The instant the oracle bone inscriptions shattered, Shen Xitang's silver silk was already tangled in the thangkas and banners of the Dunhuang Mogao Caves. Star sand seeped from the downcast gaze of the faded Bodhisattva, transforming the flying apsaras murals of the Mogao Caves into a Esoteric Buddhist mandala of the Guge Kingdom. At the center of the mandala stood the Kalachakra deity, wielding a Star Anchor, yet embedded in its navel was an Egyptian scarab amulet!
"Lord Thousand-Householder, look at Cave Twelve!" Xiao Heng's Red Dragon Pattern rippled among the murals, his Xiuchun Saber cleaving open the pupil of a donor figure. "In this Sogdian merchant's eyes..."
Shen Xitang's Star Mark suddenly detached from her body. Cyan-gray patterns crawled over the Bodhisattva's crown, rewriting the *Guiding Bodhisattva Scroll* on the thangka into passages from the *Book of the Dead*. The moment the hieroglyphs solidified, the scripture cave collapsed with a deafening roar, revealing a Giza Pyramid-style star observatory buried deep underground—and piercing the obelisk at the peak was Shen Cangming's Dragon-Locking Nail!
Chapter 135