Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 511 – The Two Who Reached a Consensus

White Bone Pass, deep within the underground beast pens.

The stench of blood and rot in the air remained as pungent as ever.

Along the one hundred and three bone pillars of the Teleportation Array, dark red array patterns pulsed faintly like the rhythm of breathing.

Long Ye stood with his hands clasped behind his back at the edge of the formation.

His golden dragon horns reflected cold light in the dim underground.

He stared at the Formation Eye of the teleportation array, silently counting the time in his mind.

Five days.

The Energy Threshold of the spatial rift on Blue Star could now accommodate an eighth-level Lifeform crossing over.

“Cough…”

A faint cough came from the shadows behind him.

Long Ye’s gaze flickered. By the time he turned around, his face was already wearing that signature gentle smile.

“Fourth Elder, this underground place is cold and damp. Why not stay above and enjoy your tea? What brings you down here?”

Long Junshan, clad in a loose robe, strolled over slowly, rolling two jade stones in his hand.

His wrinkled face bunched up into a smile, making him look like a remarkably good-natured old human man.

But Long Ye knew very well that this old relic—the longest-lived member of the Council of Elders—had torn apart enough Demi-humans in his youth to fill all of White Bone Pass.

“It’s too quiet up there.”

Long Junshan let out a sigh.

“The tidal wave of beasts and the three thousand vanguard troops have all been teleported over. The Pureblood elites of the Dragon Emperor Hall have gone as well. White Bone Pass is left with just the two of us old bones.”

“I thought the Second Elder would return to the Dragon Emperor Hall to report after coordinating the army. I never expected you to stand in this moldering underground for five full days.”

Long Junshan stopped walking, his murky eyes fixed on Long Ye.

“Long Ye, what are you waiting for?”

The smile on Long Ye’s face did not waver.

“The Dragon Emperor’s decree is to harvest Blue Star. Naturally, I must ensure the Teleportation Array is flawless.”

“Don’t try to use the Dragon Emperor to pressure me.”

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The jade stones in Long Junshan’s hand paused.

“I’ve lived longer than you. I’ve heard more excuses than you’ve eaten meat. There isn’t even a rat left in White Bone Pass now—what are you staying here for?”

Long Ye fell silent.

A shadow of gloom flickered through his golden vertical pupils.

He knew he couldn’t fool Long Junshan.

This old man, though semi-retired, possessed an extremely sharp mind.

If things truly came to a head and news leaked back to Grand Elder Long Zhan, his plan to monopolize the opportunity on Blue Star would be completely ruined.

“Fourth Elder.”

Long Ye dropped his smile, his tone turning subdued.

“Long Kui has been on Blue Star for half a month now, hasn’t he?”

Long Junshan’s gaze turned cold.

Long Kui was his son—a peak seventh-level Pureblood Dragon Clan member, among the first batch of seventh-levels sent to Blue Star after the Teleportation Array was expanded.

“Has he sent any word back?” Long Ye pressed.

Long Junshan clenched the jade stones.

“No. That’s not unusual—the Space Channel has been extremely unstable, and communications have been disrupted.”

“Five seventh-level Purebloods, plus Long Kui at peak seventh-level—and not a single word from any of them.”

Long Ye began to pace, slowly circling the Teleportation Array.

“They weren’t trapped by disrupted communications. They were all killed.”

Long Junshan’s robe billowed without wind as the pressure of a mid-eighth-level expert instantly flooded the entire underground space.

“Say that again.”

“Put away your temper.”

Long Ye stood his ground, letting the pressure wash over him.

“The people I sent also died. Blue Star has top-tier experts, but that’s not the main point.”

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“The main point is—how did those Blue Star humans become so strong in just a few short years?”

Long Junshan frowned.

This was indeed a question he had never been able to figure out.

“Because of the Crystal Bone.”

Long Ye uttered two words, his voice lowered to barely a whisper, as if afraid of alerting some unknown presence.

Long Junshan was stunned.

“Crystal Bone? The thing the Dragon Emperor has been having us harvest?”

“That’s right.”

Long Ye walked up to Long Junshan, staring at him intently.

“The Crystal Bones of Blue Star humans are the key to breaking the bloodline shackles. They’re useful not just for the ancestor, but for us as well.”

Long Junshan let out a cold laugh.

“Nonsense. How could something nurtured on a wasteland like Blue Star have any effect on the Pureblood Dragon Clan?”

“That branch family member called Long Ningshuang—you’ve seen her, haven’t you?” Long Ye countered.

Long Junshan nodded.

“I have. Early seventh rank. She’s certainly an anomaly. A branch bloodline reaching the seventh rank—there hasn’t been one in nearly a century, except for Long Yi. Though he doesn’t really count as branch family.”

“She told me she entered the Rift and devoured the Crystal Bone of a Blue Star Evolved being.”

Long Ye hurled the lie Lin Fan had casually made up that night, word for word, even embellishing it.

“That’s the reason she broke through her bloodline limit. A lowly branch member, crossing the seventh-rank threshold with just a scrap of Blue Star leftovers.”

Long Ye paused, his voice turning deeply seductive.

“Fourth Elder, you’ve been stuck at mid-eighth rank for fifty years now, haven’t you?”

The two jade stones in Long Junshan’s hand clashed together with a sharp crack.

Those words struck his deepest wound.

For fifty years, no matter how many heavenly treasures he devoured, how much Spirit Energy he absorbed, his cultivation level had remained utterly immovable.

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The Pureblood Dragon Clan’s bloodline had given him a lofty status, but it had also locked away his ceiling.

“What exactly are you trying to say?”

Long Junshan’s voice had gone hoarse.

“What I’m saying is—if a branch member can use Crystal Bone to break her shackles, why can’t we Purebloods?”

Long Ye spread his arms, pointing at the Teleportation Array.

“On the other side of that passage is a massive farm. Millions of Blue Star humans, after all this time of slaughtering each other, plus the Mutated Beasts we’ve released to accelerate things—they must have produced quite a few high-grade Crystal Bones by now.”

“Long Kui hasn’t sent word back. Maybe he’s not dead—maybe he’s discovered a great medicine and is secretly feasting on it.”

Long Junshan’s eyes narrowed.

If Long Kui could use this to break through to the eighth rank…

“Long Zhan, relying on his peak-eighth-rank cultivation, half a step from the ninth—he’s been throwing his weight around in the Council of Elders these past few years.”

Long Ye continued stoking the fire.

“The Dragon Emperor indulges his every whim, even wanting to hand the lucrative mission to Blue Star to his people. He really thinks he’s the next Dragon Emperor, doesn’t he?”

Long Ye stepped closer and patted Long Junshan on the shoulder.

“Once the army corners those Blue Star humans into desperation over there, forcing out all their potential, you and I can go over personally to harvest the highest-grade Crystal Bones.”

“As long as we can break through to peak eighth rank, or even step into the ninth…”

Long Ye smiled.

“What is Long Zhan anyway? If we truly reach the ninth rank, with the two of us joining forces, who sits on the Dragon Emperor’s throne is anyone’s guess.”

The underground chamber fell into dead silence.

Long Junshan stared at Long Ye.

He knew this cunning strategist was dragging him into the water, using him.

But the bait was too big.

Too big to ignore all the risks.

The fear of losing power, the despair of a stagnant cultivation realm, the jealousy toward Long Zhan—all of it was ignited in that moment by the words “Crystal Bone.”

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“You’ve been hiding here, keeping this from Long Zhan and the Dragon Emperor Hall, all for this?”

Long Junshan let out a long breath.

“Opportunities like this—the fewer people who share them, the better.”

Long Ye looked at him.

“Fourth Elder, what’s your decision?”

Long Junshan tucked the two jade stones into his sleeve.

The gloom on his face vanished in an instant, replaced once more by that refined, scholarly smile.

“The environment on Blue Star is harsh. I wouldn’t feel at ease letting the Second Elder go alone to observe the situation there. Since the Ancestor has decreed we reap Blue Star, this old bones of mine ought to contribute as well.”

The two old foxes exchanged a knowing smile.

“By my reckoning, the Pureblood Guard should have already cleared the path.”

Long Ye turned and walked toward the Teleportation Array.

“Time for us to close the net.”

Long Ye raised his hand, pouring Spirit Energy into the Formation Eye.

One hundred and three bone pillars suddenly blazed with piercing blood-red light.

Space was forcibly torn apart, and a spatial vortex ten meters in diameter took shape.

Violent Spatial Turbulence howled and churned within the passage.

“The passage’s carrying capacity is just enough for Rank Eight. Random teleportation will suffice.”

Long Ye sensed the Spatial Fluctuation and nodded with satisfaction.

“Let’s go.”

Without the slightest hesitation, Long Junshan stepped into the vortex.

Long Ye followed close behind.

Beneath White Bone Pass, silence once again reigned.

The light of the Teleportation Array gradually dimmed after the two vanished.