The Abyss of Ancient Talismans

She, Su Wanwan, was a transmigrator who could use ancient talismans to enter the worlds of consciousness of people and ancient objects, and hear the pain they could not put into words. Again and again, she was overwhelmed by suffering, and again and again, she climbed back out, helping them find release one by one: the spirits sealed in the wasteland, the apothecary trapped by corruption, the cultivator who had waited three hundred years for someone to accept him.

He, Murong Zhe, was rejected by the world from birth. He could not connect with the military talisman, was looked down on by his clan, and resented by his mother. He said nothing, only gripped his sword. He could see the rifts in the flow of the Five Elements between heaven and earth, and with a single stroke, he could guide the Five Elements and cut precisely through the weak point.

She journeyed inward; he journeyed outward. She healed; he severed.

When she first appeared in this world, he was her "younger brother," the sharpest of swords. After she was sealed behind the Tree of Life, Murong fell and demons ran rampant. By the time she awoke again, he was five years older than her, a sword-qi master who exterminated demons, the mighty head of the Murong family, yet reviled by the people.

She came from another world, and he was born in a cage. They advanced hand in hand, each the other's guiding star.