Yang Na

Li Huowang's girlfriend in the modern world. Her presence represents the "normal" life he is fighting to return to, but she is increasingly entangled in the Dao-Twisted reality.

Definition

Li Huowang's girlfriend in the modern world. Her presence represents the "normal" life he is fighting to return to, but she is increasingly entangled in the Dao-Twisted reality.

Story context

Fellow Daoists, grab your emotional support... well, everything, because Chapter 308 drops us straight into the raw, shivering core of Li Huowang's worst-case scenario. We're not in the Dao-Twisted World fighting monsters or scheming against cults. We're *stuck* in the modern-world hallucination, and it's trying to kill him with the most mundane, terrifying weapon of all: exposure. This is a masterclass in how the novel weaponizes the ordinary. No flesh Buddhas, no Wandering Lords—just a rotting orange, a cold rain, a broken lighter, and the crushing realization that he might have been abandoned by everyone he loves. The horror here is deeply personal, profoundly lonely, and absolutely chilling.

Why it matters

Get ready for a chapter that doesn't move the plot forward at all, but instead plunges us *downward* into Li Huowang's psyche. This is a classic "breather chapter" in the worst possible way—a pause for emotional devastation rather than plot progression. The key here is the *sensory detail*. Pay attention to the cold, the stench of the rotten orange, the acrid smoke of the burning plastic. The author is forcing you to *feel* Li Huowang's physical misery without any supernatural filter. This is the rawest, most human he has been in a long time, and that vulnerability is the true horror. The appearance of the first-grader is a gut-punch callback to a much earlier arc, reminding us that his sickness has touched and terrified the innocent. The chapter is a quiet, lonely howl in the dark, preparing us for whatever desperate act he will commit next.