The First Battle Against Ninth-Rank Foes: Ice Sealed Everything
Ninth Rank Sovereign! Ninth Rank Spirit Lord!
Liang Ji watched the two Ninth-Rank foes charging toward him, his eyes lighting up as his nerves tightened.
Although he had already advanced to Ninth Rank Star Lord and had ranged freely through this occupied starfield, invincible wherever he went, he had yet to truly fight an enemy of the same rank.
Now two opponents of the same rank were charging at him at once, and Liang Ji couldn't help feeling both anticipation and tension.
With my strength just after breaking through to Ninth Rank, fighting two opponents of the same rank at once will probably be too much!
Thoughts raced through Liang Ji's mind. He glanced at the Dragon Soul, still churning up waves and resisting the surging tides in the distant Elemental Sea. It was clearly impossible to call the Dragon Soul back to help him now.
On the frontline battlefield, Star Alliance Ninth Rank Star Lords were being held off and entangled by other Ninth Rank Sovereigns, Spirit Lords, and Heavenly Demons. Counting on another Ninth Rank Star Lord to come to his aid was just as impossible.
If the other Ninth Rank Star Lords still had strength to spare, they wouldn't have let these two Ninth Rank Sovereigns and Ninth Rank Spirit Lords break free of their entanglement and come after him.
In the end, he could only rely on himself.
Fortunately, Liang Ji didn't need to defeat the enemy outright or kill them. He only had to hold them off for a while.
Once this occupied starfield had fully recovered, and the Celestial Star Array Diagram covering it had been restored, these Ninth-Rank foes would be the ones in trouble—and the ones left scrambling.
So all he had to