"Who?" Xiao Hua seemed to have thought of something and asked.
"Naturally, the Netherworld Demon Dragon Spider of the Great Sacred Hall!" Ancestor Hongmeng replied with a beaming smile. "Two Great Sages of the Demon Race and two Great Vehicle Daoist Sect cultivators of the human race—only then can we trust one another!"
"Haha, this Xiao understands!" Xiao Hua laughed as he looked at Ancestor Hongmeng. "Fellow Daoist Hongmeng, at a time like this, why are you still deceiving this Xiao?"
Ancestor Hongmeng's smile vanished, and he said somewhat awkwardly, "True Person Xiao, what do you mean by that?"
"Fellow Daoist Hongmeng!" Xiao Hua pointed at him and sighed. "After reading the jade slip, you must have gone looking for the spatial passage according to what it recorded, only to discover that it was not something you could find alone. So you wanted help. Naturally, this Xiao was certainly not your first choice. Although I do not know why you chose the Black Armored Five-Horned Dragon, since you sought him out, he surely would not have readily agreed to go with you. He was also afraid that the spatial passage was fake, so he wanted another helper. Thus, there were two Great Sages of the Demon Race, and Fellow Daoist, you became unwilling. After turning it over and over in your mind, you thought of this Xiao and only then sent me a message! In other words, this Xiao was the last one to learn of the spatial passage, correct?"
"Alas..." His thoughts exposed, Ancestor Hongmeng looked even more embarrassed. He gave a sheepish smile and said, "It was not that I deliberately concealed it. I merely wanted to find it first, so I could bargain with the Immortal Palace, Thunder Sound Temple, and Dragon Island, and secure better terms