Broadly speaking, the four things most important to a cultivator were the body, magical power, primordial spirit, and Great Dao.
The Great Dao went without saying. It depended entirely on comprehension and one's true nature.
What one comprehended was what one gained, and the way to strengthen it was to contemplate it slowly.
But the body, primordial spirit, and magical power could all be strengthened by cultivating various arts.
Take the Indestructible Scripture. If you had it and others did not, that was your capital, your confidence in being invincible among your peers, and your guarantee of survival.
For the body, there was the Indestructible Scripture. For the primordial spirit, the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands also had the renowned Calming Chaos Art.
The Calming Chaos Art was known as one of the three great sword arts. It focused on cultivating the primordial spirit, which could be transformed into a sword embryo.
The three great sword arts also included the Grass Character Sword Art. That was quite the company to keep.
The Wang Family, a Longevity Aristocratic Family, possessed the Calming Chaos Art. It was worth noting, however, that the Wang Family had not created it. An ancestor had obtained it and passed it down through the family.
That ancestor had only been a Quasi-Immortal King, no match for the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass. How could he have created an art as renowned as the Grass Character Sword Art, the Quelling the Chaos Art?
After all, the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass had fought three Undying Kings. In the end, its blades withered, and it never appeared in the mortal world again.
Yet the three Undying Kings who fought it never appeared in battle again either.
One could imagine how powerful the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass had been. The Grass Character Sword Art it