This was why both the Marrow Eaters and the evil spirits had gone after Ash—to seize the Book of Evil Spirits and the demon-exorcising wooden plaque Wu Heng had once given him.
According to records passed down among the Marrow Eaters, the Marrow Eater known as the old sage had once left behind a prophecy: after the year 2000, when the evil spirit passage became active again and the Marrow Eaters faced the extinction of their lineage, the progenitor of their inheritance would appear once more.
And the items in the Savior's hands were the catalyst for the inheritance progenitor's return.
After becoming part of the Darkness Clan, these Marrow Eaters had come to call the inheritance progenitor the Ancestor.
The old man had left those words because he knew Ash and Wu Heng came from the same era.
Then, in Wu Heng's era, he would surely have cultivated many Mire Graveyards. Given Wu Heng's age, he would inevitably live to see an evil spirit resurgence.
And it was not only the Marrow Eaters who knew of this prophecy. Some highly intelligent evil spirits that had dealt with them for a long time had also stolen this secret.
Before this, the evil spirit passage had never revived.
Even so, the Marrow Eaters and the few evil spirits still remaining in the world had continued watching Ash from the shadows.
Ash's return from the Middle Ages had happened only thirty years ago. During the intervening centuries, he had not existed.
The Marrow Eaters had only discovered Ash by chance with the help of evil spirits. When they cooperated with some of them to cultivate Mire Graveyards using living people and weaker evil spirits, the evil spirits had told them about him.
Because Ash had crossed paths with evil spirits before, he