**Chapter 272: Abyssal Blood War (Part 5)**
A steel chain, over ten meters long and wreathed in hellfire, was swung in his hand. The hellfire, originating from the Spirit of Vengeance, turned the demons blocking his path into burning torches.
After Tang Song captured Blackheart and Ghost Rider in the cemetery, out of curiosity, he had researched the source of Ghost Rider's power.
Although Ghost Rider was known as Mephisto's knight, their power did not originate from Mephisto, the Hell Lord, but from the Spirit of Vengeance, Mephisto's enemy.
Therefore, even if Mephisto fell, the power on Johnny's body did not dissipate. On the contrary, Boss Tang used the power of the Mind Stone to help him sort out the Spirit of Vengeance inside his body, allowing Johnny Blaze to control the power of hellfire.
This power of hellfire was not a normal fire element attack, but the flames of revenge that could burn the soul. Moreover, the Penance Stare that came with the Spirit of Vengeance could kill even Blackheart, an upper demon of Hell with Mephisto's bloodline, a son of Hell, who died under the Penance Stare.
Because the Penance Stare required too long a wind-up time and needed the target to look directly into his eyes, Johnny, who was moving at high speed, didn't have time to unleash the Penance Stare. However, even normal hellfire was not something ordinary demons could obstruct.
As long as a trace of the flames touched them, these hellfire flames were like maggots clinging to bone, burning the demons blocking the way completely.
The demons ignited by hellfire were like torches, left far behind by Ghost Rider's speeding battle vehicle. The scene was spectacular, like a string of lit street lamps on a pitch-black highway.
It was precisely because Wolverine and Deadpool were causing a huge commotion at this time, attracting the attention of the high upper demons, that Johnny hadn't already been surrounded by some great demons.
However, Johnny's path up the mountain was not smooth sailing.
Rattle—
Johnny swung out the chain burning with hellfire. The chain seemed to have a life of its own, wrapping up a Naga Demon blocking his path, a creature with six arms wielding various curved knives and harpoon weapons.
Hellfire surged. The Six-Armed Naga Demon's beautiful face twisted in pain. The snake scales on her forehead flickered with elite blue light, and blue ripples like water flow enveloped her entire body.
Naga Demons living on the Abyssal Seabed naturally possessed the ability to control water flow. Especially the pure-blooded demons among them, just like the innate magic resistance from a giant dragon's scales, the scales on a pure-blooded Naga Demon's forehead came with a water flow protective shield.
It actually managed to forcefully block Johnny's hellfire from burning it. Although this layer of blue ripples only lasted for less than three breaths of time, it gave a few Ogre Trolls an opportunity.
They opened their large hands, brandishing spiked clubs, and their massive figures leaped into the air, pouncing towards Johnny.
Rattle! Johnny shook the chain in his hand, directly smashing the Six-Armed Naga Demon towards the Ogre Trolls. At the same time, he quickly reached into the Five Yin Pouch at his waist and scattered a large handful of white bone beads towards the large number of demons surrounding him from all sides.
These white bone beads emitted a rattling sound of bone stretching in the air. Amidst the rising black mist, dozens of Skeleton Demons with bone wings on their backs appeared in mid-air, circling and charging towards the Demon Army surging from all directions.
Their bones were harder than steel, and their sharp bone claws could easily tear through the Ogre Trolls' crude leather armor, pierce their flesh and blood, and crush their hearts.
From their mouths, they spat poison smoke that could absorb souls and corrupt the physical body. Even demons with maximum poison resistance, upon inhaling the poison smoke refined by Evil Technique, which the Skeleton Demons had absorbed Yamata no Orochi's venom into, would turn into a pool of pus and blood within a short time, if not instantly.
These Flying Skeletons, just a step away from becoming White Bone Demonic Gods, immediately went on a rampage among the demons as soon as they appeared.
What was most outrageous was that these Flying Skeleton Demons even possessed simple divine sense and could form simple formations. Like a hunting wolf pack, the strength inside their bodies multiplied after forming a formation.
Although there were only twenty to thirty Flying Skeleton Demons, they forcefully tore open a path through the demon tide for Johnny towards the Great Black Mountain.
Johnny took his hands off the accelerator. With one hand holding the hellfire chain, the other hand continuously pulled out small gifts given by Boss Tang from the Five Yin Pouch.
Silver Runic Holy Water Hand Grenades, enhanced Flashbang Grenades, Black Hole Hand Grenades from the Dark Elf, Demon Subduing Two Energies Divine Thunder Pills personally refined by Boss Tang, Jade Talismans sealing dozens of Sword Pill Sword Qi—these thoughtful small gifts were scattered from Johnny's hands as if they cost no money.
Silver Runic Holy Water Hand Grenades, just from their name, you could tell the force of these things.
Seven or eight silver hand grenades, each weighing five to six catties (approx. 6-7 lbs), weren't filled with much gunpowder. The force of the explosion wasn't great. The silver shrapnel from the hand grenade explosion enveloped a group of Evil Eye Dwarf Demons.
It didn't cause much damage to these Evil Eye Dwarf Demons; at most, a dozen or so Evil Eye Dwarf Demons were blown to the ground.
But the catch was, each silver hand grenade was filled with holy water personally blessed by a Cardinal Bishop of The Church. This holy water, comparable to strong sulfuric acid for demons, rained down directly among the demons in the shockwave of the hand grenade explosion.
Thinking about the scene of large amounts of concentrated sulfuric acid exploding among a crowd in the Reality Dimension, you could imagine the miserable state of the numerous demons at this moment.
Their entire bodies were burned by the holy water, forming transparent blisters the size of fists. Under the scratching of their sharp claws, they instantly tore themselves to pieces.
Compared to the Silver Runic Holy Water Hand Grenades, the enhanced Flashbang Grenades caused much less damage to demons. However, after dozens of demon experiments, the Weapons Research Department...
...added plenty of magnesium powder and silver powder to these Flashbangs. At the same time, based on the experiment results, they adjusted the frequency of the explosion sound waves produced by these Flashbangs. The low-frequency infrasound generated by the explosion could cause these demons to experience dizziness and blindness, just like ordinary humanity when exposed to a Flashbang.
As for the Black Hole Hand Grenades, they originated from the technology of the Dark Elves. These Hand Grenades were manufactured by the Dark Elf using the Aether, based on its characteristic ability to turn matter into anti-matter. When the Hand Grenade exploded, it would instantly generate a shockwave around the target. The energy was sufficient to create a temporary small black hole, sucking everything around it in.
Although these black holes couldn't last for too long a time, and their affected range was extremely limited, they were still a great killer weapon far exceeding humanity's technological level.
Even for Johnny's trip to Hell this time, Boss Tang only gave Johnny less than two hundred Black Hole Hand Grenades, a powerful weapon that could even trap Thor in the early stages of the Marvel World.
After all, manufacturing this kind of Black Hole Hand Grenade required the use of the Aether. Tang Song would not entrust a divine artifact like the Infinity Stone to others, not even his confidant research departments, or even Ivan Vanko.
Therefore, these Black Hole Hand Grenades were personally manufactured by Tang Song using the Aether, after the Weapons Research Department deciphered the technology of the Dark Elf.
As for Heimdall's Dark Elf, their technology was mostly built upon the research of the Aether. Thousands of years ago, Bor (Odin's father, the previous God King of Asgard) led Asgard's army and severely wounded them. During the Convergence of the Nine Realms, their King Malekith and some residual forces were directly killed or crippled by Earthlings.
The current status of the Dark Elf in Heimdall...
...is like that of the Native Americans on the North American continent after the Mayflower. They can only watch as Tang Group's manpower, spaceships, and mining vehicles encroach upon their territory, slaughtering anyone and anything, human or beast, that dares to resist. *cough cough*
Although the technology developed by the Dark Elf relying on the Aether was like a castle built on sand – without the Aether, a large wave would come and it would be gone.
However, these Black Hole Hand Grenades were truly effective. In the dense, tide-like sea of demons, there were indeed powerful upper demons who weren't afraid of hellfire. Johnny might not even be able to defeat these demons with his power, even if he used the Penance Stare.
At such times, he only needed to pull out a Black Hole Hand Grenade and throw it at the foot of that bewildered demon.
After the shockwave generated by the Black Hole Hand Grenade explosion, the black hole would form. Whether it was massive giants, Half-Dragon Persons, or Demonic Dragons and Undead Bone Dragons with strong magic resistance, they were all sucked into the black hole. Besides powerful weapons like the Black Hole Hand Grenade, Johnny's Five Yin Pouch also contained hundreds of Demon Subduing Two Energies Divine Thunder Pills personally refined by Boss Tang, and dozens of Jade Talismans sealing dozens of Boss Tang's Sword Pill Sword Qi.
Thousands of Five Thunder Talismans, Golden Light Talismans, Vajra Talismans, and Attendant Demon Subduing Talismans, which the Weapons Manufacturing Department had copied using technological means based on Boss Tang's samples—these thoughtful small gifts allowed Johnny to cut through obstacles all the way. Riding his self-driving, modified Hellfire Motorcycle, he quickly crossed a thousand-mile plain. Just as Johnny arrived at the foot of the Black Mountain...
...and swung his hellfire chain, whipping a Stone Giant into pieces, a violent roar suddenly erupted from behind him—
The violent shaking caused even the Great Black Mountain before him, over ten thousand meters high, to tremble. Many demons fighting on the mountainside lost their footing and rolled directly down the mountain, like falling rocks, smashing down swathes of demons along with them.
Johnny subconsciously turned around. The next moment, seeing the rising giant mushroom cloud and the swathes of demons falling down like harvested wheat, the soul fire in his skeleton eye sockets flickered.
Johnny instinctively turned the front of his motorcycle, wanting to leave this Black Mountain and rush back to rescue Wolverine and Deadpool.
He turned his head, looking towards the Black Mountain, at the vast palace complex. The soul fire inside his skull flickered. Just as he was about to twist the accelerator, a thick arm grabbed him.
"Hey, go do the things you want to do. Leave the other matters to me!"
Johnny turned back to look at the obese man in ill-fitting armor with a large red cloak draped behind his back. He looked somewhat familiar. He looked again carefully, but didn't recognize him.
"Let go!"
Thor listened to the undead creature's impolite words. Under the gaze of the two streaks of hellfire in Johnny's eye sockets, Thor could only shrug and add:
"Your Boss asked me to come help you. Leave your companions for me to rescue. Go find your father's soul without worry!"
Saying that, Thor raised his hand towards the sky. In a rainbow light, Stormbreaker, wreathed in lightning, appeared in his right hand.
Thor released his grip on Johnny's shoulder and leaped high. Appearing at a high altitude of several hundred meters, Thor grasped the handle of Stormbreaker with both hands.
In an instant, the sky of the Hell Abyssal Dimension was covered in lightning for the first time. Thick bolts of lightning, like a spiderweb, centered around Thor's Stormbreaker, enveloped an area spanning dozens of miles.
"I am Thor!" Thor roared, gripping Stormbreaker with both hands, and cleaved down towards the dense tide of demons below.
Countless bolts of lightning, as thick as houses and buildings, were pulled down from the sky by Thor, turning into a lightning storm.
Boom!
Thor's axe landed. The lightning unleashed by Stormbreaker instantly submerged the demon tide within dozens of miles around him, centered on him.
With a single strike, Thor, holding Stormbreaker in one hand, saw that within his gaze, not a single demon could stand intact.
"Asgard's Thor, Odin's descendant, dares to step foot in Hell!"
"This is not Asgard!"
"Odin and the Ancient One are in cahoots, obstructing us from entering the Reality Dimension! Kill him, and let Odin taste the pain of losing a son!"
The commotion caused by Thor's axe strike instantly drew back the gaze of the Demon Overseers and great demons residing high in the sky.
It wasn't just the Demon Overseers on the Abyssal Battlefield. Several blood moons in the sky, watching the Abyssal Battlefield through their blood-colored moonlight, as well as some Hell Lords, Demon Lords, and unknown existences, also turned their gaze towards him because of Thor's bold words.
Just as that unknown existence said, the presence of King Odin and Asgard had blocked the path to the Reality Dimension for countless Dimensional Evil Gods and Hell Lords.
Thor, this Prince of Asgard, actually dared to appear in Hell. Did he really think the claws of these Hell Lords weren't sharp?
"As expected of Beelzebub, one of the Seven Kings known as Gluttony! Since you want Odin to taste the pain of losing a son, why not just take action yourself and leave this suicidal Thor in Hell!"
"Hehe, Lilith, Odin is about to fall into Ragnarök. According to the characteristics of the Aesir, his power is currently at its peak. I don't want to provoke a dying God King. You are the progenitor of the vampire race, the Lord of the Infernal Realm. Absorbing the blood and divinity of this Aesir would be no less a benefit to you than controlling the authority of this Abyss!"
"Instead of starting an Abyssal Blood War with me here, fighting over Mephisto's authority, why don't you devour this little guy!"
"Beelzebub, you don't want to provoke the dying Odin, do you think I'm foolish enough to provoke him!" A female voice that stirred the blood rang out.
After Lilith finished speaking, the two Hell Lords who ruled several layers of the Abyss fell silent.
An ancient voice suddenly sounded in the moonlight at this moment: "A little guy who hasn't reached Skyfather level, we don't need to take action ourselves. Since it's an Abyssal Blood War, let's use the blood of this little guy from Asgard to decide the outcome. Whichever Hell Lord's demons can kill him, the authority of this layer of the Abyss will belong to them!"
"Alright! I have no opinion."
"Then let's listen to the Old Demonic Dragon!"
"Lilith, you've been in slumber for three hundred blood moon years, I've missed you terribly!" A voice that sounded very greasy joined the conversation.
Hearing this voice, Lilith looked utterly disgusted, as if she had stepped out in high heels and trod in a pile of stinking dog shit: "Asmodeus, how did you, this lecherous worm, end up here?"
"Of course, it's because, like you, I'm interested in the legacy left behind by that old devil, Mephisto!" As soon as the mysterious existence named Asmodeus finished speaking...
...in the sky of the Abyssal Blood War Battlefield, another blood moon rose, representing another Hell Lord and the Abyss behind them joining this blood war.
Perhaps because they had received the order from the Great Lord behind them, countless demons swarmed and pounced towards Thor.
Thor, holding Stormbreaker in one hand, swung Mjolnir, which he had summoned from who knows where, in the other.
He rapidly flew towards the center of the nuclear blast. Facing the demons who dared to obstruct him, he swung Stormbreaker in his hand, and the boundless lightning he summoned directly submerged swathes of demons.
At Lake Heart Island Manor, seeing the corpses of warriors like the Hundred-Armed Giant being desecrated, Thor had long been filled with suppressed rage towards these demons. Because he had to support Scott, he only came to Hell to help after seeing Dr. Pym meet his daughter and confirming that Tang Song was a good person.
(End of chapter)