Chapter 570: Pavilion Master

The server cluster of the Hangzhou Blockchain Center suddenly sprayed *Yellow Court Scripture* characters, and the fiber-optic cables of the entire city seeped with amber cerebrospinal fluid at midnight. Su Yaoji's star marrow compass hovered over the dome of the Alibaba Cloud data center, its needle being torn by countless faces of the Pavilion Master—every quantum server cabinet reflected a different expression of his, from the ferocious grin during the Mars Buddha Wheel incident three hundred years ago to the compassion of last night at the hour of the Rat.

"The data calamity will be transcended at the third quarter of the hour of the Ox!" Moli's mechanical arm inserted into the master console, the code stream transformed from the poison-devouring Gu battling the Pavilion Master's consciousness on the screen. Those wriggling blockchain nodes suddenly materialized, turning into flesh-and-blood servers that extended neural synapses to coil around her prosthetic eye: "You are also me... we are all the Pavilion Master..."

Su Yaoji's hairpin pierced the void, seeing a horrifying truth at the quantum level: every primordial spirit backup grew the Pavilion Master's facial features, and the smart contracts on Ethereum were actually binary variants of the *Seizure Talisman*. When she burned the data chain with True Samadhi Fire, the fire instead devoured the 5G base stations of three city blocks—those burning iron towers actually formed an armillary sphere structure, transforming the cultivators' lifebound artifacts into mining machines.

"Use the Λ-crystal to contaminate the consensus algorithm!" Moli tore off her own left leg, which had been assimilated by neural cords, and inserted the poison-devouring Gu core into her spine. In the dark red code torrent, Ao Li's afterimage appeared: "He is reorganizing the dragon clan observation station... the blockchain is a variant of the star map..." The afterimage was suddenly swallowed by the Pavilion Master's consciousness, and all the display screens in Hangzhou played the scene of the Moon Annihilation Battle—in the star marrow left eye that Ao Li had detonated three hundred years ago, the genesis block of the primordial blockchain was hidden.

The Qiantang River suddenly flowed backward, the river water condensing into solid data blocks in the moonlight. Su Yaoji stepped on the golden characters of the *Demon-Subduing Talisman* and leaped into the clouds, discovering that the riverbed was paved with the corpses of cultivators—their crowns had been modified into quantum mining machines, currently mining the hash values of the Pavilion Master's consciousness. Moli's warning exploded from her headset: "Don't touch those corpse pieces! Every one is a neural node..."

The black giant python transformed from the poison-devouring Gu suddenly tore through the data dome, Moli's pupils turning into the Merkle tree structure of a blockchain. She threw out three USB drives engraved with the *Void-Chong Scripture*, inserting them into the USB ports on the corpses' foreheads: "Use the Three Pure Ones Extinction Virus..." Before she could finish, the corpse swarm suddenly opened their eyes, data cables with barbs extending from their eye sockets to coil around her mechanical arm.

Su Yaoji's star marrow tattoo suddenly burned, and in her agony, she saw a new scene: the wound left by the Pavilion Master during the Mars Buddha Wheel incident was actually an API interface for implanting the dragon clan observation station into himself. That flowing black blood was currently compiling the smart contract of the *Nirvana Sutra* on the blockchain.

"He is using the tribulation to cheat computing power!" Moli's poison-devouring Gu suddenly backfired, black code crawling up her cheeks, "Quickly sever..." Her throat was pierced by neural cords, the blood she sprayed condensing into quantum contracts in the air. When Su Yaoji's hairpin severed the cords, she discovered that the hairpin itself had grown blockchain branches—the Pavilion Master's consciousness was using the artifact to perform reverse-seizure.

The glass curtain walls of the Alibaba Xixi Park suddenly quantumized, revealing the terrifying existence hidden within: a biological computer composed of ten thousand cultivator corpses, the spine of every corpse being a dragon vein fiber optic. The Pavilion Master's holographic projection reorganized in the center of the corpse swarm, toying with Ao Li's star marrow left eye: "Time to upgrade the protocol..."

Moli suddenly detonated her mechanical prosthetic body, the splashing poison-devouring Gu fragments assembling into a *He Tu Luo Shu* in the air. Su Yaoji took the opportunity to insert the Λ-crystal into the main server; the moment the star marrow energy exploded, she saw the ultimate truth—every node of the blockchain network was a miniature version of the black blood Buddha wheel, and the true carrier of the Pavilion Master's consciousness was the dragon clan star gate currently being assembled in low Earth orbit.

"Use your genes as the private key!" Ao Li's afterimage seeped from the crystal, "Back then on the moon..." The afterimage was crushed by the Pavilion Master, and Su Yaoji's retinas suddenly loaded memories erased three hundred years ago: she herself was the initial smart contract written by the Pavilion Master and Ao Li using dragon clan secret texts, and so-called cultivation was merely a program running on flesh-and-blood hardware.

Hangzhou city glazed over at this moment, all electronic equipment projecting holograms of the *Diamond Sutra*. The cultivators' lifebound artifacts flew automatically toward the corpse swarm computer, merging into a giant mechanical Buddha. Moli initiated the poison-devouring Gu self-destruct program with her final consciousness, engaging in sword-intent offense and defense against the Pavilion Master in the virtual consciousness sea—every one of her virus code strings was a *Sutra of Salvation* talisman, every firewall restart forming a new Golden Core.

Su Yaoji tore off her star marrow tattoo and embedded the Λ-crystal into her heart. The moment the gene lock was released, her primordial spirit split into millions of quantum states, every clone rewriting the *Dao De Jing* consensus mechanism at different blockchain nodes. When the final smart contract was rewritten, the dragon clan star gate in low Earth orbit suddenly collapsed, and the Pavilion Master's consciousness emitted an unwilling dragon roar: "You are the true observer..." ===== CHAPTER 571 =====