Ancestor?
Hearing Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi address the shepherd boy that way, Xiao Yan's expression jolted as he stared at him in astonishment.
Pill Tower Ancestor!
Although he had never met him, Xiao Yan had heard Yao Chen tell him of this Pill Tower Ancestor's deeds.
The Pill Tower Ancestor's true form was a Nine-grade Mysterious Pill, refined by a senior of the Pill Tower. When the pill was completed, that senior had exhausted all his strength and passed away. At the moment of his death, a trace of his consciousness merged into the Grade Nine Pill through a strange method, causing it to mutate and take human form. Thus, the Pill Tower Ancestor was born.
The Pill Tower Ancestor could be considered an unusual incarnation of that senior, though the relationship between the original and the incarnation was rather complicated. After his birth, the Pill Tower Ancestor remained as the Pill Tower's guardian. As time passed, he repeatedly saved the Pill Tower from danger, and his status within it gradually became unmatched.
Yet he himself had little interest in such things. Once the Pill Tower was stable, he left. For nearly a thousand years, the Pill Tower had searched for his traces, but no one had ever managed to find him.
That was because the Pill Tower Ancestor enjoyed wandering the mortal world, appearing and vanishing without a trace. What he loved most was finding pregnant women carrying stillborn children, then using a special method to enter the bodies of the unborn infants. He would become an ordinary baby, be born, grow up, and live an entire lifetime under another identity. Only after that body completely died would he leave. In his own words, it was an experience of life.
For that reason, unless the Pill Tower Ancestor