The founder's disciple traded almost all of the treasures that they had in the sect, leaving the sect only with the barest amount with the incomplete blue-grade art the starry skies of the striding falcon. When that wasn't enough she redeemed the merit points that her founder's friends from the guild had left.
With all of that added up she was able to buy the palace path enlightenment pill. This was a top-tier blue-grade pill that was rumored to be able to temporarily boost a cultivator's realm to the palace stage, however, as wonderous as it sounded it had several restrictions. For one, it could only work on someone who was already at the peak of the core formation realm and had a rudimentary sense of their dao, and second, the boost was temporary. Rumor was it only worked for three hours.