Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 499 – Entrance to Another World

Lin Fan stood upon the scorched earth, feeling the power within her body once again surging to fullness.

That refreshing sensation emanating from the very marrow of her bones, nourished by the Life Origin, drew a self-deprecating smile to the corner of her lips.

“Cultivation-Absorption Domain… Does this make me some kind of demonic woman who specializes in draining others’ essence?”

She murmured to herself, her tone carrying not a shred of shame, but rather a hint of novel curiosity.

To her, the method of acquiring power had never been a matter of moral consideration.

Efficiency was the only criterion.

Paying no further heed to the scattered Dragon Clan remains on the ground, Lin Fan’s figure flickered, and she was already ten thousand meters in the sky.

Her white ancient-style robe snapped loudly in the supersonic shockwave, yet was restrained within three inches of her body by an invisible force field, remaining perfectly undisturbed.

Like a bolt of white lightning tearing through the heavens, she shot straight toward the Hangzhou coordinates Chu Chen had provided.

What was once an ancient waterside town had now become a primeval forest—a paradise for Zombies and Mutated Beasts.

The noonday sun beat down upon it, reflecting a glare that was both piercing and desolate.

Lin Fan hovered above the ruins as her Omniscient Domain spread outward like liquid mercury.

Soon, she sensed the location Chu Chen had marked within a mountain covered in vegetation.

She descended slowly.

The cave entrance had long been completely sealed by tens of thousands of tons of collapsed rock, its surface covered in cracks. The weathering indicated that no one had been here for at least several years.

For an ordinary Evolved being, digging through this would take considerable effort.

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But for Lin Fan, this physical obstacle was as good as nonexistent.

“Spirit-Flesh Unity.”

With a thought, her solid body instantly transformed into a hazy phantom existing between the real and the unreal, passing through a hundred meters of rock layers and alloy gates without the slightest resistance.

As her feet touched solid ground again, the scene before her caused even her star-like eyes, usually as calm as an ancient well, to ripple with a trace of emotion.

This was not the dark, damp underground bunker she had imagined.

This was a massive, empty, futuristic white circular space.

At the very center of the entire space, hundreds of precision detection instruments and analytical devices were stacked in layers, surrounding a single object.

Dim blue indicator lights flickered on and off, straining the eyes.

It was a translucent arc of light, suspended in midair, constantly twisting and warping.

The arc stood about three meters tall and one meter wide, its form highly unstable.

Sometimes it stretched into a line, sometimes it compressed into a point. It was entirely transparent—had one not looked carefully, it would have been nearly impossible to detect with the naked eye.

It simply hung there in silence.

Uttering no sound, emitting no perceptible energy fluctuation.

The instrument probes around it were all aimed at it, countless streams of data scrolling frantically across the screens, yet seemingly never yielding a definitive result.

Lin Fan stepped forward slowly.

Her terrifying ninth-level mid-stage Mental Strength extended like invisible tendrils, cautiously probing toward that arc of light.

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But the instant her mental power touched the edge of the arc—

“Hum—”

A terrifying suction force suddenly erupted!

Lin Fan’s immense Mental Strength—enough to effortlessly crush the Mental Sea of a seventh-level peak powerhouse—was like a bursting dam finding an outlet, frantically devoured by that tiny arc of light!

The entire process was silent, yet exceedingly perilous.

The moment her mental power attached itself, it instantly lost connection with her body, vanishing without a trace like a clay ox entering the sea.

As if it had been directly teleported to another dimension.

Lin Fan’s pupils contracted slightly. Without hesitation, she severed the subsequent mental probe.

In just a few seconds, nearly one-tenth of her Mental Strength—an immense reserve of 250,000 units—had been drained away.

“Interesting.”

Far from alarmed, a spark of intense curiosity lit up her eyes instead.

At her current level of existence, there were very few things in this world that could still evoke a sense of the “unknown” or “dangerous” within her.

She circled around the arc of light, making no further rash attempts.

Her gaze swept across the surrounding equipment and finally settled on a holographic projector on the main console.

She reached out and tapped it lightly.

A virtual light screen materialized, and Chen Dingjun’s pale, fanatical face appeared in midair.

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This was a recording of his research log.

“Experiment log, Day 368. The energy reading remains ‘infinite.’ Impossible! There is no absolute infinity in the universe—it must have a peak value, our equipment simply cannot capture it!”

In the footage, Chen Dingjun’s eyes were bloodshot, his demeanor that of a madman.

“According to federal archives, the earliest recorded observation of this ‘anomalous spatial fold’ dates back three hundred years. It was initially believed to be some unknown atmospheric optical phenomenon. Harmless, intangible—everything physical simply passed straight through it.”

“Until the Post-apocalypse erupted, and the first generation of psychic-type Evolved beings appeared.”

Chen Dingjun’s breathing grew heavy, his gaze a mixture of terror and exhilaration.

“A third-tier psychic Evolved being accidentally conducted a Mental Strength scan on it during a mission. The result… he instantly became a soulless vegetable, his Mental Sea completely drained dry.”

“From that moment on, we realized that this seemingly harmless natural wonder was a ‘black hole’!”

“After I took over the research, I built this laboratory. I discovered that the energy fluctuations it emits are highly similar to the underlying logic of Rift Teleportation, but the complexity and energy magnitude are on an entirely different level!”

In the footage, Chen Dingjun waved his arms excitedly, spittle flying.

“The combined energy of all 103 Rifts worldwide, multiplied by a hundred, might not even compare to this small arc of light before us! I have a bold hypothesis…”

He suddenly lunged toward the camera, his eyes staring intently as if trying to pierce through the screen.

“…This is also a Portal! One that has not fully opened—or perhaps once opened! But its destination is absolutely not the Dragon Spirit Continent!”

“Where does it lead? A higher-dimensional world? Or the entrance to some forbidden being’s prison? I don’t know! I have exhausted everything I’ve learned in my lifetime, and I can only prove its existence—but I cannot understand its composition, nor can I utilize it!”

“This… might be the key for human civilization to transcend dimensions.”

The recording ended there, Chen Dingjun’s figure vanishing from the light screen.

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The laboratory fell into dead silence.

Only the translucent arc of light continued to silently twist and shift, as if it had remained unchanged since time immemorial.

Lin Fan stood still in place, processing this information.

Three hundred years ago…

That point in time immediately made her think of two people.

Long Hao and Long Xi.

According to Long Xi’s memories, it was also approximately three hundred years ago that they successfully pinpointed Blue Star’s coordinates.

Could there be some connection between the two?

An entrance to an unknown dimension, stable for three hundred years, far surpassing the specifications of the Dragon Clan’s Portals, capable of devouring Mental Strength…

She slowly walked up to the arc of light, extending her slender, fair fingers to feel the subtle, hidden fluctuations that made even space itself tremble, from half a meter away.

There was no fear on her face, nor confusion.

Those Iridescent Astral Eyes reflected the distorted arc of light, swirling with the excitement and thrill of a hunter discovering new prey.

“This world…”

Lin Fan’s red lips parted slightly, letting out a satisfied sigh.

“Is getting more and more interesting.”