The world of cultivation stretched across vast continents, where spiritual energy flowed like rivers through the veins of the earth. The path of immortality was divided into realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul—the highest attainable in this age. Among cultivators, women outnumbered men by a wide margin, yet those few male cultivators who reached the Nascent Soul realm were disproportionately powerful, their cultivation bases honed by a unique and ancient law.
That law was simple: a male cultivator could claim a female cultivator as his female slave by spanking her bare buttocks. The act, humiliating as it was, created a bond that accelerated the cultivation of both parties. Most female cultivators despised it, resisted it, but the law was woven into the fabric of the world itself, backed by the raw strength of those who enforced it.
And no one enforced it more ruthlessly than Lord Xuan Fa.
He stood at the peak of Nascent Soul Great Perfection, a realm few had ever touched. His black training clothes clung to a lean, powerful frame, and his face was a mask of cold handsomeness, devoid of emotion. He had no sect, no allegiances. He answered only to his own desires, and chief among those desires was the sight of a woman's pale buttocks reddening under his palm.
Today, a disciple of the Immortal Cloud Sect had been foolish enough to insult him during a gathering of minor sects. The offense was trivial—a sharp word, a misplaced sneer—but Xuan Fa did not distinguish between small slights and great ones. He had announced his intention to the trembling elder who had come to apologize: the Immortal Cloud Sect would pay. Every single female cultivator within its walls would have her buttocks spanked until they were swollen and purple.
The Immortal Cloud Sect was nestled among the peaks of the Azure Cloud Mountains, a sanctuary of jade halls and floating pavilions. It was an all-female sect, known for its elegance and discipline. Its head, Shen Mengyue, was a Nascent Soul Mid Stage cultivator, a woman of both ethereal beauty and formidable power. Her long black hair cascaded to her waist, and her black-and-white Daoist robes could not hide the alluring curves of her mature figure. She had heard of Xuan Fa's approach and had gathered her senior disciples in the main hall.
"Sect Head, we should not provoke him," a trembling elder said. "He said he would spank every one of us if we resist."
"Then we resist," Shen Mengyue replied, her voice cool but firm. "I will not let that beast defile my sect."
She was strong. She knew it. But she also knew the legends of Xuan Fa's brutality. Still, she had no choice. She stepped out of the hall, her sword in hand, and faced the dark figure descending from the sky like a falling star.
Xuan Fa landed in the courtyard, his black robes settling around him. His dark eyes swept over the assembled female cultivators, lingering for a moment on Shen Mengyue. "You know why I am here," he said, his voice flat and cold. "I will say this once. Surrender. Kneel. Present your buttocks. If you do not resist, I will be merciful. One hundred spanks each. That is all."
Shen Mengyue's sword sang as she drew it. "I refuse."
"Then you will be punished accordingly," Xuan Fa said. He raised a hand, his fingers extended, and a thin blade of sharp finger energy shot toward her.
The battle erupted.
Shen Mengyue moved like flowing water, her sword techniques weaving clouds and mist around her. She struck with the power of a Nascent Soul cultivator, her spiritual energy roaring through the courtyard, cracking the jade tiles and shattering the nearby pillars. Xuan Fa did not even draw a weapon. He simply deflected her strikes with his fingers, each movement precise and effortless, as if he were swatting flies.
She was fast. She was strong. She had trained for centuries to reach this realm. But Xuan Fa was something else entirely. He only used seventy percent of his power, and still, she could not land a single blow. His finger techniques carved through her defenses like a hot blade through silk. A burst of energy slammed into her chest, sending her flying backward. She crashed into the stone wall of the main hall, the impact cracking the rock.
Before she could rise, Xuan Fa appeared before her, his hand gripping her throat and lifting her off the ground. Her sword clattered to the floor. She struggled, clawing at his wrist, but his grip was like iron. He held her there, suspended, her feet dangling, her face turning red as she gasped for air.
"I gave you a chance," Xuan Fa said, his voice utterly devoid of emotion. "You chose to resist. So the punishment increases."
He threw her to the ground. Shen Mengyue landed hard, the breath knocked out of her. She lay there, her robes torn and disheveled, her long black hair spread around her like a dark halo. Her cultivation was suppressed, her meridians locked by a technique she had never seen. She could not move, could not even form a basic spell. Panic began to creep into her heart as she watched Xuan Fa walk toward her, his steps measured and deliberate.
He stopped beside her, looking down at her with those cold, dark eyes. Then he spoke, his voice carrying across the entire sect, amplified by his spiritual power so that every woman in the Immortal Cloud Sect could hear him clearly.
"Because the Immortal Cloud Sect has chosen to resist, the punishment has changed. Every single cultivator in this sect—from the Sect Head to the newest Qi Refining disciple—will receive one hundred spanks on the buttocks with the Xuan Wood Board. This will be administered every day. For the next three years."
The words hung in the air, absolute and final.
Shen Mengyue's heart sank. Tears welled in her eyes, not from pain, but from the sheer, crushing humiliation. Three years. Every day. The Xuan Wood Board was a legendary instrument of punishment, one that left no lasting physical damage but delivered excruciating pain. And it was said that once a spanking with that board was completed, the cultivator's cultivation would accelerate, bound to the one who administered it.
She would become his slave.
No. That could not happen. But even as she thought it, Xuan Fa's hand reached down, and she felt his spiritual energy tear through her robes, shredding them from her body. The cool air hit her bare skin. She was lying on the ground, completely naked, her pale buttocks exposed to the world.
"This is but the beginning," Xuan Fa said, a faint, cruel smile touching his lips for the first time. "You will learn to obey, Shen Mengyue. All of you will."
He raised his hand, and the Xuan Wood Board materialized in his palm, dark and heavy. The first stroke was coming.
And there was nothing she could do to stop it.