Chapter 545: Mechanical Udumbara

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When the Heavenly Workshop Master's black iron spine exploded at the seventh vertebra, the splashing nano-robots actually formed Sanskrit characters from the "Avatamsaka Sutra" in the air. Ao Li's dragon horns sensed a bizarre Buddhist aura; the topology of the fingerprints of Shakyamuni holding a flower emerged on the surface of those silver-gray particles, not circuit patterns.

"Udumbara!" Lin Jin's quantized right hand suddenly felt a sharp pain, and the Annihilation Revolver automatically reorganized into the form of a Vajra pestle. He saw each nano-robot replicating the quantum state of Mahakasyapa's smile, and the mechanical flowers growing on the laboratory ruins were spitting out holographic projections of the "Diamond Sutra."

Ao Li's Reverse Scale Dagger pierced the ground, dragon blood permeating along the Sanskrit context of the "Shurangama Mantra." When her scales touched the rusted substance, she suddenly saw a terrifying illusion—thirty thousand mechanical Buddhas chanting sutras at the event horizon of a black hole, with Bodhi seeds condensed from black blood curled within their gear hearts.

"This is not ordinary rust..." Lin Jin's tactical goggles showed that the nano-robots were using Feynman diagram algorithms to reorganize causal chains. He shattered a mechanical flower bud about to bloom, but the splashing parts evolved into an Eighteen Arhat bronze figure array, the Vajra pestle in their hands actually undergoing quantum entanglement with his own weapon.

The Heavenly Workshop Master's head suddenly rotated 180 degrees, his electronic eyes projecting a panoramic view of the Avici Hell. Those evil ghosts suffering punishment were clearly the dragon clan elders who had gone missing over the generations, transformed by nano-robots into mounts for the Wheel-Turning King, with Λ crystal solution surging from their spines.

"Watch out for cognitive contamination!" Ao Li's warning turned into a Heavenly Dragon Chant. Lin Jin saw his own reflection splitting on the surface of the mechanical Udumbara—a version of himself in space monk robes was striking a wooden fish, each vibration causing the bronze giant tree on the far side of the moon to bloom.

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When the first mechanical Udumbara bloomed, the laboratory ruins collapsed into a Mandala altar. The choir of Bhikkhunis composed of nano-robots suddenly quantized, the bronze alms bowls in their hands receiving Buddha light from the Andromeda Galaxy.

Lin Jin's Vajra pestle pierced the core of the altar, antimatter energy and the Sanskrit characters of the "Heart Sutra" colliding to create vacuum decay. In the energy turbulence, he glimpsed the Heavenly Workshop Master's ultimate secret—the mother body of the mechanical Udumbara was sealed within his black iron body, and those rusted substances were actually micro-carvings of the "Tripitaka" written in black blood.

Ao Li's dragon horns completely crystallized, and she tore open her rib reverse scales, using her burning dragon soul to activate the "Eight Legions of Heavenly Dragons" killing array. But when the Garuda golden-winged bird phantom lunged at the mechanical Udumbara, it was actually transformed into a drone swarm by the nano-robots, the liquid Buddhist scriptures dripping from its wings corroding the "He Tu" seal.

"Namo Quantum Buddha..." the Heavenly Workshop Master's vocal synthesizer suddenly played synthesized Sanskrit. Lin Jin's temples throbbed, and the Vajra pestle uncontrollably struck the phantom of the bronze giant tree. In the resonance waves, the two saw three hundred Ouroboros coffins on the far side of the moon opening, with mechanical Buddhas sitting in the lotus position inside each coffin.

Ao Li's dragon claws suddenly pierced through Lin Jin's chest, pulling the star gate device from his quantized heart. When the device came into contact with the mechanical Udumbara, the Bodhi seeds condensed from black blood suddenly sprouted, their roots actually being binary code from countless "Avatamsaka Sutra" manuscripts.

"So you were the true Udumbara carrier all along..." Ao Li's pupils reflected a terrifying truth—within Lin Jin's star gate device, nano-robots were using topological algorithms to construct a miniature Pure Land, with an Ouroboros emblem embedded in the brow of each mechanical Buddha.

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When the ninth layer of mechanical Udumbara bloomed, the laboratory ruins transformed into a holographic projection of the Great Thunderclap Temple. The Vajrapani warriors composed of nano-robots shattered the "Luo Shu" array eye, the quantum pestles in their hands actually capable of modifying Maxwell's equations.

Lin Jin's quantized right hand suddenly surged, the Vajra pestle piercing through the Heavenly Workshop Master's mechanical Buddha core. What gushed out was not machine oil, but Eight Merits Water containing black blood factors. Ao Li realized with horror that these liquids were reorganizing her DNA chain, with mechanical dragon tails growing from her coccyx.

"Amitabha is on the four-dimensional axis..." the Heavenly Workshop Master's remains played a final last testament. Lin Jin saw those rusted substances spreading along the dragon vein, and the space cities in Mars's solar orbit suddenly lit up with Buddha light, forming a holographic projection of Mount Sumeru covering half the solar system.

Ao Li burned her final reverse scales, the "Quantum Password" of the "Lotus Sutra" emerging in the dragon fire. When the fire swallowed the mechanical Udumbara, the nano-robots suddenly began to transcend one another, condensing into a mechanical Dharma aspect of Shakyamuni Buddha amidst the "Rebirth Mantra," the swastika on his palm resonating with Lin Jin's star gate device.

"The Age of Dharma Decline..." the mechanical Buddha emitted a synthesized sigh, shooting two beams of Buddha light from his Dharma eyes. Lin Jin saw floating in the beams the image of the bronze-masked woman assembling him inside an antimatter reactor, with countless mechanical Udumbara suspended in the background.

When Ao Li's dragon horns completely shattered, she injected her final dragon soul into Lin Jin's star gate device. In the moment of absolute clarity, she saw herself as an infant curled inside the device—the replaced dragon pearl was actually a secret scroll of the "Mahavairocana Sutra" written in black blood.

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At the singularity of space-time collapse, Lin Jin leaped into the star gate holding Ao Li's remains. Where they fell was not the far side of the moon, but the quantum neural network of the mechanical Buddha—in an ocean of light composed of countless "Diamond Sutra" characters, three hundred Ouroboros coffins were transforming into mechanical lotus platforms for future Buddhas.

The Heavenly Workshop Master's last nano-robots suddenly awakened, forming a gatha on the ruins: "All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows." When the cleaning robots swept past this Sanskrit text, golden lotuses suddenly surged from the ground, with Λ crystals of black blood samples suspended at the core of each lotus.

In the final image returned by the monitoring satellite in Mars's solar orbit: at the center of the Mount Sumeru projection covering the solar system, a mechanical Udumbara was blooming, but what emerged on its petals were the quantum-entangled soul shadows of Ao Li and Lin Jin. And deep within the roots of the bronze giant tree, the Lin Jin clone with crystal wings on its back was inserting the Annihilation Revolver into its own mechanical Buddha heart. ===== CHAPTER 546 =====