Treasure and cultivation repositories like the Wondrous Treasure Hall and Wondrous Dharma Hall all had restrictions on them, so it was only natural that the Evil-Execution Hall, as a forbidden hall, would have restrictions as well.

Lin Xun currently had nowhere near enough strength to break through those restrictions. If he wanted to enter the Evil-Execution Hall, he would have to think of some other method.

That White Elephant Demon is poor as hell. It cannot pull out anything good from top to bottom. That Nine Nether Earth-Treasury Precious Lotus was probably taken by it from the Wondrous Treasure Hall.

That means the White Elephant Demon at least has the authority to lift part of the restrictions. Whether that authority can be used to enter the Evil-Execution Hall is unclear, but right now this seems to be the only method worth trying.

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes. He already had a plan in mind.

[…]

[You leave the Evil-Execution Hall and return to the Wondrous Light Hall, where the White Elephant Demon lives and cultivates.]

[Upon entering the Wondrous Light Hall, that earth-shaking snoring points the way for you. You quickly pass through one side room after another and find White Elephant Senior Brother’s place of cultivation.]

[Looking at the tightly shut door and listening to the deafening snores, you understand that this White Elephant Senior Brother is both sleeping and cultivating.]

[The Buddhist cultivation method it cultivates is the Great Dream Reclining Buddha Sutra of Entering Silent Blissful Extinction. According to White Elephant Senior Brother, this cultivation method was personally chosen by the Bodhisattva to suit it, allowing its Dharma power and cultivation to grow continuously in sleep, making it extremely suitable to its temperament.]

[You carefully push open the door, making not the slightest sound…]

[Inside the room, the White Elephant Demon has its eyes tightly shut as it lies on the couch. Its snoring does not lessen in the slightest, and it seems to have no awareness whatsoever of your arrival.]

[Its sleeping posture is very particular. It is lying on its right side.]

[According to the records of the Great Dream Reclining Buddha Sutra of Entering Silent Blissful Extinction, when cultivating in bed, one must not lie flat on one’s back, which is called asura sleep. One must not use the beast sleep posture of resting the head on the left hand with the right hand on the knee, nor the hungry ghost sleep of lying face-down, nor the dead man sleep of stretching the legs out straight.]

[Only by resting the head on the right hand, placing the left hand on the knee, and slightly bending and overlapping both legs can one achieve the Great Dream Auspicious Sleep.]

[The White Elephant Demon has its left hand resting on its knee, its right thumb placed behind the earlobe, its index and middle fingers pressed close to the temple, and its right elbow bent and drawn near its chest and ribs as it sleeps on the pillow. The corners of its mouth are slightly raised, as if immersed in a blissful dream. This is the Auspicious Reclining Posture within the Great Dream Auspicious Sleep.]

[If a great merciful and compassionate Bodhisattva or Buddha were to perform the Great Dream Auspicious Sleep, it would naturally give one a feeling of auspicious peace and bliss.]

[But this White Elephant Demon is born ugly and burly. Lying sideways on the couch, it resembles a mountain of flesh, and its earth-shaking snores are utterly at odds with any supposed auspicious peace and bliss.]

[You silently walk to the bedside and look the White Elephant Senior Brother up and down.]

[That pair of lotus iron hammers it never parts with is nowhere in sight, and has not been placed in the bedroom. After examining it for a long while, you still do not see the Passage Ordination Permit that allows entry through restrictions hanging at its waist.]

[Your heart sinks, and you guess that this fellow has most likely used the divine art of Pocket Dimension to store all of its carried belongings away.]

[In other words, only by killing the Extreme Evil Six-Tusked White Elephant Demon will you have a chance of getting the thing you want from it.]

[According to what the White Elephant Demon previously told you, when it cultivates the Great Dream Reclining Buddha Sutra of Entering Silent Blissful Extinction, it experiences trial after trial in its dream, with wine pools and flesh forests, beautiful women and lustful desire, mountains of treasures and magic artifacts, and so on and so forth.]

[Only by focusing completely and pouring its divine sense into the dream, passing through all manner of trials, can it improve its Dharma power.]

[If you strike now, you can launch a full-power blow while it is caught unprepared!]

[Do you wish to assassinate and ambush the White Elephant Demon while it cultivates within its dream?]

Countless characters flashed through Lin Xun’s eyes as he used Analysis Authority to calculate the probability of a successful assassination.

The answer produced by Analysis was roughly as follows…

There was nearly a fifty percent chance that, with a full-power sneak attack, he could heavily wound the White Elephant Demon and go on to achieve victory in the battle that followed.

There was a forty percent chance that he could only lightly wound the White Elephant Demon, but in the battle afterward, he would basically have no chance of winning.

And there was only a ten percent chance that he could kill it outright with one strike.

This White Elephant Demon was simply too high-level as a monster, and it was also a thick-skinned tank-type BOSS with Buddhist divine arts protecting its body. The success rate of killing it in one hit was truly a bit too low. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Sixty percent probability… worth gambling on!

Sorry about this, White Elephant Senior Brother…

Though this White Elephant Demon was an enemy that had fallen into Extreme Evil, it had treated him, this junior brother, fairly well. If there had been any other way at all, Lin Xun would not have wanted to risk killing it.

[You possess the Shell of the Knowledge-Seeking Primordial Ancient Dragon!]

[You use Ancient Dragon Oath and switch into the dragonborn form of the Pale Sage!]

[You stare fixedly at the enormous mountain of flesh on the couch as light flashes through your pale pupils!]

[Bloodline Skill Wise Bright Mind activates!]

[You have unconditionally discerned the enemy’s weakness. During Weak Point Insight status, all damage you deal to the enemy is amplified by 50%!]

Lin Xun took a deep breath, then switched Shells again to continue stacking buffs.

[You possess the Shell of the Desire Primordial Fire Child of Evil!]

[You consume a large amount of stamina and activate the Shell Skill Flesh Boil!]

[In Flesh Boil status, your maximum HP is increased by 100%. Every active attack you make, excluding energy-type attacks, is guaranteed to deal 150% critical damage. Moreover, when you suffer lethal damage, your fleshly body will explode, dealing devastating damage that ignores physical defense to enemies within range.]

[A faint glow spreads from the Demon-Suppressing Evil-Subduing Great Vajra Pestle in your hand as the weapon trait Wrathful Form activates!]

[You choose to consume 99% of your HP to provide yourself with a massive damage increase that cannot be stacked multiple times!]

Lin Xun then activated the weapon trait Compassionate Form several more times, restoring the Child of Evil’s HP bar to full. After all, the Child of Evil possessed infinite stamina, so skills that consumed stamina could be used infinitely.

[Having finished all preparations, you stare fixedly at the brow between the skin-folded eyebrows on the White Elephant Demon’s head. Silently, you raise the Demon-Suppressing Evil-Subduing Great Vajra Pestle in your hand and aim its sharp three-edged spike at its brow…]

[You take a deep breath, raise your arm high, gather all the strength in your body, and are just about to stab down viciously!]

[At that exact moment, the White Elephant Demon suddenly stops snoring and rolls over, startling you so badly that you immediately halt your strike.]

[You hear it mumble, This female donor really is so white and so big… after which it starts snoring loudly again and sinks back into deep sleep.]

[This sudden situation leaves your heart pounding wildly. Even in a sneak attack, you have no certainty of victory. If the White Elephant Demon wakes up and fights you head-on, you will definitely be the one defeated!]

[You notice that with this roll of its body, the White Elephant Demon exposes a bone tablet that had been hidden beneath the fat on the right side of its waist.]

[The bone tablet is square and flat. It is precisely the Passage Ordination Permit hanging at its waist. It was only because the White Elephant Demon had been lying on its right side, pressing the permit beneath a mass of fat, that you mistakenly thought it had hidden the Passage Ordination Permit away.]

[You let out a long breath, lightly pluck it from its waist, and put the Passage Ordination Permit into your possession…]

[You prepare to quietly retreat and give up on the assassination, when the White Elephant Demon suddenly mumbles again, Using this thing to test this Venerable One, what Buddha can withstand this kind of trial…]

[But the moment that sentence ends, it follows up with, Forget it, forget it. This time I’ll enjoy myself first, and next time I’ll work hard at cultivation…]