- **Bashe (巴虺)**: Bashe is an ancient Chinese mythical python said to swallow elephants and take three years to digest them. In *Dao Gui Yi Xian*, it has been repurposed as a high-dimensional entity (a Siming) that governs the domain of “Pain.” Unlike many cultivation systems where power comes from purity or enlightenment, Li Huowang’s power here comes from a horribly literal transaction: trading agony for supernatural force. Bashe doesn’t even *notice* him—he is just stealing scraps from the god of suffering. - **Layue Shiba (腊月十八)**: A traditional Chinese folk demon that resets its appearance, powers, and weaknesses every year on the 18th day of the 12th lunar month. Its weakness here isn’t a magic sword or a spell—it’s being forced to feel pain for the first time. The horror is psychological: an entity that *couldn’t* be hurt is suddenly made vulnerable by a man who has become a vessel for the god of pain. - **The Thousand Greats Record (《大千录》)**: This red bamboo slip is not a spellbook in the typical sense. It is a litany of suffering. Li Huowang drives a spike back into it to trigger the connection with Bashe. This artifact represents a “suffering-cult,” a twisted path of cultivation where agony is the currency and self-mutilation is the ritual. - **The ICU Trap**: The transition from the Dao-Twisted world to the hospital is jarring. The author uses a classic technique in psychological horror: the “return to reality” is not a relief—it is a trap. The doctor’s question isn’t hostile, but it’s the most dangerous weapon Li Huowang faces. It asks him, and the reader, to judge which world is “abnormal.”
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- **Bashe (巴虺)**: Bashe is an ancient Chinese mythical python said to swallow elephants and take three years to digest them. In *Dao Gui Yi Xian*, it has been repurposed as a high-dimensional entity (a Siming) that governs the domain of “Pain.” Unlike many cultivation systems where power comes from purity or enlightenment, Li Huowang’s power here comes from a horribly literal transaction: trading agony for supernatural force. Bashe doesn’t even *notice* him—he is just stealing scraps from the god of suffering. - **Layue Shiba (腊月十八)**: A traditional Chinese folk demon that resets its appearance, powers, and weaknesses every year on the 18th day of the 12th lunar month. Its weakness here isn’t a magic sword or a spell—it’s being forced to feel pain for the first time. The horror is psychological: an entity that *couldn’t* be hurt is suddenly made vulnerable by a man who has become a vessel for the god of pain. - **The Thousand Greats Record (《大千录》)**: This red bamboo slip is not a spellbook in the typical sense. It is a litany of suffering. Li Huowang drives a spike back into it to trigger the connection with Bashe. This artifact represents a “suffering-cult,” a twisted path of cultivation where agony is the currency and self-mutilation is the ritual. - **The ICU Trap**: The transition from the Dao-Twisted world to the hospital is jarring. The author uses a classic technique in psychological horror: the “return to reality” is not a relief—it is a trap. The doctor’s question isn’t hostile, but it’s the most dangerous weapon Li Huowang faces. It asks him, and the reader, to judge which world is “abnormal.”
Story context
Get ready, fellow survivors. Chapter 97 is not a power-up—it’s a total breakdown. Fresh off his near-death, Li Huowang doesn’t just win a fight; he becomes a walking catastrophe. We watch our battered protagonist weaponize his own agony to borrow from Bashe, the distant, indifferent entity of pain. The cost? His body, his mind, and every shred of his humanity. And just when you think the dust has settled, the author yanks us back to the ICU, where the ultimate antagonist isn’t a five-headed ghost but a calm, smiling psychiatrist asking the one question Li Huowang can’t answer: Which world is real?
Why it matters
Alright, here’s the gut-punch of this chapter. For 97 chapters, Li Huowang has been screaming about how real the other world is. And now, the author pulls the rug out from under us. The victory over Layue Shiba is horrific, triumphant, and completely insane. It feels like a climax. But what does Li Huowang wake up to? A hospital bed and a doctor who asks a question that doesn’t have an edge.
Quick facts
Source novel
Dao Gui Yi Xian
First appearance
Bashe Descends Again
Chapter references
1
Type hints
dao gui yi xian, chapter 97, bashe
Guide tags
body horror, psychological breakdown, reality bending
Appears in chapters
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