The white-robed girl looked at Ning Fa and smiled sweetly. "I am the Artifact Spirit of this Haolei Tower. You may call me Liuying."
Ning Fa's expression shifted sharply. This Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure actually had an Artifact Spirit!
He then asked, "You were the one who brought me here? What place is this?"
Liuying replied leisurely, "That is correct. I did it.
"This is the fourth floor of the Haolei Tower, and also the very core of the entire lightning tower."
After hearing this, Ning Fa was deeply puzzled. From what had happened before, Yan Jingchen had clearly already obtained the origin of this Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure. Shouldn't he have been the one to come here?
As if she had seen through Ning Fa's confusion, Liuying's expression turned solemn. "Fellow Daoist Ning, do you know Yan Jingchen's true origins?"
Ning Fa furrowed his sword-like brows and slowly said, "From the sound of it, Yan Jingchen's identity seems far from ordinary."
Liuying nodded. "Precisely. He is the reincarnation of my master—Daoist Yan Yuan."
"What?!"
Ning Fa was truly shocked beyond measure.
His first reaction was that it was utterly inconceivable. But when he thought of Yan Jingchen's many deeds, as well as all the strange occurrences since entering this lightning tower, it no longer seemed as though the Artifact Spirit was simply speaking nonsense.
At this moment, a trace of complexity flashed through Liuying's eyes as she continued, "For the past ten thousand years, I have been waiting for my master's reincarnation to arrive.
"When my master was nearing the end of his life, he cultivated an exceedingly special Divine Soul Cultivation Method. It had a certain chance of allowing him to reincarnate successfully.
"Although that method was tremendously dangerous and the chance of success exceedingly low, I believed that with