Recorded Across Generations.
For Those Who Come After.
A tiger with nine tails, a human face, and a tiger's claws. Men call it a god. It is no god, only a beast that understands human speech. Upon the summit of Kunlun, it keeps watch beside Kai Ming Shou. It commands time itself. Within its domain, the hand you raise moves as though mired in mud; a single step takes half a day, and a falling blade takes a whole night to descend. Yet the beast walks freely through this frozen world, unhurried and at ease. Those trapped within it can only watch as it draws nearer, unable even to turn and flee, unable to even cry out. The nine wells on Mount Kunlun mark its bargain with those who climb the mountain. Follow the road it permits, and you may drink from the wells and take some of the power. But the bargain has one rule, and that rule is never written down. By the time you taste the water, you have already agreed to it. It has never laid a hand on those who followed the rules. The ones it tears apart are those who break them.
虎身，九尾，人面而虎爪。 世人称它为神。它并非神，只是一头听得懂人言的兽。崑崙之巅，它与那九首的守门者共守一山：一个守路，一个守时辰。 它能操纵光阴。在它的领域之内，你抬起的手慢得像陷进泥里，一步要走上半日，一刀落下要等整夜。风停在半空，落叶悬而不坠，连你喉间的一口气都吐不尽。而它自在踱步，从容穿行于这凝滞的天地。困在其中的人，眼睁睁看着它一步步走近，却连转身都来不及，连喊一声都来不及。 山顶那九口井，是它与登山人立下的约：一条上山的路，一分井中之力，皆可换取。可这约里究竟要你付什么，没有一个字写下来。等你尝到井水的甜，才发觉自己早已应了下来，而它从不曾说，代价是什么。 循规而上的人，它不曾碰过。它撕碎的，是那些坏了规矩的。
棲 崑崙之巔 Mount Kunlun
其神陸吾司之。其神狀虎身而九尾，人面而虎爪。