Vol 2 Chapter 2749: Reasoning from Xuanzang, Spartacus

Vol 2 Chapter 2749: Reasoning from Xuanzang, Spartacus

Chapter 2749: Reasoning from Xuanzang, Spartacus bows to him

Chapter 2745: Reasoning from Xuanzang, Spartacus bows to him

 Being defeated by the five masters and disciples of Xuanzang was a much greater blow to Spartacus than being defeated by Hercules.

 After all, there were only five masters and apprentices of Xuanzang, and there were only four apprentices who took action. Xuanzang, as the master, was always watching.

Spartacus was also a famous general of his generation who was both talented and wise. Even Rome had to send Caesar and Hercules, the two trump cards, to defeat him, but now he was defeated at the hands of five unknown people.

This is equivalent to a well-known strong man who thinks he is invincible, but is defeated by a beggar on the roadside. This will naturally have a huge impact on the strong man's confidence.

Under continuous blows, Spartacus felt that he was a useless person who could do nothing. His life was full of tragedies. After completely giving up on himself, he chose to commit suicide, but he was saved by Xuanzang instead.

 “Why do you want to save me? Why don’t you let me die as an apology?”

Spartacus said with a miserable face, his eyes full of death, and he no longer had any hope of living.

Sun Lingming and other four disciples could not understand what Spartacus was saying, but Xuanzang, as the master, understood it.

 During this journey westward, Xuanzang would learn the local language in advance before arriving at each place. Now he has taught himself more than a dozen languages. He is definitely the master of languages ​​in this era.

Although Xuanzang has not completely mastered the Roman language spoken by Spartacus, he is already learning it by himself. He will definitely not understand some rare words, but simple communication is still no problem.

Xuanzang's initial impression of Spartacus was not good, because he destroyed an originally peaceful country and plunged countless originally stable people into pain and panic.

Xuanzang knew very well how hard-won this stability was in troubled times. It was a treasure more precious than gold, but it was destroyed by Spartacus, so he naturally had an impression of Spartacus. Very poor.

But as he gained a deeper understanding of Spartacus and learned that he only killed slave traders in this country and liberated all the slaves, and that he himself was righteous, Xuanzang's feelings about this alien slave who rebelled against the king also began to change. is changing rapidly.

“An ant is still greedy for life, why should the benefactor, a great master and powerful man, take the initiative to seek death?” Xuanzang asked in Roman.

Spartacus did not answer, but asked: "What do you mean by benefactor?"

 “Well…this is my Buddhist honorific, which means sir.”

 “What is Buddhism?”

"that is…"

　　　…”

Spartacus kept asking Xuanzang questions. In fact, he was deliberately irritating him and wanted to actively seek death. However, Xuanzang not only did not get angry, but also answered him patiently because he did not understand the language and could not answer. Just put it aside for now.

As a result, Spartacus lost his patience as he kept asking. After becoming completely impatient, he stopped talking to Xuanzang.

Sun Lingming saw that a prisoner of Spartacus was still so crazy. He raised his stick and was about to hit him on the head, but Xuanzang stopped him.

"Wukong, how many times have I told you, Master, that monks should be compassionate and should not act rashly with murderous thoughts." Xuanzang scolded.

Had he just set out, Sun Lingming would definitely have refuted this by saying that he was only temporarily becoming a monk, but after such a long time of getting along with him, he had already figured out the nature of this master.

As long as he dared to retaliate, Xuanzang would definitely tell him the truth, and this could last for an hour at the very least.

Xuanzang liked to be a teacher, but he was bored while traveling westward, so he debated with several disciples, which became the greatest pleasure of Xuanzang's journey.

Xuanzang had the skill of "smart tongue" and was unparalleled in eloquence. Among the four disciples, only Zhu Tianpeng, who was the most knowledgeable, could argue with him for half an hour. The other three could only hold on for ten minutes at most, and then they became A one-sided sermon.

Having been preached so many times, Sun Lingming and others even had a stress reaction. Every time they heard Xuanzang preach, they would have a headache. They also called this reaction: a tight curse.

Therefore, when Sun Lingming saw that Xuanzang had a tendency to preach, in order not to be tortured, Sun Lingming would basically follow Xuanzang and let Xuanzang say whatever he said, as long as he did not chant sutras in his ears.

Xuanzang didn't care about the perfunctory behavior of his disciples. Although debating was one of his hobbies, there was no point in being abusive all the time. Therefore, he would only let his disciples experience the power of truth when they were disobedient.

Xuanzang was not angry at Spartacus's attitude. Instead, he kept reasoning with him, telling him what he did right and what he did wrong, and asked Spartacus about his past intentionally or unintentionally.

In order to prevent Spartacus from not understanding his own words, Xuanzang even asked the king to hire three translators who could speak Roman for him, so that he would immediately correct his statements once they were wrong.

Sun Lingming and other four apprentices, seeing their master insisting on knocking the slave's mouth open, were all very curious as to whether Spartacus could withstand the master's curse.

“Don’t worry, no one can stop the master’s curse. I bet this slave can’t last a day, so I bet whoever picks the ceremony for the next seven days.”

Shajuanlian said with a self-motivated expression. After all, he had a deep understanding of Xuanzang's eloquence. To put it bluntly, Tian Feng Jushou and others were weaker than him.

"One day? Third senior brother, you think too highly of him, I bet you five hours." Ao Lie said excitedly.

“Then I bet he won’t last three hours.”

Sun Lingming said with the same excitement, as if he was just watching the fun and not taking it too seriously.

Looking at the heartbroken Spartacus, Zhu Tianpeng saw a little bit of himself in him, and then joined in with a smile: "Then I, Lao Zhu, will bet for a day and a half."

“One and a half days? Second senior brother, you will definitely lose.”

Ao Lie said with an impudent look. He is the youngest in the team and has the least experience, so his master and senior brothers also favor him the most.

"Not always."

Zhu Tianpeng said calmly. He had the experience of being heartbroken and knew that heart disease requires heart medicine. No matter how eloquent his master was, he could not resolve his heart disease in a short time. knotted.

Sun Lingming and none of the four guessed it correctly. Under Xuanzang's endless string of curses, Spartacus actually persisted for two days.

This also made Sun Lingming and the other four give a thumbs up to Spartacus. He was really cruel to be able to persist for so long.

Spartacus originally didn't want to speak, but Xuanzang kept talking in his ear day and night, and not a word of what he said was repeated. If Spartacus didn't listen, and it went in one ear and out the other, then that would be fine.

But the problem is that many of what Xuanzang said went straight to his heart. Not only did he listen, but he also felt that what the other person said made sense. This was very fatal.

After experiencing the torture of the curse for two full days, even Spartacus, who wanted to die, couldn't bear it anymore.

 Yes, he is indeed guilty. You can punish me or even kill me, but you cannot torture me like this.

 After the psychological defense was completely broken, Spartacus was no longer silent. No matter what Xuanzang asked, he answered truthfully. He only asked Xuanzang to stop torturing him and give him a happy ending as soon as possible.

After Xuanzang knew everything about Spartacus, he naturally would not kill the hero who liberated the slaves. Instead, he continued to enlighten him, but this also made Spartacus even more collapsed.

 “Master, what on earth do you want to do? I really know that I am wrong.”

Spartacus cried bitterly and said that he wanted to die now not because of the blow of failure, but because he didn't want to see this bald head. He was simply a devil in the name of a Bodhisattva.

Looking at Spartacus who had regained his vitality and was no longer as lifeless as before, Xuanzang showed a satisfied smile and then continued:

"Donor, you don't actually want to die in your heart. You still have hatred in your heart. You want to take revenge on Rome, but Rome is too powerful an enemy. You know that you can't take revenge, so you want to take advantage of the situation and kill yourself to escape reality. , Complete liberation, right?”

After hearing this, Spartacus felt like he was struck by lightning, and immediately lost his mind completely. He roared angrily: "No, that's not the case. I, Spartacus, am a well-known hero in Rome. How could I be you?" A coward who talks about escaping from reality, no, this is absolutely impossible.”

Looking at the ferocious-looking Spartacus, Xuanzang nodded again with satisfaction, and then stretched out his hand a little bit on him. Spartacus was like a broken toy, and his whole body collapsed limply on the ground. .

“If what you said is true, that would be great, and we can talk about other things.” Xuanzang said with a smile.

Spartacus was silent. Based on Xuanzang's show just now, he knew that he was not unjustly defeated. Each of the five masters and disciples was an expert.

Spartacus no longer resisted Xuanzang, but raised his doubts with Xuanzang. He really couldn't understand that in his mind, the Han Empire, which was hundreds of times stronger than Rome, perished due to tyranny, but How could Rome, a country that was more cruel than the Han Dynasty, be able to persist for so long?

Xuanzang used the historical experience of the East to warn Spartacus that it was only a matter of time before Rome, which had lost all its people, would perish. But whether the new country after the fall of Rome would be the next Rome or become the Han Dynasty and Qin Dynasty, this is It’s up to their generation to change.

Spartacus and Xuanzang chatted for a day and a night, talking about everything from the history of the East and the West, political constitutions, and heroes in various countries.

After this chat, Spartacus was also convinced of Xuanzang. In his mind, Xuanzang was talented, omniscient, and simply unlike a mortal.

“Master Xuanzang, you have the talent of a prime minister.”

Spartacus spoke from the bottom of his heart in the broken Chinese he had learned. At the same time, he also had a longing for the far east that was ahead of the west, and wanted to see with his own eyes what the Golden Country in Marco Polo's travels looked like.

Xuanzang smiled and said: "Spartacus, your Chinese has improved very quickly, but there is one thing you said wrong."

 “What’s wrong?” Spartacus asked in confusion.

“There are many prime ministers in this world, but there is only one Xuanzang, just like there is only one Spartacus II.”

Hearing what Xuanzang said, Spartacus was completely convinced and even considered joining Buddhism. However, when he thought that Buddhism not only had to abstain from drinking and sex, but also from eating meat and fish, he backed down. After all, he would not eat The meat is worse than dead.

Seeing that the master and Spartacus chatted for three days, but they only talked about useless things and did not talk about the key points, Sun Lingming became anxious and quickly reminded: "Master, you should ask him about the fragrant cardamom. "

 “Oh yes.”

Xuanzang reacted and was immediately ready to ask. However, due to his insufficient Roman language proficiency, he did not know how to say Tian Xiang Cardamom in Roman. He asked several translators but they did not know, so he could only draw it for Spartacus. Look.

Cardamom is a name given by the Western Regions. Naturally, Spartacus has never heard of it, but if it is talking about holy medicine, then he is very familiar with it, because he has obtained it briefly.

Spartacus once robbed the gifts that Rome gave to Olympus, including the heavenly scented cardamom, which is the holy medicine. However, before he could warm it up, Caesar and Heracles came and beat him. The rebel army was completely destroyed, and all the treasures were taken back by Caesar.

"Master, if you are going to Rome to find the holy medicine, I advise you not to go. The holy medicine should be in Olympus now, and the experts from the Holy See are gathered in the Holy Mountain. It is impossible for the five of you to bring it. Take the holy medicine," Spartacus said matter-of-factly.

Sun Lingming clenched his fists unconsciously when he heard this. He naturally knew that there were many masters in the sacred mountain Olympus, and there might even be strong men above the Grand Master level, but his Zixia must have Tianxiang Cardamom to survive, so Even if there is no chance of death, he still needs to make a breakthrough.

“Master, three junior brothers, I am still myself…”

Sun Lingming wanted to persuade his master and his juniors to go back. After all, this trip was too dangerous. He didn't want to drag his master and his juniors down because of himself, but before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Zhu Tianpeng.

“Senior Brother, why are you still hanging around? It’s time to hit the road.”

 “Lao Zhu.”

“Elder brother, I made a bet before that your guess was the worst, so according to the bet, it’s your choice to pay tribute in the next seven days, so don’t even think about defaulting on your debt.” Shajuan Lian said with a smile.

 “Lao Sha.”

"Yes, senior brother, you don't think that this trip to the far west is just your adventure. We are also the protagonists." Ao Lie said with an arrogant look.

Sun Lingming smiled. There was no distinction between him and his master and his brothers. No matter how much he tried to persuade everyone, they could not leave him behind.

Xuanzang looked at the four disciples who were all different in age, temperament, and experience, but their relationship was as strong as brothers, and he was extremely proud in his heart, so he wanted to use this situation to say a few words, but he finally opened his mouth, Sun Lingming was instantly furious.

 “Wukong…”

“Shut up, master, let’s get on the road, Lao Zhu Laosha, help master mount his horse quickly.”

 “Have to lie.”

Zhu Tianpeng and Shajuanyan quickly helped Xuanzang onto his horse without giving him a chance to speak.

When Ao Lie on the side saw this, he felt that it was not good to do this, but he shuddered when he thought that the master could teach them for an hour or two as soon as he opened his mouth.

In this way, the westward journey of Xuanzang’s master and his five disciples began again, and the journey was full of joy and laughter.

 (End of this chapter)