Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 531 – I’ll answer you now; it works quite well-

Lin Fan bent down and picked up the cracked, fissure-covered skin from the ground, storing it in the System Space.

The skin was severely damaged, but the System could repair it using lower-grade Skins during the fusion process.

She straightened up.

Without the suppression of the Skin, the bloodline of the Fragmented Progenitor of Life at the mid-ninth level had fully awakened.

Her physical attributes and Mental Strength of 250,000 were no longer constrained in any way.

She could feel power surging through every corner of her body.

Lin Fan looked up at the Dragon Emperor.

His words—”You’re far more beautiful than her”—made her stomach churn with disgust.

She couldn’t understand what he meant at all.

This man’s gaze wasn’t that of an enemy sizing up a foe; it was like someone admiring a possession that belonged to him.

Her mind raced with calculations.

This old monster was overwhelmingly powerful, and his mastery over the Death Rule was absurdly refined.

Lin Fan’s peripheral vision swept over Long Yi on the ground.

Back then, Long Yi was at the late-eighth level. According to him, he had barely escaped into the Death Swamp after being gravely wounded by the Dragon Emperor.

Given the Dragon Emperor’s current utterly unreasonable rule-suppression, he could crush an eighth-level peak expert with a flick of his finger.

How could Long Yi have escaped back then?

There were only two possibilities.

Either the Dragon Emperor had deliberately let him go, or the Dragon Emperor hadn’t been this strong at that time.

And where was Long Hao, who had been lurking in the shadows all along?

This was definitely a trap within a trap.

She couldn’t afford to drag this out.

She had to end this quickly.

“Enough with the nonsense.”

Lin Fan spoke, her voice cold with not a trace of warmth.

She activated her talent directly.

Heart of Envy, activate.

Lin Fan’s Mental Sea expanded instantly.

Her 250,000 Mental Strength doubled on the spot, forcibly breaking through the 500,000 threshold.

That was a threshold only reachable at the peak of the ninth level.

Life Domain, fully open.

This time, it was no longer the gentle green glow from before.

Life Origin, condensed to its absolute limit, erupted from within Lin Fan’s body.

A brilliant emerald light shot straight into the sky, colliding head-on with that expanse of gray-black Death Rule.

The two forces clashed violently in midair, eroding each other.

With the absolute crushing power of 500,000 Mental Strength, the Life Domain forcibly tore through the Death Domain’s blockade.

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The withered ground sprouted new shoots once more, and the drained moisture recondensed in the air.

Long Yan, Long Teng, and Long Yi on the ground all felt the crushing weight on their backs disappear at the same time.

Life energy seeped through their pores, rapidly repairing their severed meridians.

Long Yan propped himself up with his blade and stood.

He looked up at the woman not far away—completely naked, with white hair reaching her ankles.

Too powerful.

And too unfamiliar.

He recognized that face.

In Border Dragon City, Lei Jie had descended from the sky with that very face to save them.

What was going on with Yui’s Skin just now?

How could a person transform into someone else?

A terrifying thought began to take root in Long Yan’s mind.

What about Ning Shuang?

Lei Jie had said Ning Shuang was placed somewhere absolutely safe.

But he had never seen Ning Shuang.

Had Ning Shuang also been turned into one of those things?

Long Yan’s hands trembled uncontrollably.

He forcibly suppressed the thought.

Now wasn’t the time to ask.

The Dragon Emperor in the sky could take all their lives at any moment.

After this battle was over, he had to find Lei Jie and get some answers.

Long Teng beside him, however, harbored far fewer suspicions.

He caught his breath and straightened up.

He had personally carried Wu’er’s body back to Border Dragon City and personally buried her in the Mist Forest.

He didn’t connect his deceased daughter to Lin Fan’s methods, simply taking it as some kind of special disguise technique.

“Lei Jie.”

Long Yan called out, his voice hoarse and dry.

Lin Fan didn’t even turn her head.

“Find somewhere to hide. This is no longer your business.”

Lin Fan’s toes pressed lightly against the ground, and her entire body shot upward, stopping at eye level with the Dragon Emperor.

Several dozen meters separated them.

The rules of Life and Death clashed continuously in the space between them.

“Peak ninth-tier Mental Strength?”

The Dragon Emperor looked at her. “Is that your trump card?”

“More than enough to kill you.”

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Lin Fan struck without hesitation.

Time Control activated.

The three-second cap was broken.

With five hundred thousand units of Mental Strength flooding through her, the surrounding space seemed to have a pause button pressed on it.

Lin Fan drove a fist toward the Dragon Emperor’s chest.

Her full physical capacity of two hundred fifty thousand was unleashed.

The punch detonated the air itself.

The Dragon Emperor’s body did not phase out this time.

The Time Rule forcibly locked his movements in place.

The sound of bones cracking rang out.

The Dragon Emperor was sent flying by the punch, smashing through a broken wall section behind him.

But he came to a stop quickly.

He dusted off the dirt on his chest, and his fractured ribs instantly mended through the reverse circulation of the Death Rule.

“Decent force.”

The Dragon Emperor twisted his neck.

Lin Fan gave him no chance to catch his breath.

Her form flickered, and she reappeared above the Dragon Emperor.

Her right leg descended in a split kick that tore through the air.

The Dragon Emperor raised his arm to block.

The two engaged in pure hand-to-hand combat in midair.

Every collision blasted a ring of shockwaves across the skies of Azurewood City.

Every strike Lin Fan delivered carried the stalling effect of the Time Rule.

The Dragon Emperor couldn’t dodge—he could only endure.

His prized Pureblood Dragon Clan physique held no advantage whatsoever before Lin Fan.

Her fists repeatedly punched through his defenses, shattering his bones.

But he simply wouldn’t die.

As long as he wasn’t instantly killed, the Death Rule converted all damage taken into vitality.

He didn’t even bleed.

“Don’t you understand yet?”

The Dragon Emperor grabbed Lin Fan’s fist. “Within this rule, I am immortal. You cannot kill me.”

Lin Fan reversed her grip, seizing his wrist, and drove a knee into his abdomen.

“Immortal? Then I’ll keep hitting you until this turtle shell of yours shatters completely.”

She erupted with even greater Mental Strength.

Time Stagnation was forcibly extended.

Lin Fan wrapped both arms around the Dragon Emperor’s head and twisted with all her might.

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Crack.

His cervical spine snapped.

His head twisted at an unnatural angle, facing backward.

Lin Fan kicked him down toward the ground.

A thunderous crash echoed.

The Dragon Emperor smashed through the floor of the City Lord’s mansion, plunging deep into a crater in the earth.

The green glow of the Life Domain shielded Long Yan and the others at the edge.

They watched the battle in the sky, completely unable to intervene.

A clash at this level was beyond anything an eighth-tier could comprehend.

The Dragon Emperor rose from the bottom of the crater.

He reached up, grabbed his own head, and twisted it back into place with a sharp turn.

For the first time, a hint of seriousness appeared in his golden vertical pupils.

“Your rate of growth truly surprises me.”

The Dragon Emperor spread his arms wide.

The ruins of all of Azurewood City began to tremble.

From deep underground came a grating, teeth-aching sound of friction.

“But as I said—you are on my chessboard.”

Countless gray-black bone spikes burst forth from beneath the earth.

These spikes were not physical—they were all condensed crystallizations of the Death Rule.

The bone spikes wove together into an enormous net, firmly locking onto Lin Fan in midair.

Lin Fan’s brow furrowed slightly.

She could sense the power contained within these bone spikes.

A single touch, and the Death Rule would directly invade her Mental Sea.

“Why have you gone quiet?”

Lin Fan dodged several bone spikes that shot toward him. “Is that all you’ve got?”

“What’s the hurry?”

The Dragon Emperor ascended into the sky.

He snapped his fingers.

Long Yan, Long Teng, and Long Yi—who had just been healed by Lin Fan’s Life Domain—suddenly clutched their chests in agony.

The Energy Storage Bracelets on their wrists shattered in an instant.

The life energy stored within them transformed directly into ashen-black Death Qi, flooding backward into their meridians.

“Lei Jie…”

Long Yan coughed up a massive mouthful of black blood and collapsed heavily to the ground.

Long Teng and Long Yi fell as well.

Their vital signs were plummeting rapidly.

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Lin Fan turned to look below, her expression shifting drastically.

“What did you do?”

“I did nothing.”

The Dragon Emperor gazed at Lin Fan. “I’m just teaching you what true rules are. Life and death have always been one and the same. You can give them life, but I can also turn that life into a death warrant.”

Lin Fan’s gaze locked tightly onto the Dragon Emperor.

This man’s understanding of rules far surpassed hers.

Not only could he neutralize the Life Domain, but he could also directly corrupt the life energy she had left behind.

Lin Fan hesitated no longer.

She had to break this deadlock.

Cultivation-Absorption Domain.

Dark-red ripples layered directly over the Life Domain.

Lin Fan aimed her focus at the three people on the ground.

“I’m sorry about this.”

Lin Fan gritted her teeth.

She forcibly activated the Cultivation-Absorption Domain, beginning to extract the Death Qi from within them.

This was an extremely dangerous operation.

The Cultivation-Absorption Domain was originally meant to draw out Life Origin—now she was using it in reverse, attempting to pull out the Death Qi that had invaded their bodies.

Massive amounts of Death Qi surged into Lin Fan’s body along the dark-red ripples.

Her face turned pale in an instant.

The Death Rule erupted directly within her meridians.

Even a physique of 250,000 couldn’t withstand this kind of internal destruction.

Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.

“You’re quite willing to sacrifice yourself.”

The Dragon Emperor watched the scene.

“I’m happy to do it.”

Lin Fan wiped away the blood.

With the Death Qi extracted, the three on the ground finally clung to life, falling into complete unconsciousness.

Lin Fan let out a breath of relief.

No more worries now.

She turned her gaze back to the Dragon Emperor, her eyes filled with a dangerous aura.

“You asked me earlier whether the system works well?”

Lin Fan rolled her wrists.

The Dragon Emperor didn’t answer.

“Let me answer you now—it works pretty damn well.”