Yuan Gang seemed a little baffled. He asked, "How am I supposed to ask?"
Niu Youdao, who had been studying the Scorpion Emperor, turned back to look at him. "You're asking me? If I had a way, would I have needed to bring you here? Figure it out yourself."
Fair enough. Yuan Gang raised a hand and rubbed his bald head, pondering for a while as though brewing up his emotions. At last, he slowly spread his arms toward the Scorpion Emperor's enormous head and made a series of "huh-huh" sounds.
Standing beside him, Niu Youdao could clearly sense that a different emotion accompanied every sound Yuan Gang made, but he could not understand them and could only watch from the sidelines.
Who knew whether the Scorpion Emperor understood? In any case, it gave several loud, wheezing snorts, spewing foul breath.
After several rounds of exchange between man and monster, Yuan Gang finally stopped, seeming somewhat puzzled. "Daoist Master, there's no way to communicate clearly with this thing."
Niu Youdao asked, "What does it roughly mean?"
Yuan Gang thought it over and shook his head. "I don't know how to explain it either. I have no way to explain to it what the Fifth Realm is supposed to be, and I don't know whether what it conveyed back to me was the Fifth Realm. All I could do was indicate things through emotions. I could vaguely sense that it wanted me to follow it somewhere, but I don't know where."
Niu Youdao said, "So after you conveyed your emotions to it, its response was indeed that there's somewhere it can take us?"
"That's right."
"Since we're already here, let it take us there and have a look."
"Alright!" Yuan Gang leaped onto one of its massive pincers and was about