Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 584 – Side Story: The System Was Wasted on You

Yun Hai’s shrill, twisted roar echoed through the air.

On the rooftop of the city lord’s mansion, Lin Li paused mid-motion, still holding the uneaten grape between her fingers.

Liu Ruyan?

She had nearly forgotten that name herself.

Lin Li lowered her eyelids. Her immense tenth-level Mental Strength swept across the man below, who was shrouded in a dark red aura of Qi-Blood.

Piercing through the Qi-Blood, penetrating flesh, reaching straight to the soul.

“So it’s that unlucky bastard who got electrocuted.”

Lin Li muttered inwardly.

The soul’s outline and fluctuations matched perfectly—it was none other than Knife Brother, the one who had once tried to force himself on her.

Lin Li tossed the grape into her mouth, chewed, and swallowed.

Something was off about this.

This backwater world had pitifully thin Spirit Energy, and its cultivation system was crude—nothing but brute-force squeezing of the physical body.

People with extraordinary talent like Zhou Ming and Long Yan had to exhaust every resource and shred of luck just to barely reach Level Eight.

How could this thug, whose head was stuffed with nothing but filth, manage to reach Level Eight?

Lin Li lightly tapped the glazed tiles with her toes and drifted downward like a feather.

She used no energy at all—pure free fall—before landing steadily five paces in front of Yun Hai.

Distance closed.

Lin Li studied Yun Hai again.

This time, she saw clearly.

Deep within Yun Hai’s soul lurked a strange, dark red orb of energy.

The thing was greedily devouring the surrounding Qi-Blood, converting it into Yun Hai’s power.

The operating logic of this energy, its underlying architecture, even the aura it emitted—all of it felt deeply familiar to her.

“It’s similar to the fluctuations my Skin System used to give off.”

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Lin Li made the judgment quickly.

This guy was bound to a system too.

Interesting.

Yun Hai watched Lin Li descend from the sky and land before him.

Instinctively, he took half a step back, the searing pain of electrocuted flesh seeming to return to his neck.

But then, he snapped out of it.

He lowered his head sharply, looking at his own hands, feeling the surging, churning Level Eight Qi-Blood within him.

Then he looked at Lin Li again.

The woman was wearing a form-fitting sports bra and yoga pants, and he couldn’t sense even the slightest ripple of Qi-Blood from her.

She was just like an ordinary pretty woman.

“What the hell am I afraid of?”

Yun Hai cursed himself inwardly.

Fear receded, and manic joy and a twisted desire for revenge instantly flooded his mind.

“Heaven has eyes!”

Yun Hai threw his head back and laughed wildly, pointing at Lin Li’s nose. “It sent you to this world too!”

Lin Li ignored him. She tilted her head, her gaze still fixed on the system’s orb of light inside his mind.

Looking at its structure, it was far simpler than the Skin System—nothing more than a pure blood pump.

“You think you’re still on Blue Star?”

Seeing that Lin Li wasn’t speaking, Yun Hai assumed she was frozen in fear. His face twisted with malice as he stepped forward.

The blade in his hand pointed directly at Lin Li’s cheek.

“You think a cheap stun gun is enough to screw me over for life?”

“I’m the strongest in this world now! Level Eight Martial Dao! Unmatched under heaven!”

Yun Hai’s breathing grew heavy, his gaze roaming over Lin Li’s body without restraint, his greed completely undisguised.

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“We’ll settle that score from before later.”

Yun Hai ground his teeth, his voice loud enough for the entire city to hear. “Let me tell you something—once you’re in my hands, even begging for death will be a luxury.”

“I’ll shatter the bones in your hands and feet first, then strip every last piece of that annoying outfit off you.”

“Then hang her from the city gate tower of Hope City!”

“I’ll have all three thousand-plus members of Cloud Mountain Sect line up and take turns with you!”

“Outer disciples, menial laborers, even the kitchen staff and the shit-bucket carriers—I’ll let every last one of them taste what a top-tier woman you are!”

“Outrageous!”

From the ruins not far away, Liu Cheng let out a furious roar.

Three of his sternum bones were broken, yet he still propped himself up on the half-shattered blade and forced himself to stand.

“How dare a beast like you defile the Divine Maiden!”

On the streets and along the city walls, the eyes of thousands of villagers who had just been driven back turned bloodshot in an instant.

The Divine Maiden had given them life. The Divine Maiden had given them food.

Now someone was standing before them, using the filthiest words to insult their goddess.

“Kill him!”

Li Siniang grabbed two bricks.

Er Ya hefted an iron rod.

Thousands of people didn’t give a damn about what “eighth rank” meant. Braving Yun Hai’s terrifying pressure, they roared and surged forward.

Lin Li didn’t look back.

She simply raised her right hand gently.

The entire city’s rioting villagers froze as if struck by a paralysis spell. Everyone stopped in place, unable to advance an inch.

The torrent of curses ceased abruptly.

Lin Li lowered her hand, her gaze returning to Yun Hai’s twisted face.

There was no anger on her face.

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Not even the slightest ripple.

Like a person walking down the road, hearing a rat in the sewer screeching at her.

Who gets angry at a rat?

You’d only wonder what it ate to get so fat.

“Are you done?”

Lin Li spoke in a flat tone.

Yun Hai was stunned.

This woman’s reaction was wrong.

Shouldn’t she be begging for mercy on her knees?

Shouldn’t she be crying in terror?

That look of looking down from above, like gazing at garbage, stabbed at Yun Hai’s pitiful self-esteem.

“That bloodsucking thing in your head.”

Lin Li didn’t wait for him to speak, continuing her question. “Where did it come from?”

One sentence. A thunderclap from clear skies.

Every hair on Yun Hai’s body stood on end in an instant.

The System!

His greatest trump card. His greatest secret.

How did this woman know?!

“You’re spouting nonsense!”

Yun Hai flew into a rage from humiliation. The intense sense of crisis made him drop all pretense.

Cripple her first, then talk!

“Kneel for me!”

Yun Hai gripped his blade with both hands, unleashing his peak eighth-rank Qi-Blood without reservation.

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The air was sucked dry, forming a visible ring of white air-burst around him.

Dark red blood-essence condensed into a ferocious blood-wolf phantom, attaching itself to the blade.

This single strike was enough to split half of Hope City in two.

A massive shadow loomed over Lin Li.

Lin Li didn’t move so much as a finger.

She simply watched the long blade that stopped three inches above her head.

“Still.”

One word drifted lightly from Lin Li’s lips.

Word-to-Law.

Time. Space. Air currents. Even Yun Hai’s Qi-Blood boiling to its extreme.

All of it was forcibly frozen in that instant.

The mighty blade halted steadily above Lin Li’s head, unable to press down even a fraction further.

Yun Hai remained frozen in his two-handed grip, face twisted in fury.

His eyeballs spun desperately, revealing an indescribable, extreme terror.

Can’t move.

His body couldn’t mobilize even a wisp of Qi-Blood.

The space around him had turned into a solid iron plate, welding him in place.

What kind of power was this?

Martial Dao?

This wasn’t Martial Dao at all!

Lin Li stepped forward.

“Having this thing in the head of a piece of trash like you is a complete waste.”