Chapter 547: Dimensional Echo

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#### Part I: The Blindness of the Stars

Ao Li's dragon horns erupted with seven-colored aurora, the "Candle Dragon's Eye" covered in cyan scales suspended in the center of the laboratory, three hundred and sixty holographic projections simultaneously flashing blood-red warnings. The bronze trigram disk of the dimensional radar cracked for the third time, and what seeped between the hexagram lines was not machine oil, but solidified galactic stardust.

"You-Hai quadrant, seventh observation chain broken!" Lin Jin's quantized right hand inserted itself into the gap in the trigram disk, antimatter energy tearing open a temporary passage within the "Lian Shan" algorithm. His retinas reflected a terrifying data stream—the radar remains of 117 parallel universes were forming a Klein bottle topology, each fragment retaining the Buddhist sutra patterns of the mechanical Udumbara.

Ao Li suddenly covered her left eye, the visual sharing of the dragon clan treasure allowing her to witness the collapse of all parallel universes simultaneously. In one steampunk universe, the mechanical Udumbara petals transformed into a gear rainstorm; in the psionic civilization dimension, the Buddhist sutra scrolls were rewriting the source of magic. She tore through space to pull out three reverse scales, but the armillary sphere drawn with dragon blood displayed a bizarre trajectory—all damage coordinates pointed to the root system of the bronze giant tree on the far side of the moon.

"They weren't damaged simultaneously..." Lin Jin's tactical goggles suddenly quantized, an Ouroboros totem emerging on the surface of his irises. "These destructions are propagating backward along the time axis, the source is at..."

The warning was swallowed by dimensional vibration. The core of the Candle Dragon's Eye suddenly projected a phantom of the bronze-masked woman, the "Avatamsaka Sutra" in her hand burning, but what emerged in the ashes was the forging blueprint of the Mohist Leader's Command Token. When the phantom reached out to touch Ao Li's dragon horns, all the screens in the laboratory simultaneously played a future scene thirty seconds later: three hundred mechanical wooden soldiers were jumping in from Mars's orbit.

#### Part II: Entropy Sea Tide

When the first wooden soldier broke through the dimensional barrier, the Λ crystal on its chest was playing binary code of the "Diamond Sutra." Ao Li's Reverse Scale Dagger pierced its power core, only to find a miniaturized Udumbara flower bud curled inside, the roots wrapped around bronze fragments of the Candle Dragon's Eye.

"They are recycling observation data!" Lin Jin's Vajra pestle pierced three wooden soldiers, but the nano-robots that exploded out formed Sanskrit "Heart Sutra" characters in the air. When the sutra touched the Candle Dragon's Eye, the trigram disk suddenly reversed, ejecting an entropy energy torrent that compressed the destruction moments of 117 universes.

The scales on Ao Li's dragon tail peeled off layer by layer, and she used her burning reverse scales to activate the "Dragon Abyss" protocol. When the Azure Dragon star mansion chart shrouded the laboratory, the phantom of a parallel universe emerged at each star official position. Most terrifying was the Cancer constellation position—the Lin Jin of that universe had completely quantized, and was holding an Annihilation Revolver against Ao Li's crystallized temple.

"Find the anchor point..." Lin Jin suddenly grabbed his evaporating arm and inserted the star gate device into the entropy energy torrent. When black blood and dragon blood merged at the singularity, the two saw the truth simultaneously—all damaged Candle Dragon's Eyes were transmitting data to a certain super-dimensional level, and the destination of those information flows was the entropy demon embryo sleeping in the growth rings of the bronze giant tree.

Ao Li's pupils reflected the star chart, and she recognized that the cradle of the entropy demon embryo was actually the skull of the First Generation Dragon Emperor. When she tried to use dragon clan secret language to warn him, what poured from her throat were forbidden chapters of the "Lu Ban Book," each seal script character tampering with her memory chain.

#### Part III: Echoes of the Time Abyss

When the seventh wave of annihilation waves struck, the pursuit team's quantum spaceship suddenly quantized. Lin Jin grabbed Ao Li and leaped into a time-space rift, only to find themselves at the casting site of the Bronze Epoch. Beneath their feet, what boiled was not copper juice, but parallel universes compressed into liquid state, and the craftsmen were using stardust to draw "He Tu" seals.

"Li trigram, nine-four..." Ao Li's dragon horns suddenly resonated, and she saw the First Generation Dragon Emperor carving the Candle Dragon's Eye with a broken horn. When he carved the pupil position, the old dragon king suddenly turned to look—that gaze clearly pierced through three hundred years of time-space, stabbing directly at the Ao Li of the present.

Lin Jin's Vajra pestle uncontrollably struck the void, playing the "Soul Mourning Song" from the "Nine Songs." Wherever the sound waves reached, bronze casting tables emerged, each table holding a prototype of a star gate device. In the central furnace, black blood samples were merging with dragon clan essence blood, refining the initial Λ crystals.

"So we were the source of contamination all along..." Ao Li's reverse scales suddenly bled, and she saw her own dragon pearl beating in the depths of the furnace. When she tried to rush into the sea of fire, the antimatter suture lines suddenly tightened, dragging the two back to the present. In the remaining illusions, the bronze-masked woman was watering the bronze giant tree with dragon blood, and the roots were wrapped around the black blood samples of the present.

#### Final Chapter: The Observer's Wound

When the pursuit team broke free from the turbulence, the spaceship hull was already covered in the war rust of the Bronze Epoch. Ao Li's Candle Dragon's Eye fragments showed that the ultimate command of all mechanical bodies pointed to Lin Jin's gene map. Most terrifyingly, before the time-space section closed, they received a distress signal sent three hundred years ago—the frequency was identical to Ao Li's dragon roar.

Lin Jin's quantized right hand suddenly materialized, the reverse scale encoding of the First Generation Dragon Emperor flowing between his palm prints. When he touched the spaceship console, the holographic screen suddenly played the final moments of the Bronze Epoch: three hundred Ouroboros coffins opened, and every figure that walked out had a face identical to his, holding an Annihilation Revolver modified from a Candle Dragon's Eye.

On the far side of the moon, the bronze giant tree suddenly trembled violently. Three hundred coffins at the roots opened simultaneously, black blood samples condensing into the image of Lin Jin. When this "Entropy Demon Lin Jin" looked up, Ao Li's dragon pearl suddenly overloaded—in the future scene it reflected, she was stabbing her dragon horns into Lin Jin's heart, with the background being the bronze giant tree reorganized into a mechanical Udumbara.

When the spaceship crashed into the Martian desert, cleaning robots picked up half a mechanical limb from the Bronze Epoch. When the sandstorm swept over the "Kaogong Ji" inscriptions on its surface, a miniature casting table rose from the ground, black blood gushing from the valves and gradually condensing into an infant-sized Lin Jin clone. ===== CHAPTER 548 =====

As they crashed onto the dark side of the moon, the bronze giant tree before their eyes had already bloomed with mechanical udumbara flowers, each petal inlaid with a dragon clan reverse scale, while suspended at the center of the stamens was the skull of the First Generation Dragon Emperor, eroded by entropy demons.