Old Daoist Mude had to let out a long sigh.

His grudge with the Iron Arrow Zen Master was twenty or thirty years, when the Iron Arrow Zen Master had not yet entered the Buddhist Gate, he Mude old Taoist priest had not had any grievances with the Iron Arrow Zen Master, and it was not possible to have any grievances with him.

But then after the defeat of the Iron Arrow Zen Master, all thoughts were discouraged in an instant, and he worshiped into the Buddhism, and settled down to practice the Dharma, but also lost to the willows and flowers and the bright village, after worshiping the Buddha and began to practice the Dharma, the Iron Arrow Zen Master unexpectedly found that his talent in Buddhism was even better than his talent in the archery, so it didn't take long for the Iron Arrow Zen Master to become the Zen Master of the South Leaving the Buddhism, and it was also at that time that the old Taoist priest of Mude and the Iron Arrow Zen Master formed a decades-long grievance.

Mude old Taoist priest as Dongxun has always been the leader of Taoism, in that era he was also a figure in the young generation of Dongxun Taoism, at that time, Nanli was still the old emperor in power, although the national strength was weak, but it was not the object of the mainland countries at that time can be easily provoked, including Dongxun, one of the three major countries.

Because of the policy set by the Taihao Fuxi clan, the Eastern Xun Kingdom and the Nanli Kingdom have always been countries that have been friends for generations, so at that time, the two countries also held a religious discussion meeting at the proposal of the Eastern Xun Dynasty, and the venue was set at Jinling Castle, the capital of the Southern Departure.

Nanli's Buddhism, Dongxun's representative religion is naturally Taoism, so Taoism sent a young man at the time Mude old Taoist as the leader, and brought a group of young Taoists to Nanli Jinling City.

It was also at this religious discussion council between the two great powers in Jinling City that the old Taoist priest Mude met for the first time his old enemy, the Iron Arrow Zen Master, who would always exist in his life.

At the religious discussion council at that time, when the old Taoist priest Mude met the Iron Arrow Zen Master in the early days, the two hit it off at first sight, as if they had known each other for a long time, they talked about everything, and often discussed until dawn.

When the old Taoist priest Mude first began to practice the Tao, he always believed that the Taoism and the Dharma could not coexist in the world, and if the two met, it would not be long before the sect would perish.

However, after a night conversation with the Iron Arrow Zen Master, the old Taoist priest Mude accepted a lot of Zen ideas for the first time, and once fell into self-doubt, thinking that his original ideas were too old-fashioned and pedantic, maybe Buddhism and Taoism just did not find a way to allow the two to coexist in the world.

At the same time, after the night talk with the old Taoist priest Mude, the Iron Arrow Zen Master also had a great change in his view of Taoism, and for the Taoist priest who was about the same age as himself, the Iron Arrow Zen Master deeply felt the true charm of the Taoist priest from him.

When the two factions of the two factions discussed the parliament, even when the believers of the two factions were arguing with each other in the parliament, they were shocked that it was the leaders of the two factions who were the first to reach a settlement.

And what was the reason for the breakup between the two?

The old Taoist priest Mude smiled bitterly, his eyes looked at it and he smiled suddenly, it seemed that the old bald donkey had not told the younger generation about what happened to them back then.

At that time, the two of them, both read the scriptures of each other's sects together, and from time to time, they would also interpret the deep meaning contained in some of the cumbersome sentences of the teachings for each other, and for a while, if it were not for the two of them and one Taoist robe and one Buddhist robe, I am afraid that in the eyes of outsiders, the two of them are a pair of good brothers who have an irreversible relationship, but even if they are wearing Taoist robes and robes, in the missions of the two countries, looking at the eyes of their respective mission leaders, they are full of incredible, and great incomprehension in it.

They couldn't understand why the person in their respective teams who had the most thorough understanding of their own sect's philosophy would inexplicably become like this with the leader of the other team.

When the two of them did this, it was like a slap in the face of the two missions, and they told them silently and loudly that your understanding of the Tao (Dharma) is still too shallow, and this kind of argument is a complete waste of time, and there is no point at all.

Such a drama, in the end, even alarmed the old emperor who had not heard of political affairs for a long time.

The reason why Emperor Lao Li agreed to Taihao Fuxi's request at that time was not because he saw that he was already old and couldn't last long, and wanted to take this opportunity to give Dongxun a stumbling block in advance, lest after his death, Nanli would suddenly fall apart, and then the countries invaded Nanli and plundered Nanli's territory.

As for what is this stumbling block?

Emperor Laoli's original idea was to take this opportunity to provoke the contradictions between the two countries, and a rift appeared in the friendship between Nanli and Dongxun, although their Nanli is now stronger than before, but in the eyes of Emperor Laoli, against a country that has not experienced a huge war for a long time, they will definitely have the upper hand in Nanli.

Originally, Emperor Lao Li thought that the reputation left by the Iron Arrow Zen Master in the secular world was when he was angry and reckless, otherwise he would not fight the wind alone in a decisive battle, and the old Emperor Li thought that such a guy would be the leader of the Nanli Mission, and he would definitely fight because of the difference in religious beliefs against the people who came from the East Xun, and then they would have a sufficient excuse for going to war.

Even if in the end they did not directly annex Dongxun, of course, Emperor Lao Li did not have much hope for the direct annexation of Dongxun itself, after all, Dongxun was also one of the empires of the three major powers, and if they left Nanli in their previous heyday, Dongxun would not be able to resist the all-out offensive of Nanli at that time.

But now in this state of Nanli, if you deal with Dongxun, at most, you can only hit Dongxun hard, so that its national strength will be set back by one or two eras, as for expanding the territory, although the old emperor is not very virtuous, but he is not stupid.

Nanli's current territory is large enough, unlike other countries that lack land, Nanli has been facing the embarrassing situation of a small number of people since before the emperor left the emperor in the last few generations.

A hundred years have passed, and there is still a lot of wasteland in the south of the country that has not been developed, and it is still barren and overgrown with weeds.

Even the land in the country has not been digested, so why should they go to Dongxun specifically for the land?

There is not much place worth occupying on the Dongxun side due to geographical reasons, and the place is far away from the emperor, and the rivers are interspersed with the entire Dongxun border, so the land of Dongxun can only be said to be an enclave at best for the Nanli country.

As the so-called chicken ribs and chicken ribs, the food is tasteless, and it is a pity to abandon it.

In the expectation of Emperor Lao Li, after taking this opportunity to successfully provoke a war with Dongxun, after their Nanli army entered the territory of Dongxun, they would follow his orders to continue to loot the population from Dongxun and force its immigrants to leave the south, and also through some special means, all the lands in Dongxun would be turned into saline-alkali land, so that the time for the recovery of its national strength would be slowed down again.

All these thoughts in the mind of the old emperor, has been calculated I don't know how many times, the old emperor has even made arrangements for this a long time ago, he as early as when the Dongxun mission arrived in Jinling, he secretly summoned the old marshal of the Bai family, and also issued an edict overnight, mobilized the garrison of the three states in the south and the south to immediately go to the junction with Dongxun to standby.

However, after the old marshal of the Bai family heard that Emperor Lao Li wanted to order him to loot the population of Dongxun, burn the land of Dongxun's houses, and turn the land into saline-alkali land, he refused this matter without hesitation.

In a resolute tone, the old marshal of the Bai family refused to serve as the marshal of the army this time.

After the old marshal of the Bai family rejected this matter, it didn't take long for the old emperor to know from Jinyiwei about the relationship between the Iron Arrow Zen Master and the old Taoist priest Mude.

This series of changes, the old Emperor Li's wishful thinking can be regarded as completely disrupted, so the old Emperor gritted his teeth, summoned the royal worship in the court, and gave him a death order, so that when the Iron Arrow Zen Master and the old Taoist Mude were in the same place, he disguised himself as a Dongxun war element and assassinated the Iron Arrow Zen Master.

This order, Emperor Lao Li gave them a death order, which means that no matter whether this matter is successful or not, they will judge themselves on the spot in the end.

Fortunately, the people who accepted this order were all dead soldiers of the Nanli royal family, and after the old emperor promised them that they would give their family a large sum of money afterwards, regardless of success or failure, they agreed to the matter.

Although this method is not very clever, it can even be said to be a stupid move, but the old emperor couldn't think of any way at that time, in his opinion, the order for the transfer of Nanli's army has been issued, although the old commander of the Bai family, the commander he likes the most, is not there, but Nanli is not short of a member of the general to deal with those soft-footed shrimp in Dongxun.

As the so-called arrow has to be sent on the string, the reason why Emperor Lao Li issued this order is just because he wants to quickly find an excuse for the beginning of this war, so that all countries can see it, even if many people in the countries see the truth of this crude excuse, Emperor Lao Li is not panicking, anyway, at that time, his army in the south has already begun to plunder Dong Xun crazy.

At that time, even if the Heavenly King Lao Tzu came, he couldn't stop them from leaving the footsteps of the army in the south!

Although the cultivation of those royal worshippers did not reach the top level, and it was impossible for the old Emperor to send that level of worship to do this kind of thing, but their cultivation was not bad, so when they disguised themselves as Dongxun radicals to assassinate the Iron Arrow Zen Master, they did cause some trouble to the Iron Arrow Zen Master at the beginning.

However, at that time, the Iron Arrow Zen Master had already stepped into the top level with one foot, and the two sides did not fight a few moves, and the Iron Arrow Zen Master quickly gained the upper hand, and later with the help of the old Taoist priest Mude, the two did not make much effort to enshrine those royal offerings to the killing on the spot, and no one was left.

However, there was news that the radicals of Dongxun secretly infiltrated Jinling City in a vain attempt to assassinate the Iron Arrow Zen Master and sabotage the mission meeting, but it was not surprising that with the help of the old emperor, it was quickly spread to everyone.

However, the dramatic scene behind made the old emperor dumbfounded.

Iron Arrow Zen Master and Mu De old Taoist stood up one after another, pointing out that the identity of the monk who participated in the assassination of Iron Arrow Zen Master that day was suspicious, and it was necessary to continue to investigate for a while, and then it didn't take long for Iron Arrow Zen Master to investigate one of the monks' wives through his own connections, and finally vaguely learned the truth of this matter, Iron Arrow Zen Master did not inform Mu De Old Taoist, but entered the Jinling Imperial City alone, met with the old emperor, after a night of night talk, Emperor Lao Li ordered the garrison of the three states on the border between the two countries to be transferred back to Yuanzhou, stopping the war that was about to break out.

After the Iron Arrow Zen Master went back, looking at the urgent eyes of the old Taoist priest Mude and the questions one after another, the Iron Arrow Zen Master chose to be silent, and at the next day's religious parliament of the two countries, it was announced that it was impossible for Buddhism and Taoism to merge, ending this council that lasted for more than a month.

And in the evening of the same day, the Iron Arrow Zen Master and the old Taoist Mude also cut off their robes, and the old Taoist Mude also started from that time to form such a grudge with the Iron Arrow Zen Master.