Chapter 966 Water Curtain Cave!
Time flies and five years have passed.
The world is prosperous, and everything in it has its own beauty.
Mountains, rivers and streams have their own unique charm.
The stone monkey wanders on the stream, leaps happily in the dense forest, coming and going like the wind. He never stops because he wants to see the vast world.
When thirsty, he drinks dew; when hungry, he picks wild fruits. He is truly free and unrestrained.
The noisy places where humans gather always give the stone monkey a complicated and indescribable feeling. It is not as pure as the creatures in the mountains and forests. It has wandered the world for five years. Although it is curious, it rarely gets close to the places where humans live.
At most, it had encountered woodcutters chopping wood and peasant women picking wild vegetables in the mountains. Sometimes it wanted to say hello, but its hairy body and monkey-like appearance would always scare the other party so much that they quickly ran down the mountain.
Over time, the stone monkey gave up in disappointment. No matter how they reacted, he just wanted to live happily.
some day.
It ran to an unfamiliar mountain area.
I saw a tiger tearing apart a dead forest deer, devouring the flesh and blood in big mouthfuls.
For some reason, the stone monkey, who had been eating wild fruits to fill his stomach, suddenly had an inspiration. He scratched the back of his hand, hesitated for a few seconds, then hopped over to the tiger, imitated the tiger's posture, bent down in an imitative manner, and took a bite of raw meat.
“Pooh…Pooh!”
The moment of entrance, a bloody smell spread.
The stone monkey was used to eating wild fruits and dew, so he spat out the meat in his mouth with some discomfort. He also disliked the bloody taste, so he kept shaking his head and stroking his tongue with his hand, as if to scrape away the bloody smell.
The tiger was just an ordinary wild animal. It was so frightened by the noise that it jumped several meters away. When it saw that it was a big monkey about the size of a human, it became angry again, growled, and pounced on the stone monkey.
The stone monkey was startled and quickly jumped onto the tree trunk next to him, climbing all the way up to a height that the tiger could not reach, then he looked down.
It looked a little puzzled, as if wondering why the tiger was attacking it?
Maybe...I stole its food?
The stone monkey looked at the tiger guarding the corpse of its prey with an extremely vigilant look, and he began to understand a little.
It squatted on a branch, puffed a few times and waved its arms as if to express something.
However, the tiger didn't understand and just kept growling.
Seeing this, the stone monkey scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously, then disappeared into the woods with a few jumps.
The tiger subconsciously chased after it for a while, as if it was driving away a stranger who had entered its territory.
The stone monkey's move of leaving was seen by it as a threat of submission to itself.
However, just as the tiger continued to enjoy its prey, the stone monkey came back with a pile of wild fruits in his arms.
“Hoohoo…haha…ahh…”
The stone monkey threw the fruit in front of the tiger and gestured with his hands, which scared the tiger again.
Looking at the fresh fruits and then at the fresh flesh and blood of the prey he had hunted, a trace of confusion and doubt flashed in the tiger's eyes.
What...does this mean?
You want me to switch to a vegetarian diet?
The unintelligent tiger thought this was a provocation, so he showed a dangerous attitude and chased the stone monkey around in the forest for several laps again.
The stone monkey felt aggrieved as well, and was still confused until he lost his patience and left completely.
I have already found food for it, why is it still unhappy?
It's really puzzling!
But soon, the stone monkey forgot all these things and wandered happily in the woods, teasing the little bugs on the ground from time to time, rolling around in the grass...very happy.
There is an incomparably pure spirituality in it, as if all the filth in the world cannot disturb its state of mind. It travels around the mountains and rivers freely.
The stone monkey has no fixed place to live. It flies over mountains and leaps over forests, as if it is always looking for something, but it itself does not know what it is looking for.
Until it wandered for several years again and came to a remote mountain forest, it was already very far away from Anshan.
This place is called Cangwu Mountain.
There lives a group of clever monkeys with initial intelligence.
When the stone monkey saw these clever monkeys, he was overjoyed, thinking that he had finally found his own kind.
The stone monkey had encountered some small monkeys in the mountains before, which were much smaller in size than the monkey and could not understand its behavior at all. In the end, the stone monkey had to leave alone.
Some creatures that can understand its behavior are not willing to go out and play with it all the time, and often stay in certain fixed places, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and practicing "cultivation".
The stone monkey really couldn't understand. What was the point of sitting in one place for ten days or half a month, just like sleeping?
But these clever monkeys are different. They can understand his body language and are as lively and active as himself. They even teach him animal language and the language of humans from the outside world!
Yes, there is a common animal language among intelligent creatures, and even if they are of different races, they can roughly understand the meaning.
Before learning human language, animal language was one of their main ways of communication.
The stone monkey was very happy to have found his own kind and studied animal and human language seriously.
It was born extraordinary and extremely talented. It learned these two languages in less than half a day and was able to use them skillfully, which surprised all the monkeys.
Cangwu Mountain has beautiful scenery and is full of vitality. Between the towering peaks, there flows a huge waterfall, which looks like a shining silver screen under the sun.
Monkeys are always playful by nature. After they become intelligent, they develop specific individual thinking and become more curious about things in the outside world. They always run around and wander around.
"Brothers and sisters, look, there is a waterfall under that cliff. Let's go there and play!"
One day, a clever monkey ran to the depths of Cangwu Mountain and found a waterfall falling from the top of the cliff. Looking at the pool of water below, it called out to a group of monkeys to go and play.
The stone monkey also joined the group, and because of his intelligence, he had a high status among the monkeys.
As the monkeys were playing, they somehow started discussing the waterfall.
Eventually, the topic was led to what was behind the waterfall.
"What do you think is behind the waterfall?"
An old monkey with graying hair scratched his cheek and looked at the fast-flowing waterfall, his eyes full of curiosity and desire to explore.
The monkeys talked about it a lot, but their cultivation was low and they had just gained intelligence. They were naturally afraid of the power of nature, and no one dared to try to see it with their own eyes.
At this time, the stone monkey observed the waterfall for a long time, and with his extraordinary eyesight he discovered that behind it was just an equally steep cliff, and he lost interest a little.
But as soon as it blinked, it discovered that there seemed to be a small shadow behind the waterfall.
"Huh......"
It scratched the back of its hand in confusion, as if trying to understand this sudden change.
But in the end, the stone monkey gave up, looked at the monkeys who were talking, and jumped onto a slightly larger stone in a few steps.
"What's behind the waterfall? Why not go and take a look!"
The stone monkey shouted loudly.
The monkeys naturally had a heated discussion, and then a classic quote was born: "You dare to go, you are awesome, we worship you as king!"
The stone monkey clapped his hands and said, "It's not difficult. I'll be back soon!"
After saying that, it leaped and rushed straight into the rushing waterfall.
Thousands of miles away in Anshan, Li Yuan and Tian Yao were eating melon seeds and looking at the images displayed in the fairy mirror, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
Originally there was only an empty mountain wall behind the waterfall, but Yuan Zun pointed it out in time, and from then on the Water Curtain Cave came into being in the world.
"Huaguo Mountain! Tell the local mountain god to change the name to Huaguo Mountain overnight!"
The demon who was eating melon seeds was yelling and the melon shells were sprayed all over the ground.
Li Yuan looked at Brother Tian Yao with disdain: "In the story, the predecessor of Huaguo Mountain, or its alias, is called Cangwu Mountain."
"Oh."
Tian Yao was eating melon seeds and didn't say anything.