Demonic beasts

Seeing the strange animals dragging the carriages along themselves. Some of these strange animals were like those that were in his former world but more terrifying than those.

He could see an animal similar to that of a lion but it was way bigger and there were two large horns on its head which made him confused.

"Those are demonic beasts, they are way more powerful than you think. These demonic beasts can't be tamed by weak cultivators but by powerful cultivators" The voice of Lu Mang drifted from behind him.

A 'wow' sound came out of Lu Shang as he now had an idea what the strange animals were. 'Strange indeed. Seems like I still have a lot to learn about this world, I need to study more about this world. What an interesting world than Earth, and one of these beasts will be able to kill me without wasting any energy,' Lu Shang said in his thoughts.

From what he could see, there were a lot of carriages and tens of these carriages have different symbols. From his thoughts, he could tell that these symbols differentiate the clans.

He could identify some of the different clans with the symbols on their carriages because he had read about some of these clans in the library during his free time. 

From the few he could identify, he could see tens of carriages with yellow color and a symbol of a two-headed lion engraved on the carriages. This clan was known as the Si Clan.

A double fish (yin-ying) symbol, this clan was the Bai clan.

A white eagle soaring through the sky symbol; this particular clan wasn't that powerful but they were one of the wealthiest clans in the Gaoliang District. With their wealth, they can hire powerful experts to do to their will and also protect their clans from the invasion of the enemy's clan.

The symbol of the Lu Clan was a phoenix with fire surrounding the figure of the phoenix. This symbol was engraved on the back of the white dress of Lu Shang and his grandfather.

He was able to identify other clans and the arriving clan were powerful clans of the Gaoliang District. "Let's go to the hall, you will get to see more clans coming. You don't have to keep on looking from the window," the sudden voice of Lu Mang brought him out of his thoughts.

"Okay," Lu Shang replied.

Lu Shang and his grandfather walked out of the room together, walking side by side. 

"Greetings, my lord" "Greetings, young master" Different maids and guards that pass them by will stop and respectfully greet them before continuing.

'Idiotic fellows' Lu Shang cursed the maids and guards in his heart because he knew that it was because he was walking with his grandfather that was why they were showing him respect. 'Power is really good for backup'.

*****

Meanwhile, the other important figures of the clan were getting themselves ready in their best outfit because the other clan were going to be gathering their clan so they didn't want to be any lower in front of those clans.

In Zhang Xiao's room, Su Yan and Su Qing were helping her get dressed in a white gown and all their attention was extremely focused on what they were doing not to make a single mistake so that her outfit wouldn't look poor before anybody else during the celebration.

The dress that she was putting on was personally given to her by Lu Yi (the clan leader). When she was receiving the elegant dress from Lu Yi, she felt butterflies in her stomach. She already had a choice of the dress she wanted to use for the banquet but when she received the dress personally from her husband she felt loved and that she was still in the heart of Lu Yi.

When the maids were done dressing her, they went to the side which gave her the chance to look at the mirror in front of her. 

Looking at her face in the mirror, she couldn't help but be amazed by the transformation done to her face by Su Yan and Su Qing. She could hardly believe her eyes and recognize that she was the one behind the face she was looking at now. 

She turned and looked at the two sisters. When the two saw the gaze of their madam on them, their body shivered thinking that he wasn't happy with their hand-work.

"Y-Young majesty, we can change… T-The.." Su Qing said with their head bow but she wasn't able to complete her statement when she was cut short by Zhang Xiao. "Why are you two lowering your heads, like a child who is going to be scolded for doing bad?" Zhang Xiao asked with a smile on her face as she laughed within herself at the funny reaction of the two.

"Raise your head and look at me," She said before standing up.

The two sisters shyly raised their heads looking at the eyes of Zhang Xiao. "Why are you avoiding my gaze, huh?" She smilingly teases the two with her words

"Ma, we are…" Su Qing couldn't find the right word to reply with.

Zhang Xiao chuckle, as he laughed her a** before stopping. "Well, you guys did a great job in transformation my face and one more thing" "Don't bring up your shyness of yours in front of me again, you can simply address me as Aunty"

"B-But, your majesty. Don't you think it's going to be improper of us, we are only doing our job, and also we will be greatly punished for it if the important figures of the clan learn of it" Su Yan tried to object. " True ma, we don't want to suffer under the punishment of the clan," Su Qing added.

"Have I ever maltreated you or treated you like an ordinary maid?" Zhang Xiao asked with raised eyebrows.

The two shake their heads indicating that she had never done that.

"Then what makes you think that the clan will dare do anything to you when I am the one that instructed you to do so? Just forget about those people and focus on yourself" Zhang Xiao said.

"Okay, your majesty… I mean big aunty" Su Qing quickly corrected herself.

Zhang Xiao laughed. "Don't worry, you aren't going to get used to it at once but gradually you guys will get used to it" " And now, I want you two to be dressed in a beautiful gown" Zhang Xiao's voice drifted into the ear of the two like thunderbolts.

They turned and looked at the eyes of each other, not believing what they were hearing. 

"Oh, I forgot. Maybe you don't have a good gown" "There is a lot of gowns I won't wear again in my box" Zhang Xiao said before walking to her box.

She selected two yellow gowns before passing them to the two.

The two hesitated but took the gown with shaking hands. "Thank you big, aunty" the two responded at the same time.

"Good, now go quickly get yourself ready. You aren't going to be going with like a maid to the banquet" Zhang Xiao laughed.