The moment he saw the [Eye of God].
King Zhenruo understood why King Jiaye had been defeated—and even captured alive.
Natsume must have used the power of the [Eye of God].
That was the only way he could have achieved such a heaven-defying feat.
But.
Why could this human—this man—merge with and wield the [Eye of God]?
That was clearly the divine eye of the [Otsutsuki Progenitor True God]. Other than the Progenitor, no one else should have been able to merge with it!
Unless he was also a [True God] who had attained divinity through spiritual intelligence!
Or unless he was the [Otsutsuki Progenitor True God] himself!
It was precisely because King Zhenruo knew he could not use it.
That he had traded it to Sophon before, while also taking the opportunity to have her carry the [Eye of God] away, lest the revived [Progenitor True God] reclaim it.
But how could this human possibly merge with it?
Could he be the [Otsutsuki Progenitor True God]?
Then what was that thing reviving beneath his feet?
That was simply impossible!
After thinking it over.
King Zhenruo guessed that Sophon had used some method to carve off a portion of the "Progenitor's divine consciousness" from within the [Ancestral God Palace].
That was how Natsume had managed to merge with the [Eye of God], perhaps?
That was the only possibility.
Of course.
The reason for the fusion was no longer important.
What mattered was the enormous threat posed by the [Eye of God]! A threat that even King Zhenruo could not ignore!
King Zhenruo had not guessed wrong.
Natsume had indeed relied on the [Eye of God] to capture King Jiaye.
Sophon had long calculated the fusion time of the [Eye of God], and Natsume had timed his plan accordingly.
And