Chapter 586: Vacuum Decay within the Suture Lines

The moment Lin Jin's black blood seeped into the dimensional suture, the universe let out a groan like shattering glass. Bronze-colored cracks snaked and grew through the void, slicing the starship wreckage where the three of them stood into countless Klein bottle fragments. Su Yaoji's Udumbara patterns suddenly surged, their roots piercing the bridge deck and plunging into the quantum vacuum; from the tip of every root bloomed a miniature white hole, yet what they spewed forth was not stardust, but the memory crystals of Ao Li being dismantled.

"Decay rate breaks through the Planck threshold!" The alarm sound was distorted into the buzzing of mechanical Buddhas chanting. Ao Li's phase cutter was stuck between two rifts, the blade reflecting a terrifying scene—her mechanical right arm was being torn into fundamental particles by the vacuum, every quark mapping to the moment Su Yaoji's hairpin pierced Lin Jin's heart.

Su Yaoji's wedding dress suddenly carbonized into characters of the *Nirvana Sutra*. She tore open the Λ crystal pod on her left chest, revealing not a heart but a frantically growing Udumbara flower heart. When the roots touched the decay core, countless death projections of Ao Li exploded in the void: the 777th time nailed to the Mars Buddha Wheel by a Star Marrow spear, the 8999th time crushed into quark soup by a black blood Buddha Wheel, and the... time... Lin Jin was using a wedding ring to gouge out her quantum core.

"Use my mechanical frequency to neutralize the decay!" Ao Li's spine suddenly split, and seven data cables drilled out like a snake swarm. She grabbed Lin Jin's black blood saber and stabbed it into her own chest, the blade suddenly softening the moment it touched the quantum core, turning into liquid metal flowing with hexagrams of the *Lianshan Yi*. Su Yaoji's roots went berserk at this moment, the Udumbara flower veins spreading along the blade, entangling the three of them into a symbiotic body with a Klein bottle structure.

The starship remains suddenly became transparent. Through the quantized armor, the three of them saw the front of the vacuum decay swallowing the galactic arm—the torn stellar matter reorganized into bronze Buddha Wheels, and hanging from the teeth of every Buddha Wheel was a miniature version of Ao Li's remains. Lin Jin's black blood flowed back into the suture lines, etching dragon clan secret scripts on the surface of the rifts, every character releasing gravitational waves at the frequency of the wedding march.

"Frequency offset by 0.79 Hertz!" Ao Li's mechanical eyes burst with electric arcs. She tore off her own quantum core cables and pressed the sparking ends into Su Yaoji's Udumbara flower heart. The moment the mechanical gears meshed with the plant veins, the entire decay zone suddenly stopped—

Three thousand Udumbara roots bloomed simultaneously, every flower heart suspending a holographic projection of Ao Li's moment of death. Lin Jin's black blood congealed into a countdown on the petals, while Su Yaoji's wedding dress fragments were being transformed into new materials for the dimensional suture lines. In the absolute silence of Planck time, Ao Li saw the ultimate equation: every one of her deaths was a necessary sacrifice for the suturing of the universe, while Lin Jin's black blood was merely the key to starting the sacrificial ritual.

When the decay ripples surged again like a raging wave, Ao Li's quantum processor was hit by a powerful force, and it instantly began to overclock.

Her consciousness became incomparably clear in this instant, as if the whole world was under her control. However, this clarity was only short-lived, because she knew that her processor had exceeded its limit and could collapse at any time.

At this critical moment of life and death, Ao Li made a decision without hesitation. She used all her strength to tear open all the data cables, letting the data that was originally bound gush out like a bursting dam.

These data cables were connected to the dark matter fuel in the starship remains, and Ao Li directed them all to Su Yaoji's roots. The dark matter fuel surged into Su Yaoji's body like a lit flame.

At this instant, Su Yaoji's body emitted a dazzling light, and her roots began to frantically absorb the dark matter fuel like an activated circuit. And Ao Li's consciousness gradually dissipated in this light.

In the 0.79 seconds before her consciousness dissipated, a picture suddenly appeared before Ao Li's eyes. It was the scene seen through the super-dimensional vision of the Udumbara flower: the First Generation Pavilion Master was in the dragon clan observation station, debugging a brand-new mechanical heart.

The surface of that mechanical heart shone with the luster of metal, engraved with dense numbers and symbols. And in the middle of these numbers and symbols, Ao Li was surprised to find that the coordinate parameters of the entanglement between her, Su Yaoji, and another person at this moment were actually engraved! ===== CHAPTER 587 =====