Huiyuan put his palms together and said, "It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that one can break through life and death, achieve nirvana, and save all living beings. It is called merit. This merit is the virtue of doing good deeds, so it is called merit … "
Li Mu looked at him and said, "Can you say something that normal people can understand?"
Huiyuan scratched his head and said, "Doing good deeds such as giving alms, repairing temples, creating statues, setting people free, and saving people from suffering can get merit. Merit is helpful for our cultivation … Doesn't Benefactor Li know?"
Li Mu's understanding of Buddhist cultivation was very limited. At that time, Xuandu just threw him a Buddhist scripture. No one had ever told Li Mu about merit.
After listening to Huiyuan's explanation, Li Mu understood.
In layman's terms, merit was a kind of power obtained from the person doing good deeds.
Li Mu seemed to be guiding other people's emotions in the same way.
But it was obvious that merit and the seven emotions were not the same thing. Li Mu could see the seven emotions, but he could not see merit.
Li Mu quickly thought of another point. If merit came from the person doing good deeds, then Li Mu could understand that giving alms, setting people free, and saving people from suffering could get merit. But where did the merit of repairing temples and creating statues come from?
He vaguely felt that the matter of merit should not be so simple.
Now was not the time to trace the origin. Li Mu was thinking about another thing. He looked at Huiyuan again and asked, "How can merit help us cultivate?"
Seeing that Li Mu really did not understand, Huiyuan explained, "Benefactor Li, close your eyes and feel your surroundings with your heart."
Li Mu did not know what to do, so he simply silently recited the Mind-clearing Formula and purely used his spiritual sense to feel.
After calming himself down, he indeed felt that there was something around him. That thing was very weak. If he did not calm down to feel, he would not have found it at all.
But when Li Mu opened his eyes, he couldn't sense anything. Even if he used Heaven's Eye, he couldn't see anything unusual.
This showed that merit and the seven emotions were two completely different things.
He closed his eyes again and soon felt the faint presence of that thing again.
Huiyuan continued, "Try to absorb these merits into your body."
Li Mu immediately used the Daoyin Technique and absorbed all the floating things into his body. At the same time, Li Mu also clearly felt that the Buddhist magic in his body was circulating faster.
He finally understood why Xuandu had said, "Helping others is helping myself", and why he liked to help others so much.
Buddhist cultivators could directly use merit to cultivate. Perhaps back then, Li Mu had been used as a leek to harvest "merit".
Thinking about it carefully, he didn't feel any discomfort at that time. He didn't know what the cause of this "merit" was.
What exactly was merit? Li Mu couldn't figure it out himself. He planned to go back and ask Old Wang.
"So there are such benefits to doing good deeds …"
Li Mu murmured. In that case, when he helped old ladies cross the road, sent lost women home, and collected joy, he could also gain merit. It was just that he didn't know at that time and wasted the opportunity.
Huiyuan shook his head and said, "We do good deeds, not for merit. Benefactor Li, don't reverse cause and effect …"
Li Mu smiled and said, "It's the same, it's the same …"
Whether it was doing good deeds for merit or gaining merit while doing good deeds, the process was the same.
In order to cultivate, Li Mu decided to do good deeds every day in the future. This way, his Buddhist magic would quickly catch up.
Under the efforts of Li Mu and Huiyuan, the corpse poison in the bodies of all the wounded gathered in the small village was completely removed.
Even though each removal of corpse poison didn't require much magic power, but after helping dozens of people, Li Mu was still unbearably tired. After returning to his room, he sat on the bed and meditated.
Huiyuan found a praying mat from who knows where. He sat cross-legged on the praying mat and wiped his staff until it was as shiny as his head.
After wiping the staff, he sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.
The curtain of night gradually enveloped the entire small village.
The night was quiet. Suddenly, Li Mu, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, became alert. His eyes suddenly opened and he took out a talisman to ward off evil spirits. On the Fu-lu, there was a faint fluorescent light flickering.
Huiyuan, who was sitting on the praying mat on the ground, moved his ears. His eyes suddenly opened and he held the huge staff.
"There's danger!"
The two of them got up at the same time and rushed out of the room. They only saw two figures that had already flown out of the courtyard.
Li Mu and Huiyuan rushed out of the courtyard and saw more than ten black figures appear in the direction of the village entrance. They were running towards the village.
Their movements weren't like the zombies that Li Mu saw last time. Instead, they were running stiffly. Their speed couldn't be compared to the one in Zhang Family Village.
The few of them didn't have time to think about why there would be zombies in Zhou County. They immediately went to meet them.
Han Zhe threw out a Fu-lu. The Fu-lu stuck to a living corpse and immediately ignited. The living corpse only had time to let out a low roar before its entire body was engulfed in flames and turned into ashes in a short time.
The little monk Huiyuan's body faintly emitted a golden light. He waved the huge staff in his hand and smashed it on the head of a living corpse.
The living corpse's head was smashed into pieces, but its body wasn't affected. Huiyuan smashed it with the staff again and quickly rushed over. With a few strikes of the staff, the living corpse was smashed into the ground and didn't move anymore.
Han Zhe threw out another Fu-lu. Li Mu's eyes blazed with flames once again.
In a short time, five to six living corpses were turned into ashes by their hands.
Li Mu's eyelids twitched. There were only ten or so living corpses attacking the village. In the blink of an eye, half of them were killed and turned into ashes. Nothing was left. How could he take the courage of the living corpses?
In order to prevent more living corpses from falling into their hands, Li Mu wanted to join the battle. Li Qing waved her hand and several Fu-lu flew out and stuck to the living corpses' foreheads. The living corpses immediately stopped moving.
"It's just a few low-level living corpses. Is there a need to mobilize so many people …" Wu Bo yawned and walked out of the room. After taking a look, he turned around and walked back.
Han Zhe took out the Fu-lu and was about to burn them when Li Qing said, "Wait."
Han Zhe was stunned for a moment and asked, "What are we going to do with them?"
Li Qing walked to the side of a living corpse and made a hand seal. A green light hit the living corpse. After waiting for a long time, the corpse didn't have any reaction.
She stood in front of the living corpse and frowned.
Li Mu walked to her side and also noticed the abnormality.
What Li Qing used just now was indeed the method of extracting the soul from the living corpse that she found from Old Wang. However, she didn't draw out the courage from the living corpse.
Either the living corpse didn't have the courage, or the method given by Old Wang was wrong.
Li Mu thought about it and felt that the latter was unlikely.
Although Old Wang was old and had a lot of small problems, he was absolutely reliable at this critical moment. It should be that the living corpse didn't have the courage.
Li Mu looked at Li Qing and said, "Maybe he hasn't harmed anyone yet. Let's try another one."
Li Qing obviously thought of this possibility. She nodded and walked to another living corpse.
She made another hand seal, but the living corpse still didn't respond.
She walked to the third one, the fourth one …
After testing the remaining living corpses, the two found that none of the living corpses had the slightest trace of courage.
If there were only one or two living corpses, it could be explained by them not harming anyone. However, all the living corpses had no souls. This reason didn't make sense.
Especially the last few, there were still traces of dried blood at the corners of their mouths. It was obvious that they had sucked the essence blood and soul of people.
However, Li Mu didn't see the existence of courage in their bodies when he used Clairvoyance.
Li Mu was puzzled and asked, "How can this be?"
If all the zombies didn't have a soul, his plan of extracting the zombie's courage to refine the fourth soul would fail.
Li Qing glanced at the living corpses and said, "Let's burn them first. Tomorrow morning, we'll go to the other villages to take a look …"
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