Chu Xiaoyao

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Chu Xiaoyao (楚逍瑶)
Alias(es)	Calamity; Free and Unfettered Female Emperor (self-proclaimed imperial title); Carefree Empress 1 8 31 104
Species/Race	Human; an innate Superpowered Person 31 45
Gender	Female 1
Affiliation	Carefree Sect; formerly the Superpower Organization 8 31 45 103
Occupation/Role	Third-year senior-high student in Class Three at Chang’an City No. 2 Middle School; Carefree Sect co-founder and Grand Supreme Elder; Zhou You’s cultivation mentor 1 8 14 31
Family	Adopted; biological parents unknown 31
Status	Alive; living as a student after leaving the Organization; has not begun cultivating in the present world 7 103 107
First Appearance	Arrives at Zhou You’s home on the final day of summer vacation 1

Power Progression

The Primordial Continent progression below comes from Xiaoyao’s own account, not an independently established history. No present-day cultivation breakthrough is documented 1 7 48.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Beginning cultivation — realm unspecified	1	Claims she discovered that the Tao Te Ching was a cultivation manual after transmigrating to the Primordial Continent, allowing her to overcome suppression by her stepmother and elder sister.
Immortal Emperor — claimed	1	Says she cultivated for ten thousand years, founded the Carefree Sect, and took the title Free and Unfettered Female Emperor.
Retracing cultivation from Qi Refining through Foundation Establishment to Golden Core — claimed	100	Says she later suppressed her cultivation and walked the path again to correct shortcomings and seek a breakthrough. Her explanation falters when Zhou You asks how this works for a body cultivator.
Present world — cultivation not begun	1 7 48	Initially attributes the delay to conflict between her student personality and imperial memories. Later remains unable to recover the techniques she believes she once knew.

Background / History

Calamity and the Organization

Xiaoyao is adopted, and her biological parents and experiences before junior high are unknown in the records examined by the Red King. Those records identify Zhou You as her closest companion from their first year of junior high through their third year of senior high 31.

Her history with the Superpower Organization is supported by its members’ recognition of her as Calamity. The Red King confirms her identity, while the professor recalls her conduct at headquarters and describes her exceptional strength as innate. He considers her ability to attend school and speak civilly with classmates a marked improvement over her earlier behavior 31 45. The Soul King explicitly remembers her defection from the Organization 103.

Xiaoyao says she escaped because she could not tolerate the Organization’s actions. Zhou You initially treats this as another childhood fabrication, even when actual superpowered agents become involved in his life 1 19.

Claimed Life on the Primordial Continent

According to Xiaoyao, she transmigrated into a household where her stepmother and legitimate elder sister persecuted her while her father was away on military campaigns. Discovering the cultivation potential of the Tao Te Ching enabled her to retaliate and begin a ten-thousand-year rise to imperial power 1.

She claims she defeated prodigies, destroyed demonic sects, and established the Carefree Sect before becoming the Free and Unfettered Female Emperor. Her account ends with betrayal and death at the hands of disciples and friends, followed by her return to the present 1.

Her certainty increases after Zhou You genuinely begins cultivating under her instruction. She interprets her missing recollections as sealed memories protecting her mortal mind, although she herself was initially astonished that the lesson worked 1 2.

Appearance

• Hair and complexion: Long, jet-black hair, fair skin, and delicate features 66.
• School reputation: A widely recognized beauty throughout No. 2 Middle School, not merely among her own year 2 66.
• Clothing: Introduced in simple, appropriate clothes with a schoolbag; later wears her autumn uniform jacket draped over her shoulders like an imperial cloak 1 2.
• Bearing: Straight-backed and conspicuously self-assured, with absolute confidence in her eyes 2 66.
• Ghost-Seeing Glasses: Give her a quiet, literary appearance—until classmates see her apparently conversing with empty air 48.

Personality

Xiaoyao is theatrical, boastful, and quick to turn ordinary situations into demonstrations of imperial authority. She invents grand titles, delivers elaborate accounts of past victories, and insists Zhou You address her as “Great Emperor.” Her confidence sometimes conceals improvisation: she names his “half-step Qi Refining” stage despite not recognizing such a realm, and supplies impressive-sounding battle commentary when she cannot actually predict the outcome 2 79.

Her bravado coexists with ordinary student anxieties. Requesting leave from the homeroom teacher rattles her more than the powerful enemies she claims to have faced, and she repeatedly seeks ways around difficult schoolwork. After declaring cheating wrong, she later asks to copy Zhou You’s homework and attributes the earlier declaration to her separate “student persona” 36 56 60.

She is generous and protective toward her companions. She gives Nuomi a phone, helps investigate the ghost’s missing memories, and insists on accompanying Zhou You on supernatural work. She also takes perceived threats to the Carefree Sect personally, urging Zhou You to defend it and opposing attempts to recruit him elsewhere 35 53 56 66 68.

Abilities & Skills

Innate Superpower

• Established background: The professor identifies her power as something she possessed from birth; the Red King believes Calamity surpasses the legendary cultivators being debated by his companions 45 97.
• Claimed limitation: Xiaoyao says her superpower has a limited number of uses and refuses to expend it retrieving Nuomi’s treasury 32.
• Technical knowledge: She admits internally that using her superpower requires no particular technique, leaving her unable to evaluate Zhou You’s newly learned force-generating methods 65.
• Unspecified mechanism: The provided encounters establish her feared reputation but do not explain her superpower’s precise operation 45 103.

Inner World and Resistance to Fear

• Nuomi’s secret art, which draws out a victim’s greatest fear, encounters an endless darkness inside Xiaoyao rather than a controllable fear scenario 4.
• An axe-wielding vision of Xiaoyao drives Nuomi out of the mindscape and leaves her traumatized 4 5.
• Xiaoyao describes her greatest fear as having no worthy opponent; Nuomi concludes that someone with nothing to fear is dangerously unfathomable 4 5.

Cultivation Instruction

• Dao transmission: Her explanation of the Tao Te Ching causes Zhou You to draw in spiritual energy and levitate, beginning his cultivation 1.
• Soul and body development: Explains ghost consumption as “dietary therapy”—strengthening the soul, feeding that improvement back into the body, and potentially granting ghost-associated traits. She warns that careless consumption can be dangerous 13 19.
• Introspection: Suggests Zhou You use Soul Projection to inspect his own organs and meridians when conventional introspection does not work for him 13.
• Mind’s Eye insight: Her instruction to use the heart rather than remain bound by the five senses, relayed through Zhou You, triggers Su Tingxue’s Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye breakthrough 13 20 64.
• Soul combat: Proposes applying physical force-generating techniques to Zhou You’s projected soul. He successfully uses the combination against Sun Cheng 65 67.
• Limits: Cannot reliably provide practical instruction for every problem. She refers Zhou You to Nuomi for touching objects with his soul and evades Nuomi’s request for combat lessons 48 79.

Academic and Literary Skills

• Chinese: Ranks first in her year on Chinese examinations unless her essay goes off topic 35.
• Writing: Produces essays with classical phrasing and obscure vocabulary; one story earns a teacher’s reprimand while other Chinese teachers privately ask whether there is more 1 15.
• Handwriting: Writes the Carefree Sect’s desk signs and replaces Zhou You’s less attractive lettering 8.
• Weak subjects: Struggles with mathematics and English, relying on Zhou You’s tutoring and frequently copying assignments 32 56 60 87.

Equipment / Items

• Ghost-Seeing Glasses — Allow her to see ghosts despite initially being unable to see Nuomi. Their origin is unexplained; Duan Yuxian detects no spiritual-power fluctuations when borrowing them 4 48 76.
• Jade Seal / Imperial Seal — Uses the seal recovered from Great Stone Lake to stamp Carefree Sect appointment decrees. It is identified as Humanity’s Supreme Treasure and kept in her desk compartment 48 105.
• Introduction to Cultivation — Given to her by Zhou You to study this world’s cultivation methods. She reads it in hopes of recovering memories, but its coverage reaches only Golden Core 43 52.
• Carefree Sect desk signs — Handmade from test papers; identify the sect’s senior offices within its two-desk “territory” 8 48.
• Floral water — Uses it against mosquitoes while attributing their avoidance to imperial aura or her claimed Nine Li bloodline 23 24 32.

Relationships

• Zhou You — Longtime friend, deskmate, disciple, and Carefree Sect Master. She initiates his cultivation; he tutors her and challenges her excuses. Both want to attend the same university, but their closeness is not established as a romantic relationship 1 2 31 87 95.
• Nuomi — Carefree Sect Vice Sect Master and devoted admirer. Initially terrified by Xiaoyao’s inner world, she later treats her as a powerful protector. Xiaoyao gives her a phone and helps search for her missing memories 4 19 48 53 56.
• Su Tingxue — Fellow cultivator whose eye technique advances through Xiaoyao’s advice. Su remains deeply curious about her origins; Xiaoyao is wary of Su’s interest and resists her attempt to recruit Zhou You into Dragon-Tiger Mountain 20 36 68.
• Duan Yuxian / Su Xian — Borrows Xiaoyao’s Ghost-Seeing Glasses at the spell duel. Later meets her under the alias “Su Xian”; Xiaoyao notices suspicious familiarity between the masked delivery worker and Zhou You but does not uncover the connection 76 107.
• Lian Yi / Tang Shiyin — Demon Alliance member who infiltrates Xiaoyao’s class to investigate her and the Carefree Sect. Unaware of the disguise, Xiaoyao offers her paid homework work as a considerate way to help an apparently poor classmate 40 49 54 99.
• Red King — Former Organization associate who recognizes Calamity and watches her school life with extreme caution. His concern for her safety eventually takes priority over the Jade Seal 31 35 103.
• Soul King — Organization member terrified of Calamity. Xiaoyao deliberately intimidates him during their Starbucks meeting using hostile stares and ominous smiles 103.
• Adoptive parents — Her documented family in Chang’an. She later gives Nuomi her father’s old phone 31 56.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Arc	Chapters	Xiaoyao’s role
Zhou You’s awakening	1 2	Her supposed cultivation lesson produces genuine supernatural results, changing Zhou You’s view of her stories and establishing their mentor–disciple relationship.
Founding the Carefree Sect	8 14 15	Obtains the senior elder position with two packets of spicy strips and helps arrange a public founding announcement. The school newspaper presents the sect as an acrobatics troupe.
Great Stone Lake and sect appointments	23 43 48	Accompanies Zhou You’s training and treasure-retrieval efforts, then uses the recovered seal to formalize Zhou You and Nuomi’s positions.
Investigation by Lian Yi	40 49 54 85	Her unexplained background, unusual possessions, and grand claims convince the infiltrator that the apparently informal Carefree Sect conceals extraordinary power.
Defending the sect’s membership	66 67 68	Supports Zhou You against Sun Cheng, explains his tactics to Nuomi, and rejects Dragon-Tiger Mountain’s recruitment offer.
Meeting the Soul King	103 104	Accompanies Zhou You to settle an online dispute. Her intentional intimidation is interpreted by Organization members as a warning not to disturb Calamity’s student life.
Mall outing	106 107	Skips evening study with Zhou You, shares snacks, and meets the disguised Duan Yuxian. Her suspicions expose gaps in the “new downstairs neighbor” explanation without resolving them.

Notable Quotes

“Finally, I achieved the position of Immortal Emperor, with the imperial title of Free and Unfettered Female Emperor!” 1

“As people who cultivate, how can one be shackled by the five senses? How would that make us any different from mortals? Use the heart as the eye, crowned with yin and yang, and you can perceive heaven and earth.” 13

“That was my student persona speaking. I never said that.” 60