Maitreya: Steward, Our Child-Blessing Is Very Effective!

Sleeping Buddha Temple was the name of the temple where Maitreya resided. Sleeping Buddha, indeed—there was truly a Buddha inside the temple!

"Steward Li!"

"You came to my Sleeping Buddha Temple to pray for a child..."

Maitreya smiled broadly as he looked at the richly dressed Steward Li. The man came from Tiantai County and was over forty, yet still had no children.

He had visited temples and Daoist monasteries both large and small, but his wish had never been fulfilled.

This time, after hearing that Buddha Ancestor had manifested at Sleeping Buddha Temple, he had prepared a generous gift and hurried over through wind and dust.

He had seen people pray for wealth and luck, but this was the first time he had seen someone pray for a child...

Maitreya was about to say a few more words when waves of dragon roars suddenly rang out. A phantom golden dragon burst through the sky,

circling above Sleeping Buddha Temple with bared fangs and claws, its golden scales glittering. It was none other than the primordial spirit of Dragon-Subduing Arhat.

Seeing this, Maitreya lightly rolled his Prayer Beads between his fingers, and his smile became gentler.

"Steward, you are desperate for a child. Have you ever considered that Buddha saves those with affinity, but one must also see where that 'affinity' lies?"

Steward Li was stunned. He hurriedly bowed and said,

"Please enlighten me, Buddha Lord. My wife and I have built bridges and paved roads all these years, and we have never done anything evil. Why, then..."

By the end, his voice had become choked with sobs. The Li family had been a single-generation lineage for eight generations. Could it be that their line would end with him?

"May I ask, Venerable Monk, where does this affinity lie?"

Steward