The Path at a Glance
Every cultivator walks the same opening road — gather Qi, climb the realms, endure the tribulation — and then chooses how to spend the power that road grants them.
flowchart TD
A["New Cultivator<br/>Body Refinement · Early"]
A --> B["Gather Qi<br/>Meditate or absorb Cores"]
B --> C["Advance & Break Through<br/>Timed meditation rituals"]
C --> D["Survive the Tribulation<br/>Lightning, or the Heart-Devil"]
D --> E["Choose a Race<br/>at Golden Core Formation"]
D --> F["Walk a Dao<br/>Element · Yin-Yang · Path"]
D --> G["Join the World<br/>Sects · Abodes · War"]
F --> H["Master the Arts<br/>Skill tree · Techniques"]
E --> H
The opening road, and where it forks
Systems
Cultivation is built as a stack of independent systems. You can run only the realm ladder, or turn on every one of these.
Realms & Stages
Seven realms, four sub-stages each. Advancement is routine; breakthrough is a ritual you can fail.
氣Qi Gathering
Meditate to drain a chunk's Spirit Vein, or hunt creatures for Spirit, Profound and Divine Cores.
劫Tribulations
Lightning falls on every breakthrough. Lean too far into Yin or Yang and you face the Heart-Devil Trial instead.
道The Dao
Ten elemental daos on a Wu Xing counter-ring, a drifting Yin-Yang balance, and a Devil/Righteous path split.
術Techniques
Active arts learned from lootable manuals — fly on your sword, cross a valley in one step, call down a thunder palm.
宗Sects & War
Found a sect, claim a hall on a dragon vein, raise formations, and take a rival's mountain by siege.
丹Alchemy
Brew pills that steady a ritual, ward off the inner demon, or push a stubborn breakthrough over the line.
獸Spirit Beasts
Tame or hatch companions that cultivate their own realm beside you as Guardian, Gatherer or Warden.
匠Public API
Roughly 135 cancellable events, open registries, and a provider hook that lets a mod replace the ladder entirely.
The Seven Realms
Every player starts at Body Refinement, Early-Stage. Each realm grants additive max health and a percentage damage bonus, so the gap between a mortal and a Void Refiner is enormous.
Start Here
Installation & First Steps
Get the jar in the right folder, then your first hour: meditate, absorb a core, and reach Qi Condensation.
How Qi Actually Works
Spirit Veins, vein tiers, the talisman, core drop rates, and why over-farming one chunk stops paying.
Every Command
The full /cultivation and /sect trees, their aliases, arguments and permissions.
Server Configuration
Every tunable value in the mod, grouped by file — and how to edit them live without touching JSON.
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
/cultivation | Open your cultivation stats page |
/cultivation meditate | Sit and draw Qi from the chunk's Spirit Vein |
/cultivation hud | Toggle the persistent corner HUD |
/cultivation race | Open the race menu (Golden Core Formation and up) |
/cultivation admin | Live in-game config editor admin |
Aliases: /cult and /qi both work anywhere /cultivation does.