Cultivation Base

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Cultivation base (CB) is comparable to experience points you find in other games. The game will ask you to start cultivating manually at the start, but this is the first and only time.Your character will gain CB passively every five seconds. The amount gained is random and within a range that depends on your Cultivation Realm. This range is shown below the character in the main screen. Besides this randomized amount, there's a fixed amount gained equal to your Efficiency stat, which is half of your Perception stat. CB is mainly used to progress through Cultivation Realms (or simply Realms) to unlock more game content and features, similar to character levels in other games you may be familiar with.

## How to gain more CB ?

While the idle cultivation will help you progress through Realms even if you don't login for a few days... *or a few years*. That is not the only way of gaining CB and is certainly not the best way either. Let's talk about the other ways in detail.

### Cultivation Room

At your Sect's Cultivation Room you can Cultivate for 1000 Spirit Stones to get a 5x bonus cultivation for 10 in-game years once a day. Which means you can get an extra 50 years of passive cultivation for cheap every day. In case you don't know, 1 in-game year is equivalent to 15 minutes and a full day is equivalent to 96 years. Be careful though, as the game uses 100 years as a way to refer to a full day. Getting the Sub-leader position in your Sect doubles the duration of the Cultivation Room. So give it a try whenever you can before starting your session at the Cultivation Room.

The 2nd option in the Cultivation Room is Transfer. This will cost 5 Spirit Jades (SJ), the game's premium currency, to get a 8x bonus for 10 years. Which means you can get an extra 80 years of cultivation every day. But differently from the 1st option, this is quite expensive even if you are getting SJ from watching Ads or spending money to buy SJ. You may do it once or twice before Ensoulment Realm but once you reach Ensoulment you will unlock Books, a much better source of CB.

If you want to keep doing Transfer anyway or are spending enough money to not care about it, you will notice that after a few days of doing Transfer you will unlock the option to spend 120 SJ for 30 days of Transfer or 300 SJ for 100 days. These options simply offer a cheaper deal if you want to do Transfer everyday, 4 SJ/day for the 30 days option and 3 SJ/day for the 100 days option instead of the usual 5 SJ/day.

### Perception

This should be a good point to talk about Perception. As mentioned before your character gains CB passively every five seconds and part of this CB comes from your Efficiency stat, that is equal to half your Perception. So increasing your Perception will directly increase your passive CB gain. Also, Cultivate and Transfer from the Cultivation Room are based on your passive cultivation so that will increase as well.

To increase your Perception you need Heavenly Books. At the beginning of the game you can get a Heavenly Book from the Spirit Jade section of the Market for just 1 SJ. There's also another for 10 SJ and 100 SJ. While the 100 SJ one is too expensive you can buy the 10 SJ Heavenly Book if you want to. Some of the beginner Sects also have a Heavenly Book instead of an Ultimate skill you can get.

Now for the bad news. While the extra Perception will help get through the beginning of the game, it's not as good as the Books you unlock at Ensoulment or the CB you can get from Coupling. So, just get the 1 SJ Heavenly Book and after you reach Ensoulment Realm you don't need to worry about Perception anymore. Later into the game you will have access to much more Heavenly Books, but you won't need the extra Perception at that point and will be better to use your time and resources on other things.

### Pills

There are Beast Pills that gives a fixed 20,000; 80,000 or 250,000 CB. You usually will be receiving some of these from completing quests, no reason to save these, you can use them as you get them. You can also exchange these with Beast Nucleus at Beast Exchange, but it's not recommended to do that as the Books are a better use of your Beast Nucleus.

### Breathing

Breathing is a quick mini game you can do to get more CB. Just tap your character to access it. Although it's not as good as using Books or Coupling, it is quite good until you reach God Realm. Similar to your passive cultivation, the amount of CB you get is random and within a range that increases with your Realm. So remember to do it later in the day when you are at a higher Realm.

### Books

Books have been mentioned several times. They are related to the Study Room and you can start reading them after you reach Ensoulment Realm. The main way to obtain Books is by exchanging Beast Nucleus at Beast Exchange and the best Book to buy is named **Nascent Soul Experience**, it has the highest CB/Beast Nucleus spent. This Book will help your Realm progression until you reach God Realm, which will take about 4 months or more for most players.

Another way you will often obtain Books is through Destinies you can find when adventuring or soul-wandering. This also means you can do Manual Destiny farming. Essentially, you enter an early Adventure stage to save Food, head straight for all Destiny spots (the possible positions are fixed in every stage) and leave the stage. After finding ten Destinies you answer all of them and repeat. As this is very time consuming most people will not do this. If you are interested in doing this, either because you want to speed up your Realm progression or because you want to Body Ascend faster, it's recommended to limit yourself to 100 times a day. After the first 100 times of adventuring or soul-wandering the chance of finding Destinies decreases.

Books give CB in two ways, when you use them from your Inventory and when you read them in the Study Room. You have to use the Book at least once in your Inventory to be able to read them in the Study Room, but once you do so, you can read the Book as many times as you want. Being able to read a Book indefinitely after just one use sounds good, but the amount of CB you get from reading is just a tenth (1/10) of the amount you get from using the Book in your Inventory. Thus the best way to use Books is to keep buying and using them in your Inventory.

Reading takes time and depends on the type of Book you choose, once it's done you have to access the Study Room to start reading again. But you can find an option to get **Auto-Study** for 48 SJ. This feature allows you to read Books automatically. While very convenient, it's also completely unnecessary. As mentioned above, reading a Book only gives a tenth of what you get from using it. As a result the amount of CB you will be getting from Auto-Study, even if you get the best Book in the game, is actually so small it is irrelevant.

This feature is actually an outdated feature from when the game's Realm progression was much slower. But as updates kept making progression faster, no changes were made to the Study Room. As a result the Auto-Study feature is currently irrelevant for your Realm progression.

### Coupling

At Dwelling ⇒ Fate, you can find all the Companions you have met either in a Sect or through random Encounters. After you gift your way towards Favor: 100, you can *Take home* a Companion for Coupling... *While not going into the details of what happens in your bed chambers*, you will notice that every Companion have a skill when Coupling. These skills can be for Blacksmith exp, Alchemy exp, Tribulation percentage, Cultivation Base, Reputation and some others.

Naturally, the topic this time are the Companions with skills that give CB. This is your main source of CB after Books and also the **biggest source of CB** after Golden Immortal Realm. The other Coupling skills are not as helpful or have clear alternatives, for example, Tribulation percentage can be easily handled with breakthrough pills from Sect Exchange or Market.

The recommendation is to go through the Basic rank (tier 1) Sects first, as you can easily pick the sects you go to. For higher tier Sects you won't be able to choose and will be sent randomly to one of the Sects. Take your time going through the Sects, besides the CB Companions you will also need skill sutras, some Ultimate skills and Ascendable Companions. Ascendable Companions can *Ascend* after *Take home* and become a Servant.

The order for Coupling is also important as Feng Qian and Lu Jing can buff the CB gained from other Companions. The recommended order and Companions are:

1. Feng Qian
2. Lu Jing
3. GuangJi Ye
4. Yue Murong
5. Xu Wen'an
6. Tian Heng'e

Good substitutions for when you can't use one of them, either because of a skill effect or because you don't have the listed Companion yet:

* Lianglin Gong
* Mei Mei
* Sujie Rong
* Xin Linghu
* Hu Lunmei

To maximize CB, every day after you couple, you can divorce Yue Murong, Xu Wen'an and Tian Heng'e. Then immediately gift them to increase favor and again the next day to *Take home*. Rinse and repeat. This will let you get around their negative skill effects. If you don't have Censor you won't be able to divorce Xu Wen'an. Use Lianglin Gong or another backup partner while she's unavailable.

#### How does it work?

You may have tried these Companions before and found that the amount of CB you get is not impressive. It doesn't look like Coupling is the **biggest** source of CB at all. Well, let's explain what is happening.

The way the CB Companions work is giving Cultivation Base proportional to your Cultivation Realm. Or more specifically, proportional to the amount of CB needed for breaking through to the next Realm. Which means that as you progress through higher Realms and the amount of CB needed increases, the amount of CB you get from Coupling increases with it. So at the start, the amount of CB won't be impressive and you will have many options that are better than Coupling like the Cultivation Room, Breathing and Books. But as you reach the point where these options are no longer helpful, the amount gained from Coupling will have increased significantly. And it will keep increasing as you progress.

Let's look at an example to help us understand. Let's pick Feng Qian and look at the amount of CB she gives at different Cultivation Realms. If you test it in-game, the amount Feng Qian gives is exactly 2% of the amount needed for breaking through.

At Ensoulment I you need 41,118,797 CB to reach Ensoulment II. Therefore Feng Qian would give 822,376 CB. That's not impressive compared to the 2,440,000 CB minimum you can get from a Breathing attempt or the 14,500,700 CB you get from Nascent Soul Experience.

Now at a later Realm, like Immortal Venerable I, you need 10,590,359,040 CB to reach Immortal Venerable II. In this case, Feng Qian would give 211,807,181 CB. That's much more than the 14,500,700 CB from Nascent Soul Experience and still higher than the 206,510,000 CB maximum you could get from a Breathing attempt if you are lucky.

Finally, for a Celestial 15, you need 1,206,579,300,000 CB to reach Celestial 16. In this case, Feng Qian would give 24,131,586,000 CB. Which can no longer be compared to Nascent Soul Experience or the 603,430,000 CB maximum from a Breathing attempt.

As you can see, while Coupling is not impressive at the beginning of the game, it will follow your Realm progression and leave every other source of CB far behind in the late game. Although your progression will slow down, thanks to Coupling, advancing to the next Realm will take **on average 3 to 4 days**. Regardless of how high your Realm is.

### Others

* There's a daily Encounter that rewards Cultivation Base for watching an Ad. Very helpful at the beginning, not so much later on.
* Before going through Ascension the Fortune Land will give CB as one of the rewards. And you can also Rob other players if you can beat them in a fight. However players are able to Ascend to Heaven fairly quickly nowadays. So you won't spend much time with this version of the Fortune Land.
* Mental Meditation in the Meditation Room is available once a day for a Bodhi Fruit. You can get Bodhi Fruits for cheap in the Alliance Shop, no reason not to do Meditation. Every 5 Meditations you will receive a Taoist Note, a level 5 Heavenly Book. You can get up to 20 Heavenly Books this way.

## Other uses

You can impart some of your CB to your disciples in your Heaven Sect once a day. The amount is pretty small, so no need to worry about not having enough for yourself. Give your disciples some love.