For example, there was a kind-hearted water ghost who could not bear to take the life of an innocent just to recover his own life, and so passed up several opportunities to be reincarnated. Finally this water ghost was promoted to be an official among phantoms-- Lord Cheng Huang--thus breaking the vicious circle of new unjust deaths substituting for previous unjust deaths.
像是一位好心的水鬼，因不忍心以無辜者的生命，換取自己的重生，幾次放棄投胎的機會，最後終於由水鬼升任為管鬼的城隍爺，打破了替死鬼找替的惡性循環。