# Chapter 476: Thanos's Death, The Battle for the Gems
Just like needing to sacrifice one's beloved to obtain the Soul Stone, the other Infinity Stones also have strict limitations and backlashes. To wear the crown, one must bear its weight.
An Ordinary Person, let alone using them, would be met with a backlash from the Stone's power just by touching a Raw Stone.
The most intuitive example is the Power Stone. When this gemstone first appeared, it directly blew up more than half of The Collector Tivan's Treasury, causing hundreds of millions of years of his effort to be wasted. And this was merely because Tivan's Maid wanted to touch this Raw Stone, hoping to use its power to escape from Tivan, that pervert.
But she underestimated the Power Stone and overestimated herself.
After all, even with Star-Lord's demigod physique, he still needed the other members of the Guardians of the Galaxy to share the burden to withstand the energy overflowing from the Power Stone.
Ronan, as a member of the Kree Empire's Supreme Accuser, also needed his Warhammer (a universal weapon crafted by the Kree Empire with the full might of their civilization) to barely control the Power Stone's raging energy.
Thanos's Strength was formidable enough. His Eternal Titan Body granted him insurmountable strength, endurance, healing factor, and agility.
His skin was nearly indestructible, especially against cold, heat, electricity, radiation, poison, aging, and disease. He could survive without eating or drinking anything.
His Spirit was also nearly invincible, granting him immunity to most mental attacks. It could be said that Thanos was one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe.
This was also the reason he could control the Infinity Stones!
In a Future Timeline of another Parallel Universe, Hulk Dr. Banner snapped his fingers. Despite his physical quality, the overflowing energy of the six Infinity Stones directly crippled one of his arms.
And the other guy who snapped the Infinity Stones directly ended his own life and the Marvel Hero Universe!
As for Thanos, in the Parallel Universe, the Thanos who fell beneath Thor's Stormbreaker directly used the power of the six Infinity Stones to clash against each other, destroying these six Raw Stones.
And under such circumstances, he actually withstood the power of the six Infinity Stones and survived. This shows the immense strength of the Eternal Titan race's physical body.
Or rather, it is evident how formidable Thanos, this Cosmic Overlord, truly is.
However, this does not mean he can use the power of the Infinity Stones arbitrarily without any backlash impact.
The reason he could control the Infinity Stones in his hand so recklessly was, firstly, due to the Infinity Gauntlet he held. This Gauntlet was specifically designed by him to master the Infinity Stones. Only by wearing this Gauntlet could he fully unleash the power of the Infinity Stones while minimizing the damage they inflicted upon him.
This is like being able to recklessly attack an enemy with electrified tongs after putting on fireproof, insulated gloves.
However, even the sturdiest gloves have a time when they wear out. Moreover, this insulated glove only slowed down the energy impact of the Infinity Stones; it didn't achieve one hundred percent isolation.
Even Thanos felt some pressure after repeatedly using the power of the Infinity Stones. Even with Thanos's Strength, simultaneously using the power of three Infinity Stones was a considerable burden on his body.
Therefore, while using the Power Stone, Thanos would correspondingly reduce his control over the Reality Stone. Of course, snapping his fingers was another matter entirely. This is like a weightlifting competition versus using a hundred-pound great staff in a street fight – you can imagine which is more strenuous.
While using the Power Stone to bombard the Zhu Yan Ape that had launched a sneak attack, Thanos was completely unaware that a Manipulator was quietly approaching the back of his head.
Back when the Hell Abyss was competing for the title of Lord of Hell, symbolized by Satan, the Old Demon Dragon led a group of his descendants to stir up trouble everywhere, ambushing people, and robbing them while masked—
During that time, the wealth in his dragon lair increased by more than ten times. If not for his truly formidable Strength, he would have been skinned and had his tendons pulled out by the victims working together long ago.
One must know that among the Old Demon Dragon's victims were beings like the Seven Lords of Hell. According to hearsay, even Lucifer had been ambushed by the Old Demon Dragon.
When it came to ambushing, the Old Demon Dragon was a professional—
That gold whip traveled through the Spatial Rift between reality and the Dimensional Realm, appearing silently at the back of Thanos's head. Even as the Old Demon Dragon swung the gold whip down, the heavy whip made no sound until it landed on Thanos's head.
By the time Thanos became aware, the golden dragon formed by the gold whip in the Old Demon Dragon's hand, with its golden, shining four-edged claws, swept down with a crash, instantly enveloping the Space within an area of several mu.
The claws were ferocious, fast as lightning. The barrier propped up by the Void Throne instantly scattered into a large shower of sparks.
"Bang!" The Old Demon Dragon smashed down with a whip. After the heavy gold whip shattered the barrier propped up by the Void Throne, it slammed onto the back of Thanos's head with a bang, directly causing him to stumble and fall forward.
Compared to Odin, this wasn't because Thanos was weak!
It was because the Wutu Mountain Driving Whip in the Old Demon Dragon's hand was truly formidable. This gold whip was formed by condensing more than a dozen streams of the essence qi of earth veins, refined from true True Essence of Wu Tu.
The weight of this whip in his hand was equivalent to the combined weight of more than a dozen large mountains. With a single strike, even the power of ordinary Immortal/Deity Magic Treasures could not contend with it.
One must know that in the Jambudvīpa World, a Flying Sword Magic Treasure of slightly better quality, after being empowered and refined by the user with restriction formations, can kill enemies when advancing and protect the body when retreating! However, Magic Treasures like the Five Dings Mountain-Splitting Axe in Kane's hand, the Dark Gold Great Staff in Frank's hand, and the Ten Thousand Spirits Immortal Slaying Blade in Deadpool Wade's hand are all purely physical attack-type Magic Treasures—
Among the few of them, besides Lane, none had the disposition to use defensive Magic Treasures. They weren't very interested in the flags, banners, orbs, bowls, alms bowls, golden lamps, and Sarira that Tang Song refined for them.
Skye and Rogue, however, each had a Flying Sword, and they wore various hairpins and stepped on protective lotus flowers of various colors. The scattered Magic Treasures they carried added up to at least a dozen items.
Their standard for choosing Magic Tools and Magic Treasures was even simpler: they had to look good!
Kane and the others relied on their formidable Divine-Demon Physical Body and Undying Body to charge recklessly. It wasn't until this time that Johnny ran into Thanos, this iron plate. His proud Spirit of Vengeance met its nemesis, the Soul Stone, and he directly gambled his life away! Singularity also means specialization to some extent! While purely physical attack is simple, if the strength of such an attack reaches a certain level, the force it can generate is earth-shattering and invincible!
As the saying goes, One Force Overcomes Ten Skills. In the face of absolute strength, all resistance is futile. Just like the Fan Tian Seal from the ancient times of the Jambudvīpa World, which was considered a Postnatal Supreme Treasure, it was refined by Yuqing Primeval Lord of Heaven from half of the Buzhou Mountain, a pillar of heaven. With a single strike, without any extra abilities, relying solely on its own gravity, it could subvert earth, water, wind, and fire, shatter the heavens and crack the earth, and even break the Void back down into its most primitive chaos.
The gold whip in the Old Demon Dragon's hand was a knockoff version refined by Tang Song, this knockoff Master Yunzhongzi, a Pinduoduo version. Its weight and aggressiveness naturally couldn't compare to the Supreme Treasure personally refined by that Master.
But in the Marvel Universe, apart from those multiversal level powerhouses and a few specific individuals, there really wasn't anyone who could withstand a few whips head-on! Others who encountered an attack-type weapon of this weight, besides retreating far away and dodging, could only use divine artifacts like the Infinity Stones to protect their bodies, meeting strength with strength, and hardness with hardness.
However, the barrier manifested by the Void Throne that Thanos conjured using the Reality Stone was simply unable to withstand the Old Demon Dragon's whip. In terms of damage alone, the Old Demon Dragon's gold whip was even greater than Clark Kent's planet-destroying bomb. Although the planet-destroying bomb's force was indeed great, its damage range was wide, but its strength could not be condensed. If the strength of an entire Asteroid were condensed into a single point, the Old Demon Dragon's Wutu Mountain Driving Whip naturally couldn't compare.
But this strength was dispersed in an explosion over tens of millions of kilometers. When averaged out, the damage to Thanos, who was propping up the Reality Stone's divine power barrier, was limited.
The Old Demon Dragon ambushed Thanos with a surprise blow, knocking him to the ground. Under the gold whip, the helmet of Thanos's Golden Ant-Man suit, which he had simulated using his own battlegear, was directly smashed into a depression by this whip.
Blood continuously flowed down the back of Thanos's neck—
The smell of blood attracted hundreds of blood mist figures nearby, who darted back and forth, seemingly ready to pounce and take a bite at any moment.
Thanos, enduring the severe pain in the back of his head, knelt on one knee in The Void. Feeling the surrounding threat and seeing the bloodlight closing in, he raised his palm, just about to counterattack by mobilizing the power of the Infinity Stones, when a green cloud suddenly appeared from nowhere and enveloped him completely.
Billions of mosquitoes formed the green cloud, swarming into Thanos's body through his wounds and seven orifices. Thanos's Eternal Titan Body was not afraid of most toxins in the World, but it couldn't withstand the hundreds of millions of mosquitoes that came from the Hell Lord, Fly Prince Beelzebub.
Any single one of these plague insects could wipe out a human town if it entered the Human World.
These plague insects, enough to kill Earth's seven billion people a hundred times over, surged into Thanos's body through the wounds on his body.
Thanos felt a chill run from his wounds straight through his entire body. Then his whole body trembled uncontrollably, shaking, and cold sweat broke out on his bald forehead.
"Cough, cough!"
Thanos's throat felt itchy, and he couldn't help but cough repeatedly. An Eternal Titan who had never experienced the feeling of illness before felt uncomfortable all over at this moment.
He could even feel countless cells in his body rapidly and infinitely proliferating!
He struggled to stand up, but at this moment, the hundreds of millions of plague insects were wreaking havoc within him. Humanity's history had seen nearly a thousand different diseases, from minor colds and fevers to major ones like cholera, smallpox, and the plague, as well as various chaotic bone cancers, blood cancers, and leukemia, all erupting within his body.
Although his strong physical body, derived from the Eternal Titan race, prevented him from being taken down by a single wave of these plague insects' attack, and his powerful immune system within had already begun to fight with those plague insects, trying to expel various lesions and viruses from his body.
But the consequence of the immune system fighting with these viruses and cancer cells was that Thanos was completely unable to exert any strength at this moment, turning entirely into a fish on a chopping block.
"Bang!"
The Old Demon Dragon stepped on Thanos's back and whipped him on the head again. This time, half of Thanos's head was directly smashed in. Thanos let out a bellow, and the Power Stone in his right hand emitted a purple light. Just as he was about to turn around and punch the Old Demon Dragon, his muscles suddenly twitched, and his body lost control. He fell heavily forward, landing flat on his face.
Thanos let out a frantic howl from his mouth, stimulated by the feeling of powerlessness in his body! Adhering to the idea of kicking him while he's down, the Old Demon Dragon showed no intention of stopping. He followed up with hundreds more whips, each aimed at the back of Thanos's head, beating Thanos's head until it looked like a watermelon smashed on the ground.
Purple, red, and white exploded in the cold Space. The Overlord who once held deterrence over two Universes had now become a cold, headless corpse in Space.
Frank, who saw this scene from afar, was filled with regret. He regretted that he shouldn't have given up this gold whip back then. If he had known this whip was so powerful, he would have definitely found a method to get this whip from the Boss, no matter what.
What if it was a bit heavy? At worst, he would ask the Boss to think of another method and teach him a magic art for immense strength.
Just as Frank wished he could swallow a bottle of regret medicine,
Near Thanos's corpse, a sudden change occurred—
Countless mosquitoes rushed out from Thanos's corpse, gathering into a green cloud. The green cloud, about an area of a mu, contracted, transforming into a tall, thin human form.
Beelzebub looked at the Infinity Gauntlet on the right hand of Thanos's headless corpse, a glint flashing in his eyes. He bent down and reached out to take the gauntlet.
"Whoosh!"
Beelzebub suddenly felt wind sound behind his head. The next second, his body was heavily blown apart, turning into green fireflies scattered across the sky.
The scattered green mosquitoes and flies flew to the side, rolling and converging towards the center, re-condensing into a human form. Beelzebub stared coldly at the Old Demon Dragon: "Old Demon Dragon, you want to hog it!?"
"Cough, cough!"
The Old Demon Dragon held the Wutu Mountain Driving Whip in his right hand, lightly tapping the four-edged gold whip against his left palm. After two taps, the Old Demon Dragon changed his posture, holding the gold whip low in his hand and quietly placing his severely aching left hand behind his back.
"You can't take this thing! These few Infinity Stones are things that the Big Boss personally requested!"
"Hmm?" Beelzebub sized up this notoriously greedy and lecherous fellow from the Hell Abyss, as if seeing the Old Demon Dragon for the first time today.
"Old Demon Dragon, are you crazy, or have you discovered that you like being someone's dog?! Why didn't I see it before? Do you Demonic Dragon Race have some connection with Cerberus?" After mocking the Old Demon Dragon a couple of times, Beelzebub's gaze fell upon the three shining gemstones on the Infinity Gauntlet on Thanos's right hand, near the Old Demon Dragon's foot. In the depths of his eyeball, his countless compound eyes flashed with naked, greedy gaze:
"Old Demon Dragon, you need to think clearly. These are the Infinity Stones. If we get them, we can break free from the restriction formation set upon us by that guy named Tang! With the power of the Infinity Stones, plus the technology to cross Universes, we can become true Kings of Hell, no, true Kings of the Universe! Lords of the Multiverse!"
(end of chapter)