The classroom was less crowded than any other class within the institute. Reaching the first grade was a challenge. One needed not only talent, time, and resources, but also luck.
While this institute was a bridge between the mortal world and the cultivation world, it was not capable of gaining many of the resources which belonged to the real cultivators.
The sects, families, and factions, which belonged to the cultivation world, were struggling to keep the majority of the resources for themselves. An institute such as this would only get the leftovers, and nothing of real value.
The reason that these factions even allowed the institute to have these resources was due to them nurturing some servants for them in the future.
This group of experts was all aware of this point, and while they did not look down on these students, they could not view them as equals either.