The Closest He Had Ever Come to Death
At the Star Alliance's border, of the twenty star-domain projections Liang Ji had summoned, only one remained: Manggu Star Domain, barely holding together.
Even this projection of Manggu Star Domain had already collapsed in part. It could barely keep running, and its main purpose now was to use the power of its star chart to bolster and strengthen the Nine Suns Star System within.
Within the Nine Suns Star System, a bolt of lightning streaked back and forth, smashing one star after another and piercing through one rift in space after another as it charged toward Liang Ji's Natal Star.
But under the power of Liang Ji's Dao Path of Creation Rebirth, the shattered stars, pierced voids, and ruptured regions of the star system were swiftly reborn and restored.
Bolstered and strengthened by the power of Manggu Star Domain outside it, the Nine Suns Star System kept clashing with the lightning as it raced to and fro, wearing it down.
Liang Ji's Natal Star System, the Nine Suns Star System, had indeed been battered into fragments by the lightning. Even its true body had been caught in the backlash, leaving stars shattered, voids destroyed, and suns extinguished. His Natal Star's very body was constantly under threat, hanging by a thread.
But the lightning essence formed by the Ninth Rank Thunder Sovereign, which had invaded the projection of Liang Ji's Natal Star System, was also being steadily depleted and weakened by each clash, each act of destruction, each piercing strike.
Compared with when it first came roaring in, the lightning essence flashing back and forth had already shrunk and weakened by nearly a third.
This showed just how much the Ninth Rank Thunder Sovereign had been damaged and depleted in this clash of