This world.
Most Awakened knew that their ultimate fate was to die at the hands of evil spirits.
They could be said to be mentally prepared for it.
But when that day truly came, very few people could cross that hurdle. The saying that there was Great Terror between life and death referred precisely to this.
An eighteen-year-old boy said that living to fifty would be enough for him.
Because fifty seemed a long way off.
But when he actually reached fifty, he stopped mentioning that claim altogether. An eighty-year-old Grandmother who fell ill would still actively go to the hospital, and even someone on the verge of death at ninety might not pass away peacefully.
And for those whose allotted lifespans clearly had not yet run out, yet who were forced to end their lives prematurely,
it was even harder for them to calmly accept the fact of death.
Thus, according to rumors, those who died violent deaths in middle age had the strongest resentment and would seek substitutes at the places where they died. It was not that some deity had decreed that a substitute was required for reincarnation; they simply needed to vent the resentment they carried.
If you suffered, then saw your neighbor suffer even more than you, your state of mind would become balanced.
That was the same principle.
Unfortunately,
a Vengeful Ghost that did not kill anyone could not dispel its resentment, while one that killed someone might dispel its resentment, but because it had killed a person, it would still descend into the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
Of course, all of that was just legend.
Those interested in things like the cycle of cause and effect or Heavenly Principle and retribution could look into them.
It was good to maintain reverence.
But there