The Honghuang-class battleship was turned into a creature one dared not approach, a porcupine bristling with danger. The Romanians’ warships twisted violently under the dense barrage, crumbling and exploding amidst the relentless fire, a continuous shriek of countless Romanians filling the public channels.

In the blink of an eye, over thirty Roman warships were annihilated by a single coordinated volley from the Honghuang-class main cannons. The remaining Roman vessels, gripped by sheer terror, swerved frantically through the storm of ordnance, utilizing the surrounding dust lanes and meteor flows for cover wherever possible. Only Polpot’s flagship, driven by a suicidal courage, pressed forward with a few surviving ships, unleashing every ounce of energy in a sustained artillery assault on the Honghuang-class behemoth.

Brilliant flashes erupted continuously against the Honghuang-class energy shields, yet they failed to even slightly shake the shielding, which was unnervingly thick to a pathological degree. Sweating profusely, Polpot roared with manic intensity, gesticulating wildly, commanding his subordinates to keep firing. He had to risk everything; this glory absolutely could not fall into another’s hands.

The credit must be his; the throne must be his! This was the expectation of Nanket.Holsume, this was the expectation of the entire Holsume family! Only Polpot.Holsume himself knew the devastating price the Holsume family had paid to groom him! For that gleaming golden seat of power, Polpot had to stake everything today, even if it meant death—he had to risk it all! “No need to hide anything anymore! You despicable half-breed, did you truly think you were a genius?” Polpot, nearly driven to madness, flashed a cryptic smile. He suddenly calmed, slowly tearing off his garments and unclasping dozens of energy shackles that bound his psychic energy.

“Tsssh—It wasn't just you who completed the Second Fusion!” Polpot’s face contorted hideously as he snarled, “The first person in the Holsume family to achieve the Second Fusion was me!”

An aura of unyielding resolve surged from Polpot. Gone was the image of the useless, spoiled dandy he once was! A potent, powerful spiritual wave pierced directly through the Honghuang-class battleship’s energy shield, resonating instantly within Dukat’s mind: “Dukat.Holsume, as the designated next patriarch of the Holsume, I command you to fully infiltrate the enemy vessel and eliminate their commander! Quickly! Do not waste the opportunity I’ve created for you!”

Dukat started, roaring back, “What opportunity could you possibly create for me?”

Boom! With a massive concussion, Lily’s piercing green energy arrows shattered the final layer of the energy shield ahead, allowing the two to finally skim flush against the hull of the Honghuang-class battleship.

“Heh! Ha!” Polpot uttered a low cry, and a silver torrent erupted from his brow, instantly passing through his flagship and transforming into a sweeping silver river aimed at the colossal Honghuang-class vessel. With one powerful sweep, seventy percent of the Honghuang-class shield instantly disintegrated. The massive hull shuddered violently from the immense force, beginning to shake intensely. All the Honghuang-class’s weaponry fired wildly; the Sky-Quenching Blue Crystal main cannon, which had been charging, lost its locked target.

Standing in the command cabin, Gu Yechen merely smirked coldly. Monitors positioned near the hull fed the actions of Dukat and Lily directly onto the command screen.

Shaking his head, Gu Yechen sighed with appreciation, “The Romans claim an inheritance spanning billions of years; it appears to be true... Polpot’s stealth is formidable, truly formidable.”

After a moment of contemplation, Gu Yechen snapped out a sharp command: “Xinjia, take your brothers and retrieve Dukat and Lily here!”

Xinjia responded with a gruff affirmation, turning to leave with his four brothers.

Taking a deep breath, Gu Yechen bellowed out, “Polpot… How many times have you lost to me now? I can tell you frankly: the losses you sustained on Pluto were also my doing!”

This statement, accompanied by a purple torrent surging from Gu Yechen’s brow, transformed into a world-shaking roar as it surged toward the silver torrent Polpot whipped down again.

The silver and purple light beams violently clashed in the void between the two warships, shattering into fragments of pure light, sending both vessels reeling outward. Gu Yechen’s body only trembled slightly; his immensely vast source of soul essence continuously spawned new psychic energy, bubbling forth like inexhaustible water, never to dry up. Polpot, however, saw blackness; another stream of blood erupted from his seven orifices, and his tall frame collapsed powerlessly to the ground.

“Gu Yechen! I know it’s you! How can you be this strong? You, you, you primitive Earthling!”

Polpot roared in furious disbelief. He couldn't accept this reality. He had revealed his trump card, yet Gu Yechen had still effortlessly crushed his strongest mental assault! Gritting his teeth, Polpot extracted three specialized stimulants from his boot shaft, biting down fiercely as he plunged them into his neck.

Raging energy surged through his body, instantly swelling Polpot’s psychic power by more than tenfold.

A silver tidal wave, even more potent than before, swept forth. This time, Polpot managed to control the silver surge, condensing it into a massive light sword that appeared almost corporeal. The thousand-meter-long sword slashed viciously towards the Honghuang-class battleship, seemingly poised to cleave it in two.

A deafening metallic clang echoed. Each strand of his hair stood erect, shooting toward the ceiling. A purple torrent condensed in the Honghuang ship, forming a massive purple seal unmistakably resembling the Qilin Seal, which shot out to smash against the silver light sword Polpot had conjured.

With a tremendous impact, the light sword shattered, while the purple seal managed only to crack open a few fissures.

Several blood vessels burst on Polpot’s body. Utterly defeated, he slumped weakly to the floor, staring blankly at the exquisitely carved ceiling.

Gu Yechen drew a heavy breath and stated flatly, “A firefly daring to compete with the sun and moon. Hmm, that phrase is pretentious and incredibly foolish!”

Outside the warship, Dukat pressed both hands against the hull of the Honghuang-class vessel. He was about to use his ability to force a passage into the ship when, a hundred meters away, a hatch suddenly sprang open. Xinjia and his four brothers rushed out, stepping on yellow clouds, and instantly threw five iron chains flickering with five-colored divine light.

Dukat and Lily were too sluggish in the vacuum of space to react effectively. Faced with the overwhelming deluge of divine chains, both were momentarily paralyzed.

With a series of metallic clangs, both were tightly bound by the chains, trussed up like zongzi (rice dumplings), and hauled into the Honghuang-class battleship by Xinjia. Dukat struggled violently, but the chains were affixed with countless talismans used by Yellow Turban Warriors to subdue demons! The immense restrictive power rendered him completely helpless.

It was Xinwu, the most hot-tempered of the brothers, who saw Dukat daring to struggle. He immediately brought his fists down on Dukat’s head several times, hitting him so hard that Dukat passed out without a sound.

Lily shrieked sharply, leaping up and sinking her teeth viciously into Xinwu’s thigh.

Two beams of green light flashed around Lily’s teeth, turning them as clear and translucent as emeralds. Crunch! A piece of flesh the size of a walnut was torn from Xinwu’s thigh. Xinwu screamed in agony, leaping high into the air, clutching his profusely bleeding leg, and slammed a massive hole in the ceiling above him.

Xin Yi watched the blood streaming from Lily’s mouth with delight. “Oh? Innate Jia-Wood Dao Body? No wonder she has such powerful teeth! How does this little sprite possess a Jia-Wood Dao Body?”

Xinjia snorted and slapped Lily across the face, knocking her out cold as well. Xinjia declared carelessly, “Whether it’s a Dao Body or a Spirit Body, just drag her back for the High Venerable to deal with!”

The Honghuang-class battleship stabilized itself with difficulty, having been struck twice by Polpot, and was now tumbling nearly a hundred kilometers away. The warships of Bolujin, Yakjin, and others continued to pursue, bombarding the Honghuang-class relentlessly. Especially since Polpot had weakened the shield by seventy percent, Bolujin and the others were ecstatic, seeing a chance to destroy or capture the giant vessel, and they swarmed forward.

Polpot, severely wounded by Gu Yechen, shook his head helplessly and issued a single order: All Holsume family warships were to follow closely behind Bolujin’s fleet; grab any opportunity that presented itself, but retreat instantly if things turned dangerous! Just as the two fleets became entangled in a fierce melee, a profound chanting sound suddenly echoed across the void.

The Black Buddha statue of the Red Dragon King slowly spread a light spanning ten thousand zhang, and six massive bands of light began to creep outward, extending for a thousand miles in every direction.

“My young friends, human suffering and sorrow—only extinction is the ultimate Great Dao! Once you enter extinction, you are forever freed from the Three Thousand Dusts—is that not bliss?”

“Today, this humble monk seeks to ferry all living beings, sending you free from myriad sufferings via the Great Dao of Extinction and Reincarnation. This is a benevolent connection; my young friends must not forget the kindness offered by this monk today.”

“Amitabha, Amitabha! The Six Paths of Reincarnation, joy and sorrow, the Seven Emotions and Six Desires, greed, delusion, and wrath—all are suffering! Enter extinction, remain eternally extinct, free from worry and fear, devoid of joy or sorrow—this is the fruit of Bodhi.” Following the Red Dragon King’s unorthodox chanting, a black light spread from the upright palm of the Black Buddha. Immense malevolent power swept through the void, engulfing all the entangled warships.

Porphyrius, aboard the giant mothership, smiled faintly, pressing his palms together: “Amitabha, Amitabha… Be it Gu Yechen or Polpot, you shall all return to extinction! If I secure this great merit this time, upon returning to Mars and converting it into family contributions, the Menerpole Family will certainly rise to be among the top three Emperor-Selecting Families!”

The mothership’s presence here proved that after being swept away by spatial tides in the subspace years ago, it had jumped out from this very location—a point where the space was already inherently fragile, an ideal point for spatial jumps. The Red Dragon King, using his full power, amplified by the Black Buddha he had painstakingly cultivated for hundreds of years, instantly unleashed earth-shattering power, directly activating the spatial jump point here.

With no time to struggle, Gu Yechen’s Honghuang-class battleship and all the Roman warships were sucked into subspace.

A beam of intense light shot from the Black Buddha, causing an explosion in the subspace equivalent to ten billion tons of TNT. Terrifying spatial turbulence spontaneously arose, instantly sweeping all the warships away without a trace.

“Amitabha, Amitabha, this humble monk’s Buddhist wisdom has deepened another layer today!”