Pawn Crossing the River

Confucianism succumbed to its old ways and complacency. Taoism learned from Confucianism's mistakes and made many changes, including but not limited to replacing regularity with equality, emphasizing increasing revenue before cutting expenditure, etc.

Open source is actually about development.

Development is divided into two aspects, one is the material level, and the other is the ideological level.

In order for material development to develop, it cannot be done behind closed doors, it cannot be a pool of stagnant water, it must flow and become living water. People from the outside come in and people from the inside go out. It is not only the flow of people and money, but also the flow of ideas and concepts.

Since the time of Xuansheng, Taoism has advocated the need to untie the layers of restraints that Confucianism has on thought. However, it is inevitable to face a problem. How can a person whose hands and feet are bound untie the rope that binds himself? In most cases, ideas cannot develop on their own.

Then communication is needed. If someone brings new ideas from the outside, communicates with existing ideas, and then collides and generates sparks, that is progress.

The exchange of ideas does not matter who is superior or inferior, but it is about choosing the good ones and following them, and changing the bad ones. During the period of the Fourth Grand Master, this point was completely made clear: this kind of collision of ideas, even if it is a little more intense or even a little outrageous, is within the scope of discussion, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Even if you and I have different views, we can communicate and discuss them peacefully.

Although this trend had regressed during the period of the Fifth Generation of Grand Masters, it had returned to its original line during the Sixth Generation of Grand Masters.

From this, Taoism has the concept of "Western Learning", that is, not to be arrogant, to learn from the advantages and strengths of the West, to learn from its shortcomings, and to take its essence and discard its dross.

The sage of Confucianism said that if three people are walking together, there must be someone who is my teacher, so you should not be ashamed to ask. Just because the West has all its shortcomings, we cannot turn a blind eye to its advantages. Just because the West has many advantages, we cannot think that they are the kingdom of heaven on earth. We must view the West dialectically.

Be good at learning, especially from your enemies.

The prevalence of Western learning has brought about many changes in the Central Plains, ranging from large and small times to the improvement of armored ships. It undoubtedly promoted the development of the Central Plains and the exchanges between the East and the West, but it also allowed the Holy Court to get a glimpse of a corner of the Eastern world.

Feeling the power of the Taoist sect, the Holy Court did not shout and kill like in the past, but came to the East as a "friend". This does not mean that the Holy Court has no ideas. In fact, the Holy Court has been making small moves over the years.

However, Daomen is not a soft persimmon who can be manipulated by others. It adopts reciprocal counterattacks and causes a lot of trouble for the Holy Court in the New World. For example, the turbulent independence uprising in the New World has Daomen behind it. The West Daomen has made great contributions. .

This becomes a situation where I am in you and you are in me.

The Holy Court can reach out to the East, and the Taoist Gate can also reach out to the West.

Under this circumstance, the teachings of the Holy Court have also spread to a small extent in the East. It cannot be said to be a "foundation", but it can be regarded as an anchor point or coordinate.

This laid the foundation for the rendezvous between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of God. After all, it is not easy for a ship to find another ship in the vast sea. If you have anchor points or coordinates, it will be much easier.

In the real world, both sides can also delimit territories, set rules, and do not allow what to do. In the realm that belongs exclusively to the gods, it is difficult to distinguish. This is just like when the Age of Discovery just started. On the boundless sea, there were basically no rules at all, only the weak and the strong.

When the Kingdom of God from the Holy Court approached and "sailed close to", a huge figure appeared above the temple enshrining the statue of the goddess.

This figure is difficult to describe in words.

It's like two huge rings intertwined together to form a "Y" shape. Each ring is full of eyes, each eye is bigger than an adult man. The two huge rings are constantly rotating, and one Extremely fast, then slowly, the eyes above kept blinking, flickering on and off. In the middle of the intersection between the two huge rings, there is an even bigger eye, almost as big as Izanozun's head. The eyes move slowly, as if they are looking at everything around them.

This is the apostle of the Holy Court, the messenger of the Supreme Will.

However, during the exchanges between the East and the West, in order to make it easier for Eastern people to understand the meaning of apostles, Western missionaries translated them into angels in the Eastern context. "Angel" originally meant the messenger of the emperor. Even if the Taoist sect deposed the emperor, it still meant the messenger of the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty. But nowadays, it often refers to the apostles of the Holy See. At the same time, Western missionaries also translated the Supreme Will as the Emperor of Heaven or the God of Haotian, which also caused great misunderstandings.

With the deepening of exchanges between the East and the West, Taoism strictly prohibited this inaccurate translation. The Emperor of Heaven is the Emperor of Heaven, not the Supreme Will. Angels are the messengers of the emperor of heaven, not the apostles of the Holy Court. There can be no confusion.

In addition, Taoism emphasizes that the human world is human-centered and human-centered, and prohibits all holy court customs such as honoring "him".

The world mistakenly thinks that the apostles are humanoid and have wings, but this is not the case.

This image was processed by the Holy Court for the convenience of preaching, or it was the appearance of the apostles after they were transformed into human forms, just like the great demons were transformed into human forms. Tamamo Mae's human form is a charming and charming beauty, but her real body is a white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox, as big as a small mountain.

The true face of the apostle is very terrifying, even beyond the scope of what mortals can understand. He is an indescribable god. After all, the white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox is still in the category of fox. The various wild beasts in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" also have basic beast characteristics. At most, they have the characteristics of both humans and beasts, while the image of the apostle is completely different from that of humans. Or get close to the beast.

Just this image will cause great fear in those who see it, and even look at it one more time and even make them completely crazy.

Therefore, there is another saying in the Holy Court: Do not look directly at God.

Because of this, it is recorded in the holy scriptures that the first words the apostles said when they met people were: "Child, do not be afraid, I am the messenger of the Supreme Will."

Master Qingwei naturally would not be afraid or lose control and go crazy, and there was no such thing as being unable to look directly at him. He immediately recognized the origin of this indescribable god, who was none other than Toronus, one of the three apostles of the Holy Court.

The apostles are divided into three levels, the Holy, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The three apostles are the divine level, corresponding to the immortals of the Taoist sect, and are even the best among the immortals. The second is the Saint Son level, which corresponds to the Taoist pseudo-immortal level. The last level is the Holy Spirit level, which corresponds to the created heavenly beings of the Taoist sect.

Since Toronus had so many eyes and one such huge eye, he naturally noticed the existence of Qingwei Zhenren.

Therefore, Tronus did not invade the divine kingdom of Izanozun rashly, nor did he come to the world. He just watched from afar across the boundary between the two divine kingdoms.

If Toronus comes directly, the consequences are unpredictable. This will undoubtedly cross the red line of the Dao Sect, and may even trigger a second war between the Dao Sect and the Holy Court, or it may cause the Dao Sect to increase its support for the New World. This will undoubtedly make the situation of the Holy Court in the New World even worse.

The key is to implement the facts. Maybe the Holy Court does not care about this, but the Taoist sect cares about the teacher's reputation. If the Holy Court takes the initiative to provoke the war, then the Taoist sect can quickly reach a unified opinion. In other words, there is a huge gap between the power that Daomen can mobilize for counterattack and the power that Daomen can mobilize for active attack. If the Holy Court takes the initiative to send arguments, then the situation in West Posuo Continent will be very dangerous.

More importantly, its arrival is also an invasion, which will trigger a counterattack from the Kingdom of Izanozun. This is not controlled by Izanozun, but is a spontaneous reaction of the Kingdom of God itself. Unless Izanozun can reshape his golden body and take control of the Kingdom of God again, it cannot be stopped.

If the delay is too long, greater variables will arise.

The reason why Master Qingwei didn't panic at all was because he had anticipated this situation in advance, so he moved all the family members of Fenglinzhou here, including five immortal immortals, namely Toronus and Izanozun. , and cannot reverse the situation of the war.

Tronus understands this very well, and it cannot even stay here for too long, otherwise it will be in danger.

So it just sent an object to Izanagi's divine kingdom, and then quickly faded away.

It was as if people from the Taoist sect had boarded the deck of the ship where Izanozun was, and were engaging in hand-to-hand combat with Izanozun. At this time, the Holy Court's big ship came quickly and began to sail closely with Izanozun's big ship. If the Holy Court ship rashly approached the side, Izanozun might not be able to be saved. Instead, it would give people from the Taoist sect the opportunity to board the Holy Court ship and burn themselves out.

Therefore, the Holy Court's big ship did not pick up the ship, but just threw a package onto Izanozun's ship, and then quickly moved away from Izanozun's ship, and just left, without giving the Taoist sect a chance to attack.

This so-called "package" is a book with a dark cover. Different from the thread-bound books in the Central Plains, this book is in a typical Western style. The cover is painted with a grinning skeleton and a dark sun, and the background represents torture and chaos. Twisted pattern. Comes with gold hinges and buckles and a lock made of solid metal.

When Tronus sent the book away, he also unlocked the golden locks on the hinges and clasps.

No doubt the hinges, clasps, and locks were the seals of the book, and Tronus unsealed them with malicious intent.

The pages of the book opened on their own with a clattering sound.

The book's pages are made from flayed skin - sourced from a previous failed scribe. The pages in the book are decorated with patterns made of gold foil and painted in the shape of strange animals, and the words on the pages are written in bright red ink, like a blood book, which continuously emits a strange green light and shines brightly along the spine of the book. move.

At this moment, Master Qingwei was no longer just a whim, but agitated, feeling a huge threat.