Zhang Li did not insist on learning the Zhang Family's inner sect cultivation method.
She could join Mount Sanqing, or another sect. The world's cultivation methods were not all confined to the Zhang Family.
She simply refused to accept it. They were all children of the Zhang Family, so why did the men have choices while the women did not?
Yet the Zhang Family still waved the banner of sparing their daughters hardship, claiming it was for their own good.
She only wanted fairness in the right to choose.
Meeting her gaze, Zhang Shangde asked, "If you learn the Zhang Family's inner sect mental cultivation method, will you truly refuse marriage, or refuse to take in a husband?"
Xuan Miao said, "Ancestors, you have been mistaken all along. The heart of this matter is not what you ask me to do, but whether I may choose to learn it or not. Whatever consequences follow, so long as I make the choice, I will bear them myself."
Zhang Shangde understood. This child was serious.
In the end, they agreed.
What else could they do if they did not?
Zhang Liuzhen had stood with Zhang Li from the very beginning. Now that he was the family head, even if they refused now, once they entered seclusion and he gained control of the Zhang Family, would he not reform it while they were absent?
Especially since, over the past three days, they had listened carefully and found that quite a few clan members supported this measure.
The Zhang Family was different from other lineages.
Though some members of the Zhang Family also kept concubines, they were very few. Most still practiced monogamy.
Those who cultivated the Dao generally acknowledged only one Dao companion in their lifetimes. They were not like ordinary people, steeped