Qi Xuansu smiled. “Why won’t I dare to say that? Anyway, I don’t know who my parents or ancestors are since I was adopted by the Wanxiang Daoist Palace. So I’m not afraid of gossip or embarrassing anyone.”0

“You want to marry into my family? I think you’ve read too many novels. ” Zhang Yuelu rolled her eyes at him.0

She continued, “The Zhang family won’t like that. The Li family, on the other hand, are quite fond of having their son-in-law take their last name. They don’t mind having an adopted son or a son-in-law become the head of the family. Since they can’t choose the gender of their child, they can choose their son-in-law or adopted son. That’s why the Li family still remains prosperous to this day.”1

Qi Xuansu commented. “I heard about this before. Those who were not born in the Zhang family are not allowed to inherit the position of the Great Heavenly Preceptor. This has been the ancestral motto of the Zhang family for generations. It’s said that the Holy Xuan wanted to abolish this rule once, but the Zhang family still insisted on it.”0

Zhang Yuelu explained, “Actually, this is only what the outside world thinks. In fact, this rule is just for show. Although there is such an ancestral rule that only the Zhangs could inherit the position of the Great Heavenly Preceptor, the Holy Xuan issued an edict...0