Chapter 5: The Legend of Laurel

The legend of the laurel tree is an immortal sacred tree on the Moon Palace, and it is the treasure of the Moon Palace.

Legend has it that a long, long time ago, there was a huge plague in Xianning, and the plague tortured the people to death, and a large number of lives died in this plague every day.

And Xianning has a young man named Wu Gang, this young man he is kind at heart, loyal, decent, filial, brave, for the sake of others everywhere, this year his mother also suffered from a serious illness due to the plague and was bedridden, the filial Wu Gang saw his mother and fellow villagers constantly suffering from the plague and decided to go up the mountain to collect medicine to cure the plague of his mother and fellow villagers.

Day after day, month after month, he went up the mountain to collect medicine to cure his mother and fellow villagers, but no amount of these ordinary medicines could cure the plague.

One day, Guanyin returned from a trip to the east to prepare to return to the west to participate in the banquet of the Mid-Autumn Festival, passing by Xianning and saw Wu Gang who was picking medicinal herbs on the cliff to treat his mother's illness, Guanyin was deeply moved by his good deeds, so Guanyin gave him a dream at night.

Tell him that there is a tree called Muxi, also called osmanthus, in the Moon Palace, which blooms with a small golden flower, and soaking it in water to drink can cure this plague.

On Guibang Mountain to August 15, there will be a ladder leading directly to the Moon Palace to pick laurel from the Moon Palace, this night is August 12, and there are three days to the Mid-Autumn Festival, but to climb the Laurel Mountain, you have to cross seven deep streams, go up to seven cliff hanging rocks, and it takes at least seven days and seven nights to climb this Laurel Mountain.

But time waits for no one, missed the annual flowering period of osmanthus, and has to wait for another year, I don't know if my mother can stop the plague within this year, and I don't know how many villagers will die in this plague, so Wu Gang decided to arrive at the top of this laurel mountain on August 15 no matter what.

This Wu Gang was born with divine power, his physique was strong and dark, in order not to miss the August 15th of this year, he desperately climbed to the laurel mountain, the seven deep streams are not ordinary deep streams, each deep stream is guarded by psychic tigers and beasts.

The tigers and beasts in the mountains listened to Wu Gang's touching deeds and gave way to him, and with the help of the beasts, Wu Gang spent a day and a night crossing the seven deep streams.

These psychic beasts even led the way, guiding him to one of the seven easiest cliffs to climb.

Wu Gang knelt down and bowed to the beasts, thanking him for saving his mother and hometown, and then climbed to the top of the mountain according to the seven cliff hanging rocks that were the easiest to climb, and almost fell into the cliff several times.

After a lot of strength, Wu Gang finally climbed to the top of Laurel Mountain on the evening of August 15, caught up with the ladder leading to the Moon Palace, and after climbing up the mountain, no part of his clothes and body was intact, and the hardships and hardships were really unimaginable.

August is the season of osmanthus fragrance, the sky is fragrant and the clouds are floating, Wu Gang followed the fragrance of the flowers to the osmanthus tree.

Looking at the golden osmanthus flowers, he was so happy to see this heavenly artifact, so he desperately picked and picked, wanting to pick more to go back to save his mother and save the villagers, he just cared about picking for a while and filled his arms, and the golden flowers kept falling from his arms.

So he thought of a way, relying on his innate divine power to desperately hit the god tree outside the sky, the golden leaves on the osmanthus tree continued to fall with Wu Gang's impact, and the fallen osmanthus drifted into the river under Guibang Mountain, and the river fragrance Siyi was soon dyed golden by the golden osmanthus.

People drank this sweet golden river water, and soon cured the plague, the villagers said that this is the river water, this is more precious than gold life-saving water, so the river water is named Jinshui, and finally there are three points of water next to the gold and named it "Ganhe".

This night is the fifteenth day of August, the heavenly gods and goddesses to admire the moon party, the meeting is ready to eat moon cakes, but the aroma of osmanthus rushed to the sky and alarmed the gods, so the Jade Emperor sent a messenger down to check.

When the official went to the Moon Palace, he saw that the osmanthus on the Sacred Tree of the Moon Palace and the Osmanthus Tree, the treasure of the Dinggong, were all gone, and they all fell into the "Gan River" in the world, so he reported it to the Jade Emperor.

The Jade Emperor was furious when he heard this. You must know that the Jade Emperor likes to eat moon cakes made of laurel flowers the most, and when the osmanthus flowers of a tree are gone, he can't eat moon cakes, so he sent heavenly soldiers and generals to arrest Wu Gang.

After Wu Gang was arrested, he told the Jade Emperor everything that happened that night.

The Jade Emperor couldn't say anything after hearing this, and admired this young man in his heart.

But Wu Gang had violated the rules of heaven after all, and if he was not punished, he would not be able to establish the prestige of the Jade Emperor.

The Jade Emperor asked Wu Gang what he wanted, and Wu Gang said that he wanted to bring the osmanthus tree to the world to save the suffering.

So the Jade Emperor came up with an idea, both to punish Wu Gang and to agree to Wu Gang's request, he said, as long as you cut down the osmanthus, you can take it.

So Wu Gang found a big axe and cut it down, wanting to quickly cut down the big tree, who knew that this god number instantly grew to five hundred zhang high and one hundred zhang wide, and this is the immortal god tree, Wu Gang grew a knife every time he cut a laurel tree, so Wu Gang cut it for many years, cutting tens of millions of years.

Decades before cutting down the tree, Wu Gang saw that the tree did not fall, and he was homesick and homesick, so he dropped an osmanthus flower to Guibang Mountain on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival every year to express his homesickness.

Year after year, Guibang Mountain is full of osmanthus flowers, and the villagers use this osmanthus to make tea and drink, and there is no more disaster in Xianning.

Besides, Wu Gang has a girl named Chang'e in the same village, and Wu Gang is a childhood sweetheart.

Since Wu Gang went to the Moon Palace, she has been taking care of Wu Gang's old mother until the old man passed away.

Wu Gang and Chang'e are separated from heaven and earth, and their lovesickness is increasing day by day, Wu Gang can't cut down the osmanthus tree and can't come back, and Chang'e is also separated from heaven and earth, and can't go to meet Wu Lang.

Finally one day, the Queen Mother took her seven daughters to the Mingshui Spring at the foot of the mountain to bathe, Chang'e saw it, secretly took the seven fairies' Huitian elixir, took it home to eat, took her jade rabbit, and went to heaven to meet Wu Gang.

These seven fairies can't go back to heaven without the elixir, and they can only go to heaven when their sisters come to bathe again in three days.

You must know that one day in the sky, one year in the world, in these three years, the Seven Fairies met Dong Yong, so there is that well-known moving story.

However, this legend is not false but true, the tree that the lonely god rain is digging at this time is the laurel tree that Wu just cut, as the lonely god rain digs deeper and deeper, the diameter of the laurel moon tree will be larger, and finally dig down three hundred meters, the diameter of the tree pole is nearly four hundred meters.

There was silver light flowing on the thick tree pole, like endless life, until the lonely god rain continued to dig down for another two hundred meters, and the entire appearance of the laurel moon tree was fully revealed, "Oh! I'm tired of this king, if I can't dig to the end, I'm ready to give up," the lonely god rain said breathlessly.

He looked up at the canopy, my God, this huge laurel moon tree with a height of more than 1,500 meters is simply covering the sky, "How can I transport such a big tree?"

Suddenly, he patted his head, "Then Wu Gang is stupid enough, since he can't cut it down, he can dig it up, won't he fall if he digs it up by the roots?" Thinking of this, Lone Shenyu was in a refreshed mood, his heart was extremely happy and comfortable, and he was instantly full of energy, and all the fatigue just now was swept away.

Just do it, Lone Shenyu was excited, and he dug up the roots of the laurel tree with great energy.

The roots of this laurel tree are deep enough, and the range of extension is light enough, I am afraid that this root system can occupy one-third of the area of this moon, since it is an immortal tree, the lone god rain simply bombarded the surrounding land wildly, and every punch knocked out a deep pit tens of thousands of meters wide on the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that Lone Shenyu perfectly controlled his strength, it was estimated that it would not take a few punches to shatter the entire moon.

However, just as the Lone God Rain blasted out of the range of 100,000 meters, the wall of a palace was blasted out of the valley wall and displayed in front of the Lone God Rain.