The Path of Runes was broad and profound. It was a foundational skill that every cultivator needed, whether cultivating techniques and divine abilities, comprehending Heaven and Earth, or advancing their cultivation.
As long as one was a cultivator, from the moment one entered the Cultivation World and began cultivating Heaven and Earth energy, one had already embarked on the long road of dealing with rune arts and spells.
That was because even the simplest and most basic Five-Element cultivation techniques required the Path of Runes for comprehension.
It was just that the basic cultivation techniques involved very little rune comprehension. One only needed to follow a certain insight, accumulate Heaven and Earth energy, and then circulate it according to the meridians. It was equivalent to cultivating some mundane internal energy method.
Profound cultivation techniques required one to comprehend the rune arts and spells within them and comprehend Heaven and Earth.
For cultivators capable of condensing Heaven and Earth energy, comprehending the rune arts and spells within a cultivation technique was not difficult. As long as they spent enough time, they could accomplish it. The only difference was how long it took.
But comprehending Heaven and Earth and grasping the artistic conception of Heaven and Earth Laws required a cultivator to possess extremely deep attainment in the Path of Runes.
Of course, this kind of rune comprehension and understanding of Heaven and Earth was likewise a compulsory lesson for mighty cultivators.
The rune wager Qin Fengming had proposed was not limited to a single approach. The Path of Runes could be used for both offense and defense. Restriction formations focused on defense, because they were mostly a trump card prepared in advance and needed to be set up to ward off enemies. But the Sacred Talisman Technique focused on offense; it