After the discussions, Aurelia and Yasenia stood up and moved out of the meeting room. Coiling her tail around Aurelia's, the mother and daughter walked down the hall and reached the reception room. Aurelia happily hugged Yasenia's arms, showing a childish self that she rarely showed others. After all, Aurelia was quite different from Angel in some sense. She was serious, elegant, and always had a stern face, even when her facial features leaned toward cute and charming. She had her long blonde hair in a half bun and wore a white and orange formal robe with a long skirt.
Her wings, being a dragon with the Glass and Sun elements, were outwardly white with inner iridescent scales that looked like diamonds glowing under the sun. The fleshy edges of the wings were a deep yellow, matching the color she painted her nails with.
Yasenia curiously looked at her nails, and she asked. "Do you like make-up?"
For this serious daughter of hers, Yasenia expected her to be completely foreign to make-up. However, Aurelia was far from such. She smiled and looked up at her mother. "Yes! I like to apply make-up to make my facial features slightly sharper. After all, I have the round smoothness of Mama Angel, making my face naturally sweet-looking. No matter how much I like those features, since they remind me of Mama Angel, they are sometimes a disadvantage when discussing deals or making serious statements." Aurelia's willow eyebrows scrunched, her golden slit eyes showing a hint of annoyance. "There were some people who didn't even listen to me because of that!"
Yasenia glanced at her amusedly as they walked into the lowest floor of the Astral Sky Shop, and asked. "What did you do to them?"
Aurelia snorted twice. "I gave them a beating until they cried for mercy, of course! How dare they mock and take my facial features as if they were a joke! That's not only an insult to me, but to Mama Angel and Mommy!"
Yasenia burst into laughter, hugging her precious baby in her arms. "You are so cute, Aurelia."
Usually, those words wouldn't make Aurelia happy, but hearing them from Yasenia made her tail wag to the point of creating a wind current behind her. "Mommy! We should go and see Estrella. She is the one who missed you the most out of all of us!"
"Really?" Yasenia was somewhat surprised. She always thought that the one who would miss her the most would be Kaleina. "What about Kaleina?"
Aurelia blinked and smiled. "Eldest Sister Kaleina was focused on leading the project to create the [Sun Soaring Skeletal Warship], which we used to traverse the stars and reach Mommy's side! She was so busy that she had no time to miss Mommy!"
Yasenia listened and asked Aurelia about her sisters. "So, did any of your sisters get a daughter-in-law or son-in-law?"
"Nope." Aurelia blinked. "Sister Flame is chasing Sister Kaleina, but Sister Kaleina never really verbally accepted, even if she accepts her advances. They are in the flirting stage. Other than that… I would say Sister Skye was the most popular? Her outgoing personality and outlandish beauty have made her have many suitors."
Yasenia tilted her head. "So… Is she playing around?"
Aurelia chuckled. "Although she makes lots of dirty jokes and teases people, I would say she has the purest outlook on relationships among all of us. Sister Skye won't even let people touch her hand, even when she teases everyone. She wants to give all her firsts to the person she will fall in love with in the future."
The dragoness smiled softly, but there was a hint of worry. "I just hope that she finds a person who cherishes that commitment." The dragoness looked at Aurelia and spoke casually. "Baby, if anyone ever hurts you or other sisters, kill them or make them suffer, okay? Don't let them linger on your minds, and just treat them like the trash they are."
Aurelia muttered. "Won't Mommy do that for us?"
Yasenia stopped and hugged Aurelia, even when they were in the middle of the reception room. "Oh, baby. You know I want to do that. However, you need to understand that Mommy is going to go to a faraway place soon."
Aurelia hugged Yasenia back and nodded. "I know. I love you, Mommy."
"I love you, too, love."
A man's voice reached them with a hint of teasing. "Oh? I didn't know you had such a side, Aurelia. Haha."
Yasenia's pupils thinned slightly as she glanced sideways at the man who arrived. The man was a human and rather tall. He was around half a head taller than she was. His body was well-sculpted, and his brown hair and honey eyes made his appearance bright and appealing. Aurelia didn't separate from Yasenia's embrace as she answered with a scoff. "Why should I show this side to you? We are just in a commercial relationship. Don't try to step over the line, Hao Yang."
Hao Yang smiled faintly. "As spicy as ever~." He then looked at Yasenia and bowed slightly. "Lady Yasenia Dravory, it is a pleasure to meet you."
Yasenia observed him for a bit and asked. "Who might you be?"
Hao Yang smiled and spoke. "I am from the Hao Family of the central area. While not as famous as the other families, we hold a certain level of power over—"
"Ah." Yasenia stopped him, raising her hand and separating from Aurelia. "You misunderstood. I don't care who you are or what your background is. I am asking who you are to my daughter."
Hao Yang tried to show nothing on his face, but Yasenia's senses after she became a Sixth Realm cultivator were not something a mortal could hide from. She instantly detected a hint of annoyance and irritation directed at her. Hao Yang smiled. "I am a friend of your daughter, Lady Yasenia."
Yasenia chuckled and approached him with a smile. "You know… I am a Dragon." The man was confused until Yasenia very lightly tapped his shoulder.
BANG!
Forced by an irresistible force, the man kneeled on the ground and planted his forehead against the hard stone, creating a loud sound. Aurelia was startled.
"I don't really like lies. Less so when they are related to my daughter. You are not her friend, so what are you, little human?"
Yasenia looked down at the man with a calm gaze, but everyone looking couldn't help the shivering of their bodies. He bore the pressure of a sliver of Yasenia's true aura. However, he was unable to move a single muscle even with a Level 7 Dantian Spiritualization Realm cultivation.
The man stuttered, his body trembling in fear. "L-Lady Yasenia, please have mercy. This little one is unaware of what I did wrong!"
Yasenia looked at the startled Aurelia and asked, her gaze calm. "Is our relationship with this Hao family important?"
Aurelia snapped out of her daze and shook her head. "It's not essential. They have some interesting resource channels for niche alchemy recipes and materials. Their strength is not bad at all, as well, since their family has 8 Transcendence Realm cultivators. Two of them are at the second level, while the rest are at the first level."
"I see." Yasenia nodded and let Hao Yang go. "Anyway. You lie in my presence one more time, and I'll destroy your cultivation base. Am I clear?" She lifted him up with her tail and cleaned his shoulders off dust with a smile. "The next time I'll pay a personal visit to your family and ask for compensation. Alright?"
Hao Yang didn't dare answer and turned around to leave.
Once he left, Aurelia approached and asked confusedly. "Why did you treat him like that? Isn't it a bit too much?"
Yasenia shook her head. "He is flirting with you. However, he doesn't respect me and even lied to my face. His objectives are easy to deduce from that. He is trying to create a bridge between them and us by using you as a medium. If you two start a relationship first and then tell us, it is much harder to separate you than asking for permission from the get-go." She patted Aurelia and smiled. "Don't let yourself fall for these people who take love as only a tool to create relationships, or Mommy will be angry, okay?"
Aurelia smiled happily. "Okay, Mommy. Let's go and visit Estrella now!"
The reception room was silent until Yasenia and Aurelia left the building. Once they left, they sighed in relief, their hearts shaking from what they had just seen. They didn't expect the leader of the Astral Sky Shop to be even more overbearing than the ones leading it before.
While walking through the streets of Heaven Converging City, Yasenia suppressed her charm as best as she could, and Aurelia followed her example. As Yasenia's daughters, all of them had grown to become utterly gorgeous girls, each with a different flair to them. Estrella was beautiful, elegant, and cold; Aurelia was earnest, resolute, and cute; Skye was alluring, playful, but pure; Dawn was upright, caring, and stalwart; Dianna was playful, free, and beautiful; finally, Katarina was caring, calm, and gentle.
Each had their individual characteristics, but they shared one thing in common: their love for their family. It was the thing that Yasenia ingrained in them since they were very little. To love and care for their sisters and respect their mothers.
"So, where is Estrella?"
Aurelia smiled. "She is in the colosseum with Dawn, Skye, Dianna, and Katarina. They didn't know how long Mommy would spent with our mothers, so they decided to kill time over there."
"Colosseum?" Yasenia blinked and tilted her head. "What about Kaleina?"
Aurelia pondered and commented. "I think Eldest Sister told me that she was checking on the Long Family's treasures to ask for compensation."
Yasenia had spoken to them about what happened in the trial already. Naturally, all the girls were not too thrilled that their dragoness had to use her seduction to survive and climb inside the trial, less so when the Long Family purposely hid details about the trial that could've helped her. Therefore, they were planning on asking for compensation.
Taking that into account, Yasenia gave each of her lovers, maids, and daughters a bit of the Blood Pond. It was quite large, so besides what Yasenia took for herself, there was a lot left. Hence, giving her important people a bit of it was nothing egregious. Of course, just in case, Yasenia told them not to use it before they left the Heaven Converging City. She didn't want to cause problems with them. After all, Old Long was one of the strongest people in the city. Any negative interaction with him would be less than ideal.
After walking for a bit and making many heads turn to look at Mother and Daughter, they arrived at the colosseum. Yasenia looked up with quite surprised eyes. "Woah… So large. What is this… around 600 meters tall?"
Aurelia nodded. "It is one of the largest structures. Estrella and the others are on the seventeenth floor, where Low-Level Fifth Realm cultivators gather to battle."
Yasenia smiled and nodded. "Let's move then. I want to give my babies a big hug and many kisses!"
Aurelia placed a hand before her mouth, giggling slightly. 'Their built-up reputation is about to plummet in a wingless free-fall. Haha.'