forest?” thought Wong Dong. He dodged the waves just in time. However, the waves drowned the
horse along with the supplies, and Wong Dong was now only left with the sword. He travelled
south and had no idea how he was going to survive. He just hoped he would meet a black-tailed
gazelle which he knew lived in the Gobi forest.
Then, he saw the blade of the sword glowing red.
Ten angry wolves suddenly appeared and surrounded him. Their eyes focused on his fresh
meat. The wolves attacked and immediately his face was covered with wounds and blood. His
armor was what saved him from death. He used the sword in his hands and chopped off one of the
wolves’ heads. Then another and another…
After the wolves were all killed, Wong Dong, who was very hungry, searched for meat under
the wolves’ skin. But strangely, there was no meat in the wolves’ bodies - only bones! Wong Dong
sat on a rock and looked at the sword. The curse and his father’s words flashed back into his head.
The curse was real!
Wong Dong decided to throw the sword as far away as he could, but the sword, which knew
what he was thinking, made words appear on the blade again: “To break the curse, you must
return the sword to its home, The Temple of Gold.” The blade suddenly turned to the direction west
by itself. Wong Dong quickly followed the directions.
After one day and one night of following the directions of the sword, he finally reached the
temple. The doors of the temple were opened as though the temple knew he would arrive. But when
he was just about a hundred metres from the doors of the temple, the blade turned red once again.
“Oh no!” cried Wong Dong, he knew something unlucky would happen a few seconds later,
probably his death. Then he thought of an idea, he threw the sword and hoped it would land in the
temple. But instead going into the temple, it hit the walls of the temple. The temple’s walls cracked
and with its heavy gold, the entire structure crashed down to the earth. Wong Dong was crushed
to death by the walls and the sword fell on the Gobi land. Its blade glowed red. Nothing ever grew
in the Gobi forest again…
That was the main reason the Gobi forest became the Gobi desert and the pounds of gold from
the temple became the large gold deposits located at Oyuu Tolgoi now.
