this infinite world

Grab it and refine it in an instant.

This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. In myths and legends, both ancient and modern, both in China and abroad, there are always descriptions of powerful beings stretching out their hands and turning them into giant palms, grasping mortals in their palms, or crushing them to death with one palm.

Sumeru mustard seed, the universe in the sleeve, the Buddha's kingdom in the palm... these moves have different names in different periods and places, and various subtle differences have been derived from them, but the essence is still the magical power of applying space elements.

In Journey to the West, the Five Finger Mountain used by Tathagata Buddha to suppress the Monkey King Sun Wukong is such an application... Although Vishnu, the Central World Buddha, is not the Tathagata Buddha who can easily suppress the Three Realms, the Nanyanzhou team and the Beibingzhou team are definitely not the Monkey King with three heads and six arms who made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace!
"boom!"

The giant hand fell, seemingly slowly but actually quickly, and in a flash it had already pressed down on the heads of the Samsara team, covering the entire sky. Xiao Honglu, who was inside the Eternal Noah, wanted to press the button to fire the gamma ray cannon and fight hard, and wait for an opportunity to activate the many backup plans he had exchanged with the Lord God before, in order to die together at the last moment. However, he despairingly found that he could not even move at all, and could only watch the giant hand slowly crushing down...

——Are you going to die?
——Is this the end?

——Are we going to face the final end and be crushed to death like an ant?
"No!"

Suddenly, Xiao Honglu didn't know where he got the strength from. Contrary to his usual confident attitude, he roared with an expression that matched his actual age, like a real 13 or 14-year-old boy: "I can't fall here, I can't end like this!"

"Third eye, open!"

The next moment, a clear crack suddenly appeared between Xiao Honglu's eyebrows, and a vertical pupil opened out of thin air. Along with a simple and ancient rune flashing, a ball of fire suddenly ignited in the eyes, illuminating everything around!
That was the divine rune that Xiao Honglu obtained in the plane of Age of Mythology. It originally belonged to Prometheus, the god of wisdom and creation, and symbolized the authority of Prometheus to steal the fire from heaven and give mankind wisdom and civilization. With this rune as the core, it connected the magic processing cores exchanged from countless main god spaces and the Atlantis optical brain. Countless highest-level magic emerged from around his body and hit the giant hand in front of him like raindrops!

Before entering the final battle, Xiao Honglu had actually awakened his own spiritual light, "Arcane Ascension". This spiritual light, which was nurtured by his unyielding character, allowed him to multitask and manipulate dozens or even hundreds of magic spells at the same time without losing any power.

However, driven by Xiao Honglu's surging emotions, the light of his soul showed its "upgraded" side. Countless magic arrays were automatically optimized without Xiao Honglu's control, and their power was many times greater than usual...

Even if it was just the most common trick "Mage's Hand", the five fingertips of the ghost hand that appeared turned into dimensional cracks like a blade of disaster, causing invisible cracks to spread in the void; even if it was just an ordinary fireball spell, it was transformed into a "rocket rain" of meteor explosions and sun explosions under this blessing!
Not only that, with the help of the "Book of Ulrich" and the "Automatic Scribe" exchanged from the Lord God, Xiao Honglu used the Lord God-level divine runes exchanged from the Lord God as consumables, recreating the miracles of the gods. Zeus's thunder that dispelled chaos, Odin's spear that suppressed the nine realms, and the sun's light that burned away the darkness... Every blast of magic went deep into the level of authority, smashing the giant hand that covered the sky, until there was nothing left!
"Did you win?"

Panting heavily, blood flowing from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and excessive consumption of computing power, causing dizziness in his brain, Xiao Honglu did not immediately call on the Lord God to repair his whole body, but stared blankly at the clear sky again: "I did it——"

"Oh?"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Honglu suddenly heard a slightly surprised sigh: "A breakthrough was achieved in a desperate situation, and he achieved the fourth-order intermediate realm. Not only did he wash away all the dross and regain his original intention, but he also personalized the light of the soul in one fell swoop. The members of the Samsara team really have great luck..." The moment he heard this, Xiao Honglu felt a flash in front of his eyes, and he suddenly opened his eyes. At this time, where was the giant hand that was smashed by countless magic in front of him? There was only a blue lion-headed Buddha face covering the entire sky, and a giant hand that was no different from before.

——And at this moment, Xiao Honglu, who seemed so small, and his spaceship "Eternal Noah" were in the palm of this giant hand.

"……ha."

Seeing this, even Xiao Honglu, who was usually confident and optimistic, couldn't help but smile bitterly.

No matter who breaks through himself and wins in a desperate situation, only to find out that it was just an empty dream and that he is still in the opponent's palm, the blow he suffers is incomparable.

With Xiao Honglu's strength, it was already a stretch to delay the immortal with the help of the props exchanged from the Lord God. And now he encountered the old and powerful Central Weishi Buddha among the primary saints. What's the use of successfully breaking through? He was almost powerless to fight back and was captured in a single encounter. He couldn't even be sure whether he was in reality or another layer of illusion...

"You, the members of the Samsara Squad, have committed heinous crimes. If you are captured, you will inevitably go to the Immortal Execution Platform, and your true spirit will be sent to the Soul Transformation Pool, and you will never be able to reincarnate. In this case, why don't you join my Saint Legion?"

When a thought arises, all things come into being. Xiao Honglu had just felt an involuntary sense of defeat when he heard the blue lion-headed Buddha in front of him speak in a gentle and persuasive tone, which made him unable to resist at all: "I still have some face in the Heavenly Court. If you convert to me and sincerely repent, I will make things right with the Heavenly Court."

"With your aptitude, if you change your sect and practice diligently, you may be able to achieve Buddhahood in due time..."

"What the hell are you going to do to my partner!"

Before he finished speaking, a roar like thunder tore through space. The giant hand that had grabbed Xiao Honglu suddenly trembled, and was turned into powder by the roar. The blue lion-headed Buddha in the sky was also torn to pieces in the distorted space and time...

And at the moment when the roar sounded and the giant hand was torn apart, the blue lion-headed Buddha, who had been standing in the same place in an extremely leisurely state, suddenly stood up and looked at Zheng Zha who suddenly appeared in front of him with a shocked face!

(Today's update, the next update will be on Saturday.) (End of this chapter)