Liang Ji's Opponent
The Ninth Rank enemy Liang Ji was responsible for keeping in check was none other than the Ninth Rank Metal Element Spirit Lord who had been reborn in the Spirit Realm.
Previously, two Ninth Rank Spirit Lords had returned to life in the Spirit Realm: a Ninth Rank Metal Element Spirit Lord and a Ninth Rank Fire Element Spirit Lord.
The Ninth Rank Fire Element Spirit Lord had already been slain by a Ninth Rank Star Lord of the Star Alliance, using the suppressive power of the restored Celestial Star Array Diagram, during the battle in which Liang Ji had turned the tide and reclaimed the Gemini Star Domain.
That left only the Ninth Rank Metal Element Spirit Lord among the Ninth Rank Spirit Lords reborn in the Spirit Realm.
As a Ninth Rank Spirit Lord who had returned to life, his combat strength, methods, and cultivation were far superior to those of a newly ascended blank-slate Ninth Rank Star Lord like Liang Ji. But he was still nowhere near the veteran Ninth Rank Sovereigns and Ninth Rank Spirit Lords who had never fallen.
Among the Ninth Rank enemies now, he could be called one of the weakest.
That was why the Star Alliance had assigned its weakest Ninth Rank enemy to Liang Ji to keep in check.
They weren't asking him to distinguish himself by severely wounding or even killing his opponent. They only wanted him to avoid making a mistake: keep the bottom-ranked Ninth Rank Metal Element Spirit Lord occupied and tied down, preventing him from interfering with or aiding the other Ninth Rank battles, and from affecting or disrupting the fighting between the Star Alliance's army and the enemy forces.
As for the breakthrough point chosen for the Star Alliance's counterattack, it was the