King Tang remained silent.
The Journey to the West was always an initiative for the prosperity of Buddhism.
And the prosperity of Buddhism was initially ordained by the "Cosmic Celestial Dao" for this era, as part of the great cosmic cycle of All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds.
All "Celestial Dao wills," the Red Moon, Ancestral Witch, Magnetic Celestial Dao, would chart the course for the future reasonable development of their worlds.... while the "Great Cosmic Celestial Dao," encompassing all worlds, would plan for its own civilization's reasonable progress...
Even Saints under the Celestial Dao, the Three Pristine Ones, Nuwa, these terrifying existences, cannot act against the heavens.
Before him, the Journey to the West saga of the Mahayana Buddhism Skill, countless Saintly existences are placing their pieces on the board, each trying to carve out their share.
Thus, this situation emerged:
The Great Tang originally had Daoism as its state religion.
