The entire arena fell silent. This kind of detailed attack was unbelievable in a mech battle – threat, deconstruction, counterattack, a trinity of moves, yet executed with the speed of lightning.

The arena exploded. This was the Heavenly King Mech Warrior’s Puppet War God, Li Hao. From a traditional martial arts perspective, he had reached the master realm.

"Still that familiar taste, despair. If I were Basta, I'd be done for after that attack."

"Come on, we wouldn't need to put in so much effort to beat you. You can't even get Brother Li excited."

"Terrifying, to integrate such movements into a mech and still be so fluid, it's suffocating to watch."

"Art! Damn, five years and Li the Devil is still Li the Devil. So damn hopeless. Don't compete with him in technique, you have to use a big kill to destroy him!"

"It was just one knife strike, what's with all the boasting? Wasn't he just knocked back himself? It's just a draw now."

In the emergency center, the nanobot repair surgery was complete. In a huge nutrient tank, Musashi's eyes were bloodshot as he watched the replay of that knife strike on the screen in front of him. It shook him to his core and filled him with longing.

The live broadcast room also exploded. Fans supporting Puppet and fans supporting Wolf King clashed like nuclear warheads, each steadfast in their position, a fight to the death.

Mad Warrior Daren's eyes were red, his expression extremely excited, but his voice was steady. "Everyone, I am an outer disciple of an ancient martial arts family, not a very good one, but years of following my master have given me some insight. That knife strike requires at least twenty years of practice to execute, and to integrate it into a mech is something I've never seen before. This is art."

The fiery Fire Man couldn't explode. He was best at being unreasonable, but… that knife strike was just too damn beautiful. How could someone so effortlessly deliver such an attack, and still have room to spare?

Don't compete with him in technique, absolutely not. Stick to the Meteor Fist to pave the way, find an opportunity to unleash his special move. Luckily, this is the era of the Gold Zone. If this guy had come out a year earlier, how could anyone survive?

Su Yu nudged Arths. "They seem to be very respectful of your guy."

Arths smiled confidently. "Of course, I chose him."

Su Yu rolled her eyes. She was a glutton for punishment, delivering herself to be abused. But this Li Hao really seemed different, weak against the weak, strong against the strong, a monster.

Li Hao was very patient. He still had to thank Teacher Ma. Anyway, a team battle was definitely going to happen, allowing him to relax and enjoy it. This would allow him to properly assess Basta and dig out all his potential.

Basta piloted the Underworld Fire mech back to the battlefield, not rushing in the slightest. He could feel it. He wasn't concerned about winning or losing this match, but about showing the results of his five years of waiting. Why hadn't he become the leader of Mars in Apocalypse? Why hadn't he formed his own team like Hunter and Sentinel? It wasn't that he didn't want to, that was his intention, to compete with Nangong Yuhang and Xili'an. He had a smooth start, full of glory, until a training match with Li Hao, where he was directly defeated, and remained unconscious for three days.

Thinking about it now felt like yesterday.

The Underworld Fire mech took each step steadily, each step erupting with purple flames. Purple flames floated in the sky, the entire Underworld Fire mech enveloped in stinging purple light.

To defeat Li Hao, strength, technique, superpower, and a determination to fight to the death were all essential. Everyone in Apocalypse knew that.

Clang.

The Underworld Fire mech extended its left hand, another Underworld Blade popped out. The two Underworld Blades crossed, purple flames extended, "Secret Martial Sect, Dual Blade Style!"

Li Hao held the Blood Moon horizontally. "Come!"

Boom.

The Underworld Fire mech launched, purple flames soared, and a giant demonic dragon image appeared. Bang! Accompanied by the ground exploding, the Underworld Fire mech instantly arrived in front of the Black Night Saber, the two Underworld Blades aimed straight at the center. The Blood Moon blocked, the Underworld Blades frantically crossed and slashed. The two blades rained down on the Black Night mech, the fierce swordsmanship forced the Black Night mech to retreat. The Blood Moon's counterattacks were easily defended, one blade attacking and one blade defending, offense and defense integrated. The dual blade attacks blotted out the sky, purple flames exploded, the right blade crashed down, the Blood Moon barely blocked it, boom… The Black Night mech vibrated violently, the left blade had already stabbed out from a bizarre angle, the Black Night's scabbard barely managed to block it, the mech retreated again, and accompanied by the roar of an engine, the Underworld Fire mech advanced through the center, a low kick!

Boom.

A kick right in the Black Night mech, the Black Night mech withstood it and flew back. How could Basta let go? The Underworld Fire mech flashed forward, lowered its center, and the two Underworld Blades instantly spiraled towards the Black Night mech. This was a spiral slash that Underworld Fire players loved, but the dual blade style spiral slash was a completely different level of lethality, and Basta's lowered center attack was an even more deadly secret martial art.

Secret Martial Hell Spiral Force!

The lowered center increased the rotation speed, making it even more difficult for the opponent to defend. A purple hell vortex instantly enveloped the Black Night mech, clang clang clang clang clang clang...

The titanium blades collided, creating deafening sounds, flames exploded, the Black Night mech fell into complete passivity, the Martians in the arena went crazy, kill kill kill kill kill!

The Black Night mech was helpless under the Underworld Fire mech's frantic attacks, the Blood Moon and scabbard could only barely defend. Basta's eyes in the cockpit were cold, and in the midst of the frantic attacks, the Black Dragon intimidation was integrated, purple flames reflected the battlefield, and the buildings that were passed by were instantly torn apart by the tyrannical force ripples, torn apart like paper. Not enough, not enough, not enough, it had to be stronger!

Roar.

The frantic rotation suddenly stopped. The Black Night mech, which had been enduring continuous attacks, slowed down, and the completely purple Underworld Blades suddenly shot out, like the fangs of death in a spiral hell.

Secret Martial Stream – Twin Dragon Cones!

The Blood Moon blocked the right blade, but the scabbard couldn't keep up with the left blade. The Black Night mech leaned back and took off, finally losing its balance. Now the situation was completely in Basta's hands.

The opportunity to defeat Li the Devil had arrived!

Boom.

A purple halo instantly exploded with the Underworld Fire Genesis as the axis, Demonic Dragon Soul: Weightlessness!

Basta's power wasn't to make the space enter a state of weightlessness, but to make the target itself enter a state of weightlessness. The Black Night Saber, which had just taken off, instantly entered a state of misaligned force. This momentary change in inertia, especially at the most crucial moment of breaking free from the attack, was the most dangerous, and Basta had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.

The Underworld Fire mech charged towards the Black Night Saber in mid-air, the two Underworld Blades shone, enveloping the Black Night mech, never-ending!

Clang clang clang clang.

Streaks of purple lightning streaked through the air, accompanied by faint rumbles of thunder. Each time it rumbled, a piece of the surrounding buildings would collapse. The huge demonic dragon light shadow not only didn't weaken, but instead became clearer, more lifelike, roaring at all things!

This was the Wolf King Basta!

Now that being able to use Soul Power was already the mark of a top expert, he could completely maintain his Soul Power state in battle.

Unlike the boiling cheers of the audience, everyone in the contestant area was silent. It was clear that Basta was very well prepared, and released his superpower only at the most crucial moment, aiming for the ultimate ability combination, combined with the interference of the Soul Power-level mental burst, and then using the dual blade style to reap the rewards.

He had completely taken control of the situation… But neither Xili'an, Maxis, nor Orpheus showed any anxiety. Even the other Apocalypse members seemed particularly calm, because as long as Li the Devil was still Li the Devil, any move that had appeared before him, no matter how it was combined, no matter how it changed, was useless.

Even if this was an offensive that was one level stronger than when he defeated Orpheus.

In mid-air, the purple mech had completely controlled the situation, beating the Black Night mech, which was suspended in a twisted and strange posture, into a flustered state, tilting its head and twisting its waist, struggling like a puppet...

A desperate struggle, a lingering breath!

All the Martians clenched their fists tightly, whether in the arena, or in the major military academies of Mars, countless streets, squares, Martians stopped to watch their hero gain the upper hand, they were also roaring, cheering.

Basta's blade speed became faster and faster, the left hand was a forehand blade, and the right hand suddenly changed to a backhand blade, Secret Martial Dual Blade Stream - Reverse the Universe!

Clang clang clang...

Purple blade light exploded. The Black Night mech, which initially needed the Blood Moon to block, completely let go, the mech constantly twisted and danced in the void, as if it wasn't fighting, but a puppet was strolling in space.

Void Puppet Dance!

Time seemed to disappear, in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred blades missed, bang!

The Black Night mech disappeared. The next second Basta shuddered all over, his dual blades crossed behind him, barely blocking the Black Night mech's Blood Moon long blade.

Immediately afterwards, a huge force struck, the Black Night Saber delivered a horizontal sweep and a spinning sweep kick, the Underworld Fire mech crashed out and smashed into the building, rolling with a rumbling sound, disappearing into the depths.

Rumble rumble rumble.

Three consecutive buildings collapsed, the earth shook and the sky trembled, rubble flew everywhere.

The boiling Martians in the arena suddenly quieted down, the Black Night Saber floated in the air, golden light illuminating the battlefield.

For a moment, everyone was a little stunned, what was this?

Just a year ago, this person and his team were still unknowns!

The director immediately gave a slow-motion replay. Basta's dual blade style was the fiercest attack in the S-competition, pushing the Underworld Blades' attack speed to the extreme. And in slow motion, all the audience discovered that the rhythm of the Underworld Fire Genesis' left and right hands was different, two kinds of swordsmanship, precisely the Secret Martial Sect's most famous – Mad Blade and Heavy Blade, one was fast and tricky, the other was righteous and heavy, two kinds of swordsmanship, two kinds of rhythm, were mysteriously integrated in one person, even from a traditional martial arts perspective, this was peak swordsmanship, combined with weightlessness, superpower, could humans really dodge this?

They couldn't dodge it, human movement couldn't dodge it at all, but the Black Night mech's dodge was based on the space warrior's top weightless sway, an inconceivable reverse-thinking twist… an indescribable variable-frequency, variable-tempo, variable-direction movement…

Every frame, every movement, was like a puppet dancing alone in the boundless void.

The whole world quietly watched the Black Night mech's solo dance.