In terms of individual strength, the Ancestor of Eternal Fire was by no means an ordinary figure among Level-12 Strong Practitioners.
His attained realm alone, coupled with the profound experience accumulated over long years, was enough to inspire awe in the vast majority of Dimensional Strong Practitioners.
Yet it was lamentable that the Ancestor of Eternal Fire seemed to have completely worn away the sharpness and spirit of his youth during this protracted Dimensional Plane War.
When facing Super Saiyan Kakarot, the fighting style he displayed was practically a mad exchange of life for life. He no longer possessed the fiery temper of his younger days, when blazing flames seemed capable of incinerating the heavens.
Whenever Kakarot's attacks came at him, the Ancestor of Eternal Fire mostly dodged and shifted aside, rarely taking the initiative to counterattack.
It was not only Kakarot. Even when other Level-12 Strong Practitioners participating in the battle besieged him, this guy rarely confronted them head-on.
If he could evade, he spared no effort to avoid the attack. If there was nowhere to dodge, he gathered all the Origin Power in his body and took the blow in the most tightly guarded defensive posture. This overly conservative performance from the Ancestor of Eternal Fire was perhaps directly related to the inadequacy of his own foundations.
At the root of it, perhaps his temper in youth had been too explosive, and his fighting style had been extremely similar to Kakarot's current one. Yet the circumstances of the two were as far apart as heaven and earth.
Kakarot had the full support of Destruction Demon God Locke, as well as the enhancement of the laws of Paradise Lost Time-Space. With so many forms of support, he could fight with all his strength and no worries at his back.