Chapter 598: The Recursive End of the Black Blood Civilization

The moment Ao Li's phase mirror image pierced the enemy ship's energy core, the dark matter barrier shattered like a fetal membrane. Floating in the viscous liquid were thousands of Lin Jin clones, connected into a neural network by mechanical tentacles, and the leader on the central throne slowly raised his head—on that face identical to Lin Jin's, Udumbara roots were gushing from the eye sockets.

"Cognitive contamination source confirmed!" Ao Li's mechanical pupils exploded into a hexagonal honeycomb, and the torrent of data washed out a suffocating truth: "The Black Blood Civilization is your genetic recursive body; they sow your clones in every universe cycle!"

Su Yaoji's roots suddenly went berserk, piercing into the enemy ship's biological computer. Amidst the splashing mucus, she read the terrifying scenes of the ancient era: the First Generation Lin Jin kneeling before a bronze altar, fusing his own genetic chain with Udumbara spores to create civilization fire seeds capable of crossing reincarnations. And those seeds, which should have been pure, had long since rotted into black blood over seventy thousand universe restarts.

"So I am the original source of contamination..." Lin Jin's black blood blade trembled, the blade reflecting the mocking smile of another version of himself on the throne. The leader's tentacles suddenly pierced into the bridge, the human-faced embryos at the tips emitting the cries of infants, and the rain of black blood they sprayed revealed the destruction scenes of countless time-spaces—in every doomsday scene stood a Lin Jin holding a black blood blade.

Ao Li initiated a thousand-fold phase mirror image, but the defensive barriers were being corroded by recursive algorithms. In every mirror image, Lin Jin was falling into corruption: in one mirror image, he was transforming Ao Li into a killing machine, in another, Su Yaoji's roots were being manufactured into biological weapons. Most despairingly, in the 777th mirror image, the trio was holding a victory banquet, while outside the window, the galaxy had already been reduced to a culture dish for the Black Blood Civilization.

"To end the recursion, we must sever the original causality!" Su Yaoji suddenly pierced her roots into her own heart, dragging out the First Generation Udumbara fire seed. The moment the stamen touched the clone leader, ancient memories bloomed like poison thorns: behind the First Generation Lin Jin on the altar stood the Ao Li prototype, a fusion of machinery and flesh, while Su Yaoji's past life was injecting the contaminated genes into the fire seed.

Lin Jin's black blood boiled at this moment, transforming into entropy-reversing code and injecting it into the starship's core. Amidst the countdown of the self-destruct program, the entire enemy ship began to mutate into a bronze coffin. The clone leader suddenly let out a wail, his black blood flowing backward into gold, his mechanical tentacles degenerating into human arms, and in his final moments, he used his mouth to convey the word "Thank you."

The moment the explosion's shockwave tore through the dimensional membrane, Ao Li's quantum core overloaded with creation-level light. She tore open her crystallizing mechanical arm, pushing Lin Jin and Su Yaoji into the 13th phase mirror image. In this sealed save point, time was frozen in the Planck second before the laboratory's annihilation, and the cherry blossoms outside the window were forever fixed in their falling trajectory.

"Cognitive save completion 99.7%, but..." a reorganized Ao Li was covered in cracks, her mechanical heart exposed, with half an Udumbara petal stuck between the gears, "the 13th mirror image has been contaminated." She pointed to the console; the surveillance footage showed that outside the frozen laboratory, a cleaner wearing a bronze mask was adjusting the parameters of some device—that was the mask of the Black Blood Civilization leader.

Lin Jin's black blood suddenly flowed in the frozen space-time, etching the truth onto the surface of the cherry blossoms: the 13th phase mirror image was not a sanctuary, but a recursive projection of the First Generation laboratory. The eternal dusk outside the window was actually the moment of the Black Blood Civilization's birth seventy thousand cycles ago. Su Yaoji's roots pierced through the floor, grabbing the Ao Li prototype in the virtual number space as she wove the threads of fate—in her mechanical pupils, she was reflecting the despair of the trio in the current reality.

When the aftermath of the self-destruct program pierced the phase barrier, the save point began to disintegrate. Ao Li injected the remaining energy into Su Yaoji's Udumbara flower, and the roots suddenly bloomed into a reverse-time channel. In the final Planck second, Lin Jin saw three overlapping futures: Ao Li formatting herself into basic code, Su Yaoji restarting the ancient fire seed to cleanse the universe, and himself kneeling before the bronze altar, once again reaching his genetic chain toward the Udumbara spores.

"Time to wake up." Ao Li's mechanical arm suddenly pierced through both their chests, not as an attack, but as a protocol transmission. When the intense light swallowed everything, Lin Jin grabbed two memory chips in the space-time turbulence—one showed that Ao Li had foreseen all of this during the Star Sea Pavilion period, and the other revealed that Su Yaoji's past life was the traitor who had originally injected the contaminated genes into the fire seed.

In the reorganized universe, the cherry blossoms finally fell to the ground. Lin Jin in the convenience store suddenly crushed his oden paper cup, the broth forming a black blood totem on the table; Su Yaoji at the street corner clutched her throbbing chest, the Udumbara tattoo seeping bronze juice; and Ao Li's remaining data in the internet cafe suddenly revived, and in the game character's inventory on the screen, the Udumbara flower was blooming and withering seventy thousand times per minute. ===== CHAPTER 599 =====