Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 585 – Side Story: Similar Systems

Yun Hai’s eyes spun wildly as guttural, rasping sounds clawed from his throat. The long blade, wrapped in eighth-rank Qi-Blood, hung suspended in midair, unable to advance even a fraction of an inch further.

He stared at the woman before him in her black sports top, fear coiling around his heart like a venomous serpent.

“Just how strong are you?”

Yun Hai gritted his teeth, forcing the words out from between them.

Lin Li didn’t answer immediately. Instead, she raised a pale finger and pointed at the space above Yun Hai’s head.

“I don’t know either.”

Her tone was flat. “But stronger than it—that much is certain.”

Hearing this, Yun Hai froze.

He followed her finger, assuming she was pointing at him.

Yun Hai knew full well in his heart that he was finished today.

This woman’s power had already transcended the bounds of the Martial Dao. She was absolutely not someone he, an eighth-rank martial artist, could contend with.

But he wasn’t despairing yet—because he still had his greatest trump card.

The System.

On Yun Hai’s retina, glaring red warning pop-ups were flickering frantically.

As long as the System remained, he could activate emergency escape. Worst case, he’d disperse his own blood-qi to buy a chance at random teleportation.

As long as the green hills remain, there’s no shortage of firewood. He could go somewhere else, keep leeching blood and leveling up. With the System, he’d have his revenge sooner or later.

Just as Yun Hai was frantically scheming his escape, Lin Li curled her lip.

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“Don’t flatter yourself.”

She lowered her hand, her gaze piercing straight into the depths of Yun Hai’s pupils. “I’m talking about the System inside your head.”

The moment those words left her mouth, Yun Hai felt as if he’d been struck by lightning.

Every muscle in his body twitched uncontrollably, his eyes bulging from their sockets in shock.

“You… how could you know?!”

Yun Hai shrieked.

This was his greatest secret since transmigrating—even the Grand Elder, his closest confidant, didn’t know. How could this woman see through it at a single glance!

Lin Li couldn’t be bothered with more words. She simply stepped forward.

She extended her right hand, fingers curled into a claw, and made a grasping motion through the air toward Yun Hai’s brow.

“Come here.”

Lin Li said calmly.

No flashy light effects. No earth-shattering energy fluctuations.

Yun Hai only felt an indescribable tearing pain erupt from the depths of his soul.

“Ah—!”

He let out a miserable scream. It felt like someone had reached into his brain matter and was forcibly yanking something out from within.

A mass of dark red light began seeping out from Yun Hai’s brow, bit by bit.

The mass was covered in dense, illusory tendrils that clung desperately to the depths of Yun Hai’s soul, resisting Lin Li’s pull with all their might.

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A piercing electronic synthesized voice rang out in midair.

[WARNING: Forced extraction detected. Activating maximum defense protocol!]

The dark red mass erupted with blinding crimson light, attempting to backlash against Lin Li’s fingers.

Lin Li let out a cold laugh. A pure white divine radiance flickered at her fingertips.

The Origin Power of a tenth-rank Ancestor of Life directly crushed those writhing, menacing tendrils.

“Quite good at hiding.”

Lin Li’s wrist suddenly flexed with force.

Amid Yun Hai’s heart-rending wails, the dark red mass was forcibly ripped from his body.

Yun Hai collapsed onto the rooftop like a pile of mud, blood seeping from all seven orifices. The Qi-Blood of an eighth-rank martial artist was draining away at a terrifying rate.

The System interface he’d prided himself on shattered into countless specks of light on his retina, finally fading into darkness.

“No… my System… give it back…”

Yun Hai lay sprawled on the glazed tiles, reaching out in despair, trying to grasp the dark red light orb that was drifting away from him.

Lin Li didn’t even glance at him. She simply toyed with the struggling light orb in her hand, a flicker of confusion passing through her iridescent eyes.

The construction of this thing was far too familiar.

Though it looked like a blood pump on the outside, the underlying rule-based architecture bore a striking resemblance to the Skin System she had once used.

Could it be that all these systems originated from the same place?

Lin Li furrowed her brow.

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She was now a Rank 10 deity, practically invincible within this universe.

Crushing this system would be easier for her than squashing an ant.

But the problem was, she had no idea how it was made.

Lin Li looked at the light orb in her hand and attempted to channel her Divine Power.

“Word-to-Law: replicate this.”

A ripple spread through the air, and a glowing sphere identical to the dark red light orb materialized out of nowhere.

Lin Li poked the replica with her finger.

The replica instantly dissolved into a mass of ordinary energy, dissipating into the air.

Just as she expected—it didn’t work.

Lin Li let out a sigh. Though Word-to-Law was immensely powerful, it could only manifest things she truly understood.

She didn’t grasp the system’s operating logic, didn’t understand those codes, so all she could create was a hollow shell with nothing but a superficial appearance.

No practical function whatsoever.

Who exactly was crafting these systems?

Just how powerful was the being capable of mass-producing such things?

Lin Li raised her gaze toward the boundless void, feeling a rare sense of awe toward the unknown stirring within her.

It seemed this world—or rather, these myriad realms—still held countless things she had yet to discover.

Below the city wall, Liu Cheng and several thousand villagers watched the scene unfolding on the rooftop, all holding their breath.

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That arrogant Rank 8 Powerhouse, that demon who had vowed to slaughter the entire city, was now sprawled at the goddess’s feet like a dead dog.

“The goddess is invincible!”

Liu Cheng leaned on the broken half of his long blade and roared with every ounce of strength he had left.

“The goddess is invincible!”

Several thousand voices joined in unison, the sound waves surging straight into the sky, startling the dazed Blood-Slaying Guards outside the city into stumbling backward.

Lin Li paid no attention to the cheers below. She glanced down at Yun Hai, still convulsing on the ground, and casually crushed the dark red system orb into powder between her fingers.

Specks of red light drifted down from her fingertips, scattering into the wind.

“Since you enjoy sucking blood so much—”

Lin Li turned around, looking at Yun Hai’s ashen face, “—let you taste what it feels like to be treated as a blood bag.”

She snapped her fingers, and a beam of white light sank into Yun Hai’s body.

To his horror, Yun Hai discovered that his withered dantian had actually begun to regenerate a faint trace of Qi-Blood. But this Qi-Blood was beyond his control—instead, it seemed to be attracting something.

The Mutated Scale-Horses beneath the three thousand Blood-Slaying Guards outside the city suddenly turned their heads in perfect unison, their crimson eyes locking onto Yun Hai on the rooftop.

They had caught the scent of top-grade Blood-food.

“No… no…”

Yun Hai scrambled backward desperately, tears and snot mixing with blood smeared across his face.

Lin Li didn’t look at him again. She simply raised her head, her gaze once more piercing into that deep, unfathomable void—as if trying to see through the barriers of these myriad realms and find the hidden hand moving the pieces behind the curtain.