Chapter Summaries

Li Xiuchang traveled into the Shadow World to find Wang Jingxing’s Reflection Organization and learned about the hopeless lives of its mortals. After gathering ghost shadows at Yin Mountain, he tested whether a shadow could coexist with its main body in one world, and the shadow vanished immediately.

• Li Xiuchang reflected on the despair of the Shadow World’s mortals and flew toward the region where Wang Jingxing’s Reflection Organization operated.
• Li Xiuchang searched a desert oasis and learned from its residents that ghost shadows gathered at Yin Mountain to the west.
• Li Xiuchang examined a mindless ghost shadow and gathered the shadows covering Yin Mountain into his Rainbow Soul Banner.
• Li Xiuchang released an evil cultivator’s shadow from his second Dantian space while its main body was in the Shadow World, and the shadow vanished at once.

Li Xiuchang investigated how ghost shadows fused with their originals, discovered that the fusion could destabilize a yin soul, and used a vein of yin-spirit ore to strengthen his forces. While searching the Shadow World for the Reflection Organization, he was ambushed, learned his attackers belonged to it, and left a clone behind while heading away to avoid being detained.

• Li Xiuchang tested a ghost shadow's fusion with a captured demonic cultivator's yin soul, which became confused and began disintegrating before he sealed it in the Second Dantian world.
• Li Xiuchang found a yin-spirit ore vein beneath Yin Mountain, collected it for his yin souls, and refined his ghost shadows until the Rainbow Soul Banner became a mid-grade immortal artifact.
• Li Xiuchang sent a million yin souls and ghost shadows to search the oases for the Reflection Organization, but they found no useful clues.
• After yin souls under his command were attacked, Li Xiuchang was ambushed by cultivators and fought off their attacks with his Soul Slicing Saber, defenses, and Rainbow Soul Banner.
• Li Xiuchang discovered that the attackers belonged to the Reflection Organization and showed them his Immortal Dust Sect Identity Token while asking to meet Wang Jingxing.
• When the Reflection Organization said Wang Jingxing was away and requested that Li Xiuchang wait for his identity to be confirmed, Li Xiuchang left a clone with them and departed in his original body.

Li Xiuchang met the Reflection Organization and learned that Wang Jingxing was away rescuing captives, while two other people on his list were imprisoned. He arranged for the Four Great Immortal Sects to search for Reflection members among captured shadows and waited for Wang Jingxing to return so they could pursue his mission.

• Li Xiuchang explained that the Four Great Immortal Sects had deliberately sent wicked cultivators into the Shadow World, and Shi Yuan confirmed his identity as an Immortal Dust Sect disciple.
• Shi Yuan told Li Xiuchang that Wang Jingxing had gone to rescue captives, including an Immortal Dust Sect disciple, and that two other people on Li Xiuchang's list were held in a heavily guarded prison.
• Li Xiuchang followed Shi Yuan to the Reflection Organization's base and asked him to identify its members and find people who could be contacted or rescued.
• Shi Yuan found more than a dozen Reflection members among the shadows held by the Four Great Immortal Sects, and Li Xiuchang sent the organization's membership list to the sects to guide their search.
• Li Xiuchang explained his mission and the situation in the Immortal Shade Realm to Shi Yuan, who relayed the news to Wang Jingxing; Wang Jingxing said he would return after completing the rescue.

Li Xiuchang found Wang Jingxing in the Shadow World and learned that he refused to return to the Immortal Shade Realm because the Reflection Organization depended on him. Wang Jingxing planned to strengthen the organization for future battles, and Zhang Wanzhi and the others decided to join him there.

• Shi Yuan explained that the Shadow World’s abundant resources had helped the Reflection Organization’s members improve their Cultivation Levels and offered Li Xiuchang some of their supplies.
• Wang Jingxing returned with an injured group, and the Reflection Organization treated them with its stores of medicines and herbs.
• Li Xiuchang told Wang Jingxing that Zhang Wanzhi and the others had sent him to bring Wang Jingxing home, but Wang Jingxing said he could not leave the Reflection Organization.
• Wang Jingxing argued that the Reflection Organization should become a stronghold for the Immortal Shade Realm because future battles with the shadows would require continued operations in the Shadow World.
• After Li Xiuchang relayed Wang Jingxing’s decision, Zhang Wanzhi and the others agreed to go to the Shadow World and join him.

Li Xiuchang and Wang Jingxing coordinated a plan to bring Zhang Wanzhi and the others into the Fringe of Immortal Yang and help them escape back to the Immortal Shade Realm. After returning several stranded cultivators and locating the shadows of Mo Tu, Lu Yang, and Xia Siyun, Li Xiuchang began the operation by directing Zhang Wanzhi and the others to enter the Immortal Shade Realm.

• Li Xiuchang and Wang Jingxing planned to gather Golden Immortal allies, enter the Fringe of Immortal Yang, and receive Zhang Wanzhi and the others, while warning that Chen Changsheng's shadow was not there.
• Li Xiuchang coordinated arrangements on both sides of the spatial divide, and the group led by Wang Jingxing used Immortal Concealment Talismans to enter the Fringe of Immortal Yang.
• More than a dozen stranded cultivators were substituted back into the Immortal Shade Realm, where Golden Immortal experts helped them return to their homeland.
• Wang Jingxing's group found Mo Tu's isolated shadow, then located Lu Yang and Xia Siyun's shadows together among three other Golden Immortal shadows.
• After failing to locate Zhang Wanzhi and Gui Wuyan's shadows, Li Xiuchang assigned guards to the spatial rift and Lu Yang and Xia Siyun's shadows, then directed Zhang Wanzhi and the others to enter the Immortal Shade Realm.

Li Xiuchang and his allies launched a coordinated escape from Immortal Sun, but Zhang Wanzhi was not replaced and Gui Wuyan disappeared after his replacement. The group captured four shadows and began questioning them to learn what had happened to Gui Wuyan.

• Wang Jingxing severed a branch of the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree, then escaped as shadow experts converged on the spatial rift.
• Mo Tu and the Lu Yang couple were replaced by their shadows and escaped Immortal Sun using Immortal Concealment Talismans, while Zhang Wanzhi remained unreplaced and helped the shadows break out of Chen Changsheng's formation.
• Chen Changsheng's layered formations and the assembled allies captured and sealed the shadows of Mo Tu, Gui Wuyan, and the Lu Yang couple.
• Li Xiuchang searched Immortal Sun for Gui Wuyan, but he and the others could not locate him and withdrew from the danger.
• Li Xiuchang began interrogating the four captured shadows to find out where Gui Wuyan had gone.

Li Xiuchang interrogated Gui Wuyan’s shadow and learned that the shadow’s apparent madness came from enduring the repeated, terrifying swings in lifespan caused by Gui Wuyan’s divination. After Li Xiuchang’s mission to the Shadow World ended, the group turned to rescuing Gui Wuyan, who was imprisoned in Immortal Sun.

• Li Xiuchang interrogated Gui Wuyan’s shadow, then questioned the other three shadows to learn why he had been imprisoned.
• Gui Wuyan’s shadow explained that his true self’s erratic lifespan changes repeatedly brought him to the brink of death, driving him to desperate outbursts and earning him a place in prison.
• Li Xiuchang realized Gui Wuyan’s divination was causing the lifespan changes, and explained that the shadow could not reliably practice divination because its fate depended on its true self.
• Li Xiuchang and Zhang Wanzhi interrogated the shadows of Mo Tu, Lu Yang, and Xia Siyun, learning that Lu Yang and Xia Siyun’s magical powers had drawn them together as a couple.
• The spatial rift closed, ending Li Xiuchang’s mission, while the shadows tightened their defenses and made rescuing Gui Wuyan more difficult.
• Wang Jingxing examined Gui Wuyan’s seal and discovered that the shadows had imprisoned him inside a high-grade pitch-black immortal artifact coffin.

Li Xiuchang and his companions stole the immortal artifact coffin containing Senior Brother Gui from Immortal Sun and fought their way out under pursuit. After regrouping with Wang Jingxing and the Reflection Organization, they discovered they could not open the coffin without risking Gui Wuyan’s life.

• Li Xiuchang collected the buried coffin into his Second Dantian world while Mo Tu fought off nearby Golden Immortal shadows.
• Xia Siyun, Mo Tu, Li Xiuchang, and Lu Yang battled their way toward Immortal Sun’s exit, with Li Xiuchang using the Golden Abacus to shatter a wall of pursuing shadows.
• Li Xiuchang sent a pursuing Daluo Golden Immortal shadow away with Send Enemy a Thousand Miles, and Wang Jingxing arrived with Reflection Organization reinforcements to help the group escape.
• After reuniting, the group released the coffin and Mo Tu temporarily disrupted its owner’s perception, but they could not open it without destroying the coffin and harming Gui Wuyan inside.
• Wang Jingxing lamented that Zhang Wanzhi and Chen Changsheng, who were skilled in artifact refining and formations, had not come to help open the coffin.

Li Xiuchang and the Reflection Organization planned to unite Immortal Shade Realm cultivators in the Shadow World, rescue prisoners, and find Chen Changsheng and Zhang Wanzhi’s shadows. After the organization began expanding, Li Xiuchang cultivated in seclusion, advanced to the late True Immortal realm, and mastered the Charm Great Dao.

• Gui Wuyan used a miniature Mind Horse to tell the group he was fine in the coffin and had found a chance to advance by overcoming his thirst for knowledge, so Li Xiuchang stored the coffin in his Second Dantian World.
• The group returned to the Reflection Organization, celebrated finding Wang Jingxing, and agreed to strengthen the organization by recruiting Immortal Shade Realm cultivators and eventually raiding the Shadow Prison.
• Wang Jingxing identified Chen the Turtle’s shadow as a target, and Li Xiuchang proposed consulting Chen Changsheng to predict the shadow’s cautious plans before capturing it.
• The Senior Brothers and Sisters examined Li Xiuchang’s unstable yin soul, then began expanding and relocating the Reflection Organization while Li Xiuchang left a clone behind to cultivate elsewhere.
• The Paw Patrol members reached the Seventh Tier and integrated their Great Daos into the Equalizer Dao, while Li Xiuchang advanced to the late True Immortal realm and mastered the Charm Great Dao.

Li Xiuchang helped the Reflection Organization evade the shadows and learned about Zhang Wanzhi’s notorious shadow as the group prepared a plan to capture him. After comprehending the complete Equalizer Dao, Li Xiuchang broke through to the Mystic Immortal realm, but the astonishing breakthrough phenomenon drew a squad of shadows to him.

• Li Xiuchang supplied the Reflection Organization with Immortal Concealment Talismans as its membership grew and the shadows hunted it.
• Li Xiuchang learned that Zhang Wanzhi’s shadow was a famous, carefree womanizer, and the Reflection Organization moved to his region to lure and capture him.
• Lu Yang suggested Li Xiuchang use his Charm Great Dao to attract Zhang Wanzhi’s shadow, but Xia Siyun took the mission instead.
• Li Xiuchang spent three more months comprehending the Equalizer Dao, reached the peak of the True Immortal realm, and successfully broke through to the Mystic Immortal realm.
• Li Xiuchang’s breakthrough expanded his Second Dantian world and caused a spectacle of countless Great Daos resonating, which drew a squad of shadows led by a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• Li Xiuchang prepared to test the complete Equalizer Dao against the approaching shadows.

Li Xiuchang used his Equalizer Dao to weaken a group of shadows and battle a newly advanced Golden Immortal, whose apparent time-reversal technique sent Li Xiuchang’s cultivation regressing. He exposed the technique’s flaws through a forced debate of the Dao, bringing the Golden Immortal down to the Mystic Immortal realm and restoring his own strength; then he demanded to know where the shadow had obtained his Great Dao.

• Li Xiuchang equalized himself with the Golden Immortal shadow and weakened the other shadows, then killed or injured many with his Soul Slicing Saber and Immortal Burning Grass flames.
• The Golden Immortal shadow sealed the area and struck Li Xiuchang with a gray light that rapidly reversed his cultivation and made him younger.
• Li Xiuchang fought off the remaining Mystic Immortal shadows with his Equalizing Spear while realizing the technique was restoring him to an earlier state rather than truly reversing time.
• Li Xiuchang used the Confucian Path within his Equalizer Dao to force the Golden Immortal shadow into a debate and attack the weakness in his Dao Heart.
• The shadow’s Dao wavered and his cultivation fell to the Mystic Immortal realm, while Li Xiuchang’s cultivation recovered; Li Xiuchang knocked him down and asked where he had obtained his Great Dao.

Li Xiuchang captured and sealed the Water Goods Golden Immortal, then discovered that his Second Dantian world had grown powerful enough to support more Great Daos. That night, the Reflection Organization ambushed Zhang Wanzhi's shadow, but his father and grandfather intervened.

• Li Xiuchang learned that the Water Goods Golden Immortal had founded the Imitation Dao and ordered a search for his true body and other cultivators of that Dao.
• Mo Tu helped Li Xiuchang seal the Water Goods Golden Immortal, whom Li Xiuchang stored in his Beast Taming Bag.
• Li Xiuchang found that his Second Dantian world had grown to roughly one-fifth the size of the Immortal Shade Realm and decided to recruit more talented cultivators to develop the Equalizer Dao.
• Xia Siyun, Wang Jingxing, Mo Tu, and Lu Yang ambushed and subdued Zhang Wanzhi's shadow during their arranged rendezvous.
• Shadow Zhang Qianzhi and Zhang Baizhi emerged to protect Zhang Wanzhi's shadow and attacked the group with over a hundred immortal artifacts.
• Li Xiuchang urged the others to capture the two old men as well.

Li Xiuchang helped Mo Tu and the others capture the three generations of Zhang family shadows, but tighter defenses delayed their replacement plan. He traveled with Yang Hao to the Azure Mist Realm seeking the creator of the Imitation Dao and arrived at the Seeker Immortal Sect after hearing Yuan Ze might have stolen that Dao.

• Li Xiuchang weakened Zhang Baizhi and his father with the Equalizer Dao and Length Value, allowing Mo Tu and the others to capture them and flee with all three Zhang family shadows.
• The Reflection Organization relocated, while Li Xiuchang learned that Immortal Sun's new alarms, Golden Immortal deployments, and central command made the replacement escape plan too dangerous to attempt.
• Mo Tu told Li Xiuchang that the Dragon Blood Tree Seed had germinated, and Li Xiuchang transplanted the young sapling into his Second Dantian world.
• Li Xiuchang learned that Yuan Ze, a famous Azure Mist Realm genius who had ascended centuries earlier, might have stolen the Imitation Dao from a weaker Seeker Immortal Sect disciple.
• Li Xiuchang and Yang Hao traveled to the Azure Mist Realm, where cultivators directed them to the Seeker Immortal Sect and Rogue Cultivators shared rumors about Yuan Ze.
• The Seeker Immortal Sect's Grand Elder welcomed Li Xiuchang after he arrived at the sect seeking the alleged creator of the Imitation Dao.

Li Xiuchang visited the Seeker Immortal Sect to learn about Path Imitation and met Cao Wu, a Void Refinement cultivator who had created Great Dao branches for others to develop as part of a plan to forge the strongest Great Dao. After Cao Wu detected that Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao was rooted outside the Origin World, Li Xiuchang wondered whether Cao Wu’s extraordinary purpose came from Heaven or from his past life and asked if he had heard of the Confucian Sage.

• Li Xiuchang told the Seeker Immortal Sect that he had come to discuss Path Imitation, and Elder Du explained how Cao Wu had helped Yuan Ze and other cultivators become Dao Founders by teaching them Great Daos.
• Elder Du said Cao Wu aimed to create the strongest Great Dao in the world, so Li Xiuchang asked to meet him.
• Li Xiuchang and Cao Wu agreed to trade answers, and Cao Wu sent Elder Du away before asking about Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao.
• Li Xiuchang described the Equalizer Dao, and Cao Wu revealed that Path Imitation was one branch of a vast Great Dao he planned to assemble from many perfected branches.
• Cao Wu sensed that Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao was rooted in an independent space, and Li Xiuchang admitted it was carried within him.
• Cao Wu said his drive to create the strongest Great Dao felt like a mission bestowed by Heaven, prompting Li Xiuchang to ask whether he had heard of the Confucian Sage.

Li Xiuchang explained that Cao Wu’s extraordinary talent came from his past life as one of the Confucian Sage’s disciples, then invited him to combine his Imitation Dao with the Equalizer Dao. Cao Wu was tempted after seeing the Equalizer Dao absorb traces of many Great Daos, and Li Xiuchang’s promise to reunite him with his senior brother and the Confucian Sage left him shaken.

• Li Xiuchang told Cao Wu that his talent came from his Daluo Golden Immortal cultivation in a past life, accumulated merit, and the Confucian Sage’s help.
• Li Xiuchang recounted how the Confucian Sage gathered the remnants of five disciples and sent them into reincarnation, and Cao Wu realized he was likely one of them.
• Cao Wu explained that his Imitation Dao aimed to recreate the absent Time Great Dao and eventually unite many natural Great Daos.
• Li Xiuchang invited Cao Wu to join his team and demonstrated how the Equalizer Dao incorporated traces of other Great Daos.
• Li Xiuchang released Yang Hao, and Cao Wu and Yang Hao recognized an inexplicable closeness as former fellow disciples.
• Li Xiuchang promised Cao Wu that he could work with Yang Hao and meet the Confucian Sage, leaving Cao Wu visibly moved.

Cao Wu left the Seeker Immortal Sect with Li Xiuchang and Yang Hao to meet the Confucian Sage, who revealed their past-life bonds and explained Cao Wu’s obsession. The Confucian Sage then traced the disintegration of Li Xiuchang’s Yin Soul to an imbalance of yin and yang, ending by explaining that the Shadow World had been created to solve a fundamental problem in the world’s rules.

• Cao Wu agreed to meet the Confucian Sage after seeing the source of the Equalizer Dao, then bid farewell to the Seeker Immortal Sect and departed with Li Xiuchang and Yang Hao.
• Li Xiuchang brought Cao Wu and Yang Hao to the Seventh Layer World, where the Confucian Sage greeted them and invited them inside.
• The Confucian Sage revealed that Yang Hao had been his first disciple, the Gentleman Sword, and that Cao Wu had been his youngest and most talented disciple.
• The Confucian Sage explained that Cao Wu’s obsession with creating a supreme Great Dao had originated from his wish in his previous life to help his master fulfill that ambition.
• Li Xiuchang asked why a Yin Soul’s soul-body had disintegrated after its main body and shadow were fused, and the Confucian Sage attributed it to disrupted yin-yang balance.
• The Confucian Sage explained that the world required yin and yang to balance and said its creator had devised the Shadow World as a solution.

Li Xiuchang learned from the Confucian Sage how the Shadow World maintained yin-yang balance and how a failed attempt to move its Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree created Immortal Shade. After leaving the Seventh Layer World with Yang Hao and Cao Wu, he learned that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor was there, while Senior Brother Gui stirred inside his coffin in the Shadow World.

• The Confucian Sage explained that the Shadow World balanced the front world’s yin and yang, and that the system depended on keeping bodies and shadows separated.
• The Confucian Sage said Immortal Shade had emerged during an attempt to move the Shadow World’s Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree into the front world, after the original tree’s withering had caused the worlds to fragment.
• Li Xiuchang concluded that the failed transfer had left an expanding passage between the worlds and suspected one or all of the Three Great Dao Ancestors had been involved.
• The Confucian Sage revealed that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor was in the Seventh Layer World but was likely too busy to meet Li Xiuchang.
• Li Xiuchang left with Yang Hao and Cao Wu and returned to the lower realm, while Senior Brother Gui stirred inside his coffin in the Shadow World.

Gui Wuyan emerged from a long period of confinement with a lead pointing Li Xiuchang toward the Shadow World's Buddha Ancestor, while Li Xiuchang searched for the mysterious Pure Land Country. Meanwhile, Mo Tu and the others failed to capture Chen Changsheng's shadow and turned to finding Zhang Wanzhi instead.

• Gui Wuyan used Buddha light to reveal an address in the Shadow World and told Li Xiuchang to seek the Buddha Ancestor there, refusing rescue until Li found him.
• Li Xiuchang searched maps and questioned the Reflection Organization and Zhang Wanzhi's shadow, then suspected the Pure Land Country corresponded to the Pure Land Realm.
• Mo Tu and the others ignored Chen Changsheng's warning and set out to capture his shadow after learning its route to the Shadow Prison.
• Chen Changsheng's shadow defeated the assault of six Daluo Golden Immortals and escaped, leaving Mo Tu and the others to abandon their plan to capture him.
• Li Xiuchang asked his senior brothers and sisters to help locate the Pure Land Country so they could seek the Buddha Ancestor's aid.

With the Immortal Shade Realm sealed off and the shadows hunting its hidden experts, the Reflection Organization expanded and Li Xiuchang completed a map of the Shadow World but could not locate Pure Land Country. After a new spatial rift appeared, Li Xiuchang discovered that moving the Zhang Household’s shadows into the Second Dantian World let their true bodies enter the Shadow World through the rift.

• Chen Changsheng explained that his shadow combined the strength of his true body and clones, then sparred evenly with Zhang Wanzhi.
• The shadows launched a sweeping search of the Shadow World while the Four Great Immortal Sects cleared Immortal Shade and captured the shadows hiding there.
• Li Xiuchang and the Reflection Organization recruited new members, completed a rough map of the Shadow World, and found no terrain matching the Pure Land Realm.
• A new spatial rift stabilized in Immortal Shade, and Wang Jingxing called on the Reflection Organization to close it quickly.
• Li Xiuchang proposed bringing Cao Wu and Yang Hao into the Shadow World, then realized the Zhang Household could enter if their shadows were moved elsewhere.
• Li Xiuchang placed the shadows of Zhang Wanzhi, Zhang Qianzhi, and Zhang Baizhi in the Second Dantian World, and Zhang Wanzhi successfully crossed the spatial rift into the Shadow World.

Li Xiuchang rescued Zhang Wanzhi and his grandparents from the Shadow World, helped destroy the spatial rift, and brought Cao Wu into the Second Dantian world. Cao Wu integrated his Imitation Dao into the Equalizer Dao, raising it to the Golden Immortal level while Li Xiuchang considered the greater cultivation needed to advance it further.

• Li Xiuchang entered Immortal Sun, found the unstable spatial rift, and sent Zhang Wanzhi and his grandparents' shadows to the Immortal Shade Realm.
• Chen Changsheng brought Li Xiuchang to Yang Hao and Cao Wu, and Li Xiuchang gave Chen Changsheng the Reflection Organization's collected resources.
• Chen Changsheng's group damaged the spatial rift while Wang Jingxing, Zhang Wanzhi, and the others destroyed its formation and escaped Immortal Sun.
• Cao Wu explored the Second Dantian world, agreed to join Li Xiuchang, and began integrating his Imitation Dao into the Equalizer Dao.
• Cao Wu's breakthrough raised the Equalizer Dao to the Golden Immortal level, and Li Xiuchang reflected on the distance between its current strength and the Daluo Golden Immortal level.