"What?!" An Yirou was startled and took a step back. "You...you and I are going to choose an heir?"

It's insane, it's insane! Is it my sister who's gone mad, or is the world going mad?

They are girls!

An Zhengzheng looked at An Yirou, who had a terrified expression, and asked, "Isn't it good to be the heir?"

An Yirou scratched her head, thinking that it wasn't necessarily bad, but it was just too shocking.

"The clan won't agree..."

The outside world's gossip and criticism could drown Anjia.

An Zhengzheng raised an eyebrow: "They have no choice but to agree."

Of the 100,000 high-grade spirit stones, An Zhengzheng kept 10,000 for herself and used the remaining 90,000 for her father.

In other words, the father is now the wealthiest of the four branches of the clan.

This fortune and wealth came from An Jia's daughter, not from his son.

“But what if Mother gives us another little brother…” An Yirou still couldn’t believe that An Mao would agree.

An Zhengzheng said, "No, that won't happen."

When An Yirou was born, An Zhengzheng was one year old. Because she was born via rebirth, she retained all her memories.

When Anmao was away on business, a demon took a liking to the treasures in the caravan. His father fought with the demon and was injured.

She can no longer have children.

Out of male pride, they would claim that their mothers were unable to have children because their bodies were damaged during childbirth.

This is also why the An family only had three wives and no concubines.

An Mao had been thinking about adopting a son for years, but since the child wasn't his own blood, he felt uneasy and couldn't make up his mind.

An Zhengzheng persuaded him in the study that day.

People outside say he only has daughters and no sons, and if he adopts a son in the future, he will inevitably be criticized.

An Zhengzheng has his blood in his veins, and he has the spirit and ability to prove himself. He also wants to prove himself.

For An Zhengzheng, she needed to speak up and let the world witness the feasibility of a woman being the head of the household.

So An Zhengzheng said, this is a transaction.

"Then, then you'll have to work hard, sister..." An Yirou was a little worried, as it would be difficult for a woman to manage a household.

An Zhengzheng frowned: "Don't you need to work hard?"

“Me?” An Yirou, with a good sense of self-awareness, shook her head repeatedly. “With my sister here, of course…”

It was naturally not her turn.

An Zhengzheng said, "I am determined to become a god."

After becoming a god, it is impossible to have any further involvement with the mortal world.

An Yirou was startled: "Sister, you wouldn't...?"

Could it be that they're planning to let her inherit it?

"Don't you want to inherit?" An Zhengzheng asked her. "Don't you want to have a say? Or do you want to take your dowry and get married, living the life of a aunt or other aunt in the clan?"

"I...of course I don't want to." An Yirou shook her head repeatedly.

But in her memory, did the woman have any other way out?

Now that her sister has suddenly shown her a different path, her first reaction is actually fear.

“It’s fine if you don’t want to be the heir.” An Zhengzheng didn’t force her. “I can adopt a baby girl from the An Family Charity Hall.”

"A baby girl?" An Yirou was startled.

Why specifically choose a baby girl when adopting a child to inherit the family business? Shouldn't it normally be a baby boy?

My sister seems to be doing something shocking and unconventional.

An Zhengzheng said, "Yes... You can cultivate to become a god, you can get married, or you can inherit the An family. Although I have my own plans, I will not force you."

"But I will inherit the family business for a while, raise the next female heir, and then ascend to godhood."

Inheritance is meant to prove to the world that women are capable, and to reduce prejudice against women.

Her goal in this life is to cultivate immortality and become a god.

She wants to open two paths for women in the world, two paths besides marriage.

"Yi Rou, think about it yourself."

At this point in the story, the two sisters had reached the boundary between the inner and outer sects.

An Yirou pondered for a while, the scene of An Zhengzheng holding a sword to his throat still vivid in her mind.

At this moment, she felt as if she had returned to a few years ago when her sister asked her if she wanted to practice the martial arts manual she had bought online, and she refused.

Years later, her older sister asked her if she wanted to inherit the family business and have her own say in the matter.

This time, she didn't want to refuse.

"Sister, I want it." Her eyes shone brightly.

"This is not an easy task. If it's not done well, the An family will be ruined, and the female heir will become a joke, a counterexample..."

An Yirou listened, somewhat frightened: "I..."

“Your father will mentor you, and I will assist you,” An Zhengzheng reassured her.

An Yirou immediately strengthened her resolve.

...

In the days that followed, An Yirou's personality changed.

She returned to her room, and the girls from next door all came to play with her.

"Yi Rou, the new disciple trial is coming soon. Let's go out and relax. There's a teleportation array on the east side of Si Yue Gate. We can spend some spirit stones to go outside and buy new clothes."

"Yes, buying some clothes and hairpins can also help protect against attacks..."

An Yirou instinctively wanted to go out, but quickly came to her senses.

"Sister Yu'er, Juan'er, Xiaoying, I can't go," An Yirou refused. "My sister has highlighted the key points for the new disciple trial for me, and I need to review them."

My sister said that clothes, hairpins, and magical artifacts are all external things; only the cultivation techniques one has mastered are true strength.

If a new disciple fails the trial, the time for learning advanced techniques will be postponed.

She's not the same person she used to be!

"What are the test points? Can we take a look?"

"Okay."

They took the note written by An Zhengzheng, on which basic questions such as sword control, wind protection, and fire extinguishing were neatly written in regular script.

"Will this... be useful?" Yu'er asked. "They all look like basic techniques..."

I could easily resist by buying some clothes.

"These past few days, everyone seems to have gone a bit crazy..." Juan'er muttered, "Ever since your sister beat Zhou Xu in public, I've noticed there are more female cultivators diligently practicing than before..."

“Yes, I saw it too,” Xiaoying echoed.

An Yirou insisted on practicing on her own, and her friends couldn't do anything about it, nor could they leave her to go play by herself.

"Then let's practice together..."

"Hey, alright, didn't we say we were going out to play? How did it suddenly turn into practice training..."

"Hurry up!"

An Zhengzheng, who was still on her own mountain, was unaware of the commotion here.

She had been immersed in the study for quite some time now.

There are many martial arts techniques that women in the An family were not allowed to learn in the past, and An Zhengzheng can choose any of them in the book hall, because each book emits a lot of golden light.

This is the books inviting her.

An Zhengzheng felt like a fish that had struggled on the shore for a long time and finally entered the water.

The senior students in charge of registration in the library were all stunned.

In all his years working in the library, this was the first time he had ever seen someone so popular with books.

It would be the absolute best if twenty books spontaneously emitted golden light, but An Zhengzheng managed to incite nearly a hundred books to do so.