Sunflower Refining Law

## Sunflower Refining LawGong\_11\_Tu

### Description

One of the true elemental Laws of the Taiyi Sect. Only women are allowed to cultivate following this Law. Use the purest power of Yin from earth to create pure Yin spirit, leave the mortal body behind and ascend as an immortal. If practiced by a male cultivator, his sex would be reversed.

### Description on Selection

This Law is suitable only for women. If practiced by a male cultivator, his sex would be reversed. One will excel in artifact mastery when cultivating this Law, but will have to experience the first tribulation during core shaping.

## Xiandao Aspects

### Skills

* Exorcise
* Bestow
* Protect

**Sunflower Refining Law** is an Earth Taiyi Law. The law excels at Artifact combat and exploration of the World map. Practitioners of this law also tend to have higher Max Qi, making it an excellent starting Law choice for beginners.

While the description implies that there would be negative consequences if practiced by men, looking from the perspective of gameplay there are no particular handicaps.

## Obtainment

This law can be chosen as a starting Experience or obtained with the other Taiyi Laws from the Return to Taiyi Secret on day 21.

## Law Match

Matching or exceeding the following Attribute values improves Cultivation:

The highest possible Law Match with capped stats and without any Earth Law Matching boosts for Sunflower Refining Law is 173%.

## General

This Law is a good choice for beginners as it progresses fairly easily compared to other laws. It has access to the cheap Earthbound Qi manuals, granting up to 255k flat Max Qi (higher tiers are Law Exclusive and Mutually-Exclusive), which can compensate for a low golden core.

### Growth

Sunflower Refining has easy breakthroughs and only 6 days of Adventure Breakthroughs along the way. It is a very fast cultivation law (if ascending isn't a priority) as it gets all its bonuses and manuals except the Demi-God ones at 255,200 Cultivation experience, a very low amount compared to most other laws.

After the Golden Core Breakthrough, the law almost immediately encounters a very weak Tribulation. It is recommended to obtain and equip the Secret Codex of Taiyi, and to temporarily unequip any worn Artifact to help survive it (see the Tribulation page for more detailed advice).

### Law Features

As Artifact Mastery improves Adventure speed, the law specialization in Artifacts and its Sudden Swiftness manual gives it good adventuring speed.

It has two distincts builds, depending on whether one plans to use the Unus manual and its accompanying Legacy Artifact Unus or not, as the mutually-exclusive manuals means getting the recipe locks you out of the most powerful manuals of the law (the Earthbound Qi line and Lunarfrost Speck). As the legacy artifact requires a Fortune Seed, which is not an easily accessed material, ignoring the Unus manuals is by far the preferred option.

Being an Earth artifact law, it is connective with the 3 other artifact laws, Emotion Severing Law, Seven Slaughtering Sword and Grand Chariot Wisdom Law, making its Attainment cost lower for Artifact Manuals, thus lowering the Inspiration needed to make them decent fighters. Along with the Max Qi they get from Earthbound Manuals, they can achieve a relatively high battle power fast and cheaply.

The gender reversal effect is part of the Lunar Form Manual line. If a male cultivator learns one of these Manuals, his "treasure" will fall off. It can be crafted into an artifact or sold for 100 Spirit Stones, while later in the game Reconstruction miracle could be used to regenerate it.

## Stages and Breakthroughs

Contrary to its own description, Sunflower Refining Law doesn't actually have a tribulation Breakthrough at the Core Shaping stage. This is due to a mistranslation (the correct translation actually should be "after completing core formation"), and therefore it has one very early at the Golden Core stage.

## Mutually-Exclusive Manuals

The law's mutually-exclusive manuals are:

* **Void Worship** (which is required for Annihila Thrust, and thus Unus and Legacy Artifact: Unus) and **Notes on Moral Integrity** (and the 4 Earthbound Qi manuals)
* **Quickdraw** (which is required for Annihila Thrust, and thus Unus and Legacy Artifact: Unus), **Lunar rock** (as well as Lesser Lunar Rock and Lunarfrost Speck) and **Abyssal Swell** (and Abyssal Rush).

## Manual List

The Cultivation Level corresponds to the Manual requirement which may not correspond to the Inspiration Tree level. It is the one considered when learning from the Manual Pavilion.

## Screenshots

1. ↑ Settings\Practice\Gong\Gong\_11.xml
2. ↑ `XiaWorld.Fight.FightMgr.SkillDamageApply()`, in the `skilldef.Kind == g_emFightSkillKind.Sheild` conditional
3. ↑ `XiaWorld.Fight.FightMgr.SkillDamageApply()`, in the `skilldef.Kind == g_emFightSkillKind.Sheild` conditional