Chapter 1273 - 399 Shariputra, Grace and Love_2
Fearing she might damage it, Mo Yan didn’t dare to pick it up with her hands. She just turned it over in the light several times, but couldn’t make out what it was. Thus, she asked Xue tuanzi, "What exactly is this? How is it useful to you?"
"It’s a Shariputra!" Xue tuanzi replied solemnly, his tone filled with veneration, "It’s what remains after those monks pass away in meditation, containing the Power of Faith and merit they accumulated throughout their lives."
If it were just judging by appearances, Xue tuanzi wouldn’t have known what it was either, but just then he had used a secret technique to trace back the origin of the golden granules, only then did he understand their provenance, and he felt immediate and deep respect for those monks who had cultivated Shariputras.
"Shariputra? It’s actually a Shariputra!" Mo Yan was startled, for she had often heard about Shariputras in both her modern life and in this life.
It was said that a Shariputra comes through the cultivation of discipline, concentration, and wisdom, combined with the practitioner’s own great vows. It is extremely rare and precious. Since Xue tuanzi could sense a significant amount of Power of Faith and merit contained within it, there surely was no mistake.
No wonder, no wonder Master Du Jie had said that in others’ hands, this object would only be a dead item, for he had already known she needed a great amount of merit and the Power of Faith. This priceless gift was truly more than she could bear.
Through Xue tuanzi’s account, Mo Yan gradually understood the origins of these eight Shariputras.
A thousand years ago, an enlightened monk gathered the strength of virtuous men and women and used alms to build Bao Hua Temple. At that time, Bao Hua Temple didn’t have the scale it boasts today, yet once built, it quickly became immensely popular, gaining a reputation among the many temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples in Jing City. More and more people came to worship, and, by now, it had become the most prominent temple in Jing City.