"Thunder!"
The Ninth Rank Thunder Sovereign, who had been not only repelled by Liang Ji and the Ninth Rank Dragon Soul working together, could no longer endure it. He erupted outright and roared in fury.
BOOM! CRACK!
A bolt of lightning cleaved through the depths of the Void Star Sea's origin and struck him, merging with his body. The Ninth Rank Thunder Sovereign's form rapidly swelled and expanded, transforming in the blink of an eye into pure lightning.
He looked like a giant formed entirely from gathered, fused lightning. In his hands, he held divine lightning in one and elemental lightning in the other.
Now he brought his hands together, fusing the divine lightning and elemental lightning into a huge, pure, destructive "Thunder Hammer." Bracing against the attacks of Liang Ji's Natal Treasure Pagoda and the Ninth Rank Dragon Soul, he swung it straight at Liang Ji.
The full force of Liang Ji's Natal Treasure Pagoda and the Ninth Rank Dragon Soul's attacks crashed into the Thunder Sovereign's lightning body, shattering most of it—but they still failed to drive him back again.
Instead, vast amounts of lightning burst forth once more, quickly gathering and taking shape to repair and replenish the Thunder Giant's body.
The Thunder Giant's raised Thunder Hammer came crashing down. Wherever it passed, terrifying lightning shattered and annihilated the surrounding void and chaos.
Liang Ji sensed a tremendous threat, the specter of death. Without the slightest hesitation, he sent the Ninth Rank Dragon Soul to block the blow first, unleashing all the Elemental Power, divine ability, and Void Demon Race power it controlled. Even so, it could not withstand the terrifying strike of the Thunder Hammer.
It was shattered and scattered once again.
Then the Houtian Spiritual Treasure, the Natal Treasure Pagoda, moved to meet the blow.