Water Ice Holy Venerable's words were like a ladleful of hot oil poured over Ancestor of Eternal Fire's heart, making his fury burn even fiercer.
If not for the imminent Dimensional Plane crisis brought by Dark Universe Time-Space, which required every Super Civilization within Light Universe Time-Space to join forces against the enemy—
Ancestor of Eternal Fire would even have wanted to set aside the foreign enemy for now, lead the Crimson Flame Civilization Legion, and wage another exhilarating battle of ice and fire against Water Mirror Civilization, teaching those people who "refused to save the dying" a proper lesson.
But he also knew that Crimson Flame Civilization and Water Mirror Civilization had never been allies to whom they could entrust their backs—their Rule Attributes were naturally incompatible. Their ability to maintain superficial cooperation on this Civilization Battlefield and jointly resist Dark Universe Time-Space was already the utmost limit of both sides' compromise.
With his plea for aid denied, Ancestor of Eternal Fire could only grit his teeth and continue fighting with the strength he had left.
But years spared no one, and Dark God Envoy's earlier mockery had not been empty words.
If time were turned back eight or nine million years, Ancestor of Eternal Fire at the height of his power, wielding Level-12 Late-Stage strength, would have had every confidence in suppressing or even severely injuring the Dark God Envoy before him.
But now, ever since that Super Civilization war within Light Universe Time-Space ended ten million years ago, Ancestor of Eternal Fire had fallen completely into a period of dormancy.
After so many years, not only had his condition not recovered in the slightest, but as time passed, the source of his vitality had continuously dissipated. He had now nearly fallen by one or two Minor Realms,