Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 537 – The Great Array Activates

After saying those words, Long Hao gave no one time to react.

His figure was simply erased from where he stood.

At that same instant, Lin Fan’s Omniscient Domain caught a signal—above Azurewood City, at the location of the Spatial Rift, a humanoid silhouette had appeared.

“Stop him!” Long Yan was the first to react. His Runic Longblade left its sheath, and he slashed toward the sky, sending a golden blade aura soaring.

The blade aura flew three hundred meters and struck nothing but air.

Long Hao was already standing directly above the Rift.

His hands in his pockets, he looked down at the twisted Spatial Rift beneath his feet, his expression calm.

“Chu Chen should have figured it out by now.” His voice was not loud, yet it reached everyone’s ears with perfect clarity.

“One hundred and three Rifts on Blue Star. One hundred and three Spatial Nodes on the Dragon Spirit Continent.”

“Two arrays, mirror images of each other.”

He raised his right hand and opened his palm.

In the center of his palm, a fist-sized spatial vortex spun slowly. Light flowed within it—a gray-black light that radiated an icy coldness.

Lin Fan’s pupils contracted sharply.

She recognized that light.

Death Rule.

“Three hundred years.” Long Hao clenched his fist, crushing the vortex in his grip.

“I spent three hundred years setting up this scheme. Killing Long Xi, nurturing the Dragon Clan, building the Teleportation Array, filtering Bloodlines, opening the Rifts… all for today.”

He opened his hand.

Gray-black light burst from between his fingers, forming a pulse that plunged straight into the Spatial Rift beneath his feet.

The Rift shuddered violently.

Then it began to expand.

Its edges surged outward at terrifying speed, as if being pried open from within, and the energy fluctuations erupting from it multiplied tenfold in an instant.

At the same time.

On Blue Star—Magic Capital, the Capital, the Northern Ice Wastes, the Altai Mountains, the Black Palace…

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One hundred and three Spatial Rifts surged simultaneously in the same second.

At the Western Sichuan base, Chen Mo stared at the wildly expanding Rift and the energy readings from the other Rifts on the screen. All color drained from his face.

The energy readings of all one hundred and three Rifts had broken through the red line—and were still climbing.

From the center of every Rift, a pillar of light shot forth.

Gray-black pillars of light pierced straight into the high sky, tearing through the clouds.

Adjacent pillars bent and converged at ten thousand meters above the ground, linking to one another, forming a colossal network that covered the entire planet.

At the base cafeteria, Zhu Yan was frantically stuffing supplements into Lu Yuan, trying to build up his strength so he wouldn’t run out too quickly.

“Yanzi, you’re way too eager about this. Aren’t you afraid you’ll exhaust me to death?”

“Let me build you up first. When everything is over… I want to have a child.”

Lu Yuan…

That was a rather daunting task.

Suddenly.

Both of them sensed the violent expansion of the Rifts. They exchanged a glance.

They burst out of the base and flew toward Hangzhou.

The same was happening on the Dragon Spirit Continent.

Starting from the Rift at Azurewood City, gray-black pillars of light rose into the sky one after another, spreading in all directions, connecting with distant nodes on the horizon.

Two arrays, one above and one below, linked together.

The Spirit Gathering Array.

Chu Chen’s deduction had been confirmed.

“You’ve lost your mind!”

Lin Fan’s voice exploded from the ground below.

The white-haired figure kicked off the crumbling remains of the city lord’s mansion foundation, transforming into a streak of white light that shot toward the sky.

With her full physical power of 250,000 points unleashed, her speed broke through dozens of times the speed of sound in 0.01 seconds.

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She appeared three meters in front of Long Hao, her right leg carrying tremendous force as she swept a whip kick toward his ribs.

The leg wind arrived.

Long Hao did not dodge, nor did he block.

In the instant before the whip-leg made contact, his body turned transparent.

Lin Fan’s leg passed straight through Long Hao’s body, meeting no resistance, no sensation whatsoever.

The moment her leg passed through, the feedback from her Omniscient Domain told her—Long Hao’s body had, in that fraction of a second, departed from the material dimension.

Spatial Etherealization.

The same principle as her Spirit-Flesh Unity, but employing a different rule.

“You convert your body with Spirit Energy; I fold my existence through space.” Long Hao’s voice came from behind her.

At some point, he had already moved to a spot five meters behind her, his posture unchanged, hands still in his pockets.

“Different paths, same destination.”

Lin Fan did not turn around.

Her right hand rose, Mental Strength flooding her pupils as the Time Rule surged from the depths of her consciousness.

“Time Stop.”

In an instant, space-time within a kilometer radius froze solid.

Dust particles drifting in the air hung motionless, the flow of the light pillar ceased, and in the distance, Long Yan’s descending blade was frozen at its apex.

Lin Fan turned and drove a fist toward Long Hao’s face.

The punch arrived.

Long Hao’s body phased again.

Even within stopped time, Long Hao could still etherealize.

Lin Fan’s fist wind passed through Long Hao’s head, touching nothing.

Time resumed its flow.

Long Hao tilted his head.

“You thought that if time stopped, space would stop with it?”

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His tone carried a hint of patience.

“Time and space are two independent systems of rules. You can freeze time, but you cannot freeze space.”

“Two hundred years ago, when I made my move against Long Xi, she used the exact same trick on me.”

Long Hao raised his index finger and wagged it in the air.

“Time Stop, then a full-power strike, hoping to seal me forever in frozen space.”

“Guess what happened?”

He smiled.

“She failed.”

Lin Fan’s hand was still held in its striking position.

Her mind had already run through every tactical option.

Physical attacks—pass through his body.

Time Rule—ineffective against Spatial Etherealization.

Cultivation-Absorption Domain—cannot drain a target that doesn’t exist in the material dimension.

Every ability at her disposal was completely countered.

Long Hao did not continue looking at her.

He turned around, facing the Rift below once more. The gray-black light web of the Spirit Gathering Array had already taken shape across the sky, energy flows beginning to converge along its threads—and the final convergence point was directly beneath his feet.

“Two worlds. Twenty billion Lifeforms’ Life Origin.”

He spread his arms wide.

Gray-black Death Rule emanated from his body, spreading outward along the light pillar.

In Azurewood City, a Blue Star female soldier who was carrying the wounded suddenly felt her legs give way, collapsing to her knees. Within three seconds, her complexion shifted from rosy to ashen gray, the light in her eyes dimming rapidly.

Throughout the entire city, every Lifeform felt an invisible suction force draining strength from within their bodies.

“Long Hao!” Long Yi’s roar came from below. “You want to kill everyone?! Including the Dragon Clan?!”

Long Hao looked down at Long Yi.

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“Dragon Clan?”

He laughed.

“I told you. I am not Dragon Clan.”

“I never was.”

His gaze swept past Long Yi and the ruins of Azurewood City, toward somewhere far beyond.

“Dragon Clan, Blue Star humans, Demi-humans… before this array, you are all just fuel for my journey home.”

The gray-black Death Qi accelerated its spread.

The ground of Azurewood City began to crack, vegetation withered, and the Spirit Energy seeping from the Rifts was absorbed by the web of light.

Lin Fan stood high above, her white hair whipped up by Death Qi, the hem of her robes fluttering loudly.

She watched Long Hao’s back.

That back—it was exactly the same as the one she had seen from her wheelchair, watching the sunset in her previous life.

“You sacrificed everyone in both worlds… just to reclaim the human Bloodline you threw away?”

Long Hao did not turn around.

“No.”

His voice suddenly grew very soft.

“I just want to go home.”

The wind passed between them.

Long Hao tilted his head slightly, glancing at Lin Fan from the corner of his eye.

“You… are my only key.”

“So…”

He turned around to face Lin Fan directly.

On that face—identical to the one from her previous life—a very gentle smile appeared.

“You are the last one.”