Musk did have a discovery based on the information he had gathered using the Immortal Faction and visiting the Deceleration Mountain. The cultivation path had different systems and the commonly known were Fusion, Control and creation.
The three paths are actually easy to explain, that creation part is the most common, but difficult. The speed of this means is also slower, as it comes from copying and trying to also accomplish the same. Comprehension is very important in this aspect, and the Cultivation path the main body was exposed to mostly focused on this system. Even the entire higher dimension in his home world was the same, as that system was able to allow stronger and more experts to appear.