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

The battle within the canyon has reached its most brutal stage.

boom!

Another guard from the city lord's mansion was pierced through the body by several magical artifacts.

He chose the most decisive way: he embraced a cultivator from the Wang family, and finally, the golden core within his body exploded.

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, spiritual energy surged, and the violent shockwave tore everything around them to shreds.

This is the last guard.

Amidst the pool of blood, the young master of the city lord's mansion stood alone.

He was all alone, forced by the experts from the four major families to the bottom of the deepest cliff in the canyon, with nowhere to retreat.

"You little beast, all your men are dead. Let's see how you escape this time!"

The elder of the Lin family grinned maliciously as he approached step by step.

Faced with this desperate situation, the young master of the city lord's mansion calmed down. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and slowly raised his head.

"Escape? Do I need to escape today?"

He looked up and let out a long roar, a roar like a dragon's cry that echoed through the valley.

A terrifying pressure far exceeding that of an ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator erupted from his body.

Materialized spiritual energy condensed around him, transforming into several ferocious thunder dragons that coiled and roared.

A top-grade magical longsword, crackling with lightning, appeared in his hand, its blade pointing straight ahead.

"The secret method of the City Lord's Mansion, the Thunder Sword Technique!"

He moved, transforming into a bolt of lightning and charging into the encirclement of several experts of the same level from the four major families.

Sword energy surged and lightning flashed, yet he alone with his sword held his own without being at a disadvantage.

puff!

A sword light flashed, and a Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Li family didn't even see the opponent's movement before his head was sent flying into the sky.

"The second one!"

He turned and thrust his longsword out at an incredible angle, piercing the heart of another Zhao family cultivator.

Each sword strike was accompanied by the sound of rolling wind and thunder, instantly slaying two people.

The unparalleled talent and arrogance of the number one genius of Thunder City were fully revealed at this moment.

From the shadows of the bushes, Su Xuan took in everything.

He is indeed a rare genius, with a solid foundation and pure spiritual power.

Unfortunately, no matter how talented the prey is, it is still just prey.

Seeing their experts being killed one after another, the people from the four major families finally changed their expressions.

They realized that they couldn't defeat this monster by fighting him alone, and if they delayed any longer, he might break through the Blood Fiend Sealing Heaven Formation from the inside.

"Form ranks!"

Lin Tianyu's face was contorted with jealousy and resentment. He suddenly threw a set of black array flags that exuded an ominous aura from his storage bag.

Eight battle flags were scattered in eight directions and firmly planted in the Bagua positions of the canyon.

The experts from the other four major families immediately understood and abandoned their attack.

They each occupied a position and frantically poured their spiritual energy into the array flags.

"Homesickness Annihilation Formation, activate!"

hum!

The entire canyon was instantly enveloped in a dark, eerie light.

clang!clang!clang!

The young master of the city lord's mansion brandished his longsword, the sword light transforming into a curtain of lightning to protect his body, but it was constantly worn down by the endless chains and blades.

His protective aura began to shatter inch by inch, and blood kept seeping from the bursting wounds, staining his magnificent brocade robe red.

On Blue Star, in the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room, the chat completely stopped at this moment.

All the viewers held their breath, staring intently at the figure on the screen, covered in blood, still struggling to hold on.

Everyone knew that this once-proud genius was likely to perish here in such a humiliating way.

The eerie light of the Four Symbols Annihilation Formation had reached its peak!

In that life-or-death moment, the eyes of the Thunder City Lord's servant instantly turned blood red.

"A bunch of ants! You forced me to this point, you'll all be buried with me!"

He let out a beastly roar that sounded inhuman, as if he had gone mad.

He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of essence blood containing primordial power.

Instead of dripping to the ground, it floated in front of him.

He rapidly formed hand seals, and his life essence instantly merged into a golden bead that slowly rose from his dantian.

The moment the bead appeared, a terrifying aura that sent shivers down one's spine suddenly spread.

This was a life-saving trump card that his father, the Lord of Thunder City, had prepared for him at a great cost.

Golden Elixir!

The pill was fully activated by the life essence blood, and the world instantly changed color, with a strong wind blowing.

Visible golden cracks spread across the surface of the bead, and a terrifying power, equivalent to the self-destruction of a Golden Core cultivator in the early stage, erupted from the center of the City Lord's son.

Boom!

The desperate attack formation of homesickness, which the four major families had set up at great cost, was as fragile as a piece of paper and was torn to shreds in an instant in the face of this absolute power.

The golden energy storm transformed into a devastating tsunami, sweeping across the entire canyon in all directions.

The sneers on the faces of the experts from the four major families who were still frantically activating the formation instantly froze.

Before they could even utter a scream, their bodies dissolved and their souls vanished in the blinding golden light.

They left not a trace of their existence; they vanished without a trace, leaving no remains.

On Blue Star, in the Dragon Kingdom's live broadcast room, all the viewers were dumbfounded.

"Holy crap! What is that? Is it a nuclear bomb exploding?"

"A full-force attack from a Golden Core cultivator is terrifying! Is this the power of the cultivation world? It's outrageous!"

"The four major families have suffered a huge loss this time. They deployed all their elite forces, only to have them wiped out by a single powerful attack!"

"What happened to that young master of the Lin family? Wasn't he very arrogant before? He's turned to ashes now, hasn't he? Hahaha, awesome!"

Inside the canyon, the smoke and dust slowly dissipated.

The once treacherous terrain has completely disappeared, replaced by a huge, charred crater, as if it had been violently struck by a meteorite from outer space, leaving behind a scene of utter devastation.

In the center of the deep pit, the young master of the city lord's mansion knelt on one knee.

Using the power of the precious pill, almost all the spiritual energy in his body was drained, and the terrifying backlash from the formation caused him to suffer severe injuries.

He uncontrollably coughed up several mouthfuls of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, his breath was extremely weak, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

On the edge of the battlefield, amidst a pile of rubble overturned by the shockwave.

"Cough cough..."

Lin Tianyu struggled to crawl out from under the rock.

One of his arms was missing, he was covered in blood and looked utterly wretched, but he survived nonetheless.

At the moment of the explosion, a family-issued jade pendant worn on his chest shielded him from the fatal blow.

He was terrified by the hellish scene before him, and by the family elders who had turned to ashes. His crotch was wet and hot.

Hearing the commotion, the young master of the city lord's mansion struggled to his feet, using his lightning-sparkling longsword as a support.

He looked at the ashes scattered on the ground, then glanced at the terrified good-for-nothing in the distance, and a weak yet incredibly arrogant smile appeared on his face.

"Hehe...hehehe...hahahaha!"

"A bunch of ignorant fools, daring to fight me!"

He won, albeit at a heavy price, but he became the sole winner on this bloody battlefield.

He laughed loudly, preparing to first kill Lin Tianyu, the one who had escaped the net, with a single sword strike, and then find a place to heal his wounds.

Given time to recover, the fire-type sacred artifact will still be his.

However, his laughter stopped abruptly.

A black figure had silently appeared in front of him without him even noticing.

The man wore a bamboo hat and a black robe, and amidst the billowing smoke, he resembled a deadly grim reaper emerging from the deepest hell.

Su Xuan walked at a steady pace, each step making a soft sound as he stepped on the charred gravel.

Lin Tianyu was still rambling on about that pile of bloody, mangled flesh.

"Boy, did you hear that? My sister, Lin Wan'er, is the most beautiful woman in Thunder City! If you give me the item, I'll betroth her to you and make you my brother-in-law. This is a blessing that a poor rogue cultivator like you could never achieve in several lifetimes."

"And that sacred object, it's a death warrant for someone like you who's only at the Qi Refining stage! Only I, only my Lin family, deserve to possess it! Hand it over, and I'll guarantee you a lifetime of wealth and honor. I swear this in the name of the eldest son of the Lin family."

Su Xuan walked up to him and looked down at him.

Lin Tianyu thought the other party was moved by the prospect he described, and the condescending expression on his face became even stronger. He struggled to make some more promises.

But he never had the chance to speak again.

A cold light flashed.

The broken blade that Su Xuan had casually picked up from the battlefield drew an extreme blood-red arc.

puff.

A proud head rolled to the ground, its smug expression frozen in time, bringing this farcical commotion to a complete end.

Su Xuan didn't even glance at the headless corpse again; he took out a small jade bottle from his storage ring.

He poured the liquid inside onto the corpse and the surrounding bloodstains.

Chi Chi Chi.

Acrid white smoke rose up, and both the corpses and bloodstains dissolved rapidly under the domineering corpse-dissolving water, leaving not a trace of their presence.

After doing all this, Su Xuan's figure transformed into an almost imperceptible afterimage and instantly disappeared into the night, fleeing into the depths of the boundless Hundred Thousand Mountains outside Thunder City.

The next morning, a caravan passing through the canyon discovered this hellish landscape that had been razed to the ground.

When the news reached Thunder City, it instantly triggered an unprecedented mega-earthquake.

The entire Thunder City was instantly sealed off, and countless golden-armored guards from the city lord's mansion surged onto the streets, a chilling atmosphere enveloping every corner.

Inside the city lord's mansion, thunderous roars nearly overturned the entire hall.

All the leaders of the four major families were summoned here, and they were all silent and trembling on the ground.

"Useless, all of them are useless!"

The Lord of Thunder City shattered the purple-gold nanmu wood table in front of him with a single palm strike, and the violent spiritual energy caused the entire hall to tremble.

Just then, an old man in a gray robe, whose aura was profound and seemed to be one with heaven and earth, slowly walked out from the back hall.

The Nascent Soul stage monster enshrined in the City Lord's Mansion.

The old man didn't say much, but simply stretched out his withered finger and gently tapped the void.

hum.

The air in the entire hall began to distort, time seemed to flow backward, and the tragic scenes in the canyon began to blur and reappear.

The scene was shattered and filled with a golden energy storm.

But in the end, the image was fixed on a figure dressed in a black robe and wearing a bamboo hat, who crippled the young master of the city lord's mansion with a single punch.

"Issue a top-level, blood-red wanted notice across the entire region. Find this person at all costs. I want him to suffer a fate worse than death!"

The city lord's roar echoed throughout the entire Thunder City.

The four major families were terrified the moment they saw the blurry image.

In order to clear themselves of suspicion of intercepting and killing the city lord's son, they acted even more furious than the city lord's mansion.

"This vile scoundrel dared to slaughter our clan elders and the city lord's son! He deserves to die a thousand deaths!"

"My Lin family will never coexist with this traitor!"

They immediately mobilized all their forces under the pretext of avenging their family members.

They dispatched all the elite experts they could muster, advancing madly towards the mountains in a massive fan shape.

They were determined to catch the murderer before the city lord's mansion could, and atone for their crime through meritorious service.

The Lin family mansion was draped in white mourning clothes.

Lin Wan'er knelt blankly in front of the mourning hall, her small face as pale as paper, without a trace of blood.

When the family elders told her that her beloved brother had been killed by Su Xuan.

She was completely stunned, as if struck by a bolt from the blue.

In her mind, she saw the image of Su Xuan rescuing her at the entrance of Tianbao Pavilion.

The image of her brother's cold memorial tablet constantly intertwined with her thoughts, tearing at her mind.

That past affection, that tangled guilt, fermented rapidly under the sway of family interests and blood ties, ultimately transforming into an extremely twisted hatred.

She slowly stood up and wiped away the tears on her face.

When she raised her head again, there was no trace of weakness in her clear almond-shaped eyes, only a chilling coldness and determination.

She took off her plain clothes and put on a smart black outfit.

He tied his long hair up high and picked up the long sword that his brother had loved most when he was alive.

She walked up to the solemn-faced head of the Lin family and bowed to ask for permission.

"Father, I request to lead the team and personally hunt down Su Xuan. I want to use his head to pay tribute to my elder brother's spirit in heaven."

Inside the live stream room of Blue Star, Dragon Kingdom.

All the spectators were furious as they watched the completely blackened figure in the sky.

"Holy crap, is this woman out of her mind? Su Shen saved her, and she turns around and tries to kill Su Xuan?"

"Ungrateful wretch! Utterly ungrateful! Her useless older brother deserved to die, what right does she have to seek revenge?"

"Ugh, the Lin family is rotten to the core. Su Shen shouldn't have been soft-hearted back then; it would have been better if she had been beaten to death by those wicked servants!"

"Stop cursing, brothers! This just proves Su Shen's judgment. In the cultivation world, any excessive kindness is fatal. Su Shen saw through all of this long ago!"

"That's right, if this woman goes after Su Xuan now, she'll only die faster. I can't wait to see Su Xuan turn the tables on her!"

Inside the forbidden area, Su Ruoruo looked at Lin Wan'er's hateful face in the sky and clenched her small hands tightly!

A massive, inescapable trap targeting Su Xuan was silently being set in motion across the vast and boundless Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Ahead lies a primeval forest fraught with danger, teeming with countless high-level demonic beasts.

Behind them were thousands of cultivators from the City Lord's Mansion and the four major families, pursuing them with endless killing intent.

Su Xuan is facing the most deadly and intractable crisis he has ever faced since his transmigration.