"Please, Family Head Xiao, gather all the guests, family members, and servants from your residence in the front courtyard!"
"Our Mountain-cutting Banner, accustomed to slaying demons year-round, will certainly identify any demonic beings!"
Liu Qing dismounted from his horse and strode over to the Family Head Xiao, greeting him with a fist salute, his voice stern.
Xiao Yuanshan's face darkened, a seemingly polite but actually forceful tone from a Profound Body Military Officer, directing him to do this and that, made him internally displeased, and his expression stiffened.
He insisted on holding this birthday banquet for his daughter at this juncture, more out of personal motives, hoping to gather the clans at this time and leverage the issue of the Devil Race to establish the prestige of the Xiao Family.
The Xiao family did not leave with other scholar-gentry families but chose to stay in Guang'an Prefecture, not being moral paragons but merely pursuing power.
