A drizzle of rain fell and a thick fog shrouded it.

At the top of Centipede Ridge, a hundred-legged centipede with thick and red thighs was entrenched on a boulder, raising its head high, as if it was guarding against something.

It's amazing that a centipede can grow to its arms, let alone as thick as a thigh? That's just incredible.

Seeing this centipede, I was almost completely sure that it was it that took control of the corpse of the old woman guarding the temple and brought us into the temple last night.

And now Liu Xiaojiao suddenly disappeared, and nine times out of ten she was taken away by it.

It stands to reason that this demon-like monster would not have been so easily injured, but at this moment, there were several large holes in the carapace on its body, and green liquid overflowed from the wound.

The mountain breeze swept and the fishy smell spread around.

I smelled the fishy wind, and my head immediately felt dizzy, and my chest felt tight, and I couldn't help myself.

The air is poisonous, and with my constitution, if the others were here, they would probably have fainted from the poisonous gas.

Don't think about it, this hundred-legged centipede in front of me is definitely a king-level existence among poisons, at least I feel that it is a little more powerful than the ghost-faced crab king in the crystal cave.

Otherwise, with the arrogant character of the little red snake, he would have already rushed up to fight with him at this moment? How can it be so peaceful as it is now?

That's right, the little red snake is very peaceful now, it is lying in a stone crevice at the moment only to see it hidden, only showing a small head to look at the centipede, the little red house stretches out from time to time.

After I found the centipede king, I hid behind the boulder like the little red snake, and I didn't dare to expose it.

Just as I was guessing how the Centipede King had been injured, a loud cry suddenly came from under the cliff.

The sound was crisp and loud, as if it could pierce the clouds, and even the poison on the mountain was dispelled a little under this cry.

It doesn't look like it, but from this voice, you can tell that the other party is a strange thing.

Otherwise, why did the little red snake on the side shrink down?

The sound of fluttering sounded from under the cliff, and the other party had wings, probably a sacred bird.

When I think of the Divine Bird, I can't help but think of the spirit bird I met in the secret realm of Heaven, I don't know what happened to it now?

Soon, a figure fluttered its wings and came up from the bottom of the mountain and landed on another boulder opposite the Centipede King.

When I looked closely and saw what the other party was, the whole person was a little dumbfounded.

I thought that the other party was a mythical bird or something, but I never thought that it would be a poultry that we rural people can often see - a rooster!

That's right, the confrontation with the centipede king is a chicken, a rooster.

It's just that the rooster in front of me is a little different from an ordinary rooster, and the feathers on its whole body are actually golden yellow, without a trace of variegation. On his head was a blood-red crown of flesh, nearly six inches high, and his eyes were shining with divine light, majestic and majestic, like a king.

The long pointed beak on its mouth was like a sickle, long and sharp, more permeable than the beak of an eagle, and its jaw was hung from two pieces of blood-red flesh on the left and right, which looked like two stunning agate stones.

In particular, its chicken feet were very thick, like dragon claws, and under its claws were a hundred-legged centipede the size of a baby's arm.

The centipede struggled under the claws, but no matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't escape. The golden rooster holds his head high, and he is very handsome, and he doesn't know that it is a mortal thing at first glance.

I remembered that there is a kind of bird in the Xiangxi region that is the nemesis of all kinds of poisons, that is, the angry eye chicken, which is said to feed on poisons, and its chirp, when the poison is heard miles away, they have to hide in the deep hole and dare not come out.

However, although the rooster in front of him is strange, his coat color is a little different from the legendary angry eye chicken. Judging from its full golden retriever, I am afraid that it is only a golden rooster that is older than the origin of the angry eye chicken!

There is a record of this kind of golden rooster in the "Divine Strange Scripture * Eastern Wilderness Classic", which says: Gai, there is a jade chicken in Fusang Mountain. The jade rooster crows the golden rooster; The golden rooster crows and the stone rooster crows; The rooster crows the roosters in the world, and the tide should be.

From the above records, it can be seen that the golden rooster is much more powerful than the angry eye chicken, because no matter how powerful the angry eye chicken is, it is just an ordinary bird, but the golden chicken is already a god chicken.

Of course, no one has really seen what is recorded in the Divine Sutra, and the authenticity of it has yet to be verified.

But in any case, this also illustrates the miracle of the golden rooster in front of him from the side.

Although I grew up in the mountains and have seen a lot of pheasants, it was the first time I saw this golden rooster, and I was really surprised.

But seeing the golden rooster and the centipede king confronting each other, I remembered a folk tale.

Legend has it that a long time ago, centipedes and roosters were very good friends, and at that time the rooster's comb was still white, and there was a pair of blood-red horns, and it was covered with colorful feathers, which looked both majestic and beautiful.

The centipede was much larger than the centipede now, but it was very ugly, with neither beautiful feathers nor bright horns, and it was much shabby compared to the rooster.

Once, when the Jade Emperor in the sky was celebrating his birthday and asked all creatures on the earth to worship in the sky, the centipede said to the rooster: "Brother Chicken, tomorrow is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, everyone is dressed up so beautifully, you look at me shabby, how can I be embarrassed to see the Jade Emperor?" You have a cockscomb, and you have beautiful feathers, and can you lend me your horns? When I come back after placing the Jade Emperor, I will definitely return it to you. ”

For the sake of his friend, the rooster generously agreed. She endured the severe pain and pulled out the horns from her head, and after the centipede put on the horns, her face was completely new.

After worshipping the Jade Emperor, the rooster and the centipede returned to the world, and it stands to reason that the centipede should take the initiative to return the horns to the rooster. However, in the process of returning, it casually took a picture of its own figure, and liked the bright red horn on its head very much, and the more it looked at it, the more beautiful it became, and it was reluctant to return the horn to the rooster.

From then on, it was like a debt escape, hiding today and tomorrow, and it was not playing with roosters like before.

As the days passed, the rooster was very angry when he saw that the centipede had no conscience and did not keep his promises, so he found the centipede and wanted his horn back.

The centipede did something wrong, trembling with fright, and went straight into the crack in the stone, and the rooster was so angry that he smashed the centipede's home, and the centipede was never homeless again.

As the centipede grows older, it lives in the cracks of the stones, its body is flattened and small by the stones, and the horns borrowed from the rooster have degenerated into a pair of small tentacles, and its appearance has become even more ugly than before.

When he saw the rooster, he was so frightened that his legs became weak and he couldn't crawl, and whenever the rooster encountered a centipede, he was so angry that he had to eat it.

Since then, centipedes and attacks have been formed for generations, centipedes hide when they see roosters, and roosters peck when they see centipedes.

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Although this is only a folklore story, the content of the story may not be credible, but it illustrates the truth that all things in the world are born and restrain each other.

Centipede Ridge is full of centipedes, and if there were no natural predators nearby, they would have multiplied long ago.

It's like finding something poisonous next to something poisonous.

In this way, it makes sense that this golden rooster appears here.

Poof!

Just as I was thinking about it, the golden rooster suddenly moved, and I saw that its head pecked down like lightning, and the centipede held down by its claws was immediately pecked through its head by it, and died of exhaustion.

When the centipede king saw the golden rooster kill his disciples, he was visibly excited, and countless barb-like feet swung in the air, making a trembling sound, and venom seeped out from the soles of his feet.

I saw that the blood-red hundred-legged centipede swooped towards the golden rooster, and its speed was comparable to that of the little red snake.

The golden rooster held its head high, and when it saw the centipede king pounce, he flapped his wings and jumped on another rock in a hurry. But the centipede king was so fast that he couldn't pounce, and he didn't stop for the slightest reason to pounce again.

This time the golden rooster did not dodge again, and turned back to peck.

Suddenly the golden rooster and the centipede king fought together, and for a while, on the top of the stone mountain, the poisonous mist rolled, and the cry shook the sky, and I was dizzy when I saw it.

Although it was the nemesis of the centipede when it attacked, the centipede in front of him was so thick that it was no longer afraid of natural restraint, unlike other poisons, as long as it heard the rooster crow, it was so frightened that it hid in the ground and did not dare to come out.

The reason why I was dizzy was because I had inhaled too much poisonous mist, and yes, even I couldn't resist it.

After a long fight, the golden rooster shed a lot of feathers, and the centipede king was even worse, the carapace on his body was pecked, and the green liquid it spilled was everywhere on the stones.

Some of the liquid fell on the blades of grass, and the blades of grass immediately fell down, so you can imagine how poisonous it was.

I avoided too far and didn't dare to get too close, for fear that the slightest mistake would harm the fish in the pond.

However, the little red snake took advantage of the golden rooster and the centipede king to swim closer, as if he wanted to take advantage of the fisherman.

In the end, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I had to climb down to get some fresh air, or I would have to pass out.

After resting for a few minutes, I was a little clearer, and when I climbed to the top of the mountain and looked again, I saw an incredible scene.

I saw that after the carapace of the centipede king's whole body was pecked by the golden rooster, six wings as thin as cicada wings were actually revealed on its back.

At this moment, two of its six wings have been torn off by the golden rooster with its sharp claws, and it is flying and crumbling in mid-air.

And although the golden rooster injured the centipede king, it itself was not comfortable, one wing was injured, and the blood-red cockscomb may have been bitten by the centipede, and it turned purple and black.

"Centipedes have wings! Could this be the legendary flying centipede? ”

I was amazed to see that the centipede king flying in the air suddenly landed in a certain place, and the next moment suddenly it soared into the air with a man in its arms, and then fell down the valley.

But when I saw the man the centipede was holding, I could no longer be calm, and jumped out from behind the rock wall and shouted, "Evil beast, dare! ”

However, when I chased to the edge of the cliff, I saw that the clouds and mist under the valley were misty, and there was no trace of it.

The golden rooster on the side did not panic at my appearance in the slightest, only to see it flutter its wings and fly down in the opposite direction to the centipede king, and disappeared into the cloudy mountains and forests.

For a while, the top of the mountain was surprisingly quiet, only the mountain wind was blowing and hunting sounded.

I frowned and looked at the valley, the clouds and mist below blocked my vision, and I didn't know how deep it was, and the person who was taken away when the Flying Centipede King fled just now, although I only glanced at it in a hurry, I could see it clearly.

That person is the missing Liu Xiaojiao......