"Big sister, you are a bully," Lilian said as she planted her face in Vexthra's chest, hugging her like her life depended on it.
"Sorry about that, but I had to test a theory. Thankfully, my theory was validated," Vexthra said with a smile. Now that she had retracted her aura, the ladies were not being affected by her divine aura.
"But take this as a test for what you will encounter as you climb higher in your cultivation. You will meet beings that can easily suppress you with their aura, so take this as my way of showing you that"
They couldn't hate her for doing that. They knew what she said couldn't be different from the truth. There are indeed beings out there that can overwhelm them with just their aura.
However, while she was showing them how terrifying an aura can be, she actually did more than that. In the brief encounter, she did more than test their resolve under her aura.
She did two things to them.