A Great Void Tower seat was borne by the public deliberation of all under heaven. Never mind whether any power stood behind it, or which power it was. The quota was fixed at nine and could neither be increased nor reduced.
A term as a Great Void Tower member lasted thirty years. When it expired, the tower changed hands; no one was exempt.
Under what circumstances would a Great Void Tower member be replaced before their term had ended?
—When the original member, for one reason or another, could no longer exercise the rights of a Great Void Tower member or shoulder a Great Void Tower member's responsibilities.
For example, Li Yi had previously shut himself away to cultivate, utterly ignoring the Great Void Tower, and merely had Wang Kun serve as his representative under Jing Kingdom's direction. The other members then drove Wang Kun away and specifically established a rule intended to expel Li Yi as well. Yet that seat was still tacitly understood to represent Jing Kingdom's interests, and Jing Kingdom still had to nominate someone else to fill it.
Though Dou Zhao had also missed the last two Great Void meetings, his circumstances were entirely different.
Why had Chu Kingdom put forward Zhongli Yan to take the seat of Great Void Tower member?
Why did Chu Kingdom believe that Dou Zhao could no longer exercise the rights of a Great Void Tower member, could no longer shoulder a Great Void Tower member's responsibilities, and could no longer fight for Chu Kingdom's interests within the Great Void Tower?
This pointed to almost a single conclusion...
A conclusion no one had ever imagined.
Because Dou Zhao was such a dazzling prodigy, a peerless talent!
Even if Dou Zhao had gone to the deadliest forbidden land in The Present World,