Su Mingli gave Su Mingqi a long, hard look. Now he finally understood what it meant when a dog that bites doesn't bark.
Su Mingqi had endured in silence for so long. Even when the Law Enforcement Hall carried out the family punishment against him, he hadn't uttered a single objection. He'd simply accepted it. But now that he'd found an opening, one sentence was all it took to back Su Mingli into a corner.
After serving as family head for so long, Su Mingli had actually improved quite a bit.
After all, anyone who could cultivate to the Soul Fusion Realm wasn't a fool. Their temperaments might differ, but they were all quick to learn.
At least Su Mingli was far more capable now than when Su Xin had first met him. If he wanted to deal with Su Xin at this point, he wouldn't use such an ineffective and extremely risky method again.
For that very reason, Su Mingli understood that Su Zhongyuan was indeed in the wrong. At the same time, he cursed Su Zhongyuan as an idiot in his heart.
The previous attempt to forcibly absorb the great sects and lineages into the Su Family had started with Su Zhongyuan. It had drawn the united opposition of the entire Beiyuan Circuit and the Dugu Clan, and Su Xin had pressured and suppressed them as well.
Yet Su Mingli hadn't expected Su Zhongyuan to be so stupid as to come up with another idea: going around to the great lineages and sects to collect tribute.
How was that any different from forcibly absorbing those lineages and sects? One was done all at once, while the other was like slowly boiling a frog. Neither was something those sects and lineages could accept.
So Su Zhongying and the others