Chapter 573: Superstring Network of the Udumbara Roots

Su Yaoji's fingertips had just touched the boundary of the imaginary space when her fingernails peeled away layer by layer into *Yellow Court Scripture* bamboo slips. As those floating seal script characters pierced her nerve endings, she heard the cosmic strings vibrating with the humming of ancient dragon clan language. The old wound she had gouged out at the Mars Buddha Wheel three hundred years ago suddenly split open, and the black blood that had not yet gushed out solidified into bronze chains, connecting her spine to the Mechanical Buddha emerging in the void into a star map.

The mechanical palm of the first Buddha pierced the dimensional membrane, the civilization remains of the third arm of the Milky Way curled up in the palm prints. Su Yaoji's irises automatically focused, seeing Lin Jin's figure waving a black blood long knife amidst the stardust—this was the Orion War twenty-three thousand years ago, he was stepping on a corpse carpet woven from star systems, the blood dripping from the blade not blood but collapsing quantum foam.

"Cognitive contamination!" She bit her tongue in an attempt to wake up, but the blood mist she sprayed condensed into Udumbara flower buds. Cyan-gold light pulses like roots emerged from the flower core, piercing through three hundred layers of time-space membranes and stabbing into her spine. The memories that emerged amidst the agony were like a supernova explosion: the nine thousand Udumbara apostles forged by the First Generation Observer using dragon veins were transforming her neural synapses into living cosmic strings.

The Mechanical Buddha's Sanskrit chanting shattered six dimensions. Su Yaoji's star-dome gown dissipated into a data stream, revealing the superstring network coiling around her entire body—those light pulses flowing with black blood Buddha wheel encoding were transforming her pain nerves into star map surveyors. In the broken civilization held in the palm of the second Buddha, Lin Jin had just twisted off the energy core of a silicon-based lifeform, his black blood long knife piercing Su Yaoji's reincarnated body in the tenth reincarnation.

"You have finally reached the observation position." All nine thousand Buddhas spoke simultaneously, the sound waves stirring up a Klein bottle storm in the imaginary space. Su Yaoji's collarbone was pierced by the Udumbara roots, and amidst the agony, she saw the truth of those roots—every one was a historical scroll of the dragon clan observation station, recording the 97,000 possibilities in which Lin Jin should have been erased at the dawn of creation.

Lin Jin's projection suddenly materialized. His quantum prosthetic eye had already become a miniature Buddha wheel, the black blood long knife in his hand flowing with the umbilical cord blood from when Su Yaoji gave birth three hundred years ago: "The entropy-reversing singularity must devour the mother body..." The trajectory of the blade's strike precisely replicated the causal chain of the Mars Buddha Wheel incident; in her evasion, she saw an even more cruel truth—every infant she gave birth to in every reincarnation was a carrier for Lin Jin in different time and space.

The superstring network overloaded at this moment. Su Yaoji's nerve endings erupted with star marrow sparks, burning through the dimensional membrane of the imaginary space. As she fell, she grabbed a section of the Udumbara roots, and the black blood seeping from between her fingers suddenly revealed the figure of the Pavilion Master—he was debugging a certain device in the ruins of the dragon clan observation station, ten thousand clones of Su Yaoji soaking in Λ-crystal liquid tanks, every person's spine connected to the Udumbara roots.

"Observation is contamination!" Ao Li's dragon roar pierced through nine dimensions. Her mechanical dragon horns pierced the imaginary space, but the star marrow energy was instead absorbed by the Udumbara roots. In the energy torrent, Su Yaoji saw Ao Li's past: the self-detonation on the dark side of the moon back then was actually to prevent herself from discovering that Lin Jin's initial code was hidden in her star marrow left eye.

The civilizations in the Mechanical Buddha's palms began to merge. Lin Jin's black blood long knife drew a Klein bottle trajectory on the fusion interface, and where the blade pointed, the ultimate truth emerged—the Udumbara roots of all universes originated from the umbilical cord of Su Yaoji's three hundredth reincarnation, and Lin Jin was merely a recursive error generated when she attempted to correct the causal law. When the blade pierced her heart, she finally understood the whisper of the First Generation Observer: "You are the entropy-reversing branch that needs to be pruned..."

The Udumbara roots suddenly backfired. Nine thousand light pulses nailed Su Yaoji to the absolute coordinate point of the imaginary space, and dragon clan growth rings began to emerge on every one of her bones. In the instant before her consciousness dissipated, she triggered the star marrow energy to detonate the superstring network, and the Mechanical Buddhas in three hundred parallel time and space wailed simultaneously—those causal chains coiling around the Buddhas' fingertips were flowing back to the dawn of creation along with Su Yaoji's annihilation, stripping Lin Jin's existence from all dimensional membranes......