Definition
One of the Four Joys and Three Yuans, the highest-ranked members of the Zuowandao; named after winning hands in Chinese domino tiles, with North Wind being one of them.
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One of the Four Joys and Three Yuans, the highest-ranked members of the Zuowandao; named after winning hands in Chinese domino tiles, with North Wind being one of them.
Story context
Li Huowang finally dips his toes into the bureaucratic machinery of the Supervisory Heavenly Office, and — surprise, surprise — it's both exactly what he expected and far more unsettling. He's not here to climb the ranks or make friends; he's hunting prey. Specifically, North Wind of the Zuowandao's Four Joys. What he finds in the Office's dusty records doesn't just confirm how outmatched he is — it forces him to confront a terrifying question he's been dodging ever since he learned he was a Heart-Element. The chapter is a masterclass in *information as horror*: the more Li Huowang learns, the more the walls close in.
Why it matters
Alright, fellow cultivators (and the traumatized among you), settle in. This chapter is a slow-burn *information dread* chapter — the kind that doesn't throw a monster at you but makes you realize the monster is smarter, more experienced, and scarier than you could have imagined. North Wind's dossier is a *nightmare*: he doesn't just fight — he *converts* people into his own ranks by weaponizing their worst impulses. That seventeen-year-old girl turned into a Five Bars in an hour? That's not combat; that's *contagion*.
Quick facts
Source novel
Dao Gui Yi Xian
First appearance
The Dossier of North Wind
Chapter references
6
Type hints
li huowang, supervisory heavenly office, zuowandao
Guide tags
lore-heavy, bureaucratic horror, enemy profile
Appears in chapters
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Chapter 380
The Dossier of North Wind
Li Huowang digs through the Supervisory Heavenly Office's archives and finally learns the terrifying truth about North Wind of the Four Joys — body-swapping, deception, and a power that can reach inside his hallucinations.
Chapter 381
The Heart-Element
Li Huowang finally reads the secret files on the Heart-Element. What he finds is a terrifying mythological power he doesn't recognize—and confirmation his greatest enemy is untouchable.
Chapter 401
Reinforcements
Lu Xiucai survives a monk-skin monster, but Blind Chen’s Bagua mirror kills the grave-robber crew. A philosophical bombshell about “Cultivating the True vs. False” rewrites the rules of reality.
Chapter 406
The Mantle No One Wanted
Li Huowang discovers three Dung-Beetle Ascensions have made him the Ao-Jing Sect’s Great Elder—able to channel Bashe without the Thousand Greats Record. But every step closer to the god is a step into worse trouble.
Chapter 412
Mahjong
Li Huowang finally captures Bei Feng, only to discover he is just one of four identical copies. A Zuowandao deception shatters his hope and reveals a deeper, crueler game.
Chapter 417
Red Center
Li Huowang reveals himself as Zuowandao’s Red Center in a brutal, grotesque twist—assassinating the Supervisor and reshaping his own face into the character 中.
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