Definition
A Daoist ritual weapon made of coins strung on red cord; can be scattered mid-combat to strike multiple supernatural targets at once.
Coin-Sword
A Daoist ritual weapon made of coins strung on red cord; can be scattered mid-combat to strike multiple supernatural targets at once.
Story context
We knew this confrontation couldn't end well, but nobody predicted the sheer brutality of the pivot. Li Huowang walks into the Bai family's trap with the best of intentions—only to walk out with half a hand, a ruptured stomach, and a psychotic break that hurls him back into modern reality. The chapter title, “The Stomach Rupture,” is meticulously literal: once the Black Tai Sui inside him is damaged, his grip on reality dissolves faster than the rain soaking his vagrant disguise. What makes this chapter especially cruel is that Li Huowang’s restraint—his refusal to kill Bai Lingmiao’s family—is what gets him pinned like a butterfly to a board. The Bai family doesn’t know (or care) that he was trying to protect them. They only see the Supervisory Heavenly Office token and react with a century of accumulated hatred. This isn’t a fight. It’s an execution. citeturn1view0
Why it matters
I need you to sit with the nausea this chapter leaves behind—not just the gore, but the betrayal. Li Huowang genuinely tried to extend an olive branch. He held back. He remembered Bai Lingmiao. And it was that very act of remembering that cost him his hand and nearly his life. The Bai family is not evil in the cartoonish sense; they are traumatized, and trauma has a long memory. What makes this chapter hurt is the “what if”: what if Li Huowang had shown them the Wandering Lord summoning bell first? What if Bai Lingmiao were there to translate his intentions? But the Dao-Twisted World doesn’t run on “what ifs.” It runs on blood debt and old grudges. The return to the modern gutter, clutching a rotten orange, is not just a hallucination—it’s his last reality check before the world splits again. citeturn2view0turn10view0turn1view0
Quick facts
Source novel
Dao Gui Yi Xian
First appearance
The Stomach Rupture
Chapter references
2
Type hints
Li Huowang, Bai family trap, Wandering Lord
Guide tags
betrayal, body horror, psychological break
Appears in chapters
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Chapter 307
The Stomach Rupture
Li Huowang’s attempt to avoid bloodshed leads to a brutal ambush in the reed marsh. When the Black Tai Sui is injured, his grip on reality snaps—and he finds himself eating a rotten orange in a modern downpour.
Chapter 341
Zhuge Yuan
A Zuowandao is dead. Li Huowang makes his first cold-blooded kill for the Office, then pays off a colleague. But when the name “Zhuge Yuan” is revealed, even the Chief Recorder flees in fear. The hunt for the Heart-Murk reveals a much larger game.
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