Definition
A large, prosperous city in the Dao-Twisted World. Like all prosperous places, it has a thriving criminal underground—ditry gambling dens, loan sharks, and street thugs.
Yinling City
A large, prosperous city in the Dao-Twisted World. Like all prosperous places, it has a thriving criminal underground—ditry gambling dens, loan sharks, and street thugs.
Story context
This chapter takes a breather from the cosmic horror to deliver a sharp, character-driven encounter that tests Li Huowang’s new boundaries. Wandering the prosperous streets of Yinling City, he stumbles upon a face from the past: Lü Xiucai, the teenage troupe son who inherited the Purple-Tasseled Sword. What starts as a moment of uneasy nostalgia quickly curdles into a display of Li Huowang’s hardened pragmatism. He offers neither comfort nor mentorship, only a cold, transactional severance. The emotional blow is softened only by a quiet update on Bai Lingmiao’s well-being and a bizarre new development: Li Sui may now be able to perceive the hallucinations that haunt Li Huowang, a revelation that threatens to collapse yet another boundary in his fractured reality.
Why it matters
Fellow travelers, this chapter is a quiet masterclass in Li Huowang’s emotional armor. Watch how he processes the village news: he barely reacts to his own legacy (the fields, the oxen), but the moment Bai Lingmiao is mentioned—just “eats and sleeps well, often distracted”—he scrubs his face, breathes deep, and mutters a mantra of relief. That’s the beating heart beneath the scar tissue. The rejection of Lü Xiucai is brutal, but it’s also the correct tactical call for a man being hunted by gods and institutions alike. And that final reveal—Li Sui can hear Red Center?—changes the rules. If the hallucinations can be heard by his own flesh-and-blood parasite, how much more real are they than Li Huowang is willing to admit? The ground keeps shifting under our feet, and that’s exactly why we can’t look away.
Quick facts
Source novel
Dao Gui Yi Xian
First appearance
Meeting an Old Friend in a Strange Land
Chapter references
3
Type hints
Li Huowang, Lü Xiucai, Purple-Tasseled Sword
Guide tags
Character Encounter, Emotional Sundering, Hallucination Revelations
Appears in chapters
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Chapter 334
Meeting an Old Friend in a Strange Land
Li Huowang encounters an old acquaintance in Yinling City and delivers a harsh severance, while a shocking discovery about Li Sui’s perception threatens the wall between reality and hallucination.
Chapter 398
Knowing Without Believing
Li Huowang learns the fine art of agreeing without believing as Zhuge Yuan tries to start a 72-hour lecture on the Great Qi. Meanwhile, Lu Xiucai cheats at gambling, buys breakfast, and tastes his first real power.
Chapter 631
Death
Li Sui accidentally kills an elderly couple while wearing their dead daughter's face. Her first taste of grief changes everything.
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