The next day the Buddhist monks and Taoist priests have a dispute in the throne hall. The king and the hundreds of civil and military officials act as judges. When the Taoist witch-priests run out of arguments, they resort to sophistry. In the end it is decided that he who can produce rain will win. If the Taoist priests win, the four pilgrim monks will be executed, and if the monks win, the policy to “honour the Way and exterminate Buddhist monks” will be abolished in the country of Tarrycart.
次日在金殿上僧道進行辯論，由國王和文武百官作評判。妖道理屈詞窮，只能強詞奪理。結果以誰能求雨即爲誰勝——道士勝則誅殺取經僧四衆；和尚勝則車遲國廢除《敬道滅僧》等規章制度。