Chapter Summaries

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.

• Li Xiuchang learned that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor had created Immortal Shade and Immortal Sun while trying to restore the lost Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree, causing the worlds to connect and upsetting the balance of yin and yang.
• Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor explained that holding the Yin-Yang Mirror kept his shadow out of the Shadow World, and Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor said Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor could not return until he recovered after nirvana.
• Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor revealed that Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor had created the Demonic Path in his second life, but its growth into a violent cultivation system made him doubt his Great Dao and abandon it for the Buddhist Path.
• Li Xiuchang reflected on the three Dao Ancestors’ disastrous past deeds, then asked why Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor had brought him to meet Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor.
• Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor and Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor said Li Xiuchang’s Equalizer Dao might become the strongest Great Dao and accomplish what they had failed to do, prompting Li Xiuchang to ask if 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.

• Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor told Li Xiuchang that the world’s flaws could only be fully repaired by a manager and said the Dao Ancestors hoped he would become one.
• Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor and Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor said the Creation God had created them and taught them cultivation while they helped maintain the world.
• Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor recounted how an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon killed the Four Sacred Beasts and damaged the Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree before the Creation God lured it away.
• Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor and Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor said the Creation God never returned, leaving the Dao Ancestors to contain Primordial Demonic Power and preserve the shattered worlds.
• The Dao Ancestors said their repairs could not restore the world without a manager, and Li Xiuchang wondered whether he could manage both this world and his Second Dantian World.

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.

• Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor explained that the world's inhabitants would die if the cultivation world collapsed, so Li Xiuchang chose to pursue becoming its administrator.
• The Dao Ancestors said Li Xiuchang needed to reach the Dao Ancestor realm and then the supreme state, and promised to help him progress.
• Li Xiuchang asked Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor to teach Yang Hao the complete Confucian Path and asked Fu Yuan to retrieve the Heart-Questioning Sword and train talented swordsmen.
• Li Xiuchang asked Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor to invite his three other disciples to join him, then explored the Seventh Layer World with Fu Yuan.
• At Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor's temple, Shi Tian and Shi Di pointed Li Xiuchang toward Gui Wuyan, and Li Xiuchang realized the Buddha Ancestor had prepared Gui Wuyan to pass the complete Buddhist Path into his Equalizer Dao.
• Li Xiuchang learned that Shi Tian and Shi Di did not know where the Buddha Ancestor had gone after entering nirvana, then left with Fu Yuan for the Sword Seeking Sect.

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 and Fu Yuan received a grand welcome at Sword Seeking Sect, where Fu Yuan explained that he had come for the Heart-Questioning Sword.
• Fu Yuan failed to draw the sword, and Li Xiuchang used Time Stop to free it from the boulder without damaging Divine Sword Peak.
• After Li Xiuchang handed him the sword, Fu Yuan subdued its surging Dao Ancestor sword intent in the sky.
• Sword Seeking Sect's Grand Elders agreed to follow Li Xiuchang under their founder's ancestral command.
• Li Xiuchang selected twenty talented disciples and asked Fu Yuan to teach them the sword path.
• Li Xiuchang sent Fu Yuan and the twenty disciples into the world of his Second Dantian.

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 recruited talented disciples from the Seal Heaven Sect, the Ascension Pavilion, and other worlds, then trained them in the Second Dantian world.
• Ren Xuan and Zhang Ming, former disciples of the Confucian Sage, joined Li Xiuchang’s cultivation efforts under the Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor’s guidance.
• Li Xiuchang mastered high-grade immortal artifact refining and began preparing to refine a Dao artifact with Zhang Wanzhi and the Zhang family.
• Yang Hao brought Li Xiuchang a bamboo slip containing the Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor’s Confucian Path insights and entered the Second Dantian world to cultivate.
• The growing ranks of Equalizer Dao cultivators raised the Dao from the third tier toward the first tier, while Li Xiuchang strengthened his body to its Daluo Golden Immortal limit.
• The Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor told Li Xiuchang that the Buddha Ancestor’s fourth life remained trapped in the Shadow World, and Li Xiuchang vowed to call on the heavens and myriad worlds to aid his cultivation.

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.

• The Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor explained that the Buddha Ancestor’s shadow had hidden after nirvana, leaving the Buddha Ancestor trapped in the Shadow World and at risk of restoring his peak strength.
• Li Xiuchang decided to use a Dao Ancestor’s prestige to encourage cultivators across the realms to cultivate the Equalizer Dao, and the Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor agreed to help.
• The Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor and the Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor issued immortal edicts announcing Li Xiuchang as the coming fourth Dao Ancestor, prompting powers in the Fourth and Fifth Layer Worlds to enshrine his statue.
• Li Xiuchang used the observatory and a worship ritual to bring two peak Void Refinement Stage cultivators into his Second Dantian world, where they fused their primary Great Daos into the Equalizer Dao.
• Cultivators across the realms adopted the Equalizer Dao and sent their insights to Li Xiuchang, whose accelerated cultivation brought the Dao 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.

• Li Xiuchang waited for Gui Wuyan to awaken, then used temporal reversal to inspect the coffin and discovered Gui Wuyan had woken days earlier but was trapped inside.
• Li Xiuchang ended the reversal, opened the coffin, and rescued Gui Wuyan, who recovered with pills and learned how far the Equalizer Dao had grown.
• Gui Wuyan integrated the Buddhist Path into the Equalizer Dao, causing it to double in size and break through the Golden Immortal limit into a Dao Ancestor-level Dao.
• Li Xiuchang sensed that the Equalizer Dao’s deeper connection to the Second Dantian world was changing its fundamental rules and making it more independent.
• Li Xiuchang sent Gui Wuyan to the Pure Land Realm to undergo his heavenly tribulation, and Gui Wuyan’s cultivation rose to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.

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.

• Gui Wuyan returned to the Eastern Geng District after mastering the Buddhist branch of the Equalizer Dao, but the others ignored his attempt to show off and went back to cultivation.
• Chen Changsheng told Gui Wuyan about the Buddha Ancestor’s predicament, and Gui Wuyan used the Karma Crown, the Xuanwu Turtle Shell Imprint, and Longevity Pills to divine that the Buddha Ancestor’s shadow was in the Demon Suppressing Realm.
• Li Xiuchang passed the clue to the Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and asked Zhang Wanzhi and the Zhang Family ancestors to prepare to forge a Dao Artifact using Dragon Blood Tree seeds.
• Li Xiuchang continued cultivating and comprehending the Buddhist Dao, while the Zhang Family analyzed the seeds and drew up plans to refine a Dao Artifact.
• After twenty years of cultivation, Li Xiuchang attained the Dao Ancestor realm, and wondrous phenomena across the myriad heavens and ten thousand realms benefited all living beings.

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.

• Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor witnessed the Equalizer Dao manifest and recognized that Li Xiuchang had reached Dao Ancestor through his own efforts.
• The Buddhist Path, the Imitation Dao of Time, the Confucian Path, the Sword Dao, the Five Elements Dao, and other powerful branches separated from the Equalizer Dao while remaining under Li Xiuchang's control.
• Li Xiuchang realized that the Equalizer Dao's branches could eventually become the myriad Great Daos and that his growing control over them was granting him authority over his Second Dantian world.
• Li Xiuchang tempered Hundred Refinements Immortal Iron with Great Dao origins until it transformed into Dao Artifact material, then named it Thousand Refinements Black Iron.
• Li Xiuchang arrived in the Eastern Geng District, stopped his senior brothers and sisters from formally bowing to him, and entrusted the Zhang Family ancestors with the new material for their Dao Artifact refinement plan.

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 left clones to accelerate the Zhang family's research and his genius class's training before traveling directly to the Seventh Layer World.
• Li Xiuchang sparred with Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor in the Origin World and used his Equalizer Dao to suppress and disrupt the older Dao Ancestor's techniques.
• Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor ended the spar, claimed he had used six or seven-tenths of his strength, and told Li Xiuchang that his shadow would be weaker.
• The Zhang family's old ancestors selected the Rainbow Soul Banner as the basis for a Dao artifact and proposed dismantling the Equalizing Cannon to strengthen it.
• Li Xiuchang asked the Zhang family to upgrade his Soul Slicing Saber as well, then joined them as the main force in refining the artifacts.

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 and the Zhang family ancestors transformed the Soul Slicing Saber into a Dao artifact that could equalize things, weakening enemies, changing forms, and even equating life with death.
• Li Xiuchang used the artifact to strengthen Zhang Wanzhi and turn him into a White Tiger, then declined Zhang Qianzhi’s request to turn Zhang Wanzhi into a woman.
• Li Xiuchang and the Zhang family ancestors refined the Rainbow Soul Banner into a Dao artifact that could control the souls of both living and dead beings and govern reincarnation within the Second Dantian world.
• Li Xiuchang named the artifacts Xuan Tong and the Human Emperor Banner, thanked the Zhang family ancestors, and departed for Immortal Shade.
• Li Xiuchang reopened the spatial rift and entered Immortal Sun, where his Spiritual Sense searched the area but found no trace of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor’s shadow.
• The shadows noticed Li Xiuchang and, unable to gauge his Cultivation Level, sent someone to summon Heart Questioning 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.

• Li Xiuchang used the Human Emperor Banner to extract and refine the souls of the shadows on the Immortal Sun, then called out for Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor.
• The shadow of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor attacked Li Xiuchang with the Yin-Yang Great Millstone, but Li Xiuchang weakened him with the Equalizer Dao and Xuan Tong.
• Li Xiuchang turned Xuan Tong into pig-slaughtering knives and killed the shadow of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor after it had been reduced to acting like a pig.
• Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor appeared in the form of a young boy, and Li Xiuchang brought him into the Second Dantian space before returning to Immortal Shade Realm.
• Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor revealed that he had captured Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor’s shadow in the Demon Suppressing Realm, and Li Xiuchang sent it through the spatial rift.
• Li Xiuchang sealed Immortal Shade Realm after the group left, and his companions celebrated the end of their need to travel between the realms and rescue people from 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 reunited Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor with Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor, and they discussed restoring Immortal Shade, Immortal Sun, and the damaged world.
• Li Xiuchang’s genius class rapidly advanced the Equalizer Dao, replicating more Great Daos while his own strength grew toward the Creation God’s realm.
• Li Xiuchang learned the techniques his senior brothers and sisters could teach him, then agreed to leave the Second Dantian World and try to eliminate Immortal Shade.
• Li Xiuchang gathered a crowd outside Immortal Shade, entered its center, and connected his avatar to Immortal Sun.
• Li Xiuchang used the Equalizer Dao to equalize Immortal Shade and Immortal Sun, causing a faint glimmer to appear in Immortal Shade.

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 transformed Immortal Yang and Immortal Shade together, and the shadows attacked him in desperation to protect their world's last light.
• Li Xiuchang killed the charging shadows, erased Immortal Yang, returned to Immortal Shade Realm, and closed the rift between the positive and negative worlds.
• Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor was freed from balancing yin and yang, and Li Xiuchang went with the three Dao Ancestors to test whether he could eliminate the Primordial Demonic Power.
• Li Xiuchang found that the Equalizer Dao could not change the Primordial Demonic Power, then used the Imitation Dao of Time to trace it back to its sudden appearance in the distant past.
• Li Xiuchang proposed that the Creation God and the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon were Innate Lifeforms, and the Dao Ancestors agreed that the Creation God might have been born with his power.

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 discussed the greater cultivation world's fragility with Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor, Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor, and Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, then returned to the Immortal Dust Sect to cultivate.
• At forty, Li Xiuchang reached a bottleneck in the Equalizer Dao and used his Spiritual Sense to survey the Hundred Realms of the Heavens.
• Li Xiuchang moved the worlds into place according to the Shadow World's map, broke their realm walls, and merged them into one world while stopping time to prevent spiritual energy from escaping.
• Li Xiuchang transformed his Dragon Blood Tree into a towering Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree, restored the realm walls, and supplied the reunited world with spiritual energy from his Second Dantian world.
• Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor, Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor, and Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor abolished the Ascension Rule and resumed time after completing the world's restoration.
• The Dao Ancestors issued edicts ordering the factions to maintain peace and help their people adapt, while Li Xiuchang planned to use the Four Great Immortal Sects as an example of good administration.

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.

• Li Xiuchang weighed inheriting the Cultivation Grand World against building his own world, then chose to construct new rules using Equalizer Dao and the Imitation Dao of Time.
• Li Xiuchang completed the Equalizer Realm’s laws, reached the Supreme Realm, and discovered that the Cultivation Grand World’s Creation God had died alongside the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon.
• Li Xiuchang absorbed the Cultivation Grand World into the Equalizer Realm, transformed its core with Equalizer Dao, and erased the Shadow World while stabilizing yin and yang.
• Li Xiuchang traced his transmigration to the dying Techno-Cultivation World’s spirit, discovered the Data Form Dao Artifact within his soul, and absorbed his homeland to restore it.
• Li Xiuchang built a passage between the Equalizer Realm and the Cultivation Grand World, then gave Immortal Dust Sect disciples Preaching Ranking keys and watched the ensuing uproar with his senior brothers and sisters.