Chapter 394 The Udumbara (2/2)

Shen Lian said, ”When you see it, this world would then have Buddha.”

Actually, there was more to it. Aside from Buddha, there were still the legendary primitive six Buddhas, one of them was Kanakamuni who attained enlightenment under the udumbara. That period of time, the flowers blossomed and showered in all directions of the world which proved the Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi, the enlightenment in Buddhism.

Although the legendary primitive six Buddhas were not comparable to Buddha, their abilities were not far from each other. They might even be better than Founding Master Zhu Yuanqing. If Shen Lian wanted to go to the place where the udumbara grow, it would be the place where Kanakamuni had appeared before, the Jinji Country.

At that moment, in the capital of Jinji Country, there was an enormous tree which the leaves were as big as pears. There were a lot of fruits growing on the tree branches. The big ones were as big as a fist, the small ones were as small as a thumb. That was exactly the udumbara.

Below the tree was a palace. Inside the palace lived the monarch of Jinji Country named Golden Wheel King. He had the same Dharma as Golden Luohan. Even the Zen master of the eight sects of Buddhism had to be courteous to him.

There were originally two monarchs in Jinji Country because, at that period of time when Kanakamuni manifested as an incarnation, he accepted two disciples. One named Shu Panna, and another one named Yu Duolou.

These two who came from the same sect vowed that their descendants would never betray each other. Jinji Country would be under the control of these two families at the same time. The two families would take turns to choose one candidate to be the monarch, and each chosen one could hold the position for one hundred years.

However, one of Shu Panna's generation had disobeyed their ancestors' vow and massacred all Yu Duolou's descendants, one, fortunately, managed to escape, that was the senior monk that Shen Lian and Fang Yanying met.

To commemorate their ancestors' achievement, every descendant who had the achievement of Golden Luohan would be crowned with the ancestors' name.

Hence, at that time, the monarch of Jinji Country, Golden Wheel King, was named 'Shu Panna'.

Perhaps because Yu Duolou's family was massacred by Shu Panna, there was resentment lingering that would not disappear. Thus, all these years in Shu Panna's family, their descendants died one after another. Except for their monarch, there was no descendant left in Shu Panna's family.

Upon the death of his family members, Shu Panna became reserved and surreptitious. He was very strict in ruling the civilians of Jinji Country. He even announced an act that if one were to be a Jinji Country's government official, he must have castrated and he must be a loner.

Due to the fact that all government officials in Jinji Country were perverted, incomplete beings, their minds were twisted and it had worsened the exploitation of their civilians. Although, everywhere in the north was freezing cold, because Jinji Country used to have traces of Buddhism, it contributed to these three thousand miles of habitable land.

The monarch had mastered all the advanced Dharma in his hands. The civilians without Dharma that depended on their own were unable to cross the wilderness to find a new habitable land. They could only endure the exploitation by their monarch and the government officials.

It was pathetic that the civilians had sacrificed everything to live such torturous life. They did not even have proper clothing and sufficient food to survive. The fruits from udumbara in the palace were left to rot instead of being given out to the civilians that were considered as having lower status in the eyes of their monarch and government officials.

In the beginning, Jinji Country encountered drought for a few years, there were no clouds and no rain. That time, the monarch had given the fruits from udumbara to the civilians because for every fruit they took, they would not feel hungry for the next three months.

Now, the corpses of people who died of starvation could be seen everywhere in Jinji Country. You could even trade a young girl for an udumbara fruit. Thus, to be able to survive, all poor people could do was to keep reproducing offspring. If the child was a son, they would give it up.

Young ladies were the most delicious. They were sacrificed to the Golden Wheel King and the supporting officials to feed on to maintain their youth. That was the way they maintained immortality.