Chapter 554: Udumbara Radar

The moment Ao Li's dragon scale glove touched the radar base, she heard thousands of Sanskrit chants explode within her skull. The alloy petals of the mechanical Udumbara suddenly bloomed in reverse, revealing a rotating swastika-patterned black hole at the core. She saw her own reflection shatter on the surface of the black hole, and three hundred pairs of dragon clan vertical pupils opened simultaneously in the void.

"Don't touch the resonance frequency!" Lin Jin's warning came from far away. The dimensional radar's holographic interface was going berserk, the Buddhist sutra frequency band and the Λ crystal's quantum entanglement forming a bizarre scene—eighty volumes of "Avatamsaka Sutra" characters transformed into gold threads that wrapped around Ao Li's wrists, dragging her toward the singularity constantly collapsing inside the Udumbara.

Time-space cycled between tearing and reorganization. The moment Ao Li fell into the flower heart, she saw all the names on the bronze giant tree light up. Her Reverse Scale Dagger suddenly erupted with starlight, tearing a rift in the absolute darkness. Countless translucent dragon clan ghosts surged from the rift, their temples all engraved with Ouroboros patterns.

"Seventh Generation Observer Ao Shuang, confirming bloodline resonance." The phantom of a silver-haired dragon girl at the head pressed her hand against Ao Li's brow, her shattered dragon horns wrapped in prayer beads. "The Udumbara is the reincarnation anchor point for the Ouroboros curse; every time a flower blooms, it devours..."

A deafening mechanical Sanskrit chant interrupted her words. Ao Li realized with horror that three hundred crystal coffins had emerged in the dark space, with a dragon clan member similar to herself in appearance sleeping inside each coffin. Even more terrifyingly, the Ouroboros patterns on the surfaces of the coffins were seeping golden blood, weaving into the outline of a mechanical Buddha in the void.

A violent tremor suddenly came from outside. Ao Li distracted herself to look at the real world outside the dimensional rift, so frightened she almost crushed her Reverse Scale Dagger—the radar station where Lin Jin was located was being swallowed by the event horizon of a black hole, and behind the young commander, the projections of three hundred coffins were reorganizing into a thousand-meter-tall mechanical Buddha. Embedded in the chest position of that Buddha was precisely the bronze star dial of the dragon clan sacred mountain!

"Use the rhythm of the 'Avatamsaka Sutra' to rewrite the secret mantra!" The ghost of the silver-haired dragon girl suddenly burned up. "We buried... in the eighth volume back then..."

Countless golden Buddha hands reached out from the depths of the darkness. Ao Li watched as the consciousness bodies of the observers of past generations were pierced by swastika seals. Before they dissipated, they all pointed their fingertips toward her Reverse Scale Dagger. When the last trace of blue soul fire merged into the blade, the dagger suddenly displayed a three-dimensional projection of the secret mantra of the Eight Legions of Heavenly Dragons.

Lin Jin's blood was spreading across the console. He tore open the Λ crystal energy compartment with his bare hands, forcibly connecting the antimatter annihilation device to the Buddhist sutra frequency band generator. The frequency curve jumping on the holographic interface gradually overlapped with the rhythm of the "Avatamsaka Sutra" chanting, but the speed at which the mechanical Buddha reorganized was getting faster and faster.

"So that's how it is..." the boy suddenly laughed. He tore open his uniform to reveal the Ouroboros pattern on his chest, pressing the Λ crystals directly onto the curse. The scene he saw in his agony made him tremble—on the dragon clan sacred mountain three hundred years ago, the prototype of the mechanical Buddha was being assembled beneath the bronze star dial, and the craftsmen responsible for pouring the Λ crystals all had Ouroboros patterns with flowing Buddha light on their temples!

Ao Li, inside the Udumbara, suddenly heard eight dragon roars. The secret mantra characters projected by the Reverse Scale Dagger began to rotate counter-clockwise, forming a curse wheel that connected head to tail around her. When the first Sanskrit character touched a Buddha hand, a star chart suddenly lit up in the entire dark space—it was the He Tu and Luo Shu she had drawn in the rust tide with dragon blood.

"Lin Jin! Lock the annihilation frequency to the fifteenth stanza of the 'Ten Grounds Chapter'!" Ao Li's shout pierced the dimensional barrier. She swung her dagger to sever the Buddha hands, and the memories of past observers flooded into her mind like a tide. In the gaps of overlapping time-space, she saw the mechanical Buddha in the real world raise its giant palm, a vertical pupil covered in Λ crystals opening in the center of its palm.

The dimensional radar exploded with a bang. Lin Jin lunged toward the console in the intense light, the antimatter energy and Buddhist sutra frequency band forming an energy ring in the shape of a Klein bottle. When the vertical pupil in the mechanical Buddha's palm shot out an annihilation beam, the young commander tore off his pendant—it was the reverse scale fragment Ao Li had given him—and stabbed it fiercely into the curse on his heart.

Time-space experienced millions of reincarnations in one-thousandth of a second. When Ao Li fell from inside the Udumbara into reality, she saw Lin Jin's blood drawing the secret mantra of the Eight Legions of Heavenly Dragons in the void. The star dial on the mechanical Buddha's chest suddenly reversed, and the projections of three hundred coffins shrank back into the event horizon of the black hole like a receding tide.

"It's not over yet..." Lin Jin knelt on the ground, his right arm already quantized. "The Λ crystals in the Buddha's heart are resonating; all the Ouroboros curses are..."

The Udumbara flower suddenly closed. In the silence before the final annihilation, the two clearly heard a dragon language chant coming from inside the mechanical Buddha—it was precisely the forbidden passage about immortality from the final chapter of the "Fuxi Soul Scripture." When the black hole completely disappeared, only half a bronze Buddha finger remained on the ruins of the lunar base, with Ao Li's name engraved on the knuckle. ===== CHAPTER 555 =====