Chapter 552

The third year. The man who discovered the secret in the Buddhist scriptures could not help but share it with his friends. One told ten, ten told a hundred, a hundred told a thousand... Within a short time, nearly everyone in the planetary civilization where the man lived knew about the notices hidden within the scriptures. Yet, everyone still dismissed it as a coincidence and gave it no further thought. The fourth year. Someone in another planetary civilization discovered the secret of the scriptures, and it spread rapidly. The fifth year, the sixth year... As more people learned the truth, the secret of the scriptures seeped into every corner like spring rain, taking root and sprouting in the folds of the Two-Dimensional World. The first to stand up and demand an answer was an old Bhikshu from the Buddhist realm. Leaning on a staff engraved with sutras, his shadowy form blurred at the edges with agitation. He knelt at the foot of Mount Ling for three days and three nights, the tip of his staff incessantly scratching the Sanskrit words "Why does the World-Honored One speak lies?" into the ground.