Ji Chen murmured the words "Heavenly Strategy," his voice barely audible.
Zhou Xuan did not turn around, but his hands stopped moving.
He stood atop the ruined tower, the sea breeze brushing his left shoulder, where bare bone showed through. He turned his right hand over, and a damaged bronze artifact appeared in his palm.
It was the broken Compass Fragment surrendered by the Old Hag from the Heavenly Derivation Realm. Something that had once belonged to the Heavenly Strategy Pavilion.
Zhou Xuan had just swallowed the entire Origin Source of the Profound Light World in one gulp, and its energies were still rampaging through his black-gold Dao Fruit. When Ji Chen uttered "Heavenly Strategy," the Compass Fragment in his hand lit up with a faint azure glow.
Zhou Xuan narrowed his eyes and forced his World Lord divine sense into his own Dao Fruit.
Amid the remnants of the Profound Light World's energy, he pinned down a trace of aura that was trying to slip away. It had hidden itself deep, with neither Law fluctuations nor traces of spiritual power. Without the Compass Fragment resonating with it, no one could have discovered it.
Zhou Xuan mobilized the Slaughter Law, dragged the aura out, and tore it apart.
The same source.
It shared the same source as this Compass Fragment from the Heavenly Strategy Pavilion. The same source as the Supreme One's Heart in Ji Chen's chest, back in the underground palace's stone chamber.
Several clues linked together in Zhou Xuan's mind.
The Heavenly Strategy World was Ji Chen's homeland. The Divine Lord had previously given Zhou Xuan its coordinates and told him to go there to find the key to the Divine Prison.
Outside the Divine Temple, Yao Guang had personally said that Ji Chen was Supreme One's successor.