The Owner Of The Hongmeng Pagoda?

When Ling Tian's eyelids opened, his eyebrows rose in surprise as he looked in a certain direction. 

A few meters away from him, there was a young girl about 20 years old, so young, looking at him with utmost seriousness and cold suspicion. Her crystalline eyes were so beautiful that they could cause tenderness and affection at the first moment of seeing them, as well as her beautiful face that seemed to be sculpted by the heavens themselves, a beautiful long white dress with emerald green strokes reminiscent of nature, and her long silky soft black hair had this young woman a true immortal fairy demonstrating the true young beauty of immortality. 

The figure of a small yellow butterfly was on her hair, as an accessory to her long soft hair.

Ling Tian couldn't help but think of his adopted older sister, Ling Wan'er; this woman reminded him a little of her in being so young and very pretty, with a stoic and unique expression, those beautiful eyes that conveyed an extraordinary feeling. 

A young and very beautiful and beautiful woman was silently scanning him, which made Ling Tian couldn't help but be surprised when he noticed that she was a spiritual remnant of a soul in addition to being another woman with dazzling beauty, directly reminding him of his wives. 

Deng Tianjin and the others were not in the same room as the two of them, but Ling Tian could sense them nearby, as if being in another dimension. 

Ling Tian also did not sense malice or hidden intentions in this young woman, so he did not worry about the others. She probably wanted to talk to him alone. 

"Who are you?" 

A soft, feminine voice was heard in the room. But this voice also had traces of serious coldness. 

Ling Tian turned to look again at this woman who seemed to be of the same appearance as Xuanyuan Ling and Nalan Ziqing. Her gaze was fixed and full of suspicion inside, looking at him seriously as if she was watching for any of his movements and that she would not hesitate to take action as well. 

"You didn't find anything with your spirit sense?" Ling Tian asked with a faint smile. His jet black eyes that shone like the sea of stars in the galaxy looked at her calmly, like a calm lake with no ripples in it. 

This woman's delicate eyebrows furrowed even more, but her expression remained the same. 

"Are you the true owner of this pagoda?" Ling Tian asked after seeing that she had no longer said anything else. 

"Don't you already know that since you asked for my help?" The young woman answered him indifferently. 

Ling Tian's smile rose higher as he saw that she returned the same kind of answer. 

Although she appeared to be a very beautiful young woman, Ling Tian could vaguely see that the origin of this spirit soul remnant should be thousands of years old, so she could be anything but a naive and innocent girl as her appearance shows. 

"If you want to know who I am, then tell me what the origin of this pagoda is and why there are other forces attacking you, and lastly, what relationship you have with the Primordial Warrior Princess..." 

* Boom! * 

As Ling Tian said the last, an explosion of aura covered him as this woman's soul aura locked onto him. Her gaze was much colder and serious, even with a bit of murderous intent hidden in her eyes. 

"Make no mistake, I am not an enemy of that Primordial Warrior Princess, you could even say I am an ally because of one of my disciples." Ling Tian did not move, he did not even use the power of the Sacred Heavenly Scriptures, he simply quietly resisted this woman's aura with his body. 

The atmosphere did not change, much less did she say anything. 

"If you don't say something, then you will lose control of this pagoda... the princess's halberd won't resist for long." 

Ling Tian pointed in a certain direction, referring to Xuan Li's halberd that had been taken away from her. Somehow Ling Tian could sense the changes thanks to space perception, which meant that the pagoda's dominance seemed to be breaking while at the same time another force was slowly growing. 

Although this could take days or even months, the dominance was actually gradually weakening. 

Finally, the woman frowned and withdrew her aura on Ling Tian after a few seconds. What he had said was true. After all this time of being in constant fight against that other powerful existence, the power and control over her domain in this place was very slowly weakening, which meant that her future defeat was already planned. 

If she did not find a way to gain more strength or defeat that other enemy, she would have no choice but to destroy the pagoda and this realm lest it fall into the wrong hands... but in doing so she would allow the tragedy of her time to occur once again. 

"What is your name?" The young woman suddenly asked. Her gaze still held suspicion and some seriousness, but slightly less distant than before. 

"Ling Tian." Ling Tian replied with a small smile. 

"Ling Tian?" The woman frowned. 

"You were expecting another name?" Ling Tian chuckled faintly as she saw that this was not the answer she was expecting. 

"Actually, yes." She replied without a sense of shame or guilt as she looked at Ling Tian. Her indifferent and slightly disappointed expression was evident on her, as if hopes had suddenly vanished. 

The hero's name once mentioned in the prophecy of the past was different! The child of the heavens! The child of destiny! The being who would stand at the peak of the universe! But that name was clearly not Ling Tian! 

"I think I can tell who it might be, but that boy is still very weak, so if you intend to wait for him you won't be able to hold out much longer defending the pagoda until he can get here." Ling Tian looked calmly at this woman, remembering the boy he had seen in what was the Primordial Warrior sect and where Xuan Li and Lang Qingzu were taking the trials. 

No doubt that young man was surrounded by a powerful heavenly essence that Ling Tian was even surprised. The other young men he had encountered did not have their essence so strong and refined. 

"If you are not the person of the prophecy, then how do you seem to know about the current situation of this pagoda and about the Primordial Warrior Princess? Besides you are not just an ordinary and simple cultivator since you seem to know that I am a spiritual remnant of the soul." She asked curiously upon seeing Ling Tian when after all this time she could not see through him and also found no evil or hidden intentions in his heart. 

"Because I have experienced and learned many things for a few thousand years, and I know things that most do not know for hundreds of thousands of years." Ling Tian replied weakly. 

The woman raised her eyebrows as if she was unable to believe Ling Tian's words. Someone who has barely lived a few millennia can know more things than those old cultivators who have lived for several dozen thousand years? The life expectancy for cultivators at the peak of mortality reaches barely ten thousand years, while once they successfully overcome the immortal heavenly tribulation, the life expectancy can even increase by more than a hundred thousand years with each breakthrough! That is what cultivating immortality is all about, becoming long-lived and powerful as the heavens! 

"Make up your mind soon, you are just a remnant of your soul, and if you lose control of this pagoda then you will eventually disappear. Although I really don't care if you disappear or not, since I can take control of this pagoda later on my own as well..." Ling Tian said indifferently as he shrugged his shoulders. He didn't know this woman and Ling Tian didn't go around helping everyone wherever he went like a good samaritan, much less if he didn't know others. The bitter experiences and sufferings of the past had not been forgotten, so he would not easily meddle in the problems of others if it did not suit him. 

Ling Tian might as well wait for her to disappear and then fight the other existence to try to snatch the pagoda from it, but somehow he felt that he shouldn't let this remnant of spiritual soul lose to the other enemy force, so he became a little impatient when he saw her hesitant. 

"And you also have to take out everyone else still inside the pagoda so you can concentrate..." 

Ling Tian commented shortly as his voice stopped for a moment, he frowned and a sliver of intense killing intent crossed his eyes. 

Before the young woman could say anything, Ling Tian's figure had disappeared as the spatial fluctuations shook.