To achieve the status of a Martial Arts Grandmaster or even to progress further, in addition to ascending realms, one often needs spiritual pills and elixirs made from treasures like the Transformed Spirit Ginseng to aid in cultivation.
Such treasures are nearly impossible to find alone.
Thus, top Refining Internal experts and even stronger Martial Arts Grandmasters who wish to advance further would rely more on secular powers to gather the cultivation resources they need.
This is the case for Martial Arts cultivation, and even more so for Dao Skill cultivation.
However, compared to Martial Arts, masters of Dao Skill have an advantage in establishing religions and winning people's hearts, and can easily build powerful religious forces with their own strength, even participating deeply in the contest for supremacy in turbulent times.
