Seeing Ning Shi remain silent, Tong Baiming continued, "If you want to completely control the Hermit Pavilion, perhaps only those who have reached the Celestial Realm can do it.
"The first rule of the Celestial Sect's membership is 'Those who break through the Great Grandmaster's imprisonment and become a Celestial can unconditionally control the entire Celestial Sect, and all members will obey.' However, Celestials are only legends. In the past ten thousand years, no Celestials have appeared.
"In the absence of angels, the Celestial Sect has always operated in a way of checks and balances. The change of the person in charge every five years is the result of checks and balances.
"Not just anyone can be the person in charge. One had to meet three conditions to be qualified to run.