Recaps

Mishima Lola drove Chen Zheng to an African tribe, where its ancient spirit unleashed its power before recognizing him as the God of Immortality. The spirit knelt and revealed that Chen Zheng had saved it long ago and left behind the stone mural that taught it to wield its power.

• Mishima Lola warned Chen Zheng that the tribe worshipped powerful nature spirits as they drove toward the destination on the USB map.
• Mishima Lola drove through the tribe's wooden traps in her armored Land Cruiser, then faced wary tribespeople and a leopard that Little Bone frightened into kneeling.
• A tornado spirit appeared above the tribe and generated more than a dozen gigantic tornadoes around them.
• The spirit saw Chen Zheng, called him the God of Immortality, and knelt before him as the tribespeople stared in disbelief.
• Chen Zheng told the spirit to rise, and it explained that he had saved it from an evil spirit long ago and left the stone mural that had helped it gain its power.

Chen Zheng recovered a cauldron and the Iron Arhat from an African tribe, then restored the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation at the Ji Family’s ancient courtyard. The formation stirred China’s dragon veins, and Chen Zheng warned the Ji Family that Earth would soon face greater changes.

• Chen Zheng took a cauldron and the captive Iron Arhat from the tribe, whose wind spirit revered him as the God of Immortality.
• On the private jet, Chen Zheng told Mishima Lola he had once come to Africa to observe humanity’s origins, and she invited him to Hong Kong Island.
• Chen Zheng returned the missing cauldron to the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation, causing spiritual energy to surge and China’s dragon veins to rise and link across the land.
• Cultivators across China witnessed mysterious eyes appear in the dragon-vein light before the phenomenon vanished.
• Chen Zheng told the Ji Family head and Ji Chengfeng that the complete formation would patrol China on Heaven’s behalf, then warned them that spiritual energy revival and the Bridge of the Heavens were coming.

At a reception, Chen Zheng was mocked by Liang Jie until Qin Yi publicly honored him and Yanran as the stars of her productions. Ling Yun then arrived, poisoned Yanran with a lust poison, and Chen Zheng kissed her to counter his scheme, leaving the room stunned.

• Liang Jie insulted Chen Zheng and offered him a business card, which Chen Zheng let fall to the floor.
• Qin Yi rejected Liang Jie, brought Yanran to Chen Zheng, and announced that the reception honored them and that she would only cast Chen Zheng as her lead.
• Ling Yun barged in, identified himself as a young master from Penglai Immortal Island, and demanded that Yanran pay her respects.
• Ling Yun shattered the hall’s glassware and revealed that he had poisoned Yanran with a lust poison.
• Chen Zheng drew Yanran close and kissed her, telling Ling Yun that he never used dirty tricks to conquer women.

Chen Zheng rescued Yanran from Ling Yun and defeated the menacing young master after refusing to submit to him. He left the entertainment industry crowd terrified after warning them that he could not control his strength.

• Ling Yun ordered Wu Sheng to kill Chen Zheng after seeing him kiss Yanran, but Chen Zheng kicked Wu Sheng into the ceiling while holding her.
• Chen Zheng revealed that Yanran's aphrodisiac poison had been cured and dismissed Ling Yun's offer to make him a servant.
• Ling Yun threatened Chen Zheng and the women with the East Sea Jiaolong, while Liang Jie and others urged Chen Zheng to surrender.
• Chen Zheng appeared in front of Ling Yun, lifted him with one hand, and threw his body to the floor.
• Chen Zheng turned to the frightened crowd and asked why people refused to listen to his warning about his returning balefulness.

Chen Zheng confronted Yanran’s Supreme Emotionlessness and overcame the divine sense controlling her, while the nine-star alignment triggered a sweeping change across the cultivation world. The chapter ended with foreign factions rushing toward a mysterious Pacific island and Lin Zhengming preparing to take the Xuanyuan Sword to Nan City.

• Liang Jie screamed and killed himself by smashing his head against a wall, and Chen Zheng caught Yanran as she collapsed before Qin Yi took them home.
• Yanran explained the Red Dust Pavilion’s Supreme Emotionlessness and offered herself to Chen Zheng, who carried her into the bedroom while Qin Yi wondered if he was the protagonist from her writing.
• A woman’s divine sense tried to command Chen Zheng through Yanran’s primordial spirit, but Chen Zheng resisted and shattered the divine sense, then told Yanran he knew who had passed down her cultivation method.
• Nine stars appeared in alignment over China, prompting cultivation sects to announce an impending spiritual energy revival and the opening of grotto-heavens and blessed lands.
• A mystic island rose from the Pacific near China’s East China Sea, drawing supernatural factions from around the world, while the Xuanyuan Sword began shaking in the Superpower Group’s laboratory.
• Lin Zhengming learned that energy was surging across China and said he would take the Xuanyuan Sword to Nan City the next day.

Lin Zhengming rushed to investigate a mysterious Pacific island where more than a thousand foreign supernatural beings gathered around a strange drop of blood. As the factions charged for it, Chen Zheng appeared riding a Tyrannosaurus rex, seemingly having waited for them.

• Lin Zhengming learned that foreign supernatural beings were heading to the newly appeared island and that China’s hidden sects refused to intervene, so he flew to Nan City.
• Chen Zheng told Yanran and Qin Yi that spiritual energy had revived and that he was going to set a trap, then vanished.
• Lin Zhengming detected a bizarre drop of blood on the island, suffered a psychic backlash from looking at it, and redirected his flight there.
• More than a thousand supernatural beings from around the world gathered on the island and fought over the drop of blood.
• Mishima Goro flew toward the blood, prompting the other factions to charge after him.
• A Tyrannosaurus rex leaped from the sea with Chen Zheng standing on its back as Lin Zhengming watched from a helicopter.

Chen Zheng annihilated more than a thousand foreign supernatural beings on Mystic Island with a snap of his fingers, then the island vanished from the Pacific. At the Mishima Family residence, Mishima Fenglei learned that Mishima Goro and Mishima Kazuma were dead and attacked Mishima Lola, who escaped while warning him that he could not defeat Chen Zheng.

• Chen Zheng lured the foreign cultivators to Mystic Island, where Mishima Goro and Mishima Kazuma prepared to attack him and Gasol challenged Little Bone.
• The black-robed skeleton urged the cultivators to attack, and Mishima Goro and Mishima Kazuma fused as Gasol charged toward Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and froze the attackers, then shattered the bodies of all the foreign supernatural beings and reduced them to ashes.
• Lin Zhengming watched Chen Zheng and Little Bone leave as Mystic Island became ordinary and disappeared from the Pacific Ocean.
• Mishima Fenglei learned that Mishima Goro and Mishima Kazuma had died, blamed Mishima Lola for knowing who was responsible, and punched her twice.
• Mishima Lola escaped into the sky and warned Mishima Fenglei that even the awakened demons could not kill Chen Zheng; Mishima Fenglei struck the ground, revealing a faint black light underground.

After supernatural beings vanished from the mysterious Pacific island, Count William warned Catherine that a powerful enemy threatened Chen Zheng. In Nan City, Zheng Haoran tried to take An Jing to Mount Luofu, but Chen Zheng defeated his Luofu Sword Formation and kept her with him.

• Cultivation communities around the world discovered that the supernatural beings they had sent to the mysterious island had disappeared, but they could not uncover what happened.
• Count William told Old Master Ye that Ye Wang's death had nothing to do with him, then decided to warn Catherine and return to Misty Rain Tower's headquarters in China.
• Zheng Haoran introduced himself as An Jing's bargain master and asked Chen Zheng to let him take her to Mount Luofu as the grotto-heavens and blessed lands prepared to emerge.
• Chen Zheng refused, and An Jing kissed him; Zheng Haoran revealed that he had sought a Dao companion and then challenged Chen Zheng on Mount Luofu's behalf.
• Chen Zheng shattered Zheng Haoran's Luofu Sword Formation with a single point, leaving Zheng Haoran injured and in awe of his strength.
• Zheng Haoran left, and Zuo Qinghong asked Chen Zheng when he would try the Sword Sect's swords.

Chen Zheng and the Jiang Family faced an attack by the Long Family, whose Second Young Master Long summoned an upper-realm dragon soul to kill Chen Zheng. The dragon soul recognized Chen Zheng, panicked, and prostrated itself before him.

• Jiang Boyue told Chen Zheng that people from the grotto-heavens and blessed lands were seeking the Jiang Family's prohibition token, which was rumored to open the Kunlun Immortal Palace.
• Second Young Master Long and a Long Family elder broke into the Jiang Family villa, and Second Young Master Long vowed to kill Chen Zheng and destroy the Jiang Family.
• Second Young Master Long revealed his dragon bloodline, attacked Chen Zheng, and was sent flying as his dragon horns shattered.
• Second Young Master Long summoned a dragon soul that sealed off the Jiang estate and left the Jiang Family trapped inside.
• The dragon soul recognized Chen Zheng, asked how he could be on Earth, and prostrated itself while begging for forgiveness.

Chen Zheng’s presence terrified a dragon soul from the Spirit Realm, which revealed that he had once killed a dragon sovereign and that Jiang Ziya, the Jiang Family’s ancestor, had become the Wuji Dao Lord. The chapter ended with Second Young Master Long and the Long Family elder collapsing to their knees after learning Chen Zheng had named the Demon Emperor Daji.

• The summoned dragon soul knelt before Chen Zheng and apologized for disturbing him.
• The dragon soul said Chen Zheng had killed Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain’s dragon sovereign, while Chen Zheng barely remembered the encounter.
• Second Young Master Long and the Long Family elder urged the dragon soul to kill Chen Zheng, but the dragon soul recognized the Jiang Family as descendants of Wuji Dao Lord.
• The dragon soul explained that Wuji Dao Lord was Jiang Ziya, an Earth cultivator who had become invincible in the Spirit Realm and then departed.
• Chen Zheng asked about Daji, and the dragon soul identified her as Empress Daji, the Demon Emperor; Chen Zheng said he had given her that name.
• Second Young Master Long and the Long Family elder fell to their knees in shock.

Chen Zheng resolved the Jiang Family’s crisis, then attacked the Long Family after learning they had defied his warning. The Long Family head died beneath Chen Zheng’s power, while Long Qi remained at Heaven Lake after transforming into a dragon.

• The dragon soul killed Second Young Master Long and the middle-aged Long Family man, then bound itself to Jiang Boyue as his servant.
• Chen Zheng left to visit the Long Family, while the dragon soul told Jiang Boyue how overwhelmingly powerful Chen Zheng had once been.
• The Long Family head learned that Second Young Master Long and the other dispatched Terrestrial Immortal had died, then revealed Long Qi was absorbing true dragon blood at Heaven Lake.
• Chen Zheng shattered the Long Family estate’s formation and crushed the estate with the force of the snow, pinning the Long Family head and his people to the ground.
• Long Qi transformed into a dragon at Heaven Lake, and the Long Family head boasted that his son would avenge them.
• Chen Zheng said he would kill Long Qi, and the wind and snow crushed the Long Family head’s primordial spirit before he could respond.

Chen Zheng killed Long Qi by revealing a monstrous fiend that frightened the newly transformed dragon to death, then faced Long Zhen’s attempt to summon a true dragon from the upper realm. The summoned Princess Zhengyue recognized Chen Zheng, fled in terror, and Long Zhen was reduced to ash.

• Chen Zheng went to Heaven Lake and confirmed that Long Qi had transformed into a dragon, while Long Zhen challenged him for destroying the Long Family.
• Long Qi charged Chen Zheng, but the sight of the monstrous fiend behind him frightened Long Qi to death.
• Long Zhen sacrificed his blood essence to summon a true dragon from the upper realm, and Ao Yue, Princess Zhengyue of Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain, descended instead.
• Long Zhen asked Princess Zhengyue to kill Chen Zheng, but she recognized him as the fearsome man connected to her title and fled in panic.
• Chen Zheng turned Long Zhen and Long Qi’s corpse to ash as Long Zhen tried to beg for mercy.

The Jiuli lineage threatened to sacrifice its members to resurrect Chiyou, while Chen Zheng remained unfazed by the news and sensed sword qi near Nan University. Lin Zhengming went with Chen Zheng to investigate the mountain behind the campus, hoping to find a suitable master for the Xuanyuan Sword.

• In Fog City's abandoned subway, the golden-masked Jiuli leader gave foreign supernatural powers files on China's cultivation world and warned that Chiyou would be resurrected within three months.
• An Jing urged Chen Zheng to sleep with her, but he told her to wait until she became a Terrestrial Immortal because of her unusual constitution.
• Chen Zheng cleared Su Cheng's and Zuo Qinghong's true qi pathways, advancing them to the Grandmaster and Great Grandmaster realms.
• Lin Zhengming told Chen Zheng that someone abroad had received files on China's cultivation powers and planned to resurrect Chiyou, and Chen Zheng said he would wait for Chiyou to return to life.
• Lin Zhengming sensed sword qi from the mountain behind Nan University, and he and Chen Zheng went to investigate while Lin Zhengming considered offering the Xuanyuan Sword to the swordsman.

Chen Zheng arrived at Nan University's rear mountain, where Hu Fei was fighting Ling Zhan of Penglai Immortal Island. He summoned the Xuanyuan Sword, ordered it to recognize Hu Fei as its master, then revealed he had forged it and told her to kill Ling Zhan.

• Chen Zheng entered the Sword Domain with Lin Zhengming and Xiao Peng, who carried the Xuanyuan Sword in its case.
• Xiao Peng saw the wounded Hu Fei fighting Ling Zhan, who declared he would kill her as the Inner Charm Sword's successor.
• Chen Zheng had Xiao Peng release the Xuanyuan Sword, and Ling Zhan failed to pull it to himself with the Secret Sword Control Technique.
• Chen Zheng ordered the Xuanyuan Sword to recognize Hu Fei, and it landed before her.
• Chen Zheng said he had forged the Xuanyuan Sword and ordered Hu Fei to cut down Ling Zhan, whose life she ended with one slash.

Hu Fei used the Xuanyuan Sword to destroy a group of ghosts after ten thousand spectral creatures appeared across Nan City. Chen Zheng uncovered the threat of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation, and Zhang Zhengdao of Mount Longhu’s Celestial Master’s Mansion appeared as a ghost king sealed off the hill.

• Hu Fei accepted Chen Zheng’s request to help the China Superpower Group and destroyed dozens of ghosts with the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Lin Zhengming sensed at least ten thousand spectral creatures across Nan City and identified the threat as the God and Ghost Sect’s Ten Thousand Ghosts Grand Formation.
• Chen Zheng swept away the dark clouds, but a ghost king emerged beneath the hill and sealed it off with a sinister barrier.
• Lin Zhengming recognized the descending figure as Zhang Zhengdao of Mount Longhu’s Celestial Master’s Mansion as ten thousand ghosts answered the ghost king’s roar.

Zhang Zhengdao summoned the underworld’s First Ghost King to kill Chen Zheng, but the Ghost King recognized Hu Fei’s Xuanyuan Sword and then remembered Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher. The Ghost King turned on Zhang Zhengdao and tore apart his body and primordial spirit.

• Zhang Zhengdao revealed that he had summoned the First Ghost King to avenge his younger brother and kill Chen Zheng and Nan City.
• Zhang Zhengdao struck Lin Zhengming down when he tried to stop the Ghost King from fusing with him.
• The First Ghost King recognized Hu Fei’s Xuanyuan Sword and slapped Zhang Zhengdao away when he insulted it and Xuanyuan’s descendants.
• The First Ghost King recognized Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher after recalling the battle techniques Chen Zheng had taught him at Xuanyuan Terrace.
• Zhang Zhengdao ordered the First Ghost King to fuse with him, but the Ghost King seized him for disrespecting Chen Zheng and tore apart his body and primordial spirit.

The Ghost King killed Zhang Zhengdao, then recognized Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher before being pulled back into the underworld. Chen Zheng went to Mount Longhu, where Lin Zhengming and Xiao Peng found the Celestial Master's Mansion corrupted by the God and Ghost Sect's secret art and under attack by four evil spirit beasts.

• The Ghost King tore Zhang Zhengdao apart, then knelt before Chen Zheng and called him the Saintly Teacher.
• The underworld summoned the Ghost King and the other ghosts away, while Chen Zheng departed for Mount Longhu.
• Lin Zhengming and Xiao Peng flew toward Mount Longhu and speculated about Chen Zheng's ancient identity and Zhang Zhengdao's corruption.
• Lin Zhengming and Xiao Peng saw black energy engulfing Mount Longhu and recognized four evil spirits shaped like the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.
• The four evil spirits consumed Mount Longhu's disciples as Chen Zheng hovered above them, and Lin Zhengming declared the Celestial Master's Mansion finished.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Celestial Master's Mansion's Four Spirits Grand Array and learned that Mount Longhu's founding patriarch considered its lineage descended from him. Chen Zheng rejected the connection, and the last living Daoist of Mount Longhu turned to ash as Patriarch Daoling departed.

• The corrupted old Daoist sent the four evil spirits to attack Chen Zheng, but they fled when a terrifying phantom emerged from Chen Zheng and swallowed them.
• The old Daoist summoned Patriarch Daoling with a jade talisman, and the founding patriarch descended to Mount Longhu.
• Patriarch Daoling knelt before Chen Zheng and explained that Mount Longhu's secret arts came from an ancient scroll linked to Chen Zheng's disciple.
• Chen Zheng said he refused to acknowledge Mount Longhu as one of his lineages, then turned the old Daoist to ash with a glance.
• Patriarch Daoling bowed to Chen Zheng and vanished.

The demon kings discussed the coming competition for Earth's spiritual essence and learned that the Cloud Realm might join the conflict. In Lion City, Chen Zheng killed vampire marquis Jensen after Jensen revealed his plan to drink Qin Yi's blood.

• The demon kings learned that the Golden Crow demon's descent would be delayed and that factions from the Spirit Realm and Cloud Realm might compete over Earth.
• The demon king in the middle revealed that Feather Empress Feng Fei had visited Earth over twenty years earlier to search for someone.
• Qin Lihua urged Qin Yi to consider dating Jensen, who had supposedly paid off Qin Lihua's gambling debt, but Qin Yi refused.
• Jensen revealed that he was a vampire marquis and trapped Qin Yi and Yanran in his domain, declaring that he intended to drink Qin Yi's blood.
• Jensen shattered the tableware near Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng froze the fragments and snapped his fingers to tear Jensen's body apart.
• Jensen begged Chen Zheng to spare him, but Chen Zheng snapped his fingers again and destroyed Jensen's head.

Chen Zheng learned that the Ying Family’s Food God Banquet had been held for centuries to welcome him back, while disputes over his companions and Zuo Qinghong’s past with the Sword Sect erupted at the gathering. The Ying Family’s ancestor ended the conflict by welcoming Chen Zheng as the young master he had awaited for over a thousand years.

• Catherine declined the Vampire lordship and asked Chen Zheng to help with her awakening ritual, while he said he would visit Europe and meet a disobedient girl he called a god.
• Jiang Boyue, Yu Canghai, Chen Zhilong, and Chen Zheng received invitations to the Ying Family’s Food God Banquet, and Chen Zheng decided to bring three companions.
• At the banquet, Mu Changfeng accused Zuo Qinghong of betraying the Sword Sect and insisted she was bound to marry Xu Pingzhi.
• Guests complained that Chen Zheng had brought too many people, but the Ying Family’s ancestor declared that he could bring as many as he wished.
• The ancestor explained that the Food God Banquet had been created to welcome Chen Zheng, then bowed and introduced himself as Ying Sanshui, successor to the Food God.

At the Ying Family’s Food God Banquet, Ying Sanshui declared Chen Zheng the long-awaited young master, but Second Master Ying joined forces with Kunlun to seize control of the family. After Fan Cong attacked An Jing, Chen Zheng killed him with a single gesture, leaving the hall in stunned silence.

• Ying Sanshui explained that the Food God had saved the Ying Family and identified Chen Zheng as the young master the family had awaited for over a thousand years.
• Second Master Ying arrived with four Terrestrial Immortals, denied the Food God’s existence, and ordered Chen Zheng and his companions to leave.
• Second Master Ying revealed that he had poisoned Ying Sanshui with a Seven-Star Heavenly Silkworm and announced his plan to take over the family and marry Ying Ying to Fan Cong.
• An Jing insulted Fan Cong when he boasted about marrying Ying Ying, so Fan Cong drew his sword and attacked her.
• Chen Zheng grabbed Fan Cong through the air and plucked off his head, silencing the hall.

Chen Zheng killed Fan Cong, freed Ying Sanshui from the Seven-Star Heavenly Silkworm, and faced an attack from the Ying Family's second master and four Terrestrial Immortals. He erased all five attackers with a single word, leaving the hall in shock.

• Chen Zheng casually took Fan Cong's head and killed the Kunlun Terrestrial Immortal, then told Ying Sanshui that his injuries were not his fault.
• The Ying Family's second master claimed Chen Zheng could not save Ying Sanshui and threatened him with Fan Wuji's revenge.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Seven-Star Heavenly Silkworm from Ying Sanshui, and the silkworm destroyed itself, restoring Ying Sanshui's true essence.
• The Ying Family's second master and four Terrestrial Immortals attacked Chen Zheng and everyone beside him, but Chen Zheng said, "Scram!"
• The five Terrestrial Immortals froze, then turned to ash and smoke until not a scrap remained.

Chen Zheng erased Mu Changfeng and other guests who had insulted him, then calmly resumed the Ying Family’s Food God Banquet. An Jing absorbed every dish without difficulty and triggered a Heavenly Tribulation, leaving everyone stunned.

• Chen Zheng erased Mu Changfeng as he fled and made the rude guests who had mocked him vanish with snaps of his fingers.
• Ying Sanshui resumed the Food God Banquet, and Chen Zheng found the first ten-spirit soup authentic but useless to him.
• Most guests fainted after drinking the first dish, while An Jing finished two bowls without feeling its effects.
• An Jing and the remaining guests tried the later dishes; nearly everyone stopped, but An Jing consumed each one easily.
• After An Jing said she felt she had attracted something, thunderclouds gathered over the winery, and Ying Sanshui identified the Heavenly Tribulation.
• An Jing celebrated the tribulation and kissed Chen Zheng, delighted that she might become a Terrestrial Immortal.

At the Ying Family's private winery, An Jing faced a Terrestrial Immortal Tribulation, but Chen Zheng ordered the Heavenly Tribulation to hold back and let her destroy it with one punch. An Jing passed the tribulation and celebrated with Chen Zheng, while the dragon soul sensed that Earth's Heavenly Dao had briefly tried to attack him under orders from above.

• A photographer near the Ying Family's private winery spotted strange thunderclouds and stayed to photograph the storm.
• An Jing eagerly waited for her Terrestrial Immortal Tribulation as the guests kept their distance and worried about her chances.
• When a terrifying bolt descended toward An Jing, Chen Zheng stopped it and ordered the thunderclouds to return and let her punch them.
• An Jing gathered her true essence and punched the thunderstorm apart, after which she felt her body changing and asked Chen Zheng if she had become a Terrestrial Immortal.
• An Jing celebrated by embracing and kissing Chen Zheng while the onlookers stared in disbelief at his control over the Heavenly Tribulation.
• The dragon soul told Jiang Boyue that Earth's Heavenly Dao feared Chen Zheng but had briefly tried to attack him as though it had received orders from above.

Ying Ying learned that the Food God’s avatar had identified Chen Zheng as an ageless young master, while a cameraman recorded the aftermath of An Jing’s tribulation. Chen Zheng then revealed that Xu Cheng had used his psychic power to keep his wife’s spirit in the mortal world, and Black and White Impermanence recognized Chen Zheng and bowed to him.

• Ying Sanshui told Ying Ying that the Food God’s avatar had said Chen Zheng’s appearance would never change, even after countless years.
• A cameraman celebrated recording the thunderstorm’s return and destruction, believing he had captured evidence of a powerful figure undergoing a tribulation.
• Lin Zhengming brought Chen Zheng to the Superpower Group to examine Xu Cheng, but Xu Ge insisted that technology could cure her grandfather.
• Lin Zhengming knelt and begged Chen Zheng to help Xu Cheng, and Chen Zheng said Xu Cheng was keeping his wife’s spirit in the mortal world at the cost of both their futures.
• Xu Cheng’s wife’s spirit appeared and demanded to be released, revealing why Xu Cheng had sealed himself away.
• Black and White Impermanence arrived to arrest Xu Cheng and the spirit, recognized Chen Zheng, and prostrated themselves before him.