Lu Lie woke up from his dream, sweating profusely.

At this moment, he was on the tree wall two thousand meters above the ground, and the only thing that kept him from falling was two hemp ropes. Beneath was a pitch-black abyss, and a pebble fell, quickly disappearing into nothingness, without even reverberation.

How long have you been climbing on top of this towering tree?

He glanced at his arm—the distant horizon came out once a day, and he slashed his knife in it. Now there are six scars on the arm, indicating that six days have passed.

Lu Lie looked at the sky, the higher places were covered by clouds and mist, hazy and chaotic, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

It seems that he still has a long way to climb from the top of the giant tree.

If you want to ask why this boy appeared on the waist of a giant tree, you have to start with his past.

In this war-torn era when human lives were like mustard, the king's flag was erected at the head of the city in the east, and the head of the city in the west declared independence again, and refugees fleeing the famine were everywhere. Lu Lie has been fatherless and motherless since he was a child, and he is alone and adrift. In order to survive, he stole something here today and worked there for a short time tomorrow, and was abducted and deceived all the way, and came to a town that was not affected by the war for the time being, called Jiangshi Town.

There is a great wonder in Jiangshi Town, which is a giant tree in the middle of a black abyss. The giant tree was a hundred feet thick and wide, high into the clouds and deep into nowhere, and mortals stood in front of it as small as ants. The local foolish people regard it as a miracle and worship it every year. No one knows where the towering tree leads, and every year unbelieving adventurers climb up, and no one ever returns.

Others saw a business opportunity and built a wooden bridge in the abyss between the town and the giant tree, and collected tolls from adventurers who climbed the tree. He also opened a small shop nearby, specializing in selling tree-climbing tools such as hand axes.

Lu Lie was not interested in legends such as giant trees and immortals. Seven days ago, when he passed near the abyss, he was wondering where to get something to eat. At that time, Lu Lie was penniless, he had not eaten any rations for a day and a night, and he was hungry with dazzled eyes and weak legs. Seeing passers-by munching on greasy chicken legs, he was so hungry that he almost swallowed his tongue.

In broad daylight, Lu Lie didn't dare to rob openly. His dark eyes rolled, and he was doing something bad when he suddenly slammed his head and was hit by something, and he sat on the ground. How could he bear his temper, he had a seizure on the spot, pointing fingers at the sky and scolding. But as far as the eye can see, the blue sky and white clouds, the blue sky, where can you see any figures?

Lu Lie lowered his head and saw the culprit who had hit his head—it was an unusually large oval fruit, with a red shell, swollen and swollen, and dark black flesh flowing under the pimple skin.

Although the origin of this fruit is unknown, the variety is unknown, and even whether it is a fruit or not remains to be investigated. But where can Lu Lie manage so much? At the moment, he divided two by two, and ate all the delicacies that were sent to the door, and there was not even the core left inside.

After he finished eating, he felt his stomach swell, and a warm current was rising from his stomach and flowing to his limbs. Lu Lie hiccuped contentedly, found a shadowy place where no one disturbed, and fell asleep.

At night, Lu Lie was marrying a daughter-in-law and taking a concubine in a dream, when suddenly a violent heat rampaged through his body, as if someone was roasting him on his stomach with a fire. Lu Lie had been bitten by dogs before, beaten with sticks, pressed into the water and held his breath, and he had never tried any pain, but the sharp pain in his body was like a raging storm, one after another, and even those who were beaten with iron couldn't stand it. At first, Lu Lie was still holding his stomach and gritting his teeth, but later he couldn't bear it anymore, and ran wildly on the deserted street with his upper body, screaming in pain while running wildly.

In the end, he ran to exhaustion, and the violent aura in his body gradually faded, and he didn't care where he ran to, and fell to the ground and fell asleep.

The next day, he slowly woke up in the warm sun, and took the events of the previous night as a big dream. At this moment, Lu Lie was lying in the center of a busy city, surrounded by pedestrians. Some people looked at him with contempt, and some well-wishers looked at him pitifully and threw half a steamed bun at his feet.

Lu Lie didn't mind. Just as he was hungry again, he picked up the steamed buns on the ground, opened his mouth and prepared to swallow them in one gulp. Suddenly, I heard a loud noise, and a huge spark automatically erupted from my mouth. Lu Lie watched as the steamed buns in his hands were burned to ashes on the spot.

"Demon ...... Youkai!?"

Where had the passers-by around them seen such a posture? They all cried and shouted for their mothers, and fled in the opposite direction. There were also two bold men who cautiously stepped forward half a step, probably thinking that this kid was performing some acrobatics from the West.

Lu Lie didn't expect to cause such a big sensation by himself. He hurriedly grabbed a man: "Brother, you listen to my explanation, I'm not ......"

As soon as he was excited, he heard two loud bangs, and two sparks shot out of his ears on either side. The spark fell on the wooden house, and when the wind blew, it instantly turned into a raging flower, burning half of the downtown area.

"Weird weird...... Monster!"

"You can't be wrong, this is a fire-breathing demon beast, he turned into a human form and lurked in the human world, just to destroy our town!"

At this time, the only man who stopped and listened to his explanation also fled. After a while, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the distance, and it seemed that even the local garrison had been dispatched. Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Lie immediately pulled out his legs and slipped away.

He was forced to leave Jiangshi Town, and there were bounty orders everywhere along the way, and the portrait was crookedly painted with a young man, vaguely like Lu Lie. Lu Lie knew that he was wanted as a monster. He had no choice but to steal it and put on a hat, and along the way he only picked up deserted and uninhabited paths, ate and slept in the open, and was miserable. The stable life that was finally obtained by being displaced to Jiangshi Town was disrupted again.

Lu Lie was not a fool, and after a little pondering, he knew that the strange changes in his body were related to that fruit. Fruit falling from the sky...... At that height, there is only that giant tree.

As soon as he thought of this, Lu Lie's brain ached: That giant tree will also bear fruit? I have been in Jiangshi Town for half a year, but I have never heard of it. If the giant tree had indeed fallen downward, it would have been worshipped as a miracle by the foolish people who believed in the tree.

If it wasn't the worst now, what was even worse was that from that day on, Lu Lie often felt an unusually strong thirst. No matter how much water he drank, it was useless, it was not thirst in the ordinary sense, but an invisible but palpable evil fire burning in Lu Lie's body. He could feel the fire burning brighter as time went on, and his thirst grew stronger and stronger, almost to the point where he could not bear it. His body became a melting pot, and sooner or later he would be melted by the flames inside him.

Lu Lie remembered the smooth taste of the giant tree fruit that he had entered that day. He finally understood the source of his hunger and thirst, and the only thing in the world that could quench his thirst was probably that strange huge fruit. Like a drug-addicted and enchanted heartbreaker, he wanted to eat the fruit of the great tree again, even though he knew that if he was allowed to eat it a second time, sooner or later he would want to eat it a third, a fourth, or even more.

But he also understood that if he didn't get that fruit again, he would die.

It's like drinking a donkey to quench your thirst.

Finally, on a dark and windy night, Lu Lie sneaked back to Jiangshi Town.

Relying on his only possession, a long machete with a bright sparkle at his waist, he went to the "* shop" on the edge of the abyss to rob a set of necessary tools for tree climbers. Lu Lie knew that he would not be able to come back for a while, so he simply did not do anything, and took a large basket at the door of the house of the local landlord Li's family, went to the grain village on West Street to concoct the same method, and "borrowed" about five days' rations and fresh water and put them in it. When all this was ready, he stood on the generous earth one last time with the basket on his back, and prayed to the God in his heart:

"Die God, you go and die! Drop a fruit from the sky, you don't plan to give Lao Tzu a good life! You wait, Lao Tzu will definitely climb to the top of the tree and eat up all the fruit you planted!"

Boom—he was screaming and cursing, and a raging flame erupted from his mouth, turning into thousands of stars scattered into the abyss.

Lu Lie walked to the wooden bridge that connected the giant tree to the town.

At that time, he thought that it would take him four or five days at most to climb to the top of the tree.