I Just Wanted to Teach Cultivation, But Goddesses Keep Coming!

Chapter 531: Chapter 531 I Sneezed and Shattered the Void

The others stopped running.

"What?"

Before they could investigate further, several more sword lights arrived.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The attacks landed directly on all four rats. The rats instinctively covered their heads.

A few seconds passed. Nothing happened. Slowly, they lowered their paws.

All four remained completely unharmed.

The sword lights had shattered upon impact like fragile glass.

Not even a strand of fur had been damaged. The rats stared at one another.

Then realization slowly dawned on them.

"It’s Master Lin Feng." Their eyes widened.

Master Lin Feng had transformed them into rats, but he had also turned them into guardians.

How could guardians die so easily? The four suddenly felt touched.

Perhaps Master Lin Feng truly intended to give them a second chance.

Meanwhile, Huo Mian’s brows furrowed. She had witnessed everything.

Her sword lights should have sliced those rats into dozens of pieces.

Yet somehow they remained completely unharmed.

"Strange."

She launched another attack.

Whoosh!

A massive sword light descended. The rats panicked once again.

"Run!"

"But we’re immortal!"

"Run anyway!"

Bang!

The attack struck. The result remained unchanged. The sword light shattered.

The rats remained unharmed. At this point even Huo Mian was surprised.

She walked forward and examined the area.

The rats had already retreated several dozen meters away and were cautiously peeking at her from behind a tree.

One of them even waved nervously. Huo Mian’s eyelid twitched.

She could have sworn that rat had just waved at her.

For a brief moment she wondered if she should continue chasing them.

Then she shook her head.

Whatever those creatures were, they clearly weren’t ordinary rats.

Furthermore, they weren’t causing any trouble. There was no reason to waste time on them.

With a casual flick of her wrist, she returned her sword to its sheath.

"At least they’re leaving."

The four rats immediately sighed in relief.

"She’s gone."

"We survived."

"I thought we were dead."

"I thought so too."

The leader rat looked toward Lin Feng’s residence in the distance.

The four rats silently made a vow.

Perhaps in the past they had been thieves and murderers.

Perhaps they had committed countless sins.

But from this day onward, they would faithfully carry out their duty as guardians of the Lin Clan.

After all, a trillion years was a very long time.

And they had no intention of spending it as rats forever.

With renewed determination, the four rats disappeared into the distance, beginning the first day of their new lives as the most unusual guardians the Lin Clan had ever possessed.

Once they were out of sight of the city, the four rats finally came to a halt, their movements still carrying a strange afterimage of speed, as if reality itself had trouble keeping up with them.

"I can’t believe we ran that far!" one of them exclaimed, chest heaving even though his body felt unusually light and powerful.

He looked back in the direction they came from, but the city was already nothing more than a distant smudge on the horizon.

"We left the city in an instant!"

"How are we this fast? Everything around us turned into a blur," another added, slowly waving a paw in front of his face.

Even the motion of his own limb seemed slightly delayed to his perception, as though time itself had become softer and more forgiving around them.

The third rat crouched down and touched the ground beneath him, his claws digging into the soil with surprising ease.

"This isn’t normal... I didn’t even feel wind resistance. It was like the world was moving away from us instead of us running through it."

A brief silence followed as all four exchanged glances.

Then the third rat’s eyes gleamed with excitement.

"I think Master Lin Feng has granted us a boon. He must be preparing us to become proper guardians of his clan."

The words settled heavily, but instead of fear, they ignited something deeper... anticipation.

"I think we’ve gained far more power than we initially realized," the boss rat said slowly, his voice lower now, more controlled.

There was a strange steadiness in him, as if instinct itself had shifted and matured in that moment.

"This isn’t just speed... it feels like our entire bodies have been rewritten."

He lifted his left paw, studying it carefully.

The fur shimmered faintly under the sunlight, and faint traces of energy pulsed beneath the surface like a living current.

He narrowed his eyes.

"Let’s test it."

Without warning, he focused all his strength into that paw.

The air around him trembled slightly as invisible pressure gathered, compacting into a single point.

Then he stomped it down hard against the ground.

BOOM!

The earth didn’t just crack... it erupted.

A massive crater exploded outward beneath them, the ground caving in violently as chunks of soil and stone were blasted several meters into the air.

Shockwaves rippled outward in expanding circles, flattening nearby grass and sending dust billowing like a sudden storm.

For a moment, silence returned.

The four rats stared at the crater in stunned disbelief.

It was large enough to fit a small house, its edges jagged and still crumbling as loose dirt continued to slide inward.

"...That was my paw," the boss rat muttered, almost disbelieving.

One of the others swallowed hard. "We didn’t even use a technique..."

Another stepped forward, trembling slightly but unable to hide his excitement.

"So this is what a boon from Master Lin Feng means...? Just raw strength alone is already like this?"

The boss rat slowly straightened, then flexed his claws again. This time, he didn’t hold back.

"Then we don’t understand even a fraction of what we’ve become."

And with that, all four of them began testing their newfound abilities in earnest.

One dashed forward and vanished in a blur, reappearing dozens of meters away in a single breath, laughing in disbelief.

Another slammed his fist into a boulder, shattering it into fragments like it was made of dry clay.

The third leapt high into the air, landing without sound or impact, as if gravity itself had loosened its grip.

They circled the crater, experimenting more boldly with each passing moment... speed bursts, sudden stops, explosive strength, even strange instinctive reactions they couldn’t yet understand.