"Yanrong?"
Shen Bore watched the horrifying scene near Mars with keen interest. "I thought he would have improved after returning to life this time, but he is still just as stupid. He does not even have the slightest self-restraint, always foolishly pulling chestnuts from the fire for others."
It had been so during the war between humans and gods thirteen million years ago, and a million years ago, it had also been Yanrong who raised the God-Defying Banner and first called for Heaven-Slaying.
Today was no different. He had actually let the Human Race's emperor incite him into attacking his own allies.
"Stupid? Hardly. He is simply acting in his own interests."
The Third-Generation Sage Emperor stood with his hands behind his back in the dark void. "For Yanrong, doing everything possible to reclaim the power of the fire gods and their territory among the stars is precisely what he should be doing after his resurrection.
"After all, the Fire Gods' current situation is truly far from optimistic. Among the Twelve Ancestral Gods, apart from my ancestor Longxi and Zhu Guangyin, his situation is the worst. Do you really think your Deception Method can make an Ancestral God like him willingly submit and follow your arrangements? Why should he endure such humiliation?"
"Indeed."
Shen Bore nodded. "This is an irresistible tide. As long as Yanrong sees hope of reclaiming Mars, he will never refuse. You must have promised to hold Nine-Phoenix back for him. And my Deception Method could never suppress the Fire God's desires and instincts.
"You also anticipated that the Three Great Heaven Administrators would conceal heaven, earth, and the future because I coveted the art of fate, forcing me to find a way to probe-"
His voice paused, and the corners of his lips rose slightly. "But