A Venerable had returned?
Everyone's expressions changed.
Especially Third Prince Shentu Jingming, whose face was full of disbelief. "Little Artifact Spirit, you didn't make a mistake, did you? How does this girl look anything like an aloof and peerless Venerable? One of the Ten Great Heroes..."
"Impudence!" Artifact Spirit Lanshan flew into a rage at once, berating him, "How dare you spout such nonsense before a Venerable?! I am the research institute's Artifact Spirit, personally created by the Venerable herself. How could I possibly mistake the Venerable?"
"This..."
The Third Prince still looked somewhat doubtful, but inwardly, he believed more than half of it.
As time passed, the pressure emanating from the young woman grew stronger and stronger. Vaguely, it even gave him the same feeling as when his own Demon Emperor ancestor summoned him for a scolding.
"This aura, this pressure, is indeed extraordinary." Elder Zhuo's pupils contracted, his expression incomprehensibly complicated. "Who would have thought that Demon Plant Venerable, one of the renowned Ten Great Heroes, had actually succeeded in being reborn?"
"Not reborn." Artifact Spirit Lanshan corrected them solemnly. "I can feel it. She is the Venerable's original body. It seems the experiment at another one of the Venerable's research institutes succeeded. I knew it—the Venerable was the greatest!"
They exchanged looks, all wearing expressions of extreme astonishment.
They had heard of True Immortal reincarnations and True Demon reincarnations, and had even encountered them. Even if they truly met one, they would not be particularly surprised. But rebirth? That was somewhat beyond the syllabus.
Since ancient times, all manner of storybooks had been filled with tales of powerful figures returning through rebirth. The subject had endured through the ages, and some famous ancient powerhouses even had dozens or hundreds of different versions of rebirth stories written about