Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

"You dead chicken, you don't listen to my good advice and just wait for your defeat!" Dapeng said, flew over and bit the rooster's eyes.

The rooster flew up quickly and pecked at the roc. The two birds started a fight in the sky. In terms of fighting ability, the roc was a little stronger than the rooster, but in terms of flying ability, the rooster was faster than the roc. The two birds fought back and forth, and the fight was unbearable. Feathers flew in the air and cries continued.

After a long battle, the rooster was defeated and flew away. Dapeng chased after it, but couldn't catch up. The two birds circled in the sky for a long time, and Dapeng became impatient and shouted, "You damn rooster, don't run away if you have the guts!"

"Humph, Dapeng, come and catch me if you can!" the rooster laughed.

"I won't stop until I catch you, you dead chicken."

"Dapeng, if you can catch me, I will call you my big brother and I will never fly in the sky again."

The two birds chased each other for a while, and Dapeng finally gave up and landed on Xiaoxing's raft.

"Dapeng, are you okay?" Xiaoxing asked with concern.

"I'm fine." Dapeng replied, "This rooster flies too fast. No matter how hard I try to catch it, it's still too far away. What should I do?"

Xiao Xing looked at Da Peng, who was more majestic than a rooster, frowned and asked, "Da Peng, can you carry me?"

"It should be no problem to give you a ride alone." Dapeng replied.

"Great, now I have a solution." Xiao Xing said, discarded the stone knife, took the bow and arrow and said: "Da Peng, I will sit on your back, you carry me to chase the rooster, I promise to shoot it down."

"Okay, great human, come sit on my back!" Dapeng said, then squatted down and let Xiaoxing ride on his back.

Dapeng took Xiaoxing to the sky again and saw the rooster still circling and soaring. Dapeng chased after it, while Xiaoxing stared at the rooster not far away and shouted, "Damn rooster, if you don't surrender, your doom will come!"

"You think you can catch me? That's just wishful thinking." The rooster flapped its wings and flew higher.

"Great human, no matter how hard I try, I can only maintain this speed. What can you do?" Dapeng asked Xiaoxing.

"Watch me!" Xiaoxing took out his bow and arrow, aimed at the rooster not far away, raised his arrow and shot. The bow was like a full moon, and the arrow was like a shooting star. With a "whoosh", he hit the rooster exactly.

The rooster was hit by an arrow in the ribs. It let out a loud scream of "Ouch!" and could no longer spread its wings, falling directly from a high altitude.

"Hahaha..." Xiaoxing laughed excitedly, and then ordered Dapeng: "Dapeng, let's go down and see if the rooster is dead?"

"Yes, sir!" Dapeng agreed and dived down.

The rooster glided as hard as it could, but landed on a desert beach in Jiangxi. As soon as it landed, Dapeng carrying Xiaoxing also landed beside it.

"You damn rooster, where can you escape to? Prepare to die!" Xiaoxing pulled the bow to its full extent and aimed at the rooster.

The rooster was in such a state of disgrace that he could no longer maintain his composure. He trembled and kowtowed for mercy: "Powerful human, please don't kill me. I am willing to betray Emperor Nian and surrender to you."

"You dead chicken, you helped Nian to commit atrocities and caused my brother Dadao to drown. How can I not avenge this?" Xiaoxing shouted.

"Powerful human, I am forced by Emperor Nian and I have no choice. As long as you forgive me, I am willing to listen to humans forever and work for humans." The rooster begged. In order to survive, it was willing to do anything.

"Xing, you won. Are you okay?" In the distance, Zhi, Hong'er, Lan'er and others ran towards this side.

Just now, the Dapeng and the rooster were fighting in the sky, which stunned Zhi, Hong'er and others on the ground. Everyone's eyes followed the two birds. When they saw that Dapeng could not catch up with the rooster, they couldn't help but feel anxious and sighed: "Although Dapeng won, the rooster escaped. Alas——" Later, when they saw Dapeng carrying Xiaoxing to the sky to chase the rooster, everyone admired Xiaoxing's courage, but also worried about him. Especially Hong'er, she kept saying: "Brother Xing, you must be careful, if you fall, you will die."

At the end, when Xiao Xing shot down the rooster, everyone cheered: "Great! The rooster was finally defeated!"

While shouting, he ran towards the place where the rooster fell and asked Xiaoxing from a distance.

"Uncle Zhi, we are fine." Xiao Xing replied, and then said: "I was about to execute Gongji to avenge Brother Dadao, but Gongji wanted to surrender. Uncle Zhi, please decide whether to allow it or not."

"You damn rooster, you are an accomplice of the tiger. We wish we could pluck your feathers and roast your meat. Now that you are captured, how can we let you go?" Zhi said angrily.

"Yes, kill the rooster. Firstly, we can get revenge, and secondly, we can have a good meal." Yang said sternly.

"Powerful human, your enemy is Emperor Nian. As long as you spare me, I am willing to help you break through the Bird King Island and destroy Emperor Nian." The rooster still begged.

"Uncle Zhi, the rooster is right. If we kill and eat the rooster, the geese and ducks will surely fight to the death, and it will be more difficult to cross the river. I think it is better to spare its life and help us attack the Nian beast." Xiaoxing put down his bow and arrow and said to Zhi.

"Well, that's fine!" Zhi nodded and agreed, "Since the rooster has turned over a new leaf, sincerely surrendered, and made amends for his sins, we should accept its surrender like the other beast kings!"

"Damned rooster, our cave master promised to spare your life. Now go and help us defeat the Goose King and the Duck King and attack the Bird King Island." Xiaoxing shouted.

"Yes, you powerful human." The rooster was spared and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Dapeng, thank you for helping me defeat the rooster. Now you can go back!" Xiaoxing stroked Dapeng's wings to express his gratitude.

"Great humans, you are so generous and tolerant to spare this bullying rooster! However, in order to teach it a lesson, I would like to add two conditions to it."

"Dapeng, it was thanks to your help that I defeated the rooster just now. Since you asked to add conditions, I would agree to not only two, but even ten." Xiaoxing nodded in agreement.

"Rooster, do you still submit to me now?" Dapeng asked the rooster.

"I am now a defeated general, how dare I not submit?" the rooster replied dejectedly.

"Since you admit defeat, the first condition is: every morning, you must call me Brother Peng three times."

"Yes, yes, yes. I will definitely agree." The rooster nodded like pecking at rice, "Dapeng, from now on you are my big brother. I will call you every day and remember you forever in my heart."

"Rooster, you said during the competition just now that if you lose, you will never fly in the sky again. So the second condition is: you can never fly in the sky again!" Dapeng said again.

"Brother Peng, my ribs are injured. I can't fly even if I want to. Of course I agree to your condition." The rooster looked very painful, but agreed reluctantly.

"Since you have agreed to both conditions, I will leave now!" Dapeng turned around proudly and said goodbye to Xiaoxing: "Great human beings, I wish you can destroy Emperor Nian as soon as possible and the world will be peaceful. I am leaving now."

After saying this, Dapeng flapped its wings and soared into the sky.

"Dapeng, thank you! Goodbye!" Xiaoxing, Zhi and others waved goodbye to Dapeng.

Because the rooster agreed to Dapeng's two conditions, from then on, he crowed "Brother Peng" three times every morning and never flew high again. This is a story for later.

When the roc returned, everyone pulled out the arrow from the rooster and took it back to the camp.

In the Bijiang River, Dong led the crowd to confront the Goose King and the Duck King. The chicken spirits in the sky were frightened to see their king being captured and fled in all directions. The Goose King and the Duck King were unaware and were still creating waves to attack the human raft.

"Brothers, hold on to the raft. Once the rooster is defeated, we will attack hard." Amid the surging waves, Dong loudly encouraged everyone.

"Brother Dong, even if the rooster is defeated, how do we deal with these waterfowl?" Xi asked.

"Xi, don't worry. The geese and ducks can't do anything to us on the raft. As long as we paddle hard, I believe we can reach the other side." Dong said.

The warriors were paddling hard against the waves when suddenly a voice shouted from behind: "Brother Dong, all brothers, hold on, I'm back!"

Dong looked back and saw that it was Xiaoxing who had come with the injured rooster on the raft. He was overjoyed and asked, "Xing, did you and Dapeng defeat the rooster?"

"That's right, Brother Dong. The rooster has defeated us and surrendered." Xiaoxing rowed to the front against the wind and waves and asked, "How is the attack going now?"

"Xing, you see, before one wave subsides, another wave comes. It is really difficult to move forward." Dong replied.

"Once I catch these damn goose and duck kings, I will pluck their feathers, dig out their hearts, and roast their meat to eat!" Xiaoxing cursed.

"Powerful humans, since I have surrendered to you, now let me subdue them." said the rooster.

"Okay!" Xiaoxing agreed happily, "Rooster, now it's up to you!"

"Cock, cluck, cluck—" The rooster stretched its neck and crowed three times. This high-pitched and loud crowing sound, like a loud whistle, spread to the Bird King Island.

Since ancient times, people have said that animals have their own language. When the chicken spirits, geese and duck kings who had escaped heard the rooster's call, they realized that it was the rooster calling them. The birds came immediately after hearing the sound, but when they found that the chicken king and humans were standing on the same raft, they were all surprised.

The chicken spirits circled in the sky in confusion, and the turkey spirit inside shouted, "So our king is not dead yet?"

"Although the king is not dead, he has been captured by humans!" said the black chicken spirit.

"We have to rescue the King Cock quickly." The turkey said, and then he shouted to the King Goose and King Duck below: "King Goose, King Duck, our King has been captured, let's go and rescue him together."

"Quack, turkey spirit, let's rush over together to save it." After the Duck King said this, he was about to lead the duck army to rush over.

"King Goose, King Duck, and my people, listen to me clearly:" The rooster flapped its wings and wanted to fly, but a sharp pain forced it to give up, and then said: "This king was defeated by humans, and was spared. I have surrendered to humans. Humans are not only powerful and resourceful, but also magnanimous, while Emperor Nian is cruel and merciless, so please stop working for Emperor Nian and follow me to surrender to humans!"

"Quack, King Rooster, you surrender." The King Goose shouted.

"Goose King, Duck King and all the chicken spirits, listen up: as long as you surrender, we humans promise not to kill you. If you continue to help the Nian beast resist to the end, you will all be wiped out." Xiaoxing waved a stone knife and said sternly.

"Powerful humans, since our king has surrendered, of course we chicken spirits will follow suit!" said the turkey spirit.

"Even the Rooster King who was so powerful was defeated and surrendered. How can we, the Goose King and the Duck King, be able to compete with him? If we don't surrender, we will definitely be eaten alive by Emperor Nian when we return." said the Goose King.

"Quack, let's all surrender to humans!" the Duck King followed.

Xiao Xing was overjoyed after hearing this, and turned to the rooster and said, "Since all the birds have agreed to surrender to us, please ask the rooster to order them to retreat to the west coast, and then we will continue to attack the Bird King Island and destroy the Nian Beast."

"Yes, sir." The rooster immediately ordered the turkey spirit, the goose king and the duck king to lead the bird army to retreat to the west bank.

After the Goose King and the Duck King were pacified, the river returned to calm. Xiaoxing led everyone to paddle the raft forward.

Soon, they finally arrived at the Bird King Island. Xiao Xing asked the rooster, "Rooster, where is the Nian beast? Lead us to destroy it."

"Powerful human, Emperor Nian is in the center of Bird King Island, you guys go find him." The rooster raised his wing and pointed, but quickly put it down because of the pain.