The Star Alliance's assault on the River of Realm Protection had been planned in advance by Liang Ji and the other Ninth Rank Star Lords in the Star Palace.
Immortal Lord Tianmo would lead the attack and breach the River of Realm Protection. Once the enemy's Ninth Rank Sovereigns and Ninth Rank Spirit Lords struck, each Ninth Rank Star Lord would intercept a designated Ninth Rank Sovereign or hold off a designated Ninth Rank Spirit Lord. Everything had been arranged beforehand, and their opponents had been chosen.
Liang Ji, naturally, had also been assigned an opponent long ago.
The one he was responsible for intercepting was his old adversary, the Thunder Sovereign—and he had chosen that opponent himself.
The last time Liang Ji had fought him, he had been completely suppressed. If the Star Alliance's army attacking the Spirit Realm hadn't slain the Spirit Realm's Thunder Marsh Spirit Lord at the critical moment, affecting the Ninth Rank Thunder Sovereign and giving Liang Ji a chance to turn the tables, then Liang Ji would likely have been gravely wounded or even killed in that battle.
Now, however, Liang Ji had spent two hundred years cultivating and had advanced his Natal Artifact, the Thirty-Three-Tier Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, to the level of a Ninth Rank Houtian Spiritual Treasure. His strength had increased tremendously.
If he faced the Ninth Rank Thunder Sovereign from back then again, he might not be able to win, but at the very least he could fight him on equal terms.
That was one reason Liang Ji had chosen the Ninth Rank Thunder Sovereign as his opponent this time: to avenge the humiliation of being suppressed and gravely wounded in their previous battle, and to test how much his cultivation and strength had improved over the