I'm siding with the MC. Women in cultivation worlds are just too much trouble. All they do is attract rivals that think killing you is going to somehow endear them to the woman, or they bring trouble by being a runaway from some powerful cultivation clan. If it was me in that situation, I'd rather find some average looking village girl to tease, marry and spoil. Dont need some heaven defying beauty with an entire freight train of baggage behind her.