Li Su was kept behind.
The elder directly arranged for a disciple to take him away, intending to deal with him after all the Hundred Demons Palace disciples had finished registering.
But a body cultivator...
That really was a troublesome matter.
If he had some special trait in Dharma cultivation, taking care of him would have been easy enough. But he had to be a body cultivator.
It was not that the Supreme Yin Palace lacked treasures related to body cultivation. The main issue was that body cultivators had too low a ceiling, making them unworthy of major investment.
Why had Withered Elder brought Li Su over without the slightest hesitation?
Because even if Li Su displayed astonishing talent, it would not matter.
The Supreme Yin Palace would never take a fancy to him.
And that was indeed the case. Even though Li Su's performance had been remarkable, the elder had quite a headache over it.
If he had been a Dharma cultivator, then with the abilities he had displayed, they could have directly set his reward at the highest tier, or even admitted him into the Supreme Yin Palace on the spot.
But body cultivators were different!
Their ceiling was too low. Even if they were nurtured, they held little value.
Thus, resources in that regard were both scarce and limited.
After all, rather than raising a body cultivator, it was better to raise that dragon-blood demon beast they had just captured. At the very least, reaching the Golden Core realm was practically a sure thing for it, and once it broke through, it would count as mid- to high-level combat strength even within the Supreme Yin Palace.
Body cultivators were different. The first hurdle of Foundation Establishment alone was enough to doom them to failure.
And even if