It did not fall.
Chen Du continued his daily meditation and breathing exercises in seclusion. His breathing became more stable day by day, his body became strong, and his True Essence was abundant. Not only did he not suffer from sudden death due to the poison, but he also did not experience the slightest discomfort.
On the final evening, Zhou Family's spies planted around the holy site, steeling themselves, sent back the most truthful information—
[Zhang Shun is completely unharmed, his cultivation level firmly held at the Seventh-Tier Peak Stage, without a scratch.]
The news reached the Zhou Family Main Hall the moment it arrived.
The entire Zhou Family fell into a deathly silence.
After the deathly silence came a deafening explosion!
"Impossible!! Absolutely impossible!"
"How could the Bone-Eroding Essence-Withering Poison possibly be ineffective? That's a deadly poison technique passed down through my Zhou Family for thousands of years! It has no cure, no countermeasure, and no way to evade it!"
"A whole month! How come he's completely fine?!"
"We waited for a full thirty days! We were certain he was dead! And yet he's completely unharmed?!"
The Zhou Family patriarch suddenly stood up, his hair and beard trembling, his ashen face filled with extreme disarray.
A surge of pent-up anger rushed to the top of his head, almost causing his Dao heart to explode.
At this moment, all Zhou Family broke down.
They plotted and schemed, plotting a deadly attack from the shadows, confident of victory, waiting smugly to watch their opponent perish.
They believed they held the power of life and death, toying with and controlling the lives of others.
In the end, they were made a joke of each other for a whole month from beginning to end!
Their deadly poison technique turned out to be a huge joke, their meticulous plan became empty talk, and their month-long wait resulted in utter humiliation!
The frustration and embarrassment of punching empty air with all one's might, having all one's calculations fall flat, and being silently toyed with, instantly swept over all members of the Zhou Family!
Everyone was filled with boundless rage, their arrogance and hatred reaching their peak!
Meanwhile, in the Ancient Path Holy Land, inside the small courtyard's cultivation room.
Chen Du slowly opened his eyes, his gaze clear and serene.
The prompt in the mind sea fell in response, perfectly absorbing the extreme hatred that caused the entire Zhou Family to break through their defenses!
[The entire Zhou Family, the target force, is at their lowest point, filled with malice and hatred, completely outmaneuvered, and the conditions for revenge are perfectly met!]
[Super Ascension settlement complete! Fixed Ascension Enmity Qi: 20,000!]
At this point, Chen Du's body had accumulated and sublimated an Enmity Qi.
Two martial arts demonstrations cost 30,000 yuan, plus the Zhou Family's underhanded scheme costing 20,000 yuan, totaling 50,000 yuan for the entire year to fuel Enmity Qi!
Fifty thousand units of pure, sublimated Enmity Qi flowed forth without hindrance, all converging into the [Heavenly Dao Bestowal] talent bar!
[Fifty thousand units of sublimated Enmity Qi have been detected and sacrificed to the Heavenly Dao!]
[Heavenly Dao Bestowal a deeply activated talent!]
[Unlocking Ji Yuan- Level Heaven's Way's Gift!]
[Single Ji Yuan Duration: One Trillion Years of Enlightenment into the Great Dao!]
[This gift: A complete divine revelation of the Fundamental Law of Thunder spanning seventeen Ji Yuan!]
The next moment!
The Dao Resonance of the entire world suddenly tilted, and the endless primordial thunder Dao origin, spanning the long river of time seventeen trillion years, poured into Chen Du's sea of consciousness and physical body.
[The primordial thunder source of the seventeenth Ji Yuan washed over his sea of consciousness, causing countless primordial thunder patterns to spontaneously arise, evolve, and be comprehended within his mind!]
[Witness the primordial thunder that created the heavens, the desolate thunder that cleaved the earth, the divine thunder that proved the Dao, and the thunder that annihilated and returned to oneness!]
Witness the rise and fall of the Thunder Dao, the changing of laws, and the transformation of the Great Dao's origin over seventeen Ji Yuan!
[Countless obscure constraints instantly cleared, the Fundamental Law of Thunder were touched from the surface, reaching the very core!]
[Physical body, meridians, sea of consciousness, and foundation of Dao—all dimensions are tempered and reshaped by the true essence of the Thunder Dao at Ji Yuan level!]
Endless Daoist Dao Resonance thunder flowed around him, and invisible golden divine patterns of thunder covered his limbs, bones, dantian, and sea of consciousness.
The fundamental laws that ordinary cultivators could hardly touch even after billions of years of arduous cultivation were, at this moment, he forcefully overlooked the entire process and thoroughly understood all the origins through the divine revelation of the Heavenly Dao the Seventeenth Ji Yuan!
He used to only possess remnants of the Law of Thunder, but now he truly wields the power of the Root!
A thunderous roar echoed through the void, the invisible root of thunder, the Dao of Thunder!
The rules of heaven and earth are actively imprinted and acknowledged!
Chen Du also successfully broke through the Fundamental Law of Thunder.
The spiritual light within the cultivation room was subdued, and the thunder was silent.
All unusual phenomena were completely concealed, leaving no trace, Beyond Cause and Effect, and undetected by the Heavenly Dao.
Chen Du slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, his eyes revealing a profound indifference born from the vicissitudes of the Thunder Path over seventeen Ji Yuan.
His Seventh-Tier Peak Stage cultivation was completely stable, his Dao foundation was flawless, his laws were firmly rooted, and the Great Dao had been bestowed upon him.
The struggles between outer sects, inner sects, and mortal families are as insignificant as dust in the face of the 17 trillion years of accumulated Dao.
Far away in the Heavenly Gift Dynasty, the Zhou Family members, enraged and filled with resentment and hatred, were completely unaware that their supposedly perfect killing plan, their overwhelming anger at being tricked, and their extreme arrogance and Enmity Qi...
In the end, it was nothing more than giving Chen Du the top-level Dao insights of seventeen Ji Yuan for nothing, helping him to completely step into the supreme realm recognized by the third-level Heavenly Dao!
Throughout this game, they didn't even have the right to sit at the table.
After several failed attempts to scheme, the Zhou Family was already filled with resentment.
The poison technique failed, the martial arts technique's ultimate move backfired, and he was left to await his death in a month, ultimately becoming a colossal joke.
The atmosphere in the Zhou Family mansion of the Heavenly Gift Dynasty has been extremely gloomy for days, with everyone feeling both angry and frustrated.
They simply couldn't understand how an outer disciple who rose from the ranks of menial laborers could repeatedly shatter all the elaborate traps they had laid.
The sacred ground is strictly governed, and top-level powerful Divine Thought reside there constantly, so the Zhou Family has no chance to make a move.
Only by leading people out of the Ancient Path Holy Land and dragging them into the secular world where there are no rules or constraints can we completely eradicate them.
After several days of seclusion and deduction by the Zhou Family elders, they finally seized the only opportunity.
They thoroughly investigated Zhang Shun's past life and knew clearly that he utterly despised the Zhang Family, hated them to the bone, and had no worldly attachment to the Zhang Family.
But during the long years of humble and menial labor that the original Zhang Shun endured, there was only one person in the entire sect who treated him with gentleness and kindness.
He was an honest and upright outer disciple named Lin He.
He often helped Zhang Shun in his daily life, never discriminating against him, and was the only person who gave Zhang Shun warmth during his bleak life at the bottom of society.
The Zhou Family concluded that Zhang Shun had no grudge against the Zhang Family, but he owed Lin He a favor. This bond between fellow disciples was his only remaining weakness.
The Zhou Family immediately took action in secret, abducting Lin He from the outer gate and deliberately leaving incomplete clues to perfectly lead the trail of her disappearance to the secular wilderness on the border of the Heavenly Gift Dynasty.
The news quickly reached Chen Du's ears.
He wouldn't even glance at a regular trap.
But when Chen Du heard that Lin He had disappeared and that his whereabouts were on the border of the secular world, he instantly understood the Zhou Family's entire evil scheme.
This was a blatant attempt to lure the snake out of its hole; the other party thought they had his only weakness, his only constraint.
Chen Du felt no anxiety whatsoever, only a cold mockery.
He doesn't care about so-called social obligations at all.
But since the Zhou Family had gone to great lengths to create a grand spectacle and poured all their resources into waiting to kill him, he decided to go with the flow and personally join the fray.
This is a good opportunity to thoroughly eliminate some of the Zhou Family's hidden forces.