Sun Xiaoqin

Li Huowang’s mother in the modern-world hallucination; fiercely protective, stubbornly optimistic, and the emotional anchor he chooses to leave behind.

Definition

Li Huowang’s mother in the modern-world hallucination; fiercely protective, stubbornly optimistic, and the emotional anchor he chooses to leave behind.

Story context

Holy *crap*, fellow Daoists. Chapter 95 is not a chapter about fighting a monster. It is a chapter about fighting your own brain while your brain shouts *“TRICKED YA!”* at you from inside a kindergarten. Li Huowang is locked in a desperate chase with Layue Shiba in the modern world, but every time he gets close, reality hits him with a sucker-punch: his homeroom teacher, police cars, and finally—his mother kneeling on the pavement. The chapter doesn’t just show him losing his grip; it shows him clawing for purchase while the line between “real” and “illusion” gets flayed open. And that final scream? Buckle up, because it’s going to stick with you.

Why it matters

This chapter is a **therapy-read nightmare**. If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to have your brain gaslight itself in real time, this is it. Li Huowang is not a badass here; he is a raw, weeping, knee-buckled person whose only remaining anchor is his mother—and even she might be “fake.” Pay close attention to the structure: every time he *almost* reaches certainty, someone real shows up. The chapter weaponizes mundane fragility (a homeroom teacher, police sirens, a mom kneeling) against his fantasy logic. The horror is that he can’t tell if his mom is real, and *neither can we*. That’s the Dao-Twisted World’s deepest trick: it doesn’t show you fake things; it shows you real things that feel fake, and then watches you break trying to decide.