Wu Daozi followed the little grass baby all the way to the depths of the old forest. Suddenly, the little baby disappeared unconsciously. He wondered if I had just mistaken a little doll who had led me here, and why he had suddenly disappeared

He looked around at the towering old trees, and there was nothing strange about them. Only an inconspicuous gravel hill in front of him caught his attention. Because in front of the hill, there is a round rumbling stone mound, and the stone mound is crookedly engraved with four inconspicuous small characters: grass and trees are essence.

He stroked his beard and walked around the hillock, but still found nothing new. There were a few squirrels standing on the branches around them, looking at Wu Daozi in a daze, observing his every move. From time to time, there were small sounds in the forest, as if someone was whispering.

Suddenly, there were two sounds behind him, and several unknown objects fell from the sky. Wu Daozi hurriedly stepped forward

Unexpectedly, the squirrel took the lead in rushing to the place where the sound sounded, and turned out a mountain chestnut in the pile of dead leaves. The squirrel hurriedly turned his head and climbed up the branch with the mountain chestnut in his arms

"Oh, it's chestnuts, I'm hungry, and now there's something to fill my hunger. ”

He looked up at the source of the chestnut fall, and there were all kinds of fruits growing on the old tree. The red is translucent, and the yellow is dazzling. Large and small hung all over the treetops, tempting this old gluttonous insect with bright colors.

Wudaozi saw the fruit as if he saw his father and mother, and he was immediately ecstatic. He flew up on tiptoe, plucked a fist-sized wild fruit and landed on the ground.

He stared at the fruits of the harvest with a happy face, salivating, and thought: There is no endless road to heaven, and when I am hungry, God can still let me see you, which is really not thin to me

He put the fruit on his chest, rubbed it roughly on his robe, and took a bite of it

Sweet juice moistened his thirsty throat, and the sweet flesh filled his shriveled stomach. He let out a long sigh of satisfaction, and suddenly felt that his whole body had strength.

In order not to run up and down, he set his sights on a large branch full of fruit. Fly up a blow of dust, wrap around the branch and break it violently, fall to the ground and clap your hands, simply sit in front of the stone mound, roll up your sleeves and pick up the fruit.

"Hehe, what kind of fruit is this, it is so delicious, and the taste is no less than that of Liuyang fruit. ”

Of course, when you're hungry, you can eat whatever you eat. Wudaozi was eating happily, and suddenly saw a grass moving beside him. He pretended to be unconscious, and when the grass moved to his side playfully, Wudaozi threw away the fruit, grabbed the moving sacred grass, and uprooted the grass like a carrot.

With a bang, the grass turned into a doll, and it fell into the hands of Wudaozi

"Hey, hey, I see where you're going, I'm going to see what you are."

The little doll dangled like a pendulum under Wu Daozi's hands. With a fierce face, he punched and kicked from time to time: "You stole our fruit, my grandfather will let you die a bad death"

"Yo he" Wu Daozi was stunned: "You little thing can even talk, who is your grandfather, come and listen, see if I'm afraid of Wu Daozi"

The little grass baby was so angry that her little face was red, like a ripe fruit on a tree. He held back his strength and shouted, "Grandpa save me"

As soon as Xiaocaowa's voice fell, a fast figure flashed to Wudaozi and snapped

The two stuffy sticks beat Wudaozi's arm to a crispy numbness. As soon as Wudaozi let go of his defenselessness, the little grass baby fell to the ground

Wu Daozi didn't know who was coming, and he was just about to fight back in a fit of anger, when a thorny vine suddenly grew on the ground, instantly restrained Wu Daozi and tied him to the trunk of the tree.

The little grass baby jumped under Wudaozi, pointed at Wudaozi and said to the man: "Grandpa is this person, he sneakily hides in the forest, and steals the fruit from the tree. ”

Wu Daozi was tied to the trunk of a tree by vines, and his robe was scratched by thorns. But with his martial arts realm, he is not helpless against a mere vine. He hurriedly turned into a seven-star scoop armor, and the moment he changed, the vines immediately loosened. He flew out of the gap, transformed into a human and landed on the ground

"Hehe, just a vine, how can you help me"

The old man saw that Wu Daozi was very capable, so he put the wooden staff in his hand on the ground and asked Wu Daozi, "Who are you and why are you sneaking around in my forest?"

Wu Daozi had time to look at the old man's face, and saw that his face was full of wrinkles and leopard prints. A pair of antlers grew in the white hair, and a handful of goat's whiskers protruded from the underch, which were straight forward. A pair of blazing eyes are embedded in the deep eye sockets, and the gray pupils contain a kind of stubbornness and mystery.

"Who are you, why did you plot a sneak attack?"

The old man said, "I am the master here, and it is your blessing that you ran to my place to steal my fruits, destroy my trees, and bully my children, and blame me for sneaking up on me and not killing you."

Wu Daozi thought to himself when he heard this: This old man is so rampant, could it be that he has some extraordinary precedence, and then he said skillfully: "When did I bully your child, it was obviously you who kidnapped me just now, besides, this forest didn't have a name, I just ate a few wild fruits, why do you say that I stole your fruit?"

The old man bore, poked the wooden staff in his hand into the ground, and said sharply: "You don't have to quibble about how this forest doesn't have a name, and the four big characters on the stone mound next to it are clearly written, can't you see it?"

Wu Daozi smiled: "Hehe, is it the name of the grass and trees, if you think I'm lonely and unheard, I don't bother to argue with you." I don't know all my life, it's useless to talk too much, and I'll leave the poor road."

He was just about to leave when he suddenly noticed that his facial muscles were faintly withdrawn, and his ears felt strange. It just so happened that the morning light cast his shadow on the stone mound. He scanned the stone mound with his peripheral vision, and saw that above his silhouette, two pointed shapes had been erected

He hurriedly touched his ear with his hand, and the moment his sensitive nerves touched his ear, he sighed in his heart: "Why, why did my ear become like this?"

In a panic, he touched his cheek again, and long hairs grew all over his face. All of a sudden, everything suddenly changed from figurative to abstract, from clear to blurred. This strange change made him have to wonder what the old man had done to him, so he angrily said to the old man, "Old man, what have you done to me?"

The old man hurried forward two steps with a wooden staff, looked at the appearance of Wudaozi, and sighed: "It seems that you, like me, have been cursed."

Wu Daozi was stunned: "What curse"

The old man took the straw baby from his shoulder, released him into the forest, and left him to play alone. Then he said meaningfully: "The purpose of setting up this stone mound is to be afraid of entering it by mistake

The people in the forest ended up in the same fate as me, and this forest was once the sphere of influence of the elves, and it was previously under the jurisdiction of Shakya. Many years ago, I was on my way from the desert to escort Princess Saren to Sakya, and I strayed into this place. Stealing a poisonous fruit and ending up like this. Later, I learned that this forest was cursed. If I don't break the curse, I'll never get back to my original self and will depend on these fruits for the rest of my life. ”

"What do you say that you are from the desert, so what kind of person is this forest that is scared and cursed"

"It's the elves, it's their own curse. According to legend, the elves have three secret arts. They are: the secret technique of bones, the herbal heart sutra, and the magic of imitation. These three things are also the capital for the continuation of the elven race.

Later, for some reason, the immortals and demons found a way to escape into the elven world, and together they killed the elves and snatched the three secret arts. So much so that the elves continued to fall, and finally retreated to this mountain.

The mountain was originally a majestic mountain, but after years of geological changes, it was gradually buried by the desert. The environment in which the elves were able to survive gradually shrank, and now only this forest remains.

In order to preserve the lifeblood of the elves, they put a curse on this place. As long as someone comes to steal the fruit, they will become their puppets, so as to strengthen the power of the elves, hoping to recover the elven tribe one day. ”

Wu Daozi finally understood why the elves had never seen it among the things, essences, people, demons, Tao, immortals, laws, and Buddhas. It turned out that someone had already broken the barrier and annihilated the elves. According to this old man, he and I have become puppets of the elves at this moment

Wu Daozi asked unwillingly: "How did you know all this that Your Excellency just said?"

The old man smiled bitterly: "Hehe, I have been here for I don't know how many years, how can I find that I don't know anything at all, I know that there are far more than these just now that Samwa is a descendant of the elves, I have been currying favor with him in order to learn the traces of the elves from his mouth."

"What, it turns out that he is not your grandson," Wu Daozi asked in surprise.

The old man laughed twice: "I don't even have a woman, how can I have an heir, besides, I am a human being, he is a spirit, have you ever seen someone who can give birth to a goblin?"

"And how can I lift this curse when I fell to the ground" Although Wu Daozi is not good-looking, but his appearance of being a person and a ghost is even more difficult for him to see at the moment.

As a person who has come over, the old man can certainly understand Wudaozi's mood at the moment. So he told in detail: "Cracking the curse is easy to say, but difficult to say, as long as you can find the three sets of secret techniques of the elf clan, it is possible to break the curse." But the difficulty is that we can't do without this forest. As long as you have eaten of the fruit of this tree, you will eat it every day. Once you don't eat it, your bones will become deformed, become more eccentric, and even affect your movements. ”

The old man's experience is not to be believed. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Since you and I are sympathetic, why don't we catch that little doll and let him lead us to the elves and force them to break the curse."

The old man said: "I have thought about this method a long time ago, don't say that this ginseng baby can't find the elves, even if he can take us to find it, then how can this curse be deliberately done by them, do you think they will remove their curse because of our persecution?"

Wu Daozi was anxious when he heard this: "Then that and that won't work, that won't work, won't we have to be at the mercy of the elves and be their puppets forever?"

"It's the day I'm waiting for them to show up. Otherwise, there will be no solution to the curse on us."