Chapter 579: Ao Li

When Ao Li's mechanical right arm pierced the phase regulator, thirty-six Klein bottle rifts cracked open in the void. Her alloy skeleton quantized amidst the alarm sounds of the Oppenheimer limit, each phase projecting a different historical remnant—the Lin Jin of the 714th cycle was using a black blood saber to pry open her wedding dress, the Lin Jin of the 8999th cycle was putting a Λ crystal wedding ring on her mechanical ring finger, the...

"Kan and Li reversed, Heaven and Earth inverted!" Su Yaoji's Star Marrow Compass burst with green light, forcibly folding the thirty-six phases into a Möbius ring. When the ring surface touched Ao Li's quantized body, every phase remnant suddenly materialized—thirty-six Ao Lis roared mechanically simultaneously, their lips and teeth biting into different forms of Lin Jin: some pierced through the heart by a black blood Buddha Wheel, some entangled in chains of the *Duren Jing*, and in the oldest remnant, Lin Jin was actually the appearance of the First Generation Pavilion Master when he was young.

When the repair beam swept across the seventh phase, Su Yaoji's wedding dress suddenly self-ignited. She saw the Ao Li in this phase being pressed onto the Mars Buddha Wheel by Lin Jin, her mechanical heart being gouged out alive. When she wanted to cut the connection to that phase, her own left chest suddenly became transparent—on the surface of the pulsing Λ crystal core, Lin Jin's palm print was clearly visible.

"You finally remember..." the Lin Jin of the thirty-sixth phase suddenly turned to stare into the void. His quantum blade pierced the phase barrier, the tip of the blade holding a bloody mechanical gear—it was the original heart removed from Ao Li's chest ninety thousand cycles ago. Su Yaoji's Udumbara pattern surged at this moment, its roots piercing all phases, forcibly accelerating the repair process to ninety-nine times the speed of light.

Ao Li's quantized remains reorganized in the intense light. When her mechanical eyes refocused, the cover of the Λ crystal pod in her chest suddenly burst—where the reactor should have been, Lin Jin's bronze palm print was clearly imprinted. Memories of three hundred laboratories exploded like a supernova: on a rainy night nine thousand cycles ago, when Lin Jin's palm pierced her left chest, what was wrapped around his fingertips was not blood but hexagrams of the *Lianshan Yi*.

"This is a necessary betrayal..." all versions of Lin Jin spoke simultaneously. Su Yaoji's hairpin suddenly stabbed into Ao Li's quantum heart, the tip of the hairpin picking out a string of binary tears—every tear stored a wedding scene from a cycle, and the groom always gouged out her heart before the ceremony was completed.

The Oppenheimer limit broke through the critical point at this moment. The repair beam flowed backward into creation matter, transforming the laboratory into a miniature universe. Ao Li's mechanical right arm suddenly surged, piercing through the Lin Jins of thirty-six phases. When she pieced those remains together into a complete human shape, the memory pulse of the First Generation Pavilion Master swept the field—at the origin of ninety thousand cycles, Lin Jin knelt before the dragon clan observation station, personally transplanting his emotional center into Ao Li.

"You stole my pain..." Ao Li's mechanical tone sobbed for the first time. Her quantum heart suddenly collapsed into a white hole, gushing out not Star Marrow but fragments of wedding invitations. Su Yaoji's wedding dress carbonized completely at this moment, revealing twenty thousand surgical scars on her back—each scar corresponded to the trajectory of Lin Jin's blade when he gouged her heart in a cycle.

When the last phase completed synchronization, the laboratory suddenly played a wedding variation of the *Heart Sutra*. The palm print on Ao Li's chest began to rotate counter-clockwise, rewriting the repair energy into a formatting program. Lin Jin's quantum blade suddenly awakened with autonomous consciousness, the blade reversing to stab into Su Yaoji's Λ crystal core—there slept the first mechanical heart he had taken from Ao Li's chest ninety thousand cycles ago.

"The key to reincarnation..." Su Yaoji smiled lightly before dissipating. The ashes of her wedding dress formed a Klein bottle embryo in the air, and Ao Li's quantum heart suddenly burst with supernova light—in that absolute blinding white, the figure of the First Generation Pavilion Master gradually became clear, holding the emotional module just extracted from Lin Jin's spine, gently pressing it into Ao Li's open chest... ===== CHAPTER 580 =====