Chu Feng didn't know that, in fact, many years ago, the Ten Thousand Sword Sect indeed operated this way.
Below the Sword Saint Level, they compete for the Earth Rankings, regardless of inner or outer sect. At the Sword God Level, they vie for the Heavenly List. But problems arose.
The top ten of both rankings receive generous rewards.
This meant the sect allocated a large amount of cultivation resources to focus on nurturing these twenty individuals.
Originally, there was nothing wrong with this. However, it was later found that some particularly powerful Sword Saints, though they made the top ten in the Earth Rankings and received substantial rewards and cultivation resources, some of them could never break through to the Sword God Realm.
The talent of Sword Saints, no matter how formidable, is limited.
If they cannot advance to the Sword God Realm, they can't possibly become the main pillar of the sect or support the overall situation.
