The presidents of the Taoist associations everywhere reached a unanimous decision: Jiang Siming would be honored as the Taoist Ancestor.
From then on, every Taoist priest who saw Jiang Siming had to perform the grand ceremony of discipleship.
This was not Taoism currying favor with Jiang Siming or trying to win his friendship. Rather, Jiang Siming had given Taoism a debt of gratitude they could never repay.
Jiang Siming had brought Taoist cultivation methods into every school in China, teaching all the children to study them.
It was easy to imagine that, in a few years or even decades, Taoism's influence would become immeasurable!
For this debt alone, Taoism had to remember him forever.
Moreover, Jiang Siming was the sole inheritor of Innate Skill, and his strength was beyond question.
He was absolutely worthy of the title of Taoist Ancestor.
When the Buddhists found out, they were all so sour that they looked as if they had eaten lemons.
While mocking Taoism's behavior as shameless bootlicking, they were also doing everything they could to poach Jiang Siming for Buddhism.
They even declared that as long as Jiang Siming joined Buddhism, he could name his own terms. Even becoming Buddhism's Third Elder would be no problem.
Third Elder meant that Jiang Siming's position in Buddhism would be second only to the First and Second Elders.
And with so many Buddhist believers, Jiang Siming would instantly possess countless followers and command all of Buddhism!
Yet in the face of such temptation, Jiang Siming did not even bother responding.
Even when a certain big shot from the capital tried to plead Buddhism's case and called Jiang Siming to act as a mediator,
Jiang Siming flatly refused, giving him no face at all.
Later, when an elder heard about the matter, he publicly criticized