Definition
Compressed pellets of raw lifespan, harvested from living beings; they are used as currency for supernatural transactions and as a consumable to extend one’s own remaining years.
Yang Life Pills
Compressed pellets of raw lifespan, harvested from living beings; they are used as currency for supernatural transactions and as a consumable to extend one’s own remaining years.
Story context
Li Huowang wakes up from his brush with death in the Dao-Twisted World, only to find his body inexplicably healed. His desperate need for certainty collides with Dr. Li's maddening suggestion from "reality": if he can send things *to* the hallucination, what does that say about which world is real? The chapter pivots on a dark, intimate revelation—Bai Lingmiao confesses she secretly became a *chuma* medium and used her spirit to save him. But just as Li Huowang feels his footing return, he learns that the world around him is rotting in a stranger, quieter way: the entire village has forgotten who they are.
Why it matters
This chapter is about the unbearable weight of proof. Li Huowang has been given a terrible tool—a logical test that could either confirm or destroy his reality—and he chooses *not to use it*. His desperate laughter of relief when Bai Lingmiao reveals her secret is not joy; it is the sound of a man catching a rope before he falls back into the abyss. He needs *this* side to be real so badly that any evidence, even a confession of hidden magical healing, feels like salvation.
Quick facts
Source novel
Dao Gui Yi Xian
First appearance
The Cure and the Forgetting
Chapter references
8
Type hints
bai lingmiao confession, chuma spirit medium, wujia village
Guide tags
emotional rollercoaster, lore drop, slow-burn horror
Appears in chapters
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Chapter 99
The Cure and the Forgetting
Bai Lingmiao’s secret saves Li Huowang’s life—but the cost confirms she’s no longer helpless. Meanwhile, a village has forgotten itself.
Chapter 326
The Offering
A two-hour slaughter clears the Renxiao from the cave. Li Huowang reattaches his lower half, notes the Black Tai Sui’s growing sentience, and receives a pouch of Yang Life Pills from a headless corpse’s final gesture.
Chapter 429
Better to Kill a Thousand Innocents
The capital is sealed. A brutal bounty is placed on every Zuowandao head. As the city descends into a bloodbath, Li Huowang is forced to watch, unable to stop the slaughter or save his own humanity.
Chapter 467
The List
Li Huowang learns the truth behind the Shangjing Golden Palace Formation and the Office’s plan against the Heavenly Calamity. Liu Zongyuan brings news of an upcoming Zuowandao purge. Li Sui shows a new, dangerous aggression.
Chapter 476
Spirit Perversion
Li Huowang needs 400 Yang-Life Pills to save Bai Lingmiao’s sight. He takes a deadly gamble on a Spirit Perversion bounty — a parasitic horror of unpredictable danger.
Chapter 602
The Pills
Forced to take drugs to prove his “powers,” Li Huowang regresses into the Dao-Twisted World—only to vomit the pills out and attack Wu Cheng with a saw and his own teeth.
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