'The Red Gauntlet looks interesting, but I will eventually get a similar ability when I learn soul cultivation...' Lothur pondered this point.
An external item could sometimes give its user abilities equal to abilities that higher-level cultivators could exercise.
Not everyone had promising cultivation talents, so items like this were a means for weaker people to protect themselves and even challenge stronger ones.
Of course, this was not a viable means since items of this kind were costly, that is, for the few.
Anyway, items with abilities like this existed, and, of course, they had their advantages to justify their price. After all, what good would it do to spend millions of coins on something identical to that developed with the power increase itself?
Hence, external items could give special abilities to weak people, but they also had their advantages.