The sky is dawning, and the light is a soft fog.

Chu Tao looked around, this is a valley, the grass and trees are verdant, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, and there is a nine-curved road.

There is a thin waterfall that hangs down, like a silver lian, hitting the deep pool, and gurgling is a fragmented drumbeat.

There are bursts of cicadas chirping in my ears, birds chirping, and there is the sound of frogs in the deep pool, mixed with the faint howl of wolves in the distance.

The sound of the beasts was hidden in the sound of pine waves and water, completely different from the dead silence of Xuanshan.

At that time, Chu Tao was meditating, and he felt that something like a thin thread was tied to his hands and feet, and in a blink of an eye, he was in this valley.

"Wow!"

A sharp crane chirp attracted Chu Tao's attention, and at the turn of the road, several red-crowned cranes flew out.

Then there was a female voice of Qingyue, and the sound of the beasts stopped, and only the song echoed in the valley.

"The people in the mountains are full of flowers, drinking the rocky springs and the shade of the pines and cypresses, and I am suspicious of the ......"

I saw a lean leopard, with a reserved step, slowly appeared at the turn of the peak, shimmering on the reddish-brown fur, looking a little mysterious.

And even more mysterious, is the woman sitting on the side of the leopard.

Her elbows rested on the leopard's neck, and her body was slightly tilted, revealing a moving silhouette from afar.

When the leopard approached, Chu Tao saw the woman.

Her long hair was like a waterfall, running from her straight collarbone to her waist, hiding her thin waist a little.

A small face no bigger than a palm, with slender eyebrows, slightly arced, a pair of Ruifeng eyes under it, obliquely picked, and a small brown mole pressed at the end of the left eye.

The eye distance is slightly far away, it seems that the mountain root is not high, the tip of the nose is small, the middle is deep, the corners of the mouth are pointed, there is a full lip bead, and the lip color is red.

The complexion revealed a sickly white that had not seen the light of day all year round, and on his body was a red sleeveless shirt, somewhat torn, revealing his thin arms and slender waist.

Underneath it was a jet-black sprinkle skirt, exposing the slender ankles because of the posture of sitting sideways with the legs crossed.

The green embroidered shoes woven with azaleas showed their pointed heads, which trembled as her feet swayed.

Beautiful and deserted, mysterious and fragile, like the charm cultivated in this mountain.

This was followed by a small tanuki.

For some reason, Chu Tao only felt a sense of desolation coming to his face.

This secluded valley, covered with skylight, riding a wild leopard, singing the mysterious woman who appeared, like a picture scroll, Chu Tao did not dare to make a sound to disturb, still standing in place.

The woman drove the leopard towards her, with a smile on her face, hiding the charm, like an innocent girl, it was really a contradictory temperament.

In the silence, the leopard walked up to Hatsu Peach, sniffed Hatsu Peach's breath lightly with the tip of its nose, and then fell respectfully to the ground, and the woman jumped down from it.

The civet followed the woman, and when the woman was still standing, she stood up, grabbed her black skirt with her small front paws, and leaned her head slightly, showing a look of dependence.

The woman looked at Chu Tao, her amber eyes were clean and clear, and she bowed her head and saluted.

"I'm sorry, I invited you here to ask you to do something for me," the woman said with a smile on her lips. The voice is more moving than Fang Cai's singing, with a hint of softness in the clear spirit, which makes people can't bear to refuse.

"This girl, are you?"

From the very beginning, Chu Tao's intuition told her that this woman would not hurt herself, but the woman was too mysterious, and Chu Tao couldn't help but be curious, so she asked.

"What ...... I"

The woman sighed slightly, and at this moment a wind blew, blowing her voice ethereal, "You call me Shanzhuo, is this still the name he gave me...... You're the elf of the Abyssal Mountain, aren't you?"

Hatsumomo nodded.

"Do you know Immortal Monarch Gu Tong?"

Chu Tao shook his head: "I don't know, and I haven't heard of it." ”

The woman bowed her head with a sad expression.

Why is this still the answer...... By the way, who is the mountain owner of Yuanshan now?"

"Mountain Girl, the current mountain master of Yuanshan is the immortal monarch who ascended 1,700 years ago, Yin Li. ”

"Seventeen hundred years ago...... That's right, it's been 3,000 years, and who knows where he went. If you don't come to see each other, you don't forgive, and I have waited in vain for 3,000 years, but I still haven't figured it out.

Girl, go, I'm sorry to take you captive. ”

There were tears in her eyes, but they were crimson, more like two lines of blood, reflected on her too pale face, strange and poignant.

......

"Three thousand years ago, the front of the Yuan Mountain was not directly the Heavenly Grassland, but was surrounded by human villages. ”

Ruofeng slowly told the story he had heard from his mother.

"Because of the blessing of the aura of Yuanshan, the surrounding villages are safe and prosperous, and the villagers work at sunrise and rest at sunset, living in peace and contentment.

At that time, the mountain lord of Yuanshan was named Gu Tong, and he was the immortal monarch of the Weizhen side. Because of the blessing of Yuanshan, every year when the summer comes, the villagers will hold an autumn festival.

They sang and danced, held torches, and sang ancient rituals to convey their reverence and gratitude to the mountain lord.

At that time, the world was not as peaceful as it is now. There are many ancient demon beasts that have brought disaster to the world, and they wantonly feed on human flesh to satisfy their appetites.

That year, Gu Tong Xianjun was sent out to exterminate the ancient demon beasts that were raging in the Western Wilderness, and returned with serious injuries and retreated in the mountains.

And some of the surrounding demon beasts saw the opportunity and began to infest the villages near Yuanshan, although there was a fairy cover set up by the mountain lord for the time being, it was getting weaker and weaker.

The villagers were very frightened, and they went to the foot of the Yuan Mountain to bow down and weep, but they did not see the mountain lord appear for a long time, and when everyone was helpless, someone proposed to summon the mountain lord by sacrificing living people according to the method seen in the ancient books.

The task of sacrificing was given to an orphan girl who had been displaced here some time ago.

The villagers dressed her in a gorgeous sacrificial dress with red on the top and black on the bottom, and put Xue Li on her body, and it was this female Luo who was tied around her waist.

She was trapped by the pond in the mountains, and the villagers sang the sacrificial prayer for three days, and ordered her to dance the sacrificial dance for three days to the sound of the song, until she no longer had the strength to do so, and she collapsed on the ground with dehydration.

Fear makes people lose their compassion.

Weak, she was tied to a wooden frame, and the villagers lit a raging fire to burn her.

When Gu Tong came out of the customs, he happened to see the smoke rising.

He saved the woman from the fire with a wave of his sleeves, and after asking the reason, he personally killed those demon beasts one by one.

The ignorant villagers really thought that it was a sacrifice that woke up the mountain lord.

They stubbornly wanted to sacrifice the woman to Gu Tong, and refused to accept the woman back to the village again.

The woman was alone and had nowhere to go, and Gu Tong couldn't bear to hurt her life, so he temporarily left her by his side. ”