Relying on the remaining half-sandglass of time, the God of Machines merged with Saine once more and threw another punch at the Half-Level-9 creature, the Element Pioneer.
In truth, Saine and the God of Machines were no longer in a "fusion" state.
Saine was merely still inside the God of Machines.
When only around three sandglasses remained, the God of Machines had proactively severed its fusion connection with Saine. Thus, the power it could unleash at this moment was only at the early Level-9 stage.
However, while the God of Machines was at the early Level-9 stage, the Element Pioneer was not much stronger either.
Star Radiance Envoy Oren had entered the Half-Level-9 Realm many years ago. His foundation and accumulated reserves were there for all to see, and his personal combat experience was exceptionally rich.
The Element Pioneer, meanwhile, had only advanced to Half-Level-9 within the past ten thousand years or so. Even its Half-Level-9 status... had quite a bit of water in it.
Had it not relied on the Astral Realm Will's "favor," whether the Element Pioneer could have advanced to Half-Level-9 so smoothly would have remained an unknown.
Yet after the Element Pioneer advanced to Half-Level-9, the Astral Realm Will's affection for it did not diminish.
Especially now that Star Radiance Envoy Oren had already fallen, with all its strength but no other direction in which to wield it, the Astral Realm Will could only support the Element Pioneer with all its might!
Thus, as Saine closed in, this fellow whom the First Flame Emperor had never thought much of suddenly erupted with the power level of the mid Half-Level-9 stage!
The First Flame Emperor had experienced the war in the Flowing Light Retrospective World and obtained immense benefits from the Eternal Soul Clan, yet he had