Recruiting disciples is different from cultivating resources.
If you don't need cultivating resources, just leave them be; they won't vanish into thin air.
But disciples are different.
You, Liu Tangxi, randomly go off on killing sprees, disappearing for years or even decades, and leave your disciples neglected in the mountains. Aren't you just wasting their talents?
That is truly leading astray the younger generation.
Those who are recruited by Purple Cloud Palace and promoted to Inner Sect Disciples are all exceptionally talented, especially the ones who become Direct Disciples, who are the cream of the crop picked from tens of thousands.
Like this time the sect is recruiting disciples, if they were chosen by others among the Nine Peaks, or even personally taken in by Sect Master to Dragon Head Peak.
These elders, as well as Peak Masters, might at most grumble and envy, bitching behind the scenes, but there would definitely be no one questioning it.