"Hmm... what makes you say that?"
Feng Qingyang asked in puzzlement, his blue-green phoenix eyes narrowing slightly in the twilight as he looked at the translucent soul beside him.
And Electrolux?
His expression was earnest and solemn. A rare trace of caution flickered through his aged eyes beneath his gray-white brows, and his withered fingers slowly rubbed his chin.
"The Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan was so easy to wipe out because they were all too stupid..."
He paused, his tone carrying both disdain and a sense that this was only natural.
"The whole clan gathered here, and one big pot lid came down and scooped them all up in one go..."
He raised his hand and mimed putting on a lid, as though reenacting the Wind Demon Tower suppressing the sea moments earlier.
Then his expression shifted, his earlier satisfaction giving way to grave contemplation.
"But that Sea Princess clan you mentioned is a different matter..."
He tilted his head slightly toward Feng Qingyang, his aged voice hoarse and low.
"You said yourself that they're like the mermaids of legend. They live on the seabed and have something like their own underwater cities..."
He paused. His translucent soul flickered faintly in the twilight, the fragments of light along its edges dispersing a little more slowly.
"In that case, they're bound to be difficult to wipe out..."
Feng Qingyang said nothing and merely listened quietly, his blue-green phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, reflecting the increasingly dark sea in the distance.
Electrolux continued, his voice taking on a methodical, analytical cadence.
"Because if they scattered and hid everywhere, there wouldn't be much you could do, would there..."
He lifted his chin slightly, his gray-white hair stirring gently in the evening breeze.
"They'd be too spread out... you couldn't possibly drag every