Chapter 042: The Knight

To be honest, when Yang Guozhong suddenly erupted with flames from his seven orifices, even Wang Bo was startled.

Not to mention the Imperial Guards, the emperor, and the civil and military officials in the hall—they all stared at Yang Guozhong in terror. Everyone thought Yang Guozhong had been cursed.

Even Huang He was somewhat dumbfounded, for he had never seen such a bizarre curse.

Yang Guozhong let out increasingly shrill and agonized roars, and his hands began to smoke and burn.

Under the horrified gaze of the crowd, Yang Guozhong's skin was scorched and peeled off piece by piece, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a flaming skeleton.

But even more bizarrely, although Yang Guozhong's skin was burned, his clothes remained intact on his body.

Now he looked like a flaming skeleton dressed in official robes.

Wang Bo found Yang Guozhong's new appearance extremely familiar.

After turning into a flaming skeleton, Yang Guozhong immediately stood up. With a forceful swing of his flaming skeletal hand, he whipped out a flame like a lash, striking toward Qin Liangyu.

Qin Liangyu instinctively sensed the eerie power of this force and leaped backward.

The flame struck another Imperial Guard, who screamed as all his flesh was burned away, turning him into a skeleton, and even his clothes were reduced to ashes.

But Yang Guozhong's hollow eye sockets blazed with even more intense flames as he roared at Qin Liangyu, "You are guilty! Accept judgment!"

The flame in his hand instantly transformed into a burning chain, extending toward Qin Liangyu as if to bind her.

Seeing the chain, Wang Bo finally remembered who this was.

"Get out of the way! He's the Ghost Rider!!!"

Yes, Yang Guozhong's current appearance, if you added a motorcycle, would be a perfect replica of the Ghost Rider from the Marvel universe.

Connecting this with the fact that Yang Guozhong was chosen by Mephisto, Wang Bo now understood his identity.

And he also knew which world's Mephisto this was.

Hearing Wang Bo's warning, Qin Liangyu instinctively dodged the Ghost Rider's chain. The chain swept across the hall, striking a group of Imperial Guards and burning them to ashes.

In an instant, all the Imperial Guards fled in panic, wishing they had more legs.

Wang Bo shouted from the side, "Be careful! The fire on the Ghost Rider is hellfire. Hellfire can burn any substance at the Ghost Rider's will, or not harm anything the Ghost Rider touches. It can burn the enemy's soul and body, and the Ghost Rider can control it for large-scale energy explosions to attack a wide area."

As soon as Wang Bo finished speaking, the Ghost Rider let out a roar and scattered a rain of fire from the sky, sealing off all of Qin Liangyu's escape routes.

With no way to avoid it, Qin Liangyu released a large amount of magical power, forming a hurricane around herself. Wielding her spear, she conjured a rain of spears out of thin air.

She precisely struck every drop of fire, shattering the incoming hellfire.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Ghost Rider wrapped his chain around a pillar, yanked it out, and swung it at Qin Liangyu's head.

With one pillar missing, the Hall of Proclamation swayed precariously, large clouds of dust falling, as if the entire hall might collapse at any moment.

Seeing this, Wang Bo quickly stomped his foot, and a stone pillar rose from the ground, replacing the previous one and preventing the hall's collapse.

Qin Liangyu had just shattered the fire rain when she was struck by the falling pillar, sent flying across the hall, and slammed into the wall, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Though powerful, she was not a top-tier heroic spirit, and she was still a notch below the Ghost Rider.

Wang Bo knew this was no time to hesitate. With a flicker, he instantly appeared before the Ghost Rider and punched him hard in the head.

Bang!

The immense impact sent the Ghost Rider flying, crashing through the wall of the Hall of Proclamation and out into the open.

"Rest here. Leave the Ghost Rider to me."

Wang Bo pulled a bottle of replicated Heavenly Fragrance Life-Extending Elixir from his four-dimensional pocket, tossed it to Qin Liangyu, and rushed out through the broken wall.

Today, he would fight the Ghost Rider for three hundred rounds.

After being punched flying by Wang Bo and crashing through the wall, the Ghost Rider flew several hundred meters, smashing through several more walls and buildings before stopping.

Even his hard skull showed cracks.

But these cracks disappeared in an instant.

The Ghost Rider's foundation, the Spirit of Vengeance, was created by God in Heaven. The Spirit of Vengeance possesses the trait of immortality and indestructibility.

Only God can destroy the Spirit of Vengeance.

The Ghost Rider's body can withstand missile and laser cannon strikes, and it rapidly regenerates after most types of attacks and damage. In the comics, it has even been shown to fully recover from being reduced to powder.

Even if the Ghost Rider's human host is injured in human form, the Spirit of Vengeance can heal the host's severe injuries.

So Wang Bo was well aware that his punch had not harmed the Ghost Rider.

This guy was simply too overpowered.

His level of immortality was even above Wang Bo's.

Even if the human host's body suffered severe injuries, the transformed hellfire could completely heal the wounds.

For example, just now, Yang Guozhong's knee had been shattered by Qin Liangyu.

But when he transformed into the Ghost Rider, the wound had already healed.

Even more perversely, even if the host was instantly killed in human form, the possessing spirit could use dimensional teleportation to send the soul back from Heaven or Hell to revive.

However, certain targeted magic and items could inflict substantial damage on the Ghost Rider or separate the Spirit of Vengeance from the host, such as the holy weapons made from Heaven's paving stones by Zadkiel, the black magic of the Hand, and Mephisto's spells.

But unfortunately, Wang Bo had none of these.

So now he could only rely on his own magic and fists to fight the Ghost Rider.

Bang!

After charging out of the Hall of Proclamation, before the Ghost Rider could react, Wang Bo rushed before him like a hurricane and punched him in the head with a fist reinforced by magic.

Bang!

A force of a thousand tons struck the Ghost Rider's head like a missile.

The immense impact flattened the Ghost Rider to the ground.

The ground shook violently.

Cracks once again appeared on the Ghost Rider's head.

But at the same time, Wang Bo's hand also showed traces of scorching, evidence of being burned by hellfire.