Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

The sun climbed into the sky above the steel city.

Blade and Shield Shen Jue sat cross-legged above the steel city, gazing at the sun in the meme world that burned almost eternally for life.

Fortunately, the sun in the meme world doesn't have a human or other creature's face, nor does it have that strange thing from the beginning of an old cartoon, like waking up in the morning to drink a cup of tea.

Although the meme world is in a state of chaos, it is not yet at its most terrifying point.

On this day, the creatures within the steel city enjoyed a rare holiday.

The Sky Arena, which had been closed for many years, has now reopened.

A large number of creatures from the steel city poured into the Sky Arena.

The Sky Arena of the Steel City is a huge circular building suspended in mid-air.

The exterior walls are made of countless pieces of a special blue alloy, giving them an unusually cold appearance from a distance.

This arena, which has not been opened for many years, suddenly burst open today, welcoming a large number of creatures from the meme world.

Meanwhile, the Sky Arena was launched by the will of Steel City to broadcast live throughout the entire Steel City.

Even in extremely remote areas of the Meme Continent, as long as there is a radio signal, the live broadcast of this World's Greatest Martial Arts Tournament was received.

Doro the kitten and the sweet penguin, who rarely have work, arrived early at the stands of the Sky Arena.

The two children each held a pair of binoculars, eagerly anticipating the start of the World's Greatest Martial Arts Tournament.

Below the two little ones sat an alien kitten and a chemms, a cat and a dog.

"laugh!"

"Finally, another battle of the strong!"

"The Sky Arena has been closed for so many years!"

"To witness a battle between the strongest warriors firsthand, even death would be worthwhile!"

Many creatures in the steel city are excitedly discussing it.

Doro and the sweet penguin simultaneously raised their binoculars, searching for the spectators in the arena.

To the two children's disappointment, apart from some sand, no athletes appeared in the Sky Arena.

"There's nothing here." Doro lowered the binoculars, his tail flicked behind him in dissatisfaction, and his ears drooped down.

She turned to look at the sweet penguin next to her and found that it was still holding up its binoculars, its posture motionless, as if if it held on for just a few more seconds, a peerless master would spring up out of thin air from the sand.

Just then, the ring of lights on the dome of the Sky Arena, which had been silent for many years, suddenly lit up.

The lights spread out from the dome in all directions, immersing the entire arena in an almost eerie atmosphere.

Then, a voice fell from the sky.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, everyone."

It was a female voice, languid and drawn-out, with a nonchalant air characteristic of felines.

At the point where the lights converge in the very center of the dome, a tall figure is slowly descending.

It was a black cat in human form.

She was wearing a black cheongsam with an extremely daring high slit, and a long black tail was gracefully trailing behind her.

A black cat with enormous breasts calmly announced, "The World Martial Arts Tournament has begun!"

"Boring! I want to see rivers of blood!" A creature from the steel city threw a soda can into the center of the arena.

However, due to the sheer size of the Sky Arena, the can landed on the head of a creature from the steel city.

At this moment, the noise from the audience grew louder and louder, like waves crashing against rocks.

Amidst this noisy environment, Shen Jue, wielding a large sword, descended from the sky.

The moment he appeared, the Sky Arena, which housed over 100,000 meme characters, fell into an eerie silence.

Many creatures in the meme world felt a sudden, inexplicable tremor in their hearts just by watching Shen Jue release a little bit of his aura.

The sound of the waves abruptly stopped, leaving only an eerie silence.

Blade and Shield Shen Jue landed in the very center of the Sky Arena.

Beneath his feet lay warm sand and scattered debris.

Shen Jue, wielding a sword and shield, bent down and grabbed a handful of sand.

Sand mixed with fragments of bone and steel slowly fell down.

These are the remains of countless creatures from the meme world who have fought in this Sky Arena over the years.

"What? Baki Underground Fighting Arena?" Blade & Shield Shen Jue quipped.

"Is my opponent going to be a gigantic, fat sumo wrestler?"

"Or perhaps a Baki alien who, due to excessively high levels of male hormones, perceives all beings of all genders as female?"

"No way!"

On the commentary stage, the extremely well-endowed black cat lazily introduced, "Welcome, welcome."

"The contestant who is about to enter the arena will be challenging three powerful figures from the Steel City."

"I hope this battle will be interesting, meow~"

"The first match has officially begun, meow~"

While Shen Jue, wielding both sword and shield, was still sensing the will of the strong warriors carried by the sand in the Sky Arena,...

A loud bang made Shen Jue suddenly focus.

The sand and soil began to tremble.

Those bones and steel fragments buried for countless years are rising on their own and converging in one direction.

Shen Jue, holding the sword and shield, loosened his grip on the sand and took a step back.

The remains pieced together, twisted, and grew in mid-air, emitting a grating sound of metal rubbing against bones.

First a spine, then ribs, then two incredibly thick arms.

The sand climbed up these skeletons, as if shaped into the outline of muscles by some invisible hand.

Finally, there's the head.

Two enormous Prajna masks, one on the left and one on the right, emerged from the void and were placed on top of the skeleton.

A scarlet light shone from the eye sockets of the mask; it wasn't flames, but a more primal hunger.

A monster over ten meters tall stood in the center of the Sky Arena.

It has crimson skin, and its exposed muscles are covered with scars from battles.

The scars were like medals, but also like curses.

Two pairs of scarlet eyes simultaneously locked onto the tiny figure on the ground.

Shen Jue, the swordsman and shieldman, looked into those eyes and suddenly smiled.

He recognized those eyes.

Long ago, before he possessed the Great Cutter, it was the owner of these eyes who instilled fear in the clan of the Blade and Shield Master Shen Jue.

That was the first enemy that Shen Jue, wielding both sword and shield, killed.

It is an enemy that only a chivalrous person with wisdom, faith, and courage can challenge.

In the audience, an alien kitten lay on the edge of the railing, its vertical pupils slightly contracted.

He explained to Shen Jue, the sword and shield wielder, "The will of the steel city is a combination of soul and spirit."

"It can create and enhance almost anything in this world."

"Including fantastical creatures that exist only in memory."

Shen Jue, the swordsman and shieldman, who was far away on the battlefield, understood what was happening.

The steel city created his former rivals to serve as his adversaries.

However, the Prajna Demon that Shen Jue killed in the past was only a little over three meters tall.

The giant, monstrous demon in front of them was the size of a three-story building, nearly ten meters tall.

"Interesting!" Shen Jue, the swordsman and shieldman, laughed loudly.

"Charge! Warriors!"

"Slay the giants! Establish your glory!"

With the appearance of the Great Demon of Prajna, the shouts, blessings, and curses from the audience made Shen Jue, the swordsman and shieldman, burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"Come on! Let me strike again!"

The Great Demon of Prajna slowly raised its two muscular arms, and the sound of the air being torn apart as its ten fingers spread made the entire arena tremble.

It roared at Shen Jue, the sword and shield wielder, causing a white shockwave to form in the air!

The gigantic fist, even larger than Shen Jue's sword and shield, descended!

There was no pure mass and speed crushing the air; instead, a ring of white sonic cones exploded at the tip of the fist!

The ground began to collapse before the fist even arrived, and sand and debris were crushed into dust, scattering in all directions!

A single arm can carry a thousand tons; a human body can move at the speed of sound.

This is the meme world monster, Hannya demon, big one, which the will of the steel city extracted from Shen Jue's memories and amplified.

However, the fist stopped.

Shen Jue did not draw his sword.

He simply raised his left hand, fingers spread, and caught the fist that was bigger than a person.

The sand beneath his feet sank into a perfect circle with him as the center, and cracks spread like a spider web to the edge of the stands.

A transparent barrier lit up at the edge of the arena, absorbing all the shockwaves.

"It's much heavier than it was back then," Shen Jue, the swordsman and shieldman, said softly.

The big guy retracted his right arm, and his left fist was already there.

Another sonic boom followed, and Shen Jue turned to the side as his fist grazed the hem of Shen Jue's clothes and slammed into the ground.

Before he could even regain his footing, the two enormous arms of the Great Demon of Prajna transformed into afterimages too fast for the naked eye to follow.

The entire venue exploded!

Extreme speed and power turn the sand into dust, and then the sand reforms.

Shen Jue walked through the storm of punches.

His steps were neither hurried nor slow, and his body turned with minimal deviation.

He lowered his shoulder and stepped back, each punch landing precisely where he had been standing.

Sand and dust flew and stones flew, but within three feet of him, not a speck of dust remained.

The giant stopped bombarding.

It lowered its arms, its two pairs of scarlet eyes fixed on Shen Jue, the sword and shield-wielding figure at its feet, who had never retreated.

Then, it made a move that Shen Jue had never seen before.

It placed both hands on its chest.

The crimson skin began to writhe, as if something was awakening beneath it.

The old scars embedded in the muscle fibers split open one by one, but no blood flowed out.

The blood of the Prajna demon boiled within his body, yet remained suspended beneath the surface, like imprisoned magma.

Its size didn't increase, but the air around it began to distort, and heat waves rose.

This move is called "Tide of Life".

The Great Demon of Prajna burns its own blood, sacrificing its life and physique in exchange for absolute berserk power and increased strength.

This was a move that the Great Demon of the Prajna in Shen Jue's memory had never used in his previous life, but the will of the Steel City gave the Great Demon of the Prajna the opportunity.

The sand and soil in the field began to melt under the boiling heat inside the giant's body.

Shen Jue looked at those eyes that were completely swallowed by scarlet, and placed his hand on the handle of the large knife.

"interesting."

"pity."

I am no longer who I was yesterday.

Shen Jue, wielding a sword and shield, gently pushed the hilt of the sword with his claws.

A soft sound, like a silver screen exploding.

The moment the massive blade was drawn, it devoured all the light in the arena.

The ring of lights, the scarlet gleam, the crimson light of boiling blood, were all absorbed into a white line that stretched across the sky.

The white line fell from the top of the big head, through the neck, chest, and abdomen, and disappeared into the ground.

Sheath the sword.

With his sword and shield, Shen Jue turned around, his back to the ten-meter-tall crimson behemoth.

The moment the large blade slid back into its sheath, the Great Demon of the Prajna split open from the very center.

A thin line ran from top to bottom through the giant, ten-meter-tall demon, Prajna Demon, causing it to slide to the sides.

Crimson skin, boiling blood, burning life—all this roaring power was neatly split in two before this blade, collapsing to the left and right respectively.

It landed with a thud, creating two rows of sand waves.

Shen Jue, wielding both sword and shield, did not turn around.

I probably won't forget you.

"You demon who has become my weapon."

"Live in my memory again."

The Sky Arena fell into a brief silence.

Then came deafening cheers and shouts!

"This strike!"

"It was definitely worth the ticket price!"

"Strong? Strong!"

In the audience, Doro's binoculars slipped from his paw and were caught by a sweet penguin with its wing.

"So fast." Doro's eyes sparkled.

"Coo-coo-caw~!" The fragrant penguin put the binoculars back into her claws, but she never put down her own pair.

On the commentary platform, the black cat's tail slowly circled around to its front, the tip of which gently touched its chin.

She stared at the figure carrying a knife in the center of the field, her pupils dilating slightly before shrinking into slits.

"Oh dear," she said.

Then she leaned closer to the microphone, and a hint of genuine interest finally crept into her languid tone.

"This player has won."

"The second match is about to begin, meow~"

Shen Jue, wielding a sword and shield, smiled calmly, but the samurai chemms in the audience frowned, having a bad feeling.

"I'm talking about Shen Jue," the samurai chemms said in a low voice, clutching his bamboo hat in his hand.

Be careful.

"I suddenly have a feeling you're going to mess things up."

"What a joke?" With his keen hearing, Shen Jue could easily pick out the voices of the samurai chemms from the countless noises in the Sky Arena.

"We will win."

Samurai Chems gaped wide, wondering where Shen Jue got the courage to utter those three words.

The cheers from the Sky Arena have subsided.

The vocal cords of all creatures in the meme world lost their voices at the same instant.

Shen Jue, wielding both sword and shield, raised his head.

The barriers of the Sky Arena are trembling.

The transparent barrier that could easily absorb the shockwaves of the Prajna Demon Fist was now rippling like the surface of water.

At the center of the ripples, a black dot is slowly descending.

It was an orange-yellow figure.

The transparent protective barrier yielded to the orange figure, like a subject making way for a king.

The orange figure descended slowly, yet every inch of its fall seemed to increase the gravity of the Sky Arena.

Many creatures in the steel city lost control of their bladders due to excessive fear and collapsed in their seats or on the ground.

The light from the ring-shaped light strip began to bend three feet away from the orange figure, as if twisted into a circular trajectory by some force.

A tattered black cloak, the hood of which covered the upper half of the orange-yellow figure's face.

The lower half of the figure's face revealed that this orange-yellow figure had cat-like features.

On the commentary stage, the black cat's tail froze.

The tip of its tail no longer lightly touched its chin, but instead tightly wrapped around its wrist.

Her pupils dilated to their limit, and the most primal feline instincts finally surfaced in those usually languid eyes.

Fear and breath.

"The...second match..."

Her voice was trembling.

The black cat that could lazily explain things to the big, evil demon was now so weak that it could barely hold the microphone.

"Let's begin..."

Shen Jue removed his hand from the hilt of the large blade and let it hang at his side.

In the audience, the samurai chemms' straw hat slipped from his hand and rolled down the steps.

The alien kitten's two whiskers dangled wildly, looking as if it had seen a ghost.

Doro buried his face in the sweet penguin's wing.

The sweet penguin didn't move; her binoculars were pointed at the center of the arena, and the orange figure was reflected in the lens.

"Gurgle, gurgle!"

The orange figure's feet landed on the ground.

The sand within three feet of its feet vanished into nothingness.

The newcomer! It is none other than the Demon King, Maodie, resurrected from Shen Jue's memories by the will of the Steel City!

Demon King - The Elderly!

resurrection!