Chapter 244 - 241: Establishing the Daoist Sect and the Arrival of the Opportunity
Before seeing Liu Xiu this time, Sun Wukong had checked the post he made last time on Zhihu and found that some of the netizens’ replies were noteworthy.
Tiantianzailai: "Now that the Buddha Sect has been driven out of the Southern Sanzhou, we should utilize the many temples they’ve left behind. Wukong could totally have Liu Xiu convert these Buddhist temples into City God Temples to avoid wasting resources."
Wuseyinfu: "We shouldn’t just build City God Temples; we need to allocate some to the deities of the Heavenly Court, transforming them into various palaces and temples. That way, we can bind the faith to the Celestials of the Heavenly Court to counter the Buddha Sect."
Zuichumoyang: "I think we can go further; why must we promote Buddhism? Can’t we promote Taoism instead? Wukong could totally discuss it with the heavyweights of Xuanmen to bring forward the rise of human Taoist beliefs."
Huakaibiangansixiangsi: "This is doable! Aside from a few eccentric heretics, most Taoists advocate Wu Wei, which would hardly affect human governance and won’t squeeze the living space of the common folk."
Heweiaiheweiqing: "Based on the OP’s simulation, Wukong has a good relationship with the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord, and in the mythological world, the ancestral master Laozi revered by the Dao Sect is an incarnation of the Tai Qing Saint."
Gujideyanyu: "Initially, there were two ancestral masters in the early stages of the Dao Sect, one is the Yellow Emperor, and the other is Laozi. Their ideologies combined are known as Huang-Lao thought, which was a school of thought before the emergence of the Dao Sect.
From this relationship, it’s clear that the Dao Sect truly belongs to the religions of the Eastern human race, and it’s totally viable to promote it."
Lu Labai: "I remember that Taoism was established at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It indeed could have emerged one or two hundred years earlier, allowing the native Taoists to oppose the foreign monks."
Busimibimie: "Once the Human Path becomes strong, it can take charge of the dynasty, and the most rational structure is to have the Human Path dynasty utilize these religious sects for its own use,