Chapter 5: The Red Leaves

Wang Duozhan looked ahead nervously, grabbed Tie Liu and Zhou Tianshen's clothes with both hands, Tie Liu took out the firewood knife in the bamboo basket and placed it diagonally on his chest, Zhou Tianshen picked up a stone again and held it in his hand in case of accidents.

Tie Liu protected Zhou Tianshen and the others behind him, and said softly, "You two stand behind me, don't act rashly, if it's a human, we will apologize to him, if it's a mountain spirit and a wild monster, I'll try to drag him down, you two hurry back to the village and go to find Senior Kou." ”

Behind the trunk, a white-haired young man dressed in green with clear eyebrows poked his head out, covering his forehead with one hand, and holding the stone that was thrown out by Zhou Tianshen just now with the other, looking at the three of them with tears in his eyes, and said aggrievedly, "I'm just a little sleepy, take a nap here, are you going to hit me with a stone?"

Zhou Tianshen looked at the young man, slightly stunned, and subconsciously let go of his hand, and the stone in his hand fell to the ground.

The white-haired young man looked at the stone that fell to the ground, rolled in front of the tree trunk, swept away the crying and mourning, and glared angrily, "Okay, it's the good thing you did, interrupting my dream of becoming an immortal, if I don't teach you a good lesson today, you don't know how powerful your Grandpa Fan is!"

After that, the lower half of the young man's body floated smoke out from behind the tree trunk, and in a blink of an eye, he came to Zhou Tianshen's face, grabbed Zhou Tianshen's collar with both hands, and cursed, "Hmph, stinky boy, don't think that if you put on a posture that is not afraid of heaven and earth, I will let you go, you dream, I tell you, the more you are like this, the more I hate you, hate you human ......"

As soon as Zhou Tianshen saw the lower half of the young man's body, his whole body was cold, and he looked at the young man at a loss, not knowing how he should react, but looking at his current appearance, he should be able to judge that he is not a human being.

According to the records on the "Tianshou Diary", the elves are divided into the sky, the earth and the sea, and the elves of different races also have different cultivation methods, for example, this young man dressed in green and exuding a faint cool fragrance on his body should be the earth elves, that is, they are cultivated from trees to essence, and finally cultivate into human form.

Perhaps tired of scolding, the young man let go of his hand, took a deep breath, and sneered, "Hmph, it's a waste of saliva to talk to you humans, but it's okay, I'm going to travel with that senior soon, and I will never return here in the future." Hmph, what kind of mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, they don't even have a name, I bah, what kind of bullshit clothes are back home, and I don't even have a hair. Do you know how much time it took me to get to where I am today, can you feel the loneliness of being alone, doing the same thing day in and day out? Can you?"

Tie Liu put away the firewood knife in his hand, learned what was written in the book, and asked, "This master, have we met somewhere?"

The young man quickly tidied up his clothes, and at this time he looked particularly proud, graceful, and said with a smile, "Long time no see, Tieliu." ”

Hearing the young man call out his name, the middle-aged man was slightly stunned, and then as if he understood something, he patted his thigh excitedly, "You are the wood that I picked up and brought home?" I said how can I have a familiar feeling, but Master Kou said that you still need at least thirty years to cultivate into a human form, why did you become like this now?"

The young man waved his sleeves and swung into the air, and pieces of green leaves appeared out of thin air, swirling and falling to the ground, and asked rhetorically, "What, isn't this look good?"

Wang Duozhan raised his head and said with envy on his face, "It's so good!"

"Hmph, count you kid acquaintance. The young man fell in front of the three again, snapped his fingers, and a pair of long legs grew out from under him, and a pair of straw sandals were worn on his feet.

The young man stomped his feet and smiled with satisfaction, "I'm here to find you this time." ”

Tie Liu pointed at himself and asked, "What are you looking for me for?"

The young man smiled and recalled, "I remember that if you hadn't picked me up at the beginning, I might not have had such good luck, this is what I owe you, I originally wanted to repay you well after transforming into a shape." But now that time waits for no one, I am about to travel with that senior, and I may never return here, and you can take this thing as my thank you. ”

Out of thin air, the young man conjured a green branch, and three leaves grew on the branch, one in the upper, middle and lower parts of the branch.

The middle-aged man took the branch and wondered, "What is this?"

The young man turned around and walked away, "This is just a three-leaf branch transformed by my own spiritual power, although it does not have the ability to subdue demons and eliminate demons, but it has innate spiritual power, you put it next to the bed, every night when you sleep, it will extradite the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to help you cultivate." But when all three leaves have faded, it will be worthless, and it must be remembered that it must be buried in the place where we first met. ”

The young man's figure turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared into the distance, and the trunk of the tree blocking the mountain pass also disappeared, and the young man's voice came from a distance, "I forgot to tell you that my name is Fan Fang." ”

Tie Liu silently put the branch in the bamboo basket, clenched his hands into fists, and said, "Thank you, Brother Fan Fang." ”

Zhou Tianshen retracted his gaze and looked up, the sun was already shining at this time, and he could hear the sound of various families walking through the streets and alleys in the village.

Zhou Tianshen said, "I didn't expect that tree spirit to come to you, Uncle Tieliu, this is really great luck, let's hurry into the mountain, so as not to miss the time." ”

Tie Liu retracted his thoughts and said loudly, "Let's go, go into the mountain." ”

The nameless mountain behind the village is sparsely populated, and usually only the villagers of Laohuai Village go up the mountain to hunt or pick herbs, so the materials on the mountain are particularly abundant, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Tieliu has already picked a bamboo basket of mushrooms and wild fruits.

Because Zhou Tianshen's target this time was those herbs that could help cultivators cultivate, and most of these herbs had their own growth environment and were not easy to be noticed, his bamboo basket was still empty.

Wang Duozhan is completely here to join in the fun, whenever he sees something strange, he wants to put it in the bamboo basket, in his father's words, it is a little more to be able to dip a little more, so his bamboo basket is the first to be filled.

On the hillside, Wang Duo was sweating profusely, he licked his dry lips, and said bitterly, "Zhou Tianshen, how long do we have to go, otherwise let's go back today, I really can't walk." ”

Zhou Tianshen walked in front, stopped, turned around and said, "If you don't want to go, go back with Uncle Tieliu first, I have to go deeper." Here, you can take this bamboo cane, and when I go back to the village, I will go back to you and ask for it. ”

Wang Duozhan pulled the two wooden ropes tied to the bamboo basket on his chest, and hurriedly ran to Zhou Tianshen's side, "You have to go to the depths of the mountains, no, Grandpa Kou said that the mountains have not been very peaceful recently, and you can't leave the village too far." ”

Zhou Tianshen stretched his waist, his physical exhaustion was reduced by half, and said, "I have already made up my mind, if I give up because of the slightest mountain road and danger, it will not be a big thing." You go back first, you should be able to catch up with Uncle Tie now, and when I find the herbs, if I have any extraneous, I'll prepare one for you." ”

Wang Duo's eyes were bubbling with stars, and he asked with a small round face, "Do you think I can also cultivate the Dao?" Wow, I want to be a great hero like the Emperor of the Lockdown." ”

Zhou Tianshen slapped him on the head, and said angrily, "Then you go with me." ”

Wang Duo covered his head, took the trekking pole, and said with a smile, "I'm still waiting for you in the village." ”

Not long after, Wang Duozhan carried the bamboo basket on his back and went down the mountain alone.

At the mountain pass, Tie Liu was sharpening his firewood knife on a stone, and at his feet lay an arrow-tailed pig, which had lost his breath at this time, and the arrow-tail-like tail, after being cut by the firewood knife, was inserted into a rock.

Tie Liu glanced at the little boy and smiled, "I knew you would come back by yourself, so I waited here a little longer." ”

Wang Duozhan stared, squatting next to the corpse of the arrow-tailed pig, looking curiously.

The middle-aged man rubbed Wang Duo's hair and said, "Just now, the pig's tail was injured and it was dying, so I helped it." I'll give you that pigtail, and when I get home, I'll cut off two more pig's trotters for you, and let your mother make you soup." ”

Wang Duo laughed heartily and shook the bamboo basket on his back, "Thank you, Uncle Tieliu." ”

This time it was a big advantage.

However, the little boy still did not forget the words of his father's warning, which can account for one point, but only one point.

Wang Duozhan put a large bouquet of flowers in the bamboo basket in Tieliu and said, "Grandpa Kou said, come and don't be rude." ”

Tie Liu picked up the bamboo basket and said with a smile, "Stinky boy, is the bamboo basket heavy, do you need my help?"

"It's not heavy. ”

Tieliu carried the arrow-tailed pig, and Wang Duo held the pig's tail, and walked towards the village in a big way.

Zhou Tianshen stood on the blackened tree stump, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, the group of tree trunks blocked his vision, through the forest in front of him, he really entered the nameless mountain, he wiped the sweat from his face, took out a map from the bamboo basket, squatted on the stump and watched.

The map, bought from a shop in the woods, shows the approximate route into the mountains within a radius of 30 miles around the village and some places where herbs grow.

According to Tie Liu's introduction, Zhou Tianshen learned that a radius of thirty miles around the village is an absolutely safe place, and there will be absolutely no cave beasts, but further down, there is no guarantee, so he only sold Zhou Tianshen this sample map.

Zhou Tianshen compared the map and determined the direction of progress, then got up and walked towards the woods, and soon, his figure was obscured by a large number of branches.

After Zhou Tianshen left, Fan Fang, a white-haired young man dressed in green, stood behind the tall man, bowed his head and bent over, and asked, "Why are seniors so concerned about a village boy?"

The tall man who was called a senior by Fan Fangzun, who had been cultivated from a tree trunk, was holding a wordless book in his hand, and the mountain breeze was blowing his long hair, which further set off his extraordinary spirit.

He asked softly, "Why do you insist on following me?"

Fan Fang replied, "Because I want to know my background." ”

The tall man turned a page of the book, which was also blank white paper, and asked again, "Knowing how, not knowing what, instead of working hard and getting nothing, it is better to be a carefree mountain fairy here from the beginning, wouldn't it be happy." Why fight for that thousands of years, it's boring. ”

Fan Fang bent down and arched his hand and said, "Since you have the ability to fight, you should give it a fight, so as not to regret it in the future, as for the result, I don't know now." Even if I knew it later, it would be after the matter was over, and by then, everything would have nothing to do with me. ”

The tall man sneered, "If it weren't for me passing by here, looking at you twice, plus it spoke for you, and it was similar in nature, so I helped you, otherwise you could still stand here and talk to me, where did you get the ability?"

Fan Fang knelt behind the tall man, put his hands on the ground, his head resting on his hands, and said, "I don't have the ability, but the seniors do." I know that my predecessors have always wanted to write a book that can accommodate all things in the world, but until now I have not had a pen to take advantage of. ”

The tall man looked away from the wordless book and looked ahead, his eyes deep, it was a kind of calm after the baptism of time, and he asked, "Do you have it?"

"No, but I know of a man, and he must have it. ”

"Do you know who he is?"

"Yes. ”

The tall man put away the wordless book, put his hands in his sleeves, raised his head with his chest straight, and a yellow halo appeared on his body, and the halo covered Fan Fang's whole body from head to toe.

Fan Fang only felt a force that was not under his control wandering in his body, rushing from side to side, rushing through every trick in his body, making him miserable, and finally stopped on the big tree in the dantian, which was a yellow chrysanthemum.

Fan Fang gritted his teeth, clenched his fists with both hands, the green tendons on the back of his hands burst out, and cold sweat flowed.

Call~

Fan Fang exhaled a breath of turbid air that had accumulated in his chest, the previous force had disappeared, and now he only felt a warm back.

The tall man turned around and waved his sleeves, and Fan Fang's body began to change, and a mark of a red leaf appeared on his forehead, and similarly, a tattoo of a red leaf covered his entire back.

"This is an opportunity for you, if you can take me to that person, this opportunity will be completely yours, and help you reach the sky, if not, die!"

Fan Fang stood up, still bowing his head and giving his hands, but at this time his waist was a little straighter.

The tall man ignored Fan Fang's changes, he first put the wordless book into his sleeve, and then took out a novel from the other sleeve, the name of the novel is very interesting, it is three-three-three.

The tall man opened "Three, Three, Three", strolled into the woods, and followed Zhou Tianshen from a distance, Fan Fang walked into the woods, followed the tall man from a distance, and felt that his whole body was warm.