Chapter 370: Hunt and Intrusion
The reason she was interested in the two of them fighting was purely because she was incredibly bored staying in Most High Heaven, didn't want to listen to her uncle nag, and unlike Superman (nickname Big Chao), she wasn't interested in Gonggong's exquisite combat technique.
Watching the two exchange sword and great halberd blows, Elaine Belloc, who quickly grew bored, covered her mouth and gave a yawn. Her eyes swept across the scene, and she saw the blood-colored light pillar extending out from the World Membrane.
Her body flickered, and she teleported to the edge of the World Membrane. With some curiosity, she poked the light pillar with her finger, then poked the murky yellow World Membrane.
As the current de facto power holder of Most High Heaven, and one of the few multiversal-level existences in the entire DC Universe, Elaine Belloc naturally knew what lay outside the World Membrane.
That was a Chaos Sea. Material, Space, Time, everything from all Reality World was annihilated in this Chaos Sea. Just like the Chaos Void beneath her foot, it was merely the aura of the Chaos Sea permeating through the membrane. It was this diluted chaos aura that resulted in the DC Universe's border having no Parallel Universe.
If the Material World was considered land, then the chaos outside was truly an Ocean without borders. According to Elaine Belloc's understanding, no existence from any Material World could last long in the chaos tides.
Just like a land creature, no matter how good its swimming technique, cannot live In the Sea for long.
"An existence from outside the Universe?"
Elaine Belloc's fingertip condensed a ball of blue light. Under her strength, the blood-colored light pillar she touched, the spiritual energy forming the Spirit Rune Restriction, decomposed into the most basic atomic form in the Universe.
Elaine Belloc drew a line across the blood-colored light pillar with her fingertip. A blue portal immediately appeared on the blood-colored light pillar, which had left the Hell Demon Gods helpless.
Elaine Belloc stepped into the blood-colored light pillar in a single stride.
Tang Song's thought clone, who was presiding over the Great Blood Sea Blood Lotus Formation, was originally sitting leisurely in a rocking chair with a backrest, watching the Ancestral Witch True Forms conjured by the Twelve Dutian Nether King Banners gang up on Lucifer and another pointed-eared demon with flame-like hair inside the Sacrificial Channel.
Zhurong, Xuanming, Dijiang, and the other eleven Ancestral Magi, excluding Gonggong, all transformed into true bodies hundreds of meters tall, holding weapons, surrounding the two demons who were a thousand meters tall, engaging in fierce fighting.
In this great sacrifice that devoured tens of millions of Parademons and nearly ten Hell Demon Gods' flesh and blood essence, one-third of the sacrificial offerings were fed by Tang Song to the Nether King Banner.
However, considering that ten birds in the forest are not as good as one in hand, Tang Song fed most of the flesh and blood essence from these sacrificial offerings to the Gonggong True Form and Zhurong True Form.
Therefore, among the eleven Ancestral Magi, only the Zhurong True Form, who stepped on two fire dragons, had a beast head and human body, and had two fire snakes piercing his ears, was relatively solid. Holding the flame halberd, he was attacking Lucifer and the First of the Fallen.
As for Ancestral Witch True Forms like Xuanming, Dijiang, and Houtu, their forms were illusory, at most recovering to Nascent Soul Strength. However, these Ancestral Witch True Forms each had their own abilities. After forming a formation, they could also fight the two top Skyfather-level Demon King of Hell to a draw.
Of course, strictly speaking, this wasn't a gang-up, but a melee. While Lucifer and the First of the Fallen dealt with the attacks from the surrounding Ancestral Magi, the two of them also seized opportunities to engage in fierce fighting against each other.
Lucifer had just raised his sword to parry the Zhurong True Form's flame halberd when, unexpectedly, the First of the Fallen behind him seized the chance. He took a bone whip strike from the Xuanming Ancestral Witch head-on, even though it tore his skin and flesh.
The First of the Fallen, however, took the opportunity to extend his demon foot, which resembled a lamb's hoof, and delivered an extremely vulgar, fierce kick to Lucifer's lower body. Lucifer, who was currently being surrounded by the Zhurong, Dijiang, and Shebishi Ancestral Witch True Forms, had to take the Zhurong's flame halberd head-on on one side, while also guarding against the Dijiang's sneak attack, who was unmatched in speed and shuttled through the formation space. Exhausted from dealing with this, he completely failed to notice the First of the Fallen's sneak attack and took the kick squarely.
"Hiss!"
The crowd watching, including many men like Tang Song, looked at Lucifer's face, twisted to the point of deformation, and almost all drew a sharp breath in empathy.
"What kind of deep-seated hatred do they have for each other!"
This Blood Sacrifice Channel was at most just over a hundred kilometers. The conflict between the thirteen Giant Creature was like thirteen Mountain Peak, completely filling the passage space. However, fortunately, the formation space within the Great Blood Sea Formation contained myriad phenomena, with countless layers of space intertwined. Although the clash of these Giant Creature seemed to be right before their eyes, it was separated by hundreds or thousands of layers of space barriers.
Thor watched the scene of the First of the Fallen attacking Lucifer with a pained expression. Judging by their appearance, these two Demon King of Hell should be on the same side. Being surrounded and still trying to kill each other made Thor suspicious if this red-skinned guy with twelve pairs of black wings had stolen the other's wife.
"Before Lucifer's fall to Hell, the First of the Fallen was the leader of Hell, ruling Hell under the name of Satan. Later, Lucifer fell, defeated the First of the Fallen, and seized the title of Satan from him!" John Constantine explained the secrets within the DC Universe and Hell to the crowd.
Hell is not as chaotic as the Human World imagines. Hell also has its order, and even its unique currency.
The common currency of Hell is souls. Living beings or other creatures with emotion sign contracts with demons through rituals to obtain power, wealth, etc. After their death, their souls belong to that demon. There are even institutions in Hell for appraising the value of souls and institutions for trading souls.
In the Marvel Universe, every Demon Lord and Hell Lord claims to be Satan to their followers, but no one sits on the throne of Satan in the various Hell Dimension because doing so would provoke attacks from other Hell Lord.
The DC Universe is different. In the DC Universe, Satan is also a position and identity, the Ruler of Hell.
In the DC Universe, Satan is also called the Demon King. The Satan of the DC Universe has not only undergone multiple changes, but there are often situations where three people jointly hold the position of Satan, adopting a tripartite ruling method.
The first Satan was the First of the Fallen. He was the first creature created in the Universe, God's partner and the incarnation of His conscience.
However, he soon began to think God was a madman, so he was banished from Heaven to Hell by God, becoming the first Fallen One. This is also the origin of the First of the Fallen's name.
In Hell, the First of the Fallen became Satan, the Ruler of Hell. But after Lucifer came to Hell, he seized the throne of Satan. Because of this struggle for the throne, the First of the Fallen and Lucifer became Rival.
"Lucifer!" Thor scratched his head, looking at the man Constantine called Lucifer. He had once seen the Marvel World's Lucifer during the Hell Blood War in the Marvel World. Aside from the twelve pairs of black wings on their backs, the two had not a single point of similarity in appearance.
Furthermore, the Lucifer he saw in the Hell Blood War had even more black wings on his back... Lucifer was sneak attacked by the First of the Fallen, and his face was twisted to the extreme in severe pain. Although angels are described as sexless existences, with no distinction between male and female, influenced by their respective personalities, both the Four Great Archangels of Heaven and Lucifer, this fallen angel, habitually transform into the gender they are most comfortable with.
For example, Lucifer, when he appears in the Mortal Realm, often incarnates as a male. Therefore, even when he reverts to his true demonic form, he habitually retains certain male characteristics on his body.
The First of the Fallen's full-strength strike in this sneak attack directly left Lucifer utterly devastated, in extreme severe pain. This was not just physical body damage.
The flames attached to the First of the Fallen's lamb hoof spread along Lucifer's lower body. Wherever the flames flickered, the space structure seemed to slowly slide down like melted toffee. Just thinking about it, one could know what kind of mentality the First of the Fallen held with this strike.
Strike him while he's down. While Lucifer was injured, a pair of crimson strange claws extended from the space behind Lucifer, directly grabbing towards Lucifer's back.
Zhurong raised his flame halberd and chopped directly at Lucifer's face. Lucifer simultaneously raised his sword to parry the Zhurong Ancestral Witch's flame halberd, while his black wings behind him emitted balls of black energy, blasting towards the back.
Thousands of energy balls, each equivalent to a Human World tactical nuclear weapon, were about to blast onto Dijiang's body when Dijiang spread his flesh wings behind him, instantly vanishing from behind Lucifer. When he reappeared, he was already above Lucifer's head, suddenly like an eagle seizing a rabbit, his twin claws grabbing towards Lucifer's heavenly spirit.
Lucifer swung the longsword in his hand, blasting the Zhurong Ancestral Witch True Form through four or five space barriers.
Seeing the strange claws looking ferocious, and the cold wind howling above his head with fierce momentum, Lucifer quickly swung his sword upwards.
But how could Lucifer know that Dijiang had always been known for his speed among the Twelve Ancestral Magi? Even though the Dijiang True Form visualized by Tang Song didn't have a high cultivation base, his attack speed was astonishingly fast.
Just now, Lucifer was able to repel Dijiang by using the energy balls transformed from the wings behind him for firepower coverage. Now, his Cross Skull Sword in hand had just been raised, and before the sword qi could burst forth, he took a claw strike. Several bloodstains appeared on his face, and golden stars burst before his eyes.
"Roar!"
Furious, Lucifer swung his sword and slashed at the Dijiang True Form. However, after successfully landing a strike, Dijiang had long since fled far away, coming and going like lightning, leaving Lucifer's sword strike to hit nothing.
Zhurong, holding the flame halberd, stepped forward, facing Lucifer on the other side. Jumang, Rushou, Xuanming, Zhulong, and other Ancestral Magi, however, joined forces to face the First of the Fallen.
Just now, the First of the Fallen took a whip from the Xuanming Ancestral Witch head-on to sneak attack Lucifer, suffering some minor injuries. Although the cultivation base of the several Ancestral Witch True Forms was far inferior to the First of the Fallen, they essentially had no physical form. A trace of their true spirit was anchored in the Twelve Dutian Nether King Banners. As long as the Nether King Banners were not destroyed, these Ancestral Witch True Forms would be immortal and indestructible.
As the most ancient Hell Demon God, the First of the Fallen chanted unknown ancient magic. Black mist rose, Curse Techniques, Demon Summoning Techniques, various ancient magic were cast effortlessly.
Pitch black demonic fire, heavy as a mountain, permeated around him. The demonic fire surged, gales of fire roared, blood arrows shot out wildly. For a time, the First of the Fallen actually suppressed the several great Ancestral Magi, preventing them from getting close.
The Zhurong Ancestral Witch True Form fought at the front, while Dijiang harassed with his extremely fast speed. Due to the vast disparity in strength between the two sides, the two of them were unable to defeat Lucifer, who possessed top Skyfather-level Strength.
Facing the Dijiang True Form, who was extremely fast in speed, Lucifer learned his lesson after suffering several times. On one hand, he used the wings behind him to unleash countless black energy light balls for firepower coverage.
On the other hand, he also chanted ancient Hell magic in his mouth: Anti-Air, Slow, Weakness, Curse, Severe Poison. Strange, colorful magic appeared around his entire body like mist.
The force of a curse cast by a Demon King of Hell was such that even the two great Ancestral Witch True Forms, Dijiang and Zhurong, had a headache from it.
Zhurong, afflicted by the Weakness Curse, felt his hand go limp. With a sound, the flame halberd in his palm was cut into two by the edge of Lucifer's Cross Skull Sword. Dijiang quickly pierced through several layers of space, trying to hold off Lucifer. However, after being contaminated by the several layers of stacked magic curses around Lucifer, which were like gray mist,
His body instantly felt as if it had sunk into a quagmire. Facing the longsword Lucifer chopped down with, he couldn't dodge in time. He was struck on the arm by Lucifer's sword, and with another sword strike, Lucifer directly decapitated him.
Dijiang's body immediately dissipated like mist.
A Nether King Banner in front of Tang Song fluttered in the wind. The six-legged, four-winged Ancestral Witch on it let out an angry roar. The Nether King Banner rustled, and the Dijiang True Form immediately leaped out from the flag surface the next moment.
With a flap of his four wings, he instantly leaped behind Lucifer again. His two claws once more grabbed towards the back of Lucifer's head.
Lucifer had just dealt with the troublesome enemy with a single strike and hadn't been happy for long when he felt wind behind his head. He turned and swung his sword to chop.
Rip!
His sword edge squarely struck the Dijiang True Form. Dijiang's two claws were directly chopped off by him, but the sword edge in his hand was also clamped by the Dijiang True Form's other four claws.
Just as Lucifer wanted to pull out his sword, the Shebishi Ancestral Witch True Form, who had been silent and without any sense of existence, with a beast body, human face, and two azure serpents hanging from his earlobes, appeared before Lucifer and opened his mouth to exhale.
A trace of Yin Wind Corpse Qi blew out from Shebishi's mouth. It blew out very gently and calmly.
Wherever that gust of Yin Wind Corpse Qi reached, it brushed past Lucifer's body, wherever it passed, bone and flesh turned to mud, and all vitality in the body structure was completely extinguished.
Lucifer only felt severe pain in his body. He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of crimson-gold blood. Not just from his mouth, but blood water also sprayed out from his nostrils, eyes, and ears.
Lucifer watched with his own eyes as one of his calves instantly turned into a thin, grayish-white bone pillar. Then, that bone pillar also turned into ash and dissipated. Lucifer was instantly terrified out of his wits! After becoming a Demon King of Hell, how many years had it been since his body suffered even a little damage? Especially this kind of death crisis.
Lucifer immediately let go of the longsword in his hand, spread his wings behind him, and while rapidly fleeing from Shebishi's attack, he continuously cast hundreds of the most powerful protective magic on himself. However, Lucifer had forgotten where this was. This was not Hell, nor the Material World. This was the Great Blood Sea Formation.
Lucifer flapped his twelve pairs of wings behind him, feeling as though he had traversed hundreds of locations in space. But the next moment, he was teleported by Tang Song's formation at the center of the Altar to stand before Shebishi.
This time, it was the Zhurong Ancestral Witch who made a move. As the ancestor of playing with flames, the Zhurong Ancestral Witch True Form's ability to control flames could be said to be unmatched in the world. He swung the flame halberd in his hand.
Lucifer, injured by the Yin Wind Corpse Qi, felt a sourness in his seven orifices. Greenish Yin Fire violently rushed out from his mouth, nostrils, eyes, and ears, as if countless joyful cannibal ants were crawling and moving on his body.
Every trace of Yin Fire that swept past his body, his hard scales did not suffer the slightest damage, but the flesh and blood beneath his skin was burned into ash little by little by the Yin Fire.
The Twelve Ancestral Magi represent not only the peak physical body combat strength of the Jambudvīpa World, but they are also the incarnations of twelve types of Power of Rules: Time, Space, Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Poison. In another battlefield, the Time Ancestral Witch Zhulong controlled the time change within the Blood Sacrifice Channel, lengthening the time the First of the Fallen spent chanting his spell.
He didn't change much, only lengthening the original time by two finger-snaps. For Ordinary Person, two finger-snaps pass in an instant. But at this level of combat, one finger-snap is twenty instants, one instant contains twenty thoughts, one thought contains ninety kshanas, and one kshana contains nine million births and deaths.
Two finger-snaps were enough for the Houtu Ancestral Witch to convert the spiritual energy within this Sacrificial Channel into heavy mountains and Earth Vein, transforming into invisible great mountains, pressing down on the First of the Fallen's head.
While Tang Song controlled the formation, tying up the hands and feet of the two Demon King of Hell, he simultaneously extended his consciousness outside the Sacrificial Channel, paying attention to the situation with the Gonggong True Form.
Just then, his look suddenly changed. He detected that the Blood Sea Sacrificial Channel had suddenly been violently opened, and a wisp of aura that made his face turn pale suddenly emerged.
"Damn it! We've hooked a Shark!"
Tang Song felt this powerful aura. He, who had always appeared calm and collected, couldn't help but curse directly.
"Beep Beep Beep Beep—"
The piercing alarm sound rang out in the Camp set up by the Justice League and the Avengers. Tony Stark's smart plano glasses suddenly flashed red at this moment. "The Quantum Tunnel is clear! Hurry up, let's get out of here!"
Tony Stark flicked his finger. The helmet on his armor immediately projected a set of data. The Ant-Man Suit reconnected to the location of the Quantum Tunnel.
"Gather everyone, quick, quick, quick! Get them inside!"
Tony Stark rapidly assembled a simple enclosed structure, only a dozen meters long and wide, on the ground using his nano-modules. "Tony, are you sure this method will work?"
Dr. Banner looked at the building, which was as big as a Briefcase, in front of him with a suspicious look.
"I've done experiments. Theoretically, as long as their heads aren't exposed outside, they won't be crushed! And, compared to falling into the hands of those Hell Demons, I believe they'd rather take their chances!"
Facts proved Tony Stark was right. The hundreds of people in the Camp had long been terrified out of their wits by those demons, blood mist, and the massive Giant. Now that they had a chance to escape,
they almost scrambled over each other, wanting to escape and squeezed into the thin sheet-metal house.
As the last person, Bruce Wayne, walked into the house, Tony Stark directly used Pym Particles to shrink the nano sheet-metal house to Briefcase size and carried it in his hand.
Then, after exchanging glances with the other Avengers, he directly pressed the switch on the Ant-Man Suit, allowing himself to enter the Subatomic State and enter the Quantum Tunnel.
Meanwhile, the two Demon King of Hell, Lucifer and the First of the Fallen, who were in a life and death crisis, also sensed that a breach had appeared in this barrier.
The two almost simultaneously forced back their Rival and rushed towards the direction of the breach.
Elaine Belloc, meanwhile, had just walked into this space. Feeling the Space and Time rules within, which were completely different from the DC Universe, she muttered softly, "A very interesting place."
(End of chapter)