[You gazed at the merfolk woman, inevitably recalling Jiao Ling, the merfolk princess of Azure Sea Lake.]
[The merfolk possessed exceptional beauty, rivaling Qingqiu's nine-tailed foxes in Southern Shu Territory. Many great demons and demon kings took merfolk women as concubines, and their renown spread throughout the major powers.]
[Yet people often overlooked that the merfolk excelled most at commanding sea beasts.]
[Caiyun had just said that even when giant whales possessed sixth-tier or even eighth-tier cultivation, their divine souls and intelligence remained feeble, making them extremely easy to control.]
[You had not expected this sudden turn of events.]
[Confusion crossed your face. Although this merfolk woman was already at the eighth tier, she should not have been able to command such a vast number of giant whales by herself.]
[Could it have been because of the jade flute in her hand?]
[Red Cloud focused his senses beneath the sea. The enormous beasts had already gathered, with nearly three hundred giant whales lurking in the depths.]
[Most were at the sixth tier, dozens had reached the seventh tier, and five or six immense eighth-tier auras rose and fell faintly among them.]
[Although the Giant Whale Clan had weak divine souls and could not assume an innate dao body, their physical bodies were unmatched. Moreover, the Star Sea was their native habitat, giving them every advantage of terrain.]
[Born in the Star Sea of the Jianmu Secret Realm, they possessed an innate ability to command seawater.]
[With so many appearing at once and only eight people on their side, dealing with them would be difficult!]
[Doubt flickered in Feng Wei's eyes as she said gravely, "Li Hong entered the Jianmu Assembly alongside us. This secret realm is vast beyond measure. How could he have pinpointed our movements and laid an ambush