The world of cultivation stretched across boundless lands, where mortals lived out their fleeting lives beneath the shadow of immortals. From the lowest Qi Refining realm to Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and the legendary Immortal Ascension, the path was long and perilous. In this world, the imbalance between the sexes was stark—women far outnumbered men, and male cultivators were rare but disproportionately powerful. Among the strange customs that had arisen from this disparity was the practice of "discipline by spanking," a method by which male cultivators could take female cultivators as female slaves. It was said to accelerate the cultivation of both parties, but few women submitted willingly. To them, it was degradation, a loss of dignity.
Xuanfa Heavenly Lord cared little for such opinions. His name was known across the cultivation world, whispered with a mixture of fear and awe. He was a man who kept his promises and meant what he said, and what he said most often was that a woman's backside was meant to be reddened. Clad in black training clothes that hugged his lean, powerful frame, he moved with the quiet grace of a predator. His face was cold, handsome, with sharp eyes that rarely betrayed emotion. At the late-stage Nascent Soul Perfection, he stood among the strongest in the world, and he used finger techniques in battle—deadly, precise, and elegant.
On this day, a junior disciple of the Immortal Rosy Cloud Sect had unknowingly offended him. Perhaps she had been too slow to bow, or her gaze had lingered a moment too long on his person. The reason mattered little. Xuanfa had decided that the entire sect would pay.
The Immortal Rosy Cloud Sect was nestled among the peaks of the Cloud-Mist Mountains, a sanctuary for female cultivators. Its formations shimmered in the morning light, and the air was thick with spiritual energy. The disciples went about their duties, laughing and chatting, unaware of the storm descending upon them.
Xuanfa arrived at the sect’s main gate without announcement. He did not knock, did not call out. He simply raised a hand, and a finger-thin beam of black energy shot forth, punching a hole through the protective formation. The barrier flickered, then shattered with a sound like breaking glass.
Panic erupted. Disciples scrambled, drawing swords and activating talismans. But Xuanfa walked through the chaos as if they were children playing. When a group of Core Formation disciples charged at him, he flicked his fingers, and they were sent tumbling backward, their robes singed, their buttocks stinging from invisible strikes.
“Tell your sect leader,” he said, his voice flat and cold, “that I am here to collect a debt.”
The message reached Shen Mengyue within minutes. She was in her cultivation chamber, meditating, when her chief disciple burst in with a pale face.
“Sect Leader! The Xuanfa Heavenly Lord has broken through the mountain gate! He’s attacking the disciples!”
Shen Mengyue’s eyes snapped open. Her waist-length black hair cascaded down her back as she rose, her black-and-white Daoist robes flowing around her. She was both ethereally beautiful and enchantingly seductive, with the fair skin of a young woman and the alluring charm of a mature one. But now, her face was set in grim determination.
“What does he want?”
“He said we offended him. He intends to… to spank every disciple until their buttocks blossom.”
Shen Mengyue’s jaw tightened. As sect leader, she was responsible for every woman under her care. She would not let them suffer such humiliation. “Summon the elders. We fight.”
But the elders were no match. One by one, they fell, their robes torn, their bottoms exposed and reddened as Xuanfa made good on his word. Shen Mengyue arrived on the training ground to find a dozen of her senior disciples lying face-down on the stone floor, sobbing, their bruised buttocks on display for all to see.
Xuanfa stood in the center, not a hair out of place. He looked at her, and for a moment, something flickered in his eyes—interest, perhaps, or recognition.
“Sect Leader Shen,” he said. “I expected you earlier.”
“You will leave this sect now,” she said, her voice cold but steady. She drew her sword, a blade of silver light that hummed with spiritual energy. “Or I will make you leave.”
Xuanfa smiled. It was not a pleasant smile. “I admire your courage. But you should know that resistance only makes the punishment worse. For every blow you land on me, I will add ten to your disciples.”
She attacked without another word.
The battle was fierce. Shen Mengyue was a middle-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and she fought with the desperation of a mother protecting her children. Her sword danced in arcs of light, each strike aimed to kill. But Xuanfa was faster, more precise. He fought with only his fingers, parrying her blade with taps of black energy that sent shocks up her arm.
He was using seventy percent of his power. She realized it with a sinking heart. Even at full strength, she might not match him.
They fought across the training ground, shattering stone pillars and tearing up the earth. Shen Mengyue launched her strongest technique—a thousand sword projections that rained down like a meteor shower. Xuanfa raised a hand, and a barrier of black light absorbed them all.
Then he moved.
In the blink of an eye, he was behind her. His finger tapped her lower back, and her spiritual energy vanished, locked away by his technique. Her legs gave out, and she collapsed to the ground, her sword clattering beside her.
She lay on her back, gasping for breath, her robes disheveled. Xuanfa stood over her, looking down with that cold, emotionless gaze. She watched in terror as he approached, his boots clicking on the stone.
“You fought well,” he said. “But well is not enough.”
He crouched beside her, and his hand reached out. She flinched, expecting death. Instead, he grabbed the collar of her robe and tore it open. The black-and-white fabric parted, revealing her fair skin.
“No!” she cried, struggling, but her cultivation was sealed. She was helpless.
Xuanfa ignored her protests. He rolled her onto her stomach, and before she could understand what was happening, his hand came down hard on her bare buttocks. The slap echoed across the training ground.
Shen Mengyue screamed—not from pain alone, but from the sheer humiliation. She was the sect leader, a respected Nascent Soul cultivator, and she was being spanked like a naughty child.
Xuanfa delivered ten strikes, each one harder than the last. Her buttocks turned pink, then red, then a deep crimson. She bit her lip, refusing to cry, but tears streamed down her face anyway.
When he was done, he stood and looked around at the gathered disciples, who watched in horror and shame.
“Listen well,” Xuanfa announced, his voice carrying to every corner of the sect. “For resisting, the entire Immortal Rosy Cloud Sect, from the sect leader down to the lowest disciple, will receive one hundred strokes of the Mysterious Wood Board on the bare buttocks. Every day. For three years.”
A collective gasp rose from the crowd. Three years. A thousand days.
Shen Mengyue, still lying on the ground, her buttocks burning and exposed, could only close her eyes. The despair was absolute.
Xuanfa turned and walked away, leaving behind a sect in ruins. But he would be back tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that. He always kept his promises.