[The White Elephant Demon beside you says to you, junior brother, we have already flown more than four hundred li in the direction the Lesser Dharma King described. Where is that Kunlun?]

[You carefully stare at the mountains beneath your feet to identify them and reply, the direction is not wrong. We should be almost there. Senior brother, keep flying, but fly slower…]

[Hearing this, the White Elephant Demon slows down the speed of the cloud flight so that you can identify the mountain features and avoid missing it…]

[After searching for a long time, you suddenly point at the rolling mountain peaks in the distance and say, senior brother, that is Kunlun!]

[The White Elephant Demon looks in the direction you are pointing. Among the mountains, there are two inconspicuous mountains connected to each other. The two mountains are like twins, almost identical in height, slope, and mountain features.]

[The White Elephant Demon immediately rides the cloud over, muttering, this Kunlun does not look especially special…]

[It flies above the two mountain peaks. Looking down from here, both mountains are bare, without trees, birds, or beasts.]

[The White Elephant Demon asks aloud, junior brother, which one of these two mountains is Kunlun?]

[You smile faintly and say, senior brother, just land on the mountaintop. Whichever mountain has a great divine art blocking you, making it impossible to land on the summit and forcing you to land at the foot of the mountain, that mountain is Kunlun.]

[Hearing this, the White Elephant Demon does as you say. As expected, it is just as you said. Among the two mountains, one mountain allows direct landing on the summit, while the other seems to have an invisible iron wall blocking it. No matter how much strength the White Elephant Demon uses, it cannot land on the summit.]

[It can only obediently land at the foot of the mountain…]

[As soon as you land at the foot of the mountain, the bare little mountain before your eyes instantly undergoes an earth-shaking, drastic change.]

[The mountain body that had just been short and small becomes as tall as a giant pillar supporting the heavens in the blink of an eye. The mountain is lush and verdant, with the cries of birds, beasts, insects, and small creatures rising and falling. You even see white waterfalls and clear springs pouring straight down from the mountain.]

[A breeze blows over, and the fragrance of soil, the scent of plants and vegetation, and refreshing moist water vapor fill your nose, refreshing the heart and lifting the spirit.]

[The White Elephant Demon stares dumbfounded at the change before its eyes and exclaims that this concealment spell is already a heaven-reaching great divine art.]

[A stone-step mountain path winds back and forth, leading from the foot of the mountain straight to the summit. At a rough estimate, these stone steps number at least over one hundred thousand steps!]

[You raise your eyes and look over. On the summit, streams of golden light seem to flow and flicker. It is indeed the Buddhist treasure land of rumor.]

[Beside the starting ground of the mountain path’s stone steps, there is a small stone stele inserted upright, with words carved upon it…]

[Only a fated one may climb one step at a time and enter through the summit gate. If you are without fate, do not force it. I have said all that can be said. Remember this, remember this!]

[Left by Dharma King Longduo the Thirteenth of Secret Trace Temple.]

[Judging by the weathering of the stele’s material, it seems to be rather old. It is estimated to have stood here for several hundred years. This Dharma King Longduo the Thirteenth should be the Dharma King from several hundred years ago who angered the yokai god Lu Wu.]

[The Dharma King erected this stone stele beside the starting point of the stone steps to warn later monks.]

[The White Elephant Demon looks at the words on the stone stele and, somewhat unwilling to believe in evil, walks up the stone steps a few steps. It does not feel anything unusual and cannot help saying, huh? Could it be that it has fate with this Kunlun? It is the fated one?]

[Junior brother, you come up and try too.]

[The White Elephant Demon looks at the long mountain path twisting back and forth and tries to fly up on a cloud, only to be shocked to discover that all divine arts involving flight are forbidden here. It also tries a shifting divine art, but it is likewise ineffective.]

[Not only are flight divine arts and shifting divine arts unusable, even its own incomparably powerful great magical power cannot be driven.]

[At this moment, a flying bird flutters its wings on a distant tree, then flies high and far away…]

[The White Elephant Demon stares blankly at the little bird flying away and secretly says, damn it, this is truly wicked. How am I worse than even a bird here?]

[You climb onto the stone steps. As soon as your foot lands on the first step, you sharply perceive an extremely faint trace of power pressing down on your body.]

[If you did not have Flesh Authority and could not precisely sense even the swaying of the hairs on your body, you definitely would not have discovered this newly added, faintly discernible burden of power.]

[You walk upward a few more steps and discover that with every step you ascend, the newly added power burden on your body becomes slightly heavier.]

[The increase is also extremely small, but every step is like this. When you cross several steps in one stride, the newly added burden does not decrease by even the slightest.]

[You look along the stone steps winding back and forth toward the summit. The number of stone steps is so great that it can be called endless. If each step upward increases the weight, perhaps before you even reach the mountainside, you will be crushed by the mountain borne on your body.]

[You ask the White Elephant Demon beside you, has senior brother not sensed his fleshly body becoming heavier?]

[The White Elephant Demon blinks, then says in confusion, what fleshly body becoming heavier? It has a body of sturdy muscles, so it is already very heavy to begin with. Now it has not eaten or drunk halfway either, so how would it suddenly become heavier?]

[You know that although this fool’s magical power is powerful, its perception is not very good. Once you go up a little farther, it will be able to sense something wrong.]

[Although you cannot fly into the air, at this moment, you have only just ascended a few steps, and the weight burdening your body is still negligible. So the two of you climb the mountain extremely quickly, walking as if flying.]

[The more you ascend along the mountain path, the more you sense the weight on your body increasing.]

[Fortunately, you have endless stamina and will not feel the slightest fatigue. After walking for a long time, you have not even taken a deep breath, and there is not even sweat on your forehead.]

[However, although you have endless stamina and need not worry about fatigue, if the burdening power exceeds the limit you can endure, you will be pinned firmly in place and unable to take even half a step upward.]

[By contrast, the White Elephant Demon beside you is now breathing slightly more heavily, with no trace of the composure it had when it first ascended the mountain.]

[As you climb, you tease it, senior brother, do you now feel your fleshly body becoming heavier?]

[The White Elephant Demon stubbornly says, no. It is not heavy at all!]

[Here, divine arts and magical power cannot be used to hurry along. One can only rely on fleshly body strength to climb upward. Its body of powerful muscles is far heavier than your thin arms and thin legs, so naturally, its consumption is much greater than yours.]

[When you get so tired that you cannot climb anymore later, do not ask senior brother to carry you…]

[Seeing the White Elephant Demon so stubborn, you cannot help smiling.]

[…]

[At first, on the mountain-climbing road, you still feel very relaxed and can even joke and bicker with Senior Brother White Elephant. But the farther you climb, the heavier your body becomes.]

[Now, your mouth is tightly shut. You need to concentrate and exert all your strength to move your feet and climb one more step upward.]

[You release your breath with a shout, gather all the strength in your body, lift your leg, and step onto another step, feeling that you are almost at your limit.]

[You raise your eyes to look at the summit, then lower your head to overlook the foot of the mountain. At this time, you have not even climbed to the mountainside. At most, you have climbed one third.]

[The White Elephant Demon has slight sweat on its forehead. It pants heavily and looks back, saying to you somewhat smugly, junior brother, you cannot hold on anymore?]

[Senior brother is panting somewhat, but carrying you alone to the summit is also not some difficult matter.]

[As it speaks, the White Elephant Demon turns its back to you and half-squats, indicating for you to lie on its back.]

[Seeing this fellow still stubborn as a dead duck, you also unceremoniously lie on its back.]

[As soon as you climb onto its back, the White Elephant Demon cries out aiyo, loses its balance, and falls backward. It tumbles into a heap with you and rolls down several dozen steps before stopping your sorry figures.]

[The White Elephant Demon gets up and says irritably, junior brother, although senior brother’s fleshly body is incomparably powerful, you cannot use the Immovable as a Mountain divine art to make things hard for senior brother!]

[Carrying you is like carrying a mountain. Who could bear that?]

[Huh, come to think of it, that is strange. Junior brother, how did you use divine arts and magical power in this place?]

[Hearing the White Elephant Demon say this, your heart is startled, and then you immediately react.]

[You hurriedly say, senior brother, did you truly not feel your body becoming heavier, or were you joking with me?]

[The White Elephant Demon says, what joke? Those who have left home do not tell lies. It has never felt any situation of its fleshly body becoming heavier.]

[It told you earlier that it is panting because magical power cannot be driven here. Its body is too heavy and too dense, so its consumption is much greater than yours.]

[You stare blankly at the senior brother before you, whose eyes are filled with clear stupidity, and a thought flashes through your mind…]

[Could this fellow be the so-called fated one?]

“No, if the fated one is Senior Brother White Elephant, then what about me?”

“How am I supposed to climb Kunlun?”

Lin Xun only feels that the direction of this hidden quest seems to be somewhat off.