Chen Shi channeled the sword qi that had slain the shepherd ghost back into his body. This sword qi contained the ghost's immense and incomparably fierce blood qi. When it melted into his body, a series of bizarre textures actually emerged on his bones, intertwining and flickering unstably!
Chen Shi was utterly astonished. His head flew up from his neck, coming to the front and back to inspect these peculiar textures.
"They are extremely similar to the strange textures on the shepherd ghost's body used to block me!"
He examined them closely, having long since noticed the strange textures on the shepherd ghost. Those textures possessed incredible power, able to obstruct his sword qi and prevent it from harming the shepherd ghost by even the slightest fraction.
What was even more peculiar was that the textures on the shepherd ghost and the textures on the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler ought to originate from the same source.
Only, the textures on the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler were far more profound and difficult to resolve, and the information they contained was also much more complex.
"Strange. The Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler is clearly a prehistoric remnant, and the textures on it should also be traces of the prehistoric civilization. Yet these textures belong to the shepherd ghost."
Chen Shi was completely baffled. Why would a prehistoric civilization be similar to the strange textures on the shepherd ghost's body?
Could it be...
An audacious thought suddenly popped into his mind. Could it be that the prehistoric civilization had not perished?
In reality, this civilization had always existed, and underworld creatures were simply their descendants?
However, this thought was far too outrageous. Chen Shi laughed despite himself, shook his head, and thought: *"Underworld creatures are ghosts and spirits, appearing at a glance to be