Zhang Tie had always found it strange. To ordinary people, complete cultivation manuals capable of leading one to knighthood were exceedingly precious, especially high-level ones, which were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns. Yet Great Xia had countless sects and noble clans. Superpowers such as the Seven Great Sects of Great Xia surely possessed many manuals and cultivation resources.
In Great Xia, on one side stood hundreds of millions of ordinary people with an immense hunger and need for cultivation manuals, while on the other, a handful of powers and wealthy clans controlled enormous resources. Between them lay a vast space of demand. Where there was demand, there would naturally be people daring to risk everything, using every possible means to achieve their ends.
Whether it was the Seven Great Sects or those super-clans, there had to be more than one or two disciples who could access and cultivate those precious manuals. Only thus could a sect or family possess powerful vitality, allowing outstanding talents to rise above the rest and continually grow.
What puzzled Zhang Tie was why, since arriving in Great Xia, he had hardly heard of disciples from sects such as the Seven Great Sects betraying their masters, stealing their sects' cultivation manuals, and releasing them to the world, throwing all under heaven into chaos.
If every disciple in Great Xia's Seven Great Sects and great clans who could access top-tier cultivation manuals were saints and gentlemen, Zhang Tie would never believe it. Zhang Tie felt that, even by probability alone, over so many years, there must have been a few ambitious schemers or lunatics in those great sects and super-clans who had come into contact with those top-tier manuals. Since they had encountered them, why had those lunatics and schemers not stolen or spread