When Gu Xiaowu woke up, he found himself sitting under a big tree, still holding the mysterious "stone ball" in his hand, the stone ball that should have been extremely heavy was now very light in his hand, but the grass on it was gone. He didn't know that he had already broken the "little grass" into pieces and swallowed it into his stomach.

He stood up and pinched his face with his hand, feeling that this time it was not in a dream, there was no ethereal feeling in a dream. I saw that there were stout trees all around, the ground was green and grassy, and when I looked up, I could see the sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves. A fresh breeze blows through you, bringing you an incomparably fresh feeling. He suddenly roared loudly, and danced and jumped, how could this sudden surprise not make him crazy, and when he woke up, he appeared in a strange but familiar place, no longer facing the surrounding stone walls, no longer waiting for death.

When he was tired of jumping and laughing, Xiao Wu finally calmed down, he suddenly looked down at his waist, fortunately the cloth bag had been firmly tied to it. I was so happy just now that I didn't feel hungry, but now when I stopped, I found that my body was very weak, so I took out all the dry food, ate half of it, drank all the water that was left in the water bladder, lay on the grass, remembered what had happened before, and recalled the scene in my dream.

Most of the dreams have become blurry, I seem to have entered another world, I have seen a lot of unimaginable things, but careful recollection can no longer depict what kind of picture it is, only a trace of feeling remains in my heart, is it anger, is it sadness, is it loneliness? Xiao Wu can't understand.

Only the picture of meeting the two old men is still very clear, he has not answered the old man's question was sucked into a black hole, is annoyed why he hesitated and missed the opportunity to become an immortal, found that the fairy peach also fell, he was very excited to reach out and grab it, and excited to take a big bite. I don't know what is going on with this fairy peach, and he can't swallow the bite in his mouth, so he keeps chewing the contents of his mouth with his eyes closed, hoping to swallow it quickly so that he can continue to eat the rest of it. In this way, he kept falling in the dark, and he closed his eyes without fear at all, and his mouth kept chewing. When he chewed and found that the contents of his mouth had finally disappeared, he opened his eyes and saw the woods in front of him, and he woke up from his dream. He saw the stone ball that fell on the side, and remembered that he had just woken up and held it in his hand, could it be that the mysterious stone was the fairy peach in the dream, and the grass that grew on the stone was the one that he ate on his stomach, no wonder he couldn't swallow it after chewing for a long time, don't look at the grass that is not big, but there are still a lot of roots, and it can fill every hole in the stone ball, I really don't know if I will become a fairy after eating it, anyway, I have eaten it. Shaking his head, his brain was still a little swollen, he always felt weird, and he escaped from the stone cave inexplicably, really lucky.

If he could observe his body now, he would find that in a corner of his body, there were three small yellow leaves curled together, and the rhizomes were missing. There was a small scroll wrapped in the leaf, and on a mountain peak of unknown height, the pavilion in Xiao Wumeng's dream was there. There are two stone statues in the shape of a game, and now there are cracks on the surface of the two stone statues, and a grain of crystal sand falls from them, but in a moment the two stone statues become two piles of sand.

Gu Xiaowu picked up the mysterious stone on the ground, looked at it and touched it. The fact that he was able to leave the cave must have something to do with this mysterious stone, as for the two immortals, he really didn't know who they were, maybe they saved him. Without further thought, he put the stone in the sack, then removed the headband from his head and threw it into the bag. Looking up at the sky again, he found that it was a little brighter than just now, fortunately it was early morning, and after identifying the direction, he walked slowly towards the east, hoping to find a place where there were people, and to inquire where he was now.

This dense forest is not very large, and he walked out after a meal. Seeing a stream not far away, he immediately walked over to find a place where he could settle and took a picture of the stream, and found that he was unkempt like a beggar, and he could not help laughing at himself that he might not have been as good as a beggar. Seeing that there were no other people and wild beasts around, he quickly took off his clothes and shoes, rolled up his trouser legs and carefully stepped into the water, feeling the coldness of the stream, bent down and scooped up a handful of water with his hands, washed his face first and then his body. It feels so good to be free, the outside world is so good, the little five big ones stretched their waists, picked up the clothes and shoes on one side and washed them in the water. After washing, he put it on the grass to dry, and found a larger stone to sit on.

Gu Xiaowu recalled that in just over two months since he joined the army, countless people have fallen beside him, and he can't decide his life and death in front of the armored sergeant or in front of the immortal-like existence. He was afraid, he was afraid that his hard-won freedom would be taken away, that the people and things he cherished would be taken away, that he would always be insignificant in front of others, that he would always be so ignorant. He decided that he wanted to cultivate immortals and become a powerful person, and since he saw the various incredible spells cast by the gray-robed boy and the boy in front of him, his curiosity and desire swelled day by day, and every night he dreamed of becoming an immortal to travel the world.

"I want to become an immortal" Xiao Wu suddenly stood up and shouted loudly to the sky, then raised his feet and walked to the clothes, putting on the half-dried clothes and shoes. After taking out the remaining dry food and eating it, I finally filled my stomach to the brim. Then fill the water bladder next to the creek and walk downstream to see if you can meet anyone.

I walked along the stream for an hour, and at noon I saw a small village, about a dozen families, scattered on both sides of the stream, their houses were all made of thatch, fenced around the huts, and when I approached, I saw a woman sitting in front of her house watching two girls of five or six years old playing in the yard. When Xiao Wu was about to go forward and ask the woman, the woman also saw him. I saw that the woman hurriedly carried the two children into the house, and walked out with a kitchen knife, and stood in front of the door after closing the door with her backhand, looking at Gu Xiaowu vigilantly.

Xiao Wu was blind, he didn't know what was going on, did he look like a wicked person, but when he saw the woman's nervous appearance, he had to turn around and leave, so he had to walk towards another house nearby. What made him strange was that he went to seven or eight houses, five of which had no one, and the rest were similar to the woman's reaction, all of them closed the doors and windows as soon as they saw him, and one of them even came out of a peasant man in his thirties who rushed towards him with an axe, so frightened that Xiao Wu turned his head and ran. In this way, Xiao Wu no longer dared to knock on the doors of other homes. Seeing that it was still early, he had no choice but to continue walking along the creek, ignoring the strange village. When he just walked out of the village not far away, he saw an old man carrying a bamboo basket walking from the opposite side, he stopped and hurriedly bowed to the old man and said, "Hello old man, I want to ask you which state and county is this jurisdiction?"

"Why are you not a local?" The old man asked very vigilantly.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not a bad person, I was going to visit my relatives in the county town with my family, but I met robbers on the way, and I ran into the mountains in a panic and climbed over the mountain to get here. I want to figure out where this is?How to get to the nearest county town?" Xiao Wu took out the interface he had thought of all the way and pointed to a distant mountain upstream of the creek with his hand.

The old man saw that Xiao Wu was dressed in rags, stared at Xiao Wu's eyes, and found that the young man in front of him had bright and sincere eyes that did not look malicious, so he said: "This place has always been under the management of Hengwu County, and if you walk north along this stream for an hour and pass by a village, you can see an official road, and then walk east along the official road for two hours to Hanshan Town, where there is a carriage to the county seat." It's not peaceful here, so let's go quickly if you're fine. ”

"Thank you, I see. "Sure enough, this place is still in the northern country. Xiao Wu bowed to the old man again, and walked east along the road next to the stream. He wanted to get to the town early in the morning, the people here were so strange that it gave him a sense of unease.