Humans had Three Dantians. At first glance, one could cultivate one technique in each dantian and distribute them evenly.
But in reality, cultivating multiple techniques was extremely difficult.
The Three Dantians were not wholly unrelated or entirely independent. They were all parts of a cultivator's body. They influenced one another.
For instance, if one dantian cultivated an ice-frost technique, the other two dantians would also suffer intense influence, subtly changing in that direction.
If the other two dantians cultivated different techniques at that point, it would be like pulling a human body in three separate directions—it would break sooner or later. Outwardly, this often manifested as mutual interference, conflict, even backlash between magical power, essence blood, and the soul, leading to Cultivation Deviation.
How could one judge whether a cultivation technique was good or bad?
Very simply.
One only had to see how many dantians the technique trained, to what extent it trained them, and how efficient the cultivation was.
Inferior techniques often cultivated only one dantian, completely neglecting the rest, and even left lingering aftereffects.
Ordinary techniques focused on one dantian but had no drawbacks.
Slightly more refined techniques cultivated one dantian while offering some minor care to the other two.
Outstanding, exceptional techniques focused on one dantian while prioritizing one of the others, or gave consideration to both.
Supreme techniques, the sect-defending arts of super great sects, primarily cultivated two dantians while attending to the last.
This considered cultivation techniques alone.
In reality, many other factors were involved. It was extremely complicated!
Take Han Ming, a demonic cultivator, for example. He cultivated two techniques.
One was the Nine Revolutions Soul Devouring Art, which primarily cultivated his Middle Dantian and upper dantian.
He also cultivated the Immortal Corpse Transformation Grand Art, which cultivated the lower dantian.
Ordinary cultivators could