Chapter 189: Lion’s Roar (1/2)

Chapter 189: Lion’s Roar

The entire auditorium had immediately started to explode with the sounds of heckling for Yong Xiaolong. Each one of the students had been furious at him as if he was a dishonest monk that had committed an atrocity to both his faith and the world.

Even Yong Xiaolong had been completely caught off guard by the students’ reactions and turned stark pale in the face.

When Wang Chao saw what had happened, he looked as if he realized something and looked to the four officers behind him.

Sure enough, each one of them were giving a smile that didn’t quite reach their eyes as they smiled at Yong Xiaolong. The expression on their faces had been similar to a person at the zoo looking at the monkey in their fake habitat. It was a mixture of schadenfreude and playfulness.

“It was these four that caused the jeering to start. To be able to cause the thousand students start crying out like this is proof of their popularity. Their friends in this school are plenty I’d bet, and the roots into the infrastructure are deep. It’s fortunate that they came to me to test their skills straight away. If I didn’t mention my relationship with elder Li, being an instructor would have been an impossibility.”

Wang Chao had immediately realized that this had been incited by Liu Qing and the other three.

But Liu Qing and the other three hadn’t said anything at all. Not even a finger had been moved, so it had to be an eye signal of some sort. Perhaps they had done some sort of gesture when no one was looking to start the incitement. This much was enough to say that the influence these four had on the general populace of the place was far deeper than a roundworm in the body of an ill person.

Wang Chao was skilled in martial arts, and his ranking in the military was relatively high as well. But when it came to his approachability and ability to control and command the students of the school paled vastly in comparison to these four officers.

“Hmph!” Yong Xiaolong knew that he was in an unfavorable situation and moved to calm his emotions right away. Glaring at the four officers behind Wang Chao, he began to let out a loud rumble from his nose.

“Rrrr….rrrrrrrrr….” From Yong Xiaolong’s chest, a rising bump rose up past his throat with a frightening bulge. His throat had immediately swelled up to a degree that was frightening to look at.

A sight like this looked as if his breath had originated from his belly and was threatening to explode out from his throat.

There had been a tremendous volume to this short growl. It was a bit like the rolling thunders in the sky and filled the entire room with its crackling noise. And because of the amplification of the auditorium, the sound had been ten times all the louder. Several of the students had felt their eardrums rupture at the sound and stars enter their vision as a result. Their previous belligerent attitudes had been thoroughly shaken and their resolve broken down.

After the growl, Yong Xiaolong had quietly rode out the remaining growl and lifted his feet to walk. When he approached the students, each one of them had immediately gave way to let him walk out from the auditorium.

And so the ruckus that had been started by the students had came to a screeching halt.

The Shaolin monk had so easily reversed the unfavorable situation he had been in with a single roar and left the area.

Wang Chao had done the same once before when he stepped into the Ministry of State Security. To intimidate the people there, he had used the Pounding Fist to cause resonance in the building and shake it. Like the violin and the cello in the orchestra playing the same song, they did so with a different pitch.

“No wonder the Shaolin Temple is considered a great sect of martial arts if they have someone like that.”

Wang Chao had been the only one from the crowd that had not been affected by Yong Xiaolong’s roar. Seeing him leave, Wang Chao had offered no resistance.

The art of Shaolin emphasized the usage of the voice and sound to increase and strengthen themselves. There were techniques to attack the enemy called “Sound Attacks”.

Sound attacks were simple in concept. They were meant to be done explosively and out of the blue.

If two people fought for example, one of them could let out a heart-stopping shout to catch the other person off-guard. It could even stop the heart of the other person momentarily, and in the more dire situations, it could cause death.

Author note: Dear readers. Please don’t attempt this at home as it is very dangerous.

But not to a practitioner.

To the practitioner, they tempered themselves throughout the body. Their lungs could take in a tremendous amount of air and could expel it at a volume ten times louder than what the normal person was capable of. In the midst of battle, one could let loose a loud shout near the ears of their enemy to instantly burst their eardrums.

Author note: The regular person cannot maintain a loud shout for long periods of time and will become hoarse in the throat if done too harshly. One needs to be practiced in using their voices, such as the opera singers of the past and present. Their voices can reach unbelievable heights to outstanding effects, but only through practice.

Even if the sudden shout wasn’t enough to break the eardrums, it would still do to shatter their concentration. And to lose their concentration was tantamount to losing their life.

Of the many unimaginable and outrageous ways to Chinese martial arts, the hands and fight were not the only methods. The head, shoulder, waist, crotch, and so on could be used.

In the course of battle, one wouldn’t know what killed them after they died.