Chapter 99: Improving Mindset

Before Yin Kong could say anything, he heard a scream. He quickly scooped up Mu Qi and held him around his waist, then quickly ran to the room that the female ghost had just entered.

At the same time, the ancient Buddhist beads on his wrist flew towards the female ghost and knocked her away.

Mu Qi was clamped at the waist and suddenly faced the pale face of the female ghost. She couldn't help but shiver again, but she was not so scared anymore.

Ghosts are also transformed from humans. They have noses, eyes, and consciousness. They are just another form of humans.

Mu Qi comforted himself quietly.

Yin Kong looked at the young man and woman lying on the bed in shock. There were ten finger marks on the man's neck. He found that they both had the same grudge as the female ghost. He turned his head and looked at the female ghost on the ground: "Ghost donor, what grudge do you have against the owner of this house? Why do you have to kill him?"

The female ghost knew she couldn't beat this monk who gave people a strong sense of oppression as soon as he appeared, so she knelt down and cried, "Please help me, holy monk. That man was my husband. He fell in love with the girl from the Cheng family next to him after one year of marriage. I didn't want to divorce him, but he pushed me into the well when I was not prepared. My baby died in my belly. I hate it!"

The female ghost bared her teeth at the man on the bed, wishing she could bite off a piece of her flesh.

The man and woman on the bed have woken up, and the woman is trembling and hiding behind the man.

The man was delighted to see the monk subdue the female ghost, "Holy monk, subdue this female ghost! We can't let her cause trouble in the world!"

Mu Qi looked up at the monk, wanting to know how he would deal with it.

At this time, everyone in the room realized that the monk was holding a woman in a strange posture.

Yin Kong noticed that he was looking down at her, and then he remembered to let her go.

When Mu Qi stood firm, he put his hands together and said: "Amitabha."

He said to the female ghost: "The world has its own rules. These two people have committed great evil and have been cursed by your evil spirit. They will surely suffer disasters and have no children or grandchildren for the rest of their lives. Can this relieve your resentment?"

"Holy monk!" The two people on the bed looked grim.

The female ghost cried and then laughed, "Thank you for telling me, Saint Monk. If this is the case, it would be better to keep them alive and let them pay for their evil deeds for the rest of their lives."

Yin Kong nodded, "In that case, you will go to the underworld to be reincarnated and cannot stay here any longer. If you stay in the human world for too long, you may lose your mind and harm the human world. You will end up with your soul scattered all over the place."

"Holy monk! Since you are a holy monk, how can you help this evil spirit to harm us two!" The man's face was full of disbelief.

"Amitabha. Those who have committed many evil deeds will be punished according to their karma. I will only save those who should be saved."

Mu Qi followed the monk away, and could still vaguely hear the female ghost crying out of relief and the two people on the bed begging for mercy from the female ghost.

Mu Qi seemed to be thinking about something. Yin Kong looked down at her and said, "Little donor..."

"My name is Mu Qi! Don't look for the wrong person next time." Even if she wanted to cheat him, she would do it openly.

Yin Kong nodded and said, "Little donor Muqi, although I don't know what you have done to cause you such a serious problem, I will not make enemies with you. However, please be careful of karma and reincarnation. Everything has its own rules. Don't try to break them. Be careful not to hurt others and yourself."

Mu Qi thought this made sense and responded, "Okay." But he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

"Young donor Mu Qi, what did you see from what happened just now?" Yin Kong asked.

Mu Qi: "If you don't have the ability, you will die in vain. Fortunately, the woman became an evil spirit, otherwise the couple would be at large."

Yin Kong paused for a long time before saying, "If you don't do evil, there will be no resentment. If people restrain themselves and observe etiquette, they will be at peace forever."

"That female ghost was a self-disciplined and polite person when she was alive, so why is she not at peace?" Mu Qi asked back.

Yin Kong: “…”

"Life and death are determined by heaven, and the cycle of cause and effect does not end in this life. If you did good deeds in your previous life, you may enjoy happiness in this life. If you do evil deeds in this life, you may end up as an animal in the next life."

"How can life and death be determined by heaven? Do you believe me, if I burn down that village right now, dozens of people there won't be able to escape. How can it be determined by heaven?"

No matter how good-tempered Yin Kong was, his face turned black: "Little donor! Remember to do good deeds and accumulate virtue!"

The ugly look on his handsome face seemed to threaten Mu Qi: "Do you believe that I can decide your life or death now?"

"Okay, okay, okay, whatever you said is fine." Mu Qi nodded in agreement and muttered, "You still say that life and death are determined by heaven, but you can decide my life and death."

Yin Kong: “…”

He sighed heavily.

This little evildoer is a bit difficult to deal with.

After finding an open space, Yin Kong set up a barrier and the two of them meditated and practiced.

Before Mu Qi started practicing, he sighed, "It turns out that people need to have skills to succeed, otherwise the little monk Yin Kong can strangle me to death at any time. Oh, how pitiful! I have to practice hard."

After saying this, he closed his eyes and started practicing, leaving Yin Kong staring at the moon and sighing.

The next day, Yinkong passed by a temple and went in to preach to the believers who filled the temple square for a whole day.

Mu Qi learned from a believer that Master Yin Kong would come to preach to everyone on this day every two years. Every time after listening to the lecture, it seemed that all the gloomy emotions could disappear, as if everything was gone in an instant. He only felt that the previous troubles were all caused by futile efforts.

Judging from the tone of the believers, they admire Yin Kong very much.

Mu Qi listened carefully for a while, but felt more and more sleepy the more he listened. He wanted to meditate secretly, but he had just been lazy for a few seconds when Yin Kong looked at him with compassion, as if he was doing something extremely unethical. He immediately straightened his back.

After sitting hard for a whole day, Mu Qi felt exhausted.

After leaving the temple, Yin Kong and Mu Qi walked in the darkness again.

"Master Mu, what did you hear today?"

Here it comes again, Mu Qi's shoulders suddenly slumped.

"I understand. All living things suffer. We must learn to let go of our grievances and live a good life."

Yin Kong was speechless. How could his profound Buddhist scriptures become as crude as the advice a mother gives her son by pulling his ears when they came out of her mouth?

Yin Kong sighed, holding up the Buddhist beads and walking in front, "Ordinary people focus on the state of mind, while Taoists focus on the mind. Forgetting both the mind and the state of mind is the true Dharma. Little donor, learn to let go before you can attain the Tao."

"Okay, I understand." Mu Qi tilted his head and followed.

On the third day, Yin Kong and Mu Qi rescued more than 60 people from the flood.

On the fourth day, Yin Kong and Mu Qi eliminated the monster that had run into the mortal world and was causing trouble.

On the fifth day, Yin Kong and Mu Qi rescued 57 people from a family of fire and found an official who deliberately set the fire to cover up his crime.

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On the ninety-first day, Yinkong had brought Muqi from the south to the north. Unlike the prosperous and peaceful south, the north was suffering from disasters and corpses were everywhere. Yinkong recited sutras for seven days to pray for the souls of the dead.

Mu Qi asked: "Monk, tell me, why do people want to live even though they are suffering so much?"

Yin Kong may have been led astray by Mu Qi. He glanced over and asked, "Why doesn't that little donor want to die?"

Mu Qi shut his mouth immediately.

She is afraid of death!

On the ninety-second day, Yin Kong brought Mu Qi back to the world of immortal cultivation, educating him as they walked.

Unlike the mundane world, the sufferings in the immortal world are often accompanied by life and death experiences.

Evil cultivators rely on absorbing the life force of others to increase their power, taking over other people's bodies, killing people to steal treasures... These are all things Mu Qi has never actually seen.

A year passed, and Mu Qi didn't argue with the monk much anymore. Her character had improved a lot after she witnessed the birth, aging, sickness, death, natural disasters, and man-made calamities in the mortal world, as well as the cruelty in the world of immortals.