Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 562 – Ancestor of Eternal Life

Chu Chen’s words fell, and the air in the infirmary seemed to be drained in an instant.

His emotionless conclusion shattered the last shred of hope in everyone’s heart.

One soul, two faces.

Cause and effect, one and the same.

Lei Li couldn’t understand these terms. Her mind went blank, knowing only that the girl she had personally named, the one now in her arms, was about to die.

She held Lin Li’s broken body, her fingertips trembling violently, wanting to transfer her own life force into her, yet powerless to do anything.

Sun Jing had long since dissolved into sobbing, clutching desperately at the black-haired Lin Fan’s arm, her knuckles white from the force, as if this could somehow prevent the cruel “only solution” from happening.

The black-haired Lin Fan laughed.

The laughter started low at first, like the rasping sound of a broken bellows squeezed from the depths of his chest—dry, grating, harsh.

He looked at Lin Li, at this “self” who had walked a different path yet arrived at the same destination.

The laughter grew louder, three hundred years of solitude and unwillingness echoing within it. Finally, everything fell silent, leaving only a face that had seen through it all, wearing an expression of profound relief.

At last, he no longer had to bear that heavy fate.

“Protect Lei Li and the others…”

He looked at Lin Li, his tone carrying a trace of tenderness buried for three hundred years—tenderness he himself hadn’t even realized was there.

“Your feelings for them are no less than mine.”

Lin Li struggled, sitting upright from Lei Li’s embrace.

She looked at the man before her—herself from another world—a complex mix of emotions churning within her.

Before she could speak—

Boom!

An indescribable, terrifying pressure descended from above, as if the entire world were crushing down.

This wasn’t spiritual pressure, nor dragon might, but something more pure, more fundamental—an “erasure.”

The special alloy walls groaned as cracks spread across them, metal structures screaming in agony.

Lei Li and Sun Jing didn’t even have time to grunt before they were pinned to the ground.

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They felt their bones cracking, the air squeezed from their lungs, their skin turning gray and ashen before their very eyes. Their life force drained away like air escaping a punctured balloon.

It was Long Hao.

He hadn’t even shown himself—merely projecting his power across space, intending to erase everything here.

The black-haired Lin Fan knelt on one knee, his body flickering in and out of existence under the erosion of death, like a candle flame on the verge of being extinguished.

He stared fixedly at Lin Li, who was still hesitating, and roared with the last of his strength.

“I’m in this state, and you’re still hesitating?!”

His eyes were bloodshot, his expression wild like a madman.

“I inherited Long Hao, you merged with Long Xi. We can merge too—this is the only path, it was destined long ago!”

The roar struck like a thunderbolt, exploding in Lin Li’s mind.

In that instant, her gaze changed.

All the confusion, hesitation, and reluctance were severed completely.

That’s right.

What was there to hesitate about?

She was Lin Fan.

The one who had fought her way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood in the post-apocalypse, who never believed in heaven, never believed in fate.

Script? Destiny?

So what?

If this was the only path, then she would walk it.

She looked at Lei Li, her face turning blue and purple, on the verge of death.

She looked at Sun Jing, unconscious, her life force flickering faintly.

She looked at Chu Chen’s face—still calm, yet drained of all color.

These people were everything she had sworn to protect.

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She smiled.

That smile held no more sorrow or confusion—only a brilliance and determination that burned with everything she had.

Under Lei Li’s horrified gaze, Lin Li slowly straightened her body, ignoring the force that could crush anything, and spread her arms wide.

That posture was like embracing fate, and also like welcoming new life.

“Come.”

Her voice was soft, yet it reached the black-haired Lin Fan’s ears with perfect clarity.

“I will end all of this.”

The black-haired Lin Fan smiled too. On that weathered face, two streams of black tears finally flowed down.

They were three hundred years of obsession, the final entrustment.

His entire form suddenly transformed into a dense stream of gray-black light, carrying his final madness and tenderness, charging without hesitation into Lin Li’s embrace.

There was no explosion.

No impact.

Only light.

Extreme radiance burst forth from within Lin Li, instantly flooding the entire infirmary.

Lei Li felt the crushing weight that could have shattered her soul suddenly vanish.

She struggled to lift her head and looked toward the center of the room.

Lin Li floated silently in midair.

Her white hair danced without wind, every strand flowing with iridescent halos, the tips seeming to carry stardust fragments.

When Lei Li met her eyes, she couldn’t help but freeze.

Those eyes had changed.

The left eye was a vibrant green nebula of life; the right eye was a gray abyss of deathly reincarnation.

Life and death—these two most opposing forces—achieved perfect balance within her.

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A voice only she could hear rang out clearly in her mind.

[Ding!]

[Detected: Host’s soul fragment has been restored. Unique Bloodline [Ancestor of Life] has been promoted to completion!]

[Congratulations, Host. Life level elevated to: Eternal Grade!]

[Host: Lin Fan]

[Bloodline: Ancestor of Life (Complete)]

[Physical Constitution: ??]

[Mental Strength: ??]

[Talent Abilities: …(Unlocking)… Rule Mastery (Activated)]

A string of question marks.

Lin Fan finally understood.

Completing the bloodline required not only the genes of Long Xi and Long Hao and her Blue Star human genes, but also the complete spiritual unity of the two selves who carried “Cause” and “Effect.”

The two Lin Fans, in this moment, spanning three hundred years of time and space, truly merged into one.

She had become the only Ancestor of Eternal Life in this world.

Lin Fan’s gaze swept across the room.

The Death Rule shrouding the building melted away silently, like snow meeting scorching sun.

She raised her hand and waved gently toward Lei Li and Sun Jing.

Verdant life energy fell like spring rain. Both women’s injuries healed instantly, and their mental exhaustion was swept clean.

Even Chu Chen nearby found the dark circles under his eyes fading somewhat.

“Are you Lin Li… or Lin Fan?”

Lei Li’s voice trembled as she looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar figure, her heart filled with reverence and unease.

Lin Fan turned and gave her a gentle smile.

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In that smile was Lin Li’s calm detachment, and also the final relieved tenderness of that man.

“I am Lin Fan. I always have been.”

With those words, she turned and took a single step.

Her figure vanished from the infirmary in an instant.

The next second.

She appeared at the summit of Fragrant Hills International Tower.

Ten thousand meters above, a massive Spatial Rift stretched across the sky like a hideous scar.

Long Hao stood before the rift.

On that ordinary face, a grave expression appeared for the first time.

He could sense it—the life level of that ant from before had undergone a leap he could not comprehend, reaching a realm equal to his own, or even faintly surpassing it.

He watched the woman in white robes with bare feet, stepping through the void, ascending step by step.

The air beneath her feet automatically condensed into invisible stairs.

“You…”

Long Hao had barely uttered a single word.

Lin Li’s figure had already appeared before him.

She raised her hand, and her fair fingers gently tapped the center of Long Hao’s brow—no energy fluctuation, no killing intent.

“You said you were Level Ten.”

Her voice was soft, as if stating a fact she had just observed.

Lin Fan’s gaze turned utterly indifferent, like a deity looking down upon dust.

“Unfortunately.”

“Without the bloodline of Blue Star, you’re merely a false Level Ten.”