Arc 20Chapters 484–506
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Li Xiuchang used his humanoid Dao Comprehension Tree clones to accelerate cultivation and teaching, while his Equalizer Dao reached the Daluo Golden Immortal level. At Chu Ya and Ye Yuqiu's wedding, Zhang Wanzhi's family teased him about remaining unmarried, and he seized the chance to speak privately with Elder Liu.
Li Xiuchang reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, gathered treasures in the Shadow World, and returned to Xianyang to close a spatial rift. After cutting the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree branch anchoring it, he was stopped by a powerful figure he recognized as the Confucian Sage's Shadow.
Li Xiuchang escaped Confucian Sage’s shadow with help from Confucian Sage, then followed him to the Demon Suppressing Realm, where the Confucian Sage demon corpse had broken free. After stopping Fu Yuan’s shadow from escaping, Li Xiuchang sealed it and put it in his Beast Taming Bag.
Li Xiuchang helped the Confucian Sage suppress the demon corpse and cleanse Primordial Demonic Power from a world above the Demon Suppressing Realm. After returning to the Immortal Shade, he sent Fu Yuan’s and Gui Wuyan’s shadows through a reopened spatial rift, then reunited the Confucian Sage with Cao Wu and Yang Hao, where Fu Yuan addressed him as “Uncle-Master.”
Li Xiuchang learned that Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor were reincarnated identities of two of the Three Great Dao Ancestors, and that the Dao Ancestors were fellow disciples of Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor. At the Seventh Layer World, he met Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor and discovered that the Yin-Yang Mirror’s automatic balancing function had stopped, leaving Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor to operate it manually.
Li Xiuchang learned that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor had caused the crisis between the front and back worlds, while Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor had once been the Devil Ancestor who created the Demonic Path. The two Dao Ancestors revealed that they believed Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao could surpass the Demonic Path and achieve what they had failed to do, leaving him to wonder whether they wanted him to save the world.
Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor explained that the world needed a new manager, then recounted how the Creation God disappeared after fighting an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon. The Dao Ancestors had kept the shattered world functioning ever since, and they hoped Li Xiuchang would take over as its manager, leaving him wondering whether he could manage two worlds.
Li Xiuchang learned that becoming the cultivation world's administrator required him to reach the supreme state, and he agreed to focus on saving the world rather than expanding his Second Dantian World. He began arranging ways to strengthen his Equalizer Dao, then realized the Buddha Ancestor had left him a path to inherit the complete Buddhist Path through Gui Wuyan.
Li Xiuchang and Fu Yuan visited Sword Seeking Sect to retrieve the Heart-Questioning Sword, and Li Xiuchang drew it with his Time Stop ability. Sword Seeking Sect agreed to follow Li Xiuchang, who recruited twenty gifted disciples and sent them with Fu Yuan to train in his Second Dantian world.
Li Xiuchang expanded the Equalizer Dao by recruiting gifted cultivators and helping them develop their Great Daos, while refining his skills and strengthening his body. The Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor warned him that he would soon need to enter the Shadow World to retrieve the Buddha Ancestor’s fourth life, and Li Xiuchang resolved to seek aid from the heavens and myriad worlds.
Li Xiuchang and the Dao Ancestors raced to rescue the Buddha Ancestor’s reincarnated body before the Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor’s shadow found him. With the Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor’s support, Li Xiuchang established himself as the Equalizer Dao Ancestor and invited cultivators across the realms to adopt his Great Dao, bringing it to the limit of a Daluo Golden Immortal.
Gui Wuyan emerged from his long seclusion with the complete Buddhist Path and integrated its insights into Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao, pushing it beyond the Golden Immortal limit to the Dao Ancestor level. After Gui Wuyan overcame his tribulation, his cultivation rose to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, making him one of the strongest figures below a Dao Ancestor.
Gui Wuyan returned as a top-tier Golden Immortal, divined that the Buddha Ancestor’s shadow was in the Demon Suppressing Realm, and then resumed cultivation. Li Xiuchang prepared the Zhang Family to forge a Dao Artifact before his planned trip to the Shadow World, and after twenty years of cultivation he finally became the fourth Dao Ancestor.
Li Xiuchang became a Dao Ancestor by creating the Equalizer Dao, whose powerful branches separated into independent Great Daos while remaining under his control. After realizing this path could lead him toward Creation Godhood, he forged material for a Dao Artifact and brought it to the Eastern Geng District, where his senior brothers and the Zhang Family ancestors welcomed him.
Li Xiuchang tested his new Equalizer Dao against Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, whose shadow he planned to face, then returned to help the Zhang family begin refining Dao artifacts. The Zhang family chose the Rainbow Soul Banner as their foundation and prepared to incorporate the Equalizing Cannon into it while upgrading Li Xiuchang's Soul Slicing Saber.
Li Xiuchang and the Zhang family ancestors refined two Dao artifacts, Xuan Tong and the Human Emperor Banner, giving him enhanced Equalizer Dao powers and authority over souls and reincarnation. He traveled to Immortal Sun to search for Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor’s shadow, but the shadows spotted him and called for their Dao Ancestor.
Li Xiuchang wiped out the shadow forces in the Shadow World, defeated the shadow of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, and found Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor’s reincarnation. He returned to Immortal Shade Realm, where Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor had captured Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor’s shadow, and the group sealed off the realm to sever its connection to the Shadow World.
After a year of expanding the Equalizer Dao and training cultivators, Li Xiuchang attempted to restore Immortal Shade and Immortal Sun by making them equal. The chapter ended as Immortal Shade began to brighten, though the outcome remained uncertain.
Li Xiuchang erased Immortal Yang, restored sunlight to Immortal Shade Realm, and severed the connection between the two worlds. He failed to eliminate the Primordial Demonic Power but traced it to its origin and uncovered clues that the Creation God and the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon might have been Innate Lifeforms.
Li Xiuchang reassembled the shattered worlds of the Immortal Cultivation Grand World, grew a Dragon Blood Tree into a replacement Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree, and restored the realm walls and spiritual energy. The world resumed under new rules, while the Dao Ancestors ordered its factions to keep the peace as they adapted to their newly connected neighbors.
Li Xiuchang attained the Supreme Realm by building the Equalizer Realm, then absorbed the declining Cultivation Grand World and his former-life homeland to save them. After uncovering the truth behind his transmigration and restoring the worlds, he returned to Immortal Dust Sect and created chaos by distributing Preaching Ranking keys.