Pure

Story context

Buckle up, fellow Daoists, because Chapter 487 serves up a masterclass in *transaction horror*. Li Huowang navigates an imperial audience with a Grand Preceptor who doesn’t trust him, snags the cosmic-level “pure yang life” voucher, and then walks into the Office’s creepy treasure vault to trade 400 human-life pills for… a human finger bone. But the real zinger? He feeds that bone to a blind Bai Lingmiao, who wakes up to a new sense she never signed up for. This chapter is all about trades, trust, and the uneasy feeling that every gift in the Dao-Twisted World comes with invisible strings attached. The prose leans into quiet dread — no screaming monsters, just the slow drip of Li Huowang’s paranoia and Bai Lingmiao’s fragile hope.

Why it matters

This chapter is a slow-burn horror of *consent and consequence*. Bai Lingmiao regains a sense she never expected and immediately sees something terrifying about Li Huowang — his qi is unstable, fragmented, flickering between states. This is more than a new power-up; it’s a dramatic irony bomb that will likely explode in their relationship later. Pay attention to the pattern: every transaction Li Huowang makes here — with the Grand Preceptor, with Lian Zhibei, with the Office, with his wife — involves a hidden cost. The bone was “free” in exchange for pills, but the real price might be Bai Lingmiao’s trust and sanity. Also, that Grand Preceptor curse is a ticking clock. Li Huowang has no intention of talking now, but if he ever *needs* to speak the truth? That’s when it’ll bite.

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Dao Gui Yi Xian