He saw it clearly: extending from the bottomless pits in his Tianming particles were... things that looked like blood vessels!
They resembled veins, fine threads of blood...
But they weren't red. They came in every color: some blazed with fire, some looked like lightning serpents, some like tree roots or dragon veins, some like silver threads, star chains, or soul-binding cords...
But all of them were threadlike, like veins!
They immediately reminded Li Tianming of something.
"They look a little like the Primordial Chaos Clan's eye veins. Those veins are the key to forming a Pulse Field. Of course, theirs look like blood vessels in an eye, while mine... extend from every Tianming particle..."
As he studied their shapes, Li Tianming became completely certain. "These 'veins' are connected to my companion beasts. In other words... because I'm symbiotically bound to the Primordial Chaos Giant Beasts, I gained their bloodlines. So these veins are part of my own body..."
"I think they're called 'inverse veins,'" Yinghuo suddenly said.
"How do you know?" Li Tianming asked.
"One look, and the memory came back on its own," Yinghuo said.
"Do you all have them too?" Li Tianming asked.
"Of course!" Yinghuo shot him a disdainful look. "Isn't that obvious? We grow inverse veins when we enter the Inverse Fate stage too. But ours are different from yours. They don't come out of holes in Tianming particles. They grow on their own, like an egg turning into a sea urchin. And we have way more of them! Each of your Tianming particles has only sprouted a few inverse veins. We've got dozens at least, and there might be even more as we advance."
"All of you?" Li Tianming asked the other companion beasts.
"I... I have them too!" Xixi said in surprise.
"Even you?"