Demon Metropolis city center.
Vehicles were parked beside a classical-style courtyard, which looked more like an ancient palace.
It exuded luxury without being ostentatious, covering an area of nearly several hundred acres.
It was the kind of place where a taxi ride from one end to the other would cost nearly a hundred yuan.
Outside the courtyard was more like an estate, with gardens, streams, and all sorts of facilities readily available.
Butler Fu led Su Yufeng, Zi Qiong, and Lian Jiayue towards the entrance of the central palace, while Su Li and Zhang Qiang took their respective subordinates to the Su Family Martial Guard Center.
They needed to hand over equipment there and receive their assignments.
"Young Master, the family meeting is about to begin."
"All family members are already waiting in the central conference room; the Family Head wants you to come over immediately."
The guards at the palace entrance, seeing Su Yufeng arrive, immediately bowed respectfully.
The burly man leading them softly spoke to Su Yufeng.
This was Su Yong, the Captain of all the Su Family Martial Guard Teams, who had lived in the Su Family since childhood.
His father was the previous Martial Guard Team Captain.
He was loyal only to the Su Family Head and the future Young Master of the Su Family.
"Brother Yong, I know. You've gotten much stronger in the past few days."
Su Yufeng and Su Yong were naturally very familiar with each other; Su Li, who always followed him, was Su Yong's younger brother.
The talents they drew in their previous lives were not bad, but in this life, because of him, everyone in the Su Family would definitely draw stronger talents than in their previous lives.
"How on earth do you know so many things, kid?"
"Oh, those bratty side branch kids are a bit arrogant now. Su Mingyi and Su Mingsheng both drew SS-grade talents. This meeting today was probably instigated by the two of them."
"Be careful yourself."
Su Yong whispered a few reminders, watching Su Yufeng walk into the large conference room not far behind him.
After seeing Su Yufeng enter the conference room, Butler Fu and Zi Qiong gave a few instructions and then left with Su Yong.
Zi Qiong looked calmly at Lian Jiayue and smiled, "Come with me. Your parents have already been brought to our Su Family Guesthouse."
"Your sister seems to want to go out and meet someone right now. You can go see them first; the Young Master will probably be very busy for a while."
"If you need anything else, you can contact me directly. If you wish to leave the Su Family, you will need to sign some paperwork."
"Thank you."
Lian Jiayue said gratefully, lowering her head slightly and following behind Zi Qiong, secretly comparing herself to Zi Qiong's shapely figure.
She had to increase her own value. She wondered how long it would take to obtain an otherworld crystal to draw a talent.
Her sister's figure was even more explosive than hers. If she could convince her to stay by Su Yufeng's side together, perhaps...
That man would absolutely not be able to resist the temptation of twin sisters!
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Inside the Su Ling Pavilion conference room.
A refined and amiable elderly man sat in the main seat.
His stature was not tall, but his entire being exuded the aura of a superior.
This person was the stabilizing force of the Su Family, Su Zhenguo, the only remaining Elder of the Dragon Country Elder Council.
To his left sat a middle-aged man in military uniform, with a straight back, deep, heavy eyebrows, and a pair of sharp, spirited eyes.
His dignified face bore a five or six-tenths resemblance to Su Yufeng; he was none other than Su Yufeng's father, Su Qing.
One of the three great Commanders of the Dragon Country Military Department, and also the current Su Family Head.
The other seats in the conference room were filled, including Su Qing's two younger brothers, Su Qi and Su Ge.
And one of Su Yufeng's aunts, Su Yue.
The rest were all from the Su Family's side branches.
The ancient Su Family, with a thousand years of heritage, was composed of both direct and side branches.
The direct branch controlled the vast majority of the family's resources, while the side branches only participated in operations and management.
The Su Family had strict rules and a clear hierarchy.
The four siblings, Su Qing, Su Qi, Su Ge, and Su Yue, all held high positions in the inner cabinet.
Su Qi served in the Dragon Country Resource Department, in charge of resource allocation and deployment, at the vice-ministerial level.
Su Ge served in the Dragon Country Judicial Department, as one of the Supreme Judicial Judges, and also as the Deputy Minister of the Judicial Department.
Su Yue served in the Dragon Country Ministry of Finance, one of the few female economists in the Dragon Country, becoming Deputy Minister of Finance at the age of forty-one.
From this, one could see just how powerful the Su Family was.
Coupled with Su Qing, one of the three great Commanders of the Military Department, whether in terms of military might or financial power, the Su Family was the most top-tier existence in the Dragon Country.
Even the Xuanyuan Ji Family, the Black Dragon Lei Family, and the Northwest Zhou Family, though also among the Dragon Country's four great families, were still inferior to the Su Family by a considerable margin.
Not to mention that the Imperial Capital had already fallen, and only the Su Family, thanks to Su Yufeng's reminder, had perfectly preserved all its strength.
"Family Head, when will the Young Master arrive?"
"These two children, Mingsheng and Mingyi, have drawn SS-grade talents and need to use otherworld crystals to rapidly transform their talents into their own strength.
The otherworld crystals obtained from the family's bombing of the West District are not few. Should their allocation be appropriately increased?"
Inside the conference room, Su Kui, a member of the Su Family's side branch, asked softly.
Su Mingyi and Su Mingsheng were his sons.
Before the apocalypse, everyone in the Su Family had safely retreated to the Demon Metropolis and drawn powerful talents.
Even he, Su Kui, from a side branch, wanted to use this opportunity to raise his status.
In peacetime, as a side branch member of the Su Family, Su Kui would never have dared to make such a request to a direct branch member.
He would only try his best to perform, waiting for the direct branch members to allocate resources based on performance.
This time, if he could make Su Qing and the others concede, once Mingsheng and Mingyi grew up, there might be a chance to reverse the roles.
Su Kui stared intensely at Su Qing, and at Su Zhenguo, who was feigning sleep in the highest seat.
Neither of them reacted to Su Kui's words, and their expressions remained unchanged.
It was Su Yue, sitting beside them, who gently shook her head.
At this moment.
"Uncle Kui, it seems you really can't stop thinking about me."
"Mingyi and Mingsheng didn't disappoint me; they both awakened SS-grade talents. They indeed did well."
The sound of a door opening echoed, and Su Yufeng, exuding an incredibly tyrannical aura, stepped into the conference room with a smile.
The killing intent condensed from slaughtering hundreds of first-order otherworld creatures, combined with the annihilative power pouring out from the Source of Destruction, enveloped Su Kui, Su Mingsheng, and Su Mingyi, who had just been about to speak.
Su Kui, who had just been standing ramrod straight, instantly fell to the ground, his entire being trembling from the incomparably cold destructive killing intent.
"Ah!"
Su Mingsheng and Su Mingyi, who had both awakened SS-grade Magnetism Control talent, let out a low roar, pushing the little Source Power they had in their bodies to grit their teeth and hold on.
But the killing intent filled with endless destruction, coupled with the vast disparity in strength, made it impossible for the two to resist.
They were crushed onto the table by Su Yufeng's aura, unable even to lift their heads.
"This... what kind of power is this?"
"Has the Young Master already become this powerful?"
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