The noisy ward finally quieted down. Mrs. Liu walked to the bed and couldn’t help crying softly while holding her thin daughter.

Niuniu sobbed: “Mom, I will support you and your father in the future. I am not a useless daughter.”

“Don’t listen to her nonsense.”

After watching the whole chaotic farce, the audience in the live broadcast room also had mixed emotions.

Sometimes the body can be cured when it’s ill, but once the mind is ill it is difficult to cure.

[The little boy is indeed quite innocent, but Niuniu is even more pitiful. It’s better to change it back. Everyone has his or her destiny.]

[I’m filled with anger. Can’t the police do anything to these bad guys who use metaphysical means to seek wealth and murder without being able to find actual evidence? Look at that Yanzi’s face just now. She did something bad, but still cursed Niuniu to stay sick. I want to punch her twice!]

[Mrs. Liu’s family is miserable. That woman is ungrateful, but their family is suffering the consequences. Their house is sold and they owe a lot of debt. Mrs. Liu owes that woman money. I’m apprehensive that she will fall into another trap. I’m a poor person, but I can help you a little bit.]

[I can also donate some money, how about opening a raindrop fundraiser for Niuniu? 10 million people are watching the live broadcast, and everyone can donate a dime.]

[Half of the minions in the metaphysical world said that this wild goose cannot escape, and the country has relevant organizations to restrain people with special abilities from doing evil.]

[If they break the spell, will Brother Xiao Hong die?]

[… …]

In response to the comments in the live broadcast room, after Yanzi was ‘invited’ out of the hospital, she gritted his teeth and looked at the hospital door behind her, while still mumbling:

“I knew she wasn’t a good person at all. She sneaked around to find people to see her daughter, but she said she wasn’t guarding me. And you, you are a stupid boy. Who am I doing these things for? It’s all for you!”

She poked her son Xiao Hong’s forehead even though she saw some passers-by around her looking at her strangely.

Seeing that her son’s eyes were also red, Yanzi said angrily: “Why are you looking at your mother like that? You are as heartless as your father. You know that I am running around for your sake…”

Xiao Hong couldn’t bear it anymore and choked up: “It’s not what I asked you to do. I would rather die than steal someone else’s life!”

“You!” Yanzi was furious and raised her hand to slap her son in the face.

Before the palm of her hand could fall, a hand grabbed her wrist. The force was so strong that it caused a dull pain in her wrist bones, making it impossible for her to exert any force.

Yanzi turned her head and saw three young people standing behind her.

The leading man was the one who caught her. He was estimated to be about 1.9 meters tall. He was wearing a purple trendy suit with dreadlocks. He was chewing candy in his mouth. He looked like a carefree person and didn’t look like a good person.

She was shocked: “Who are you? Why are you grabbing me for?”

The petite girl raised her hand, revealing her work permit with the National Police emblem engraved: “We are from X City Special Spiritual Department. Yanzi, right? You are suspected of abusing your metaphysics to murder someone. Please come with us.”

Yanzi looked horrified, “I don’t understand what you are talking about. What Special Spiritual Department. Please let me go!”

However, her struggle was futile and she was quickly taken away.

In the ward

After Mrs. Liu’s mood stabilized a lot, Gu Zhisang said: “It’s almost time for me to replace the real maiden child and shadow child.”

Mrs. Liu nodded and thanked her again and again with her husband: “Thank you, Master Gu. If you hadn’t seen her conspiracy, I’m afraid that even if Niuniu is gone… Our family will still regard her as a benefactor.”

Seeing Gu Zhisang approaching her daughter, Mrs. Liu had a strange look.

She asked: “Master Gu if it were changed back, would Xiao Hong be…?”

“Naturally.”

“Then besides ‘changing fate’, is there no other way to keep him alive? I am not a Holy Mother, but that child is good to Niuniu, has called me godmother for so many years, and is so smart. I think he’s quite pitiful. But no matter how pitiful he is, I won’t let my daughter trade with him.”

Gu Zhisang: “???”

“Wait a minute, who told you that a maiden child’s life’ is pitiful?”

Mrs. Liu was stunned: “Huh, isn’t it pitiful?”

“From the perspective of ordinary people, the ‘maiden children’ come to the earth to suffer. However, most ‘maiden children’ would rather return to the Immortal World.” Gu Zhisang said:

“Since ancient times until now, there are so many cultivators who haven’t achieved enlightenment and become immortal. So how can ‘maiden children’ born with immortal status be pitiful?”

She was really confused.

Why do secular people feel that “maiden children” are pitiful and try every means to change their fate?

[Ah, this seems to be true! Shouldn’t you be happy to be an immortal? If you are an immortal, you are free from disease and poverty, right?]

[This is so funny. I’m sure the maiden children are saying: don’t replace me!]

Gu Zhisang said seriously: “Actually, many times when the ‘maiden children’s fate changes, it’s because their parents and elders are reluctant to let them go. They feel that they are doing it for the child’s sake, but they didn’t ask if the ‘maiden child’ is willing to change his fate.”

In a family like Xiao Hong and Yanzi, they were not destined to have a mother-and-child relationship for long because of Yanzi’s misbehavior. Therefore, heaven devotes the ‘maiden child’ to such a family instead of letting ordinary families experience the pain of losing a child.

If Xiao Hong was ‘called back’ according to his predetermined fate, he would not suffer too much. He will die instantly due to some accidents, with almost no pain.

But because of her selfishness and greed, Yanzi insisted on exchanging Xiao Hong and Niuniu’s fate.

This made Niuniu, who was originally a “shadow boy”, miserable.

Her soul was contaminated with too much mundane energy from the world of the sun, and even more from the yin energy that reincarnated in the underworld. This was a big taboo for the immortal being who required the six roots to be pure, so she suffered more hardships.

It was simply a disaster.

In addition, when Gu Zhisang traveled through the underworld in her previous life, she saw several ‘maiden children’ from the underworld.

They could return to the Immortal World after their calamity.

After being directly replaced by their former family members, even though another innocent person died in their place, that person took their place to serve the immortals.

After their death, they finally realized that they had lost their immortal status, and became dissatisfied with their former family members.

Those who were willing to be in the underworld could only be minor underworld officials. Those who were not willing to stay in the underworld had no choice but to continue to be reincarnated.

If they meet the relatives who “replaced their maiden child’s fate’ in the mortal world in their previous life, they will most likely become sworn enemies in that life.

“Each family has a predestined relationship, so it’s better not to interfere in these matters at will.” Gu Zhisang said calmly.

It was not impossible.

If they want Xiao Hong to survive, they can still ‘change his fate’, but the replacement was not a living person in the upper world, but with a ‘maiden child’ who was in the underworld.

Most of the ‘maiden children’ who have been wronged and become Yin officials were unwilling to enter reincarnation and become ordinary people.

But this was their only and best choice.

Taoist masters like Gu Zhisang who have reached the Earth Immortal level can communicate with such ‘maiden child’ and have the ability to exchange their fate with ‘Xiao Hong’.

After “changing their fate’ the Yin official can regain his immortal status and replace Xiao Hong in the immortal World.

This kind of thing was not like the previous incidents. However, although it was harmless, it was still bound to have some cause and effect.

Although Gu Zhisang came to the show to promote metaphysics and collect merit, she did not intend to get involved in this matter.

*

In the underworld that no one else can see, the underworld barrage was flooded by ghosts.

Among them, the most emotional ones were some of the ‘maiden children’ who stayed in the underworld as errand boys. After hearing what Gu Zhisang said, the grievances and anger they had held in their hearts for these years finally found an outlet.

“Finally!! Finally, there is a mortal who is not self-righteous!! Thank you so much. People and ghosts who want me to be grateful to my previous parents for taking away my immortal status are very bad!”

“Only Sangsang understands our suffering. All the ghosts think that Yin Officials like us have a bad temper. But think about it from another perspective. We are born as a maiden child, a child under the immortal gods. However, after experiencing life in the mortal world, in the blink of an eye, we fell to the underworld, waiting for ghosts. I feel uncomfortable when I think about it.”

“I won’t say anything anymore. I’m a fan of this mysterious master.”

“Do you want to change fate? Do you want to change?! I am willing to change with this child. I’ll be the first to sign up! Sangsang, please take a look at me. I want to go back to the Immortal World.”

Seeing that the Yin Officials, who have always had bad tempers and proud personalities, were so excited, many ghosts watched in excitement.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen so many of them. Isn’t it possible that all the maiden children among the hundreds of billions of ghosts in the underworld have come out to complain?”

“Hiss… from being an ‘innate immortal’ to being a yin official, you have indeed dropped several levels. Even if you cultivate for thousands of years, you may not be able to go back. It’s so miserable. No wonder they are always angry.”

“Serving under the Immortal Gods, you can still collect a lot of incense. It’s a pity.”

“It’s so rare to have a sensible Mystic Master like Gu Zhisang. When I just died, I wanted to go to the funeral and eat some incense, I haven’t done anything, but a Taoist Master screamed and killed me!”

“… …”

Because of the complaints of the Yin Officials, the ghosts in the underworld once again paid attention to Gu Zhisang.

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