“为什么麻烦了?你们谷主很可怕吗?”小兔妖义看到那小女孩担心的表情,忍不住问道。
“我们谷主是谷里最善良、聪明、勇敢的人!他会制药,如果我们生病了,都是他帮我们治好的!”那小姑娘骄傲地说道,“他怕我们遇到危险,所以每年都是他一个人到同天山给黄鸟送云之蝶的。”她说着,抿了抿嘴,“只不过谷主对云之蝶的数量要求很严格,因为不够的话,他会很危险……”
“你别担心了,”小龟妖仁安慰道,“反正我们也得经过同天山,明天我们跟你的谷主一起去,说不定还能帮助他。”
那小姑娘立刻拍着手说道,“太好了!我这就带你们去见我们谷主。”
悠悠和小灵妖们跟着那个小姑娘一起往云之谷走去。他们边走边聊,悠悠这才知道原来这个小姑娘叫安安,以前她都是在谷里捕云之蝶的。可是随着云之蝶数量的减少,很多谷民不得不出谷找云之蝶了。
他们刚往前走了一会儿,就发现小龟妖仁不见了!大家一顿乱找,小长颈鹿妖摸出了一副厚厚的近视眼镜戴上,才看到缓缓爬过来的小龟妖仁。原来小龟妖仁并没有继承老龟妖神奇的速度,真的行动很缓慢!为了能让大家走快一些,悠悠把小龟妖抱在了怀里。
悠悠边走边忍不住摇头,看来这些小龟妖们的发力真的和他设想的太不一样了……!他原本以为小龟妖仁的速度会像老龟妖一样快,没想到他真的就是乌龟的速度----缓慢!他原本以为小长颈鹿妖智长得那么高,一定可以看得很远,没想到他的学识最渊博,但是视力却最差。
忽然安安在一株小草前停了下来,笑着说道,“你们没有云,如果被谷民们见到,他们会觉得很奇怪。这是‘掌中草’,你们吃了这草的果实就可以飘起来。”
“原来这就是‘掌中草’!”小长颈鹿妖智看着那株小草,惊奇地说道,“古书上有记载,说这种草叶子长得像松树的叶子,神奇的是叶子上长着一个籽,有着奇妙的变化功能。如果这草遇到人气就会长高,等长到一米左右,就会长出果实。果实酸甜可口,如果吃了这个果实,就可以浮在离地面一米的空中一整天。”
安安摘下了一片细细的叶子,把叶子放在手掌上,对着它吹了一口气。立刻从那草籽中生长出一枝大约一尺长的青草来,再吹一口气,草又长了一尺。连吹三口气,长了大约一米长。过了一会儿,草尖结了一个嫩黄色的果实,圆圆的,很可爱。
“好吃的?我要!”小龟妖仁一把接过安安手里的果实,一口咬了下去,津津有味地吃了起来,边吃边说,“真好吃,真好吃!”他刚吃完,悠悠就看到他慢慢地浮了起来!
“我会飞了,我会飞了!”仁兴奋地叫着。
安安笑眯眯地递给悠悠几片叶子,说道,“很好玩的,你想试试吗?”
悠悠对着草籽一吹,好奇地看着草籽长出青草,看着青草结出果实……他吃了一口果实,那味道居然有点像草莓!他刚把最后一口果实吃完,就发现身体越来越轻,他居然能站在半空中了!
等大家都浮在了空中,安安不知道从哪里找来了好多巨大的叶片。她把叶片编在一起,做成了四条大斗篷,绑到了悠悠和小灵妖的腰上。这样一来,不仔细看,根本看不到他们的脚。
完美的掩饰!
一行人在半空中飘了一会儿,眼看就要进谷了,身边的谷民也渐渐多了起来。每个谷民每个人都骑着云,有几个人的身后背着个大麻袋,袋子里隐隐地闪着彩光。
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“Why would you be in big trouble? Is Alan the president of Cloud Valley scary or something?” said the Yi, the small rabbit demon in worried voice.
“Alan, the president of Cloud Valley is the wisest, bravest, strongest and smartest person in the whole of Cloud Valley. If we feel wan, Alan the president will heal us.” Said the small girl in a proud tone of voice,“He is always on high alarm when he is protecting us. Every year he goes to the top of Air Temple to feed the Golden Phoenixes Butterfly of Heavens. However, Alan of Cloud Valley is also very firm of the amount of the Butterfly of heaven he receives because if he doesn’t have the required amount of butterflies, he is in big trouble”
“Don’t worry,” said the small turtle demon in a encouraging voice,“Anyway, tomorrow we are going to Air temple with Alan the president of Cloud Valley. Maybe could even help him.”
The small girl was really glad and said,“HORRAY! I am now going to take you to Alan, the president.”
Yoyo and the others followed the small girl in Cloud Valley. As they walking, they chatted. In the conversation, Yoyo found out that the name of the small girl is Ann. Yoyo also found out that people in Cloud Valley catch the Butterflies of heaven with a special kind of net called Butter net. Because the amount of Butterflies of heaven is extremely rare, people have to go to remote areas to find them.
When they walked on, they realised that Ren, the small turtle demon had gone missing!! Every then had a pitfall stop in search for Ren. Zhi, the small giraffe demon started searching himself and finally pulled out a pair of broad glasses and wore them. After Zhi put it on, he saw that Ren was still crawling his way. It turned out that the small turtle demon Ren did not have the same powers as the Old turtle demon had because he was as slow as a snail. So to speed things up, Yoyo decided to carry Ren.
As Yoyo was walking, he couldn’t stop himself from shaking his head. It looked like the small turtle demon Ren’s powers of speed is not the strongest. Initially, he thought that Ren’s powers would of speed would be the best, however, it turns out that Ren’s speed is as weak as normal turtle. He thought that the small giraffe demon would be able to see far away. However, it turned out that Zhi was blind and was the worst in vision. Everything was contradicted to what he had thought.
Suddenly, Ann stopped. Happily she said,“Since you don’t have clouds, if the people see you, they would think you are weird. This is the Valley of Grass. If you eat the grasses’ fruit, you would be able to float.”
“Oh, so this is the Valley of Grass.”Zhi said in a motional voice,“in ancient histories, the leaf of the Valley of grass looks comparable to a pine tree leaf. At the top of the grass, there is a seed, the seed contains huge growing powers. If you breathe in front of the grass, it will grow until it is one metre high. Then the fruit will pop out. The fruit is sour and sweet. It is delicious. If you do eat the fruit, you would be able to float one metre above the ground for a whole day.”
Ann picked up a leaf from the ground. She gently blew at the leaf. Surprisingly, the leaf grew one inch. She blew it again and the leaf grew another one inch. After three more blows, the leaf was around one metre. The leaf then sprung a fruit. The fruit was round, squishy and bright yellow. It was very cute.
“Yummy food? I want it.” Ren shouted as he grabbed the squishy yellow fruit. He took a big fat bite into the squishy fruit. Ren started munching on the fruit with a really pleasant face. As he ate the fruit, he said,“Yum, YUM!!!!” After Ren finished, Yoyo realised that Ren was slowly floating up.
“I am flying, I am flying!!!” Ren shouted with a big burst of happiness.
Ann picked up a leaf from the ground and gave it Yoyo. She said joyfully,“It is very fun, you should try it out.”
Yoyo took a deep breath and blew at the leaf. After a few more blows the leaf’s seed popped into a bright squishy yellow fruit. Yoyo took a juicy bite into the fruit. Surprisingly he found that the fruit tasted somewhat like strawberry. Yoyo quickly finished the bright yellow fruit. Suddenly he felt that his body getting lighter. He was floating in the air!!!!!!!!!
After everyone was floating in the sky, Ann went to pick up some big leaves. When she was collecting the leaves, everyone else was admiring their new flying skills. After, Ann turned the leaves into towels and wrapped them around Yoyo and the small demons’ legs to hide the identity.
Yoyo thought the towels make the perfect camouflage.
Yoyo, the demons and Ann were all floating towards Cloud Valley. Yoyo noticed that the further they floated, the more people they could see. Everyone in Cloud Valley use clouds to “walk” around. Some people were carrying a big bag. Yoyo noticed, in the bag, there was a wriggling rainbow thing but he could not figure out what it is.