Even though there was no lack of cultivation techniques in the Federation during the Spirit Inception Era, they weren't plentiful either. Furthermore, the different factions kept their own techniques a top secret from each other, preventing the cultivation techniques that they had developed from being leaked to others. Therefore, it resulted in difficulty for other small factions and vagrant cultivators to gain access to even a single cultivation technique if they weren't cultivators from the four Dao Colleges or the various major factions.