The old man looked back at me and said:

"Hehe, young man, you are still young, you don't understand a lot of things, and many people may not understand about merit, merit does not decrease with a person's reincarnation, and the only way to reduce merit is to use it to offset karma. Of course, merit is indeed an important reference for measuring one's reincarnation in the next life. This person has lived for a lifetime, in just a few decades, and the merits that ordinary people can accumulate are only a drop in the bucket for the improvement of the Great Dao. Some people do evil in one life, and the road of reincarnation is not smooth, and they become thieves and thieves, so they become more and more degenerate and evil, and they become livestock in several lifetimes. And some people do good in one lifetime, the path of reincarnation is wide and boundless, and there will be more resources to do greater merit in the next life, so that the cycle of more than ten lives and dozens of lives is the prelude to the reincarnation of the heavenly way. ”

"What is Heavenly Reincarnation? It won't be an immortal, right? Could it be that this path to immortality is the way you are talking about? ”

I immediately asked, I had never touched these things, and listening to the old man's words, I suddenly had a feeling of being sudden.

The old man just smiled, and said inscrutablely:

"You can't say the truth, you can only wait for yourself to understand it."

I sighed, thanked the old man for answering his questions, and began to immerse myself in my own thinking world.

The old man's words touched me a little.

Ghosts, gods, ghosts, ghosts

The door of Elysium in the Temple of the City God?

The Buddha statue Bodhisattva inside the temple?

Taoist immortals in Taoist temples?

Do these really exist?

It's a shame to say.

As a Taoist, I actually have doubts about Taoist immortals.

I vaguely remember that when I was learning the Tao with my master, I asked my master if there were any immortals in this world.

And the Master's answer was somewhat similar to that of the old man, he said:

"Immortals are just a concept for ordinary people, a belief for us Taoists, and an ideal for those who are on errands in the underworld, that's all I know, as for whether there are immortals? All I can say is that I haven't seen it, if you think there is, then there is, and if you think there is no, then there is nothing. ”

What the master said was very vague, and it was said earlier that the underworld errand regarded the gods as ideals.

Later, he said that he could only say that he had not seen it, and then said that I thought there was something, and I thought there was no one.

At that time, this question was so closed, but now listening to the old man's words, I began to feel that this immortal seemed to exist.

It's just that the old man's words also made me understand that even if there are immortals, it's not something I can spy on now.

How easy is it to accumulate merit for more than ten lifetimes or dozens of lifetimes?

Many people accumulate virtue in the last life and do evil in the next life, and once the merit is reached, they will not be able to attain the Tao for many lifetimes.

"Hehe, I'm not a good person, and I'm not interested in immortals or anything, and this time I was fortunate enough to enter from the Golden Gate, just to get a job in the underworld."

After a minute or two of silence, the middle-aged ghost spoke again.

"Huh."

The two old men on the left and right just smiled and didn't speak.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Black Armor almost ordered five more people to go in, and there was still no me among them.

This seems to be on a first-come, first-served basis, and I guess I'll have to wait forty or fifty minutes if it goes on like this.

Out of boredom, I began to try to recite the Yin Gathering Mantra again.

The yin energy here is very pure and strong.

If you can gather yin here, it will definitely be much better than the yin gathering effect on the avenue in front of Vicious Dog Ridge.

I deliberately found a corner where there were no ghosts and sat down, and began to recite the Yin Gathering Mantra silently in my heart.

The yin energy around it is slowly gathering with barely perceptible movements.

The rules here seem to be much, much higher than those on Huangquan Road and Vicious Dog Ridge.

After I recited the Yin Gathering Mantra over and over again, I could almost only feel the Yin Qi slowly passing through my soul like a steady breath.

However, although there is very little movement, I can clearly feel that the effect of the Yin Gathering Mantra here is stronger than that of more than two times on Huangquan Road.

Moreover, the soul body receives yin qi more smoothly.

The rules of each place in this underworld are different, just like a toddler.

Adapting to the rules of yin qi on Huangquan Road is equivalent to learning to climb.

Adapting to the rules of Yin Qi on the side of Hungry Ghost Ridge is equivalent to learning to walk.

If you adapt to the rules inside this Golden Gate, then you will be able to run.

My heart suddenly became happy, if I can complete it in this Yin Gathering once, how strong will it be?

No wonder those yin people are coaxing one by one, it turns out that there is such a pure and rich yin environment to stabilize their soul bodies.

The second time, the third time, the fourth time, until I read it twenty times, and finally the black armor almost reached me.

Judging by the look on his face, he seemed to know what I was doing.

But he didn't mention it, he didn't blame me, and it reassured me.

I don't know if there is such pure yin energy in other places.

If I have the chance, I will definitely finish a yin gathering here.

This time, the black armor almost ordered five yin spirits, after entering the alley.

I just realized that it is not as simple as it seems.

In this alley, which looks extremely ordinary from the outside, there is a lot of space.

Five separate gilded rooms were lined up, each nearly 100 square meters in size, and the doors were all open, but the situation inside was not clear.

"You, the first, you, the second, you ..... third"

Black Armor looked at the bamboo slip in his hand and said.

We each nodded and walked into the room assigned by the shadows.

After entering, the environment inside suddenly became clearer.

In the same open space, there was a golden desk seven or eight meters away from the door, and a red-faced judge sat behind the desk.

When he saw me come in, he said casually:

"Come and talk."

With a wave of his hand, the door behind him closed automatically.

"Yes."

I said respectfully and walked over to him.

"Sit down."

The red-faced judge raised his hand again, and suddenly there were many "chairs" formed by the condensation of yin qi behind me.

The "chair" looked like a cloud of black smoke floating behind me.

"Thank you, Judge."

I just glanced at the stool that wasn't a stool, and sat down.

The black smoke didn't change even after I sat down.

Not only did I withstand my soul, but I also felt a trace of black smoke invade my dizziness.

I frowned, the sensation made me uncomfortable, as if someone had been touching my buttocks, and I looked at the red-faced judge who had closed his eyes and didn't dare to say anything.

After a moment, the red-faced judge opened his eyes, and he said with a smile:

"I already know the good fortune and karma of your life, and now I will read out the arrangements for you in the underworld. If there's anything you don't understand, you can interrupt me. ”

"Please let the Judge make it clear."

My soul is straight, and I am ready to listen to the judgment.

The red-faced judge looked at me with a smile and said:

"First of all, congratulations on completing the task given to you by the underworld, getting rid of several evil paths in the yang world, and making a part of the contribution to maintaining the order of the yang world, these merits give you two choices, first, you can have a wide humane reincarnation path, and in the next life you will be reincarnated in a family with a certain influence in the yang world, and your life will be smooth sailing, without worrying about food and clothing. You can choose to accumulate merit by doing good deeds, punishing adultery, and eliminating evil, or you can live an ordinary life. Do you understand? ”

I nodded and said:

"Understood, may I ask what is my second choice?"

The red-faced judge hummed and continued:

"The second choice is very simple, according to the characteristics of your soul body and the good nature that you still retain, you can choose not to go to reincarnation and directly hold a position in the underworld, if you want to choose the second one, I will report it, and for half a year, the underworld will arrange a position for you."

"The prefecture holds a position? Is it possible to wander away from the soul of the yin and yang world? I blurted out.

The red-faced judge shook his head and said:

"This depends on the arrangement above, there are few positions that can be vacated in the underworld, so it will take half a year, as for the specific positions, it may be the yin of the underworld to maintain order, or it may be the soul of the yang world, or those prison officials in hell, these positions are possible."

"Your Excellency, can I make a choice after half a year?" I continued.

The red-faced judge shook his head and said:

"If you want to choose the second one, you must make a choice immediately, otherwise you will abstain from the right and can only choose reincarnation, because you have more merits, so the yin life you need to keep is much shorter than that of ordinary yin spirits, only three years, as long as you stay in the ghost world castle for three years, you can be reincarnated and reincarnated as a new person."