"This Spirit-Strengthening Wine is immensely beneficial to cultivation. If the source energy increased by this Spirit-Strengthening Wine were not expended on experiencing external incarnations, but instead used to ignite Bright Points, condense chakras, or hone combat skills, the Great Wilderness Sect could absolutely have cultivated large numbers of experts. Back then, did the Great Wilderness Sect not place any restrictions on the use of this Spirit-Strengthening Wine, or guide its elders and disciples to put its effects to use elsewhere?"
"No. Within the Great Wilderness Sect, only the Great Wilderness Scripture was considered a supreme classic. Other cultivation manuals, even if they existed, were not valued by the sect's elders and disciples. If raising one's realm had not enabled more elders and disciples of the Great Wilderness Sect to walk farther along the cultivation path of the Great Wilderness Scripture, gaining longer lives and more powerful source energy, then within the Great Wilderness Sect, there would have been almost no disciples or elders willing to hone their combat skills or calmly devote themselves to cultivation."
"What if you encountered enemies from outside?"
"The countless powerful Magic Beasts and exotic beasts in the Million Mountains of the Southern Frontier could all be used by us. The arts of external incarnation and beast taming could also kill enemies. To disciples of the Great Wilderness Sect, so-called martial strength needed no cultivation of our own—we only needed to find a powerful Magic Beast or exotic beast in the Million Mountains of the Southern Frontier that we could control!"
"Then was the Time Tower here also used most of the time by elders and disciples to cultivate the Great Wilderness Infinite Treasury Mantra, rather than to condense chakras?"
Cloud Master fell silent once more, then nodded with some difficulty. "More or less..."
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