"The higher-ups control high-level resources."
Lu Xuanji pondered.
"Exactly so," the Grand Elder said, "The higher-ups deliberately control the leak of high-level resources. Many rare resources are not only high in price but also scarce, often out of stock. The Pure Yang Pill is priced at a hundred thousand spirit stones, the Purple Mansion Pill at a hundred and fifty thousand, and the Purple Sun Jade at two hundred thousand. Often, it's not that the prices are high, but that there are simply no goods available. Even if there are, it takes ten or twenty years. The lack of high-level resources makes it difficult for a Purple Mansion great cultivator to emerge."
