How could Hong Dalong admit to such a grave charge? He shook his head repeatedly in adamant denial, saying Yue Qianchou had wronged him. Yet the moment Yue Qianchou spoke, Hong Tailong immediately softened.
"Fine! You won't admit it? I'll go reason with Great God Panlong and have him question you thoroughly about this." Yue Qianchou turned to leave. Hong Tailong immediately panicked, grabbed his shoulder, spun him back around, and said with a placating smile, "We can discuss this slowly! Why trouble the Ancestor? Some things happened too long ago. I may have remembered them wrong. Let me think."
Yue Qianchou snorted and asked coldly, "Then have you remembered anything?"
Hong Tailong put on a contemplative expression and slowly said, "Now that you mention it, I really have recalled something. It seems there are two ways to return to the Divine Realm. I heard that Ancestor Panlong once opened up a space in the Underworld, the Netherworld Divine Mansion. There is a secret passage there leading to the Divine Realm, directly to Divine Dragon Mountain of the Dragon Clan in the Divine Realm. Those outside the Dragon Clan cannot find it. The other way is when the Nether River Black Carp of the Nether River Aquatic Race succeeds in a Dragon Gate Leap. Our Dragon Clan will send a Celestial Horse Carriage down to the lower realm, and one can ride it back to the Divine Realm."
Yue Qianchou was stunned. Never mind the Divine Realm passage in the Netherworld Divine Mansion—the matter of the black carp leaping the Dragon Gate and the Celestial Horse Carriage was something he had experienced personally. He had even ridden in that Celestial Horse Carriage, yet he had never dreamed it led to the Divine Realm. Had he known earlier, he would have