Chapter 14: The Jackal Worships the Moon (End of Volume 1)

"Qimen Dunjia" is all written in obscure language, Lin Junxuan felt that he was in the clouds for a while, and fatigue hit, and he fell asleep after a while.

"Whew!—"

In the middle of the night, when Lin Junxuan was sleeping hazy, he was suddenly woken up by a burst of wolf howls. Opening his eyes, Lin Junxuan lay on the bed and listened, the howl was like a wolf instead of a wolf, and the place where the sound came from seemed to be not far from where his aunt and grandmother lived.

"Could that be a jackal!" Lin Junxuan thought in his heart, but in his mind, he remembered his aunt's admonition before going to bed. His curiosity wasn't very strong, but somehow, he always felt a little weird tonight. Looking sideways at the window, the window was bright and clear, and the snow-like moonlight fell through the window, Lin Junxuan remembered that today was the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar of this month.

The night was like ink, and the howling outside the window soon stopped, just when Lin Junxuan was about to fall asleep again, suddenly a sound came from outside the house, and the sound seemed to be coming directly from here, from the sound, there should be three to five rushing towards here. Lin Junxuan's heart moved, lifted the quilt, put on his clothes, and walked quickly to the window, just under the window, three animals that looked like wolves but not wolves, dogs and not dogs swept through the window, when Lin Junxuan walked to the window, he happened to catch a glimpse, and a green cold light flashed in their eyes.

"Whew!—"

There was a long howl from the depths of the night, and the howl was like a sharp arrow into the depths of darkness, and soon the howls all around came and went, as if they were summoning, and as if they were responding to each other. Lin Junxuan watched the jackals under the moon gallop and howl and disappear into the darkness, and an impulse suddenly appeared in his heart.

"Go check it out. Lin Junxuan said in his heart, as if something was attracting him, he felt as if something extraordinary was going to happen today. After getting dressed, he was just about to leave, his eyes swept over the "Qimen Dunjia" by the pillow, and a strange feeling came to his heart, Lin Junxuan always felt that everything was strange tonight. After thinking about it, Lin Junxuan walked back again, picked up the ancient book and put it in his arms, then gently pushed the door open and walked out.

The night was quiet, a full moon hung high in the sky, and under the moonlight, the mountains stood in the dark, hideous and beautiful. Lin Junxuan walked out of the house and chased quickly in the direction where the three jackals had disappeared. The bright light was very bright, and Lin Junxuan's gaze could barely catch up with the three galloping black shadows under the moon.

"Howl!-" The howls of the jackals came from all directions, and the howls were getting closer and closer. The three jackals that Lin Junxuan followed ran very fast, and they were still in sight at the beginning, but when they increased their speed, they disappeared from Lin Junxuan's field of vision in an instant.

The howls in the dark night came and went, and the jackals in several mountains within a radius seemed to be gathering in one direction, and with that howl, Lin Junxuan walked quickly in the night, without the slightest fear in his heart, he pushed away the waist-high weeds all the way, and followed forward. I don't know how long it took, but the howls in front of me suddenly disappeared, and the jackals seemed to disappear again in the air, leaving only the aftermath of the distant hills. Lin Junxuan knew that there was something wrong ahead, so he slowed down. Lowering his body, Lin Junxuan slowly leaned over, a few minutes later, Lin Junxuan pushed aside the grass, a lush tree in front of him stood in the dark, next to the woods was a sunning flat paved with gravel, mud, and lime mixture, after the mountain people finished harvesting the grain, they would spread the millet on it to dry, and then collect.

Under the moonlit night, Lin Junxuan clearly saw the dense jackals lined up in a circle, with their front legs bent and their hind legs straight, kneeling on the sunning flat in a pious posture, motionless. And in the middle of this group of jackals, a jackal as strong as a wolfdog, with a circle of white hairs around its neck, stood proudly under the moonlit night, and its eyes radiated a cold light, like a king patrolling its people.

"This is a jackal king!" Lin Junxuan looked at the wolf king standing under the moonlit night and said in his heart, at this moment, the white hair on the neck of the jackal king shook, and raised his head and let out a loud howl again, as soon as the howl stopped, the howls of other jackals sounded in the depths of the mountain, as if they were responding to the call of this 'king'.

Lin Junxuan poked his head out, and through the long weeds, he saw that vigorous black shadows were rushing from all directions.

Lin Junxuan was watching intently, and suddenly smelled a fragrance of the female surname, Huo Ran looked back, only to see a familiar figure squatting behind him, and when he saw Lin Junxuan turning around, the person smiled at him slightly.

"Why are you here?" Lin Junxuan looked at Du Ruoyao, his brows furrowed deeply, he never thought that Du Ruoyao would sneak up and follow.

"Here, I wasn't used to sleeping, I didn't fall asleep until midnight, I just heard movement in your room, and found that you suddenly ran out, and I was curious, so I followed," Du Ruoyao said, she was wearing a set of pajamas and a coat on the outside, obviously she was in a hurry to come out, and she didn't have time to change her clothes.

"Go back, it's not for you, it's too dangerous. Lin Junxuan said.

"I heard the howl, it's a jackal. I've never seen a jackal, so let me see, I'm not afraid, and didn't my aunt say it? Jackals don't eat people. Du Ruoyao said.

Lin Junxuan was about to say something, when he suddenly saw the jackal king's long ears tremble, guessing that he had heard something, and quickly stretched out a finger to his lips to stop Du Ruoyao from saying more. Both men held their breath and remained motionless. Waiting for Lin Junxuan to nod, Du Ruoyao crept to Lin Junxuan's side again, and lay down, and the two of them lay in the grass, looking at the group of jackals gathered at the edge of the woods.

Both of them were puzzled, they didn't understand what these wolves were doing here in the middle of the night, and looking at their appearance, it didn't seem to be for food.

The wilderness was silent, except for the sound of the wind blowing through the grass. At the edge of the woods, the jackals stood motionless on the sunning flat, and Lin Junxuan and Du Ruoyao were also motionless in the grass.

Half an hour had passed, and there was no more howling of jackals in the night, and all the wolves in the vicinity seemed to have rushed over. The wolf king's fur shook and he let out a long howl.

"Whew!—"

The jackals lying on the ground in a circle around them seemed to hear some command, and one by one they stood up tremblingly, and raised their necks in echo with a loud roar, which came again and again, like waves converging, in response to the howl of the jackal king.

"Whew!—" In the dark night, the voices of the jackals were heard far, far away, and in the mountains, every house was lit up, but no one came out of the house. In the countryside, lighting up the lights on such nights seems to be a long-standing custom.

"Whew!—"

There was another howl, and when I heard the howl of the jackal king, a team suddenly divided into a group of jackals around me, a team of about dozens of jackals, and pounced out in a neat and orderly manner, and both of them were startled behind the grass, and then found that the dozens of jackals were directly rushing towards a protruding black shadow on the edge of the woods. As soon as the jackals were divided, they surrounded the black shadow that protruded from the back of the tree, and then the sharp front paws were flung at the same time, and a large amount of dirt was thrown into the air.

"What are they digging that hill for?" Du Ruoyao lowered her voice and said in Lin Ruoxuan's ear, her voice trembled a little, everything here obviously made her feel a little scared, and the only thing that made her barely calm was the quiet young man beside her.

"No, that's not a hill," Lin Junxuan was silent for a moment, and then suddenly said, "That's a grave!" People in the mountains are all buried, unlike people in the city who will be cremated. After the burial, this pile of graves is left behind.

"Ahh In the mountains, there are many trees, grass, and rocks, and the wind blows through these places, and sometimes the sound is like the voice of a human being.

"Shhhhhh Lin Junxuan whispered, his composure and voice seemed to have an invisible magic, which made Du Ruoyao quickly quiet down. The two of them lay in the grass without saying a word, watching quietly.

Dozens of jackals picked up together, and the mound was quickly dug and hollowed, and after a few minutes, a jackal suddenly rushed to the bottom of the mound, and with a mouth and a toss, a black thing flew out of the ground. The black thing fell, and was jumped up by another jackal, with its head, and threw it up, one after another, constantly throwing the things dug out of the ground, by the bright moonlight, the two of them saw clearly, it was a human skull!!

A burst of rapid breathing sounded from her side, Lin Junxuan turned her head and found that Lin Ruoyao's eyes were wide in horror, her chest rose and fell sharply, her hands were tightly covering her mouth, and everything in front of her was beyond her imagination. Lin Junxuan shook his head in his heart, for this situation, he felt weird and a little frightened, after all, he had never seen this kind of scene, but he kept his composure, because there was a weak woman next to him, even if this woman had a high-profile style.

"It's just a skull, nothing to be afraid of. Lin Junxuan patted Du Ruoyao's shoulder to comfort her not to be afraid, and at the same time stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of his aunt's house behind him, signaling her to go back. Although the sky is full like a full moon, it is not daytime after all, although it is only separated by a distance, it still looks like it is a black piece, everything is connected, hidden in the darkness, and the intermittent sound of the wind can be faintly heard, Du Ruoyao saw the jackal digging the grave, chattering about the skull, only to feel extremely terrifying, and all the dark things that brought it made her afraid, where could she still tell where it was her aunt's house, and she didn't dare to go back alone if she was killed.

Lin Junxuan saw that her whole body was trembling, and she had no intention of leaving, so she ignored her.

On a moonlit night, jackals howled and jumped, their voices a little excited, as if they were having a grand celebration. After a while, the skull of Bai Sensen fell to the feet of the Jackal King, the skull had two hollow eye sockets, looking at the sky, and its jaws were wide open, looking quite terrifying.

"Howl!-"

The jackal king let out a long howl, and the dense wolves around him bowed his head obediently, and the jackal king glanced around like a king, and then lowered his head, with a canine tooth, and bit the skull at his feet, and with a flick of his head, the skull was thrown into the air, and the moonlight fell on the skull, and the skull was also coated with a layer of frosty silver. Underneath the skull, the Jackal King stepped on his front legs, and suddenly the man stood up, and the skull and skull that rolled its head towards the air let out a desolate howl.

"Whew!—"

The moonlight is like washing, under the moonlight, the jackal king stands up, and all around, all the jackals are lying on the ground, kneeling and worshipping, only this time, the object of their worship is not the jackal king, but the skull in the air and the bright moon in the sky.

"Whew!-"

The wind was howling in the wilderness, and the originally bright earth suddenly darkened, Lin Junxuan raised his head, only to see the dark clouds in the sky suddenly rolling, covering in the direction of the bright moon from all directions. And the edge of the bright moon, suddenly appeared a circle of black, the moonlight quickly became dim, that circle of darkness 'eaten' the moon at an alarming speed, only a moment the moon became completely black, only the edge of the edge of the extremely thin waning moon hanging high in the air.

"Lunar Eclipse!-" Looking at the vision in the sky, Lin Junxuan's mind subconsciously flashed a noun. The phenomenon that occurs when the Moon moves into the shadow of the Earth usually occurs during the full moon!

This thought was still in his mind, and what happened in the next moment completely overturned the cognition in Lin Junxuan's mind:

Just as the moon in the sky was only left with the glow of a waning moon on the edge, a circular beam of light fell from all around the moon, straight through the dark void, and landed on the flying skull. At the moment when the moonlight beam passed through, the skull suddenly emitted a circle of transparent turquoise light, and then it stood eerily motionless in the air. Circles of ripples like water spread in all directions, centered on the turquoise skull hanging high in the air. The whole world suddenly fell silent in an instant, and the eyes of the jackals were focused on the skeleton.

"Wow!-" In the grass, Lin Junxuan stood up as if he was enchanted, and he stood in the weeds like that, not caring about the eyes of those jackals.

"What are you doing, squat down!" Du Ruoyao was in a hurry, never expecting Lin Junxuan to suddenly stand up at this time. Everything here revealed weirdness, which made her feel strongly uneasy and frightened, and she grabbed Lin Junxuan's hand tightly, for fear that he would go out, although at this time, it was useless to cover it up.

"Let it go," Lin Junxuan's voice came from above her head, Du Ruoyao raised her head, and saw that the young man she admired in her heart was looking at her calmly. 'Does he know what he's doing' Seeing those calm eyes, a thought crossed Du Ruoyao's mind that made her feel crazy. What made her even more crazy was that she really let go of her hand.

The wolves who were originally prostrate on the ground had already discovered these two voyeurs, one by one the jackals bared their teeth and stared at the human boy who was walking not far away. Lin Junxuan's expression was calm, and there was no fear in his heart. The moment he saw the strange skull in the air, a strong thought suddenly rose in Lin Junxuan's heart to get close to it: "Go over and catch him!" As soon as this thought was generated, it was like a fire that could not be explained! Lin Junxuan believed in his own intuition.

Pushing aside the grass, Lin Junxuan walked over step by step......

"Huh!~" Seeing a human teenager approaching, the dense pack of jackals on the sun-grained flat turned their heads, baring their teeth one by one, and their eyes emitted bursts of cold light. If ordinary people had seen it, they would have retreated long ago.

Facing the hostile pack of jackals, Lin Junxuan didn't have the slightest look of fear on his face, his expression was calm, his eyes stared at the jackals on the opposite side, and he slowly leaned down. A ferocious dog will often make frightened noises when humans lean down, and then run away quickly. In the interpretation of the mountain people, dogs tend to see humans leaning over as their own kind. Dogs tend to be afraid of their own larger counterparts. And jackals, like dogs, have the same surname.

Lin Junxuan slowly leaned down, and at the same time, a terrifying cold light emanated from his originally peaceful eyes, which was even more terrifying than the light in the eyes of the jackals. As soon as the jackals came into contact with Lin Junxuan's gaze, they were like seeing a kind of person who was larger and more ferocious than their own, and they avoided it one by one in fright.

This is the law of survival in nature, and it is also suitable for jackals. Lin Junxuan's gaze swept over the jackals one by one, and none of the jackals could force their gaze to meet them.

"Ruoyao, get out of here!" Lin Junxuan advised Du Ruoyao in the grass while leaning down. The calm tone made the latter understand that the seemingly crazy teenager in front of him knew exactly what he was doing. That calmness is even more frightening than madness!

The wolves made a sound of canopy teeth and disappeared under Lin Junxuan's terrifying gaze, and one after another the jackals whined, don't turn their heads. Don't dare to face Lin Junxuan's gaze. Standing up satisfied, Lin Junxuan stepped forward again, the jackal whined, made a frightened sound, and retreated one after another.

"Whew!—"

After a howl, the jackals suddenly separated, and the jackal king, who had a white circle around his neck, walked slowly with light steps. Lin Junxuan didn't stop, he looked at the eyes of the jackal king, who was plated with a layer of silver all over his body, and walked forward along the passage that the jackals had vacated.

The Jackal King's green eyes stared at the young man in front of him, and Lin Junxuan didn't let it go at all, staring at the Jackal King deadly. The aura of the sages cultivated by reading the books of the sages for a long time played a role at this moment, his spirit was complete, the jackal king stared at his eyes, in the eyes of this human boy, it did not see fear, only the irreversible will of steel, this will it had never felt in humans, it was so powerful that the jackal king felt that his spirit was gradually dissipating in front of an iron will, it could not resist the powerful will of this young man, this will was as vast as heaven and earth, and it could not resist!

"Woo!~" The white fur on the neck of the jackal king hung down softly, and it lowered its head, and let out a low whining sound from its mouth. Lin Junxuan pressed forward step by step, and it retreated step by step. Lin Junxuan took a step forward, but it had to take two steps back, as if an invisible giant blade was in front of it in the air, forcing it.

"Woo!~" With a grief, the Jackal King finally lowered his head and stepped aside. There was no more obstacle between Lin Junxuan and the skull. Lin Junxuan walked forward, and all the jackals looked at him in unison, their eyes moving with his pace, but none of the jackals came out to stop him.

Lin Junxuan quietly looked at the skull in mid-air, the skeleton was within reach, and when he approached it, he found that it looked very supernatural. Without any hesitation, the next moment, Lin Junxuan stretched out one of his arms violently and grabbed the skull in mid-air.

"Wow!-" The star-shaped pendant chain hanging around Lin Junxuan's neck suddenly floated up automatically, making a vibrating sound. In the darkness, the star-shaped falling chain emitted a faint white light, and an invisible energy entered Lin Junxuan's body along the falling chain, and along his arm, it sank into the turquoise skull.

"Boom!-" The skull skull shook, and suddenly shattered, a black vortex emerged in the void at the same time as the skull shattered, and the wind raged around it, and the black vortex immediately rotated and expanded rapidly as soon as it was formed, and the center of the vortex emitted a strong suction, which sucked Lin Junxuan, who was close at hand, into it.

Lin Junxuan only felt that his eyes were dark, and he was sucked into a dark and narrow passage, his body rotated with that powerful suction, and under the influence of that powerful force, Lin Junxuan felt that his body seemed to shrink sharply. I couldn't tell the direction in the dark, I could only hear a 'boom' sound in my ears, and a bright light passed through my eyes, and then Lin Junxuan didn't know anything......

(End of Volume 1!);