The entire cultivation world was shrouded in a blood-red afterglow.

An Zhengzheng stepped onto the last stone and appeared in the sect leader's cave.

What came into view was Senior Sister Wen Yu, dressed in a light purple fairy robe.

She sat smiling at the stone table, the spiritual fruit in her hand was very bright, and she seemed to be completely detached from the situation.

In the center of the cave, a girl dressed in red and black sat on a futon, looking at An Zhengzheng expressionlessly.

The three sisters were reunited.

An Zhengzheng paused.

The junior sister in front of me is exactly the ghost in the mirror.

Senior Sister Wen Yu spoke first: "Junior Sister Zhengzheng has arrived. Come, have a seat."

He patted the stone bench next to him very enthusiastically.

"This is our junior sister. She doesn't have a name. We all just call her junior sister."

An Zhengzheng nodded gently.

But she did not go to Wen Yu's position as the senior sister.

She remembered that many years ago, when she first met her senior sister, she was also wearing a light purple fairy dress.

Back then, I was still in the Qi Refining stage, and like Zhou Xu, I was arrogant and ignorant, looking up at my senior sister.

As a result, he lost his cultivation level.

Later, Wen Yu told her, "That wasn't me."

And now, Senior Sister Wen Yu is also wearing that fairy robe.

With such a sudden and significant change in the cultivation world, An Zhengzheng had no choice but to be cautious.

The junior sister's expressionless face suddenly broke into a smile, like a paper doll mimicking a human expression.

"Hello, Second Senior Sister."

"I've always wanted to see my second senior sister, but unfortunately I haven't had the chance."

"I am very happy to meet you today."

The voice didn't match the appearance at all, which An Zhengzheng found strange.

Why are you happy?

This was the first time An Zhengzheng had dealt with such a powerful ghost.

The junior sister said, "Because I saw you."

A girl who can create a stir in the cultivation world just like herself.

A moment of silence fell over the scene.

Neither of them spoke; they were both assessing the other's capabilities.

Senior Sister Wen Yu spoke first: "Zhengzheng, you are the first person in our cultivation world in thousands of years to enter the Nascent Soul stage before the age of three hundred."

Not only are they blessed with good deeds, but they are also protected by incense and divine energy.

He was clearly an ordinary person, but he took an unusual path to immortality.

That righteous aura is what ghosts fear most.

An Zhengzheng humbly replied, "I just did what I was supposed to do."

Senior Sister Wen Yu remained noncommittal.

A typical cultivator would spend ten years away collecting items before returning to their sect to cultivate, aiming to remain detached from worldly affairs and avoid involvement in mortal matters.

An Zhengzheng stayed for nearly a century, doing what ordinary people would consider useless work: spreading agricultural and medical knowledge, exorcising demons and ghosts, adopting abandoned infants, and managing rivers and providing disaster relief.

This goes far beyond what should be done.

An Zhengzheng asked very bluntly, "...What's going on in the cultivation world?"

"As you can see, I have captured everyone's souls." The junior sister said this as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

An Zhengzheng lowered her eyes slightly: "The source of this great calamity in the cultivation world is indeed you."

The junior sister burst into laughter: "...Is this considered a major calamity?"

"Doesn't that count?"

"Of course not!"

Seemingly recalling past memories, the junior sister's expression suddenly turned ferocious, and her eyes seemed to blaze with fire, within which was a straight line.

It was a towering tower for baby girls.

It stood firm amidst the myriad flames.

"I'm just making women do what men do, how can that be considered a great calamity? Is a world where women are superior to men a great calamity?"

As the junior sister spoke, the earth shook: "What about a world where women are inferior and men are superior? Is that the way of heaven?"

His words revealed immense resentment.

An Zhengzheng shook her head.

The look in her eyes when she looked at her junior sister was calm yet filled with pity.

"A world where women are superior to men is not a great calamity for the cultivation world. Nor is a world where women are inferior to men."

This was never what An Zhengzheng was struggling with.

Perhaps because the junior sister's emotions were calmed, the entire mountain stopped shaking.

The junior sister then asked, "...Then what is a calamity?"

An Zhengzheng didn't answer, but instead asked her, "Are they willing?"

I didn't expect An Zhengzheng to ask this.

The junior sister grinned: "They don't need to be willing, nor do they need to have their own thoughts."

"They will live in the world I have given them."

“No baby girl would be drowned or burned, and there would be no child brides, let alone concubines or children.”

There was an immense sense of pride in her voice: "They practiced true independence and self-confidence, just like what Senior Sister Zhengzheng advocated in her magazine."

“Senior Sister Zhengzheng, I’ve read all your magazines. Senior Sister, we’re the same. You and I are the same.”

"...In fact, I did it better than you."

An Zhengzheng fell silent.

When she first came into this world, she had the same thought.

But her decision not to take that path was also the result of careful consideration.

Senior Sister Wen Yu had already sensed the tension.

With a wave of her hand, a spiritual fruit landed on her right.

The junior sister spoke first, while An Zhengzheng remained silent.

So... junior sister gets one point.

It was time for Junior Sister Zhengzheng to make her move.

An Zhengzheng could think of too many reasons to refute her junior sister, but upon closer examination, almost none of them held water.

How can she tell a collection of vengeful spirits, who were destined to be burned at the Tower of Baby Girls from birth, that people's choices and freedom should be respected?

Who has ever respected those vengeful spirits?

It's like talking without understanding the pain.

Her experience of being born into merchant families in two lifetimes led her to focus on the practical aspects of life.

In her eyes, she saw the red blood clots that were being mended from those broken souls.

"You must be exhausted."

An Zhengzheng suddenly asked.

"...What?" This question seemed completely abrupt. The junior sister asked, "Are you asking about me?"

An Zhengzheng nodded and continued, "Although I don't know how long you've been cultivating, to maintain the operation of the entire cultivation world, control the souls of everyone in the cultivation world, and create such a large illusion for so many people..."

"It will inevitably drain your mental energy."

"How long did you maintain control? A few years? Decades?"

The junior sister paused, prepared for An Zhengzheng to question her, such as accusing her of being domineering and looking down on all living beings.

But An Zhengzheng actually asked her, "Are you tired?"

No one ever asked her if she was tired, no one cared about their lives; they were born to be abandoned.

Seeing her junior sister lost in thought, Senior Sister Wen Yu raised her hand: "I can answer this question. She conquered the cultivation world, but it only took her ten years."

In other words, the junior sister has been maintaining this bewitched world for nearly a hundred years.

Even when Nuwa created the world, she consumed energy and needed to go into slumber.

The Celestial Realm maintains the operation of the Three Realms. Plant growth, streams and mountains, rivers, seas and lakes, shrimp, the transformation of demons and gods, and the increase and decrease of spiritual energy all require energy. Therefore, gods descend to the mortal realm to recruit cultivators.

Even a small asteroid, even the sun, even an entire galaxy, will eventually run out of steam.

For nearly a century, the junior sister has been maintaining the operation of this world where women are superior to men.

She could have ignored it.

Senior Sister Wen Yu, not wanting to miss out on the fun, added, "You don't know."

"Every year she also has to send out a batch of cultivators to mislead you, making you think that the cultivation world is still functioning normally..."

Senior Sister Wen Yu munched on a spirit fruit, thinking to herself...

Let's fight! Let's fight already!