get cured of their disabilities kneel down beneath the statue and weep, insisting on settling down in Azurewood City.”

“Good, let them come. Put them all to work hauling bricks at the outer expansion site. Azurewood City doesn’t support idlers.” Lin Fan reached out, took the full jug of water from Su Yue, and gulped it down again.

She knew very well that she would be staying on Blue Star for a long time.

At the shortest, half a month. At the longest, several months.

The harvest of faith in Azurewood City absolutely could not be interrupted.

The water in that pool was the foundation of Azurewood City’s stable operation. To ensure the central plaza’s pool wouldn’t run dry over the coming months, Lin Fan had turned down all meetings for the past three days.

The only thing she did was eat meat and drink water like crazy.

As long as she consumed enough energy, the Energy Potions she produced would be more concentrated, allowing them to dilute more water.

Originally, one batch of Energy Potion could dilute half a pool of water. Now, after the intense energy intake, it could dilute a full pool.

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Lin Fan set down the empty jug and patted her flat stomach. The high-intensity circulation of Spirit Energy meant she didn’t feel full at all.

“Got some stock now.” Lin Fan stood up and casually instructed, “Have the kitchen roast two more mutated cattle, and wash up that batch of Spirit Fruits the merchant caravan just delivered. I need to stock up more.”

Su Yue watched Lin Fan’s retreating figure heading toward the washroom, her eyes filled with fervor and reverence.

In her eyes, Lady Lei Li was tirelessly expending her own energy to bestow divine blessings upon her people.

Such a selfless and giving heart truly lived up to the title of Goddess of Life.

These three days of high-intensity “refinement work” had actually stabilized Lin Fan’s cultivation realm even further. The Faith Threads in her mind were densely packed, connecting to tens of thousands of living beings across Azurewood City and the surrounding tribes and cities.

Every second, invisible Power of Faith flowed into her Sea of Consciousness, and she could faintly sense the threshold of the late Stage 8.

“Time’s about up.” Lin Fan walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the gray sky.

The three-day deadline had arrived.

In the central plaza of Azurewood City, fully armed city defense troops stood in formation before the Rift.

Lin Fan descended from the sky and landed steadily in front of the Rift.

Long Teng, Long Yi, and Long Yan were already waiting there.

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“Lei Li, sis, you really don’t need us to go with you?” Long Yi rubbed his neck. These past few days, he’d gotten to experience Blue Star’s latex pillows, and his sleep quality had improved by several notches.

“Why use a cleaver to kill a chicken?” Lin Fan swept her gaze across the three of them. “Your job is to guard the home front. Besides, at your cultivation levels, you can’t even enter the Rift.”

Long Teng nodded heavily: “Don’t worry. With the three of us here, unless the Dragon Emperor himself descends, anyone who comes will die.”

Lin Fan turned to look at Zhou Ming: “How’s the positioning work coming along?”

Zhou Ming’s eyes snapped open: “Lily, Spatial Fluctuation is forming! The spatial beacon over at the Dragon Clan’s breeding grounds has already revealed itself. As long as the Tidal wave of beasts starts transmitting, I can grab hold of that trace of spatial fluctuation and trace it back!”

“Well done.” Lin Fan reached behind her and pulled a delicate receiver bracelet from her spatial storage, tossing it to Zhou Ming. “Put it on.”

Zhou Ming didn’t dare waste words and immediately clasped the bracelet around his wrist.

Lin Fan stood at the center of the formation, and the ornaments on her neck and earlobes emitted a brilliant glow.

Master Dwarf Copperbeard’s masterpiece—specifically crafted for a monster like her who suffered from energy overload.

“Everyone, prepare to receive the Spirit Energy!” Lin Fan gave the order.

Ah Hu, Yuzuru, and all the core members activated the receivers on their wrists.

Lin Fan channeled the power within her body.

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The terrifying pressure of the mid Stage 8 was about to radiate outward, but the necklace forcibly cut it off.

Life Aura of the purest quality transformed into twenty emerald-green ribbons of light, surging wildly through the necklace’s nodes into the bodies of the surrounding subordinates.

This crude method of direct infusion would be unbearable for ordinary people.

But Lin Fan’s energy carried the healing properties of the Laws of Life—while roughly widening their meridians, it simultaneously repaired the damaged cells at lightning speed.

In the blink of an eye, consecutive bursts of Spirit Energy explosions rang out across the plaza.

With the massive loss of Spirit Energy, Lin Fan’s face grew somewhat pale, but her gaze became all the sharper.

She forcibly suppressed her cultivation realm at the peak of Stage 5, perfectly wedged at the maximum threshold the current Spatial Rift could withstand.

At the very moment the Rift opened, the communication device in front of Zhou Ming suddenly lit up with a red light.

It was an emergency communication from the Blue Star’s Western Sichuan base.

The communication connected, and Chu Chen’s somewhat urgent voice came through the speaker, with a continuous rumble in the background.

“Zhou Ming, tell Lei Li. Western Sichuan is in danger!”