Definition
A suffering-cult manual whose techniques function as painful transactions with the god Bashe, overwriting the body’s nature through agony.
The Thousand Greats Record
A suffering-cult manual whose techniques function as painful transactions with the god Bashe, overwriting the body’s nature through agony.
Story context
Get ready, fellow Daoists—because this chapter gives you no time to breathe before it rips your heart out and shows it to you. Li Huowang hits the absolute floor of his psychological crisis, straddling the kindergarten’s fluorescent lighting and a rotten bamboo grove with equal helplessness. He nearly kills a child. He watches his mother kneel. And when a sniper’s bullet finds his head, the only thing that saves him is the hallucination he’s been trying to escape. This isn’t a fight scene. It’s a spiritual vivisection, and *The Thousand Greats Record* is the scalpel.
Why it matters
This chapter is the climax of Li Huowang’s identity crisis arc. Watch how the *object* of his pain shifts: he starts by fearing for the child’s life, then spirals into self-loathing, and finally lands on a cold, terrible resolve to *use* his own suffering as a weapon. The moment he smiles and says *“It hurts so much I want to die”* is not a heroic beat—it’s the sound of a man who has decided to become the thing that feeds on his own ruin. If you’ve been wondering when Li Huowang would stop being a victim and start being dangerous, this is the exact turning point. But the cost is already visible: he has stopped trying to save the parts of himself that make him human.
Quick facts
Source novel
Dao Gui Yi Xian
First appearance
Agony
Chapter references
8
Type hints
Li Huowang, Layue Shiba, Thousand Greats Record
Guide tags
Psychological Horror, Identity Crisis, Emotional Breakdown
Appears in chapters
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Chapter 96
Agony
Li Huowang can no longer tell reality from illusion. When a sniper’s bullet sends him reeling into the bamboo grove, his only escape is to weaponize his own unbearable pain through the Thousand Greats Record.
Chapter 97
Bashe Descends Again
Li Huowang weaponizes his own agony to borrow power from the god of Pain, Bashe. A devastating victory leads to the cruelest question: which world is real?
Chapter 103
The Confession
Li Huowang confesses his otherworldly origins to Bai Lingmiao, who focuses on the real danger: The Thousand Greats Record. Plus, a strange side-effect from Bashe begins to show.
Chapter 113
On the Road
Li Huowang retrieves his items from the thieving nuns and learns the dangers of the Ao-Jing Sect, while the Lü family struggles with loss on the road.
Chapter 129
That’s Not Me
Li Huowang faces his greatest enemy yet—himself. As Danyangzi’s voice whispers easy lies, he must cling to his true nature to survive. A powerful chapter of inner horror and motherly comfort.
Chapter 159
Erbing
Cornered by a Zuowandao liar and a mob of grieving bandits, Li Huowang fights tooth and nail—literally. A severed arm settles the score in the bloodiest way possible.
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