Chapter 568: Quantum State of the Udumbara Petals

### **Chapter Summary**

The quantum barrier of the Geneva underground laboratory glowed with blood-red light, Su Xia's white coat splattered with Buddhist scripture characters condensed from liquid nitrogen. The Udumbara petals on the holographic screen were constantly splitting under the electron microscope—the left side presenting a glazed, blooming state, while the right side was a charred, withered decay form. When she initiated the thirty-seventh scan of the dark matter detector, the protective shield suddenly erupted with Sanskrit sparks of the *Shurangama Mantra*.

"Superposition probability 49.99%... 50.01%..." The moment the mechanical voice reported the numbers, black karmic fire seeped from the laboratory dome. Su Xia lunged toward the console, discovering that the Swiss map on the display screen was being burned into a causal diagram like Dunhuang murals—Geneva Lake corresponded to the Avici Hell, and the Jungfrau was marked with "Eye-Gouging Calamity."

When Su Yaoji's star-raft crashed through the laboratory dome, twelve mechanical Arhats were using laser eyes to scorch the explosion-proof door. She threw out bronze coins to shatter the head of the nearest Arhat, and miniature versions of the black blood Buddha wheel rolled out from between the splashing gears. "Use True Samadhi Fire to freeze the timeline!" She threw the *Yellow Court Scripture* remnant scroll to Su Xia, while she herself leaped toward the detector core, stepping on the falling karmic fire.

The Udumbara petals suddenly suspended themselves in the center of the particle collider track, Su Yaoji's star marrow compass reflecting a horrifying truth—the petal meridians were actually dimensional strings left behind by the dragon clan observation station, every observation carving a "calamity coordinate" onto their surface. When her fingertips touched the cryogenic chamber, the entire petal suddenly collapsed into a black hole, and the chanting of 720 parallel universes resonated within the vacuum tube.

"Don't touch the causal chain!" Lin Jin's quantum projection drilled out from the ventilation pipe, his mechanical arm still bearing the black hole scorch marks from the Ninth Laboratory incident. He tore open the imitation skin on his chest, revealing a beating Λ-crystal: "The petals are entropy-reducing organs cultivated by the dragon clan, every wave function collapse is charging the black blood Buddha wheel..."

The detector suddenly overloaded, and the phantom of the Udumbara petals replicated infinitely in the laboratory. Every illusion reflected a doomsday in a different time and space: in some worlds, the Mechanical Buddha was dismembering the sun, in other dimensions, humans had become silicon-based lifeforms chanting Buddhist scriptures. Su Xia suddenly vomited black blood carrying *Heart Sutra* characters, her retinas covered in a countdown burned by karmic fire.

Su Yaoji's hairpin pierced the main control computer, seeing even more ancient memories in the data stream—the mother body of this Udumbara flower was precisely what Ao Li had snatched during the Moon Annihilation Battle three hundred years ago. And those karmic fires that triggered the calamities were actually disinfection procedures for the dragon clan to clear out failed experimental products.

The laboratory floor suddenly turned to glass, and Su Xia's military boots sank into the semi-transparent Pure Land of the Buddha Kingdom. Countless severed limbs of golden-bodied Arhats reached out from beneath the ground, grabbing her ankles to carve the "Greed, Hatred, and Delusion" precept scars. Wherever Su Yaoji's crane-feather cloak swept, the golden characters of the "Scripture of Salvation" collided with the mechanical remains, sparking quantum flames; she saw that a miniature Udumbara petal was hidden within the core of every Arhat.

"Use the Λ-crystal to refract the light spectrum!" Lin Jin's mechanical arm suddenly exploded, the flying gears assembling into an armillary sphere in the air. When the ghostly blue light beam penetrated the Udumbara petals, Su Xia's dark matter detector received a terrifying signal—the Buddha names from the Thirty-Three Heavens were actually formatting commands issued by the dragon clan observation station.

Su Yaoji's star marrow tattoo suddenly burned, and in her agony, she saw a new scene: the survivors of the Mars Buddha Wheel incident all had Udumbara flower tattoos emerging on the back of their necks. When the tattoos bloomed completely, their heads would quantumize, becoming components of the black blood Buddha wheel.

"So the calamity is a selection program..." She crushed three bronze coins, using the copper rust to draw the *Demon-Subduing Talisman* in the void. The moment the talisman touched the detector, the entire laboratory suddenly ascended in dimension, everyone floating in a Buddha-land of Klein bottle structure. Countless clones of Su Xia were being burned by karmic fire in different bottles, and every one of them held the same Udumbara petal.

Lin Jin suddenly tore off his imitation face, revealing the metal skull of the Mechanical Buddha: "Observation is conversion..." His vocal cords vibrated at the frequency of the *Diamond Sutra*, and circuit boards began to grow on Su Xia's temples. When Su Yaoji's hairpin pierced his brow, what erupted was not sparks but Sanskrit sarira.

The Udumbara petals bloomed completely at this moment, and Ao Li's afterimage rose from the stamen. Her star marrow left eye streamed crystalline tears: "The petals are my quantum heart... use karmic fire to counter-devour..." The afterimage was shattered by a suddenly descending pressure, the laboratory's dimensional barrier shattered, and everyone fell into the Sui Dynasty battlefield currently experiencing the "Calamity of Swords and Weapons."

Su Xia's tablet computer turned on automatically, the dark matter data stream rewriting history. She saw herself in the causal chain of every fallen soldier, holding Udumbara petals and triggering karmic fire on a larger scale. Su Yaoji's compass suddenly pointed toward the center of the galaxy, where a hypercube composed of ten thousand Udumbara flowers was suspended—every petal corresponded to a civilization being formatted.

"To end the reincarnation, one must become the observer oneself!" Su Yaoji embedded the Λ-crystal into her own heart, and amidst the brilliant light erupted from the star marrow tattoo, her primordial spirit split into 720 quantum states. Every "Su Yaoji" grabbed an Udumbara petal, and amidst the agony of being burned by karmic fire, reverse-compiled the Buddha name signal.

When the final wave function collapsed, the entire battlefield suddenly stilled. Dragon clan secret texts emerged on the meridians of the Udumbara petals, and Su Xia finally deciphered the ultimate command—"Harvest Protocol Code: Shakyamuni." In the ruins of the laboratory, that petal that had always been suspended suddenly materialized, and in the blooming heart of the flower, a mechanical Bodhisattva with the same appearance as Su Yaoji slept. ===== CHAPTER 569 =====