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Chapter 1566: Defeat of Brahmanism

"Brother, I'm here! I miss you so much!"

Lu Zhishen came over laughing loudly, riding on a green ox.

"Damn, where did this flower monk come from? What shameless clothes he wears!"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen, who was dressed in colorful clothes, and was speechless. If he were to go back to Liangshan City wearing this, I'm afraid everyone in the city would laugh at him.

"Master Lu, that's not the case!"

Yue Fei covered his face in embarrassment, he even had goosebumps.

"Isn't this for the purpose of preaching? I am one of the supreme beings in the heavens, so I must have the colorful rays of light. I am wearing it now!"

Lu Zhishen said.

"Take it off quickly, it's really eye-catching!"

Sun Lei waved his hands and said that he seriously suspected that Lu Zhishen was deliberately trying to disgust him.

"hey-hey!"

Lu Zhishen smiled and took off his hat and monk robe, revealing the short coat underneath.

"Okay, it looks like everyone is here, are you planning to go back from here?"

Sun Lei looked at the people coming from a distance and asked Lu Zhishen.

"Daoji and his friends said they wanted to retrace Xuanzang's route. It seems they wanted to start from here and then cross the Pamir Mountains."

Lu Zhishen nodded.

"Greetings to Your Majesty!"

Gongsun Sheng led everyone to salute Sun Lei.

"Haha, I'm glad you're all here. I've been worried for a long time!"

Sun Lei looked at everyone and said with a smile.

"It seems like your missionary work will be going smoothly, right?"

Sun Lei asked with a smile.

"That was quite smooth! Those black-skinned natives were extremely stupid. As soon as Dao Ji and his men came on stage, they silenced the Brahmans. Their religion was so strange, one was destroying the world, the other was invincible, just like a play on the stage!"

Lu Zhishen said that the destruction of the world is a huge disaster, but in the eyes of Brahmanism it is just like playing. Sometimes this god gives someone the power to destroy the world, sometimes that god sheds a drop of sweat and turns into a monster to destroy the world, and sometimes even the gods are destroyed.

"That's what the natives do. They use fear to intimidate and scare people in order to achieve their goal of enslaving them."

Sun Lei was not surprised. Brahmanism was all about piling up rules. When loopholes were found, they would patch them. If the patches could not cover them, they would create new specifications to accommodate them. Layer upon layer, it was like a collection of contradictions.

"Later, the Brahmans learned to be thieves. They did not debate the sutras directly, but instead used loopholes in Buddhism to attack it, and immediately relegated Buddhism to the lower realms. They said that Brahma encompasses everything, and Buddha is only a lower Brahma, while they are a higher Brahma, and above them there is the Supreme Brahma. Dao Ji could not accept it."

Lu Zhishen said.

"I am incompetent. Those natives are not educated and do not understand Buddhist rituals. They just worship higher beings without caring whether they really exist or not!"

Dao Ji felt a little ashamed. Although he had been prepared, the local ignorant people could not understand him. They were only willing to believe in higher-level and more powerful gods. "Is it the same trick of Shankara again? First he painted a big pie, then he lifted himself up and belittled the other side?"

  Sun Lei said, this is the reason for the collapse of Indian Buddhism. Religion can only be high and mighty and possess uniqueness. Once it is surpassed, it will be quickly abandoned by believers. Religion is nothing more than admiration for the strong. People believe in him because he is an omnipotent god. If he is no longer omnipotent and powerful, where will the believers come from?

Just like God and Buddha, we can tell who is the strongest after a fight, but how to fight? Two empty existences can only fight based on the settings of their believers, and keep adding settings. You can destroy the world with a wave of your hand? I can destroy the world with just a thought! You are omnipotent and immortal? I am the destroyer of all things!

"Your Majesty is right, but the natives will not fall for it! Fortunately, we have these guys, they have a solution!"

Gongsun Sheng smiled and pointed at Lu Jiuling, Lu Jiuyuan and Zhu Xi and said that these three people had made great contributions.

"The two guys you sent here are also talented. They can come up with all kinds of heresy and fallacies. They seized on the teachings of Brahmanism and attacked them fiercely. In the end, they turned defeat into victory."

Lu Zhishen chuckled.

"It's all those people who are tying themselves up in knots! They are striving for the highest state of unity between Brahman and Atman, which coincides with the unity of heaven and man that I am studying. These barbarians only know that Brahman is the supreme, transcendental, and omnipotent, but they don't know what Brahman is, what Atman and Brahman are, so how can they achieve unity between Brahman and Atman? By practicing asceticism, praying, and doing yoga?"

"Obviously, these are not enough, because they cannot prove what is the unity of Brahman and self, but the unity of heaven and man in Zhongyuan can. Our theory is more specific and complete!"

  Zhu Xi smiled and said that he had a lot of feelings during this trip to India. It turned out that there were so many stupid people in this world. Why should he fight to the death in the Central Plains where there were so many smart people?

"Your Majesty, Lu Jiuyuan's philosophy of mind has also made great contributions. His philosophy of mind is principle, unity of knowledge and action, and conscience fully explains how to achieve unity of self and self. This is much more useful than the self-mutilation-style asceticism of the natives."

Gongsun Sheng laughed again.

"Good, you learn quickly!"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Jiuyuan and nodded. Originally, Lu Jiuyuan's philosophy of mind was not like this. Lu Jiuyuan emphasized the mind but ignored practice. This was flawed. He taught Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind, balanced the essentials and perfected this academic discipline.

Gongsun Sheng then handed the detailed record to Sun Lei, which recorded all the details after their entry into Tianzhu.

Of course, in addition to debate, fighting is also inevitable. How could those Brahmin nobles easily admit defeat and lose their eternal wealth?

These Brahmin nobles used the most foolish force. They believed that the missionaries from the East were evil spirits who were trying to seduce believers.

This immediately aroused Lu Zhishen's interest. Talking was not his strong point, but taking action was what he liked.

Lu Zhishen immediately led his army to charge, but those natives were no match for Qi's elite troops, and they killed the Brahmin nobles in droves, with blood flowing like a river.

Lu Zhishen is not a bloodthirsty person, but he does not mind killing people. He can sentence a villain like Zheng Tu to death, and these sinful Brahmins in front of him deserve to go to the eighteenth level of hell.

After several massacres, no one in the nearby countries, big or small, said anything anymore. When they saw them coming, the kings would even bring their people out of the city to kneel and greet them as a sign of submission.

"Brother, why are you here? It's so deserted!"

Lu Zhishen looked at Sun Lei and asked. During this journey, he finally saw what a remote place outside the domain was like. Even a small county in the Central Plains was more prosperous than the capital here.

"There's a war in the west, and I'm going to lead troops to support you. I almost treat you as an enemy."

Sun Lei said.

"That's great, I'll go too!"

Lu Zhishen immediately became interested. How could he be absent in a war?

"You're not going back?"

Sun Lei looked at Lu Zhishen and asked.

"It's okay to go back, just let them go back by themselves. It will be convenient to go to Tianzhu by sea later!"

Lu Zhishen said nonchalantly that he had not fought enough on this trip, those Brahmin natives were too weak, and he was more interested in Western Liao.