Chapter 358 The Hen Crows at Dawn

Hens are female chickens.

The so-called hen crowing at dawn means that hens start crowing like roosters. In ancient times, women's rights were suppressed and this was used to curse and ridicule women who were involved in politics and broke the rules.

I really couldn't connect what was happening in front of me with the hen crowing at dawn. It was late at night and it was still dark. The crowing of a rooster at this time was not considered dawn, right? Moreover, the crowing of a rooster is not like human voice. How can you tell the difference between male and female by calling out two times?

Brother Yaozi didn't have time to explain these. With a wave of his hand, Lao Bai swung me onto his shoulders like a sack, hurriedly identified the direction, turned around and plunged into the vast jungle.

The group of people hurried, and the weeds they kicked made a "rustling" sound.

Cluck, cluck, cluck! !

The high-pitched crowing of a rooster came again, extremely clear, almost indistinguishable from the crowing next to a person's ear.

"This rooster crowing sound is not right."

Wan Niang paused and whispered: "Why am I so irritable in my heart? I feel like a sense of anger is rising. I can't do it anymore. Zhang Xinya, come here. If this continues, I'm afraid I will do something bad."

I looked back and saw that her pupils had faded. Now the owner of this body was Zhang Xinya.

I looked at the people around me and found that except Wan Niang, there was nothing unusual about the others.

Could it be that this rooster crowing sound only affects the dead?

I was a little worried about Cang Yao, and asked her and Yin Nu about their conditions in my heart. Cang Yao was furious and said that I disturbed her sweet dreams.

I was not angry after getting frustrated. I was a little relieved when I confirmed that they were not affected.

Brother Yaozi seemed to know what I was thinking. He hurriedly cleared the way in front of me, panting as he said, "The rooster crows at dawn, and the hen crows at midnight. This is the opposition of yin and yang."

He said that among the three kinds of livestock, the rooster is the one with the heaviest yang energy. Whether it is rooster blood or raw chicken bones, they are rare evil-repelling objects. Maoshan Taoist priests like to rely on these external objects the most and often use them to cast spells. When the night ends and the dawn breaks, the yang is strong and the yin is weak between heaven and earth. The rooster interacts with the yang energy and will crow, which can shock the ghosts and urge them to stay away from the world of the living.

Hens are just the opposite. They can sense the yin energy and call ghosts and gods. The rooster crows at midnight, which is when fierce ghosts travel at night. They will call the evil spirits on the road into the house. Once or twice may be an accident, but if a hen must crow every night, such a hen cannot be kept. This is a betrayal.

Wan Niang'er is a ghost after all, and she was just affected by the crowing of this hen.

"Chicken..."

I muttered to myself, it seems that this is also one of the monsters cultivated by the tooth-cutter. It crows at this time to attract evil ghosts and cause trouble for us.

This thing is like a ghost. We can only hear the crowing of chickens, but we don't know where it is hiding. At first, it called once or twice every once in a while. In the end, it found that we were only concerned about escaping in a hurry. It seemed to be bolder all of a sudden. The crowing of chickens was endless. We didn't see any ghosts being called by it, but it made us upset.

Alas!

Da Huang couldn't bear it, and suddenly roared angrily. He shook his body and threw Xiao Zhi on the cold mountain road, and "swooshed" into the dense forest on the side.

After a moment, the dense forest was roaring and the chickens were crowing, and the dirt and grass debris were flying everywhere.

This is obviously the real owner.

Wushuang reacted the fastest, pushing Yindi into the arms of Old Man Qi and rushing over to where the fight was.

The roaring roosters in the forest stopped abruptly.

I was worried about Wushuang, and was about to urge Brother Yaozi and the others to go in to help, but I saw the bushes next to me trembling, and then a tiger ran out in a panic, with many parts of its body hair scratched bald. Wushuang pulled its tail and was dragged out in the mud.

"What a big chicken..."

Wushuang murmured, "Just when I went in, the other party turned around and stood on one leg, just like a roc spreading its wings. I was stunned and couldn't defend myself and was blown away by a wing..."

"There!"

Xiaozhi pointed to the front and shouted.

I saw a giant bird running wildly on the ground, its wings "flapping", and its two long legs swinging fast.

Old Bai stared at the giant bird in astonishment as it flashed before our eyes and disappeared into the jungle, muttering, "How can this be a chicken? It's clearly an ostrich!"

"Don't worry about it, hurry up!"

Brother Yaozi said in a deep voice, "The sacrifice of Jingzhe is huge. It's hard to clear the Haier trees in the valley. I dare not delay. I will return to Zhenwu Temple as soon as possible to rest in peace."

The Haier trees were cleared, but the Black Emperor's Water Array is still there.

When we actually walked in, we realized how terrible this maze was. Before, it was just thick fog. When we really walked in, there was only a gray area in front of us, as if a gray cloth covered our eyes. Lao Bai carried me on his back. I was very close to him, but I couldn't see his head. This was a typical case of blindness...

The best way to break this formation is for one person to watch and command at the gap in the formation, and one person to enter the formation to dig out the foothold. Unfortunately, Ya Jue didn't give us such time. The situation was serious and we didn't dare to separate. Fortunately, I had seen this valley thoroughly inside and out before, and I remembered the terrain in my mind, so I asked everyone to follow my command and move forward, and no one should mess up.

While reviewing my memory, I asked Lao Bai to move forward according to my command. After trying several times in succession, Lao Bai finally succeeded in digging out the first foothold.

This is a test of cooperation between people, and it can't be rushed. After a long time of twists and turns, when Lao Bai pulled out the last foothold, a gust of "whoosh" wind passed through the valley, and the rolling mist disappeared in an instant. Under the bright moon, the valley was winding and secluded.

Lao Bai was tense to do all this, and he seemed to be weak. His body was wet, and I could smell a sour smell of sweat when I lowered my head. He let out a long breath and waved to Brother Yaozi and the others, saying that he should sit down and rest for a while. He was panting so hard that he seemed to be dying.

After that, regardless of whether Brother Yaozi agreed or not, he put me on a big rock beside him, and he held the big rock and wanted to sit on the ground.

A crisp sound of "click" came into my ears, very light. I lowered my head and found a round skull mixed in among the pebbles next to the big stone. It was white, and the empty eye sockets were flashing with green light, flickering. The mouth opened and closed, like a thirsty fish, and the teeth collided with "click". It seemed that it wanted to fly up and bite people. After shaking a few times, it found that it could not fly, so it could only drool at Lao Bai's butt in vain.

This thing was mixed in the pebbles, and it was impossible to find it without careful observation. Lao Bai did not notice it. While talking nonsense with Brother Yaozi, he was about to sit on it. I shouted "Ah", and just as I was about to remind him, Lao Bai slammed his butt firmly on the skull. With a crisp sound of "click", the skull was smashed to pieces.

"Ah!!"

A shrill scream came from under Lao Bai's butt, and a black gas floated out.

Lao Bai was so frightened that he jumped up from the ground immediately, his fat face trembling constantly.

This scene also made me a little stunned. There was obviously a fierce ghost living in the skull, and the result was that his soul was scattered.

I think this is enough for Lao Bai to brag about for the rest of his life. How cruel is it to sit on a fierce ghost and kill him?

Suddenly, a stream of cold sand poured into my neck. I subconsciously shrank my head, and immediately touched a hard object on the back of my head. It was a hand. Before I could react, this hand suddenly grabbed the back of my neck.

I instinctively reached back and grabbed a piece of cold and hard bone. I pulled it hard, and with a "crack", a white arm bone was pulled in front of me. As for the hand bone, it had already stopped on my neck, but it was no longer exerting force. After a shrill scream, the bone "cracked" and broke into pieces, and a finger rolled into my neck along the collar.

"There's a ghost!"

Lao Bai yelled, turned around and ran away. He just said that he was too tired to live, but when it came to running for his life, he ran faster than Da Huang.

I was exhausted and couldn't stand up at this time. In anger, I smashed the arm bone in my hand on the back of Lao Bai's head and cursed: "Can you take me with you first?!"

Lao Bai just reacted and was about to turn back, but Brother Yaozi had already come up and carried me. For a while, there was chaos here.

Needless to say, this was the credit of the hen.

From time to time, a dry ghost claw would appear on the earth wall on both sides to grab people, and a foot bone would suddenly fly out from the rocks and kick people...

This is the most bizarre haunted incident I have ever encountered in my life.

However, these ghosts are too weak.

It was normal for us to deal with this. Until the old man Qi crushed a skull with his foot, and the evil ghost living inside was scared away, I couldn't help but start to wonder if there was something weird in it. It was too weak, so weak that it was unbearable to look at! !

After thinking about it for a while, I gradually put my mind at ease.

If nothing unexpected happened, these bones in the valley should be left by the Jin soldiers who were defeated here that year.

A maze like the Black Emperor's Water Array is not only for the living, but also for the dead trapped in the array.

After the Jingkang Incident, the hatred between Song and Jin had reached its peak. The weak Southern Song had erupted in unimaginable bloodiness in a short period of time. In such an environment, there was no need to mention respecting the enemy. The Jin soldiers died in this battle, and the Song army would never collect their bodies. Their souls were trapped in the formation for a thousand years. This was not a very gloomy place to nourish souls. The ghosts of these Jin soldiers could only live on the bones to survive. Even so, after a thousand years, most of them were still soulless, leaving only a small part. The weak ones were almost no different from meat on the board, not to mention harming people. Even if ordinary people crushed the bones they lived on, they would be finished immediately.

The founder of the Zhenwu Temple set up this formation here, but he did not move away after defeating the enemy. Perhaps he had this idea in mind. Under the strong hatred, he came up with a vicious plan to train the souls of these Jin soldiers...

Logically speaking, such weak souls would have fallen into silence long ago. It is estimated that the damn hen forcibly awakened them...

I can understand these things. Brother Yaozi is also a veteran in the martial arts world. How could he not figure it out?

After a little thought, he smiled and said, "I thought this yaji had endless tricks, such as the silk-wrapped Gu and these cultivated monsters. It seems that she is not really all-powerful. She will always run out of tricks. Since you broke those child trees, she has no other tricks. She is unwilling to fail, so she had to send the chicken to crow all over the mountains at midnight, trying to wake up the dead people who might exist in the mountains, but she never thought that she would call a group of weaklings. Apart from these weaklings, what other evil creatures are there here? The quiet place of Taoism cannot accommodate these things."

I smiled. From the beginning to the end, we have never even seen the face of this yaji. I can force the opponent to this point by countering her moves. It is worthy of my master's teachings.

Facts have proved that Brother Yaozi's statement is completely true. The weaklings in the valley can't do anything to us. Apart from that, there are no other fierce creatures in the mountains. We crossed the valley all the way and arrived at the back mountain of Zhenwu Temple. After walking around the dense forest, the mountain gate was visible from afar.

At this time, it was still dark, and there were only two lanterns in front of the mountain gate, casting a dim light.

Looking from a distance, I could vaguely see a person sitting cross-legged in front of the mountain gate. He was very small, definitely not my master, but he was wearing a wide Taoist robe, holding a sword and meditating, motionless.

When Brother Yaozi saw this person, he couldn't help but stop and frowned and said to himself: "Who is this?"