As soon as Feihongzi finished speaking, Ma Xiangzhong Bajie, a Tubo man, was the first to respond: "If you ask me, there is nothing wrong with competing. Firstly, no one can convince anyone by the doctrines preached by various religions. It is good to discuss Tao with martial arts. Secondly, I Master Gu Xin has long admired the heroes of all religions in the world, but he has been on the plateau for a long time and has not had the opportunity to meet him. It is just a good time to take advantage of today's grand meeting to compete with the masters of various religions, which will satisfy my lifelong wish."
His expression was quite arrogant when he spoke, but there was no hint of "admiration" at all. Master Gu Xin stood up and took two steps forward with an expressionless face. Iron Blade Xenoluo followed him respectfully. It seems that the two of them went to war against Tubo.
Jiang Shuo thought of the scene when the Tubo people came to ask the palace two days ago. He expected that the Tubo people should have known that there would be a martial arts competition today, but when they came to invite the battle that day, the old monk Gu Xin did not come. Ma Xiangzhong Bajie Calling him master, this old monk's martial arts skills should be still higher than those of Iron Blade Xinoluo and Ma Xiangzhong Bajie. In this case, the Bon religion alone is quite difficult to deal with.
The Zoroastrian Kulu also stood up and said: "Hey, let's fight. Is it possible that I, Huo Zu, am still afraid of you?" He nodded and summoned a believer to follow him, forming a team.
The black-robed Yijiao and the orange-robed Tianzhu Jiaojiao both seemed to know about it, and two people each stood up immediately.
Everyone in the Tang Dynasty didn't know anything about it, and they only gathered together to discuss it when the matter came up.
The old man Mo Jing said: "We have already prepared for a big fight. It is useless to talk more, so we will form three teams and fight with them."
Sima Qingyun was cautious by nature and asked: "What if we bump into each other?"
The old man Mo Jing said: "Then just admit defeat at the same time. You can't really start a fight with your own family."
Ye Guizhen asked: "Who let whom? This has to be arranged first. Let me do the math. There are several situations..."
Seeing that he was getting entangled again, Old Mojing quickly stopped him and said, "We'll just adapt to the situation then... Let's decide on the manpower first."
In fact, although the Three Sects of the Tang Dynasty did not discuss it in advance, there were only a few of them and they had no choice. After a short discussion, they decided to divide into three groups - Sima Qingyun and Ye Guizhen, Zhuge Jingxu and Jiang Shuo, Tiezheng Daoyuan and Old Man Mojing. Three teams.
Seeing that each religion had two men, Yis couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "In this case, I, the Nestorian church, can't be alone. Brother Joseph, just follow me to fight."
Joseph said in fear: "I have been defeated by Fei Hongzi of the Demon Cult, and I have no courage to fight again. Please ask the Dharma King to choose another brother from the Cult to fight..."
Yishuo said: "Brother Joseph, where did you come from? You also said that you were careless and made a mistake just now. You should be more cautious from now on. We Jing disciples only follow Jing Zun's way, so what do we have to fear?"
Joseph lowered his eyebrows, made the sign of the cross on his chest, and said: "Joseph understands, please go to war with Brother Yis!"
Seeing that the candidates for each religion had been decided, Feihongzi took out four ivory dice and a copper bowl, and said: "We will roll the dice to arrange the order, and compete according to the size of the points."
Although these nine religions come from various places, everyone knows about dice. Dice are used in Tang Dynasty, Senet in Persia, and Polo Sai in Tianzhu. Each dice has six sides, each with inscriptions on it. One to six dots.
The four dices of the popular Qi Pu chess game in the Tang Dynasty are two dices for each side, but it is estimated that the two dices may easily have the same number of points, so Feihongzi took out four dices for everyone to use.
Kulu said: "How are the nine religions divided into four groups?"
Fei Hongzi said: "The second team with the lowest points will fight first, and then the team with the highest points will fight."
In this case, the team with the highest roll will fight against the team that has already fought for one round, and will naturally take advantage, which everyone thinks is fair.
Feihongzi held up the bronze bowl and said, "To show fairness, I, the Manichae, Chandali Udamucha, will throw it first."
This Ajan Damucha is tall, with light brown curly hair, blue eyes, a high nose and deep eyes, looking like a Tocharian from the Western Regions. He took the dice and threw it into the bowl. The dice spun around in the copper bowl, making a tinkling sound. When it finally stopped, Feihongzi reported: "Two sixes, one five, and one four, a total of twenty-one." .”
He walked up to the Zoroastrian Kuru with his alms bowl in his hands. Kuru took the dice, clasped his hands in his hands and prayed silently for a moment with his eyes closed. When he rolled it out, he found two, two, two three, only ten points.
Ye Guizhen said with a smile on the side: "Dasabao, your gods and Buddhas are not at home today. Why don't they bless you?"
Kulu was furious when he heard this and gave Ye Guizhen a hard look, but thinking of the impending war, he finally held back his anger.
Feihongzi asked the alms bowl to Yisi again and said: "Please ask the Dharma King to roll the dice."
Yisi did not pray and just threw it directly, but there were only one two, three three, and eleven points, which was only a little more than Zoroastrianism. Seeing that Ye Guizhen came up to tease him again, Joseph said first: "Jing Zun, don't you?" He likes to play well, so King Isfa did not pray, but it is not because Jing Zun did not bless him."
Ye Guizhen was overtaken by Joseph and didn't know what to say for a moment, so he just shook his head "tsk tsk tsk".
Fei Hongzi continued to walk up to the three religions of the Tang Dynasty. The Buddhist Tie Zheng Daoyuan first threw a two, two fours, and a five, a total of fifteen points. The Confucian Zhuge Jingxu only threw a one, two twos, and a Three, it was only eight o'clock. Ye Guizhen clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Old Zhuge, you can't do it, you can't do it."
Taoism was supposed to let Sima Qingyun throw the dice, but Ye Guizhen snatched it away and said, "Look at me!" Although he was crazy, he was of high seniority, and Sima Qingyun couldn't argue with him, so he let him throw the dice.
Ye Guizhen closed his eyes and held the dice in his palms for a long time. He hesitated to throw the dice. Kulu was the first to become impatient and said: "Hey... old man, throw it quickly and let me see your gods and Buddhas." Are you at home or not?"
Ye Guizhen opened his eyes and said angrily: "What do you know? My Taoist Sanqing is above the thirty-third heaven. My soul left my body and went to seek help from the Heavenly Lord. I only reached the twenty-fourth level and you disturbed me!"
Sima Qingyun was afraid that he would get mad again, so he said: "Master Ye, just throw it, the first place may not be good." Seeing that Zhuge Jingxu's points were so small, he really wanted to throw the first place, waiting for Confucianism to defeat After the rivals, wouldn't they kill each other?
Ye Guizhen ignored him and prayed for a long time before rolling out the dice. The four dice rotated rapidly along the wall of the bowl. When they finally landed in the bowl, there were three sixes, one five, and twenty. Three o'clock is almost the maximum.
Ye Guizhen was still dissatisfied. He glared at Sima Qingyun and said, "It's all your fault. Why bother? Look, Master Tianzun gave me a point."
Sima Qingyun couldn't laugh or cry. Taoism also prohibits gambling. How can the God protect the dice throwing? At the same time, I couldn't help but worry about running into Confucianism.
However, Feihongzi had already walked to the three foreign sects in the south. The two Yi sects seemed to be extremely tired of throwing dice. The leader, the prophet Nibu, stretched out his right hand and instead of taking the dice from the alms bowl, he slapped the bottom of the copper bowl with his palm. The four dice flew up together, spinning and falling into the bowl. When he stopped to look at it, he saw that there were two fives and two sixes each, and he got twenty-two points.
Everyone just thought that he wanted to show off his martial arts, but they didn't know that Islam regarded gambling as a blasphemous act. People who gambled would have their family property confiscated and their hands that touched the dice would be chopped off. Not to show off.
The Tianzhu Jain monk didn't take the dice when he saw this. Instead, he slapped the side of the bowl with his palm. Under the excitement of his internal energy, the dice spun rapidly in the bowl. It seemed that he was half better than the Yijiao, but the points were not accurate. Very low, only one one, one two, two three, a total of nine points.
Originally, Zoroastrianism had ten points and Confucianism had eight points, which were already very close. Unexpectedly, Tianzhu Jainism would roll out nine points by such a coincidence, which happened to be stuck between the two religions. m.
Finally, it was the turn of the Bon religion. Master Gu Xin obviously did not know what the four dice meant. He asked in Tibetan. Zhang Zangxie came forward and explained it to him respectfully for a long time. Gu Xin waved his hand to indicate that he understood.
He touched the rim of the copper bowl with both hands and did not slap it. He just closed his eyes and did not know what to say silently. The copper bowl actually made a "buzzing" sound, and the dice suddenly jumped inside the bowl as if being whipped by an invisible whip. stand up.
These dice were not jumping randomly, but flipping around. After a while, they all turned into six points. In this way, there were four six points, a total of twenty-four points, overwhelming Taoism. Come out on top.
Ye Guizhen said hurriedly: "Hey...it doesn't count, it doesn't count! This old monk is cheating!"
Ma Xiangzhong Bajie scolded: "Crazy Taoist priests, please don't be rude to your master! Where is this nonsense? Why don't you come and look at the four sixes?"
Ye Guizhen rolled up his sleeves seriously and said, "Okay, I'll do it!"
Seeing that he was messing around again, Sima Qingyun hurriedly stopped him and said, "Master Ye has no regrets about his actions. No matter whether they are playing tricks or not, we can't throw them again."
Ye Guizhen was still about to argue when Sima Qingyun whispered in his ear: "The Bon religion only has a bye. If the Confucian religion wins, we will have to face the first place in the next round. If we rank first, it will not be good. "
When Ye Guizhen heard this, he immediately beamed with joy and said, "Yes, yes, yes, it is indeed God's blessing!" He stopped arguing.
Another person who feels that the Lord God is blessing this religion is Joseph. Since Tianzhu Jainism has fewer points than Zoroastrianism, the first round will be Zoroastrianism vs. Nestorianism. Just now there is Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. Nestorianism is quite disrespectful. According to the current ranking, Nestorianism will face Zoroastrianism first, and if it wins, it is likely to encounter Manichaeism. This arrangement can be said to be exactly what he wanted, and he can't help but cross his hands to thank Jingzun.
A Manichaean believer had long written down the note and handed it to Feihongzi. Feihongzi hurriedly glanced at it and handed it to Guli Peiluo, saying: "Please ask King Khan to be a witness. The first round is, Confucianism vs. Jainism." , Zoroastrianism versus Nestorianism, Buddhism versus Manichaeism, Islam versus Taoism, Bonism has a bye. After that, the winners of Confucianism, Paganism and Bonism versus the winners of Islam and Taoism, and the winners of Zoroastrianism and Nestorianism versus Buddhism , the winner of Manichaeism. Let’s fight the final battle again!”
Ye Hu stepped forward, took the note, and showed it to Guli Peiluo to look at. Guli Peiluo didn't take the note, he just glanced at it and said with a smile, "Very good! Which two religions are going to compete first?"
Some people died, but not completely...
