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

The focus shifts back to Earth, to the northwest of the Dragon Kingdom.

What was once a desolate Gobi Desert has now been completely transformed by a white mountain range stretching for hundreds of miles.

The mountain is entirely like jade, reflecting a soft white light under the sunlight.

Visible white mist cascaded down from the mountaintop, flowing over the mountainside and covering the yellow sand for miles around.

Where the fog passed, tender green grass sprouted on the parched sand.

Within hours, the grass sprouts grew wildly into shrubs half a person's height, and some unknown vines twined around the rocks at the foot of the mountain, blooming with strange flowers the size of fists.

What was once a desolate desert is transforming into a vibrant primeval forest at a speed that defies the laws of nature.

In the highest-level conference room of the Dragon Kingdom, the receiver of the red telephone was slammed down.

A calm and steady voice was transmitted through encrypted lines to every war zone and every department.

"Immediately launch the 'Kunlun' Project, the highest level mobilization order, to recruit top experts and teams in the fields of geological exploration and civil engineering nationwide, regardless of cost or salary. All personnel must depart within three hours. Target: Lingshan in the Northwest."

The moment the order was given, the entire Chinese internet went wild.

A forum called "Home of Civil Engineers" was overwhelmed and its servers crashed.

"Has anyone heard the news? The government is serious this time, offering exorbitant salaries to recruit people!"

"I just signed a confidentiality agreement. Northwest, codename Kunlun, I've never seen anything like this in my life!"

"The infrastructure powerhouse is ready to go into battle!"

"The glorious moment to beat the gray men has arrived! I'm fucking running away from the construction site right now!"

Countless messages flooded the screen, and countless phone calls were made incessantly.

Just one hour later, a steel torrent composed of heavy trucks, all-terrain survey vehicles, and giant excavators set off from all over the country.

Each truck was adorned with a bright red flag, kicking up clouds of dust as it sped towards the newly formed mountain range overnight.

Lingshan Mineral Vein No. 1 Exploration Site.

Chief Engineer Wang Jianguo stared intently at the special drilling rig worth tens of millions of yuan in front of him, at the top of the rig.

The diamond drill bit, made from the world's top-grade special alloy, is frantically drilling into the white rock wall in front of it at a high speed of three thousand revolutions per minute.

A screeching sound echoed through the valley, and sparks flew everywhere.

A few minutes later, the drill bit's rotation speed dropped sharply, emitting a mournful cry of despair.

The operator, sweating profusely, pulled up the control lever and retracted the drill bit.

Wang Jianguo rushed over in three strides, but after just one glance, he froze on the spot.

The drill bit, which was said to be able to drill through the earth's crust, had its tip completely shattered and melted into a twisted mass of scrap iron.

On the hard white rock face, only a white spot less than half a finger's width deep was left.

"Chief Engineer Wang, the hardness of this rock has exceeded the limits of current materials science."

A young technician's voice trembled.

Wang Jianguo didn't speak. He reached out and touched the cold rock wall. It felt warm and smooth to the touch, yet it was indestructible.

Ordinary excavation methods are completely ineffective here.

The progress is stuck.

When the news reached the Dragon Kingdom Research Institute, the entire building was brightly lit.

An elderly academician with white hair slammed his hand on the table.

"If conventional physical methods don't work, we'll use unconventional ones. We'll bring over all the 'psychic alloy' samples that we developed for the revival of spiritual energy and work overnight to produce new tunneling equipment."

Twenty-four hours later, a heavy transport plane roared down onto the Lingshan base.

A black, menacing-looking special excavator was hoisted down; its drill bit was no longer a traditional physical structure.

Instead, it was a cone-shaped metal object covered with strange patterns, its tip surrounded by a faint blue light.

Wang Jianguo personally took the driver's seat and started the machine, codenamed "Wallbreaker".

A bluish light shone at the tip of the drill bit, and this time, there was no harsh grinding sound.

The moment the drill bit touched the white rock wall, it silently disappeared into it, like a hot knife cutting through butter.

Even the most indestructible rock is as fragile as tofu in the face of psionic alloys.

"It's connected! It's connected!"

When the first mine shaft, 100 meters deep, was successfully opened, all the engineers and soldiers present threw down their tools and cheered.

A surge of spiritual energy, ten times more concentrated than that outside, gushed out from the cave entrance.

Immediately afterwards, the first batch of ore was carefully transported out.

It was a translucent crystal, each piece about the size of a fist, with what appeared to be flowing light inside, emitting a soft fluorescent glow.

Even during the day, the light was clearly visible, carrying a calming power.

"A low-grade spirit stone, this is a spirit stone."

With trembling hands, Wang Jianguo picked up a piece of something. Its crystal-clear brilliance stung the eyes of spies from various countries who were lurking hundreds of miles away, spying with high-powered binoculars.

The spirit stone was immediately sent to the mobile testing center at the rear.

Wearing protective goggles, the chief expert of the research institute placed a small fragment of a spirit stone into the energy analyzer.

The numbers on the screen began to skyrocket.

"Report! The energy index has surpassed one million, ten million, and one hundred million!"

"It's still rising!"

The chief expert ripped off his glasses, stared intently at the still-changing number, and trembled with excitement.

He rushed to the communication equipment and reported to his superiors in a hoarse voice.

"The test results are in. Preliminary estimates suggest that the stable and controllable energy contained in a single low-grade spirit stone is more than three hundred times the total energy output of our most advanced nuclear fission reactor!"

"This isn't energy, this is a miracle!"

When the news spread, the entire command center fell into a three-second silence, followed by thunderous cheers.

The order was issued again.

"High-level armed escort, all mined spirit stones will be immediately sent to the national treasury."

Heavy trucks, heavily armored, drove into the mine, loading load after load of spirit stones.

As the convoy drove out of the base, eight armed helicopters circled overhead to escort it, while on the ground, an elite squad of fully armed individuals with newly awakened superpowers stood on either side of the convoy.

China's strategic resource reserves are increasing at a rate that is beyond the comprehension of the rest of the world.

That evening, the official spokesperson for the Dragon Kingdom stood in front of the cameras broadcasting live worldwide, smiling, and announced two pieces of news.

"First, the Dragon Kingdom will immediately launch the 'Heavenly Sword' project to develop a new generation of spiritual energy weapons using new spiritual stone energy."

"Secondly, starting next semester, 'Basic Theories of Cultivation for All' will be a compulsory course and formally incorporated into the national nine-year compulsory education textbooks."

As soon as the news broke, thousands of homes across the Dragon Kingdom lit up, and the whole country rejoiced.

Countless netizens spontaneously flooded into the forbidden live stream room, frantically spamming the screen with comments like "Thank you, God Su" and "May Ruoruo bless us." Some even used photo editing software to create electronic statues of Su Xuan and Su Ruoruo, which they then shared on various forums to pray for them.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, in the United States, at the Pentagon.

In the huge conference room, a group of men wearing general's stars looked at the screen at the spirit stone convoy being escorted by a large number of soldiers, with ashtrays piled high with cigarette butts.

The white-haired old man sitting at the head of the table forcefully stubbed out his cigar, his voice hoarse.

"Are our spy satellites still unable to capture any specific images of that mountain?"

"Reporting to the general, the Dragon Kingdom has set up full-band signal jamming in that area. As soon as our satellites get close, their signals are distorted by an unknown energy field, and we can't see anything."

"waste."

The old man uttered two words, then turned to look at the smiling face of the Dragon Kingdom spokesperson on the screen, his eyes so gloomy they could drip water.

At the same time, in Tokyo, the land of cherry blossoms.

At the headquarters of the Shadow Consortium, Miyamoto Hanzo cleaved the mahogany table in front of him with a single stroke, shattering the tea set on the floor.

The top leaders of major global powers collectively suffered from insomnia that night.

Panic and greed grew wildly in their hearts like weeds.

Northwest of the Dragon Kingdom lies the sacred Kunlun Mountains.

The night was as dark as ink; there was no moon, no stars.

Faced with the terrifying prospect of the Dragon Kingdom using the Lingshan mineral vein to achieve a dimensional reduction in national power, the Western alliance, including the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, could no longer sit still.

A shameless agreement targeting the Dragon Kingdom's spirit stones was secretly reached.

Dozens of ghostly figures moved at high speed through the pitch-black night, silent and stealthy, like phantoms blending into the darkness.

Invisibility, earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a term used to describe a technique or method of teleportation), and spatial jumps—the most elite special agents from various countries mobilized in droves that night, their target being the defenses of the Lingshan mine.

However, they stepped into a well-laid trap.

"The target has entered Skynet Zone 1."

"Dragon Group, prepare."

In the temporary command post on the outskirts of the mining area, cold instructions were issued through an encrypted channel.

The next second, hundreds of camouflaged probes simultaneously lit up with a ghostly blue light on the flat sand, and a giant net made of psionic energy rose from the ground, instantly covering an area of ​​ten miles in radius.

"We've been discovered!"

"Break through!"

A gasp erupted from the Alliance agents, and various supernatural lights exploded in the darkness.

Their response was a dense barrage of flames.

Fully armed special forces from the Dragon Kingdom emerged from behind the sand dunes, their specially crafted psionic bullets trailing long tracers, weaving a deadly web of fire.

An S-class fire-type ability user from the United States roared, raised his hands high, and a huge fireball with a diameter of more than ten meters condensed above his head, emitting a temperature high enough to melt steel.

He intends to use this sea of ​​fire to directly destroy the mine entrance and create chaos.

"Don't even think about it!"

A cold female voice rang out, and an S-class ice-type ability user from the Dragon Group of the Dragon Kingdom descended from the sky. She pressed her hands down, and a huge ice wall rose from the ground, blocking the fireball.

The collision of ice and fire produced no loud noise, only an eerie silence.

Subsequently, a terrifying energy shockwave spread out, leveling dozens of surrounding hills.

On the other side, several Jonin agents from the Sakura Kingdom formed hand seals and sank into the ground, attempting to use Earth Release techniques to bypass the main battlefield and directly infiltrate the mine to steal a box of newly mined top-grade spirit stones.

Inside the command center, on an instrument screen, several red dots were moving rapidly underground.

"The 'Psionic Band Detector' has locked onto the target."

"Coordinates have been sent to firing point number three."

"Fire."

The cold command was given.

The next moment, the ground where the Jonin were about to emerge was instantly covered by dozens of specially made heavy armor-piercing bullets.

The mud mixed with blood and flesh shot into the sky, turning the land into a sieve, and not even a scream could be heard.

The spy war has reached its climax.

Blood stained the land surrounding the mining area.

The United States, the Pentagon.

The white-haired old man stared intently at the stalemate on the screen, unaware that his cigar had burned out.

"Useless! A bunch of useless trash! So many people, and they can't even break through one of the Dragon Kingdom's defenses!"

Tokyo, the land of cherry blossoms.

At the headquarters of the Shadow Foundation, Miyamoto Hanzo watched the screen as several Jonin were instantly killed, his katana humming under the strain.

The Dragon Kingdom's defenses were impregnable, but faced with the relentless onslaught of elite troops from multiple countries, casualties continued to rise, and the defenses began to show signs of strain.

The situation on Earth is on the verge of exploding.

A third world war, capable of engulfing the entire globe, seems poised to erupt at any moment due to the struggle for spirit stones.

At this critical moment, in every corner of the world, in the sky above everyone's head, the long-silent forbidden light curtain suddenly underwent a strange change.

A blinding red light burst forth from the center of the light screen, like a blood-red sun, illuminating the entire night as bright as day.

Whether it was the agents engaged in fierce combat or the high-ranking officials from various countries directing operations from thousands of miles away, everyone's actions came to a standstill at this moment.

A grand, cold, emotionless mechanical voice, like a divine decree, resounded throughout the world.

The second phase of the competition for national destiny has officially begun!

The agents on both sides, who were exchanging fire, subconsciously stopped what they were doing, looked up at the sky, their eyes filled with tension and confusion.

The eyes of everyone in the world were instantly drawn back to the sky.

The cold, mechanical voice didn't stop, and solemnly announced the name of the new list.

[The Third National Fortune Ranking - The Brotherhood Battle King Ranking!]

As soon as he finished speaking, crimson light condensed into several large, gilded characters on the sky.

Brotherly Battle King! Leaderboard!

On the battlefield, a Chinese soldier and an American agent were less than five meters apart. Both were holding their guns, but neither had pulled the trigger. They were just staring blankly at the words in the sky.