Six-clawed

Story context

The golden palace isn't just a display of wealth—it's a trap, a prison, and a ritual array all at once. Li Huowang, still invisible and hunting for the Zuowandao who know the whereabouts of the Heart-Element North Wind, steps into the Great Liang Imperial Palace's Throne Hall only to find that his own memories are being erased in real-time. Forced to rely on desperate self-carved notes on his own skin, he uncovers the horror beneath the gilded surface: every golden hall sits atop a buried Heart-Turbid corpse, sewn shut and used as a living formation eye. And when he finally breaks through to the palace's core, he finds something far worse waiting in the sky.

Why it matters

Holy gold, am I right? This chapter is a masterclass in "oh no, everything is worse than I thought." Li Huowang walks into an impossibly opulent palace expecting to chase down some Zuowandao, and instead finds a horror labyrinth that **literally eats his own memory**. The image of him discovering his own frantic handwriting on his arm—words he wrote but can't remember writing—is the kind of cognitive terror this novel does best. And the reveal that a captured Heart-Turbid corpse, that ultra-rare and dangerous entity, is just being used as a disposable formation eye? That's the novel telling you, very politely, that the real bosses haven't even shown up yet. Also, that final panel with the vertical pupil and the floating hexagrams? Genuine skin-crawler imagery. Buckle up.

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Source novel

Dao Gui Yi Xian