Huiyuan put his hands together and said: "There is a saying in the Buddhist scriptures: being able to break through life and death, achieve nirvana, and save all living beings is called merit. This merit is the virtue of a good practitioner, 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, building temples, making statues, releasing lives, rescuing suffering, etc. can gain merit, and merit will help us practice... Don't you know, Donor Li?"
Li Mu's understanding of Buddhist practice was very limited. At that time, Xuandu just threw him a Buddhist scripture. No one had ever told Li Mu that there was such a thing as merit.
After listening to Huiyuan's explanation, Li Mu finally understood.
Generally speaking, merit is a kind of power obtained from the object of doing good deeds when doing good deeds.
Li Mu seems to be the same way when he guides other people's emotions.
But obviously, merit and the seven emotions are not the same thing. Li Mu can see the seven emotions, but not merit.
Li Mu quickly thought of another point. If merit comes from doing good deeds, then giving, releasing lives, and rescuing suffering can gain merit. Li Mu can also understand, where does the merit of building temples and statues come from?
He vaguely felt that the matter of merit should not be that simple.
Now is not the time to trace back to the origin. Li Mu is concerned about another thing. He looks at Huiyuan again and asks: "How can merit help us practice?"
Huiyuan Li Mu really didn't understand, so he explained: "Donor Li, close your eyes and feel your surroundings with your heart."
Li Mu didn't know how to use his mind, so he simply recited the Qingxin Jue silently and simply felt it with his spiritual sense.
After calming down, he really felt that there was something around him. That thing was very weak, and if he didn't calm down and feel it, he wouldn't be able to find it at all.
But when Li Mu opened his eyes, he couldn't sense anything. Even if he used his clairvoyance, he couldn't see anything abnormal.
This shows that merit and the seven emotions are completely different things.
He closed his eyes again and soon felt the faint presence of that thing again.
Huiyuan continued: "Try to attract these merits into your body."
Li Mu directly used the guidance technique, and all the things floating around were sucked into his body. At the same time, Li Mu also clearly noticed that the Buddhist magic power in his body was running faster.
He finally understood why Xuandu said, "Helping others means helping me" and why he liked to help others so much.
Buddhist practitioners can directly use their merits to practice. Perhaps Li Mu was harvesting his "merits" as leeks at that time.
Thinking about it carefully, he didn't feel any discomfort at the time, and he didn't know what the cause of this "merit" was.
Li Mu couldn't figure out what merit was, so he planned to ask Lao Wang again when he went back.
"It turns out that doing good deeds has this kind of benefit..."
Li Mu murmured, so to speak, when he helped the old lady cross the road, sent the lost woman home, and collected the joy, he could actually gain merit by the way, but he didn't know it at the time and wasted the opportunity.
Huiyuan shook his head and said: "We do good deeds not for merit. Donor Li, please don't reverse cause and effect..."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Same, same..."
Whether you do good deeds for merit or do good deeds to gain merit, the process is the same.
In order to practice, Li Mu decided to do one good deed every day, so that his Buddhist power would soon catch up.
With the efforts of Li Mu and Huiyuan, all the corpse poisons in the bodies of the wounded gathered in the small village were eliminated.
Even though it didn't require much mana to get rid of corpse poison each time, Li Mu was still very tired after helping dozens of people. After returning to the room, he sat on the bed to meditate and adjust his breathing.
Huiyuan found a futon from nowhere. He sat cross-legged on the futon and wiped his Zen staff until it was as shiny as his head.
After wiping the Zen staff once, he sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.
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 an evil-proofing talisman from his arms. There was a faint fluorescent flash on the talisman.
Huiyuan, who was sitting on the futon on the ground, twitched his ears, then suddenly opened his eyes and held the huge Zen staff.
"dangerous!"
The two stood up at the same time and ran out of the room. Only two figures were seen, and they had already flown out of the courtyard.
Li Mu and Huiyuan rushed out of the yard and saw more than ten black figures appearing in the direction of the village entrance, running towards the village.
They did not move like the zombies Li Mu saw last time, but ran stiffly, but their speed could not be compared with the one in Zhangjiacun.
A few people didn't have time to think about why there were zombies appearing behind Zhou County, so they immediately rushed towards them.
Han Zhe threw out a talisman. When the talisman was attached to a living corpse, it 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.
.
Little monk Huiyuan's body glowed with golden light, and he waved a huge Zen staff in his hand, hitting a living corpse on the head.
The head of the living corpse was smashed to pieces, but the body was not affected. Huiyuan used the Zen staff to smash it away, quickly rushed over, and with a few strokes of the Zen staff, the living corpse was smashed into the ground and became motionless.
Han Zhe threw another talisman, and the blazing fire appeared in Li Mu's eyes again.
In a short period of time, there were five or six living corpses, all of which were reduced to ashes under their hands.
Li Mu's eyelids jumped when he saw it. There were only a dozen or so living zombies attacking the village. Half of them were wiped out by them in the blink of an eye. They were completely wiped out. Nothing was left. How could he gain the courage of the zombies?
It was inevitable that more zombies would be killed by them. Just as Li Mu was about to join the battle group, Li Qing raised his hand and several talismans flew out and stuck to the foreheads of the living corpses. The living corpses immediately became motionless.
"It's just a few low-level living corpses. Do you need to mobilize such a force..." Wu Bo yawned and walked out of the room. After taking a look, he turned around and walked back.
Han Zhe took out the talismans and was about to burn them when Li Qing said: "Wait a minute."
Han Zhe was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why keep them?"
Li Qing walked to a living corpse, pinched a seal, and a green light hit the living corpse. After waiting for a long time, the corpse did not react at all.
She stood in front of the living corpse, frowning slightly.
Li Mu walked to her side and also noticed something unusual.
What Li Qing used just now was indeed a method of extracting soul from zombies that he found from Lao Wang, but it did not extract the soul from this living corpse.
Either there is no courage in this living corpse, or the method given by Lao Wang is wrong.
Li Mu thought about it and felt that the latter was unlikely.
Although Lao Wang is old and has a lot of minor problems, he is absolutely reliable at this critical moment. It should be that there is no courage in this living corpse.
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, nodded, and walked towards the other living corpse.
She pinched the seal again, but the living corpse still didn't respond.
She walked towards the third one, the fourth one...
After testing the remaining living corpses, the two found that there was not even a trace of courage in any of the living corpses.
If there were only one or two, it could be explained by the fact that they happened to have done no harm to anyone, but since all living corpses had no soul inside, this reason made no sense.
Especially the ones at the back, there are still dried blood stains on the corners of their mouths, obviously they have sucked the blood and soul of people.
But Li Mu used his clairvoyance and couldn't see the existence of courage in their bodies.
Li Mu looked confused and asked: "How could this happen?"
If all zombies do not have souls in their bodies, his plan to refine the fourth soul by taking the zombies' souls will be in vain.
Li Qing glanced at the living corpses and said, "Burn them first. Tomorrow morning, we will go to other villages to have a look..."
