Cultivation Manuals

## Functions

Cultivation manuals are resources that can aid the development of a cultivator. Below are some known functions:

Usage can **help with forming and adjusting pathways.**

* **Chapter 111**: “She should be using a cultivation manual from the start. It will help her immensely, as reforming pathways at a later date can be quite painful and dangerous,” Alyn said. “Using a fitting cultivation manual from level 1 will even adjust the pathways provided by the Class, resulting in a greater synergy.”

Usage can **improve attribute efficiency**

* **Chapter 208**: “Cultivation Manuals essentially improve one’s Efficiency as well.”

Usage can **increase the absorption & restoration of cosmic energy**

* **Chapter 225**: “Due to speeding up the absorption with her cultivation manual”

Usage can **form karmic links** via use of specific cultivation techniques.

* **Chapter 254**: “Why did he give a family cultivation manuals? I believe he has formed a Karmic Link with those who use that cultivation technique”

Usage can **boost compatible attacks**.

* **Chapter 262**: “The second thing he took out was the cultivation manual that Mhal’s clan used. It was called [Corpsebloom Mantra], and it said that it could boost compatible attacks up to 22% at E-grade”

## Boosts

Zac hadn’t looked to much into cultivation since he found that he was a mortal, but he knew that 22% wasn’t a bad percentage. Ogras had once said that a boost of 10% per grade up to D-grade was good, but after that, he wasn’t sure.

That was also why he hadn’t seen cultivators as a real threat so far. Even those with good manuals were only boosted to a pretty limited degree, but that would change in E-grade. 20-30% was completely possible, which was like a permanent boost of **[Hatchetman’s Rage]** without any downsides.

Besides, those numbers came from Ogras whose origin was a pretty weak D-Grade clan, so it wasn’t impossible that the manuals from higher-tiered forces were even better. **Chapter 272**

The boost from a cultivation technique can be likened to efficiency, but it is conditional to the characteristic of the manual. So Ogras would get a boost of 14% on his Shadow Attacks, but not to his Strength when simply punching someone.

## Changing Manuals

Cultivation manuals gradually impact one's pathways, so it would require some time to adapt and I'd say it's feasible that cultivating a specific manual for a long time makes it so that your pathways no longer are able to start up new ones that are too different from the original one. Which is another reason why a proper heritage is important.

Apparently, many elites started to work on their Manuals in the D-grades in either creating a Cultivation Manual to perfectly fit their path or adjusting their current one to remove any mismatch. **Chapter 921**

Some forces modify manuals to better suit their inheritance or what weapons they enjoy. Others manage to make some adjustments to increase the power output or recovery by some degree. Like most things, you can classify a manual from being from Low to Peak quality. **Book 6**

## Limits

Most importantly, the manuals were all Peak D-grade, which essentially was the limits of conventional cultivation manuals. After that, you'd have to create something individualized whether you wanted to or not. **Chapter 1,048**

## Known Manuals

* **[Corpsebloom Mantra]** [22%] - Mhal
* **[F] Grey World Mudra** [14%] - Ogras
* **[E] Chains of Fate** [24%] - Inevitability
* **[F-Grade Cultivation Manual]** - Tutorial
* **Warrior’s Heart** looted from combatants at the Tower
* **Frigid Doctrine of Zi** - Catheya

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/593783253320597515/593789035584159765/733363210056499291
2. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/593783253320597515/593789035584159765/886547390574784524