The Titan Ancient Forest, located to the west of Stone Village, stretches for thousands of miles. There are many terrifying legends and stories about this eerie ancient forest in the stone village, which makes it faintly become the "forbidden forest" of the stone village.

When he was a child, Mu Zilei once tried to explore the Titan Ancient Forest, but his mother stopped him.

"Mother, is the legend about the ancient forest true?" asked Mu Zilei. On the morning of the second day after he woke up, he followed Mu Wan'er to visit Granny Ma and walked into the Titan Ancient Forest.

"I don't know what legends you're referring to. Mu Wan'er looked at her feet and said absentmindedly. She had to keep an eye on the tangled roots of the old tree beneath her feet to avoid tripping.

"It's the horrible legends I told me when I wanted to go in when I was a kid and you stopped me. He had just passed a large tree whose bark was covered with sticky moss.

"Oh, if you're referring to the legends about evil spirits, dragon spirits, and bugs much bigger than horses, which the old people of the village often talk about, a lot of people don't believe it, at least I don't believe in these ghost stories. ”

"Then mother, why did you tell me these legends like this to scare me?" In front of them were all kinds of tree trunks: straight, curved, twisted, oblique, thin, broad, slender, smooth or full of nodules, Mu Zilei carefully avoided a thick branch under the tree.

"Because that's the best reason to fool kids. Mu Wan'er said with a smile, but as soon as she saw his son's puffing appearance, she immediately said, "This ancient forest is indeed a little strange, and even a little dangerous. We have been walking for so long, except for the occasional butterfly or two, there are no other spirit animals or ordinary animals, and even breathing here for a long time has become more and more difficult, I heard Granny Ma once say that the trees here do not like strangers. They will look at you and pay attention to you. Occasionally, the oldest tree that is most hostile to humans may deliberately drop its branches, stick out its roots to stumble, or entangle you with fibrous roots. ”

Only then did Mu Zilei realize that after walking for so long, except for a flying butterfly, the other animals didn't even see a shadow, which was too abnormal for a forest.

"Do you believe Granny Ma?" he asked.

"Compared to the legends of those giant insects, yes, my mother believes in Granny Ma's words more, living next to this ancient forest for so many years, I always feel that these huge ancient trees have a special vitality, they often seem to talk in an unrecognizable language, and occasionally talk to us, but we don't understand. In the past year, my mother often dreamed that she had turned into a bird with bright feathers, flying everywhere high above this ancient forest. ”

Mu Zilei listened to Mu Wan'er's words and imagined the scene of his mother looking down on this ancient forest from above. Suddenly, he had a strange feeling, as if the air here was so thin that it was not suitable for breathing, and he finally realized that his mother had said that it was difficult to breathe. He saw that his mother's breathing began to become rapid, but there was no trace of worry.

Mu Zilei put his mind at ease, he no longer paid attention to the air problem, and began to pay attention to the sides of the road, as they went deeper and deeper into the ancient forest, he saw more and more wanton growth, rampant and domineering moss. Almost every tree has a large pile of dead leaves hanging from it, and it looks so unclean that it's hard to imagine what spring will look like here.

When Mu Zilei felt that the air seemed to stand still, and he was about to suffocate, his mother's happy voice came: "We are almost there." Immediately, he noticed a golden light in the depths of the forest, not far from them, which was the warm sunlight that pierced through the dense roof of the forest.

In the middle of the sun is a huge tree that Mu Zilei has never seen before, the tree is more than 300 meters high, and the base of the tree is more than 60 meters around. Its whole body was filled with the breath of wildness, and huge branches and green leaves stretched out, as if longing for the warmth of the sun, and as if thanking the heavens for their gifts. The sunlight shone through it gently swaying its branches and leaves, and it retreated in bits and pieces. What once looked like a lifeless forest is now a vibrant sight in the sun, with gray-black bark as fine as polished leather, and trunks reflecting a soft green glow like fresh grass.

The surroundings of the giant tree are filled with countless green butterflies, and the gold stripes on their wings are very beautiful. One of the butterflies flew close to them, and finally landed on Mu Zilei's nose and flapped its wings slightly.

Mu Zilei sneezed and startled the butterfly away, and his eyes chased until the butterfly flew high into the air, and a wooden house fell into his eyes without warning. Nestled in a tenth of the pristine tree, the house's delicate façade, doors and windows look like part of the tree, and the wood of the rooms that extend out has been carefully carved and polished to make it look like the trunk. A long staircase with flowers and plants, like a green necklace, wrapped around the trunk of a tree, led to the door of the wooden house. The whole wooden house seems to be integrated with the shape of the tree, and the skill of human hands and the sacredness of nature are perfectly blended here.

Mu Zilei followed Mu Wan'er and walked over quickly, and found that the air under the shade of the big tree suddenly became fresh. They excitedly climbed up the green ladder and came to the door of the wooden house.

An oval-shaped, pale green object that looks like a stone but not a stone, like a wood but not a wood, and is covered with loose lines on the lintel, emits a warm white light, which makes people feel uncomfortable. What did this come from? Mu Zilei looked at it suspiciously.

Mu Wan'er raised her hand and was about to knock on the door, but the wooden door suddenly opened automatically, and a hoarse voice came from inside the room: "You guys are finally here, come in." The glow on the door was a piece of wood and stone. ”

Mu Zilei followed his mother into this magical wooden house. The hut was quite bright, and behind the door was lined with wooden shelves filled with oddly shaped objects and four glowing stones identical to the doorway, two of which were pale green and loosely veined, and the other two were also green, but much darker in color and more densely veined. Inside the door is the living room, where a set of carved mahogany chairs and tables that have been blurred look antique. An old red carpet is laid out on a pale yellow hardwood floor. Embedded in the wooden wall on the right is a dark green glowing stone in the shape of a heart, larger than a human head. In the left corner is a cauldron with a burning stove at the bottom, and strange steam of all colors is rising from the pot. The treated tree stump is placed in front of the pot as a stool, but there are faint traces of insect moth, and the walls are covered with all kinds of strange ornaments that cannot be named, but what attracts Mu Zilei the most is a painting of golden rice growing on a stone mountain. The wooden house is surrounded by lattice wooden windows, and when the wind blows in, the house exudes a fresh smell of wood.

"Good morning. A hoarse but soft voice said that Granny Ma, dressed in a black coat, suddenly stood in front of them.

"Granny Ma, we're here to disturb you!" Mu Wan'er said enthusiastically.

"Hello. Mu Zilei said awkwardly.

"Oh yes. The old man said, "We're meeting again, aren't we?" ”

Granny Ma approached Mu Zilei a little closer, Mu Zilei hoped that she could blink, her two blind eyes covered with white membrane made people a little creepy.

"I just said that the pale green glowing stone on the lintel is wood lightstone. It was the glowing fruit of this ancient tree called 'Muyan'. She is also the only Wood Spirit Tree in the Titan Ancient Forest that can produce Wood Light Stones. Wood Light Stone can only bear fruit on ancient trees that have grown for more than a thousand years, and she is at least 1,200 years old. Granny Ma said that she was getting closer and closer to Mu Zilei.

"The reason why this wood light stone can shine is because it contains the light that the ancient tree has absorbed and stored for many years, and it can continue to glow for several years if it is as small as a fist. Those larger, mature woodstones that have grown for more than a hundred years are even more rare, because they can glow almost permanently, and almost everyone thinks that it is because the mature woodstones have stored a hundred years of light, so they can continue to glow, but in fact, this is a big misunderstanding. The reason why a mature wood glows continuously is that it has the ability to store light like a tree, and it can continue to absorb and store light even when it leaves the tree. A large tree, over the course of a long time, can only grow up to three mature woodstones, and the rest of the woodstones will automatically fall off before they grow to a hundred years. If you want, you can take the four wooden stones from the wooden shelf with you when you leave. ”

Granny Ma was so close, she and Mu Zilei were about to touch their noses.

"Oh. Mu Zilei really didn't know how to react, he just replied mechanically, he looked at Granny Ma's gray black and white hair, and was about to blurt out words of gratitude for her saving grace, but then he found that it didn't seem to be necessary, because Granny Ma guessed his mind again.

"Let's not mention that little stone again," said the old man softly, her tone changing and full of apologies, "I'm sad that my prophecy hurt you. Although unconscious...... You must have suffered a lot over the years......"

Granny Ma shook her head gloomily, and then she turned her attention to Mu Wan'er, which made Mu Zilei breathe a sigh of relief.

"And, of course, Wan'er," she said, "and you've been wronged all these years." ”

"Not really. Mu Wan'er said, breathing a sigh of relief softly, as if glad that Granny Ma finally noticed her presence.

"Okay, let's get down to business, I have something here for Mu Zilei. She saw Granny Ma's wide sleeves swing, a glimmer of light flashed, and a key appeared in her hand out of thin air, and she then lifted the red carpet on the floor, and a trapdoor appeared in front of Mu Zilei and them.