"Quantum, even though Fatty Ma has become a ghost, why can't he beat me?"

"Could it be that ghosts aren't so scary, and that they're just making things up to scare people?"

Such a profound question was clearly beyond Zhao Youliang's knowledge.

All I could do was mutter softly, "You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?!"

"If you really want to know, just go sleep in a mass grave for a few nights."

"Maybe we can even collect some protection money from the ghosts!"

Xiao Li was already afraid of ghosts, and after imagining what was happening, he immediately turned pale with fright.

"Quantum, don't be ridiculous, I wouldn't dare..."

Regarding the question of why Fatty Ma was beaten up and why he couldn't pass through walls at the beginning, Buddhist scriptures refer to such a state as "intermediate state" or "bardo".

Or, similar to the Buddhist concept of the "intermediate state" (bardo), it refers to the state a person experiences between death and rebirth.

Ghosts, on the other hand, are a state in which the dead refuse to be reincarnated.

Having written this far, let me share some useless tidbits of feudal superstition with you, dear readers:

The so-called "the previous yin has passed, the next yin has not yet arrived, and the intermediate yin is present."

"The front genitals have already withered" means that this period of life has ended, and "the back genitals have not yet arrived" means that one has not yet been reincarnated.

Generally speaking, all people have an intermediate state after death, but those who are extremely virtuous or extremely wicked do not.

This Buddhist viewpoint is the same as that of Taoism, and in Taoist doctrine it is called "clear distinction between good and evil".

In other words, people who are extremely virtuous or extremely wicked will be judged immediately by the underworld after they die, without any delay.

After the trial, those who are truly virtuous are generally reincarnated into the realm of gods, which is the foremost of the three realms of goodness.

Of course, some also remain in the underworld as "officials," such as the city gods of various places, and even some of the Ten Kings of Hell.

As for the most wicked, needless to say, they will be immediately cast into the corresponding level of the eighteen levels of hell according to their sins in life.