[The Nine-Tailed Fox remembers your instructions, curtsies, and greets senior brother.]

[The White Elephant Demon’s expression becomes serious. So it is junior brother’s wife. Pardon the disrespect, pardon the disrespect… Junior brother too, really. How can a sleeve universe be used to store living people? You kept junior brother’s wife tucked in your pocket the whole time and only now let her out to breathe.] 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

[Hearing this, the Nine-Tailed Fox glances at you and gives a resentful sigh while making the act real. Senior brother, please do not blame him. It is this servant’s own strength that is lacking. If I come out, I will only bring trouble to my husband.]

[Back then, when husband had just transformed, he still needed this servant to accompany him left and right and protect him by his side. Now that husband’s magical power has been perfected, naturally, he no longer needs this servant’s protection.]

[If not for this servant also happening to be some fated one, this trip to Kunlun definitely would have had nothing to do with this servant…]

[Hearing this, the White Elephant Demon becomes very indignant. As the common saying goes, a wife who shared hardships must not be abandoned. Junior brother’s conduct is truly somewhat unjustifiable.]

[It decides that later, it will bring out the dignity of a senior brother and properly advise junior brother.]

[There is a great divine art suppressing magical power in Mount Kunlun, so the White Elephant Demon cannot sense the Nine-Tailed Fox’s strength. On the mountain-climbing path, it also has nothing to do, so it asks, junior brother’s wife, how is your magical power cultivation now? Have you cultivated to the yokai god realm?]

[The Nine-Tailed Fox shakes her head. The White Elephant Demon frowns slightly and asks again, then the yokai sovereign realm?]

[Seeing the Nine-Tailed Fox shake her head again, the White Elephant Demon’s expression stiffens. Then it smacks its lips and says, in that case, Kunlun Mountain is too dangerous for you. Junior brother letting you out is somewhat improper.]

[There are already two fated ones, so one more like you is not needed. It will go advise junior brother to take you back now…]

[The White Elephant Demon wipes the sweat from its head and quickly chases after junior brother, leaving behind the speechless Nine-Tailed Fox.]

[…]

The few of them hurried along, and after spending more than half a day, they finally reached the summit of Kunlun Mountain.

[At the summit of Kunlun Mountain, trees grow densely, lush and verdant. There seems to be a clearing in the dense forest, and from afar, streams of golden light flow and bloom from within.]

[At this time, the White Elephant Demon is drenched in sweat, its clothes soaked through. It bends over, supports its knees with both hands, and pants violently.]

[You and the Nine-Tailed Fox are not much better. Without the enhancement of magical power, you are both very fatigued.]

[You force yourselves to enter the forest, and then you see a tall memorial arch standing in the clearing. This arch is composed of standing pillars, horizontal beams, and dougong brackets. Upon it are written four words, Kunlun Mountain Gate.]

[Those streams of golden light are flowing out from the memorial arch.]

[Some ordinary palace temples and Buddhist temples use memorial arches as mountain gates. After passing through the arch and walking a short distance, one can enter the palace temple or Buddhist temple buildings.]

[But strangely, the summit of Kunlun Mountain does not occupy much space. This clearing is surrounded by a circle of dense trees, and beyond that, there are no other things.]

[You look past the Kunlun Mountain Gate and see only a small clearing behind it. You do not see where the so-called Buddhist treasure land is.]

[You lead the White Elephant Demon and Nine-Tailed Fox, the two fated ones, closer to the memorial arch and try to pass through it…]

[As soon as you approach the memorial arch, a voice in the unseen enters your ears…]

[Since you have found Kunlun Mountain Gate, it shows that your fortune and fate are not shallow. But if you want to truly enter Kunlun and obtain treasure, you must still be tested to see whether you possess wisdom-root!]

[If you possess wisdom-root, you may obtain one item from Kunlun. Otherwise, although Kunlun contains countless treasures, you can only look and not take.]

[Fated ones, do you wish to accept the test?]

[When the White Elephant Demon suddenly hears this voice, it immediately turns its head and looks around, shouting, who is it!]

[But the forest is empty. Apart from the rustling sound of branches and leaves swaying as a fierce wind blows through the forest, it does not see any suspicious person.]

[Powerful Apostle, will you accept the stranger’s test, or refuse the test and descend the mountain?]

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.

There should not be any danger to life in the test, because that mountain woodcutter was most likely someone who did not pass the test and could only take a one-day tour of Kunlun without being able to take any treasure.

The fact that the woodcutter could leave Kunlun afterward and inform Secret Trace Temple of this meant that as long as one followed the rules of this voice, not only was the test not dangerous, even entering Kunlun afterward had no danger.

The one able to set rules here at Kunlun Mountain Gate was almost certainly the owner of the voice, the yokai god Lu Wu.

Thinking up to this point, he decisively pressed the ‘Yes’ option.

[You respectfully say in a loud voice, then please, High God Lu Wu, conduct the test.]

[That voice laughs loudly, then says, not bad. You brat are rather clever. You do indeed seem to have fate with Kunlun.]

[The test is not complicated. As long as any one of the three of you can answer His question correctly, you will be considered to have passed the test.]

[Listen well!]

[Once, there was a drunkard who spent all day living in a drunken dream, confused and dazed every day as if living in a dream.]

[One day, the drunkard suddenly woke up and saw clearly that everyone around him, whether his parents, relatives, friends, or neighbors, was without exception transformed into Heavenly Demons, acting out their respective identities day after day.]

[If you were that drunkard, what should you do?]

[The White Elephant Demon hears this and its brows immediately rise. It says at once, of course, go on a killing spree and kill all these Heavenly Demons!]

[That voice sneers and says, foolish beyond measure! Even if you cut off the seven emotions and six desires and can strike at your parents, relatives, and friends, even if you can kill one person, can you still kill all the Heavenly Demons in the world?]

[The White Elephant Demon opens its mouth, its face turning green and white by turns, clearly unconvinced.]

[The Nine-Tailed Fox beside you thinks for a moment but does not speak. Instead, she first looks at you. Only after you nod does she open her mouth and say…]

[If it were that drunkard, it would continue living in a drunken dream. Since the drunkard has survived until now and has not been harmed by the Heavenly Demons, it means this method is feasible.]

[In this way, at least there will be no worry for his life.]

[Hearing such an answer, that voice sighs slightly and says, this is a method of dragging out one’s feeble existence. While the people of the world are all drunk and you alone are sober, you already know the truth. One day, you will expose a flaw. When that day comes, it will be the time when your body dies and your Dao disappears.]

[The Nine-Tailed Fox thinks about it and finds that it is indeed so.]

[A person can act for a while, but can they act for a lifetime? Under the circumstance of already knowing the truth, spending every day among Heavenly Demons will sooner or later reveal cowardice.]

[The White Elephant Demon’s and Nine-Tailed Fox’s answers are both not the correct answer. Now, only you have one chance to answer.]

[That voice also does not urge you, allowing you to think carefully before answering.]

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.

Countless characters flash in his eyes, and he has already reached a decision in his heart.

[You suddenly say loudly, if you were that drunkard, after waking up and discovering such a situation, the first thing you would do is check whether you yourself are a Heavenly Demon!]

[Everyone around you is transformed from Heavenly Demons. How do you know that you yourself are not a Heavenly Demon?]

[That voice freezes, not expecting you to answer like this.]

[The yokai god Lu Wu seems to become interested and continues, oh? Explain in detail!]