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

Wang Zhenhe's body crashed into a dead tree thirty feet away, the trunk splitting open and sending splinters flying.

He knelt amidst the pile of rubble, spitting out mouthfuls of blood. A huge, charred hole was burned into his robe, his flesh turned inside out, and the protective aura that Golden Core cultivators were so proud of was completely destroyed under the combined onslaught of water and fire.

His triangular eyes were wide open and bloodshot as he stared intently at the young man who was walking slowly towards him from ten feet away.

Mid-stage of foundation building.

It was clearly a spiritual energy fluctuation at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

But the power of that attack was several times more terrifying than his full-force attack. What kind of monster is this?

"No, impossible," Wang Zhenhe staggered back three steps, his legs going weak.

"You've only been in seclusion for a year and a half, how could you possibly be this strong!"

Su Xuan did not answer, his steps were neither fast nor slow as he walked on the gravel, his left eye was golden-red and his right eye was ice-blue, the two kinds of spiritual power intertwined and flowed on his body.

Wang Zhenhe felt a chill run down his spine as he looked into those heterochromatic eyes.

A year and a half ago, when he set up a blockade around the poisonous swamp, this kid in front of him was just an ant who had just entered the early stage of Foundation Establishment. He was too lazy to even take action himself, and just waited for Lin Changfeng to force the person to his death inside so that he could reap the benefits.

Now that Lin Changfeng is dead, that ant has become a beast even stronger than him.

can not fight.

We can't beat them.

At that moment, Wang Zhenhe made the fastest decision of his life. His golden core circulated wildly, and all his spiritual power poured into his legs. He turned and ran.

"You want to leave now?"

Su Xuan's voice came from behind, cold and devoid of any warmth.

"It's too late."

With a stomp of his foot, the dual spiritual energy of water and fire exploded simultaneously beneath his feet. Crimson and icy blue light tore through the ground, and he instantly traversed a distance of a hundred feet, pressing down from above Wang Zhenhe's head.

Wang Zhenhe's pupils reflected the figure swooping down, his scalp tingled, and before he could even change direction to dodge, a punch had already landed.

Samadhi True Fire coiled around the fist, and the extremely cold water condensed into a layer of icy blue spiral around the flames. The two completely opposite forces intertwined and slammed into his back with a devastating impact.

boom!

The ground exploded, sending debris flying dozens of feet high. Wang Zhenhe was slammed into the ground by the punch, creating a huge crater five feet in diameter and two feet deep.

At the bottom of the pit, Wang Zhenhe lay sprawled in the rubble, his spine broken in three places, his internal organs shattered into a paste by the shock of that punch, and blood gushing from his seven orifices, staining the surrounding soil dark red.

He is not dead yet.

The vitality of a Golden Core cultivator allowed him to struggle. His trembling right hand reached for the storage bag at his waist, and his fingertips touched the restriction patterns on the bag's opening.

Inside was a long-distance teleportation talisman, a life-saving trump card he had acquired from the black market for eight thousand high-grade spirit stones. It could instantly teleport him a thousand miles away simply by crushing it.

My fingers just slipped into the bag.

A foot stepped down.

Click.

The sound of bones breaking and tendons snapping echoed from the bottom of the pit. Wang Zhenhe's right arm was brutally broken at the elbow joint, and his hand hung limply in the broken soil, the fingers of the severed arm still twitching unconsciously.

"what!"

Wang Zhenhe let out a scream, the sinister look in his triangular eyes shattered completely, leaving only the fear of death of a dying old man.

"Spare me, spare my life! I'm willing to hand over all my possessions, please..."

Su Xuan looked down at the old man at the bottom of the pit, his face covered in blood, without any extra emotion.

After waiting for a year and a half, just to ambush a junior in the Foundation Establishment stage, he even lost his underwear and begged for mercy.

A thin sword aura condensed at his fingertips, the water and fire spiritual energy compressed to the extreme, gleaming with an eerie purple light.

The sword energy fell silently, piercing through Wang Zhenhe's brow and exiting from the back of his head, turning the golden core inside his body into dust.

Wang Zhenhe's body convulsed violently for a moment, then remained completely still.

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The barrage of comments had turned into a pure white waterfall.

"Two punches! From start to finish, just two punches and a sword aura. The early-stage Golden Core cultivator didn't even have a chance to fight back!"

"After waiting a year and a half, his death has finally arrived. Patriarch Wang has essentially dug his own grave!"

"A mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator instantly defeating an early-stage Golden Core cultivator—I'm at a loss for words to describe Su Shen!"

"The Lin family head is dead, the Wang family head is dead, the two major families of Thunder City have been wiped out today, brothers!"

Su Xuan jumped down into the pit, squatted down next to Wang Zhenhe's corpse, skillfully untied the storage bag from his waist, and then took a jade-green storage ring from the middle finger of his right hand.

The divine sense probed in, and the restriction shattered instantly under the crushing force of the Samadhi True Fire.

The contents of the storage bag were fewer than those of the Lin family head, but the quality was no worse. There were 12,000 high-grade spirit stones, more than 20 bottles of various pills, and more than a dozen magical artifacts.

Inside the storage ring were more private items: three jade slips neatly arranged.

The first one is a water-based supernatural power at the Golden Core stage: the Azure Wave Technique.

The second item is a set of formation insights.

Next to the third jade slip, there was a palm-sized silver talisman, its surface covered with dense spatial patterns, emitting faint spatial fluctuations.

Long-distance teleportation scroll.

Su Xuan took the talisman in his hand and examined it. The talisman was of extremely high quality, and the teleportation distance was at least three thousand miles.

Good stuff. I'll take it.

He put all his spoils into his storage ring, stood up, and was about to leave the deep pit.

Deep within his mind, his powerful divine sense suddenly trembled.

Su Xuan paused, looking up towards the northeast.

The direction of Thunder City.

It was so powerful it was suffocating; the level of its spiritual energy fluctuations far exceeded that of the Golden Core stage. It was the pressure being released by a higher-dimensional life form.

Nascent Soul stage.

The old monster in the Thunder City Lord's Mansion has made a move.

The spiritual energy fluctuations caused by the successive deaths of two Golden Core cultivators alarmed those old fogies, and a Nascent Soul stage aura was approaching this place at an alarming speed!

Without a second's hesitation, Su Xuan took out the silver teleportation talisman from his storage ring and poured spiritual power into it.

The spatial patterns on the surface of the talisman lit up instantly, and silver light overflowed from the talisman, forming a rotating spatial vortex around him.

Ten breaths.

Twenty breaths.

On the horizon, a golden streak of light tore through the clouds and plummeted toward this place at breakneck speed, carrying with it an overwhelming pressure.

Su Xuan crushed the teleportation talisman.

A burst of silvery spatial light erupted around him, and his figure rapidly faded, blurred, and dissipated within the light.

The moment the golden light landed above the pit, Su Xuan's figure had completely vanished, leaving only an empty pit with Wang Zhenhe's corpse, pierced through the center of his forehead, at the bottom.

Within the forbidden area.

Su Ruo collapsed to the ground, her clenched hands finally loosening, revealing crescent-shaped blood marks on her fingertips from pinching herself.

"They're gone, they've left."

She repeated it twice, as if all her strength had been drained away.

Anna exclaimed in shock.

"Your brother is too powerful! A Golden Core cultivator is like paper in front of him, he killed them in two hits!"

Victoria leaned against a withered tree, her arms crossed, her long golden hair cascading down her shoulders, a complex emotion flickering in her azure eyes.

"Even Nascent Soul stage cultivators were alarmed. If he had left even a moment later, the outcome would have been completely different."

Alice sat on the high rock platform with her legs crossed, her emerald eyes fixed on the fading silver specks in the sky, muttering something under her breath.

"The teleportation talismans were just taken from the dead and used to escape immediately. This man's utilization rate of loot is too high."

A burst of silver light shattered, and space twisted and tore at Su Xuan's body!

A violent wave of dizziness surged from the depths of my mind, churning my internal organs, and my vision was filled with shattered fragments of space and blinding white light.

I don't know how much time passed, but suddenly my feet felt solid.

Su Xuan slammed one knee into a blue rock, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. He swayed a couple of times before regaining his balance.

The spatial turbulence of the teleportation talisman had a significant impact on the body of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, causing the spiritual energy in their meridians to become a chaotic mess.

He looked up and glanced around.

All around were unfamiliar mountain ranges, verdant and continuous, with a spiritual energy concentration far exceeding that of Thunder City, and a thick, heavy earth-elemental spiritual energy permeated the air. Completely unfamiliar terrain, a place never before visited.

The teleportation talisman is sent randomly, and its landing point is uncontrollable.

At least we're far enough away from Thunder City that that Nascent Soul stage monster can't catch up.

Su Xuan took out a bottle of recovery pills from his storage ring and swallowed them. He sat cross-legged and regulated his breathing for half an hour until the spiritual energy in his meridians was no longer disordered before standing up.

He deliberately suppressed the fluctuations of spiritual energy around him, pressing all the water and fire attribute auras deep into his dantian, leaving only a very weak layer of spiritual energy overflowing from his body surface, making him look no different from a rogue cultivator who had just broken through to the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

After walking along the edge of the mountain range for most of the day, a small, gray town appeared in the distance. The city walls were low, and the flow of people coming and going was a mixture of cultivators and mortals. Occasionally, a few fluctuations of spiritual energy from the Foundation Establishment stage would flash by.

Su Xuan changed into a gray coarse cloth robe, carried a worn-out iron sword on his back, and swaggered into the city gate.

The liveliest place in the city was a three-story restaurant with the words "Drunken Immortal Abode" written on its sign. Inside and outside the restaurant, people dressed as cultivators gathered in twos and threes to drink and chat.

Su Xuan found a corner to sit down and tossed two low-grade spirit stones to the waiter.

"A pot of spirit wine, and two more dishes."

The waiter took the spirit stone with a wide smile, and eagerly brought over wine and dishes, his mouth as smooth as if it were coated with oil.

"Sir, are you a wandering cultivator from out of town? Is this your first time visiting our Iron Mine City?"

Su Xuan nodded, poured himself a glass of wine, and slowly drank it.

"Where is this place, and which government is in charge?"

The waiter patted his chest.

"Hey, this is the heart of the Eastern Wilderness. Our Iron Mine City and the surrounding area of ​​three thousand miles are all under the jurisdiction of the Vajra Sect, which is one of the top two sects in the Eastern Wilderness!"

Su Xuan's mind raced!

"The Vajra Sect? A body cultivation sect?"

"You have good taste, sir!" the waiter exclaimed excitedly in a low voice.

"The Vajra Sect is renowned throughout the world for its body cultivation techniques. It's said that a Grand Elder at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage is presiding over the sect, making its foundation unfathomable. Most importantly, the Vajra Sect is currently opening its gates wide to recruit outer disciples, and most of the cultivators in the city are here for that reason!"

Su Xuan held his wine glass without moving.

A bearded monk at the next table chimed in.

"Don't listen to his boasting. The Vajra Sect has a high threshold for recruitment. Those below the Foundation Establishment stage are not even qualified to apply. Going there would be a wasted trip."

“That’s right,” another tall, thin monk chimed in.

"I heard that they're recruiting 300 people this time, but there are at least five or six thousand applicants. They'll pick one out of a dozen or so."

Su Xuan put down his wine cup and took out another spirit stone from his pocket, pushing it to the waiter.

How do I register?

The waiter took the spirit stone with a beaming smile.

"The assessment at Dengyuntai, thirty miles east of the city, will begin the day after tomorrow at Chenshi (7-9 AM). If you wish to go, you will have to set off tomorrow."

Su Xuan tossed down two spirit stones to pay the bill, then got up and left the restaurant.

The Vajra School's physical cultivation methods are just right.

The tempering of the Asura Divine Body requires a large amount of body cultivation resources, and the unorthodox methods that are pieced together on one's own are too inefficient.

The Vajra School is an orthodox physical cultivation sect, and any book taken out of the library is better than those outside.

Moreover, the sects are powerful, and cultivating within them is a hundred times safer than being a rogue cultivator outside.

The only problem is that we can't reveal our true cultivation level. Otherwise, if a Foundation Establishment mid-stage genius of unknown origin infiltrates the sect, a little investigation will reveal the problem.

In the early stages of foundation building, everything was done in a conventional and unremarkable manner, attracting little attention.

This is the safest disguise.

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The comments were scattered sparsely.

"Su Shen is actually planning to join a sect??"

"What's this called? This is the ultimate survival strategy! Let's play it safe and develop our strength first!"

"The Vajra Sect's body cultivation techniques combined with the Asura Divine Body—wouldn't that be incredible?"

"The key point is that he disguised himself as a beginner in the early stage of Foundation Establishment. It's hilarious. He has the Samadhi True Fire of the mid-stage Foundation Establishment with dual water and fire attributes, capable of burning the heavens and boiling the seas, and the Asura Divine Body. He's disguised himself as a newbie. The contrast is too great."

The video on the dome continues playing!

Two days later, we ascended to the Cloud Terrace.

Su Xuan blended into the vast crowd of applicants, his coarse, gray robe and broken iron sword hanging diagonally on his back, making him inconspicuous among the five or six thousand people in the line.

The assessment consists of three stages.

The first test is the spiritual power test. You need to pour your spiritual power into a spiritual power testing stone and reach the Foundation Establishment stage standard to pass.

Su Xuan controlled the output of spiritual power, which was only at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. The testing stone lit up with a faint white light, just passing the test.

The second test was a physical fitness test, where participants had to smash an ironwood target with their bare hands. Su Xuan threw a punch, and the target shattered, just the same amount as the others who passed.

The third challenge is practical combat training.

Opposite him was a rogue cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment, with a burly build, who immediately charged forward, swinging his iron fists.

Su Xuan deliberately held back, dodging and weaving for more than twenty moves before finally finding a dangerous angle to punch his opponent in the chest, sending him flying off the stage.

Not the best, not the worst, just average.

The Vajra Sect deacon in charge of the assessment glanced at him and circled him on the roster without expression.

"Passed. Go to the right to collect your outer gate token."

Su Xuan accepted a bronze outer sect token and was then assigned to a stone cave dwelling on the seventh peak of the Vajra Sect's outer sect, following the crowd.

The cave dwelling is not large, about twenty square meters, and the concentration of spiritual energy is average.

enough.

He closed the stone door, took out Wang Zhenhe's jade slip from his storage ring, and probed it with his divine sense. The contents of the Canglan Technique were displayed in his mind.

The water-based supernatural powers of the Golden Core stage, combined with the water-based primordial power refined by the Water-Avoiding Pearl, are perfect for honing the foundation of water-based cultivation techniques.

In the days that followed, Su Xuan lived a very regular life.

I get up early to complete the basic tasks assigned by the sect, which are nothing more than chores like cleaning mountain paths and moving ore. In the afternoon, I return to my cave to cultivate the Canglan Technique, and in the evening, I temper the Asura Divine Body.

Three days, five days, ten days.

The disciples of the seventh peak of the outer sect gradually noticed this new gray-robed rogue cultivator, who stayed in his cave all day without coming out, and did not make friends with anyone, living like a shadow.

Day 15.

A commotion arose outside Su Xuan's cave.

"New guy, come out here!"

Three disciples dressed in outer sect blue robes blocked the entrance. The one in the lead, a square-faced burly man, crossed his arms and held his chin high.

Su Xuan pushed open the stone door and walked out, glancing at the three of them.

The square-faced giant was named Zhao Hu, an old disciple of the seventh peak of the outer sect. He was at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage and had been a disciple for two years but had not yet been promoted to the inner sect. He made a living by bullying new disciples and collecting their gifts.

"Do you understand the rules? Newcomers to the peak must hand over five spirit stones every month, otherwise life will be difficult."

Su Xuan leaned against the door frame.

"Article 17 of the sect rules states that outer disciples are prohibited from forcibly collecting money from each other. Violators will be punished with one hundred strokes of the cane and confined for three months."

Zhao Hu's face stiffened for a moment.

The two followers behind him exchanged glances, neither of them expecting that this newcomer, a pushover, would be able to recite the clan rules so well.

"You son of a bitch," Zhao Hu stepped forward.

"You think citing clan rules will stop you from doing anything?"

Su Xuan didn't move, but pointed to a corner above the cave dwelling. There, embedded in the ground was a jade stone the size of a thumb, its surface gleaming with a faint spiritual light. It was a monitoring jade that the sect had placed outside each cave dwelling.

Zhao Hu followed his finger and froze.

Once the surveillance equipment records a violent act, the patrol officers can see the footage on the same day.

"Let's go." Su Xuan turned and went back to his cave. The stone door slowly closed in front of the three of them.

Zhao Hu stood outside, his face ashen, and after a long while, he left cursing and grumbling with his two henchmen.

After that, two more groups of people arrived. One group was a small group that wanted to recruit him, and the other group was Zhao Hu trying to cause trouble in a different way. Su Xuan rebuked them all with the sect rules and regulations without expending any spiritual energy.

Three months later.

The Vajra Sect's outer sect holds quarterly competitions, through which outer sect disciples can qualify for promotion to inner sect.

Su Xuan stood on the arena, facing an outer disciple at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage. The disciple had entered the sect a year earlier than Su Xuan, possessed a good physique, and fought with impressive strength and skill.

Su Xuan was forced back three steps by the opponent's iron fist. He dodged a heavy hammer by turning to the side, stumbled, and almost fell. Using the momentum of the fall, he punched the opponent in the ribs.

The opponent grunted and flew backward off the stage.

The deacon below the stage nodded and made a note in the book without any expression.

"Su Xuan, promoted to Inner Sect."

The bronze outer gate token was taken back and replaced with a silver inner gate token.

The newly assigned cave dwelling is located halfway up the third peak of the inner sect. It is three times the size of the outer sect's dwelling, and the concentration of spiritual energy is several times greater. It is also equipped with a small spirit-gathering array.

Su Xuan closed the stone door of his new cave dwelling, casually tossed the silver token onto the stone table, and sat down cross-legged.

Inner disciples can enter the second floor of the Sutra Repository, where the Vajra Sect's secret body cultivation methods, passed down for thousands of years, are located.

The resources for the next stage of tempering the Asura Divine Body are in place.

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"Su Shen's acting skills are amazing! He pretended to be weak the whole time, and no one discovered his true strength!"

"It cracked me up when Zhao Hu got shut down by the sect rules. His local bullying tactics just don't work on someone like Su Shen who understands the rules!"

"The key point is the Sutra Repository, brothers! The Vajra Sect's body cultivation secrets, passed down for thousands of years, combined with the Asura Divine Body—if you practice that, maybe it's not a dream for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator, right?"