And with so many cultivators gone all at once, the sects that had relied on normal production were suddenly left in the lurch. With no one to buy their magical artifacts and elixir pills, many poorly managed sects could no longer even pay out basic stipends.
As for the orders from the Beast Taming Sect's army, their needs differed from those of ordinary cultivators. They required large batches of standardized magical artifacts for their military formations.
However, the Beast Taming Sect only handed over a small portion of its military supplies—those it deemed inconvenient to manage—to the White Mountain Sects. For the most part, the Beast Taming Sect still transported its materials from thousands of miles away.
