"She is also stubborn—while she is capable of flying using spirit clouds, she stubbornly refuses to do so, and she only eats a specific spiritual grass that we have to import from a mist-shrouded valley where she was found. Since she is useless for combat and difficult to handle, she has been sitting here for fifteen years. We have priced her at twenty-five thousand sect points just to clear the stable space, which is well below the standard thirty thousand baseline for such high-grade beasts."
Twenty-five thousand sect points was still a significant sum for an ignored beast, but compared to the sixty thousand points required for a combat or flying beast, it was far more manageable for his wallet.
