The explosion was less powerful than the one at the Dan Demon Tomb due to the buffering effect of the seawater, but it was still strong enough to daze two sea creatures, a snail and a Sea Bat Eel.
The sea snail, which had settled at the bottom of the sea, was completely flipped over. This time, it finally started to react.
Its flat and soft tentacles emerged from the shell, leisurely pointing at the rapidly approaching Sea Bat Eel, accompanied by an elderly voice, "You little mongrel, I was resting just fine, and you came to bother me. If I don’t explode your chrysanthemum with a single cut, you really think I’m a vegetarian."
Those tentacles seemed weak and powerless, but as soon as they gently touched the Sea Bat Eel, it became immobilized in an instant.
The over three-meter long Sea Bat Eel was as if under an immobilization spell, motionless, with its gaping mouth still wide open.
"You’ve made this old man’s bones ache terribly; back to sleep, back to sleep. Sleeping is the unrivaled method for longevity," the snail said lazily as it retracted its tentacles, planning to continue its leisurely slumber.
Before its shell could fall back to the sandy bottom, a pale and unexpected hand pressed it into the sand, and it was unable to spray out its mucus even if it wanted to.
The sea snail was making a racket, attempting to resist, but the subsequent, almost imperceptible pressure of a Dark Beast made it feel that something was amiss.
Good heavens, that feeling, was it the pressure of a Holy Beast? How could there be the pressure of a Holy Beast in the Senluo Sea?
The sea snail got so frightened that it immediately retracted again.
After a while, when it ceased resisting, the hand finally loosened its grip.
There stood a girl with a face both handsome and ugly, her black hair dancing in the water like water snakes, and around her neck hung a Holy Beast Star Pendant Necklace.
"Oh, it’s that old guy, the Sin Parrot," a white Meat Worm wriggled out of the girl’s embrace, emitting a sleazy laugh.
Others might not recognize the Gold Eater Worm, but the Sin Nautilus, having a lifespan stretching for over a thousand years and hiding in the Senluo Sea, is practically an old fossil among Dark Beasts, naturally recognizing the origin of the Gold Eater Worm.
After recognizing the Ancient Divine Worm that Yue Jinghua also carried, it became even more sure that this girl who suddenly dived into the sea bottom was a transformed "Holy Beast" from the Middle Plane, and possibly even a descendant from a Holy-grade family.
"My lord, please spare this old sea snail. My shell is thick and my meat tough. Even if you catch me, I won’t be good to eat," the sea snail let out a weak plea, whimpering faintly like a bugle call.
Yue Jinghua carefully examined the sea snail in her hand. From the outside, this snail looked somewhat similar to a post-Western era Parrot Snail and is a type of marine mollusk.
The Sin Parrot had a white shell, with red-brown growth lines running from the navel of the shell to the periphery. The shell was light but also sturdy, smooth as if it had been polished.
The lifespan of the sea snail could be inferred from its growth lines, with one ring symbolizing one hundred years of life, and this sea snail, only about the size of two fists, had as many as thirteen such lines.
One thousand three hundred years old? Yue Jinghua was taken aback.
This was the oldest Dark Beast she had ever seen.
Seeing the Sea Conch’s sniffling and teary appearance, Yue Jinghua poked its shell and turned her head to ask the Gold Eater Worm, "Do you recognize this thing? How can it speak human language? Cut to the chase, the commotion with the Black Death Crystal just now must have alerted the people above."
Yue Jinghua glanced at the immobilized Sea Bat Eel that was not moving at all, fearing that it might reanimate at any moment.
"Ow ow, because the Sin Parrot is the only type of Dark Beast that can naturally mimic the languages of various races." The Gold Eater Worm’s confidence was immensely inflated; such moments were when the ugly would beg for its help.
Despite looking so timid, the Sin Parrot’s ancient ancestor is a Middle-level Divine Snail with Middle Plane bloodline, its lifespan comparable to turtle-like Dark Beasts, living in various lakes and seas, subsisting on different kinds of Spirit Grass in the sea. Because its body has patterns resembling the character for "good fortune," and is aesthetically pleasing, it is also known as the Fushou Snail with a good reputation, a relatively rare ornamental snail.
Once, one of the ancestors of the Fushou Snail inadvertently eavesdropped on a private conversation between an Upper God and their lover and carelessly leaked these sweet nothings to the Upper God’s spouse.
Thus the Fushou Snail clan was hurled by the enraged Upper Gods to the lowest level, the Lower Plane, their Dark Pill scattered within them, and the character "fortune" on their shells was also erased; the Fushou Snail clan was punished to be forever unable to advance to Holy-grade.
Having become used to luxuries, without any life-saving Dark Techniques, the demoted Fushou Snails, in order to survive, learned a Dark Technique called Sound Mimic, capable of recording any conversation or confession they heard in its entirety.
As the saying goes, each carrot fits into its own hole; this unique Dark Technique of the Fushou Snails was later developed by some interested parties, and came to be widely used in the field of interrogation.
Especially in territories like the Senluo Sea, the Fushou Snails virtually became the requisite sin-recording tool for all sinners before they received divine punishment.
Every sentenced sinner, without exception, would undergo a confession, and these confessions, also without exception, were all recorded.
Over time, people gradually forgot the original name of Fushou Snail and started calling it the Sin Parrot.
"Ow ow, the Sin Parrot has another strength; it is very good at reproducing, and does so asexually without mating, capable of producing a bunch of little sea snails. However, this Sin Parrot is a bit special, it seems to know immobilization-type Dark Techniques, I don’t know if it’s a mutant strain of Sin Parrot." The Gold Eater Worm explained proudly, then suddenly, it felt a chill run down its body.
Looking at Yue Jinghua’s eyes, it seemed as though two green lights shot straight out, both the Gold Eater Worm and the Sin Parrot shuddered; those eyes...
Oh my, this is going to be big deal.
Without a second thought, Yue Jinghua reached out and took down the recently retired second-tier Spiritual Treasure "Soft Finger," binding the Sin Parrot tightly.
As she tossed it aside, she also shouted: "Heh heh, isn’t this a pure natural eavesdropping device! Having one for each person is a must."