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

On the fourth day of the battle, the situation was completely out of control.

The Nascent Soul patriarch of the Vajra Sect finally made his move. A golden spiritual pressure that soared into the sky swept over the rear of the army, tearing a gap of several hundred feet in the clouds above the Sky Rift Plain. Sunlight mixed with the aftershocks of spiritual energy poured down, and the Foundation Establishment cultivators who were still fighting on the ground were so pressured that their knees buckled and they collapsed indiscriminately, friend or foe.

Two Golden Core Peak cultivators and one Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator from Qingmu Valley were forced to meet the attack. The four figures collided at a height of ten thousand feet, and the aftershocks of their spells rippled outwards in circles. Each clash carved a furrow dozens of feet long into the plain.

Su Xuan crouched behind a rock and glanced up at the battle scene in the sky.

With the Nascent Soul Ancestor taking action, all of Qingmu Valley's high-level combat power was tied down, creating a vacuum zone several miles long in the middle and lower-level defense lines behind them. The patrolling cultivators, who were originally in groups of three, were now scattered in small groups, with the intervals between them reduced to the limit of what the naked eye could see.

This is the only window.

Su Xuan took out a concealment talisman from the cloth pocket at his waist. The moment he poured spiritual power into it, his aura completely disappeared from this world, and even the spiritual power fluctuations on his body surface were compressed to almost zero.

With a sudden drop in height, it disappeared into the smoke and dust at the edge of the battlefield, heading towards the heart of Greenwood Valley.

Among the ancient books I rummaged through three years ago, one record kept appearing: the treasure of Qingmu Valley is a piece of the heartwood of a ten-thousand-year-old Jianmu tree, the finest of the wood-type sacred objects, which is stored on a jade platform in the deepest part of the sect's treasury.

The Five Elements Foundation Building Method is still missing the Wood and Earth elements. Now that this opportunity has been presented to us, we shouldn't be foolish.

Su Xuan pushed his speed to the limit, and the explosive power of the Asura Divine Body was completely transformed into displacement at this moment. His gray figure flew close to the ground, and he did not even disturb a speck of dust when he passed through the three patrol lines.

Fifteen minutes later.

The first layer of restrictions surrounding the Qingmu Valley Treasure Vault came into view. A green light curtain extended from the ground into the air, its densely interwoven patterns and the frequency of spiritual energy flow was extremely fast.

Su Xuan didn't stop. He condensed a Gengjin sword aura in his right hand. The white-gold sharp light precisely cut into the gaps in the restriction patterns and found the weakest point in the flow of spiritual energy.

laugh.

The barrier light began to shatter from that point, silently spreading to both sides, and within three breaths, a gap large enough for a person to pass through appeared.

Second layer, third layer, fourth layer.

Each layer of the restriction has a different structure, but the principle remains the same: spiritual energy always has a weak point in its flow. As long as you find that point, even the hardest shell can be pried open. In his 30,000-year reign as an emperor, the number of restrictions and formations he has broken is longer than the entire existence of the Green Wood Valley sect.

The moment the fifth layer of restrictions was torn open, a stone door appeared before them.

Before the stone gate, a gaunt old man sat cross-legged, surrounded by rich wood-elemental spiritual energy, with emerald green light flowing endlessly across his body.

Peak of the Golden Core stage.

The old man opened his eyes the instant the barrier was broken. His cloudy old eyes flashed with a sharp light as he stared at the gray-robed youth who had appeared out of nowhere. The astonishment on his face lasted for less than half a breath before being replaced by rage.

"Who dares to trespass into my Green Wood Valley's treasure vault!"

Su Xuan did not answer.

There wasn't enough time. It was uncertain how long the battle at the front could last. Once the Nascent Soul Elder of Qingmu Valley escaped to reinforce, he would be doomed in this place.

Simultaneously activating the three elements of spiritual power, water, fire, and metal light exploded on his body. The Asura Divine Body operated at full power, his muscle fibers expanding to their limit. With one step, the stone slab shattered, and his entire body transformed into a blur as he rushed straight towards the stone gate.

The elder guarding the pavilion was furious. He pushed forward with both palms, and a phantom of a giant, emerald-green tree, hundreds of feet tall, appeared behind him. Countless wood-type vines shot out from the phantom and swept over Su Xuan.

Su Xuan didn't stop moving. Samadhi True Fire surged out from his left hand. The crimson flames collided with the emerald green vines. With a hiss, a large number of vines turned to ashes, but the vines kept replenishing the supply, and the density became greater and greater.

A poisonous vine, as thick as a thumb, stabbed from the side with incredible speed.

Su Xuan dodged to the side, avoiding a fatal wound, but the poisonous vine pierced through his left shoulder, protruding from his chest to his back, with dark green venom seeping into the wound.

pain.

The deadly poison spread through the meridians, and the Asura God Body's self-healing instinct began to fight against the toxin. The muscle tissue in the left shoulder ulcerated and repaired at a visible speed, only to ulcerate again.

But Su Xuan did not retreat.

Taking advantage of the moment the poisonous vine pierced his shoulder, he propelled himself forward three zhang (approximately 10 meters), directly cutting within three feet of the elder guarding the pavilion.

Stick it to your face.

The elder guarding the pavilion's pupils contracted sharply. This distance was a death zone for a wood-type cultivator skilled in long-range suppression. He wanted to retreat, but it was too late.

Su Xuan raised two fingers of his right hand together, and the Gengjin sword energy condensed to its extreme at his fingertips. The white-gold sharp light twisted and compressed with the crimson Samadhi True Fire, and the two completely different forces merged into a fist-sized fire lotus in a small space.

Destruction Lotus.

This fire lotus had no fancy light effects; only a pure aura of destruction emanated from it, and the surrounding air evaporated the moment it came into contact with it.

The elder guarding the pavilion's expression changed drastically, and his spiritual power surged out wildly, piling up layer upon layer of wood-type shields in front of him.

Su Xuan's left fist slammed out under the cover of the fire lotus.

The wood-type shield shattered.

The first layer, the second layer, the third layer—all shattered.

The fist, still carrying the afterglow of the fiery lotus, pierced through the chest of the elder guarding the pavilion. His five fingers sank into the elder's body, precisely grasping the golden core that was spinning wildly in his dantian.

crumb.

Click.

The elder guarding the pavilion stiffened abruptly, the light in his eyes visibly fading as he fell backward, fragments of his golden core mixed with blood and internal organs spilling from the gaping hole in his chest.

boom.

The body lay motionless in front of the stone gate.

Su Xuan withdrew his fist, flicking away the bloodstains between his fingers. The poisonous vine wound on his left shoulder was still oozing dark green pus. His Asura Divine Body was accelerating its repair, but he didn't have time to wait.

He kicked the stone door open.

The treasure vault passage was filled with a bright spiritual light, and the shelves on both sides were filled with all kinds of pills, magical artifacts, and spirit stones, but Su Xuan didn't even glance at them and rushed straight to the deepest part.

At the end of the passage stood a jade platform.

Above the jade platform floated a three-inch-long piece of emerald green wood core. The patterns on its surface were incredibly fine, and a rich, almost liquid vitality emanated from the wood core, dyeing the entire depths of the treasure vault emerald green.

The heartwood of a ten-thousand-year-old Jianmu tree.

Su Xuan stood in front of the jade platform, extended his right hand, closed his five fingers, and grasped the piece of wood in his palm.

The overwhelming life force surged through his skin and into his body, colliding violently with the water, fire, and metal elemental energies within him. His dantian trembled violently, and Su Xuan groaned as he forcefully stuffed the wooden heart into his storage ring to suppress the turmoil within his body.

hum.

At this moment, all the alarm arrays in the entire treasure vault were activated, and a piercing shriek resounded for miles around, while a crimson warning beam shot into the sky.

Su Xuan turned around, waved his sleeve, and swept his spiritual power across the shelves on both sides. Pills, magic tools, spirit stones, anything that could be collected was rolled into his storage ring. His movements were clean and efficient, and within three breaths, everything was gone.

In the distance, several powerful spiritual pressures were rapidly approaching, one of which had already reached the edge of the Nascent Soul level.

coming.

Su Xuan took out a teleportation talisman from his pocket. The moment he poured spiritual power into it, the array patterns on the surface of the talisman lit up with white light.

At the entrance to the treasure vault, two figures landed almost simultaneously, a man and a woman, both at the peak of the Golden Core stage. Upon seeing the corpse of the guardian elder on the ground and the looted shelves, their expressions twisted in shock.

"who!"

The white light completely engulfed Su Xuan's figure. He slightly twitched his lips and, at the last moment before the teleportation talisman was activated, casually raised his chin towards the two elders.

A burst of white light.

The person is gone.

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The comments section went completely crazy.

"Su Shen, you're really daring! Taking advantage of the two sides' war, you directly raided their base!"

"That Fire Lotus punched through the peak of the Golden Core stage; its combat power is beyond what the Foundation Establishment stage can explain."

"I've got the Wood-type sacred artifact. I'm only missing Earth from the Five Elements. Once I have it all, can I summon the dragon?"

"What did that last chin-lifting gesture mean, Su Shen? Was that polite of you?"

"When those two peak Golden Core cultivators arrived, Su Shen had already fled. I could laugh at their expressions for a year."

forbidden.

Su Ruo jumped up, clutching her chest with both hands, her heart pounding wildly.

She only dared to breathe the moment the white light exploded in the sky. Four days had passed since the Crimson Summoning Order appeared, and she had barely closed her eyes.

"It ran away, it fell." She squatted down, her forehead resting on her knees, her shoulders trembling, whether from lingering fear or something else, she didn't know.