The female ghost knew the Lin family's attitude towards ghost handlers, and since she was a contract worker, she was even less constrained.
Now signed under Lin Yan's studio, even the Yin messengers wouldn't dare to arrest her.
Many ghosts already knew that Lin Yan had connections to the Underworld, so they generally didn't dare to offend her.
Lin Yan was initially unaware of the rumors about her Underworld background. Once she found out, she let it be; such a rumor was helpful to her endeavors.
Moreover, she did have such connections, and coupled with her reputation as a benevolent person of merit, the Underworld would grant her some respect.
Merit was not very prominent in previous worlds, but in spiritual or even immortal cultivation worlds, it was quite important.
Lin Yan initially only wanted to change more people's destinies for points, but now that she had accumulated so much merit, she had also reaped its benefits.
Regardless of the reason, she was willing to accumulate more merit. With great power comes great responsibility. She did not believe these task worlds were fake.
Wasn't the world she herself inhabited also just a novel? She was a character in a book, but did that make her fake?
Each world, once formed, was a complete entity, and the people within it lived their own lives. Although influenced by the plot, they existed authentically.
The parents in each world offered her the most genuine familial love, and the friends she made were also real.
She did not want to see them restricted by the plot, nor did she wish for them to suffer tragic fates because of it.
Even the smallest cannon fodder character deserved their own brilliance, a stage to showcase their abilities.
In every world, Lin Yan treated it as her own life, adopting the original host's personality and learning new skills.
Even if it wasn't spectacular, even if she spent her life in monotonous research, she felt content.
Furthermore, in this life, she had the company of those she valued most. She felt she could continue on this path, experiencing different worlds, with ample time to learn about things that interested her.
However, she hadn't told the system. Her silly system still thought she would unbind from it once enough points were accumulated. Every time she saw it using various tactics to make her spend points, Lin Yan found it incredibly cute.
Let's see how many more excuses it could find to make her spend points. She earned a substantial amount of points each time, and what she spent was only a fraction of it.
Yet, even this small fraction of waste made her system so guilt-ridden. It was too naive!
Fu Yao spent a day at the temple on the weekend, attended morning classes, and ate vegetarian meals there.
She felt much more relaxed, and the agitation in her heart strangely disappeared. She felt the temple was quite effective, so as she left, she bought prayer beads that were supposedly blessed.
The monks at the temple also gave her a protective charm. She didn't know if Buddhism had such charms, but since it was a gift, she accepted it.
That night, Fu Yao had no dreams and finally slept soundly.
After two consecutive nights of good sleep, Fu Yao felt refreshed and energetic at work on Monday, a stark contrast to her previous lethargy.
"It seems you had a good weekend," Sister Wang teased as she noticed Fu Yao's improved complexion.
"Yes, I spent the weekend at Guanyin Temple and felt completely purified. I slept well and feel much more energetic."
Seeing Fu Yao so happy, Sister Wang hesitated.
She had initially suggested Fu Yao visit a Taoist temple or a Buddhist temple to relax, but if it was this effective, she couldn't help but wonder if Fu Yao had encountered something unclean.
However, thinking that young people these days didn't believe in such things, she didn't bring it up.
Such matters were a matter of belief; if you believe, they exist; if not, they don't. Some people might never encounter such things in their lives. Sister Wang suspected Fu Yao had encountered something unclean because she had witnessed it firsthand.
When she was a child, she lived in the countryside for a while, where there was a pond. In the summer, many children loved to swim in it.
But her family was strict, and she never went.
Until one day, a playmate of hers got a cramp while swimming and never resurfaced.
After that, all parents forbade their children from going near the pond.
Sister Wang was good friends with that playmate. One evening, while cooling off outside, she felt someone calling her.
The people around her heard nothing. She quietly ran over to look and saw her drowned playmate.
He beckoned her to come and play with him. At that moment, she completely forgot he was gone and walked towards him blankly.
Fortunately, her parents noticed her absence and rushed to find her. When they found her, she was already by the pond.
Just one step away, and she would have walked into it. Even after being carried back, she had a fever for two days.
After her fever subsided, she told her parents about the incident. Her parents then burned a lot of paper money for her playmate, and the pond was later filled in.
She wasn't the only one who saw the playmate; those who were good friends with him also saw him. The villagers were terrified, so they drained the pond and filled it.
Because of her personal experience, Sister Wang was quite superstitious. This was why she had suggested Fu Yao visit a Taoist temple or a Buddhist temple to relax.
Sister Wang was somewhat worried about Fu Yao, but seeing her improved complexion, she swallowed the words that were about to escape her lips.
The sky was ablaze with a fiery sunset, a passionate spectacle that many were capturing with their phones.
Lin Yan drove towards an undeveloped mountain as dusk settled.
This was a newly accepted mission for Lin Yan. Apparently, a mountain sprite had appeared in this mountain. Although it hadn't harmed anyone, it had frightened several people who had ventured in.
Lin Yan didn't know what to say. These spirits had retreated into the deep mountains, yet there were still people who, unwilling to visit developed areas, insisted on going to undeveloped mountains.
Even warning signs at the foot of these mountains couldn't stop these people.
This was no longer the safe world of the past; this was a world where gods, ghosts, and demons existed. Although humans dominated this world, they couldn't eradicate these demons and ghosts.
They were also a part of this world. Humans had already occupied so much land, and they had retreated to the deep mountains, yet humans still went to disturb them.
Although mountain sprites were terrifying in appearance, this one hadn't hurt anyone. It might just be an ordinary monkey.
Lin Yan wondered if those people had mistaken it, or perhaps the thick fog in the mountains had obscured their vision.