There is one other thing we can do in the outer sect that we can't do in the inner sect - cultivate IN PEACE.
Being in a high-stakes environment puts short term expediency into conflict with long-term growth. Ling Qi herself mentioned how her first sable light pills were "wasted", and she is right. If we weren't under constant pressure to get stronger NOW, we could have held off on using those pills, leaving us with less Qi in the short term but a much more valuable asset in the long term. Bu we needed that qi to deal with the competition we faced, so those early pills were squandered. The same thing is happening with our current SLP use, albeit a lesser extent. If we were willing to wait until hitting Green Appraisal, we could have increased the effectiveness of each of the seven bonus rolls by 30 dice, not to mention improving the rolls themselves. That would be far more optimal than what we are doing now, but it would cost us in the tournoument, so we can't do it.
To give an other example, take a look at the things we are cultivating. Optimal cultivation would have had us pushing EPC, which would then give us bonuses to everything else. It would have had us pushing our base cultivation, which lets us use Green Stones more effectively. It would NOT have us working on TRF each week instead; that sort of course of action grants us more strength in the short term, but it doesn't boost our growth rate at all, which is what we could be targetting if we weren't under so much pressure.
Point is, there is value in being allowed to take things slow and steady instead of needing to rush for more strength ASAP, and that is a benefit that we get in the Outer Sect which the Inner Sect won't provide.
