His voice lowered as he said this, tinged with grievance.

I couldn't help but twitch my lips. I knew his grievance stemmed from his resentment at not having his mother come to find him, not from realizing that he had been killed.

He stopped looking at us, lowered his head, and started playing cat's cradle again. His movements were very skilled, but both his exposed bone and his bloody intestines were incredibly eerie, sending chills down our spines.

Master Zhang Qingxiao frowned, staring at the child for a long while. Then he looked back at me and Luo Tianhe, his eyes showing a rare hint of helplessness.

Luo Tianhe couldn't help but smile wryly. The first two problems were solved relatively smoothly, but this third one was a truly enormous challenge.

He rubbed his face, lowered his voice, and looked at Daoist Zhang Qingxiao:

"Master, what should we do? Can we tell him the truth, that he was actually killed by his mother? Do you think he'll believe that?"

"It's not a matter of whether he believes or not," the Taoist priest said solemnly, his face serious. "The key is that his thoughts are not right! Children who die unjustly, especially young children, often have purer and clearer resentment than adults because their beliefs are simple. But look at him, does he have resentment? Does he have hatred?"

Indeed, no. Although the child was surrounded by a dense aura of death and coldness, and had such a strange appearance, he was clearly not human.

However, he did not have a trace of resentment or malice about him, and in this respect, he was nothing like a ghost.

This kind of obsession is the most troublesome.

I suddenly had a terrible headache.

Tell him the harsh truth, and he might not believe it, he might break down and go berserk, or he might refuse to accept it.

Going along with his lies in the game would only encourage his desire to remain in the mortal world, making it even less likely that he would be reborn in the Pure Land.

After thinking for a long time, I still couldn't come up with a solution.

Master Zhang Qingxiao, however, seemed to be deep in thought, then lowered his voice and whispered in my ear:

"There's usually an explanation for children who die innocently and unjustly, especially those killed by their closest relatives..."

His voice was very low, so low that Luo Tianhe and Li Huai couldn't hear it at all; only I could barely make it out.

I don't know if it was because I was afraid of disturbing the child or for some other reason.

"It is called 'asking about kinship debts and settling worldly ties,' which means that one must find his closest relatives, ask about the reasons, or get an explanation from his relatives in order to untie the knot in the deceased's heart and let him know why he died and where to go first."

Upon hearing this, I shook my head:

"Looking for his mother? She's probably already gone, and besides, where would we even begin to look? Maybe she's already been reincarnated."

"The physical body dies, but the soul may not."

The Taoist priest shook his head and said.

"Someone like her, even if she dies, will hardly leave peacefully. She'll probably become a ghost. If she goes to the underworld, she won't have any chance to be reincarnated. She'll probably be locked up in the eighteenth level of hell for hundreds of years before she's released. After all, she did such cruel things. Look at the miserable state her son is in."

Master Zhang Qingxiao's words also make sense.

But I still don't understand what he's going to do.

Seeing my appearance, Daoist Zhang Qingxiao spoke again:

"There is a way, which requires the deceased's personal belongings, to find her in the place where her spirit is kept."

"His belongings? Damn it?"

I looked at Daoist Zhang Qingxiao and he slowly nodded.

I stroked my chin, and now I somewhat understood what he meant.

He wanted to find the child's mother and ask her why she treated her son this way.

Then tell the child the truth. After understanding the truth, he may let go of his obsession and move forward on the path of rebirth.

"Master, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that I feel this method is very risky. His mother may have believed in some kind of cult or something, which is why she could do such cruel things. I feel that she may even be twisted. Even if you find her in hell, it won't help."

This was the first time I had a disagreement with the Taoist priest.

The main reason is that he still has a glimmer of hope for the child's mother, but I think the child's mother is beyond saving and should be suffering in hell. Finding her won't help.

"Master, I have a more direct but also more dangerous method."

My gaze fell on the child again, my expression somewhat complicated:

"Entering his dream, Taoist priest, do you know what that means? Using special incense or talismans as a guide, we can enter his dream, which is the spiritual world formed by the intertwining of his memories and obsessions before and after his death. There, we can know what his mother is like in his heart, and we can guide him to see the truth."

Master Zhang Qingxiao nodded and said with a wry smile:

"I've naturally heard of this method, but entering a person's dream is fine, but entering a ghost's dream is extremely dangerous! The caster's mind must be temporarily connected with the target's soul. Under such circumstances, it is extremely easy to be impacted by the other party's chaotic state and obsessions. At best, it will damage one's mind; at worst, like him, one's soul will be assimilated!"

"I might as well take a gamble. If I don't convert him and he can't fix my shattered soul seal, I'll still be found and killed by that ghostly Taoist priest after I get out. There's no difference!"

I gritted my teeth and said resolutely. The Taoist priest pondered for a moment and finally nodded slightly.

"Fine, we'll fight to the death. This principle is ultimately a bit too lenient and requires thorough preparation."

Then, we told the bewildered Li Huai and Luo Tianhe about the plan we had just discussed.

After all, when we were discussing things just now, we spoke vaguely, like riddles, and we unconsciously lowered our voices to say some key things, so they couldn't hear us at all.

After hearing about our somewhat risky methods, Luo Tianhe and Li Huai wanted to stop us, but they couldn't come up with a better alternative.

“Li Huai, stay away from him. No matter what happens, don’t get close to him or disturb him. The yin energy in your destiny is too heavy. Under these circumstances, it’s easy for Chen Yan’s soul to lose its way. Luo Tianhe, guard Chen Yan’s body. If there is any unusual movement, recite the Heart-Cleansing Mantra I taught you before.”

Li Huai nodded with a worried expression.

Emotionally, his job is to stay away from us.

Luo Tianhe nodded solemnly. The Taoist priest had just taught him the Heart-Cleansing Mantra, and fortunately, he had a good memory and memorized it in no time.

After giving his instructions, the Taoist priest took out three items from his personal cloth bag.

A stick of incense, as black as ink, covered with densely engraved runes, clearly not an ordinary incense stick.

I couldn't help but sniff it; this stuff was definitely top-quality!

There was also a small bronze Bagua mirror with some damage to the edges, and finally a small clump of grayish-white powder.

Seeing that the Taoist priest was fully prepared, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although I was the one who suggested this method, to be honest, I wasn't sure if it would work.