The tree demon shook his head, "I don't know. When I knew it, they had already left."
After saying that, the dryad raised its right branch, caught a flying bird like a hand, and teased it gently.
"I had just arrived there not long ago. I was too tired from the long journey and fell asleep. When I woke up, I heard a bird say that there was a giant deep in the east mountain."
But a hundred years before the tree demon woke up, the giant had already left the Eastern Wasteland and headed west.
She unexpectedly met a monster who had lived in the mountains for a long time and had birds as eyes and ears. Aunt Qing asked happily: "Senior, do you know why they left?"
"It was a long time ago, let me think about it." The tree demon shook slightly, and the bird on the branch flew away like a hand.
"Why are you here? I clearly remember..."
The dryad muttered, and finally scratched the back of his head in frustration, shaking the entire crown of the tree, causing a group of birds to fly out and "chirp" around the crown.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you continue to rest." The tree demon apologized and continued to think hard, "Why are you here."
"Isn't it because Long Bo was defeated in the first battle and followed other giants to withdraw from the Eastern Wasteland?" Aunt Qing reminded him.
"No." The dryad shook his head, and after thinking hard for a while, he said, "Forget it, I'd better look at the notes I left."
I'm speechless for the rest of my life, brother, what are you still thinking about when you have notes? Just take a look at them.
But Yu Sheng quickly changed his mind and thought it would be better to think about it, because the dryad pulled up a very thick vine with many knots on it.
"How do you recognize this knot?" The dryad was confused. He looked at Yu Sheng embarrassedly, "I forgot about this."
Without waiting for Yu Sheng's answer, the tree demon defended himself, "You saints are better, that's not right..."
The dryad focused on Aunt Qing, "It's better for you, the saints of the human race, to create words that are much more convenient. Unlike this knotted rope, you can almost forget it after a sleep."
Yu Sheng couldn't help but greet the tree demon uncle, "Actually, I am still half-human, and I can barely be considered a human being."
"Don't worry about this detail. Anyone who dares to marry the King of Donghuang is no longer a human being. He is a god! It is also possible to create a race alone." The tree demon said seriously.
"Your uncle." Yu Sheng couldn't help but say, his identity was arranged by this tree demon so hastily.
"Don't worry, I still have backup." The tree demon thought Yu Sheng was anxious to know the answer.
He whistled, causing the bird that was just standing on his fingertips to crawl into the hole in a branch, take out a piece of paper and spread it on the branch.
The piece of paper was very small, about the same size as Yu Sheng's body. Yu Sheng was curious whether he could see it clearly with his eyes as big as Dryad Lake.
Yu Sheng soon got the answer. He saw the bird staring at the words on the paper and chirping to the dryad.
"What's the reason?" Yu Sheng asked the tree demon impatiently.
"Young man, be patient." The tree demon said, "This piece of paper contains ghost writing, a tool used to translate knotting ropes."
"Oh, I know, Snow Mountain!" After the two of them waited for a while, the dryad finally made some progress, but it was this answer that left the two of them confused.
What is the connection between snowy mountains and the departure of giants?
The dryad explained to Yu Sheng, "This is my unique way of remembering things."
Seeing their confusion, the tree demon said: "It means that the giant dug something in the cave and was forced to abandon the cave and escape."
"Wait a minute, what does your 'snow mountain' have to do with the matter above?" Yu Sheng couldn't help but ask.
"Of course it does matter. Is the snow-capped mountain cold?" the dryad asked Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng couldn't help but nod.
"Isn't that just 'Wow, people freeze to death', and the cave is under a snow-capped mountain. Doesn't this have something to do with the giant?" the tree demon continued.
"The giants under the snowy mountains dug holes and killed people, and were forced to leave their homes." This sentence was too long, so the tree demon directly changed it to "dig holes and killed people."
These four characters are too long, because "Wow, freeze to death" has the same pronunciation with these four characters, and because "Wow, freeze to death" is related to snowy mountains.
"So I just use the word 'Snow Mountain' to write down the story on the knotted rope. I must be smart." The dryad admired his own cleverness and smiled proudly.
"Well, that's quite smart." Yu Sheng, who was almost confused by the confusion, also laughed, "How do you remember these transitions?"
"My mind is very bright, so remembering these is not a problem." The dryad said modestly.
"No wonder, you must be an elm demon, right?" Yu Sheng said.
"Nonsense, have you ever seen such a tall elm tree?" The dryad retorted Yu Sheng, "Besides, my name is not so vulgar."
He cleared his throat and told the two of them, "My name is Emperor Xiu. I originally lived in the Zhongshan Mountains and later moved here."
"Di Xiu?" I had heard this name before in my life, but I couldn't remember it for a while.
The dryad chuckled and said: "I will pass on my method of remembering things to you later, so that you will never forget things again."
"Huang Hua is black and solid, and those who obey him will not be angry." My aunt whispered in Yu Sheng's ear.
Yu Sheng immediately remembered, "No, you'd better use your own method. I have an aunt."
There is a record of Emperor Xiu in the "Handbook of Monsters" that Yu Sheng bought.
It says, "A hundred grasses and trees form a knot [qūn], there is a tree on it, its name is Emperor Xiu, its branches have five branches (qú, five branches and forks), yellow flowers are black and solid, and those who obey it will not be angry."
He looked at his feet and saw hundreds of trees forming a barn shape below, with tree demons growing taller among them, but he couldn't find any black fruits.
"Senior, you haven't had any fruit in these years?" Yu Sheng asked. If you eat the fruit, you won't be angry. You can take it out and sell it.
Or feed the other person one after hitting him, so that the other person will not be angry.
Di Xiu shook his head, "I haven't eaten enough. I'm just waiting for the results."
He looked at Yu Sheng and hesitated, "How about I give you two or three pills?"
"Okay, okay, I don't have anything else, just give you a jar of wine." Yu Sheng nodded hurriedly.
Aunt Qing was initially reluctant, but when she saw that what Yu Sheng found was ordinary Huadiao wine, not the Shaoxing 1983 she drank, she agreed.
The bird on Di Xiu's fingertips came down and exchanged it with Yu Sheng. Only then did Yu Sheng realize that the bird looked very small, but when he got in front of him, he realized how big it was.
As for the fruit, it was as big as a large watermelon and so dark that Yu Sheng felt that he had to find someone to test the medicine when he went back.
The jar of wine was very small in front of Di Xiu. He only took a small sip, and all that was left was the jar, which was worse than swallowing saliva.
However, Di Xiu didn't care. Just as he was about to praise the wine, Aunt Qing, who had been led astray without realizing it, finally remembered to bring the topic back on track.
"Senior, we are looking for the Giant's Cave. Could you please give me some pointers on where Taotie came from?" Aunt Qing handed over her hand.
Di Xiu doesn't know where the cave is, so the only clue now is to look for Taotie's traces when he came.
"It flew out of the Wind's Breath Valley." Di Xiu pointed to the east, "After you leave the mountain forest, fly for another day and you will see the canyon."
"Fly out?" Yu Sheng was puzzled. Taotie obviously couldn't fly. "Senior, did you remember it wrong?"
"No, I remember clearly what happened a few months ago."
Emperor Xiu solemnly said to Yu Sheng: "Boy, for the sake of King Donghuang, I remind you to fly along the outer edge of Wind Breath Valley and never enter Wind Breath Valley."
"What's in the valley?" Di Xiu said this, which aroused Yu Sheng's curiosity.
"If you enter the valley mouth just a little bit, it's enough to blow the gluttonous wind, and it doesn't go in very deep." Di Xiu then kept telling Yu Sheng not to enter the Valley of the Wind.
"Of course, you must have the ability of your mother's alchemy-breaking master to go in and have a try."