Three Corpses

In Daoist internal alchemy, three parasitic spirit-worms residing in the head, chest, and abdomen that tempt humans toward base desires; a cultivator must "cut them off" to progress.

Definition

In Daoist internal alchemy, three parasitic spirit-worms residing in the head, chest, and abdomen that tempt humans toward base desires; a cultivator must "cut them off" to progress.

Story context

Welp, folks, the Anci Nunnery exorcism didn’t exactly go to plan. Chapter 111 opens with Li Huowang licking his wounds—literally—after the nuns’ best attempt to peel Danyangzi out of him only managed to wound the bastard temporarily. The clock is ticking: two months until Li Huowang becomes Danyangzi completely. But instead of despair, our favorite walking disaster does something utterly heartbreaking: he slips into a hospital hallucination, has a perfectly normal conversation with his mom, gives her gold and jade to pay the family’s debts… and then coldly reminds himself it’s all fake. The chapter ends with Li Huowang’s quiet, lethal decision: no more waiting. Time to kill Danyangzi.

Why it matters

Get ready, fellow Daoists, because Chapter 111 is a punch to the gut disguised as a quiet, dimly lit room. The emotional core here is brutal: Li Huowang does something genuinely kind for his mother, and then immediately tells himself it was all fake—yet he still apologizes to the empty air when he comes back. The red button trick is *devastating*. The novel’s horror weaponizes love: it’s not the monster that breaks him, it’s the realization that the person he loves most in the world might not even be real. And yet—and *this* is why we keep reading—he doesn’t collapse. He makes a choice. The line *“I want Danyangzi dead”* isn’t a flashy battle cry; it’s the quiet, sharp sound of a man who has just lost everything and decided to make someone pay for it. There are no magic shortcuts or sudden power-ups here—just two months, a cursed body, and a plan that will almost certainly hurt.