Arc 75Houtu and the Burning Heaven Clan
Chen Zheng entered the Underworld, challenged its authorities, and restored Houtu as its protector before confronting the Burning Heaven Divine Clan. After defeating the clan’s leaders and recovering Nether Phoenix, he revealed the wider history of the thirteen epochs and his connection to Original Earth.
- Chen Zheng forced the Jiuli Prefecture Lord to kill Divine Temple envoys, restored his cultivation with azure talismans, and took him and others toward Houtu Imperial City.
- At the Ancient Reincarnation Arena, Mingyue devoured the arena and revealed herself as Immortal Venerable Mingyue, while Chen Zheng killed Madam Mi and Uncle Fu Yue.
- Zhuo Tian recognized Chen Zheng as his Saintly Teacher, crippled his cultivation at Chen Zheng’s direction, and departed for the Great Void after Chen Zheng rebuilt his meridians.
- Chen Zheng killed Elder Fu Yu, raised Houtu from the Reincarnation Hall, and asked her to guard Houtu Imperial City as he moved against the Divine Temple and Burning Heaven Divine Clan.
- Chen Zheng pulled the Underworld Divine Temple from the Nether Sea, killed its three elders, and exposed a Heaven-Gazing Beast that had impersonated the temple’s will.
- Chen Zheng stopped the Burning Heaven Giant Sun with the stone egg, which revealed a newborn Heaven who called him Daddy.
- Chen Zheng brought the Burning Heaven Divine Ship to Houtu Imperial City, killed the Burning Heaven Divine Clan’s patriarch and grand elder, restored Fuyi, and reunited Nether Phoenix with the others.
- Chen Zheng told Houtu and Nether Phoenix about the thirteen epochs and the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord, then said that Zero might have lived on Original Earth before him.