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.
The opening road, where it forks, and where it now ends
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
A drifting Yin-Yang balance, the Devil/Righteous path split, Personal Daos and the Heavenly Dao, built on your spiritual root's ten elements.
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.
身Profiles
Keep up to three separate cultivators on one account — start again from Body Refinement without losing the soul you spent a month on.
芒Auras
Realm-colored Qi pours off every cultivator — read a stranger's realm and stage from across a field, before a word is spoken.
号Titles
Earned, purely cosmetic titles worn above your head, in chat, on the rankings and on your sect's roster.
昇Ascension
The capstone past Void Refinement Peak: fifteen minutes under escalating crimson lightning, and the choice to stay at the summit or climb again.
天Heavenly Realm
A permanent sky archipelago past Void Refinement: endless floating isles across nine island realms, entered by the Southern Heavenly Gate once you have Ascended.
識Sea of Consciousness
A private sea that mirrors you, rebuilt from your realm, stage, Qi and Dao each time you open it — from a forty-block pond to an open sea three thousand blocks across.
祕Secret Realms
Sites that open on their own and seal themselves — richer Qi, rarer beasts, and an extra roll for a manual on every kill inside.
象Celestial Events
Spirit Tide, Meteor Shower, Blood Moon and Starfall Convergence — server-wide phenomena that change the sky and the rules for everybody at once.
潮Beast Tide
Waves of corrupted beasts siege a sect hall or Cave Abode, and the defenders have to break the beacon before the ground gives way.
災Calamity Beast
A wandering world boss under an ashen omen sky. It holds no ground, and pays Spirit Stones by how much damage you dealt.
裂Void Rift
Every hour or two the wilderness tears open: five waves of corrupted beasts, then a Warden boss, and Spirit Stones for everyone who fought.
塔Trial Pagoda
A solo tower of Guardian fights and brazier puzzles. Unlimited attempts, a floor record that never resets, and a reward for every new floor.
功Merit
Karma's mirror: a virtue ledger earned by teaching, serving your sect and showing restraint, with six ranks and six arts that nothing else can teach.
師Master & Disciple
Take on a disciple: shared meditation lifts both of you, you may teach an art directly, and their breakthrough pays you.
觀Reading Your HUD
The corner HUD explained: the Qi orb, everything affecting you right now with the time left on each, and what every icon means.
匠Public API
370 events across 51 event classes, 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.