"So that's it?"
The two words were tossed out lightly, yet they felt like two invisible slaps, landing hard across Sacred Ancestor Yuan Hua's face.
The vast starry universe behind him twisted for an instant at the faintest ripple in his mind.
Humiliation.
An unprecedented humiliation surged from deep within Sacred Ancestor Yuan Hua's heart, erupting as a towering blaze of rage.
He was a prodigy of the Five Sacred Spirit Clan.
He was a future True Sage overlord.
And now, some rogue cultivator from the Outer Sea who had appeared out of nowhere was looking down on him with such contempt?
"You're asking for death!"
Every word in Sacred Ancestor Yuan Hua's voice seemed forced through clenched teeth, edged with bone-chilling cold.
He said no more.
The eyes that held the birth and death of stars suddenly turned hollow and unfathomably deep.
An intangible, ubiquitous, uncanny force instantly locked onto Shen Fan.
Ancestral Fate Ability—Seeker of Dao!
This was one of Sacred Ancestor Yuan Hua's Ancestral Fate Abilities. It allowed him to seek out the flaws in all things from the unseen depths of the Dao, locking onto an enemy's most vulnerable core.
Under the lock of Seeker of Dao, all defenses and evasions were utterly useless!
Then he joined his fingers like a blade and lightly slashed toward Shen Fan.
There was no earthshaking display of light or sound.
No energy surging to destroy the heavens and annihilate the earth.
Only a streak of unseen ghostly light soundlessly cut through the air.
Ancestral Fate Ability—Soul Severing!
This attack did not harm the body or damage Mana. It targeted the very core of a living being's Divine Soul.
Seeker of Dao marked the path; Soul Severing delivered the killing blow.
This was the combination technique that had made his