Master Yuantong: "Amitabha!"
In the end, he still used his magic arts to protect the kind original soul hovering in midair.
It was absolutely because he had a kind heart.
Not because Li Shuqi had threatened him.
He turned to Madam Li and said, "That wicked soul committed evil in life, and you sheltered and indulged him, even helping him deceive heaven itself. The Heavenly Secrets forbid your child from reincarnating, unless you..."
"Unless I do what?"
Madam Li looked up and asked.
She had committed plenty of sins to protect her son.
But that had all come from a mother's love for her child!
"Unless you enter the monastic life and atone for three years. Once you have repaid the sins you bear, your son will be able to reincarnate."
Master Yuantong reached out and gathered the soul into a Charm Pouch.
He handed it to Madam Li. "Take him with you as you atone. Nourish him daily with virtuous deeds and incense offerings. In three years, perhaps you may renew your bond as mother and son."
With both hands trembling, Madam Li carefully accepted the Charm Pouch.
"Thank you, Master!" Her voice trembled with emotion.
Before giving birth to Li Kengqiang, she had been a kindhearted young woman, too.
Then her son had started causing trouble, and she had made mistake after mistake to shield him.
She made up her mind. Before entering the monastic life to atone, she would seek forgiveness from those she had hurt. She was willing to give everything she had to gain their forgiveness and compensate her past victims.
Above all, she would accumulate virtue and do good deeds, praying that heaven would bless her son's original soul and let him reincarnate smoothly.
Truly, good was rewarded with good, and evil with evil!