It was reasonable for Zu An to be shocked. After all, he had imagined all sorts of possibilities, but they were all living things. He had never expected her original body to be a talisman. Then wasn’t she an inanimate object?

Seemingly seeing through his confusion, Jing Teng sorted out her clothes while explaining, “I can’t remember how long this great tomb has existed, but in the past, this entire great tomb sealed all of the monsters here through this great formation. Meanwhile, this talisman is the core of the formation. It can be considered the eye of the formation.

“As something that subdued so many terrifying creatures, it was extremely mysterious in its own right. Just like that, after ages passed, it gradually developed sentience of its own. Then, I was born.”

Zu An suddenly realized what had happened. No wonder she understood this great tomb so well, and yet didn’t know who had built the great tomb or anything more ancient than that. He asked, “So that story about being enlightened from some tree vine was fa...