To understand the importance of the Great Void Pavilion, one must first understand its powers and responsibilities.
With the Great Void Illusion Realm fully opened and spread across the entirety of The Present World, the magnitude of its significance was known to all. It was the boat of the age, the surging torrent.
Xu Yuanzhi becoming the Great Void Dao Lord was an inevitability forced into being. Yet aside from this outcome, there was no person and no force capable of reassuring everyone in The Present World, capable of handling everything within the Great Void Illusion Realm so properly.
But as Wu Bingyi had said in Calamity Water, absolute ideals did not mean absolute correctness.
Take the Vein-Opening Pill, for example. It was not absolutely correct. Even after generation upon generation of reform by the Human Race, there remained bloodstains that could not be erased. But once this "incorrect" Vein-Opening Pill was removed, the foundation of the Human Race's strength would be pulled away as well. The morality, laws, and rites built upon it would all lose their meaning.
The sages of old said: Only when granaries are full do people understand ritual and propriety.
If one could not eat one's fill or stay alive, there was nothing else to discuss.
The Great Void Dao Lord was an existence of absolute idealization, but that did not necessarily mean he could perfectly accommodate every condition required for the Human Race to advance. Thus, even after the Great Void disciples became void spirits and Xu Yuanzhi became the Great Void Dao Lord, the various parties participating in the Great Void Assembly still retained part of their authority over the Great Void Illusion Realm. At critical moments, they could adjust its direction.
Only on that premise could the Great Void Dao Lord exercise