Yes!
Had it not been for that heaven-shaking strike from the incomparably keen Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash, the toughness of the Black Dragon Marshal's Dragon Tomb Shield might well have held it off. Combined with the defenses of his immensely powerful physical body, he could withstand even an ordinary Heaven-Opening Treasure...
Unfortunately!
That was the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash, a Heaven-Opening Treasure renowned throughout the Thirty-Three Star Realm. Back then, even Li Xiaoya's supreme-grade Life-Bound Magic Treasure, the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff, had failed to block Yan Longzi's heaven-shaking strike, and Li Xiaoya had lost an arm. Even the Fire Dragon Sword before its evolution had fallen short of the Dragon-Horned Bone Dragon Slash in sharpness...
How could he possibly withstand this heaven-shaking strike unleashed with Li Xiaoya's sixth-level Tianyuan Sword Formula?
Then-
"!!!" The purple-gold sword ray, ten thousand zhang long, was simply too fast. It moved so swiftly that there was not even a sound of it tearing through the air. Like light itself, it instantly pierced the barrier of the Black Dragon Marshal's Dragon Scale Shield and slashed straight through his reverse scale...
At that moment!
Clang!!! An utterly piercing crash of metal erupted. The instant the purple-gold sword ray cut through the Black Dragon Marshal's reverse scale, the surrounding dragon scales collided with it, unleashing a string of shrill metallic clashes. The defenses of those scales were indeed astonishing...
The heaven-shaking sword ray had cut halfway through the Black Dragon Marshal's neck, but it could no longer sever his dragon scales completely...
However!
Boom!!! An earth-shaking explosion erupted in an instant. Dazzling purple-gold sword rays burst wildly inside the Black Dragon Marshal's neck. Countless rays and streams of sword qi, each a thousand zhang long, shot skyward, spraying black-red dragon blood in every direction. They exploded