"May not be?" smiled the Octopus man. "Childe Chen, I'm afraid you don't understand that the oceans in Neptune Starfield are the deepest, most expansive in the human realm*! The deeper we go, the greater the pressure would bear down on you. It would difficult for a human, even one with a high cultivation level to swim quickly to the bottom!"
"I already told you that I'm good with water!" Chen Xiaobei answered calmly. "If you don't believe me, we can race each other!"
"Are you sure, Childe Chen? Are you sure you're not just joking?" Octopus man chuckled. "This is the first time in my life that I'm hearing a human challenging a merperson to a swimming race!"
"Childe Chen, don't be stubborn!" Ao Liancheng was also very amused. "Every race* has its own strengths; the merpeople's strength is water! The oceans are the merpeople's homeground! You are the first person to have ever challenged a merperson in his backyard!
