I think the normal speculation after having a scene of the father and mother auraclash being unwilling to cultivate is that forcing them to do it will have consequences later.
Maybe something like curses only work when a person is a cultivator but will fail on mortals. So when we are away someone curses them and you can actually lose them if you don't make the right choices.
Though I guess losing them might be too dark for the kind of story Aura Clash is, so the consequences could just be that you lose 1 day or more of free roam while you save them or something along those lines.