Chapter 176 Apostle Thoronus

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 imposed by Confucianism 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 troubles for the Holy Court in the New World. For example, the turbulent independence uprising in the New World has Daomen behind it, and Xidaomen 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 Sect 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 means the messenger of the emperor. Even if the Taoist sect deposes the emperor, it still means 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, Taoist sect emphasizes that human beings are the main and human beings in the world, and prohibits all holy court customs such as respectfully calling "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 appearance of the apostle is very terrifying, even beyond the scope of mortals' understanding. It is an indescribable god. After all, the white-faced golden-haired nine-tailed fox is still a fox. The various wild beasts in "Classic of Mountains and Seas" also have basic animal characteristics, at most they have the characteristics of both humans and beasts, while the image of the apostle has nothing to do with humans or beasts.

This image alone will make people who see it feel great fear, and looking at it again will even make them completely crazy.

So there is another saying in the Holy Court: Don't look directly at God.

Because of this, the Holy Scripture records that the first sentence the apostle said when he met someone was: "Child, don't be afraid, I am the messenger of the Supreme Will."

Qingwei Zhenren naturally would not be afraid or go crazy out of control, and there is no saying that he could not look directly at him. He immediately recognized the origin of this indescribable god, who was Toronus, one of the three apostles of the Holy Court.

The apostles are divided into three levels: Holy, Son of God, and Holy Spirit. The three great apostles are the sacred level, corresponding to the immortals of Taoism, and even the best among the immortals. The second is the Son of God level, which corresponds to the pseudo-immortal level of Taoism. The lowest is the Holy Spirit level, which corresponds to the creation of the gods of Taoism.

With so many eyes, and one so huge, Toronus naturally noticed the existence of Qingwei Zhenren.

So Toronus did not rashly invade Izanagi's kingdom of God, nor did he descend to the world, but just watched from afar across the boundary of the two kingdoms of God.

If Toronus descended directly, the consequences would be unpredictable. This would undoubtedly cross the red line of Taoism, and even trigger a second war between Taoism and the Holy Court, or it would make Taoism increase its support for the New World. This would undoubtedly make the situation of the Holy Court in the New World worse.

The key is to give people a reason to talk. Maybe the Holy Court doesn't care about this, but Taoism cares about having a legitimate reason. If the Holy Court takes the initiative to provoke a war, then the Taoists can quickly reach a unified opinion. In other words, the gap between the power that Taoism can mobilize for a counterattack and the power that Taoism can mobilize for an active attack is huge. If the Holy Court takes the initiative to give people a handle, then the situation in Xiposuozhou will be very dangerous.

More importantly, its arrival is also an invasion, which will cause a counterattack from Izanagi's kingdom. This is not controlled by Izanagi, but a spontaneous reaction of the kingdom itself. Unless Izanagi can reshape his golden body and control the kingdom again, it cannot be stopped.

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

The reason why Qingwei Zhenren was not panicked at all was because he had anticipated this situation in advance, so he moved all the assets of Fenglinzhou, a full five immortals, even if Toronus and Izanagi joined forces, they could not turn the tide of the battle.

Toronus understood this very well, and it couldn't even stay here for too long, otherwise it would be in danger.

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

It was as if the people of the Taoist sect had boarded the deck of the big ship where Izanagi was, and were fighting hand-to-hand with Izanagi. At this time, the big ship of the Holy Court came quickly and began to sail close to the big ship of Izanagi. If the Holy See ship had rashly approached Izanagi, it might not have been able to save him, but would have given the Taoists a chance to board the Holy See ship, bringing disaster upon themselves.

So the Holy See ship did not approach Izanagi, but simply threw a package onto Izanagi's ship, and then quickly moved away from Izanagi's ship, leaving the Taoists without giving them a chance to attack.

This so-called "package" was a book with a dark cover. Unlike the thread-bound books in the Central Plains, this book was in a typical Western style, with a grinning skull and dark sun painted on the cover, and a twisted pattern representing torture and chaos in the background. It was attached with gold hinges and buckles, and equipped with a lock made of solid metal.

When Troonus sent the book out, he also unlocked the gold locks on the hinges and buckles.

There was no doubt that the hinges, buckles, and locks were the seals of the book, and Troonus had unlocked the seals with malicious intent.

The pages of the book turned over by themselves, making a rustling sound.

The pages of this book are made of flayed skin - from a previous failed scribe. The pages of the book are decorated with patterns made of gold foil and painted in strange animal shapes, and the words on the pages are all written in bright red ink, as if written in blood, continuously emitting strange green light, flashing strongly along the spine of the book.

At this moment, Qingwei Zhenren was no longer acting on impulse, but was overwhelmed by a surge of emotions and felt a great threat.