It was just as it appeared!
The Dragon Ancestor's strength had already far surpassed Li Xiaoya's when he arrived. Even with the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword now in Li Xiaoya's hands, driving it into him again to wound his soul would have been utterly impossible...
However!
Li Xiaoya's technique was a divine ability that killed a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of his own. He had unleashed all his divine sense, combining his Five Elements divine abilities, Life Burst, and a whole series of other abilities at full power before he could release that five-colored spiritual light beam!
The reason this five-colored spiritual light ability ignored a divine artifact's defenses was the same as with the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma's abilities: the effect of five-element balance!
The result was plain to see!
Powerful as the Dragon Ancestor was, his soul had been devoured by the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword. Strictly speaking, his physical body was still alive, but with his soul devoured by the sword, it was nothing more than living flesh...
Li Xiaoya had instantly made the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword grind the Dragon Ancestor's physical body into powder, naturally to prevent him from reviving through some other divine ability.
However!
Clearly, Li Xiaoya had worried too much... The Dragon Ancestor could not have been any deader...
"How was I able to take that Immortal Position from the Dragon Ancestor?" the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma said to Li Xiaoya with a cheerful grin, looking rather pleased. Only after a long pause did the ganoderma add mysteriously, "That's a secret!"
"Tch! What harm would telling me do?" Li Xiaoya clicked his tongue and said heavily. Indeed, the main reason he had killed the Dragon Ancestor so easily was that the Five-Element Rainbow Ganoderma had acted instantly at the start,