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

Three seconds of silence.

Then the ground of the entire forbidden island began to shake.

It wasn't a slight tremor; the entire earth was churning.

puff.

The first black vine sprouted from the crack.

Puff puff puff puff.

The second one, the third one, the tenth one, the fiftieth one.

Black vines surged wildly from every crack, spreading in all directions at an astonishing speed.

The live stream feed from around the world began switching rapidly.

In the split-screen view of America, Alice is running wildly.

Five thick vines chased after her from behind, almost twice as fast as she was. She suddenly rolled to the side, a vine brushing past her head and lifting a strand of hair.

She kicked the nearest vine, the power granted by the super serum making the kick feel like it weighed at least a thousand pounds.

The vines remained completely still.

Alice's face changed.

She glanced down at the foot she had kicked out; the sole of her shoe had been torn open by the thorns on the vines, and blood was seeping from her sock.

"Damn it!"

The only option is to run.

They ran for their lives.

The scene shifts to the land of cherry blossoms.

Xuena's situation was more dangerous than Alice's. Three vines simultaneously attacked from three directions, trapping her in a triangular area less than two meters wide.

She formed a hand seal and her figure flashed.

With a soft "thud," a piece of wood appeared where she had been standing, pierced by three vines at the same time.

Substitute technique.

Xue Nai appeared five meters away, kneeling on one knee, panting heavily.

That substitution technique had exhausted a lot of her strength, and her face was extremely pale.

But the vines didn't give her a chance to catch her breath.

The ground cracked open again, and a fourth and a fifth vine emerged from her feet, whistling sharply as it coiled towards her waist and abdomen.

The situation is slightly better in Victoria, the country on which the sun never sets.

From birth, she was given elixirs by the royal family to cleanse her marrow and strengthen her body, making her constitution far superior to that of ordinary people.

She stood on a boulder, holding a short sword she had somehow acquired, frantically parrying the vines that were whipping at her from all directions.

The sounds of metal colliding with vines were so dense they formed a continuous chorus.

Sparks flew everywhere.

But for every one they repel, two more take their place.

Anna from the Bear Kingdom was the wildest. She picked up a broken, thick tree trunk and swung it around like a stick. Each swing of the stick made a whooshing sound and a dull thud when it hit the vines.

But the vines were too tough.

The tree trunk shattered into pieces after being swung seven or eight times.

Anna cursed, grabbed a vine that had wrapped around her with her bare hands, and pulled it away through gritted teeth.

The barb pierced her palm, and blood flowed down her arm, but she stubbornly refused to let go.

"Let me go, you disgusting thing!"

She yelled and ripped half of the vine off.

A spray of dark green liquid gushed out from the broken end, splashing all over her face.

But new vines have already grown back from the broken ends.

In the real world, the reactions from high-level officials in various countries were far more intense than those from the athletes.

America, the Hexagon.

A dozen or so chief military analysts in white lab coats gathered around a giant screen displaying frame-by-frame screenshots of the live broadcast, each frame labeled with dense data.

"The results are in."

"This monster's skin is as hard as armor steel, and its nerve reaction speed has broken through the biological limits. Its overall combat power has reached the absolute peak of a mortal body."

He paused for a moment.

"Conventional light weapons wouldn't even scratch its skin."

The conference room was deathly silent.

Arthur's father, Morgan, sat in the main seat, his facial muscles twitching.

"You mean, our players are facing a monster that conventional weapons can't kill?"

"Yes, sir."

"And this monster is only E-rank?"

"...Yes, sir."

Morgan didn't say anything more, but his hands clenched into fists under the table, his nails digging into his flesh.

The chat room comments exploded at that moment.

"Has the Forbidden Zone gone mad? This is only an E-rank ferocious beast? This is a monster that mortals simply cannot defeat!"

"If D-rank and C-rank items come out, are we just supposed to wait to die?!"

"We're doomed! This forbidden area isn't meant for humans to escape alive!"

The screen suddenly switched to a split-screen view of a small Southeast Asian country.

A thin female contestant was crouching on the ground, holding her head in her hands, when two vines silently emerged from behind her.

She didn't even have time to lift her head.

puff.

Two vines pierced through her chest cavity simultaneously, one in front and one behind, precisely avoiding her heart.

The barbs on the surface of the vine pierced her lungs, and she began to slowly wriggle and absorb them.

Three seconds later, a dried-up corpse was casually tossed to the ground by the vines.

On another screen, a contestant from an African country had just peeked out of a shelter when a vine lashed out from the side, precisely wrapped around her neck, and dragged her away.

The screams abruptly stopped at the edge of the dense forest.

The system panel refreshes coldly.

[Announcement: Myanmar athlete Su Min has been confirmed dead.]

[Announcement: Congolese athlete Mbanda has been confirmed dead.]

[Announcement: Nigerian athlete Ada has been confirmed dead.]

Three announcements popped up in quick succession within five seconds.

The highest conference room in the Dragon Kingdom.

An intelligence analyst suddenly stood up from his chair and pointed to the letter "E" on the screen.

"Rank E?! It's just Rank E?!"

The elderly people present fell silent.

The lowest level of ferocious beast.

Its surface hardness is comparable to that of armor steel.

Speed ​​breaks biological limits.

Conventional weapons are ineffective.

What about the depths?

What about those B-level, A-level, and even the possibly existing S-level?

No one dared to think further.

The scene then cuts back to the forbidden area.

The vine tide is still expanding.

But there is one exception.

Su Ruoruo's shelter.

When the camera cut to that shot, viewers around the world were stunned for a moment.

The rampaging, indestructible black vines stopped about fifteen meters from Su Ruoruo's shelter.

The vines seemed to have hit an invisible wall; their tips trembled violently in the air, and the barbs on their surfaces stood up one by one, but they just wouldn't move forward.

A few bolder vines tentatively stretched forward a few inches, and as soon as they approached the invisible boundary, their tips emitted a hissing smoke, as if they had been burned by something.

They retreated and hovered fifteen meters away, circling around Su Ruoruo's shelter.

The lingering power of Asura.

Even the E-rank Vine Demon dared not step inside.

In the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room, the barrage of comments scrolled rapidly.

"Stay calm, stay calm, the shelter is safe!"

"The Asura's power is incredible! Those vines don't dare come near!"

"The protection Su Xuan provides for his sister is so great that even E-level ferocious beasts have to give way. That's the true value of an SSS-level national fortune reward!"

But the atmosphere was completely different in live streams in other countries around the world.

America: "Why should she be safe without doing anything? Our Alice is fighting desperately!"

Japan: "This isn't fair! That passive skill is too much!"

The live stream in South Korea has fallen silent; the chat area is completely dark.

Just as the world's attention was drawn to Su Ruoruo's safe zone.

A detail appeared in the split-screen view of the cherry blossom country.

Yukina is being attacked by three vines. She has used her Substitution Jutsu four times in a row, with the interval between each use getting shorter and the accuracy getting worse.

During her fifth substitution jutsu, she was a fraction of a second off, and a thorn from a vine cut a deep, bone-revealing wound on her forearm.

Blood spurted out.

The vines smelled blood and became even more frenzied.

As she dodged, Yukina desperately tried to create distance, but the vines forced her to retreat continuously.

They retreated to a relatively open area.

She suddenly stopped in her tracks.

About thirty meters to her right, Su Ruoruo's shelter stood quietly.

The light from the campfire shone through the gaps in the wooden fence, warm and peaceful.

The vines coiled about fifteen meters from the shelter, and I dared not enter.

Xue Nai stared at the safe area, her injured arm still bleeding.

In the live stream room of Japan, some sharp-eyed viewers noticed the direction of her gaze.

"What is Lady Yukina looking at?"

"She's looking after that woman's sanctuary in the Dragon Kingdom!"