One day, while visiting heaven, Mu Lien met the spirit of his father. The spirit pleaded with him to save his mother who was suffering in the inferno. He descended to hell and found his mother with a group of hunger-stricken ghosts.
他甚至遨遊天堂，看見了父親的靈魂，父親告訴他，母親大採菽氏正落地獄的餓鬼道中受苦，於是他不辭千辛萬苦趕到地獄去。