Talent Takes Effect, Gaining Millions of Years of Enmity Qi
A moment later, the Zhou Family's arrogant and contemptuous attitude reached its peak, and the system notification refreshed again.
[Triggered by Deliberate Revenge. The opponent, overconfident in their powerful background, underestimated the host's strength and arrogantly climbed to the top, increasing their Hatred Qi Value by 100,000 to 20,000 years.]
[Super Upgrade triggered, tenfold sublimation activated, gaining 1.2 million years of sublimated Enmity Qi.]
At the end of the official road, yellow sand swirled in the air, billowing dust obscuring the sky. Dozens of powerful figures emerged from the sandstorm, completely blocking the road.
Zhou Xu antong, the patriarch of the Zhou Family, stood at the forefront, his white hair fluttering in the wind, his indifferent gaze looking down coldly at Chen Du, who was all alone.
The Zhou Family patriarch stood beside his ancestor, his eyes cold and filled with icy hatred.
He stared intently at the young figure, the pent-up humiliation finally awaiting its reckoning.
Zhou Xu antong slowly walked forward several feet, his aged eyes scrutinizing Chen Du from head to toe, and then slowly spoke:
"So you are Zhang Shun?"
Chen Du raised his eyes and glanced back calmly, his tone even and expressionless.
"Exactly."
Zhou Xu antong gently shook his head, "A mere junior with an Eighth Stage cultivation, a newcomer who has just entered the inner sect, yet you've managed to cause such chaos in my Zhou Family, forcing me to personally emerge from my hundred-year seclusion. You do indeed possess some skill."
Unable to contain his anger, the Zhou Family patriarch stepped forward and sternly rebuked him:
"Zhang Shun! Do you know the enormity of the disaster you have committed!"
"You crippled my Zhou family's Jingxuan, jeopardizing our future prodigy; you killed the inner sect steward my Zhou family had hired at great expense, disrupting our plans. These blood feuds are irreconcilable!"
"Today you are alone in this mortal world, helpless and alone. My Zhou Family patriarch has come in person; this is your death day!"
A group of the Zhou Family elders stepped forward to echo their sentiments, their voices filled with murderous intent, each sentence a death sentence, all displaying an arrogant attitude of having Chen Du completely under their control.
"Starting from humble beginnings as a lowly servant, you've risen to prominence by sheer luck and become arrogant. Today, I'll show you that the foundation of a noble family is not something a rootless nobody like you can challenge."
"Faced with absolute power, all your talents and opportunities are nothing but a joke."
Zhou Xu antong slightly raised his hand to stop the noise, his eyes lazy and indifferent, not wanting to waste a single moment.
"No need for further words. He's just a junior; I can easily crush him. I need to return to my mountain retreat for seclusion; I don't have time to waste on your nonsense."
The consciousness sea prompts a final frantic refresh:
[Deliberate Revenge triggered; the ancestor, in extreme arrogance, crushed his opponent, maliciously reaching the top, increasing his Hatred Qi Value by 140,000 years.]
[Super Upgrade triggered, tenfold sublimation activated, gaining 1.4 million years of sublimated Enmity Qi.]
Chen Du looked at the Zhou Family in front of him, who were full of arrogance and thought they had the victory in the bag, and a smile appeared on his lips.
This group of people calculated and plotted for months, thinking they had the whole situation under control and that they held life and death in their hands, but from beginning to end they lived in a false victory they had woven for themselves.
They thought they were the hunters, but little did they know that from beginning to end, they were the prey who willingly offered themselves up and waited to be harvested.
Chen Du didn't say anything more, he simply raised his right hand and flicked his fingers lightly with utter casualness.
A wisp of extremely condensed dark golden lightning shot out from the sky, suddenly exploding in mid-air and instantly spreading out into a boundless sea of annihilating lightning.
The surging sea of lightning carried the primordial divine might of the Fourth-Tier Fundamental Law of Thunder, the destructive mysteries of the sixth-order law, and the ultimate power of Ji Yuan Godslaying.
An overwhelming destructive pressure instantly overwhelmed the entire world, completely sealing off everyone's escape routes.
Zhou Xu antong, the Zhou Family patriarch who had been indifferent, suddenly turned deathly pale, his pupils contracted violently, and his mind completely shattered.
He instantly sensed the terrifying level contained within the lightning; it was the divine might of the Great Dao, far exceeding the limit of the Twelfth Tier, a supreme power capable of crushing all his cultivation levels.
"Impossible!!"
He screamed in disbelief, his voice trembling with shock.
"You're only at the Eighth Stage! How could you possibly possess such Great Dao Lightning power?!"
In his shock, he dared not hold back even a fraction of his strength, unleashing his full Twelfth Tier cultivation. His True Essence gathered wildly around him, instantly forming a massive shield of True Essence as thick as a mountain above his head.
This was his strongest defense, honed over ten thousand years, the very foundation upon which he stood in the Heavenly Gift Dynasty. He was certain that this giant shield was strong enough to withstand the vast majority of attacks in the world.
It can happen in the next second.
A silent, deafening boom reverberated.
The seemingly indestructible defensive shield shattered completely in less than a breath, turning into countless fragments of True Essence.
The boundless sea of lightning crashed down, instantly engulfing Zhou Xu antong completely.
Zhou Xu antong's body stiffened and his soul trembled. His thousand-year-old Dao heart completely collapsed at this moment, and endless panic and despair instantly engulfed his entire body.
He spent over a decade in seclusion honing his Twelfth Tier cultivation, and for a thousand years, no one dared to offend the Zhou Family. Yet today, he is on the verge of destruction in the blink of an eye of an Eighth Stage youth.
He couldn't understand it, he was indignant, and he was filled with extreme regret. Why had he been so arrogant and underestimated his enemy? Why had he personally stepped into this doomed trap?
Immediately following, a sea of thunder swept across the entire area, engulfing the Zhou Family patriarch, whose face had turned deathly pale.
The Zhou Family patriarch's eyes widened, his body turned ice-cold, his legs went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground, his mind blank.
He had been plotting for months, exhausting the resources of his entire clan, summoning the ancestor who had suppressed the clan, and gathering all his high-level combat power, thinking he could crush his enemies in one fell swoop and wash away the humiliation.
In the blink of an eye, all his reliance crumbled, all his hopes were shattered, and an overwhelming despair gripped his mind.
"How could this happen... how could this happen..."
His lips trembled uncontrollably, he muttered to himself, and his eyes were filled with disbelief, as if he were on the verge of madness.
"Eighth Stage... a mere Eighth Stage... how could he possibly annihilate Twelfth Tier ancestor with a flick of his finger..."
All the Zhou Family elders and elites at the Tenth Tier, Ninth Tier, and Eighth Stage were plunged into the most extreme and piercing fear they had ever experienced.
The previous arrogance vanished without a trace, the previous conceit completely disappeared, leaving only a deep-seated panic and despair.
They desperately tried to exert their cultivation to resist, to escape, and to survive, but the entire world had already been locked down by the laws of thunder.
Their True Essence was rapidly dissipating, their meridians were crumbling inch by inch, and their souls were continuously dissolving.
A wave of endless regret washed over everyone, regretting that they had repeatedly provoked those they shouldn't have, and regretting that they had come here with their team to their deaths.
They had previously looked down on Chen Du as an ant, but now they suddenly realized that they, the powerful figures who had dominated the dynasty, were the truly laughable and insignificant ants.
Amidst the raging lightning, dozens of powerful figures struggled violently, but none were able to break free even slightly.
After a brief struggle, all physical bodies, all True Essence, and all divine souls were completely dissolved by the Ji Yuan Thunder Sea, turning into nothingness.
In the final moment before his complete annihilation, the Zhou Family patriarch stared intently at the young figure who stood calmly amidst the sandstorm, his throat throbbing as he desperately tried to scream for mercy.
But he couldn't utter a sound; he could only vanish completely, filled with resentment, regret, utter absurdity, and despair.
The sea of lightning slowly receded, and the sandstorm subsided, leaving the sky clear and calm.
The entire wide official road was deserted, devoid of any trace of the Zhou Family's powerful figures, as if the siege that had just been waged by the entire clan had never happened.
Chen Du stood upright with a calm expression, his eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.
The Zhou Family's profound heritage, generations of powerful figures in the Zhou Family, and the Zhou Family's last trump card for revenge.
They were all wiped out here.
Worldly grudges are completely wiped away today.