Alchemy is an exceptionally meticulous endeavor, where a seasoned alchemist often starts learning from identifying medicinal ingredients, accumulating knowledge over years and decades, exploring successful experiences through repeated failures, and only then can they possibly concoct an elixir pill.
For a sect to train a qualified Pill Master, considerable investment is needed in the early stage. Those minor sects and small families simply lack the strength and foundations to cultivate their own Pill Masters because the costs during the alchemy accumulation process are beyond what they can bear.
