Chapter 473
A simple sentence to summarize it – Death and her little purple simp.
Thanos was deeply in love with the Goddess of Death, but the Goddess of Death disdained Thanos's love. For Thanos, as long as it was something that could please his Goddess, he would do it without hesitation. However, a simp's self-pity would never be reciprocated! For example, the very classic story of Thanos collecting the six Infinity Stones throughout the Universe and embedding them in the Infinity Gauntlet. Finally, the Infinity Gauntlet snapped, and Thanos eliminated half of the Universe's life for the Goddess of Death. But even after doing this much, the Goddess of Death still ignored Thanos and was not moved in the slightest.
Another example is in a certain Parallel Universe, where Thanos, knowing that eliminating half of the Universe's life couldn't move the Goddess of Death, chose a more long-term plan. He wanted to live, to keep killing, until he had slaughtered all the Gods in the entire Universe.
So, the Thanos in that Universe, in his own Universe Space-Time, truly slaughtered all life, even keeping the Hulk by his side like a dog and treating Ghost Rider as a Subordinate.
After a great battle with the Silver Surfer and the Cosmic Bug Race, Thanos finally summoned his younger self from the past Space-Time. The younger Thanos and Thanos fought a great battle, and eventually, he truly slaughtered until only the younger Thanos remained in this Universe. Only then did the younger Thanos understand Thanos's plan. Thanos wanted to offer the Goddess of Death a Universe completely devoid of life, including himself who was in this Universe—
He really... I'm dying here...
If Bruce Wayne, lost in the Soul Realm constructed by the Soul Stone, were to witness the madness of Thanos in that Parallel Universe, he would undoubtedly try every method to send Thanos to Arkham Asylum to be brothers with the Joker.
Thanos is the big brother, the eternal King in the deck of cards, I said it—Batman!
Thanos couldn't understand why he had given everything for Death, yet she ignored him and actually liked a disfigured, damn Earth Mutant! In envy, jealousy, and hatred, Thanos, who had transformed into a purple Minotaur, erupted with powerful Cosmic Energy from his eyes, hands, and even his entire body. Deadpool and everything around him were instantly reduced to dust under this powerful Cosmic Energy.
Under Thanos's attack, Deadpool's body was nearly 99% destroyed. Only his head was protected by a Golden Lotus flower, narrowly escaping the calamity.
"My blade! My Ten Thousand Spirits Immortal Slaying Blade, the blade I bought on loan! Frank, I won't let you off!"
Deadpool watched helplessly as the two Ten Thousand Spirits Immortal Slaying Blades were destroyed into two clumps of dust by the Cosmic Energy light waves emitted from Thanos's eyes. If he hadn't only had his head left, he would have probably stomped his foot and cursed loudly in heartache.
Looking at Deadpool's crippled body, which had only half a head left but was still rapidly recovering, Thanos grinned, revealing a chilling smile.
An undying body, huh? That suited his intentions perfectly. Since he wouldn't die, he wouldn't be able to see Death again.
He decided to imprison this guy, so he could never have an audience with Death again.
Thanos clenched his fist, and the Reality Stone inside his Infinity Gauntlet flashed with red light. Just as Thanos was about to use the Reality Stone's ability, "Clang clang—" a fiery red chain was whipped out from behind Thanos, wrapping around his waist.
Boom—
The moment the Hellfire touched Thanos, it was as if he had been drenched in gasoline. The flames instantly soared over ten meters high, and Thanos himself instantly turned into a human form torch.
"Johnny, nice job!"
Deadpool, who had just regrown his upper body, gave a thumbs-up from afar to the Ghost Rider who had thrown the fire chain. However, the hand he extended was as tender and soft as that of a newborn baby, pitifully small! Before Deadpool's praise finished, a dark red light shot directly out from the center of that torch. The Hellfire was instantly blown away, turning into hundreds of clumps of firelight.
Thanos shrugged, shook off the remaining Hellfire on his body, and turned his gaze towards Ghost Rider.
"Very domineering flames, but they're far from enough to hurt me!"
Thanos grabbed the magic tool chain that bound him with both hands. The Reality Stone on his Right Hand Infinity Gauntlet shot out a red light. He smoothed his hands over the chain, and the Hellfire, which could burn anything, instantly extinguished upon contact with this red light.
Rip—
Ghost Rider's Soul Locking Chain, forged in Heavenly Soldier Valley from the essence of five metals and abyssal demonic metal, was snapped into several pieces by Thanos.
"Sinner! I see endless sin on you. You must be punished. Look into my eyes!"
His beloved weapon destroyed, Ghost Rider was enraged. He rushed in front of Thanos, and as his upper and lower jaw opened and closed, two black holes seemed to appear in the eye sockets of the white bone skeleton—
"The power of soul judgment! Then I'd like to see how many souls you can judge!!"
Thanos felt the domineering aura of Ghost Rider's Eye of Judgment. He let out a muffled roar, accompanied by an orange light shooting out from Thanos's hand—
Wherever Ghost Rider's eyes passed, he suddenly saw countless void souls floating before him. The sheer number of these souls was so great that his Eye of Judgment even froze.
There was no other way; the number of those souls was simply too immense. These were the souls of life forms killed by the Soul Stone's power since the beginning of the Universe... These souls numbered far more than tens of trillions—
In the Tang Family's Heavenly Court's plan, Ghost Rider Johnny's position was not low. Due to the nature of the Spirit of Vengeance's power within his body, he was highly likely to become one of the Ten Kings of Hell in the Netherworld, the first Judge of the Netherworld, and possibly even advance further.
But facing these souls that could fill half of the Milky Way Galaxy, let alone Ghost Rider, even Tang Song, this "God," would have to frown for a few minutes.
These souls devoured by the Soul Stone were dissolved by its power, but their essence was the same as Kane's tiger ghost. To snatch these souls from the Soul Stone's hands, or to interfere with or judge these souls.
This was undoubtedly a direct attack on the Soul Stone—
Attacking an Innate Spiritual Treasure formed by rules, even if Tang Song himself came, he wouldn't dare to be so bold!
Large swathes of souls turned into sculptures under Johnny's Eye of Judgment, while he himself was gradually being invaded by the orange light—
Inside the Soul Stone, a scale composed of orange light rose. On one side of the scale, a soul body with two souls in one body was placed, while the other side of the scale was constantly adding bargaining chips.
And those bargaining chips were the souls that Johnny was continuously judging! As Johnny continuously judged numerous souls, the scale inside the Soul Stone also began to tilt little by little.
"Johnny! Wake up!"
Frank watched as the Hellfire surrounding Johnny's entire body gradually extinguished. In his great haste, he swung his Dark Gold Great Staff even more densely with both hands!
He used the Myriad Transformation Divine Ability taught by Tang Song, transforming into thousands of clones, each holding a staff, surrounding Thanos and beating him mercilessly.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!—"
Thanos's eyes emitted powerful Cosmic Energy. Wherever the light waves passed, the surrounding figures of Frank exploded and shattered, turning into wisps of red hair burning with red flames that scattered.
However, under Frank's overwhelming offensive, Thanos was caught off guard and was hit squarely by Frank's true body with two strikes.
The two heavy swings of the Dark Gold Great Staff landed solidly, causing Thanos to directly spit out a mouthful of blood.
Thanos was truly angered by Frank's two strikes. He simply raised his Right Hand and fiercely blasted forward. A purple light wave exited Thanos's Right Fist, instantly transforming into a tidal wave of purple light that swept forward.
The purple light wave swept through, turning all matter in front of it, including the spaceships, warships, the stone steps transformed by the Reality Stone, the blood river that surrounded the Void Throne, and the blood sea, into the most basic particles under this purple light wave.
Just as the radiance of the Power Stone was about to engulf Frank, a blood shadow figure appeared before Frank, waving his hand to draw out a blood river...
"Sizzle..."
The moment the origin light wave emitted by the Power Stone touched the eight-hundred-mile-wide blood river.
The blood river instantly boiled. Under this powerful and vigorous strength, the blood water within the blood river, along with large swathes of blood shadows, evaporated like boiling water vapor.
Large swathes evaporated, and in just a moment, the eight-hundred-mile blood river was completely evaporated.
*Slap!* Hela looked at her shattered sleeve, then glanced at Frank's disappearing figure in the distance, turned, took a step, and vanished from the Reality Dimension.
"Help!"
Deadpool, who had just regrown his legs, looked up and saw a spaceship with an energy barrier activated silently turn into dust before him. This scene instantly scared the living daylights out of him.
He didn't dare to gamble whether his undying body would still be useful after being shattered into such tiny pieces!
Just as the purple light was about to engulf Deadpool, a thick blood shadow appeared out of nowhere, grabbed him by the back of his neck, and the next second, dragged him into The Void.
Deadpool shrugged, opened his eyes, and saw the tall, mature woman's figure before him. He reached up to wipe the sweat from his forehead and patted his chest, saying, "Big Sister Hela! You saved me!"
The blood shadow that had grabbed Deadpool turned into a blood mist and merged into Hela's body. Hela frowned and glanced at Deadpool: "Ignorant and incompetent. Haven't you even mastered spatial gate spell?"
Hearing Hela's displeased tone, Deadpool quickly lowered his head and said nothing more. He didn't dare to explain to Hela that when the Tang Group Higher-ups went to Kamar-Taj to train in spatial gate spell.
He had secretly snuck off to the bar to party for several days and nights.
Deadpool had a deep understanding of Hela's ruthlessness. Although he had an undying body, sometimes having an undying body wasn't necessarily a good thing.
Deadpool remembered one time when he spoke carelessly, joking with Thor using Earth's Norse mythology history, saying that according to Loki's mythology history on Earth, he was Odin's sworn brother and Hela's father—
For some reason, these words reached Hela's ears. Then Hela ordered someone to send him an iron coffin and directly had people throw him in to stay for three days.
Staying in that pitch black, sunless iron coffin where even a fart was clearly audible for three days, Deadpool was almost driven mad!
He bit off his own tongue, used the severed tongue to block his windpipe, and suffocated himself to death, just to pass a few minutes of time.
In three days, he could say he had mastered numerous suicide methods. Biting through the wrists of his own hands! Pointing his powerful index finger at his temple and giving himself a poke.
Twisting his own throat... In three days, he committed suicide over a dozen times. Only then did Deadpool manage to avoid suffering from claustrophobia.
Long after the matter had passed, Deadpool heard from Thor that according to Hela's original idea, she wanted to lock him directly in this specially made magic tool coffin and throw him In the Sea for three years to reflect.
Later, Boss Tang heard about it and stopped her behavior, saving him from the fate of becoming deep sea fish food.
From then on, Deadpool could be said to fear Hela like a tiger, and at the same time, he no longer relied so much on his undying body!
At least not like before, using his undying body to act recklessly without restraint.
Obedient as a shrinking quail, Deadpool hung his head there.
Behind him, The Void broke open, and a crimson figure flew out, carrying a man.
"Johnny, he's gone!" Frank's complexion was very bad. In his hands, Johnny's body had lost its breathing.
Hela's gaze swept over Johnny's corpse. At this moment, the Johnny held by Frank had shed his Ghost Rider form and returned to the appearance of that normal Middle-Aged Man.
Due to the Goddess of Death's divine office, Hela could tell at a glance that Johnny had indeed become a corpse, and even his soul had disappeared.
"Where is his soul?"
"It was devoured by that orange light, it's the power of the Soul Stone!"
Frank shook his head, his expression solemn: "I used over ten kinds of soul summoning magic arts, but I couldn't find Johnny's soul!"
"His name is recorded by Tang in his Circulatory Heaven Immortal Registry. He won't die so easily!"
Hela tried several times but also failed to retrieve Johnny's soul. She shook her head and said.
"Hohohoho—"
Purple light shot out from Thanos's hand. Wherever his gaze fell, everything around him was being destroyed by the light waves emitted by the Power Stone.
A white figure stood in The Void, quietly watching the smug Thanos.
A large black flag fluttered behind him...
On the flag surface was an Innate Demonic God with a dragon head and human form, whose eyes contained the sun and moon.
The All-Heaven Dark Lord Banner fluttered in the wind, and streaks of black line disappeared into The Void...
In The Void, it seemed as if hundreds of millions of spirits of the dead were flying, entering the All-Heaven Dark Lord Banner along the black lines.
The soul impact unleashed by the tragic deaths of a large number of living beings caused the banner of the All-Heaven Dark Lord Banner to rustle loudly.
The towering resentment even condensed into a mass of visible black energy swirling under the banner.
The pitch black Underworld King Flag flew out with a dense demonic qi, swallowing the souls and the resentment emitted by countless living beings before their deaths in one gulp.
Having swallowed so many souls and negative forces in one go, the luster of the All-Heaven Dark Lord Banner's flag surface became even richer, and black light almost flowed down from the flag surface.
(End of chapter)