This young Daoist was only fourteen or fifteen. Ever since becoming the temple's guest attendant, whenever people came here, they would simply call, "Young Daoist, come here a moment."
Su Que was the first person to call him "Daoist priest."
Even though Su Que was currently wearing a hooded cloak and looked rather sinister, the young Daoist found him several times more approachable than certain other people.
So, with patience and detail, he described the route to Old Daoist Qingxuan for Su Que.
After listening, Su Que left the hall and headed toward where Old Daoist Qingxuan was.
According to the young Daoist, Old Daoist Qingxuan should currently be refining pills in the Pill Palace.
The Pill Palace stood in a secluded area, far from the main hall where worshippers paid their respects, deep within Purple Sun Temple.
Following the young Daoist's directions, Su Que passed rows upon rows of houses with blue-brick walls and white-tiled roofs, and the clamor of the main hall gradually faded from hearing.
After a while, he arrived before a palace.
According to the young Daoist's description, this was the Pill Palace where Old Daoist Qingxuan refined pills.
Though this Pill Palace was not as magnificent as the Daoist palace of the main hall, it was still imposing.
Its walls were red and its tiles vermilion, with upturned eaves at all four corners, like birds spreading their wings in flight.
The doors and windows of the Pill Palace stood slightly ajar. A wave of heat streamed out and rushed straight at him.
Su Que thought that this heat must have come from the fire beneath the pill furnace.
Two Daoists in their twenties stood before the Pill Palace.
They wore dark azure Daoist robes and crescent-shaped wooden crowns atop their heads.
Though their robes were