Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!

Chapter 2120 - 1547: Huh! These Western Sea Books Plagiarized Your Majesty..._3

"Chief Divine bear witness! Loshanda, did you bring back any ’Divine Attribute Atlases’ from the Western Sea? Things like witchcraft, Medical Skill, Divination? If you have such atlases and send them back to the Kingdom of the Lake as an offering to Your Majesty, it will surely count as no small merit...""Divine Attribute Atlases, merit?... Yes! There must be! I remember the Zuwaro Priest also specially asked the Japanese Elder Priest for them... let me look..."

Loshanda blinked, hurriedly squatted down, and rummaged back and forth among ten large chests and several hundred, even a thousand, atlases. After quite a while, he finally lit up with joy, hoisted up a thick, finely illustrated stack of atlases, and shouted excitedly.

"Praise the Chief Divine! Here, here it is! This is what I got from the Tiantai Temple, the most important set of inheritance atlases, all hand-copied, with extremely exquisite paintings as well!"

Miki strode forward and took the heavy atlases. The paper was of excellent quality; they indeed looked like precious inheritance atlases. With a rough flip through, he saw not only neatly laid‑out, clearly transcribed text, but also a large number of vivid figure paintings. The level of this set of Books was far more refined than the printed pamphlets sold in the marketplaces earlier; who knew how many painstaking hours the painter had put into it?

"Chief Divine! The level of these paintings?! Miki, you must leave two atlases for me; you can’t take them all back!..."

Chimere stared wide‑eyed in astonishment. It was his first time seeing Buddhist painting techniques from the West Sea East Asia, and it opened a window onto a new world for him. Leafing carefully through it, he discovered that this set of Scripture atlases even came with a gilt sheet of paper on which the title of the atlas was written.

"Tiantai Dazang?..."

Chimere and Miki exchanged a glance and silently memorized these four characters. They did not yet know how precious this set of Tiantai Sect town‑sect canonical texts truly was. The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Fine Dharma contained here included the annotations of the Tiantai Sect’s fourth patriarch, Zhi Yi, and both the Mahayana Meditation and the Tiantai Four Teachings were also important Scriptures circulated only within the monastic community.

This complete set of canonical texts had originally been kept in Hiei Mountain Enryaku Temple, with the remaining copies scattered among various Tiantai Sect temples, in total no more than ten sets. If it had not been for the need to ransom himself, Juehui would never possibly have secretly taken out this set of "inheritance atlases" from the Omi Grand Temple, handing over the very "root of the Sect." In fact, this set of canonical texts itself symbolized one branch of the Tiantai Sect’s lineage, one that could be matched directly with the ancestral court of the Tiantai Sect in Zhe, the Tiantai Mountain Guoqing Temple in Zhejiang. So long as this set of canonical texts survived, then even if Enryaku Temple were destroyed, they could still seek out another place and rebuild their own temple.

"The Chief Divine be praised! And there is this set, this collected set as well!..."

After searching for a long time, Loshanda once again beamed, scooping up another thick stack of nine collected volumes, and shouted with a laugh.

"This is the ’inheritance atlases’ of the Confucianism priests mentioned in Your Majesty’s Prophecy; they seem to be widely transmitted. Although the Japanese believe in the Buddha God, they also read these Books... especially this one on Divination!"

The two Chief Priests stepped forward again, their gazes together falling upon the nine collected volumes in Loshanda’s hands. Of course, what drew their attention most was the last and most "Divine" volume—the mysterious Western Sea art of Divination.

"The Analects, Mengzi, University, Doctrine of the Mean... Poetry, Chief of Staff, Ritual Records, Spring and Autumn... and the last one, Zhou Yi?"

"Zhou Yi... ’The Book of Changes’ and Yi Chuan?..."

"Huh! Isn’t this... isn’t this the Hexagram Image Divination by which Your Majesty received Divine Revelation and listened to the Chief Divine?! In the latest Divine Revelation Divination transmitted from the Alliance, these sixty‑four Hexagram Images each represent the Chief Divine’s complex indications... Chief Divine! So the Western Sea Continent also has a transmission of Divine Revelation?!"

At this moment, Chimere and Miki’s hearts shook violently, as though they had found a priceless treasure.