Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales

The silhouette of the "evil rat" is set in the late Qing Dynasty, a time of decline.

War, famine, and other natural and man-made disasters at the end of dynasties certainly provide fertile ground for the growth of corpse-digging dogs.

But one thing that intrigued Zhang Wei was how much food was being fed to support this massive pack of over a hundred dogs.

Even some wolves were pulled into the dog pack, existing as underlings and obeying the dog pack's commands.

Judging from their agile movements under the pressure of the malevolent energy and their vigorous vitality after being injured, most of these corpse-digging dogs are probably not far from becoming intelligent spirits.

The dog king, who had been hiding behind the scenes and controlling the pack of dogs to entangle him through intermittent howling, but who still refused to show himself, had most likely become powerful and transformed into a monster!

It can have hundreds of dog lackeys and wolf slaves fight it to the death, while it can comfortably hide behind the scenes and issue orders.

Judging from his appearance, he is definitely much stronger than the wolf spirit he first encountered. The yellow demon may not be as imposing as the dog king, but a rough dog king and a family-bred yellow demon are not easy to compare due to their different foundations!

Zhang Wei's palms moved, and the murderous aura swept around according to his will.

The dog king is hiding too deep. If he makes a move to spread his evil aura to search for the dog king, the pack of dogs in that direction will immediately scatter.

Thus, Zhang Wei could only determine his location by the howling of the pack of dogs.

But this thing is very cunning. After each howl, it will quickly move to a different location, and the pack of dogs will also take the opportunity to move, either to cover themselves or to pounce, mainly to harass and waste your energy to buy time for the alpha dog.

After the dogs have switched positions several times and become indistinguishable from one another, the long howls will resume!

"..."

It's a bit stretched, but it's not a big problem.

No matter how cunning the pack of dogs was, after losing more than ten of their companions and witnessing the power of the murderous aura, they were still defeated.

As long as the evil energy isn't fully unleashed, they generally won't risk approaching Zhang Wei, and Zhang Wei's strengthened physique and spirit are enough to sustain him in fighting the pack of dogs for several days.

The two sides remained deadlocked, with Zhang Wei still holding the advantage.

This time, he's not a newcomer, and his teammates are no longer mediocre or ordinary people.

Although I haven't seen all of An Yixi's abilities, her ancient witchcraft and exorcism techniques must be quite strong.

The only problem is that, given how cunning the pack of dogs is, will they temporarily give up if they realize they can't beat them?

The fact that the dog pack had given up hunting was not good news for Zhang Wei.

Although he has killed dozens of burial dogs so far, reducing the number of dogs in the entire mass grave by more than a third.

The problem is, despite killing so many vicious dogs, the patriarch's reward hasn't appeared yet.

If even a domestic pig bewitched by the Earthly Fiends and cast a spell on the Yellow Demon can provide rewards, there's no reason why a group of corpse-digging dogs that have grown in strength, including a monstrous-headed dog, shouldn't trigger the mechanism.

Thinking about it this way, the Dog King is probably the key to these monsters.

Or perhaps after killing the dog king, at least most of them should be slaughtered so that they can no longer gather in groups for a short period of time in order to attract the attention of the patriarch again.

After realizing this, Zhang Wei's purpose changed.

What was originally a deadly aura that transformed into blades to precisely kill packs of dogs now transforms into crimson nets as it soars through the air. Several dog-catching nets work together to surround the pack, and in the blink of an eye, one to two or three dogs digging up corpses are often captured.

The moment they caught the malevolent energy, they immediately began to strangle it.

The ropes originally used to bind the corpse dogs instantly transformed into deadly rotating chains, and the edges of these chains even produced sharp saw blades while binding the corpse dogs.

The blood net dispersed, leaving only enough malevolent chains to drag several corpse-digging dogs into the air.

The buzzing sound suddenly started, and in an instant, the mournful cries of the corpse dogs echoed across the fields.

Suddenly, a torrential downpour began in the dimly lit mountain valley, carrying a fishy, ​​foul odor and mixed with small, irregularly sized pieces of water.

While the corpse dogs were hanging in the air, and the pack was executing them, the previously separated malevolent energy fell back down, skimming the ground to block the pack.

"Waaaaah~"

He watched his companion being hung upside down and witnessed the tragedy unfold.

The previously patient pack of dogs suddenly let out mournful howls of varying depths.

They are scared!

They are afraid!

Their animal instincts made them desperately want to escape from the villain who had killed many of their companions, but the prestige of the dog king made them dare not back down despite their life-or-death instincts.

While the two sides hesitated, some of the corpse dogs, whose intelligence was clearly superior to that of their companions, shifted their gaze and wanted to ask the dog king for the next command.

Fight or flee? You should say something!

But this one instinctive action caused a complete 180-degree shift in the emotions of the person in the light and the dog in the dark.

The next instant, a giant dog, about the size of a calf (weighing about 300 pounds), suddenly darted out from behind a grave mound. The complex terrain of the chaotic graveyard was like flat ground to it, and it darted more than ten meters in the blink of an eye.

But just moments before, the blood-red aura that had been hanging in the sky and scattered on the ground suddenly changed direction.

The mound where the Dog King had been hiding was instantly flattened by the torrential downpour of blood and evil. Amidst the flying debris, some rotten wood fragments landed behind the Dog King, who was fleeing with his tail between his legs, making a series of clattering sounds.

Even after failing the first time, Zhang Wei did not hesitate. With a change of thought, the blood demon that had been irrigated and rushed into the grave pit instantly transformed into hundreds or even thousands of chains, which surrounded it from all directions at a speed no less than that of the Dog King.

Faced with this inescapable trap, the Dog King had no time to deal with the few traitorous dogs, but in its haste, it was still able to control the pack by howling, causing the dogs to charge desperately at Zhang Wei, who was currently relatively vulnerable.

A dog, after a well-planned and strategic hunt, even employed a tactic of "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao," which made Zhang Wei even more curious about the reward he would receive after defeating the pack of dogs!

But the prerequisite for getting the reward is not to let this dog king get away!

In the distance, the Dog King and the Blood Fiend Chains chased each other, passing dozens of mounds and graves that the Dog King circled around, only to be riddled with holes and blasted into flat ground by the Blood Fiend Chains.

Before them, the corpse dogs, under the command of their dog king, launched a reckless charge against Zhang Wei, whose remaining malevolent energy was dwindling.

Although Zhang Wei's remaining malevolent energy was not much, it was only relatively speaking.

After absorbing energy for a few days in the silhouette of the newcomer, he returned to the real world and came to the silhouette of the [Evil Rat]. During this time, Ya Zi Fa never stopped purifying and transforming the evil energy.

Although the latter two are limited by external conditions, the amount of evil energy they absorb is not as much as that of the lair of demons and monsters or special feng shui sites. The concentration is basically the same as the Qi in the silhouette of the previous newcomer, which is a vague boundary that is dispensable.

Even so, this has allowed Yazi Law to accumulate a certain amount of followers.