The cultivation methods of the world often involved cultivators circulating spiritual energy through their bodies and meridians to produce the most effective attacks, defenses, and other techniques. But once their cultivation reached a certain level, and their understanding and control of spiritual energy advanced far enough, cultivation methods no longer did much to improve their use of spiritual energy.
Especially upon reaching the Body Integration Realm, they already commanded Great Daos. Often, so-called cultivation methods were less useful than simply wielding those Daos, and they spent more of their time refining their Dao domains instead.
Only heaven-tier arts or immortal arts could still interest them.
Heaven-tier cultivation methods, spells, and immortal arts had no further ranking divisions. They represented the realm of touching upon the Great Dao, or even the Heavenly Dao. Those who reached such heights were even less inclined to truly study what their predecessors had left behind, because those predecessors might not have possessed better aptitude than they did, or even greater strength.
Especially since the world had no shortage of wicked people, meddling lightly with techniques of this caliber might entangle them in karma they should never have provoked. Li Yaoqing's Heavenly Condemnation Divine Art was itself a means Green Lady had left in the mortal world for her revival. Li Changsheng's Great Dream Human Emperor Scripture had left him entangled with "eyes" of unknown origin for over a thousand years.
Cultivators above the Body Integration Realm rarely traced a gourd from a model, even when faced with a trustworthy inheritance.
Life was like climbing a mountain, and the world was no different. Even within the now-reviving Immortal Court, beings such as the Spirit Lord knew to strive forward. Someone like Bai Ziyan, who had lived through thirty-two cycles, still sought breakthroughs. No cultivator would tread