Chapter 33: Alexander, the Emperor's Crusade
"I didn't expect that thousands of years have passed, and this method of becoming a god has not changed at all, which is really ridiculous. ”
Hearing the sound outside, Plato took Aristotle out to take a look, and a young man with black hair and black eyes was looking at his master and apprentice with a scrutinizing look.
"May I ask who your Excellency is, what is the matter with coming to my courtyard in the middle of the night?"
The strange young man on the other side seemed ordinary, but Plato would not think that he was just an ordinary youth.
"I heard that you are a student of Socrates, but your thoughts today are not exactly the same as those of your teacher, why is that?"
Instead of answering Plato's question, the young man asked him.
Plato pondered for a moment, then said slowly: "Everyone is different, and the thoughts will naturally be different. My teacher's thoughts were also obtained from the former sages, and neither the former sages nor my teachers were different from the era in which I lived, so how could the thoughts be the same?"
After hearing this, the young man was noncommittal, just chuckled lightly, and continued: "Igniting the divine fire, attracting the divine nature, and shaping the divine personality, I heard that this method was already like this a thousand years ago, when this method was first created. Why is it that thousands of years have passed, but it is still like this? Is it true that thinking changes with the times and changes because of personal circumstances, and this method of becoming a god does not change because of the times and circumstances?"
Listening to the young man's words, Plato was stunned for a moment, and his heart suddenly brightened.
Yes, thoughts can change, why can't this method of becoming a god be changed? For a while, Plato's thoughts were scattered, and he thought that there were many things in this method of becoming a god that were not suitable for him.
"Can you stay with me for a while, I ask him often. ”
Plato also saw that the young man in front of him must be a cultivator who practiced the law of human beings becoming gods, and perhaps his realm was still above his teachers and sages, so he hurriedly begged the other party to stay so that it would be convenient for him to ask for advice.
The black-haired young man, as Plato meant, stayed in the city of Athens for three days. During these three days, Plato and Aristotle gained a lot of knowledge about spiritual practice.
Perhaps not only in spiritual practice, but also in politics, history, military, philosophy, and even foreign religions, this young man is extremely proficient and talks about the Tao.
"Sir, may I ask you one last question?"
As the young man was about to leave, Plato began to ask his greatest question.
"Say it. ”
"May I ask you, sir, what is the source of heaven and earth, and how does it run like this?"
When the black-haired young man heard Plato's question, his face couldn't help but be surprised, and then he asked, "What do you think it should look like?"
"At the beginning of heaven and earth, it was opened up by the Creator Caius, and it changed from chaos to order, and its most important feature is that the Creator formulated a rational plan for the world to evolve into this. ”
After hearing this, the black-haired young man smiled indifferently: "You question, I can't answer you now." I'll borrow the words of two Eastern sages and tell you about it, as for what the result is, maybe you will naturally know when you reach a certain level of cultivation in the future. ”
"There is a mixture of things, and they are born from nature. Lonely, independent, and unchanging, she can be the mother of the world. I don't know its name, the strong word is called the way, and the strong name is big. The big is gone, the past is far away, and the far is reversed. Therefore, the Tao is great, the sky is great, the earth is great, and the people are also great. There is a great domain, and people live in one of them. Man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is the nature. ”
"The man is empty and has no image, and all things are nothing but my creation. Those who know all things to become themselves are only saints! What is it? Those who are not holy are not holy, they are not holy, and those who are holy are saints, and saints are not different. Seeing the origin is seeing the law, seeing the law is seeing the Buddha, and the effect of things and things is not different. Therefore, the mystery of the people is not ominous, and the hidden luck is that is, and the total six are in the mirror heart, and one comes and goes to become the body. Ancient and modern, always through, poor and extreme, Mo and two. Haoran Dajun is called Nirvana. ”
The black-haired young man sent these two passages into the minds of Plato and Aristotle in a way similar to that of the heart, and then laughed and walked out the door.
What these two classics say is what the black-haired young man has studied the most recently, and his deity has now reached this juncture, but he has never been able to transcend it like those two existences.
He descended as a doppelganger and came to this world to seek the results of a lifetime, in order to help the deity transcend and take the final step.
"Sir, I don't know what your name is?"
Young Aristotle suddenly thought of something, and did not know the name of this gentleman, and asked him.
"My name is Alexander, and we will meet again, Aristotle, and when we say goodbye, you will be my teacher. ”
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In northern Greece, the Macedonian kingdom, once called barbarian by the Greeks and ruled by the Persians, finally began to grow stronger.
Especially after the Macedonians abolished the young king and elected Philip as king, Philip's reform became the first step in the real rise of Macedonia.
Because of the Macedonians' courage and warlikeness, Illyria, Epirus in the west, Thrace in the east, and Paionia in the north fell into its sphere of influence.
In order to consolidate his royal power, Philip established a standing army loyal to the king and created a powerful Macedonian phalanx. Later, he seized the gold mines of Thrace, so that he could have a steady annual income to expand his military.
The Macedonian army has far surpassed the armies of the other Greek city-states in terms of combat effectiveness. And Philip also built a powerful fleet in preparation for the invasion of the eastern countries.
With the strengthening of royal power, the expansion of the territory, and the increase of strength, there was neither internal strife nor external trouble, and the Greek city-states in the south, which were still in full swing, naturally became the target of his further conquest.
Philip defeated the Greek city-states, which recognized him as their overlord. A complacent Philip was about to launch an army against the mighty Persian Empire when he was assassinated at his daughter's wedding banquet.
Thus, at the age of twenty, Philip's son, Alexander, ascended to the throne of Macedonia. As soon as the king, who had studied under the sage Aristotle, ascended the throne, the Romans from afar sent a messenger to bring a holy sword, which is said to be the sword of the stars left by the original preacher and the master of the court of stars.
Because of the death of King Philip, the Greek city-states immediately began an uprising against Macedonia.
But Alexander, who had just ascended to the throne, had a superior command than his father Philip, and in less than half a year he had reconquered all of Greece and submitted to him.
As a son, conquering the regions that his father did not conquer seems to be the best proof used to flaunt that he is better than his father. Many emperors did this, and Alexander was no exception.
The twenty-year-old king of New Macedonia, with his army, crossed the Hellespont Strait and began to attack the Persian Empire.
Alexander's army met the forces of Darius III of Persia for the first time on the banks of the Granicus River in Asia Minor, and the Greeks won a great victory, occupying Asia Minor in less than half a year.
Alexander then led his army to defeat the more than 100,000 Persian troops led by Darius III in the plains of Issus in Syria, capturing Darius's mother, wife, and two daughters, and causing Darius III, known as the King of Kings, to flee eastward.
In the same year, Alexander conquered Syria, Phoenicia, and the following year Egypt, building a new city in Egypt called Alexandria.
Two years later, in the spring, Alexander left Egypt to continue his crusade. The army crossed the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and half a year later fought with the army of Daliutu III at Abela.
The Persian army numbered about 400,000 men, including horses and elephants, but they were all defeated by Alexander, and Darius III fled east.
Alexander continued his march and conquered the city of Babylon, once the most majestic of cities. He traveled eastward from Babylon into the Persian Empire, occupied the Persian capitals of Susa and Persepolis, obtained a large amount of gold, silver and jewels, and set fire to the city of Persepolis and killed its inhabitants in revenge for the hatred of King Xerxes I of Persia for setting fire to the city of Athens more than a hundred years ago.
Over the next three years, Alexander suppressed sporadic revolts in northeastern Persia. The Persian king Darius III was also killed by his men, and the Persian Empire, which had lasted for nearly 200 years, came to an end.
A year later, Alexander marched into India, where he led a large army eastward from the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, passed through Parthia, conquered Afghanistan, entered India, defeated the Indian rebels, pacified the Punjab, and continued south along the Indus River.
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In the Emperor Township Divine Land, in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall on this day, all the gods gathered together, and many extraterritorial gods who had never been to Heaven before came to Heaven Court.
"Great gods, you all came to my heavenly court, but what is the big deal?"
The Great Heavenly Venerable sat on the throne of the gods, and when he saw Yawei, Amunla, Mingzun, Gaia, Atlantis, as well as the lords of the region, and the Bodhisattvas of the Lingshan Mountain, he couldn't help but show a faint smile on his face.
He also knew the intention of these gods, it was nothing more than that over the years, Emperor Ziwei had conquered everywhere in the Star Divine Court outside the domain, and almost included the divine domain to which they belonged into his rule, and these gods couldn't sit still.
The Emperors of the Heavenly Court, as well as the Heavenly Venerable Golden Immortals who had rushed from the Xuanling Immortal Realm, looked at these exotic gods with strange smiles on their faces.
In the eyes of the world, it was Alexander the Great of Macedon, who led the army of soldiers, charged into battle, attacked the city and destroyed the country, and made great achievements.
But in the eyes of people who are out of the world, what they see more is that there are nearly twenty masters of the Star Divine Court, who set up the Zhou Tian Star Great Array and subdued one Divine Domain after another.
The Star Divine Court alone is not counted, the Night Lord Nix, the Demon Lord Bo Xun, and even some emperors in Kyushu often intervene to help the Star Divine Court.
Over the years, many gods in foreign lands have had enough of being bullied. So, they met together and came to the heavenly court of the Emperor Country Divine Land.
These gods looked at each other, and finally it was Mingzun of the Persian Divine Domain who spoke: "Presumably the Great Heavenly Venerable also knows that the subordinate gods of the Lord of the Stars are conquering our Divine Domain everywhere, from Kaos in the west to India on the winter solstice, all in his conquest. The Great Heavenly Venerable once told us that your heavenly court is to reconcile the heavenly court. We came here this time to ask the Great Heavenly Venerable to reconcile on our behalf, and ask the Lord of the Stars to stop. ”
(Well, if nothing else, the next chapter should be the finale.) Weak and weak to ask for a little tip, so that the number of tips exceeds 1,000, embarrassing. )