Ao Qingyue suddenly understood. "You five must be the five golden carp Princess Yu Wei raised, right?"
The five little Flood Dragons paid Ao Qingyue no attention at all, happily rubbing against Fang Yun. Fortunately, Fang Yun's body was stronger than an ordinary demon marquis's, or their collisions would have made him cough up blood.
Fang Yun studied the five tiny Flood Dragons and found their eyes clear and their expressions innocent. They had plainly only just awakened their intelligence. Before this, though all five had possessed the strength of demon soldiers, they had lacked intelligence and could not even speak.
Fang Yun wanted to ask the little Flood Dragons what was going on, but the five silly little creatures just kept calling him "Daddy" and rubbing against him. They were still children who understood nothing, so asking would have been pointless.
"Qingyue, what's going on? Why are the fish Ao Yuwei raised calling me Daddy?"
Ao Qingyue smiled. "Back in Jade Sea City, you explained Zengzi's words with the phrase, 'Correct your faults if you have them; if not, redouble your efforts.' Like a Great Scholar touching the fringes of the Sacred Way, you triggered the voice of the Sacred Way. Do you remember?"
"Of course. It even formed a small Dragon Gate in Jade Sea City, with ten thousand fish competing to leap over it," Fang Yun said.
"Yes. Some of the fish that crossed the small Dragon Gate swam into the Eastern Sea, but only a few dozen entered the Dragon Palace. Later, when the Flood Dragon King attacked the harbor, you were trapped inside the Illusory Tower Pearl. Whatever you did there triggered another voice of the Sacred Way and Dragon Gate Phantom, even raising the main gate of the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace by a