Chapter 636 - 212: A Shock to the Xuanzhen Sect’s Upper Echelon

The reason a Training Room could so drastically accelerate one’s cultivation efficiency, allowing a Martial Artist to absorb Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi at a multiplied rate, was the Exotic Beast Musk Aroma burned within.

This aroma was extracted from the musk of thousand-year-old exotic beasts and refined using a Secret Technique. It could actively draw in the surrounding Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi, nourish a Martial Artist’s meridians, and aid in breaking through bottlenecks. It was an exceedingly rare treasure, its value comparable to the finest Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Even among the five great sects with their profound resources, the Exotic Beast Musk Aroma was considered a strategic-level reserve, rarely used in large quantities on a day-to-day basis.

Even the well-established Xuanzhen Sect didn’t have a large stockpile of the Exotic Beast Musk Aroma.

Every single portion had to be carefully rationed and used only where it mattered most.

Furthermore, the classification of Training Rooms into different grades was based on the concentration and quantity of the Exotic Beast Musk Aroma used.

The higher the grade of the Training Room, the more astonishing its consumption of the aroma. A Grade-A Training Room consumed several times more than a Grade-B one.

It was for this very reason that within the Xuanzhen Sect, for ordinary disciples and even Core Disciples, gaining access to a Grade-B Training Room was the absolute limit—an opportunity countless disciples would fight tooth and nail for.

The Grade-A Training Rooms, on the other hand, had always been for the exclusive use of the sect’s highest echelons. Only the Sect Leader, the Seven Vein Peak Masters, and Chief Elder Ouyang Jingxuan possessed the authority to use them directly.

The other Elders of the sect, even the most respected among them, were not qualified to use these rooms at will.

Of course, if an Elder was at the critical juncture of breaking through to the Pill Realm or had sustained severe injuries and needed to recuperate their meridians, they could submit an application to the Sect Leader and the council of Peak Masters. Only after a unanimous vote of approval could they be granted temporary access to a Grade-A Training Room.

Beyond that, there were absolutely no exceptions.

Not even the senior-most disciples of each vein, the veritable prodigies of the younger generation, had ever set foot in a Grade-A Training Room.

At this, Li Zhihai, the Peak Master of Qingxu Peak, also stood. His gaze was grave as he looked toward Cao Zhen at the head of the great hall. "Sect Leader," he said in a solemn tone, "Peak Master Huang is absolutely right. The Grade-A Training Room project must indeed be implemented immediately."

"If we delay any longer, the gap between our Xuanzhen Sect and the other four great sects, like the Yunxiao Sect and the Celestial Sword Sect, will truly become insurmountable. We’ll have no hope of ever catching up."

The others in the hall nodded in agreement, their faces etched with worry.

As long as their older generation of experts was still present, the Xuanzhen Sect could rely on their years of Cultivation and profound resources to maintain its standing among the five great sects. The gap with the other four wasn’t yet that significant.

But once several decades or a century passed and their generation stepped down, the younger disciples would become the sect’s pillars. At that point, the disparity in strength would be laid bare for all to see.

The Xuanzhen Sect might even fall from the ranks of the five great sects and be relegated to a second-rate power—an outcome no one wished to see.

To reverse this trend and bolster the training of the sect’s most talented disciples, the Xuanzhen Sect’s leadership had discussed a "Grade-A Training Room Project" several years prior.

The so-called "Grade-A Training Room Project" involved the sect allocating resources to construct several exclusive Grade-A Training Rooms on the Main Peak and in the core areas of the Seven Veins, all for the dedicated use of the sect’s most supremely talented disciples.

Unlike ordinary Training Rooms, which were used on a rotational basis with time limits, this project would grant each selected prodigy disciple their very own exclusive Grade-A Training Room.

If a disciple so wished, they could even live in the Training Room year-round, cultivating nonstop with the aid of the Exotic Beast Musk Aroma to maximize their potential and break through to new realms.

The only issue was that the project’s core required a massive supply of Exotic Beast Musk Aroma to sustain it. Since the Xuanzhen Sect’s reserves were already limited, they were simply insufficient to support such large-scale consumption. Thus, the project had been shelved, never truly put into practice.

Now, the news that the Yunxiao Sect had produced a third young prodigy in the True Qi Realm was like a boulder dropped into a placid lake. It made the Xuanzhen Sect’s leadership completely unable to contain their anxiety. No longer concerned with conserving their precious resources, they all proposed to immediately initiate the Grade-A Training Room Project and pour the sect’s full might into cultivating the younger generation.

Cao Zhen sat upon the main seat, his fingertips gently tapping the armrest. He pondered for a moment, a flicker of resolve in his eyes, then slowly nodded. "Everything you have all said is for the future of the sect," he declared in a deep voice. "The Grade-A Training Room Project... it is indeed time to begin."

"However, our reserves of the Exotic Beast Musk Aroma are limited. We must carefully discuss exactly how many Grade-A Training Rooms we can build and how the spots will be allocated."