Cultivation techniques were vastly different from combat techniques, especially in the way they affected their user.
Both had to be perfectly synchronized to even work.
The reason was simple: a cultivation technique altered not only the power of a cultivator's foundation, but the very nature of their Qi.
Two cultivators of equal talent, from the same sect and trained under the same master, could find themselves utterly unable to learn each other's combat techniques if they followed different cultivation methods.
An ice cultivator could only use techniques tied to ice, and the same held true for fire, earth, demonic energy, divine energy, and every other element in existence.
That was why a cultivation technique mattered so much.
It was the true foundation of every cultivator.
