Chapter 1290 - 652: Yabala
The term "Dragon Roar and Tiger Roar," it shakes the hearts of the Human Clan, both possess the ability to shatter the soul. As a Dragon Child, Chi Wen naturally inherited this instinctive skill.
Yuan Hou seemed to have anticipated this, as before Chi Wen could open its mouth, Yuan Hou retrieved a small, wheat-colored Conch from his pouch. It was slightly larger than a palm, with exaggerated "卍" shaped decorations at the mouth, and shell patterns resembling butterfly wings, looking especially beautiful. He lifted the Conch to his lips and blew forcefully, instantly raising a pink Barrier around his body.
In the blink of an eye, the sound waves from Chi Wen’s roar reached, then fiercely collided with the pink, dream-like Barrier.
The Barrier gently swayed with the sound waves, like beautiful soap bubbles in midsummer, yet remarkably did not shatter, even as the waves passed by Yuan Hou, exploding against the stone wall.
Chi Wen panted heavily, evidently releasing such a roar was taxing given its current condition. Its already large giant eyes widened in anger, unable to believe its Dragon Roar was ineffective against a mortal.
Chi Wen’s time in the Mortal World was indeed short, unknown to it that in the waterfall’s highlands of the Heavenly Thunder Prison, lives a type of Vortex Snail, which undergoes the baptism of thousands of lightning strikes and roaring waterfalls daily, thereby evolving a rather magical Barrier—the Sound Barrier. This Barrier excludes all sound waves from entering; naturally, if someone stands within it, they hear nothing, only absolute silence.
The Conch in Yuan Hou’s hand, when alive, was over nine hundred years old, and its Barrier was cultivated to be unbreakable. Just like Dragon Roar is made of sound waves, no matter how ferocious or shocking, it can’t penetrate his ears and thus has no effect.
Seeing the storm calm, Yuan Hou held the Conch in one hand, and with the other, took out a Glazed Glass Ball with rippling water patterns, and casually said, "My turn." He threw it onto the water near Chi Wen, with a "bang" the glaze broke, surprisingly releasing many strange fish approximately three feet long, as the fins fluttered on the lake’s surface, one couldn’t count how many peculiar fish swam out, nearly a thousand.
Aside from their bulging eyes and unusually large black pupils, these fish seemed similar to ordinary fish at first glance. However, when they swam close to Chi Wen attracted by the scent of blood, they revealed their fierce true nature: each big fish could open its mouth at least to one hundred and eighty degrees, full of sharp fangs, the longest measuring over a foot long. Their lower teeth were curved with barbs, evidently great tools for scraping bones of prey.
Moreover, each sharp tooth glowed with a faint green light, clearly coated with something sinister.
Ning Xiaoxian then softly exclaimed, "This person is actually raising so many ’Yabala’?"
"Yabala" is an exotic beast from the Southern Border; it’s also the smallest exotic beast she has seen, relatively speaking. In local slang, Yabala means "Fearsome Fish Teeth". With the rise of the Human Clan, today, most exotic beasts live far from populous areas, but "Yabala" often appears in waters frequented by Humans, causing significant loss of life each time.
This fish-like exotic beast is a relative of the piranha. Hidden Stream once attempted to introduce it into the Bashe Forest’s water network for breeding to guard the water bodies, but after several assessments, they gave up. The reason was simple: initially, they valued its ferocity, but ultimately abandoned it due to its ferocity.
In Mr. Yan’s book, he ranks the treacherousness of "Yabala" in the top three of all exotic beasts. This creature lives only for food, instinctively tearing apart all living things; anywhere it goes, any moving creature is devoured, more terrifying than a locust swarm on land. If Ning Xiaoxian had encountered "Yabala" instead of piranha while riding Canglong in Bashe Forest’s water network, escaping might have been uncertain because these exotic beasts have brains no larger than a green bean, compared to its three-foot long body, making it an exemplary case of severe idiocy with violent tendencies.
There’s no reasoning with idiots, meaning that neither the Divine Power of Ba Snake nor the Dragon Power of Chi Wen is effective against such small beasts!
The bellies of these "Yabala" were all sunken against their ribs, unknown how long they were starved within the Glazed Glass Ball; Yuan Hou likely never fed them since capturing them to maximize their ferocity. Chi Wen’s mouth was injured, staining the nearby lake red with blood. As these little beasts entered the water, drawn by the scent, their eyes glowed green with excitement, jostling towards the front, stirring the lake water into unrest over half its surface.