Chapter 1085: Sarira Cottage
The reason was simple. Everyone in Lanke was a senior monk; an elite or champion-level warrior in the jianghu. They claimed to have three thousand Arhats, three hundred Bodhisattvas, and thirty Buddhas.
Obviously, this was probably a boast. Still, the fact that Lanke Temple dared to make such a claim, and no one dared to dispute it more than proved their strength.
When Uncertain Monk was still a member of the Lanke Temple, he wasn’t just one of their best disciples, he was a monk who held the title of Buddha and the Son of Buddha at the time. He was a Sage.
Had everything gone right, Uncertain Monk would have become the next abbot of the Lanke Temple and the Buddha Lord.
Alas, Uncertain Monk’s zen heart was extremely fickle despite being a Sage. He was extremely fond of the red dust and attached to his base desires. As a result, he had repeatedly broken the rules and gone against the teachings of the Lanke Temple. If he wasn’t a powerful Son of Buddha, he would have been kicked out of the temple a long time ago.
Uncertain Monk’s audacity would eventually prove too much for the Lanke Temple to handle, however. One day, Uncertain Monk desired to forge a Buddhist treasure and set his sights on Lanke Temple’s hoard of sarira.
To borrow Uncertain Monk’s words, it was laughable to waste incense and prayer on a pile of long dead bones. Rather than leaving them to decompose on the altar, it made more sense to forge them into a Buddhist treasure and use it to deliver the masses from their suffering. Such was the Way of Compassion, no?
However, the sarira was the remnant of a deceased enlightened monk. To a Buddhist, it was the ultimate treasure and beyond priceless. Worshiped day and night in the pagodas, they were not to be touched or moved barring exceptional circumstances, much less forged into a Strange Artifact.
Besides, Uncertain Monk wasn’t just coveting one sarira. He robbed almost half the pagodas of their sarira. To say that his action was disgraceful would be the understatement of the century.