The Ancient One fell from the sky, looking at the cracked Mephisto, "This guy is still so stubborn."
"I would be surprised if he still dares to come to Earth with his own body to play with." Lu Qi spread his hands and said helplessly.
At this moment, the smell of sulfur came from nowhere, and puffs of smoke seeped in from the surroundings.
"Looks like he's coming." Dark Energy spread violently to all sides, sending all the smoke Oblivion, Lu Qi into Dimensional Demon God Form, watching the surroundings coldly.
"Do you think Mephisto is here in his true form this time?" Dark Energy scattered in all directions, and Lu Qi turned to the Ancient One and asked.
"I don't believe it, that guy is notoriously cunning." The Ancient One also looked around cautiously.
"But keeping guard like this is not an option. I will go and capture Blackheart first. After I gain the authority, I will go directly to Hell Dimension to capture the body of Mephisto and beat him."
Lu Qi nodded, one eye after another lit up around him, and countless Night Bats flew into the sky, hovering in the night.
After the Ancient One left, Lu Qi clearly felt something moving around him, but Night Bats in the air did not respond, which made Lu Qi make some guesses.
Just as I had an idea, a series of wailings sounded around me, and demons emerged from the surroundings and pounced on Lu Qi.
But Lu Qi had no intention of fighting these little minions. A pair of eyes opened, and countless Shadow Ninjas instantly appeared around Lu Qi. The ninja swords in their hands were drawn out in unison, and countless cold lights exploded, slashing at the surrounding demons.
However, the sharp ninja sword passed through the bodies of these demons without causing any damage to these demons.
"Your people can't hurt the hell creatures!" Mephisto's cunning voice came from nowhere, and the vicissitudes of the voice were like a rotten hole in the neck.
"It's just immune to physical attacks. It just so happens that my men have new equipment."
Lu Qi waved his hand, and the ninja sword was stored in the shadows, replaced by weapons engraved with inscriptions. As Shadow Ninjas took it in his hand, black inscriptions lit up, and lightning, frost, and flames shone on them.
Facing the demons around them, Shadow Ninjas launched attacks without hesitation. In front of the enchanted weapons, these demons were immediately defeated and fled in all directions. At Lu Qi's signal, Shadow Ninjas scattered and chased away.
"They are not worthy of my action, why don't you come?"
Lu Qi shouted towards the surroundings, but Mephisto lost his voice.
Coward.
Lu Qi snorted and turned to look at the Ancient One.
Being able to compete with Mephisto, the Ancient One is naturally much stronger than Blackheart, but Blackheart has absorbed many evil spirits, and can break into many evil spirits when provoked, which is a little troublesome.
Later, the Ancient One directly used magic circles to seal Blackheart inside, directly pressed Blackheart, who had split into thousands of evil spirits, together, forcibly crushed him into one body, and then tied him up with chains, letting Johnny come over and work like a fool.
Okay, after Blackheart's authority is deprived of his body, Mephisto will probably fight to the death. Otherwise, if Lu Qi and the Ancient One get their authority, he will almost be finished.
Under everyone's gaze, Johnny came to Blackheart.
"I am the Lord of Hell, the son of Mephisto, you cannot kill me!"
Blackheart looked at the approaching Johnny and yelled, and even began to ask for help from Mephisto, but no one came forward to help him, and could only watch Johnny come to him.
When he was about to die, Blackheart became strangely quiet. He looked at Johnny without changing his expression, "I didn't expect that I would be killed by you in the end, but to put it bluntly, we are all just chess pieces."
Blackheart glanced at Lu Qi and the Ancient One over there, and then remembered Mephisto who had shown his face before.
"I'm just a chess piece in their game and can't jump out of the chessboard, but what about you? Aren't you also a chess piece? Can you jump out in the end?"
Blackheart looked at Johnny and laughed, "Isn't your soul still in my father's hands? What will happen to you if you force my father?"
Johnny looked at Blackheart coldly, remembering what Mephisto told him that he would lose his memory, family and love. Even Carter told him so, almost making him believe it.
But he suddenly heard the date he had with Roxanne last night. Seeing his hand crossing Roxanne's, Johnny suddenly laughed.
"Maybe I will die, but that's not important. Compared with the goalless and meaningless life in the past, I would rather die in resistance than in depression."
Johnny grabbed Blackheart's head with one hand and asked him to look at him. His eyes began to brew the flames of revenge. At the same time, Johnny continued, "What's more, I have seen the signs and felt the light. Will you still yearn for darkness?"
Spirit of Vengeance in Johnny's body let out a roar, and the flame of revenge ignited in Blackheart's body, paying back all the things those evil spirits had done to other people during their lives.
Blackheart wailed in pain, but it was of no avail. In the end, his consciousness died along with thousands of evil spirits, and he turned into a charred corpse.
The skeleton hand suddenly inserted into Blackheart's body and took out a crystal. This was a sliver of power from hell.
"Here you go..." Looking at the Ancient One on the side, Johnny was about to hand over the authority to the Ancient One, but his body resisted unnaturally.
The Ancient One's face wrinkled, as if he reached out and snatched the power from Johnny's hand, but a bullet fused with Hellfire was shot over, forcing the Ancient One back, but it was Carter on the side who took action.
"He is controlling me. He knows where I am and that the contract is in my hands. This is what he planned!" Carter said struggling, trying to drop the gun in his hand, but the remaining power of Ghost Rider still controlled him.
The clone of Mephisto walked out from the side, looked at the situation, and walked towards Johnny with a smile.
"It's really a good show, but after the show is over, it's time to end." Mephisto said to Johnny.
"Now, give me the power, I will give you freedom, and how about taking back the power of Spirit of Vengeance?"
Mephisto smiled, but Johnny refused Mephisto's deal, and forcefully controlled his body and lowered his arms, putting the authority behind his back, making Mephisto's face darken.
"Can't you release his control over you?" Johnny looked at Mephisto, but shouted at Carter.
"He can't. How do you think he has survived from more than a hundred years ago to now? It was the power of Spirit of Vengeance that kept him alive, otherwise he would have died long ago. Even you can only resist a little bit because of Spirit of Vengeance."
Mephisto walked towards Johnny, trying to grab the power directly. The Ancient One on the side wanted to make a move, but Carter kept staring at her. Although he was not experienced enough to defeat the Ancient One, he could still linger for a while.
At this moment, Lu Qi on one side rushed over and slashed at Mephisto's clone with his double sickles, easily splitting the clone in half.
At this moment, a figure flapped its wings and rushed out from the side, flying towards Mephisto.
"Waiting for you!" Lu Qi roared, and the long tail swung over violently, sending the figure flying away.
Lu Qi wanted to take the authority, but a fierce Hellfire shot out from the side. Feeling the power of the flame, Lu Qi frowned and avoided it. The flame flew past Lu Qi's body and directly melted all the buildings in a line. The crowd on the street outside also ran away in panic.
Lu Qi looked at Mephisto, and saw his mouth opened wide, and thick smoke spewed out, quickly including everyone.
Shrouded in this smoke, Lu Qi lost his perception of the outside world. Endless Dark Energy surged out of his body and dispersed the surrounding smoke. He saw Mephisto trying to carry Johnny back to hell.
With the darkness stirring in his body, Lu Qi's figure instantly disappeared from the spot, came directly in front of Mephisto, knocked him down with one punch, and grabbed Johnny in his hand.
"Where is the authority? Give it to me." Lu Qi shouted to Johnny, but Johnny raised his head and looked at him.
"Run!" Johnny shouted, but it was too late. Lu Qi felt a force trying to pry away the 'sin' in his heart, which in turn burned his soul.
"It's not your turn to judge!" Lu Qi used Dark Energy to directly suppress this power. Looking at Ghost Rider, he seemed to see Spirit of Vengeance inside.
Dark Energy poured into Johnny's body, using his flame Oblivion to suppress the inner Spirit of Vengeance, and Johnny directly transformed back into a human being.
Putting Johnny down, Lu Qi took the authority from his hands and integrated it directly into his body.
"It's too late, Mephisto, I have already obtained the authority."
Lu Qi looked at the fallen Mephisto, reached out and grabbed him in the palm of his hand, and said to him.
A look of annoyance flashed across Mephisto's face. He glanced at Carter, who had transformed into a human and was still entangled with the Ancient One, and then turned to look at Lu Qi.
"How about we make a deal?"
"Do you think I'm stupid for making a deal with the devil, especially a guy like you?"
Lu Qi said disdainfully, but Mephisto continued to persuade.
"The souls of Johnny and Carter are in my hands. If you can give me the authority, I will return their souls to them. I also swear on Hell Dimension that if I have bad intentions for the earth again in the future, and Hell Dimension will directly bite me back, I can also come up with a blank contract. You can fill it out as you like, how about it?"
Lu Qi narrowed his eyes slightly, Mephisto really has a lot of bad intentions. The conditions he just mentioned sound good, but there are still many loopholes that can be exploited.
Return their souls to them, but I didn't say not to do anything with their souls. I don't have bad intentions for the earth, but I can have bad intentions for someone on the earth. A blank contract for me to fill in? There will be a lot filled with it, and he probably won't sign it.
"You are still disobedient." Lu Qi said, wanting to crush Mephisto into pieces. Although Hell Dimension is immortal and Mephisto will not die, this is not the case. You can prevent yourself from being deceived by Mephisto. Anyway, the power of Hell Dimension is already in your hands. You can just bring Galactus with you to destroy Hell Dimension.
Feeling the pressure on himself gradually increasing, Mephisto roared angrily, "Do you think you can destroy Hell Dimension once you have the authority? Then you can try it, but before that, you will lose your comrades first!"
Mephisto was crushed into pieces by Lu Qi, while Johnny and Carter on one side began to wail. Carter even directly transformed back into a human body, and its body continued to age.
Lu Qi frowned, took a closer look, and found that Mephisto was constantly destroying Johnny's soul, and Carter had survived purely because it had been relying on the remaining power of Spirit of Vengeance.
Lu Qi thought for a while, and directly removed the power that suppressed Spirit of Vengeance in Johnny's body. Johnny's constantly destroyed soul and Spirit of Vengeance is completely integrated into one body. Mephisto can hurt Johnny's soul, but not enough to hurt Spirit of Vengeance's soul, allowing him to recover.
As for Carter, who was getting older, Lu Qi walked up to him, looked at his aging body, and pointed his finger on his forehead.
Appearing in the consciousness space of Carter, Lu Qi looked at the confused Carter.
"Are you okay?" Lu Qi also didn't expect that Carter's soul actually had a trace of Ghost Rider's characteristics. It seemed that Ghost Rider had been working for a long time, and his soul was also affected and had some changes, and Carter's horse actually appeared here.
"This is the soul space, I am Lu Qi." Lu Qi and Carter in Dimensional Demon God state explained, looking at him and nodded understandingly.
"So, I'm going to die?"
"Yes, the power in your body has been completely exhausted and is not enough to keep you alive."
Carter smiled bitterly, "After all, I have lived for hundreds of years. Without those powers, I would have died long ago. Should I die now? There is nothing wrong with it..."
Lu Qi looked at Carter who was smiling bitterly, "Don't you still want to die?"
Carter shook his head helplessly, "Who wants to die if they can live?"
Lu Qi smiled and said, "This sentence is enough."
In Carter's confused eyes, Lu Qi stood up and said to Carter, "So, do you want to sign a contract with me and become Dark Knight?"
Carter was stunned for a moment, then a smile appeared on his face.
Johnny looked nervously at Carter, who was getting older, and asked the Ancient One on the side, "Can he still survive?"
The Ancient One glanced at Lu Qi, who had his eyes closed, and replied, "He can survive if he wants to."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of galloping horses came from one side. Several people turned around and saw the old horse Carter running towards this side. As it ran, black flames burned from the top of its head to its long tail, and its four hooves also ignited with black flames.
Carter, who was lying on the ground, also moved aside. A stream of black energy covered his body and turned into a light armor. Two black flames ignited in the eye sockets, and then a black robe covered him.
"I'm back." Carter's voice sounded, and Nightmare also came to his side. Carter pulled the reins, turned directly onto the horse, and condensed a black sickle in his hand. Against the background of the black robe and the flames in his eyes, he looked like the legendary God of Death.
Lu Qi also opened his eyes, looked at Carter's handsome appearance, and smiled, "How about it, this feeling is not worse than transforming into Ghost Rider, right?"
"Of course, this power completely obeys my instructions and will not snatch my body like Spirit of Vengeance."
The voice of Carter floated out, and he waved Giant Scythe in his hand twice.
"That's good, we still have work to do next."
Lu Qi Looking at the evil spirits scattered and wandering in the city, Mephisto really doesn't care about hygiene and litters.
"Carter, you and Johnny clean up the city and kill all the evil spirits!"
Lu Qi turned around and said, then looked at the Ancient One, and the authority of Hell Dimension appeared in his hands, "As for us, make a call to Galactus, and we will go get Hell Dimension!"