Do Not Say the Flower of a Dusty Heart Remains Unsullied; Once Spring Stirs the Heart, Regrets Multiply-On Xiao Hua's Love in Chronicles of the Cultivating God

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"Heavenly Dao Xiao Hua"

Chronicles of the Cultivating God was a vast work in scope. Its twisting, tumultuous plot; its sweeping scroll of cultivation life; its heart-stopping, impossible-to-put-down adventures; and the worldly tapestry of love, hate, gratitude, grudges, and enmities all unfolded around the four universally acknowledged elements of the Cultivation World: "Dao, techniques, wealth, and companions." If "Dao, techniques, and wealth" made Xiao Hua's experiences like a surging, roaring river, then "companions," though merely a few small waves within that rushing current, linked together the rare stretches of calm and breathtaking scenery along the river of his karma-entwined life. It was precisely these little seasonings that made the grand feast of Chronicles of the Cultivating God all the more delicious. Below, I shall borrow a poem I once wrote, "Do Not Say the Flower of a Dusty Heart Remains Unsullied; Once Spring Stirs the Heart, Regrets Multiply," to discuss the women around Xiao Hua and his love affairs with them in Chronicles of the Cultivating God.

Not only in Chronicles of the Cultivating God, but in other online novels as well, men held the right to speak. Three wives and four concubines were taken as a matter of course. Though this did not conform to the moral standards of love and marriage in real society, I will not consider such moral conflicts here, nor dwell on who was right or wrong. I will simply discuss the women in Chronicles of the Cultivating God who became entangled with Zhang Xiaohua—Xiao Hua—and speak of Xiao Hua's love, the women around him, and their endings.

The women around Zhang Xiaohua in Chronicles of the Cultivating God, and around Xiao Hua in Light Escape, were as follows: in Volume One of Chronicles of the Cultivating God, on the Divine Continent Ruins plane,