So far, Ronan's ideas were still pure deduction, but that deduction rested on the historical logic and facts of the Central Star Zone:
Profound, irreconcilable conflicts existed between the "players" at the board—the Myriad Heavens Divine Kingdoms and the Six Heavens God Calamity. Their alliance was itself a jarring anomaly in the long river of history, not the norm.
This "accidental cooperation" had lasted twenty-three thousand years, but only in a limited number of areas, such as the Tian Yuan Empire. In most other areas, sharp conflicts still existed between them.
In the God War of the Calamity Era, eleven Nation-Founding Gods had fallen, including the Lord of Illusory Nightmares, along with over a hundred attendant and subordinate gods. Yet over the long course of cosmic history, since the War of All Gods, had the number of Nation-Founding Gods and attendant and subordinate gods who fell because of the Six Heavens God Calamity been merely ten times that?
These very conflicts meant that the closer the endgame drew, the more cautious and perceptive the "players" had to be with their final moves. Only through patient calculation and careful sequencing could they seize the greatest benefit for their own side.
As for where that "greatest benefit" lay...
Ronan looked into the late-autumn night. Taking the present as a point in spacetime, he could draw a "long line" straight into the depths of the void. Beyond the space-time barrier lay the Fog Maze. And the Red Wheel Dark Side, deep within the Fog Maze, was the endpoint of that "long line."
There, the remains, source essence, and rules of the Lord of Zhanhe and the Sin Holder—in short, their crucial legacies—were interlocked and entangled. This had to be the Six Heavens God Calamity's ultimate target. Only resources like these matched their level.