The weak cry out with all their might, yet no one cares; The strong whisper softly, yet their words penetrate deeply into the heart. A Talent Tree ablaze with flames, every leaf bearing different spirit runes, Lu Ye, reduced to a mining slave after his sect was destroyed, used this to become a cultivator and stirred the winds of change in the Nine Provinces...
Heaven Rank techniques were actually not scarce, but the easiest way to obtain them was only through the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, so for any cultivator, merit was indispensable.
Each cultivation technique had a different route for channeling spirit force, and with a total of three hundred and sixty spiritual orifices in the human body, these routes could be said to be infinitely variable. The quality of a technique was reflected in its channeling route; a good technique made cultivation and combat more effective and efficient, while the contrary was true for poorer ones.
The linking of spiritual orifices was not arbitrary either, and even two adjacent orifices could not necessarily be linked at will. Rash attempts could very likely lead to extremely dire consequences.