This elder had no answer, all he knew was that the Headmasters of each Division held a meeting for this new trend of forming religions in the academy. But they were piratically forced to agree to their forming due to some of the members in these two factions that were from extraordinary backgrounds.
An example of this was Mao Wen, who was actually the grandson of the rogue cultivator called Grandmaster Mao. Grandmaster Mao was an expert in runes and formation one of if not the best on the Maple Continent. And most of all, he was one of the few rogue Soul Transformation Realm existences that hadn’t joined a major power.
Though it wasn’t that the Celestial Academy was afraid of enforcing their rules on people like Mao Wen, but when there were two groups comprising of people like that in their academy, it really wasn't worth the trouble dealing with them when more pressing matters were there to be solved.