I looked at the layers of imps and said a little speechlessly, "You were all tricked?"

The old beggar said, "It's not appropriate to deceive. To be exact, we were all captured."

"Trick the neighborhood first, and then catch it directly into the eighteen layers of hell."

Jin Shengshui was about to ask about the eighteenth layer of hell again, and I waved my hand to stop him.

Jin Shengshui has a problem, that is, he likes to talk nonsense.

I don't look at what the situation is now, and the questions asked are still mostly gossip.

I thought about it for a moment, and said to the old beggar, "Do you know where the exit from the eighteenth floor to the seventeenth floor is?"

The old beggar shook his head, "I don't know."

Me: "......"

I looked at him suspiciously, "Really?"

The old beggar said, "Really."

Jin Shengshui snatched his oil lamp first, and then began to punch and kick.

The old beggar was beaten, got up from the ground crying, and said very aggrievedly, "We just don't know, if we know, who would want to be here, wouldn't we go to the seventeenth floor earlier?"

"It is said that there are 17 floors, and there is no limit to the supply of oil lamps......

I said, "There are so many of you, crowded into the eighteenth floor, you should touch every corner of this place, right?"

"You didn't find the exit?"

The old beggar said with certainty, "No."

I was speechless, "How did the people on the seventeenth floor get down?"

The old beggar said, "I don't know, but when I fell asleep, suddenly there were a few more people around me. When I asked, I said that I came down from the seventeenth floor."

Me: "......"

I thought for a moment and asked, "Is there anyone who has been promoted from the eighteenth to the seventeenth floor?"

The old beggar sighed and said, "Yes."

"Fall asleep, fall asleep, and someone disappears."

"After a while, he reappeared, and as soon as we asked, this person was promoted to the seventeenth floor, and then because of his bad performance or mistakes, he was demoted to the eighteenth floor."

I said, "Is there anyone here who has been to the seventeenth floor?"

The old beggar said, "There were some days ago, but not recently."

I said, "Did the person who has been to the seventeenth floor say how you can be promoted to the seventeenth floor?"

The old beggar said, "Well, we all know that they told us when we were caught."

I was speechless and said, "Then you said."

The old beggar coughed dryly and said, "It's actually quite simple. There are generally two ways to do this."

"The first way is to hand over the merits, and after the merits have accumulated enough, you can be promoted to the top."

"The second way is to ask relatives and friends for merit, and when the merit is enough, you can be promoted to the top."

"However, some people have developed a third method, which is to ask for merit from innocent people."

"In short, it's just a matter of handing over merit in a variety of ways."

I said, "What? Listen to you, you can contact your family?"

The old beggar snorted, "You can dream."

I groaned.

Jin Shengshui asked the old beggar curiously, "What kind of merit are you talking about?" Can you show it to me?"

The old beggar scratched his dirty hair and said, "I can't tell."

"Well, let's hold hands and feel this thing."

Jin Shengshui stretched out his hand, and after a while, he suddenly realized: This is it.

I also stretched out my hand, and the old beggar made me feel it.

Because he has been delivering merit for many years, he has learned a set of methods to display merit.

At that moment,

I sensed a surge of life.

This vitality is not the same as yang longevity and energy.

It seems to be a kind of thing that was sown by the Heavenly Dao at the beginning of its creation.

This thing fell into the dirt, fell on the stones, and grew into life.

It should be part of the Heavenly Dao.

In other words, the reason why we become beings is because we all have a part of the Heavenly Dao in our bodies.

I slowly opened my eyes and withdrew my hand.

So to speak......

Collecting merit is actually collecting part of the Heavenly Dao.

If you have collected enough Heavenly Dao, you can achieve immortality.

That's what the enlightened monk did.

And now the people of the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple are also doing the same.

I thought about it for a while, imitating the old beggar's way of condensing the merits in my body.

In an instant, a dazzling spot of light appeared in the palm of my hand, and the entire eighteen layers of hell were illuminated.

The old beggar was stunned, and the ghosts rose from the ground like moths disturbed by the light of the fire, and gathered around.

I took the merit back.

Jin Shengshui smiled and said, "Big brother, do you have so much merit?"

"It seems that I have done a lot of good things in my life. Five stresses and four beauties, the code of conduct of primary school students has been done well."

Me: "Fuck off."

In fact, merit and morality have little to do with each other.

In other words, the merit that is understood in the public sense is not what the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple wants.

What we call merit now is more like the energy of the Heavenly Dao.

And the old beggar stammered, "You...... You have so much merit......

"You'll have to be promoted to at least the tenth tier."

As he spoke, an expression of envy appeared on the beggar's face.

I said to the old beggar, "How can I let them know that I have so much merit?"

The old beggar said, "It's simple, you just have to put the merit on the wall and slowly pass it through."

I asked, "Is it okay to put it anywhere?"

The old beggar said, "That won't work, it has to be put here."

The old beggar pointed to a wall in the corner, perhaps because it had been touched too much, it was bare and clean.

There was no dirt on it, and white stones were exposed.