Unable to Find Peace of Mind

Yugong's sinister ways had truly reached a new level.

Could a place where one spoke with the trial's characters really be as simple as digging up a mountain?

"I knew it wouldn't be that simple."

Hanyu gritted his teeth. Last time, Wood Spirit had said it was about chopping down trees!

And after he'd foolishly believed it, what had fallen from the sky?

Damn Earth Spirit. It had picked up Wood Spirit's bad habit of misleading him!

"I didn't mislead him."

Outside, a fish leaped into the air, flicked its tail, and blew bubbles as it spoke.

And that wasn't misleading him?

Wood Spirit's deer face twisted into a remarkably human expression of complicated emotions. Back then, it had only lied halfway. It hadn't expected one mountain to stand higher than another, or one spirit to be even more shameless than the next!

Earth Spirit had lied about everything, hadn't it?

Fire Spirit had thought it got along pretty well with Earth Spirit, but now it wasn't so sure. This guy wasn't straightforward at all. What was the point of all those twists and turns?

Just charge in!

"I didn't lie. If he doesn't dig the mountain, I can't set the question. If I don't set the question, he can't make a choice."

Earth Spirit felt terribly wronged. If it really wanted to be so roundabout, it could've just let Hanyu enter and figure things out on his own.

Who knew how long it would take him to learn what the test was?

It thought it had been pretty honest. It had even shown him how to bring up the question.

The Fire and Wood Spirits looked at each other. If that counted as honest, then all it proved was that honest people were even more dangerous when they set