Chapter 454: Raising Fire and Burning the Sutra
"What is compared, I don't know for the time being, I just know that it is a comparison of the scriptures, it should be a comparison of the scriptures and mana, right? It's because it's not clear, so I came to see it, if you know how they compare, what else is there to look at?"
"The brothers really just came to see the play, and they didn't have any other ideas?" Bai Fu asked, looking incredulous.
You must know that this burning of scriptures, is the most tragic battle of the Taoist Buddha, although there is no real knife and gun, but the lost Taoist gate is a heavy loss, there are many Taoist priests immediately converted to Buddhism, is the loss of people and the loss of the battle, is a disgraced face.
For such a big thing, the six saints came out together, Bai Fu thought to himself, I am afraid that it is not as simple as watching the excitement!
"I've been busy cultivating all these years, and I've become estranged from these six saints, but I've been marginalized, and I won't say anything clearly, but I have to be careful!" Bai Fu's eyes flashed.
"I just came to see the play, and I didn't have any other ideas. "The Bull Demon King said.
"We're brothers, don't take me into the ditch. Bai Fu said with a smile.
"Don't worry, we're really just here to see the play, let's leave after watching it!" said the Bull Demon King.
"Then believe you!" Bai Fu said with a haha, as for whether it is true or false, it is all silent.
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The time of the Taoist Buddha Sutra Competition, Liu Zhuang is set on the fifteenth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of Yongping, that is, today. When the time came, Liu Zhuang was convenient for the White Horse Temple to gather all the Taoist priests and let them compete with the two of them.
Liu Zhuang is still very concerned about the comparison of Buddhism and Taoism, and personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to the White Horse Temple to watch the two Buddhist and Taoist scriptures and test the law.
"Yo, there are really a lot of masters who came today!" Bai Fu's heart moved, but he found that there were many elite soldiers and strong generals from the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, and they should have come to help.
Bai Fu swept away at a glance, the bald head with golden light was crowded, the colorful road scarf was flying, and the front of the competition table was very lively!
However, looking at the past, there are no particularly powerful masters on both sides of the Taoist Buddha, and the famous one is missing: on the side of the Buddhist Gate, the two Arhats who pick up the beams are Mo Teng and Zhu Falang, and on the side of the Daomen, the two golden immortals He Zhengzhi and Zhu Shanxin are the handles.
Well, it is not excluded that the Buddhist bigwigs are hidden in the dark, after all, there are a lot of obscure and powerful atmospheres around, and maybe the one who sells snacks on the roadside is a Taoist master and a great Buddhist power.
Soon, the game began, and the first game was about the number of verses!
"More than the scriptures?" Bai Fudan hurt, this is the question of the competition that a guy with a hole in the brain came up with, it's really ...... Talent!
Surely this isn't a joke?
As soon as the title of the competition came out, the Taoist side immediately held more than 600 volumes of Taoist Lingbao scriptures on the West Altar, and several carts of paper, silk, silk, wood, bamboo and scripture classics were piled up on a competition platform.
And on the side of Buddhism, he held the forty-two chapters of the Bayeux Golden Pages Sutra and boarded the East Altar - there were few scriptures sent by the Buddhists to pave the way for the journey to the west. The forty-two chapters are small in size, so they only occupy a pitiful small space on the stage.
This one can be seen at a glance, and in the first round, it was obvious that the Taoists won and the Buddhists lost miserably.
After the first round of the competition, the second round of the competition began, and the competition project was quickly decided: the competition chanted the scriptures!
First of all, from the Taoist point of view, Tai Chi Liangyi, Laozi Zhuang Zhou, the Yellow Emperor's Neijing, the Five Elements Pill, Shannan Haibei, Ancient and Modern, Fuxi Nuwa, and the 8864 Hexagrams, Operational Research, etc., are endless, and they have been talked about for more than two hours, but they only talked about a rough idea.
Then he changed the two lectures of Morteng and Zhu Flange, but he was muttering Amitabha Buddha, and he couldn't understand it at all, and he only finished it for half an hour.
Monks from afar will chant sutras. Because he couldn't understand what the monk was reading, who won and who lost, the emperor Yu civil and military officials were not easy to judge, so he sentenced a draw.
"What's the comparison below?" asked the unwilling Taken after losing a game.
The Taoist side thought that he had taken the lead, so he said to the two monks quite generously: "How can you compare the following, you can say it." ”
He looked at the piles of classic anthologies on the Taoist platform with hatred, and said with a plan: "The true scriptures are not afraid of fire refining! Do you dare to burn the treasures of the scriptures? If you dare, we will even bet on this Buddha statue, Buddha relics, robes, Zen staffs, bowls, and bowls." ”
"How can there be such a comparison between the scriptures and the scriptures throughout the ages?"
"The true scriptures are not afraid of fire refining? That's real gold, how can a barbarian state who doesn't understand bullshit dare to come to my big country to preach?"
The Taoist priests were really enraged, and the gentle rhetorical questions, the fierce direct racial insults, and even more violently, greeted the women of the Morteng family.
"I'm just going to ask, do you dare to compare?" Morteng's eyes turned red, and flames erupted from his ears.
"Fuck it's like that, what's the big deal? At most, everyone can play it all together. A Taoist priest shouted.
He Zhengzhi and Zhu Shanxin's faces were ugly, they were not like those little Taoist priests who had no eyesight, the robe was asbestos, they were not afraid of fire, and the relics, Buddha statues, Zen staffs, bowls, etc. were originally refined in the fire. Look at the gold page in the bay leaf, it is real gold, not afraid of fire, and its own scriptures, bamboo, paper, and silk, are all flammable.
Although it is said that when the time comes, it will definitely be necessary to compete with the law fire and protect the scriptures with mana, but under the advantages of one and the other, it will take more mana to burn the scriptures and protect the scriptures, which will be greatly disadvantageous to oneself.
"Is the Taoist priest who shouted just now a spy of the Buddhist Sect?" asked Bai Fuchao the Macaque King, he was well-informed, and he might know something.
Bai Fu didn't dare to be interested in the results of the game, Daomen would definitely be defeated, but he was more interested in the cats in the matter and wanted to learn.
"A little earth immortal, I don't bother to pay attention, but I don't know if it's a Buddhist spy. However, I heard a small source of information that I don't know if it's true or not, and it is said that Buddhism promises many benefits, and as soon as Buddhism wins, many Taoist priests will apostasy and convert. The Macaque King laughed.
Not to mention the discussion between Bai Fu and the Macaque King, but to say that the Mo Teng, it may be the Taoist priest who responded to the answer, and regardless of whether it was said by the person in charge or not, he immediately clapped his hands and laughed: "Refreshing, then let's try to burn the scriptures." ”
After speaking, He Zhengzhi spoke to Zhu Shanxin, and said to Emperor Liu Zhuang: "I implore Your Majesty to order a test of the burning of the scriptures and distinguish the authenticity of the scriptures!"
Liu Zhuang waved his hand and ordered to prepare firewood, it is not so troublesome for its practicality, these great monks and high Daoists, which real fire is not stronger than that mortal fire, but the Taoist law cannot be displayed in front of the emperor, everyone is happy to cover up with mortal fire, and they didn't say anything.
At a disadvantage, He Zhengzhi and Zhu Shanxin hurriedly mobilized more than 600 Taoist priests to secretly cast magic to protect the scriptures in the name of lining up around the altar to chant and pray.
They don't know that these Taoist priests have been bought by Buddhism, how can they support the scriptures, but the Buddhism side who knows these is not in a hurry, they have already won the battle.
The firewood was piled up, and the emperor Liu Zhuang gave an order, and the soldiers waiting by the two high platforms raised the fire at the same time and threw the torches on the firewood.
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