Pei Xuanjing, upon founding the Taoist Academy at first, faced great resistance from various factions, for these powers treated their own Cultivation skills as state secrets, unwilling to share them freely, reluctant to divulge.
They were well aware that their ability to occupy so many benefits and resources today was not because they were inherently strong or exceptionally talented but because they monopolized Cultivation, holding the resources and skills of Cultivation in their hands and limiting the common people, which led to the current situation.
If everyone truly started from the same starting line, with the same education and resources, even those in high positions now had no confidence that they could maintain their status in such competition.