Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

Leng Yue Ning frowned: "Cultivators should be free from desires and maintain a tranquil mind, like still water. How can this be considered the biggest flaw?"

Ye Ge glanced at her: "What makes us human is that we have emotions. Who can truly be free from all desires?"

"That's just because you, little thief, have too low a perspective and haven't seen enough experts!" Leng Yuening pouted.

"Oh? Can the Cold Palace Master do that?" Ye Ge blinked.

"...Of course I can!"

Leng Yuening's eyes darted away: "Why are you bringing this up again? I'm not the one tormented by inner demons..."

Ye Ge smiled and said, "In fact, the Supreme Forgetfulness Technique does not require absolute detachment from emotions and desires. Besides romantic love, familial love, friendship, and the bond between fellow disciples and teachers are also human emotions. However, romantic love is the most disturbing to the heart. That's why your Moon Condensation Palace ancestors used the term 'Forgetfulness' when they passed down this technique and named it. To put it bluntly, it's just a lazy approach."

"Slacking off?" Leng Yue Ning frowned. "Why do you say that?"

"If you don't engage with the world, how can you talk about transcending it? If you've never been moved by love, how can you talk about forgetting it?"

Ye Ge shook his head: "Sister Yu Xi grew up in Yue Ning Palace since she was a child. She stayed in the palace with you to cultivate immortal techniques. She has never been exposed to society or worldly emotions between men and women. That's why she was able to cultivate the Supreme Forgetfulness Technique so smoothly before this."

"Because she has been protected by you so well and has never experienced emotional setbacks, her heart is naturally not disturbed, so her cultivation will not have any obstacles."

"But it's like a flower that has grown in a greenhouse since it was a child."

"Any spiritual practitioner will eventually have to walk into the world alone."

"By that time, having never been tested by emotions before, she would be plunged into great confusion once she came into contact with feelings between men and women, even if it was just a vague feeling."

"At that time, her Forgetfulness Mantra and her Heart-Cleansing Mantra will become extremely vulnerable. It is foreseeable that she will be devoured by her inner demons and suffer from demonic possession."

As Leng Yue Ning listened to Ye Ge's words, her expression grew increasingly serious, her delicate brows furrowing more and more tightly: "Hmm..."

This little thief was a bit impolite.

But what he said does seem to make some, some, some truth.

Looking back, she grew up in the Moon Condensation Palace from a young age, and in her more than a thousand years of life, 99% of her life revolved around cultivation...

The majority of disciples in Yue Ning Palace are female. Even the male disciples all treat Leng Yue Ning with utmost respect, after all, she was the chief disciple back then.

Later, Leng Yuening became the palace master of Yue Ning Palace, and naturally, most men didn't dare to look her in the eye.

Therefore, Leng Yuening had never thought about romantic relationships between men and women.

That's why her cultivation journey has been very smooth, and she has not experienced any obstacles that could be called "tests".

Until that trip down the mountain, when I met Ye Ge...

This little thief was the only man who dared to disrespect her, and the only one who dared to tease her!

This was also the first time she felt a vague curiosity about boys... and it was the kind of curiosity between the opposite sexes...

Of course, at first it was just curiosity, and it didn't develop into any kind of feeling, or even what that feeling was. So at the beginning, this situation wasn't obvious, and her cultivation level wasn't dropping very quickly.

Until that day, when she entered the illusionary world of the Nightmare Mirror, she saw "Night Song" say a bunch of cheesy things and even take off his clothes to confess his love to her...

That scene was undoubtedly a fierce blow to Leng Yuening, who was as pure and innocent as a blank sheet of paper!

It's like an innocent young girl who has never tasted forbidden fruit accidentally discovering study materials on her father's computer, only to be instantly dumbfounded upon opening them. She's gone from a thousand years of innocence to the adult world in an instant—how could she possibly bear it?

'So, what that little thief said was actually true...'

'Ah... but, but why does she have to be Lan Mi's student?'

Leng Yuening pinched her brow, feeling a headache coming on.

"Palace Master Leng? Why aren't you saying anything?" Ye Ge asked in confusion, "Are you still listening?"

"Ah... I... of course I'm listening." Leng Yuening came back to her senses.

"But speaking of which, has Sister Yu Xi been in contact with any male cultivators lately?" Ye Ge smiled. "Who has she fallen for?"

Leng Yue Ning: (⊙?0?6⊙)

"How...how did I know?"

"I thought the Cold Palace Master would be very strict with her disciples and wouldn't allow them to date." Ye Ge paused, "So the Cold Palace Master probably won't forcefully interfere and make Sister Yu Xi break up with that boy, right?"

Leng Yuening turned her head away and said softly, "I'm not such an unreasonable person... Besides, according to what you said, this is just a chance to test Xi'er. Only when she has fallen in love and can see through her emotions, and can truly let go, can she truly forget her feelings, and can she truly overcome her inner demons and maintain a pure and desireless mind during cultivation, right?"

“That’s right.” Ye Ge nodded: “If she can cross this threshold, her cultivation will not only not regress, but will actually advance further, allowing her to cultivate the Supreme Forgetfulness Technique to become its true complete form.”

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, I, Ye Ge, never lie."

"...How can you say that?" Leng Yue Ning stared at him with a deep gaze.

Then she sighed again: "But what exactly should we do?"

“As a thousand-year-old woman who has never been in love, the Cold Palace Mistress must be quite inexperienced.” Ye Ge smiled. “But you’ve come to the right person today. I have a lot of experience in treating those with unstable Dao hearts.”

Leng Yue Ning was half-believing, half-doubting: "You?"

“Yes,” Ye Ge said seriously, “Back then, my second senior sister’s Dao heart was also unstable, but I managed to cure her.”

"Is that so..." Leng Yuening still seemed somewhat distrustful: "Then how did you treat it?"

“Simple,” Ye Ge said. “The reason why Sister Yu Xi is troubled by love is because she is as innocent as a blank sheet of paper. She has never experienced anything like that before, so once she comes into contact with it, she becomes very sensitive, which makes her Dao heart unstable. So as long as she desensitizes herself, everything will be fine.”

"Desensitization?" Leng Yuening thought for a moment in silence, not quite understanding: "How do I desensitize?"

Ye Ge thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'll teach Palace Master Leng how to desensitize yourself. Once you've learned it, you can teach Sister Yu Xi yourself when we get back."

"Okay." Leng Yue Ning thought to herself, this is not bad either.

Anyway, she's the one who needs treatment...

"Then I'm coming." Ye Ge said earnestly.

Leng Yue Ning looked blank, still unaware of what Ye Ge was about to do.

At this moment, Ye Ge took the initiative to move closer, opened his arms, and embraced Leng Yuening before she could even react.

Leng Yue Ning: (⊙?0?6⊙)

"!!!???"