Madara formed hand seals, preparing to unleash his ninjutsu. "Wood Release: World of Trees..."
"Wait!" Lin Xiaoran suddenly interrupted Madara's casting.
"What is it?" Madara turned his head.
"Who told you to use Wood Release?"
"What else would I use?" Madara looked puzzled.
"That's Hashirama Senju's ultimate move. What does it have to do with you?"
"...Once it's in my hands, isn't it mine?" Did they really need to draw a line between his and someone else's? Madara was speechless, then asked, "What do you want me to use, then?"
"Tengai Shinsei! That's a Rinnegan ability, isn't it?" Lin Xiaoran reminded him.
"It is...but there are other techniques. Limbo: Border Jail would work too." Tengai Shinsei wasn't the only technique he could perform with the Rinnegan.
Planetary Devastation would work as well.
Madara had watched his own performance in the Shinobi World War yesterday. If he entered the Sage of Six Paths state, he could unleash several Planetary Devastation spheres whenever he wanted.
"Now that's where you don't get it. Only you can see Limbo: Border Jail. Nobody else can, so you need a more powerful technique with a bigger spectacle!"
"...Fine, I'll listen to you." Madara seemed to understand Lin Xiaoran's thinking. It was actually just like his desire to show off Wood Release-to give everyone a surprise, a shock!
"Hey! What are you two talking about? Are we fighting or not?!" Seeing Lin Xiaoran and Madara chatting, not taking them seriously at all, Sophia flew into a rage!
"I should be asking you that. Aren't you the ones who should be in a hurry to attack?" Lin Xiaoran said with a smile.
"Hmph!" Sophia's face alternated between red and white.
Being treated with such contempt felt awful!
Especially since, in the real world, she was a noble young lady. No one had ever dared look down on her like this!
"Get ready, everyone! Attack together!" Sophia shouted, sending her Heroic Spirit, the Stone Giant, charging out first.
The others saw this and understood that the arrow was already on the string and had to be loosed. They hurriedly sent their Heroic Spirits after it.
Whatever the outcome, they at least had to give it their best shot first, right? What if they succeeded?
On the other side, Lin Xiaoran remained unmoved by the charging Heroic Spirits. So did Madara. He calmly raised both hands, forming hand seals to activate Susanoo.
Boom!
A half-bodied Susanoo stood on the spot in its second-stage, half-human form!
At the sight, the Heroic Spirits instantly stopped their charge!
Sophia and the others were stunned as well. Looking up at the nearly hundred-meter-tall blue giant, they were momentarily speechless!
Sure enough, the blue giant someone had mentioned earlier really was Lin Xiaoran's Heroic Spirit!
No! It was her Heroic Spirit's ability!!
At that height, it was even seventy meters taller than Sophia's Stone Giant Heroic Spirit!
If they charged over, wouldn't a single slap send them flying?!
They were no match for it at all!
The viewers in the livestream began laughing too.
[Come take a look at what a real giant is!]
[Heh, they still don't know this is only the giant's second stage, do they? There are three more stages after this!]
[But I'm really curious about the technique Lin interrupted Lord Madara from using. Judging by their conversation, it might be no weaker than Susanoo.]
[What's even stranger is that this technique called "Tengai Shinsei" clearly far surpasses the skills Lord Madara has already shown. Just how badass is it?]
[Watch and find out!]
As Madara activated Tengai Shinsei, the half-bodied Susanoo began forming hand seals as well.
Once the hand seals were complete, Madara stood with his arms folded and said coldly, "One will be enough."
Lin Xiaoran nodded too, then said to Sophia and the others, "Here's a parting gift~"
At the word "gift," everyone's expression changed drastically! They all looked up at the sky!
They hadn't forgotten that the last time Lin Xiaoran mentioned a gift, a meteorite had fallen from the sky!
[Another meteorite?!]
[No!]
[Gift Ran still loves giving people presents!]
[Wait, why can Lord Madara summon meteorites too?!]
[Just how much does Meteorite Ran love meteorites?!]
[No wonder this technique is called Tengai Shinsei!]
People from the other countries were going crazy too!
They were all cursing Lin Xiaoran. She just couldn't leave meteorites alone, could she?!
Susanoo could clearly settle everything, yet she just had to pull this at the very end!
Did she have some kind of meteorite obsession?!
Aaaah!
What a sin!
An enormous shadow appeared above the white clouds. In less than a second, the spherical "asteroid" falling from the heavens pierced through the sea of clouds!
"So...it really is a meteorite?"
"Boohoo! Why was I chosen to participate in the National Fortune Game?! I don't want to die!"
"Who on earth can defeat Lin Xiaoran...?"
No one had any choice in becoming a challenger.
It was also a punishment for all humanity for overconsuming Sky Blue Star's resources.
Without her system, Lin Xiaoran would have long since become a pile of dry bones.
Thus, Lin Xiaoran could only follow the game's rules, eliminate the other challengers, and become the sole winner.
Boom!
The asteroid fell, engulfing the challengers.
[Congratulations to Country L's challenger, Master Lin Xiaoran, and her Heroic Spirit, Madara Uchiha, for successfully eliminating all challengers, surviving to the end, and taking first place! You have won this round of the game!] [National fortune rewards: 1. All residents of Country L receive a 50% enhancement to their constitution! 2. Country L receives a protective barrier. All natural disasters within its borders disappear! 3. Nationality protection is activated for Country L. Anyone who renounces Country L's nationality will have all national fortune rewards revoked! 4. All land, water sources, food, livestock, animals, and so on in Country L damaged or contaminated by natural disasters are restored by 100%! 5. All grain supplies in Country L increase fivefold!]
At last, this round of the National Fortune Game was over!
And Lin Xiaoran had taken first place, just as she wished.
As for the national fortune rewards, they had already left every viewer dumbfounded!
All they could say was that these rewards truly lived up to a ceiling raised by over fifty thousand points!
Right out of the gate, they were extraordinary!
A 50% enhancement to constitution! Everyone was a little superhuman!
And a protective barrier! They would never again have to worry about rampant natural disasters and plagues!
Most importantly, there was the third reward! Nationality protection!
This was unprecedented, and also the best thing for strengthening the nation!
Most obviously, it could stop people from deliberately joining Country L for its national fortune rewards, then leaving once they had received them!
These people either had family assets and didn't care about money, or had official backing from another country and deliberately did this to take advantage and disgust people!
Such cases were far from rare. In just the past few days, for example, countless people had wanted to apply to join Country L!
Yet Country L couldn't knock everyone down with one stroke and reject them all. At most, it could tighten its screening.
But that was still far from enough. After all, everyone had witnessed Lin Xiaoran's performance, and her chances of winning next time would still be very high. Joining in advance meant leeching off another round of national fortune rewards. At worst, they could simply leave afterward.
But this time, with the new rewards distributed, those who wanted to leave no longer dared do so lightly!
Even setting aside the constitution, comprehension, health, lifespan, and other improvements from the previous round, this round's 50% constitution enhancement alone was enough to rival any country's national fortune rewards!
Could they bear to leave?!
And besides, Country L would have no more natural disasters!
That made them even less willing to leave!
This reward practically struck the snake at its vital spot, nailing shut the escape routes of those looking to take advantage, spies, and the like!