Someone nearby chimed in, "How can humans...be so powerful?"

You glanced at her; she was a mermaid.

As the nominal second-in-command of Han Hai Ning Bo, you subconsciously felt a surge of hostility, but you quickly suppressed it.

This mermaid is a neutral sea creature, not a man-eating siren.

[The fact that she even came here suggests that she considers herself human, belonging to the "family faction."]

Merfolk are different from other merfolk. You have friends and some newborns among the human race, so tell yourself not to discriminate against them.

Mermaids are people too!

The mermaid smiled at you. This humanoid race was covered in pale blue scales, had webbed fingers, and ears wrapped in keratin, resembling exquisite works of art made of seashells.

[This reminds you of the Ice Goddess in the Giant Island region of the Cloud Realm; due to her twisted cultivation method, she also resembled a mermaid.]

However, this mermaid still possesses a certain beauty; she can only be described as a rather strange alien girl, but most people wouldn't find her repulsive.

[As for the Ice Goddess... she was forcibly transformed into a monster by a distorted cultivation technique; she's truly ugly!]

Most martial arts techniques can resolve some physical changes by dispersing internal energy, but the Ice Goddess's method is rather absurd. It's not just that her physical appearance is difficult to improve, but more importantly, her inner state.

[After countless years of brainwashing, she had long regarded her body, which had become distorted as she progressed in martial arts, as a return to her divine original form, and even believed that it was true beauty!]