With thirteen days remaining until the Three Vehicles Dharma Assembly, Dragon-Elephant Sage Buddha of the Great Xiye Kingdom released another piece of news: on that day, he would reveal the secret of the Six Paths Treasures of Holy City Kalinga, buried in the desert thousands of years ago.
Legend had it that these Six Paths Treasures were peerless relics left behind by the former "Great Sun Martial Venerable," Chandragupta. There were six troves in all, each located in a different corner of the great desert.
This "Great Sun Martial Venerable," Chandragupta, had been an expert at the pinnacle of the Manifest Divinity realm, with one foot nearly across the threshold into the rank of immortal gods.
After he had been sealed away, the holy monks of the desert city had placed the Buddhist treasures of the desert kingdoms into six treasure vaults alongside Chandragupta's dismembered corpse.
At this Dharma assembly, Dragon-Elephant Sage Buddha would reveal the secrets of the Six Paths Treasures. They were said to contain the supreme inheritance of the Buddhist lineage, and even the Buddhist golden-body laws condensed by Chandragupta—an origin of power comparable to the laws of the Immortal Dao.
According to certain accounts spread by Great Wheel Temple, Chandragupta had been an unparalleled expert who united the desert oases and was believed to be the reincarnation of the "Wheel-Turning King." He had also been the one who spread the flourishing of Buddhism. Had he not succumbed to cultivation deviation and destroyed the holy desert city in a great battle, Holy City Kalinga would still be a sacred land for Buddhist disciples and descendants throughout the world.
Who would not be interested in the relics and treasures left behind by such a legendary figure and the Buddhism of the holy city? Even if they knew the