Brother Who Determines the Fate of the Nation: My Great Emperor's Cultivation Level Exposed by

After a brief period of silence, the chat in the American live stream completely went out of control.

"I demand that the authorities in the Forbidden Zone immediately conduct a thorough investigation into the evaluation mechanism of this list; there's definitely something fishy going on here!"

"A super soldier built with $140 billion lost to a construction worker who's been dead for three years? Do you even believe that?"

"The people from China must have used some kind of cheating method to interfere with the system; that's the only reasonable explanation!"

American netizens were the first to launch an attack.

Immediately afterwards, live streams from the UK, Japan, and South Korea responded one after another.

A new argument quickly took shape.

"Have you considered another possibility? Su Xuan might not even be on the list."

"Yes, he's dead. The system ruled him out, so the name Dragon Kingdom never appeared from beginning to end."

"Who came in first place?"

"It must be some hidden powerhouse that hasn't been discovered yet, maybe even the trump card of some small country. It definitely can't be that dead guy."

This inference instantly garnered tens of millions of likes and shares.

That makes perfect sense.

It's so reasonable that even netizens in China themselves are starting to waver.

"To be honest, I also think it's unlikely... How can a death certificate be number one on the list? That's too outrageous."

"Was that fleeting moment of hope just now merely a self-deception?"

"Think about it calmly. The person has been dead for three years. What makes the system rank him? Based on his ashes?"

In the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room, the sentiment in the comments shifted once again.

The brief hope was extinguished, replaced by a deeper despair.

The comments in live streams around the world have begun to adopt a unified tone.

"The Dragon Kingdom is out."

"The first place goes to someone else."

"Dead people don't deserve to be on the list."

The highest command center of the Dragon Kingdom.

The conference room door was pushed open from the outside, and three intelligence officers in dark uniforms strode in, each carrying a stack of documents that had just come out of the printer.

"Report!"

"The panic buying frenzy in major cities across the country continues to expand, and seven provinces have reported varying degrees of social disorder and small-scale conflicts in some areas."

"The public panic index has surged by 400 percentage points in the past 15 minutes, and several leading self-media outlets have begun publishing doomsday survival guides."

The old general did not read those documents.

He stood in front of the huge screen, his hands behind his back, staring at the still faintly glowing golden scroll on the screen.

The first place position on the scroll is still blank.

"Give the order."

His voice wasn't loud, but everyone in the conference room stopped what they were doing.

"The national armed forces shall immediately enter a state of first-level combat readiness. All personnel on leave shall return to their posts immediately. All military regions shall simultaneously activate their doomsday emergency plans."

"If Su Xuan fails the exam, then the Dragon Kingdom should prepare to go to war with the whole world!"

He paused for a moment.

"Furthermore, notify the Ministry of State Security to immediately conduct a comprehensive and in-depth investigation into Su Xuan, not limited to the household registration system, but to dig up every single day from his birth to his death."

"General, we've checked, his file does indeed only have that one page..."

"Then go check what's on the page beyond that."

The old general turned around and looked at the intelligence chief.

"An ordinary rural migrant worker died three years ago, with no criminal record, yet the global ranking system ranked the United States, a super-powerful nation with a value of 140 billion US dollars, as second."

Do you think this is reasonable?

The intelligence chief opened his mouth, but no words came out.

"Go check."

Deserted island.

The scroll hung in mid-air, the golden light receding, and the words for first place did not appear for a long time.

This blank waiting period has become a signal in the eyes of some people.

On the east side of the beach, Park Ji-eun from South Korea stood up from the pile of supplies she had just received and patted the sand off her knees.

She glanced in Su Ruoruo's direction.

She looked down on this little girl.

Because her brother hasn't made the list yet.

Park Ji-eun smirked slightly and waved to the chosen ones from the two small countries beside her.

The three of them walked over slowly.

"Hey, Su Ruoruo."

Park Ji-eun stood three steps away, looking down at Su Ruoruo curled up on the ground, and tilted her head slightly.

"The list is almost finished being released, and it seems your brother isn't on it."

Su Ruoruo did not look up.

"I heard that if the chosen one's brother doesn't make the list, the chosen one himself will be deemed an invalid participant by the forbidden area and directly eliminated."

A Southeast Asian girl wearing tropical shorts next to her chuckled.

"How pathetic. Even the chance to die was erased by the system. It's the kind of thing that even ferocious beasts wouldn't bother eating."

"You think the Dragon Kingdom will choose another Chosen One after she dies? No, her brother is dead, so it doesn't matter who they choose."

The three of them burst into laughter.

Su Ruoruo's fingers dug into the flesh of her knee.

But she didn't cry.

She loosened her knees and slowly stood up.

She drew her Type 92 pistol from behind her waist, the muzzle not pointed at anyone, just hanging at her side.

But she stood up straight.

"Are you finished speaking?"

Park Ji-eun's smile froze for a moment.

Su Ruoruo stared at her, her eyes sharp.

Whether my brother is on the list or not is none of your business.

"you……"

Park Ji-eun took a half step back, her gaze sweeping over the pistol, a hint of fear flashing across her face, which was quickly overshadowed by her bluff.

"Who are you trying to scare with that gun? What do you think...?"

She didn't finish her sentence.

Because the weather has changed.

Everyone felt that power at the same time.

Above the sky, the golden scroll stopped all its movement.

The text, patterns, and light patterns on it all froze.

The entire deserted island fell into an eerie silence; the waves stopped, the wind stopped, and even the air seemed to freeze.

Then, a crack appeared in the very center of the spool.

It's not damaged, it was activated intentionally.

A beam of purple light leaked out from the crack.

It was just a thin strand, only as thick as a finger.

But the instant that ray of purple light fell, all the ferocious beasts on the entire deserted island, those S-class beasts lurking deep in the jungle waiting for nightfall, all prostrated themselves on the ground, emitting painful wails.

Park Ji-eun's legs went weak.

She knelt down on the beach, not out of fear, but because her body was out of her control.

The two chosen ones from the small countries next to them fell to the ground, their bodies trembling violently.

Yukina, perched on a treetop in the distance, suddenly grabbed a branch. Her newly awakened sword intent crumbled completely before that oppressive aura, and her fingers trembled.

impossible.

What kind of power could achieve this?

At the same time, all live streams around the world experienced severe signal interference, with the screens filled with snow and horizontal lines, but no one turned off the live stream.

Eight billion pairs of eyes were fixed on the sky shrouded in purple light.

The cracks in the spool are getting bigger and bigger.

The purple light transformed from a wisp into a beam, from a beam into a patch, and from a patch into an overwhelming expanse of purple mist.

The entire sky was dyed a deep purple, and golden scrolls surged and floated in the purple aura, exuding an aura a hundred times more terrifying than all the previous rankings combined.

Then, the words appeared.

It no longer slowly condenses stroke by stroke as before.

It was directly imprinted on the sky.

The calligraphy is so bold and elegant, the strokes are sharp as swords, and each character is so large that it covers half the sky.