Chu Xiaoyao

Biodata

Background / History

Heavenly Calamity and the Superpower Organization

Chu Xiaoyao was raised by the Superpower Organization and says she escaped because she could not tolerate its cruel experiments. Zhou You initially treats this account as one of her childhood fabrications, but the organization’s members later independently identify her as Heavenly Calamity, the strongest superhuman in history 1 19 30 31.

Heavenly Calamity defected five years before the organization’s investigation of her school life. During her departure, she defeated its assembled ability users, including the Seven Kings, with overwhelming ease. The Red King remembers that encounter with terror; the Professor confirms that her power was innate rather than acquired through cultivation 31 45.

After leaving, she was adopted by parents in Chang’an City and entered middle school, where she met Zhou You. The organization’s investigation finds no known biological parents or public history before middle school. She and Zhou remain close from their first year of middle school through their senior year, becoming deskmates 1 31.

The Carefree Empress Story

On the final day of summer vacation, Chu claims she has returned from ten thousand years on the Primordial Continent, also called the Hongmeng Continent. Her account describes overcoming persecution by a stepmother and elder sister, cultivating through the Tao Te Ching, founding the Carefree Sect, and becoming an Immortal Emperor. She says disciples and friends betrayed and killed her during secluded cultivation 1.

The narration subsequently reveals that she spent the summer reading novels and imagining this transmigration. When her improvised Tao Te Ching lesson actually enables Zhou You to cultivate, she decides that her story must be true and that her inaccessible memories are sealed to protect her mortal mind. Her emperorhood is therefore a belief, not an established cultivation achievement 1 2.

She explains her inability to cultivate as a struggle between the ten-thousand-year-old Carefree Empress personality and her student personality, which she wants to remain dominant 1.

Appearance

Chu Xiaoyao is a well-known school beauty, with long, jet-black hair and fair, fine skin. Her appearance is repeatedly paired with an unusually confident, commanding bearing 2 66.

• Hair: Long and black, described as flowing like a waterfall in the wind 66.
• Eyes: Express absolute confidence; the Red King recognizes Heavenly Calamity partly through her distinctive eyes 31 66.
• Clothing: Initially wears simple, appropriate clothes and carries a schoolbag; at school, she drapes her autumn uniform jacket over her shoulders like an imperial cloak 1 2.
• Glasses: Her ghost-seeing glasses give her a quiet, literary appearance—until classmates see her apparently talking to empty air 48.

Personality

Chu is theatrical, boastful, and deeply invested in her imperial persona. She demands that Zhou You call her “Your Majesty,” invents impressive-sounding cultivation terminology, and treats a sect founded at their school desks as a restoration of her former authority. Classmates regard her behavior as familiar adolescent delusions of grandeur 2 5 8.

Her confidence often exceeds her knowledge. She improvises explanations, interprets unexpected results as confirmation of her own greatness, and uses cryptic pronouncements when she cannot provide practical instruction. She dislikes other people presenting themselves as unfathomably profound, despite regularly doing so herself 2 39 79.

Beneath the posturing, she is loyal and considerate. She calls Zhou her most trusted friend, supports Nuomi’s search for lost memories, and organizes paid homework work for Tang Shiyin because she believes it will help without humiliating her 1 53 99.

Her supernatural bravado does little to overcome schoolwork. She struggles with mathematics and English, copies Zhou’s assignments, and attributes poor performance to sealed dragons or her former organization. Her stated opposition to cheating is flexible: when she needs homework, she dismisses that principle as something her “student persona” said 32 56 60 87.

Abilities & Skills

Innate Superpowers

Heavenly Calamity’s superhuman power is genuine, unlike her unverified Immortal Emperor identity. The supplied chapters establish her overwhelming strength and reputation without identifying the specific mechanism of her ability 31 45.

• Defeated the Superpower Organization’s assembled ability users and Seven Kings during her defection 31.
• Possesses power from birth; the Professor distinguishes this from a cultivator’s acquired strength 45.
• Does not require specialized martial techniques to use her superpowers 65.
• Her reputation makes the Red King avoid discovery and causes the Soul King to panic when meeting her 31 102 103.

Resistance to Fear-Based Intrusion

Nuomi’s secret art enters an opponent’s inner world and draws out their greatest fear. Against Chu, it instead encounters endless darkness and an axe-wielding imperial figure that splits the darkness and drives Nuomi away 4.

• Nuomi finds nothing Chu fears, a result she regards as evidence of Chu’s dangerous, unfathomable nature 5.
• The encounter leaves Nuomi psychologically scarred and reluctant to provoke her 4 5.
• Chu cannot see Nuomi during the confrontation; the event does not establish that Chu has begun cultivating 4.

Cultivation Guidance

Chu’s explanations combine improvisation, useful insight, and limited practical knowledge. Several suggestions produce real results even though she has no demonstrated cultivation realm of her own 2 7 20 65.

• Initial instruction: Her interpretation of the Tao Te Ching leads Zhou You to draw in spiritual qi and levitate, surprising Chu herself 1.
• Internal observation: Suggests using Soul Projection to inspect his body when he cannot naturally perceive his meridians 13.
• Heart Eye insight: Argues that cultivators should perceive beyond their five senses. When Zhou relays this, Su Tingxue’s Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye undergoes a breakthrough 13 20 64.
• Independent study: Warns Zhou that relying on her for every answer will hinder his development 22.
• Soul combat: Suggests applying physical force-generating techniques to his projected soul; he later uses this combination to defeat Sun Cheng 65 67.
• Limits: Cannot explain how Zhou’s soul should touch objects and directs him to Nuomi. She also has no fighting lessons to offer when Nuomi requests instruction 48 79.

Mental-Power Training

Chu describes imagination as mental power or the power of belief. She proposes visualizing opponents as a way to improve both mental strength and combat experience 49.

• Encourages Nuomi to practice visualization 49 59.
• Nuomi mistakes a real encounter with Ghost King Zhenyue for a successful imagined battle; this does not confirm that she can manifest opponents 59.
• Chu’s own ability to create such training opponents is not demonstrated 49.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Ghost-Seeing Glasses — Allow Chu to see vengeful ghosts and converse with Nuomi, whom she previously could not directly see or hear. Duan Yuxian detects no spiritual-power fluctuations from the glasses; Chu claims she simply picked them up somewhere 32 48 76.
• Imperial Seal / Jade Seal — Uses the seal recovered by the group to formalize Zhou You’s and Nuomi’s sect appointments. It is identified as Humanity’s Supreme Treasure and kept in her desk compartment, attracting Ghost King Zhenyue’s theft attempts 48 59 105.
• Tao Te Ching — Bought with money borrowed from Zhou You; she repaid him by taking his classroom cleaning duty for a month. Uses it as the basis of her first cultivation lesson 1.
• Introduction to Cultivation — A gift from Zhou that she reads more carefully than her textbooks, hoping it may awaken her supposed empress memories 43 52.
• Her father’s old phone — Gives it to Nuomi as a reward for joining the sect, teaches her to use it, and later lends her a charger 56 60.

Relationships

• Zhou You — Longtime friend, deskmate, and cultivation student. He tutors her and supplies homework; she provides guidance and insists on accompanying him into potential trouble. Their closeness is confirmed, but classmates’ romantic interpretations remain gossip 1 31 66 87 106.
• Nuomi — Deputy sect leader and devoted admirer. Initially frightened by Chu’s inner world, Nuomi later praises her supposed achievements and accepts her as a powerful protector. Chu rewards her with a phone and helps investigate her lost memories 5 19 53 56.
• Su Tingxue — Fellow student and Dragon Tiger Mountain cultivator. Su becomes intrigued by Chu after her advice improves the Yin-Yang Heavenly Eye; Chu remains wary of Su’s motives and opposes her attempt to recruit Zhou 20 36 68.
• Duan Yuxian — Borrows Chu’s glasses when formally introduced to the Carefree Sect. At a later mall encounter, Duan uses the alias “Su Xian”; Chu notices inconsistencies in her claimed relationship with Zhou 76 107.
• Lian Yi / Tang Shiyin — Undercover investigator seeking information for revenge against Chu. Unaware of that motive, Chu believes Tang is struggling financially and organizes paid homework assignments for her 49 54 99.
• Red King — Former organizational associate and covert observer. His recognition of Heavenly Calamity transforms his confidence into fear, prompting strict secrecy and cautious surveillance 30 31.
• Professor — Leader of her former organization. Recognizes her innate strength and regards her comparatively civil school behavior as personal growth 45.
• Soul King — Organization member terrified of Heavenly Calamity. Misreads Chu’s ordinary interactions with Zhou as evidence of extraordinary danger 102 103.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“Friends made on the Primordial Continent really are unreliable. You're the only dependable one, Zhou You. You're my most trusted friend!” 1

“How can a cultivator be bound by the five senses? What would distinguish them from a mortal?” 13

“But I'm already the greatest under heaven.” 48

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