"The Pill Tower is up ahead. Go on!"
Three days later, Elder Wang Fanming brought Li Yu before an utterly unremarkable Stone Pagoda. Pointing at its open entrance, he spoke to Li Yu.
It was an ancient, weathered Stone Pagoda, its entire structure marked by the passage of time, with moss growing over much of its outer walls.
There was no wafting medicinal fragrance, nor any mysterious aura. It looked like nothing more than an ordinary Stone Pagoda.
"This definitely isn't Master Dan Gui's dwelling. Even if it is, Dan Gui doesn't live here."
Li Yu naturally knew Master Dan Gui's origins well. Master Dan Gui had originally been a pill refined by True Master Zi Dong, the founding ancestor of the Purple Cloud Sect.
Back then, True Master Zi Dong had cultivated to the peak of Dao Inquiry and was on the verge of attaining immortality. However, the Ji Clan changed the heavens, severing the path to becoming a true immortal, leaving only the Ji family's false immortals.
Unwilling to become one of the Ji family's false immortals, True Master Zi Dong perished upon the path to true immortality. His soul merged into that pill, transforming him into Dan Gui, intending to cultivate anew and challenge the path to true immortality once more.
Although Master Dan Gui had long since shed his pill form and taken human shape, that innate pill aura—the "Dan Dong Undying Fire"—could never possibly disperse.
Li Yu did not sense any pill aura within this Stone Pagoda. Therefore... this could not be Master Dan Gui's dwelling.
"If it isn't Dan Gui's residence, then it must be True Master Zi Dong's cultivation site."
Li Yu nodded and stepped into the Stone Pagoda.
With a clang, the tower doors shut, cutting off the inside from the outside.