Manager Wang And The Storyteller

Chapter 13

A Story for the Emperor

The story teller told a story called "The attainment of Shan Hum".

"In the last days of the powerful cultivation heroes, all the elders and masters of the temple of Hum went up the mountain called Shan Hum to ascend into the heavenly kingdom . At the top of this special mountain was a portal that could take all those who were worthy ,to the heavenly kingdom . This had been a longtime practice of the Hum monastery for many centuries. But this one was different because this time all the elders and masters in the Hum monastery were leaving. They left behind the students who had not attained the high spiritual ability called Shan Hum and told them to continue on their spiritual quest ,so they too might climb up the steps of Shan Hum and into the heavenly Kingdom through the portal.

And so many of the students watched the elders and masters climb up the mountain one after the other. This process took about six months before all the elders and masters of the Hum monastery disappeared in to the portal and where never seen again.

With the departure of their masters, many monks who had yet to attain Shan Hum left the spiritual quest and went back home to live a normal life. Only a very few monks continued in the Spiritual quest, one of whom was Shan Young.

Shan Young continued with the training. And so he built his house at the base of Mount Shan Hum, where he spent so much time day and night in meditation.

As Time went on, people came to live in the house of Shan Young. Some of them were refugees from distant lands while others were distressed people looking for solace. Shan Young kept expanding and building more houses in other to accommodate the growing population. As time went on Shan young eventually took a wife named Fu and had four children, although the last three came fifteen years after his first son.

Despite the success he has gained, Shan Young's greatest wish was to be worthy enough to climb up Mount Shan Hum, go through the portal and go to the heavenly kingdom . And so he kept on with his training and meditation. He was present but unavailable, denying himself almost all the pleasures of life, even when they were very much available and affordable to and by him. Shan Young was being completely detached from all emotions. Closing his eyes and ears to his pains and the pains of others.

For instance, he denied himself good food, even when he had good food and the money to buy them, he denied himself s*x even when he had a wife; he denied himself happiness even when there were lots of reasons to be happy.

Shan's first son Zen was one of Shan's greatest regret, this was because Zen shared none of his father's ambitions to attain Shan Hum. Zen loved life. He also loved people, and he lived life passionately. He wined and dined at the slightest instigation. He had friends; he cared about people, and he work for his money and enjoyed immensely.

When Shan Young had had enough of his son's activities, which he deemed disgraceful, he sent his son to the blacksmith in the neighboring community to learn to be a blacksmith and to also take his activities away from his sight. "