"Planting causes and reaping effects is the experience passed down by our Daoist lineage. The Old Master was the same. To wake her up and let her enjoy her natural lifespan, we must do good deeds." Zhu Yanyi smiled. "As the saying goes, one good deed cancels out ten thousand evils. It shows that the blessings for those who do good are very deep."
Zhu Yanyi looked like a holy maiden, which made Yuan Yanqiu’s eyes flash with surprise.
Yuan Yanqiu understood now. Zhu Yanyi wanted to change the hearts of people in this world.
"I will donate money to temples and Daoist shrines," Madam Huangfu said.
Zhu Yanyi shook her head slightly. "Offerings are just a small token of your faith as a believer. They have nothing to do with good deeds. You should personally lead everyone in the mansion to distribute porridge and medicine, help refugees in emergencies, or establish a charity hall to take in elderly people and orphans who have no one to rely on. Most importantly, you must treat them with sincerity. Only then will the Old Master have a glimmer of hope. If you do it from a high position, or just let people do it for show, forget it. It will have no effect."
The method Zhu Yanyi described seemed simple, but for Madam Huangfu, it was not. Families like theirs did distribute porridge and medicine, but those were always just for show. To make her lead people to do good deeds with true sincerity was not easy. However, if she didn’t do it, she looked at her husband in bed and thought of her own son. She gritted her teeth. "I will do it."
"Alright. I will come every day to check the situation. As long as you are sincere, there will be results soon." Zhu Yanyi said calmly. "Currently, the Old Master’s illness is not in immediate danger, so I don’t need to intervene yet. Please send someone to take my senior sister and me to rest."
Yuan Yanqiu naturally had no objections. She had many questions and wanted to ask Zhu Yanyi.
Madam Huangfu hurriedly had someone take Zhu Yanyi and Yuan Yanqiu to a quiet, independent courtyard to rest. Of course, there were maids serving them outside.
After entering the small courtyard and dismissing the serving maids, Yuan Yanqiu looked at Zhu Yanyi seriously. "You want to change the hearts of people in this world?"
"I am not a saint. I don’t have such grand ideals." Zhu Yanyi shook her head slightly.
"I am just giving them a chance. If they seize this chance and all turn to good, this plane can continue. Otherwise, I don’t mind being the destroyer of the world. After all, this place already has the environment to produce evil demons."
Zhu Yanyi did not hide her thoughts. Yuan Yanqiu understood after hearing her words. Zhu Yanyi was giving this world its last chance.
The black qi in this world was too deep. If it didn’t change, evil demons would breed, and the world would be destroyed.
As a cultivator, Yuan Yanqiu also knew that evil demons were born from people’s negative emotions. To destroy evil demons, one had to first remove those negative emotions from their hearts.
Yuan Yanqiu was a bit admiring of Zhu Yanyi’s idea. Only someone who truly cared for the people would do such a thing.
Seeing Yuan Yanqiu’s admiring look, Zhu Yanyi laughed helplessly. "Why do you look at me like that?"
"If that Madam Huangfu really does those good deeds, will the Old Master really wake up? I see deep black qi around him. He must have committed many sins." Yuan Yanqiu said.
"Waking up doesn’t mean she can live forever. Enjoying a natural lifespan is also determined by fate. Venerable Yanluo decides if she dies at the third watch, she won’t live until the fifth. I won’t change her fate." Zhu Yanyi said with a smile.
Yuan Yanqiu was stunned for a moment, then realized something. She looked at Zhu Yanyi. "Do you know something?"
"About that, I will tell you after we leave here. What we need to do now is mobilize everyone to do good deeds and save people." Zhu Yanyi said with a smile.
"So, what do you plan to do?" Yuan Yanqiu asked.
Zhu Yanyi raised an eyebrow. "Accompany me to the imperial palace tonight. I haven’t beaten up an emperor yet."
Yuan Yanqiu: (⊙o⊙)… She suspected Zhu Yanyi was addicted to beating people up.
Seeing Yuan Yanqiu stunned by her words, Zhu Yanyi pursed her lips. "What’s with that look? Besides, I didn’t say anything wrong. I really haven’t beaten up an emperor." Zhu Yanyi explained seriously. "In the secular plane I come from, there are no more empires. There are national governments, and people enjoy the happiness of a peaceful era. So, I really haven’t beaten up an emperor. But now, I think this idea can be realized. Look at the situation in this plane. It has developed this way partly because of treacherous officials, but the incompetent emperor is also half to blame. So, beating up the emperor is a good idea."
Yuan Yanqiu was just startled by Zhu Yanyi’s words. "As long as you don’t kill the emperor randomly, I can accompany you to beat her up."
It had to be said that Yuan Yanqiu was a very special person. Her thinking was simple: the difference between strong and weak, good and evil. In her mind, strong good opposes strong evil, and weak good opposes weak evil. Every good person has a corresponding evil person. So, she chose to be strong good, because strong good people could encounter more powerful enemies. Because of this idea, when she practiced cultivation, she chose to be a blade cultivator.
While others became sword cultivators, she, a girl, became a blade cultivator. Those who had seen her weapon couldn’t believe it, because Yuan Yanqiu’s weapon was a nine-ring broadsword, not the butterfly dual swords girls usually chose. When Zhu Yanyi first saw her, a girl wielding a large sword to cut down evil demons, she was also stunned for a while. After that, she developed a fondness for Yuan Yanqiu. Yuan Yanqiu’s choice of a broadsword showed that she was like the sword: seemingly rough, but sharp. This was one of the reasons Zhu Yanyi chose her to come here for this mission.
"Then let’s rest now. We will go out at night to visit the imperial palace." Zhu Yanyi was not worried at all about not having been to the palace before.
As cultivators, mental power and divine sense were not useless. A slight scan could reveal many things. So, Zhu Yanyi was not worried about getting lost in the palace.
Zhu Yanyi and Yuan Yanqiu each found a spot, sat cross-legged, and began to regulate their breathing.
Meanwhile, the Huangfu family was discussing doing good deeds.
Two fairies had come to the Huangfu family. Huangfu She and Huangfu Zheng heard about it when they returned, so they hurried to find Madam Huangfu.
Madam Huangfu told them, "These two fairies were invited from the Saint Academy above using my ancestor’s rescue jade pendant." Then she told Huangfu She and Huangfu Zheng what Zhu Yanyi had said.