I saw a long line of cases from the middle to both sides behind the door.

At the top of the case sat twelve bodies that had long since dried and blackened.

When Shan Heng saw it, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly came to report.

By the time they reached the gate, the crowd had already surrounded the place.

Shan Heng drank away from the crowd and made a way in the middle of the door. When I walked in to see, the twelve corpses sat upright on the table, holding golden handprints in both hands, although the green robes on the body were still intact, when you looked closely, you could see that they had long been weathered, and they would turn into a pile of scraps in an instant with just a light touch.

When I looked behind him, I saw that there was a "soul talisman" pasted on everyone's back!

This talisman is a very rarely used talisman in the Daomen, because of its great power, it can detain and seal the soul of a person, and it will not be born forever.

Seeing that there are twelve people here, judging by their clothes, they should be people from my Daomen. Judging from the degree of weathering, the time must have been hundreds of years old.

It is incomprehensible why such a ruthless talisman could be used on a fellow practitioner.

After inspecting the left and right for a few times, there was no clue, so he ordered everyone to disperse, and still sealed this door, and no one was allowed to inquire and enter this door, otherwise the door rules would be disposed of.

The people were commanded and dispersed.

I went back to my study and began to look around through the ancient records I had left behind, hoping to find the records of the twelve dried corpses in the Guandi.

Called Master in the evening and reported the matter to him.

The master said: "I don't know about this matter, but there is a legend that the Buddhist debate was led by Quanzhen Zhang Zhijing, and there were also Zhengyi's predecessors involved.

And then in the end, he was defeated by the Buddhist monks, and the priests who had participated in the debate suddenly disappeared.

However, as the years go by, this matter is, after all, a disgrace in my sect, and it has rarely been mentioned for hundreds of years.

I don't know if these twelve seniors have anything to do with this matter."

When it comes to Buddhist debates, it goes back to the Yuan Dynasty.

In 1220, the Taoist Quanzhen sect Qiu Chuji went to Kundus (present-day Afghanistan) in the Western Regions to meet Genghis Khan, and was named the great master by Genghis Khan, who was in charge of all the monks in the world.

Because of this special close relationship between Taoism and Genghis Khan, Taoism has always been very influential in the early Mongol Empire. This situation naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Buddhist disciples.

In 1254, Möngke Khan had Ali Buge preside over a religious debate in Horin. Buddhism took the opportunity to unite with the Christians and Christians to refute Taoism.

This was actually a derogatory debate against Quanzhen Taoism, with the intention of suppressing the dominant position of Taoism.

Under the pressure of the time, Quanzhen Dao could only express his disobedience and resistance in silence.

After the debate, Taoism had to make some concessions to Buddhism in terms of temples, property, scriptures, etc.

But that's not the end of the story.

In the spring of 1258, Möngke Khan again ordered Kublai Khan to hold a grand debate on Buddhism and Taoism on an unprecedented scale in earnest at the Da'an Pavilion in Kaiping Province.

This was the largest, highest-standard, and most far-reaching religious debate in Chinese history, and it had a great impact on the development and evolution of various sects in China, on the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism that began in the Tang and Song dynasties, and on the development of China's religious culture.

In fact, in the great cause of the unification of the Mongols, the theory of "three religions in one" should be most needed. However, the Mongol ruling class at that time, led by Möngke Khan, did not realize the significance of this theory.

There was no way out of this debate on Taoism, and what was even more serious was the death of Li Zhichang, the head of the Quanzhen sect who had a certain position in the Mongolian group. In desperation, the remaining elites of Quanzhen Dao came out: more than 200 people, including the head Zhang Zhijing Zhenren, Mr. Manzi Wang, Daolu Fan Zhiying, General Judge Wei Zhiyang, and lecturer Zhou Zhili, participated in the debate.

More than 300 people, including the leader of the Sakya sect, the head of the Sakya sect, the second living Buddha of the White sect, Karma Baxi, the Hexi national teacher, the outer five road monks (Wu'er monks), the Dali national teacher, the elders of the Shaolin Temple, the elders of the Wutai Mountain, and the elders of the Yuanfu Temple, attended the debate.

In particular, the 23-year-old leader of the Sakya sect, Ba Sipa, and the second living Buddha Karma Baxi, the head of the White Sect, were even more rare geniuses in a hundred years, even compared with Wang Chongyang, the patriarch of the Quanzhen Dao, and Changchun Zhenrenqiu.

At the debate, more than 200 people including Kublai Khan's advisers Yao Shu, Dou Mo, Lian Xixian, and Wang Pan were hired as referees and notaries.

It was stipulated that 17 people from each side should participate in the debate, and if Taoism prevailed, 17 Buddhists were to grow their hair for Taoism, and conversely, if Buddhism triumphed, 17 Taoist priests were to shave their hair and become monks.

At the debate, the focus of the debate was "Laojun Eighty-one Diagrams" and "Laozi Hu Jing".

The debate between the two sides starts with theory. At only 23 years old, Pas-pa shined, pressing step by step in the debate, and Taoism gradually fell into disarray.

According to historical records, the Taoist priests either "did not answer", or "never heard of it", or "did not dare to hold it". was forced to have no choice but to keep quoting scriptures.

made a mistake in his busyness, and finally cited it to the Confucian classic - "Historical Records"!

The decisive moment has arrived!

Phags-pa asked, "Does your "Historical Records" have a saying that you have turned into a nonsense?"

"Nope. ”

Then he asked, "What is the name of the sutra that your Mr. Lear wrote?"

"Tao Te Ching. ”

"In addition to the Tao Te Ching, what other scriptures did Mr. Li Er write?"

"Nope. ”

Pasipa then asked: "In the Tao Te Ching, did Lao Tzu mention anything about his own beard?"

"No ......"

Pa Sipa: "In the most authoritative history book "Historical Records", there is no such thing as turning into a hu, and in the book written by Li Laojun himself, there is not even a shadow of it. - It's hypocritical!"

According to the records in the history books, the debate has reached here, and "the Taoist resigned". The chief referee, Shangshu Yao Shu, stood up and announced in public: "The Taoist is responsible!"

At this point, Taoism was defeated in the debate!

After the defeat, he could only be punished as promised, and Kublai Khan sent his envoy Tuhuan to bring 17 people including Taoist priest Fan Zhiying to Longguang Temple to cut their hair and become monks, and burned 45 Taoist scriptures.

The world's Buddhist temples are occupied by Taoism in 237 areas, all of which are owned by Buddhism.

Since then, Buddhism has always had an overwhelming advantage over Taoism.

It was not until later in the Ming Dynasty that Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously promoted Taoism, which ushered in the heyday of Taoism.

The influence of this politically motivated debate on Buddhism and Taoism is so great that it has always been a humiliating incident in Taoism, and very few people in Taoism are willing to mention it, yet people in Buddhism have always used it to trumpet the superiority of Buddhism over Taoism.

If the twelve dried corpses here are really the predecessors involved in this matter, then they are also very admirable people, but why are their souls sealed and they cannot be reincarnated forever?