The Great Fish suddenly opened its mouth with a slight hiss, and the starlight near its body instantly poured into its maw, sweeping clean the starlight within trillions of li in the blink of an eye.

Seeing the Great Fish's divine power, Fuya 7Ming swiftly issued an order.

The natal stars of the 108 Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Star Lords simultaneously flickered up and down, and the stellar power of the four directions surged like a tide towards the Affic Empire. However, the nature of this stellar power had completely transformed. The former stellar power was like viscous glue; now, it had converted into ice-cold, bone-piercing steel—hard and rigid, incapable of being absorbed or utilized in the slightest.

Even the Great Fish, one of the Ten Great Incarnations of Vishnu, could no longer absorb this mutated stellar power. The Great Fish struggled for a while, shaking its head and wagging its tail, but the starlight re-gathering around it remained utterly still. Having no choice, the Great Fish could only roar in anger, suddenly spitting out a shield condensed from silver starlight.

The shield, shimmering with specks of silver light, tore through the void and instantly appeared before Bholipiti. The timing and placement of the shield were absolutely superb; the forty-three golden sabers, radiating a chilling, cold aura, shot in from all directions, striking the shield at precisely the same moment.

The silver shield trembled slightly, like a ripple on water, then instantly contracted inward, curling up into a silver vortex the size of a fist. The forty-three golden sabers struggled briefly before being swept into the silver vortex, vanishing instantly without a trace.

Bholipiti, whose body was a tattered mess, streaming blood from being chopped by the golden sabers—resembling a pork knuckle gnawed by dozens of vicious dogs—let out a heavy breath. Stamping both feet, she soared high into the air and landed heavily atop the head of the Great Fish incarnation.

The Great Fish's agile eyes glanced at Fuya 7Ming and the tens of thousands of Nine Nether Path disciples, and it let out a deep, powerful roar: "Bholipiti and all the Mahoragas, I am taking them away. Do you have any objections?"

Fuya 7Ming smiled, merely shaking her head: "We have many objections. You, Bholipiti, and all those Mahoragas must stay behind!"

In the distance, over a million Mahoraga great serpents were roaring as they fought fiercely with nearly ten million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals. The Heavenly Soldiers and Generals had formed the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array, tightly encircling the Mahoragas at its core. No matter how the great serpents exerted their various demonic arts and secret techniques to break free, stirring up clouds of war and countless illusions and light projections, the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array remained immovable, holding them fast.

Seeing this scene, the Great Fish sneered coldly. The massive single horn atop its head suddenly spewed forth a blinding golden light, striking fiercely at the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array. The golden light was dazzling, tearing out with a deafening ripping sound, reaching above the formation in an instant.

The Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array nimbly parted to both sides, creating precisely a fissure through which the golden light could pass safely.

A chorus of agonizing screams was heard. Several thousand Mahoraga great serpents, who had impatiently rushed out through the open gap, were struck directly by the golden light. Their bodies seemed to be simultaneously mangled by tens of thousands of rotating blades, instantly exploding into a mist of blood accompanied by ear-piercing tearing sounds. The golden light's momentum did not cease; it plunged deep into the Mahoraga ranks before detonating spectacularly.

The piercing golden light instantly enveloped nearly half of the Mahoragas. The serpent-headed, human-bodied great serpents wailed mournfully as their bodies rapidly expanded outward. The exploded golden light pierced their bodies like countless fine needles, causing the vital energy throughout their forms to surge rapidly. In the blink of an eye, they swelled to over a hundred zhang tall, and shortly thereafter, they all exploded one after another.

Fuya 7Ming clapped her delicate hands playfully and called out praise. She chuckled lightly: "Truly worthy of being the salvific incarnation of Vishnu. Killing over five hundred thousand Mahoragas in one blow proves that these Mahoragas are indeed a great enemy to humanity and should be eradicated!"

The Great Fish's eyeballs nearly jumped out of their sockets. It looked at the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array, which had returned to its pristine state without a single gap remaining, with immense surprise. After a long pause, it finally exclaimed in admiration, "Good, truly worthy of being the Grand Array that shakes the Three Realms in the Heavenly Court. Heh, such a powerful and numerous formation actually possesses such swift adaptability. Good, very good."

Another streak of spiritual light rose from above Fuya 7Ming's head, and a manifestation of her Three Corpses Primordial Spirit quietly emerged, clad in a black imperial robe, wearing a crown made of purple crystal, almost entirely merged with the void, leaving only a face of snowy, exquisite beauty distinctly visible.

The dignified and solemn Bodhisattva golden body, the ethereal and mysterious Goddess incarnation, and this imposing, intimidating Empress incarnation that seemed to dominate all—these were the Three Corpses Primordial Spirits Fuya 7Ming had painfully refined over thousands of years using the secret arts of the Three Pure Ones.

With the Three Corpses Primordial Spirits manifested together, Fuya 7Ming's spiritual sense instantly elevated to an inconceivable realm. Her colossal divine thought covered the surroundings like countless layers of impenetrable nets, enveloping the entire Spiral Star Domain. Faint sounds of thunder echoed above every planet within the Spiral Star Domain—this was Fuya 7Ming's divine thought seizing control of certain universal laws within the void.

Immense pressure radiated from heaven and earth, and mysterious flashes of light illuminated the void in all directions. Ethereal runes flickered in the distant reaches of the void, and the flashing of every rune resonated with the breathing of Fuya 7Ming's true body. When Fuya 7Ming exhaled, those runes suddenly dimmed; when she inhaled, they brightly illuminated, and the pressure between heaven and earth intensified severalfold.

The stellar power that the Great Fish could not absorb rushed fiercely into Fuya 7Ming's main body and the three Primordial Spirit manifestations. Fuya 7Ming's body surface was covered in a faint silver aura. As her eyes swept around, long silver rainbows stretching for ten thousand li spun and coiled within the void. Coupled with the vast blue torrent and countless blue lotuses brought forth by the Azure Lotus Treasure Banner swirling around her, the spectacle was terrifyingly extreme.

Staring coldly at the slightly stunned Great Fish and Bholipiti, Fuya 7Ming gave them a cold smile and suddenly darted towards the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array where the fierce battle was raging in the distance. The Grand Array swiftly opened an entrance, allowing Fuya 7Ming to breach the thirty-six layers of the Heaven and Earth Net and charge into the array of the Mahoraga great serpents.

The Great Fish cried out "Not good!" in alarm and hurriedly shrank its massive form, compressing itself to a length of only a hundred zhang. It rapidly pursued Fuya 7Ming, taking Bholipiti, whose form had also shrunk, and who was continuously regenerating heads and arms, with it.

But before the Great Fish could take more than a few steps, the hundreds of thousands of Nine Nether Path disciples, assisted by tens of thousands of Yellow Turban strongmen wielding immeasurable divine chains, cheerfully formed a complete Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array, trapping the Great Fish and Bholipiti at its core.

This Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array, formed by the Nine Nether Path disciples, was distinctly different from the one formed by the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals. It lacked the majestic solemnity of floating immortal light; instead, the sky was filled with demonic winds, gloomy clouds, and flickering ghost fires, with endless ghostly screams interspersed with countless beast roars.

Piercing cold winds spun rapidly within the formation, and black snowflakes bearing streaks of cold light flew everywhere. The Great Fish and Bholipiti were firmly trapped within the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array.

'Bholipiti, enraged, wildly swung her dozens of regenerating arms, hacking fiercely at the surrounding encirclement. However, the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array was an ancient Heavenly Court formation used to awe the Three Realms; how could it be broken so easily?

Bholipiti madly hurled tens of thousands of bolts of lightning at the array and brought down hundreds of mountains of various sizes, only managing to tear open several tens of thousands of layers of eerie winds and gloomy clouds, shattering only a few layers of entwined elemental energies of earth, water, fire, and wind. Yet, behind the sinister winds and evil clouds were more sinister winds and evil clouds; behind the layers of elemental energies were thick layers of earth, water, fire, and wind.

As a battle drum sounded, the attack of the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array also commenced.

Innumerable bolts of lightning and fire rapidly crashed down from all directions, blasting towards the Great Fish and Bholipiti. Countless golden sabers flew wildly, immense green wooden stakes smashed and rolled everywhere, giant stones pressed down from above, and black water surged across the sky—hidden among them were countless crimson heavenly fires, scorching half the sky red.

The Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array specialized in evolving the Innate Five Elements from the surrounding spiritual energy to attack the enemy. The array sucked dry all the spiritual energy in the void within its boundaries; those trapped could not absorb any energy to replenish themselves, and all the spiritual energy absorbed by the array could be transformed into material attacks against the enemy.

The generation and overcoming of the Five Elements are the most fundamental rules of interaction in heaven and earth—the simplest, with the most direct power. The coordinated power wielded by hundreds of thousands of Nine Nether Path disciples, including many experts at the Great Luo Golden Immortal level, was sufficient to trap and kill beings at the upper or peak levels of Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Bholipiti, unwilling to be outdone, raised her arm to fiercely strike dozens of green wooden stakes crashing down towards her. She concentrated all her mental power into the weapon in her hand; the strangely shaped weapon emitted a dazzling golden flame, tearing through dozens of wooden stakes with power capable of splitting the heavens.

The green wooden stakes exploded, and the sliver of Jia Wood Divine Thunder Qi contained within transformed into countless green lightning bolts that rapidly struck down. The energy of green wood quickly converted into crimson heavenly fire, becoming a viscous, molten-like crimson flame that adhered to Bholipiti's body and burned madly.

This crimson heavenly fire was not ordinary fire; it was the Immortal Transformation Divine Flame drawn from the Azure Nether Qi above the Thirty-Three Heavens by the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array. This extremely venomous Immortal Transformation Divine Flame was used on the Immortal Execution Platform of the ancient Heavenly Court, specializing in destroying the physical bodies of immortals and inflicting agonizing harm upon their Primordial Spirits.

In the Three Realms, only the Monkey, relying on his profound techniques and the bounty of Golden Elixirs and Peaches of Immortality he had consumed, withstood the damage of the Immortal Transformation Divine Flame without suffering the slightest injury. All other immortals brought to the execution platform, regardless of their cultivation realm, were burned to ashes by this divine flame.

Bholipiti had no such fortune as the Monkey; her belly was empty, lacking even a single Golden Elixir or Peach of Immortality. The Immortal Transformation Divine Flame clung to nearly half her body, burning fiercely, causing Bholipiti to shriek in pain.

However, having cultivated both Brahmin demonic arts and Buddhist Zen methods, Bholipiti feared physical harm the least. She raised a crescent moon scimitar, brought it down in one strike, and severed the half of her body covered in the Immortal Transformation Divine Flame. She spat out a breath of spiritual energy, sending the fiercely burning body flying far away.

In just a moment, the severed half of Bholipiti's body was burned to ashes.

Bholipiti's eyes twitched as she watched. She roared angrily, "What a vicious heavenly fire! Vishnu, we must find a way to break out of the array quickly!"

Vishnu let out a cold snort; did Bholipiti need to remind him? He naturally wanted to break out, but this was no ordinary formation—it was the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array, the most famous binding formation in the Three Realms. The lethality of the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array was not truly strong, but it was like sticky taffy; once entangled, one would have endless trouble.

Since the establishment of the ancient Heavenly Court and the emergence of the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array, who had ever escaped it? Even the incomparably arrogant Monkey, who wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, was ultimately captured within the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array; how could others fare better?

The Great Fish incarnation of Vishnu suddenly opened its massive mouth and inhaled fiercely all around, but not a trace of spiritual energy was drawn in. Instead, countless heavenly fires, heavenly lightning, golden sabers, and wooden stakes were sucked in, startling the Great Fish into quickly closing its mouth and twisting its body violently, swimming tens of li away at speed.

The Great Fish sneered coldly and muttered to itself, "There's no other way; we have to charge straight out. Although it will cost some vital energy, being surrounded by an array formed by these little demons, even the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array famous throughout the Three Realms, is humiliating."

The Great Fish smiled arrogantly: "No matter what, I am the image of the Great Fish that rescued the ancestors of humanity during the great deluge of the apocalypse. To be surrounded like this is too shameful; even my main body would lose face!"

With a sigh, the Great Fish lashed its tail fiercely, rapidly plunging with Bholipiti straight into the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array.

Vortices formed from the Five Elements spiritual energy blocked the Great Fish's path. The Great Fish merely flicked its tail lightly, disturbing none of the Five Elements spiritual energy, and passed through the vortices with ease. Innumerable immeasurable divine chains, carrying blinding flashes of light, fell towards it. The Great Fish also flicked its tail, its body swiftly skimming past the chains, not one chain managing to touch its scales.

Innumerable Five Elements restrictions and curses rained down. The Great Fish simply lowered its head and charged forward; no matter the restriction or curse, it could not touch its body. In the blink of an eye, the Great Fish, its entire body blazing with dazzling spiritual light, broke through eighteen layers of the Heaven and Earth Net and was about to burst out of the formation into the starry sky.

Unlike the Goddess of Fortune, whose innate divine ability was to enter and exit the void and tread upon the Azure Nether, making the heavenly restrictions unable to confine or block her, the Great Fish’s divine ability was like an oiled loach—any attack approaching it had its force instantly deflected aside. Various spells and curses were difficult to land effectively, and the main body could not be attacked either.

Occasionally, a few profound immortal techniques struck the Great Fish's body, but ninety-nine percent of the power was deflected by the spiritual aura on its surface. The remaining tiny bit of force only brought forth a few sparks on its thick scales, causing no harm to its true form. This was the strongest divine ability of Vishnu's incarnation, the Great Fish incarnation, capable of swimming freely and unharmed through the great flood of the apocalypse.

Seeing the Great Fish and Bholipiti on the verge of breaking free, the several high-ranking disciples of the Nine Nether Path in charge of the array immediately let out sharp warning cries.

The over a million Heavenly Soldiers and Generals on the periphery immediately surged inward, quickly joining the array established by the Nine Nether Path disciples, reinforcing the Heaven and Earth Net layers of the array to thirty-sixfold. The Great Fish, which had vaguely glimpsed the heavenly light outside the array, was engulfed in swirling light and shadow. A large mass of immortal light enveloped it, spraying out rough breaths, and it was once again deeply trapped within the array.

Fuya 7Ming also heard the urgent cries from her disciples, but she didn't even glance in that direction. Even if the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array was broken, the Ten Absolute Arrays awaited the Great Fish; even if the Ten Absolute Arrays couldn't stop the Great Fish, there was still the Star Array to hinder it.

Even if the Star Array could not impede the Great Fish's escape...

Fuya 7Ming pursed her lips into a faint smile. In her hand, the Seven Treasures Sword manifested, sprinkling thousands of sword lights across the sky, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Mahoragas whose cultivation was at the Golden Immortal level, their heads rolling and bodies shattering. The fourteen laws across seven categories within the Seven Treasures Sword erupted simultaneously; the bodies of any Mahoraga pierced by the sword light exploded like cracked eggs.

Fuya 7Ming's Three Corpses Primordial Spirit manifestations were even more ruthless.

The Bodhisattva golden body wildly tossed and smashed with its six magical treasures; the manifestation, a high-grade Great Luo Golden Immortal, could easily annihilate thousands of great serpents with a casual strike.

The Goddess manifestation held the Azure Mirage Bottle, constantly shooting out streaks of spiritual light. Large groups of Mahoragas wailed as they were sucked into the Azure Mirage Bottle, turning into pus and blood in an instant.

The Empress manifestation's attacks were even more unpredictable. She merely stood silently above Fuya 7Ming's Qingyun, her imposing eyes coldly sweeping the surroundings. The bodies of any Mahoragas within her gaze were as if struck by heavy blades, their forms silently sliced into pieces. Occasionally, this Empress manifestation would let out a faint hum, and hundreds to thousands of Mahoragas would explode in mid-air, shattering into pieces as if a large bomb were hidden in their bellies.

Fuya 7Ming unleashed a fierce slaughter, coordinated with the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array on the outside. The over a million Mahoraga great serpents were instantly wiped out, leaving only the three leaders of the Mahoragas—three great serpents, a hundred zhang tall, whose cultivation had reached the mid-stage of Great Luo Golden Immortal.

The three great serpents were scared out of their wits by Fuya 7Ming's ruthless and merciless methods. They stared blankly at Fuya 7Ming, having lost all courage to fight her.

Flicking the blade edge of the Seven Treasures Sword casually with her finger, Fuya 7Ming commanded faintly, "Where are my disciples? Deliver them!"

A low Sanskrit chant rose from the void. Fuya 7Ming's ten senior disciples, including the Sunlight Bodhisattva, Moonlight Bodhisattva, and Maudgalyayana, led hundreds of Buddhist cultivators whose cultivation had also reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, stepping forward. Each of them fiercely grasped heavy weapons such as Zen staffs, Vajra pestles, crescent-shaped shovels, and even prayer beads strung from human skulls the size of a head, roaring as they charged towards the three great serpents.

A series of crackling noises echoed through the void. The three unfortunate great serpents were beaten and smashed into pulp by this group of fierce Buddhist cultivators. Three massive serpent heads were chopped off by an exceptionally fierce, stout female nun whose chest measured a chi, waist measured eight chi, and hips also measured eight chi. She reached in with her hand, pulled out the three fist-sized Sarira pearls condensed between their eyebrows, and respectfully presented them to Fuya 7Ming.

Fuya 7Ming smiled slightly at the stout female nun and nodded in praise: "Tulong's cultivation grows more exquisite. These three Sariras, I will leave them to you to enhance your cultivation."

Tulong Shi Da, who had become the first disciple under Fuya 7Ming to advance to Great Luo Golden Immortal in nearly three thousand years, laughed joyfully upon hearing this, gleefully stuffing the three blood-and-flesh-covered Sariras into his sleeve.

With a light laugh, Fuya 7Ming tilted her head back and shouted, "Vishnu, Bholipiti, all your subordinates have been annihilated. Will you surrender now?"

The Great Fish, having rammed blindly through the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array and already advanced seventeen layers further, paused for a moment, then suddenly looked up towards Fuya 7Ming. Seeing that the over a million Mahoragas had indeed been slain by Fuya 7Ming, the Great Fish's eyes turned red with fury. It glared fiercely at Fuya 7Ming and cursed loudly, "Fuya 7Ming, this Lord will ensure you suffer life and death are both impossible!"

As the Great Fish's entire attention was focused on Fuya 7Ming, a figure, like a phantom, silently pierced through the Heaven and Earth Net Grand Array. It lightly materialized behind the Great Fish, raised its hand, and brought down a seal—a fist-sized seal, entirely black and yellow, struck heavily onto the Great Fish's head with a strange light.

With a 'thud,' the spiritual aura on the Great Fish's body successfully deflected six-tenths of the power brought by the seal. However, the remaining four-tenths of the force still shattered its skull, pulverized its flesh, and utterly annihilated its spirit.

The Great Fish incarnation of Vishnu was killed in one fell swoop; one of the Ten Great Incarnations had fallen.

Bholipiti jumped up in fright, screaming as she fled towards the sky.

The figure merely let go of the seal, which had effortlessly killed the Great Fish, and it spun up, hanging high above Bholipiti's head.

"Bholipiti, is it? Surrender, or die. I hope you do not choose the path of humiliating surrender, so that I may kill you!"

Gu Xiechen, who had returned to the Spiral Star Domain nearly an hour ago, stood with his hands behind his back, smiling faintly at Bholipiti.

Bholipiti stared blankly at the gradually disintegrating body of the Great Fish, howling hoarsely.

"You are all dead! You destroyed Vishnu's incarnation, and you will surely face the full wrath of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, you..."

Gu Xiechen struck without hesitation, shattering Bholipiti's five heads with the seal. He grabbed Bholipiti's single remaining head and administered nearly a hundred 'pa-la-pa' slaps, front and back, with his Yin-Yang slap.

Teeth sprayed from Poritiwi's mouth, a mix of saliva and blood arcing out across the distance. She stared at Gu Xichen in terror, desperately realizing that his five fingers were clamped onto her throat like iron hooks, sealing off every ounce of her power, leaving her without the strength for even a final struggle.

The power Gu Xichen wielded vastly exceeded Poritiwi’s estimation; he possessed an overwhelming, absolute advantage. In front of him, Poritiwi was utterly defenseless, especially with the Cangsheng Yin still hanging above her head, poised to strike again! With a choked gurgle, Poritiwi suddenly squeezed her eyes shut and mustered every last ounce of strength to wail, "Lakshmi, are you truly going to stand by and do nothing?"

"If this avatar of Vishnu falls, you will bear the entire responsibility!"

"Without my aid, could you withstand Vishnu's wrath?"

A light sigh drifted from the void, and the Goddess of Fortune—impeccably beautiful, clothed in snow-white, possessing a peerless and indescribable grace—materialized from the empty space, cradling a golden macaque in her arms.

Gu Xichen glared at the Goddess of Fortune.

The Goddess of Fortune offered a brilliant smile, her voice gentle as she inquired, "Venerable Evil Dragon, if Lakshmi were to offer herself willingly, to become your beloved, could you spare Poritiwi?"

Gu Xichen froze.

Fuying Ming, who was rushing toward them, grew instantly grim. Her Three Corpses Primordial Spirit roared with fury and dove forward.

Fuying Ming shrieked, "Shameless woman! Xichen, you go interrogate Poritiwi; I will deal with this foul creature!"

The Goddess of Fortune let out a soft sigh, smiling tenderly, "How am I foul? I am fragrant and dewy!"

With a flash of spiritual light erupting around her, the Goddess of Fortune and Fuying Ming immediately clashed into a fierce entanglement. (To be continued.)