Heavenly King Polylore had died in battle, his soul destroyed!
When this news came out, the entire universe was in an uproar! Be it gods, demons or ghosts, all of them were dumbfounded by this news!
Polylore's death in battle was not unacceptable. After all, when King Wu conquered King Zhou, there were also many gods who died. However, the destruction of his divine soul was a completely different story.
Not only that, but many people also noticed that after the announcement, all of the statues, paintings, and scriptures that were related to Polylore were instantly set ablaze. In the blink of an eye, they were all incinerated. It could be said that all traces of Polylore in the world had been erased!
There was no such spirit, no such intention!
On one hand, the immortals and demons were shocked that one of Tathagata's Four Heavenly Kings had died so miserably. On the other hand, they were shocked that Fangzheng was so ruthless. Not only did he kill one of the Four Heavenly Kings under Tathagata the moment they met, he even destroyed his soul, making him unable to reincarnate for eternity!?
Even the death of one's father couldn't be more severe than this!
Fangzheng was too lazy to pay attention to these disturbances. He continued to advance northward, attacking the Jin army, occupying the land, spreading the faith of Goddess Nvywa, and carrying out religious, political, and economic reforms at the same time.
Although the Jin soldiers were brutal, Fangzheng had to admit that there were still some benefits to them. One had to know that Fangzheng's reform measures were almost completely based on the Modern World's. All land was taken over by the state and land reform was carried out. Farmers could cultivate on the land, and after paying enough to the state, the rest was all for themselves.
If it were in the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, Fangzheng's policy would not be able to continue. Because the landlord class of the Southern Song Dynasty was powerful, Fangzheng was not in the mood to deal with them. In the north, the Han landlords were almost wiped out when the Jin army arrived. This saved Fangzheng a lot of trouble.
Otherwise, he would have to personally overthrow the landlord class, which would indeed be troublesome.
To the people of the north, Fangzheng's arrival had not only saved them from the abyss of suffering from the Jin soldiers, but also brought them a completely different and fresh experience. For example, the method proposed by Fangzheng had completely changed the old custom of farmers farming for landlords. Not only that, but the appearance of airships also changed people's way of life. Those monsters also slowly integrated into human society and began to use their magical powers to live and fight alongside humans.
After personally experiencing the benefits, people gradually accepted Nuwa's belief. When Fangzheng propagated Nuwa's belief, he did not choose the religious concepts like those in the West. Instead, he directly adopted the common concept of worshiping ancestors in China. They propagated that Goddess Nvywa was the ancestor of all living creatures in the Central Plains. When Goddess Nvywa descended to the world, she molded the earth to create humans and gave life to all living creatures. He even refined stones to mend the heavens and led the people to resist the flood. After that, he stayed in the mortal world to fight for the sake of protecting the human race. However, he didn't expect that vile people would take over, and his traces were forcefully erased. He lost his faith, and now, he was returning to the great dao!
As a contemporary young man who had learned how to manipulate public opinion on the internet, Fangzheng certainly understood the importance of public opinion. However, he also knew that it would not work if it was just official propaganda that claimed that Nuwa was a righteous god and the other gods were evil demons. The best way was to attack the prestige of those gods in the mortal world through public opinion.
Therefore, under Fangzheng's secret manipulation, a series of rumors quickly came out and soon spread all over the streets. Basically, they were similar to "The Dark Side of Buddhist Stories", "Let me tell you the unknown story of becoming a Buddha", "Is it really appropriate for Buddha to build his own happiness on the sorrow of others?" Such chicken soup for the soul and soft articles.
These were not rumors, but from another perspective, questioning the rationality of the stories in the Buddhist Scriptures.
For example, there was a story in the Buddhist Scriptures about a Bodhisattva who, when he was a mortal, wholeheartedly devoted himself to Buddha and stayed away from women. However, his parents found him a wife, who was extremely beautiful and virtuous. In this way, the Bodhisattva married her for five years.
After five years, the Bodhisattva suddenly came to his senses and thought that he was not strong-willed, so he was bewitched by women. So he ran away from his wife. On the way, the Bodhisattva met another woman who looked like his wife. The Bodhisattva could not resist the temptation again and lived with her for ten years. Then, the Bodhisattva suddenly came to his senses and ran away again. Then, when he came to a house for the third time, he found another woman who looked like his wife and said that he wanted to marry her. This time, the Bodhisattva finally came to his senses and had the idea of "Four Impermanences". Then, the illusion of his wife disappeared in front of him, and all the Buddhas appeared in front of him, guiding him to the Western Paradise to become a Buddha.
This was originally just a popular story in the Buddhist Scriptures, telling believers to wholeheartedly devote themselves to Buddha and not be bewitched by beauty.
However, Fangzheng very cunningly chose to look at this problem from another angle, which was … Was the Bodhisattva really worthy of becoming a Bodhisattva?
The reason was very simple. He was married and had a wife, who treated him very well and was virtuous. However, the Bodhisattva abandoned his wife and ran away from home because of his own selfishness. Although he eventually became a Buddha and ascended to heaven, what about the wife he abandoned? In ancient times, everyone knew how pitiful the life of a wife who was abandoned by her husband was. Not to mention that this wife had done nothing wrong, but she was abandoned by her husband for no reason. In the end, she did not even hear from her husband. However, her husband became a Buddha because he abandoned her.
How could such an irresponsible man become a Buddha? Wasn't there something wrong with that?
If everyone learned from the Bodhisattva and felt that their wives were in the way of them becoming Buddhas, and left without saying a word, leaving their wives to live as a widow, would there still be any laws and morals in this society?
The story was still the same, but when Fangzheng questioned it from another angle, it immediately changed.
There was also a short story that became very popular on the Internet in the future. A young man went to a master to pray to Buddha because he was heartbroken. The master poured tea for him, and the young man did not let go even after the tea was poured until it was scalding.
These short stories were humorous, and the angle was tricky. More importantly, most ordinary people could understand them, and even personally experience the ideas and principles behind them. They were much easier to accept than those Buddhist Scriptures that gave people headaches. Whether it was humans or monsters, they more or less had a rebellious mentality. Stories like these that could secretly ridicule Gods and Buddhas were naturally more in line with their temperament.
Not to mention that Fangzheng had secretly broadcast the "live broadcast" a few days ago, which had already dealt a great blow to the prestige of Buddhism. When these "rumors" came out, it directly hit the prestige of Buddhism among the people to the extreme. There were even people who specially went to the temples and asked the masters if these stories were true.
The poor monks who ate vegetarian and prayed to Buddha all day had never seen these fallacies on the Internet in the future. They were all dumbfounded and did not know how to answer. This made many people more and more believe that these "rumors" were true. Otherwise, why couldn't the monks even refute them?
Just like that, under Fangzheng's secret operation, Buddhism was almost completely defeated in the whole of China. Many temples that used to be full of incense gradually became deserted. And Fangzheng even tore down all the deserted Buddhist temples in his territory and built them into Goddess Nvywa's temples. This was naturally more popular among the ordinary people.
After all, compared with the useless temples that needed to spend money, the Goddess Nvywa's temples that were integrated with all kinds of public facilities and functions were naturally more helpful to the people.
Think about it, when you caused a famine, when you encountered the invasion of mountain bandits, when you wanted to send your child to school, you had to come to the Goddess Nvywa's temple for help. Then, as time went by, wouldn't you become a believer of Goddess Nvywa?
Compared with those illusory blessings in the next life, these tangible benefits were the most important!
This was the reason why the Order Temple was so respected in the main world!
If you don't want to serve the people, you only know how to lie on the people, eat vegetarian and pray to Buddha all day long, and you will be punished!
At the same time, Fangzheng led the army all the way north and finally arrived at Shang Jing, the capital of the Jin Kingdom.
At this moment, Fangzheng's military strength had also increased to a higher level. What the mysterious existence gave Fangzheng was not only that "treasure", but also countless cultivation scrolls that contained the principles of heaven and earth. Relying on this knowledge, Fangzheng gathered many monsters along the way, including great monsters that had cultivated for thousands of years, and even a few flood dragons!
However, the situation in Shang Jing was not optimistic either.
"This is really a big scene."
Standing on the deck and looking at Shang Jing in the distance, Fangzheng slightly curled up the corner of his mouth. In front of him, the sky above the capital of the Jin Kingdom was full of colorful auspicious clouds, in which countless vague figures could be seen wandering. Celestial music and chanting came with the wind, and figures of heavenly soldiers and generals could be seen everywhere.
Compared with the previous few small scenes, this time the Buddhist and Taoist forces could be said to have gone all out.
"Hmph, but we're not to be trifled with … Music!"
Listening to the celestial music coming from the opposite side, Fangzheng snorted coldly, and then suddenly waved his hand. The next moment, Nie Xiaoqian and Caiyi immediately turned on the big speakers on the flying ship.
Then, a song that the people loved to hear and see came from it.
"You're my little apple, like the most beautiful cloud in the sky …"
"…"
Hearing this song, Fangzheng was stunned for a moment, and then turned to look at the two.
I asked you to play mountains and rivers, and ambush from all sides, and you're playing a square dance? What do you mean? You could have played a broken wind at least!
If someone looked from the side, they would see that on the side of Shang Jing, there were colorful auspicious clouds, heavenly soldiers and generals holding high flags, and gods and Buddhas sitting in the sky, resonating with celestial music. And on the opposite side, there were dark clouds above, and countless flying ships made of metal were arranged in a steel formation. All kinds of monsters and flood dragons were mixed among them, and it looked like the final battle of good and evil was about to begin.
Of course, if one ignored the resounding "fire that lights up my life, fire, fire, fire …"
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