My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1011 Mission accomplished?

Upon opening the system task panel, which had been dormant for a long time, Wen Rui was astonished to see: "Sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, the restoration of the Jie Sect (in progress) Task progress: 100%/100%".

His pupils dilated instantly, and even the calm and composed mind of a god was stirred up by a monstrous wave. He almost lost his composure and could not maintain his Dao heart.

The system task was completed without my knowledge?

Why isn't there even a notification?
Although she found it unbelievable, Wen Rui quickly calmed down and, upon careful consideration, found it increasingly reasonable.

How far should the revival of the Jie Sect go to be considered complete?
Comparing this to the Journey to the West, Tang Sanzang's journey to Xiniu Hezhou to obtain Buddhist scriptures enabled Buddhism to flourish and spread widely in Jambudvipa (the southern continent), leading to the great prosperity of Buddhism in the West and the successful completion of the pilgrimage team's mission.

How influential was Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty at that time? What percentage of its followers were Buddhists?
The rulers at the time were indeed devout Buddhists and built grand Buddhist temples, giving people the illusion that everyone in the Tang Dynasty believed in Buddhism and revered it immensely.

In fact, during the early Tang Dynasty under Emperor Taizong, the national population was over ten million, but there were only twenty to thirty thousand Buddhists.

Many years later, Buddhism's influence gradually increased. By the time of Emperor Xuanzong, the number of monks and nuns was only 120,000, accounting for only 0.24% of the population.

The logic is simple: if everyone were to become a Buddhist monk or nun, who would farm the land, weave textiles, or pay taxes?
How can the social economy develop further?
Once the proportion of monks and nuns exceeds a certain threshold, it will inevitably trigger the ruler's decision to suppress Buddhism. An example is during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Tang. Buddhism reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty, with the number of monks and nuns in the country exceeding 300,000, which caused great social contradictions and led to the situation where it had to be suppressed.

This Buddhist calamity is not caused by demons or monsters, nor is it a conspiracy by the Taoist sect; it is purely a problem with the faith itself.

During Emperor Wuzong's anti-Buddhist campaign, more than 4.6 temples were demolished, and more than 26 monks and nuns were forced to return to secular life. The great prosperity that Western Buddhism had gained from the Journey to the West came to an abrupt end, and it returned to the state before the Journey.

To confirm his hypothesis, Wen Rui retrieved reports on the current influence of the Jie Sect in Jambudvipa (the southern continent) and related data charts.

The chart shows that the number of devout followers of the Jie sect has reached 567 million, accounting for 37% of the wise beings in Jambudvipa.

The data on devout followers of the Jie Sect closely matches the percentage of junior high school graduates in Jambudvipa (the southern continent of Jambudvipa). Essentially, junior high school graduates who have completed the nine-year compulsory education of the Jie Sect are automatically identified as followers of the Jie Sect by the system.

However, junior high school students only account for 25% of the population. The rest are mostly self-taught amateur scientists who are quite superstitious about science, even more devout than students with formal education.

The additional group consists of illiterate demons.

Illiteracy doesn't mean the demon race is stupid. The Jie Sect is the only righteous faith in the world that recognizes the human rights of the demon race. If they want to continue living openly in the sunlight and obtain legal identity and social status, what choice do they have but to believe in the Voodoo Cult?

The devout followers of the Jie Sect, judging from the standards for providing incense, vows, and energy, can be compared to, or even exceed, those of monks and nuns who have taken vows in the Western religions.

After all, as a monk or nun who has taken vows, you may not be able to recite many volumes of Buddhist scriptures. Many people know nothing but how to chant Amitabha Buddha.

However, junior high school students who have received nine years of compulsory education from the Demon Alliance are knowledgeable in astronomy and geography, have a certain understanding of the Dao of Intercepting Heaven, and know how to view and analyze natural phenomena with scientific thinking.

You can't imagine what the Tang Dynasty would be like if it had millions of monks and nuns; how could the country function normally? But the Southern Continent's human autonomous region and the demon alliance's ruled area, with millions of junior high school students, possessed the talent pool for large-scale industrial production, and its economy was booming. This is just the huge difference in the proportion of devout believers; the number of non-devout believers, that is, those who do not have a deep understanding but respect the Jie Sect, reached 99.7%.

Such a high percentage of believers is due to the flourishing cultural industry of the Demon Alliance and the widespread use of television.

Even illiterate people who have never been to school can gain basic knowledge and receive science education by watching TV and scrolling through short videos.

More importantly, they could personally experience that ordinary people could change their living conditions and transform nature by learning new knowledge from the Jie Sect, thus making their lives better and better.

There is no need to place your hopes on the next life. Even if the parents are poor farmers, if the child is bright, intelligent, hardworking and academically outstanding, and gets into university in the future, the family's situation can be completely changed.

After being upgraded by Wen Rui, the Jie Sect now wields an influence in Jambudvipa that surpasses that of any other religion in any historical period.

The so-called "great flourishing of Buddhism" achieved through a sham performance by the Heavenly Court and the Western Religion during the Journey to the West Tribulation is worlds apart from the current situation in Jambudvipa (the southern continent). The gap is too great, and there is no comparison whatsoever.

If this isn't a revival of the Jiejiao sect, then what is?
The ultimate task I'd been longing to complete was accomplished so smoothly and effortlessly without me even realizing it.

Wen Rui composed himself and excitedly used his mind to control the cursor, which hovered over the confirmation button on the taskbar. He was eager to know what the system would ask him to do next after completing this task.

But after the cursor hovered over it, it didn't click.

At the most crucial moment, Wen Rui couldn't help but hesitate.

After clicking the "Complete" button, will there be a flash of white light, all memories be wiped clean, and will I wake up in the real world before the time travel, as if I had never experienced any of this, and return to my original life trajectory?
Or will they return to some so-called "God Space," settle the rewards for this mission, wipe out all his abilities, and throw him into the next dangerous mission world?

Or perhaps a simple dialog box pops up saying "Congratulations on passing the level," and then nothing happens?

The uncertainty of the future forced Wen Rui to temporarily slow down his actions, think things through carefully, and make a decision later.

If he clicks to return to reality, he will most likely not be able to bring his divine cultivation back with him, as the real world simply cannot contain such a great figure as him.

Let alone his cultivation level, he probably can't even bring back his memories. His level 5 intelligence, the experience of learning and experimenting over the past 500 years stored in his brain, and the black technology instilled into his brain by the system are enough to allow him to advance the technological level of the real world to the level of a level 2 civilization on his own, which will also greatly affect the real world.

This is equivalent to the system giving him the real-world plane he's in as a reward for his mission, allowing him to do whatever he wants and not eat beef every day.

If he were the system, the most reasonable and likely course of action would be to erase his memories and strip him of his Level 5 intelligence, leaving him ignorant and as an ordinary person, returning to a life of ordinariness.

(End of this chapter)