Meanwhile.
Longdu, Jade Spring Mountain.
This was the heart of power in the Dragon Kingdom, and today, security had been tightened to the absolute limit.
At the foot of the mountain, rows of black sedans with special license plates sat in silence.
Beside every car stood ramrod-straight security guards, their presence cold and forbidding.
Anyone entitled to park here was a towering figure who could make the entire Dragon Kingdom tremble with a mere stamp of their foot.
The entrance to the Xu Family's old residence was even more crowded.
Yet even figures who ranked among the most powerful in the Dragon Kingdom could only line up quietly outside, their faces filled with respect and anticipation.
Almost all the family heads of Longdu's Eight Great Clans had arrived.
Zhong Zhenguo, family head of the Zhong Family, the Jun Family's head, the Zhao Family's head...
These people, usually so lofty and commanding such vast family empires, now waited patiently like everyone else.
As for the business tycoons who dominated their respective regions-Xiao Ma of the internet industry, young Wang of real estate-they did not even qualify to join the line at an occasion like this.
Inside the living room, the atmosphere was even more solemn.
Those entitled to sit here were either titans of Military Headquarters with generals' stars on their shoulders or prominent figures ordinarily seen only on the news.
At that moment, they sat gathered together, their eyes fixed on a middle-aged man beside the seat of honor who had just arrived on a private plane.
Xu Sanjiang!
Elder Xu's eldest son, the North Sea Theater Political Commissar, a Five-Star General!
He wore a crisply pressed military uniform, the five gold stars on his shoulders gleaming.
But on his face, normally as steady as a mountain, there was