Chapter 234: A Scripture from the East

That intern scholar gave a simple repetition of the life and thoughts about the 【great person】 that he had analyzed.

The whole hall was silent.

All the Holy Word scholars looked at him as if he were an idiot.

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

A senior scholar couldn't help but rebuke him.

"Are these just some low-level agitational slogans? What do they have to do with our analysis of grand civilizational history?"

"Exactly! What's there to study about a mortal's struggle history?"

"It's simply a waste of time!"

However, the Holy Word Master seated in the chief position, after listening to the intern scholar's repetition, had a flash of unusual light in his otherwise still, ancient-well-like eyes.

"Wait a moment."

He slowly opened his mouth.

"Pull up the articles he mentioned."

"Enlarge that person's biographical information on the main screen."

"I want to see it myself."

On the main screen, light and shadow shifted.

Documents translated one by one into the Star Sea Divine Church's common language began to appear.

"On Protracted War", "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire", "On Contradiction", "On Practice", "Serve the People"

……

The titles of the articles appeared plain and unadorned, even somewhat rustic.

But when the Holy Word Master and all the senior scholars in the hall began to truly calm down and read the content of these articles,

Their expressions began to undergo a subtle change.

At first it was contempt and disdain.

"To defeat a stronger-equipped enemy with inferior equipment? That's not completely impossible, is it? It's pure daydreaming."

"Mobilize the people? The people are ignorant, needing guidance like sheep. To place the source of power upon them is utterly absurd."

"From practice to practice? Truth is eternal, supreme, requiring heed and obedience—how could mortals arbitrarily practice it?"

They used their deeply entrenched theological elitist mindset to critique these theories from a lofty position.

However, as the reading deepened,

The contempt on their faces gradually faded.

It was replaced by a sense of confusion and gravity.

When they saw in 'On Protracted War' the precise division of the three stages of war (strategic defense, strategic stalemate, strategic counteroffensive),

their analysis of popular sentiment, logistical support, and the international situation was penetrating.

They fell silent.

Because this theory actually perfectly explained why their Star Sea Divine Church Civilization's interstellar war with the Silicon-based Union, lasting tens of thousands of years, had remained in a stalemate.

They possessed individually stronger faith-based combat power and more flexible tactics.

Whereas the Silicon-based Union possessed a larger fleet and more efficient war mobilization capability.

Isn't both sides precisely in a 'strategic stalemate' phase?

But they had never, like this human 'great person', seen the essence of this war so clearly.

When they saw in 'On Contradiction' the philosophical treatment of principal and secondary contradictions, the universality and particularity of contradictions, and the internal-external causal relationship,

they felt an unprecedented ideological shock.

As it turned out, the universe is not a monolithic harmonious embodiment of 'universal truth'.

But is filled with opposition and unity.

As it turned out, solving problems is not done by mere prayer and faith.

But requires grasping the principal contradiction and then concentrating force to resolve it.

This……this is simply a fundamental overturning of their theological system!

And when they saw that shortest, most plain article 'Serve the People',

The entire hall fell into a deathly silence!

"Our team works entirely for the people's benefit."

"Everything we do is to let the people gain liberation."

"Because we serve the people, we need not fear others pointing out our shortcomings."

Those few short words were like thunderclaps, exploding in the minds of these Holy Word scholars!

They, these lofty elites who style themselves as 'truth's spokespeople',

Is everything they do truly for those they regard as 'sheep', lowly vassal civilizations?

No.

They are to spread the glory of the divine church.

To consolidate their rule.

To satisfy their illusory pursuit of eternal harmony.

They have never truly bent down to listen to the voices of those sheep.

A feeling called 'shame' quietly arose for the first time in the hearts of these divine church elites.

"This……this is not mortal wisdom……"

A scholar spoke with a trembling voice: 'This……this is……true universal truth!'

He regards every individual of the entire civilization, countless in number, as the source of power! Not as livestock to be raised! What a broad-minded vision!

He told us, we must come from the masses and go back to the masses! This is the true way to bind the entire civilization, the strongest bond!

He told us, we must seek truth from facts! This is the fundamental method for understanding and transforming the universe!

We... we were wrong...

We were wrong!

An elderly scholar even burst into tears, falling to his knees with a thud, bowing in worship before the photo of that man on the screen.

This, this is the true guide!

This, this is the saint we should follow!

The entire Holy Light Dome was plunged into a near-frenzied ideological fervor.

They seemed to have discovered a brand-new continent of thought.

Meanwhile, the Holy Word Master on the main seat had already stood there, dumbfounded.

In his hand he held a data board displaying the full text of the 'Contradiction Theory'.

He read it over and over, pondering its meaning.

His expression shifted from solemn to shocked, then to sudden enlightenment, and finally turned into a prostrate submission.

So that's how it is... so that's how it is!

He muttered to himself.

We have never been able to understand how this barbaric civilization could erupt with such tremendous vitality.

We have never been able to comprehend why that god-like being would descend upon a race so full of base instincts.

Now I understand.

We were all wrong.

What we have seen is merely the surface and secondary contradictions of this civilization.

But we have overlooked the internal contradiction within their civilization that runs through it from beginning to end, the principal contradiction — the unyielding spirit of resisting oppression and striving for liberation!

And that god-like being, he did not choose this civilization.

He chose this spirit!

And that great person, he, is the perfect embodiment of this spirit!

The Holy Word Master suddenly lifted his head, his eyes bursting forth with a brilliant light!

He seemed to have found the true path leading to truth!

Quick! Quick!

He spoke into the communicator, issuing the command in a voice almost like a howl.

Send this... no, this Bible! Send this Bible from the East immediately to the Grand Archbishop! To the Church Leader, Your Majesty!

Tell them! We have found it!

We have found the truth that can defeat the Silicon-based Union and lead us toward true light!