I Just Wanted to Teach Cultivation, But Goddesses Keep Coming! Chapter 108 Her Legs Go All the Way Up to the Immortal Realm

A dozen breaths passed.

Ning Xi waited, straining her ears, thinking that perhaps Lin Feng hadn’t heard her at all, that he was already asleep, indifferent to the questions and emotions swirling within her.

Then, just as her resolve began to falter, his calm, steady voice broke the silence.

"Why what?"

Her heart skipped a beat. Hearing him speak, so soft yet firm, sent a shiver down her spine.

She hesitated only briefly, then poured out the question that had been burning inside her.

"Why aren’t you like other n?" she asked, her voice soft, almost trembling with a mixture of awe and confusion.

"Other n would have easily taken and Teacher Ye Jian tonight without even blinking. And yet you... you continue to keep your distance, to hold your boundaries."

She waited, her chest tight, her gaze fixed on a shadowed corner of the ceiling.

The room fell silent again, the only sound the gentle rise and fall of Ye Jian’s breathing beside her.

Every heartbeat seed impossibly loud, every second stretching endlessly.

Five breaths later, Lin Feng finally spoke.

"There’s no special reason," he replied calmly.

"I’m not like other n, and I have certain principles I live by especially when it cos to choosing a dao companion. That isn’t sothing you decide lightly, is it? It’s not about attraction alone. It’s about compatibility, values, and the path one walks." He paused briefly before continuing, his tone steady and unyielding.

"Falling in love with a teacher like would also create a conflict of interest. I have no desire to spend my ti and energy dealing with the complications and headaches that kind of life would bring."

He didn’t move an inch, remaining sprawled lazily on the floor as if the conversation barely required effort on his part.

"What if I leave the academy?" Ning Xi asked softly, her voice trembling just slightly.

"What if I stop being a teacher altogether? Would you give a chance then to look at differently instead of rejecting and my presence all the ti?"

Lin Feng finally shifted his gaze toward her, studying her face carefully.

"Perhaps you would have a chance if that truly happened," he said. "But I would also look down on you."

His words struck harder than she expected.

"Teaching has clearly been your dream and passion since you were young," he continued.

"I can see it in the way you carry yourself, in the patience you show your students, and in the dedication you pour into your work. You’re talented in the dao so you could have easily entered any sect in the Golden Lotus Empire. You had countless paths open to you, yet you chose the teaching profession instead. A thankless job."

He shook his head slightly. "But I wouldn’t respect soone who gives up on their dreams so easily. Soone who abandons their calling just to chase after another person isn’t soone I could walk beside."

Ning Xi stood there in silence, his words echoing in her mind.

For a long mont, she said nothing.

"You really make it so hard to chase you, Lin Feng," Ning Xi said softly, her voice steady but filled with quiet determination.

"But it doesn’t matter. I won’t give up that easily. I love teaching children... they’re close to my heart, and I treasure every mont I spend guiding them. But that doesn’t an I can only love one thing in this world. I love being a teacher, and I’ll also make it my passion to chase you. A person can have many passions, can they not?"

There was a faint, gentle sound in her voice, as though she were smiling while speaking.

For once, it was Lin Feng’s turn to fall silent.

He stared at her for a long mont before finally speaking.

"What do you even find special about ?" he asked.

"I’m strong and handso, that’s all. There are countless n out there with far better qualities... n who are kinder, warr, and more willing to open their hearts. And what if Teacher Ye Jian is right? What if I’m already a monster who’s lived for countless trillions of years, just hiding beneath a young face and skin? Could you really stomach kissing an old man like ?"

His words were sharp, but not cruel.

In truth, he was trying his hardest to push her away to sell himself short, to make himself unappealing, hoping she would back out and find soone else.

Anyone else. Anyone who wouldn’t be him.

"The old poets always said in their songs that love is blind," Ning Xi replied calmly.

"I guess it really is true." She took a step closer, her gaze unwavering. "I don’t care about your faults, real or imagined. I don’t care how old you are, or what you’ve lived through. You’re the only man who’s ever looked at without lust. You’re the only one who’s treated like a person instead of an object."

She paused, her expression softening.

"I agree... you’re different, Lin Feng. And that’s exactly why I won’t give up. No matter how much you try to push away, I’ll fight to win your attention."

"Ohhhh shit! Is this woman for real? Where was she when I was confessing to a hundred won and getting rejected!? Being handso really is such an unfair advantage in this world!" Lin Feng scread inwardly, his mind spinning as he tried to process what he had just heard.

For the first ti in a long while, he felt truly cornered.

"I need to kick her out of my life once and for all!" he roared inside his head.

If gentle rejection wouldn’t work, then he would have to go all out.

He would beco so unbearable, so repulsive, that she would have no choice but to flee from him like he was the embodint of disaster itself.

So he took a deep breath and unleashed his final, desperate attempt.

"This had better work!" Lin Feng mused internally, hoping desperately.