The Castle's Frenzy, The Werewolf's Might Protects Love and Breaks the Conspiracy

Bo Yu's boots scraped sparks against the bronze floor tiles as moonlight burned along his spine, leaving a trail of pale blue flames.

He suddenly looked up. On the cliff a hundred meters away stood a gothic castle, its spires piercing the blood-red moon, with flying buttresses covered in glowing star constellations.

"The Seven Stars of the Azure Dragon, to anchor the Big Dipper..." Bo Yu's claws traced the hexagrams on the bronze fragment, and the scar on his back suddenly erupted in seven silver beams.

His pupils shrank—each spire of the castle corresponded to the Big Dipper's nine stars, with the seventh tower clearly housing a particle accelerator.

The sulfur smell grew suddenly intense, and three armed drones emerged from the cracks in the cliff, their wings carrying a sonic disruptor emitting subsonic vibrations.

Bo Yu's canines pierced his tongue, the taste of blood helping him stay alert.

He leaped onto the bronze floor tiles, but found the 64 hexagram patterns shifting. The "Kan" trigram suddenly rose, creating a two-meter-high water curtain.

"Welcome to the Azure Dragon Bureau," came Zhao's voice through the drone's loudspeakers. The particle accelerator atop the castle spire flared to life, refracting the moonlight into blue chains that bound Bo Yu's limbs. "Thirty minutes ago, we detected abnormal energy fluctuations from the Big Dipper. You've really come with the key."

Sun's figure appeared on the castle's terrace, his electromagnetic gun aimed at the glass greenhouse below.

Bo Yu's pupils contracted into vertical slits. Through the colored glass, he saw Tang Yao suspended at the center of the Ziwei star chart, surrounded by a rotating copper mirror of the twenty-eight lunar mansions.

Dr. Liu's voice crackled with electrical noise: "When the bronze fragment resonates with the Big Dipper scar, the entire energy field of the Azure Dragon Bureau will... cough..." Before he could finish, Bo Yu tore off the wolf tooth necklace from his neck, and his bloodstained fangs accurately shot toward the drone's camera.

Taking advantage of the temporary malfunction of the disruptor, Bo Yu's werewolf form charged through the water curtain.

The bronze floor tiles suddenly flipped, revealing a pit full of barbed spikes. Bo Yu used the momentum to push off the pit's wall, claws sinking into the stone drainage beast head outside the castle.

The stone sculpture's eyes suddenly moved, and a jet of eerie blue flame erupted from its mouth.

"Watch out for the sparks!" Tang Yao's voice came through the colored glass.

Bo Yu's Big Dipper scar on his back suddenly burned, seven silver stars projecting a light path through the flames, pointing to the northwest corner where the flying buttress was broken.

He flipped and dodged the flames, and when his claws sunk into the stone cracks, he felt cold metal pipes—modern fire protection pipes.

Zhao's cold laugh echoed from all directions. "Did you think we only use ancient methods?" The foundation of the castle trembled, and the 64 hexagram tiles rose, forming an electromagnetic matrix that trapped Bo Yu in the center.

The charging sound of Sun's electromagnetic gun echoed, and Dr. Liu pressed the defense system's main switch in the control room.

Bo Yu's moonlight pattern began to fade, his werewolf form on the verge of being undone.

He stared at Tang Yao's figure swaying in the glass greenhouse, then suddenly drove the bronze fragment deeply into his chest.

The pain caused his pupils to flare with blood light, and the Big Dipper scar bled silver-white beads, which floated in front of him, forming a miniature star map.

As the electromagnetic pulse hit, he blew on the star map.

The blood droplets in the star map suddenly swelled, colliding with the particle beam from the castle's spire and exploding in a shower of light.

Bo Yu took the opportunity to crash through the colored glass, but as he grabbed Tang Yao's wrist, he realized—the chains suspending her were absorbing energy from the star mirror.

"Move quickly! This is a trap..." Tang Yao's warning was cut off by the collapse of the ceiling above them.

Bo Yu's claws tore through the chains, but he found that the girl in his arms was unexpectedly light.

Moonlight filtered through the broken glass, illuminating the star-shaped birthmark on the back of her neck, which perfectly matched the hexagram pattern on the bronze fragment.

The blood-red moonlight refracted through the colored glass shards, casting strange patterns. As Bo Yu's claws sliced through the chains on Tang Yao's wrists, a drop of werewolf blood fell onto her star-shaped birthmark.

The copper mirrors suddenly emitted a buzzing sound. The twenty-eight lunar mansion mirrors, like ancient machines coming to life, projected rotating star maps around them.

"You..." Tang Yao collapsed into his arms, and the tear-shaped mole near her eye glowed faintly red under the starlight.

She looked up at Bo Yu's face, still bearing the marks of his werewolf transformation, and her fingers unconsciously brushed over the blood seeping from his Big Dipper scar on his collarbone. "So the Star Key really exists."

Just as Bo Yu was about to speak, the sharp sound of the electromagnetic gun charging came from behind them.

He instinctively protected Tang Yao beneath him, and his wolf tail whipped the shattered copper mirror shards toward the source of the sound.

The mirror shards in the air suddenly refracted seven beams of moonlight, forming miniature light explosions at the tip of Sun's electromagnetic gun.

"Watch out for the Kan trigram!" Tang Yao suddenly grabbed Bo Yu's wrist.

As her star-shaped birthmark on her palm touched the blood beads on Bo Yu's wound, the Kan trigram on the 64 hexagram tiles suddenly blasted a high-pressure water column into the air.

Bo Yu understood immediately, holding her as they soared into the air, his claws grabbing the bronze chain hanging from the ceiling.

Sun's electromagnetic projectile whizzed past their feet, and as it exploded against the wall, hidden metal pipes were revealed.

Bo Yu's pupils shrank—on the surface of those pipes, the star maps etched into them bore a striking resemblance to Tang Yao's birthmark. Now, they glowed faintly with a cool blue light due to the aftershock of the battle.

"Kui for Marsh!" Tang Yao suddenly whispered in his ear.

Bo Yu instinctively understood, and with a fierce swing of his wolf tail, he struck the seismic tile.

The ground of the glass greenhouse suddenly collapsed, and silver liquid surged from the Kui trigram, engulfing three armed men in an instant.

The drones controlled by Dr. Liu had just taken off, but were corroded by the liquid and began emitting smoke.

Zhao, in the control room, crushed his cigar, his distorted face appearing on the LCD screen. "Activate the 'Greedy Wolf' program!" Secretary Liu, with her scarlet nails, typed rapidly on the keyboard, and deep within the castle's foundation, the sound of machinery began to rumble.

At this moment, Bo Yu was holding Tang Yao and landed near the broken flying buttress.

The night wind lifted the blood-stained hem of her skirt, and she suddenly placed her hand on Bo Yu's chest. "They're using the star energy to reverse-erode your bloodline. The direction of the seventh star in the Big Dipper..."

Before she could finish, the entire castle tilted by forty-five degrees.

Bo Yu's claws dug deep into the stone wall, but he saw the ceiling turn into a vertical floor. The star mirrors now hung above them like chandeliers.

Sun's figure stood upside down on the "wall," the muzzle of his electromagnetic gun glowing ominously.

"Hold on!" Bo Yu's wolf fur stood on end in the fierce wind.

Using the momentum from the castle's tilt, he leaped into the air, his claws leaving sparks on the inverted stained glass.

As Tang Yao's long hair brushed against his nose, he heard her trembling whisper: "Southeast corner, three seconds!"

Without hesitation, Bo Yu kicked off a gargoyle statue located at the southeast corner.

As the electromagnetic projectile flew toward them, the statue's mouth suddenly spewed a massive amount of ancient books.

The parchment scrolls, inscribed with star secret methods, ignited mid-air, turning into a fiery web when they encountered the electromagnetic energy.

Sun's scream was swallowed by the flames as Bo Yu, holding Tang Yao, landed firmly on the only intact floor tile.

The girl's back pressed against his chest as she gasped for air, the heat from her star-shaped birthmark seeping through her clothes.

Bo Yu was about to check her wounds when the entire castle suddenly froze, all sounds falling into eerie silence.

"Impressive," Zhao's projection suddenly appeared on every floor tile, playing with a bronze key in his hand. "But you seem to have forgotten, the focal point of the Azure Dragon Bureau is never in the sky." The ground began to vibrate at a high frequency, and Tang Yao suddenly curled up in pain—blood from the birthmark on her neck began to seep, and the floating blood droplets gradually formed the shape of the Big Dipper.

Bo Yu's wolf claws suddenly pierced his chest, and the blood-coated claws carved a blood rune in the air.

When the silver-white blood beads collided with the blood rune, the underground of the castle erupted with the sound of a massive mechanical structure disintegrating.

Zhao's projection flickered twice and then vanished, replaced by Secretary Liu's panicked scream: "Energy backlash! Cut it off..."

The entire building suddenly let out a dying roar, and the gothic spires collapsed one after another.

Bo Yu, holding the weakened Tang Yao, rushed toward the gap, but found the original cliff had turned into an abyss.

Moonlight cascaded down like a waterfall, illuminating a large circular device rising from the depths of the abyss—an enormous compass made of countless bronze hexagrams, with a black cube at its center absorbing the surrounding light.

"This is the true heart of the Azure Dragon Bureau," Zhao's voice echoed from the bottom of the abyss, tinged with manic laughter.

As the Big Dipper's nine-star pattern appeared on the cube's surface, the scar on Bo Yu's back tore open in agony, and Tang Yao in his arms let out a dreamlike murmur: "Don't look... that's the Reverse Big Dipper..."

The last support pillar of the castle cracked, and billions of star fragments fell from the collapsing ceiling.

In a state of weightlessness, Bo Yu held Tang Yao tightly to his chest, his wolf tail curling around a broken bronze chain, swinging toward the nearest remaining flying buttress wreckage.

As his claws were about to touch the stone wall, the black cube suddenly shot out a ghostly light. Within that light, the star map, identical to Tang Yao's birthmark, flickered.

The abyss began to rotate clockwise, devouring all the fallen stones.

In the whirlwind, Bo Yu saw Zhao standing above the cube, the bronze key in his hand about to be inserted into a glowing lock...