Geomancy

**Geomancy** is the art of connecting with the elements of the world, using the **Feng Shui** to locate and understand everything around oneself. It allows the player to discover unusual spots, which usually contain additional resources, or even possible events. Every player has and can use geomancy, regardless of their **Feng Shui** stat, or even if they have not learned any **Geomancy ability**.

## Geomancy and numbers

Geomancy abilities use the Feng Shui stat, which itself can be raised by killing **Blood Puppets** that spawn on the world for their stat books. All ability/skill books of Geomancy can be found scattered and sold in **town markets**. There are four levels, and no level can be learned **without** already knowing the previous one. These books also require the lowest realm of the current region to be learned. The act of Geomancy will always cost the player **5 days** upon usage. List below of stat requirements for books per region:

1. **Yong Ning** region has a requirement of 5 Feng Shui to learn the books.
2. **Hua Feng** region has a requirement of 70 Feng Shui to learn the books.
3. **Yun Mo** region has a requirement of 190 Feng Shui to learn the books.
4. **Mu Xian** region has a requirement of 380 Feng Shui to learn the books.

Shown below is an image of where the Geomancy button is located on the screen (with a red circle) when the player is out in the world:

Once pressed, the yellow effect above will be shown, and the ability will try to discover and pinpoint any and all **Unusual Spots** withing the range of the used geomancy; those spots will be marked with a yellow "!", or their respective slot if properly identified. Spots do **not** last forever, and they will eventually dissapear, even if they are special spots (such as Cultivator's Tomb, for example).

### Geomancy Books; or why would you want to learn them

Geomancy has 7 passive abilities that can be learned from its ability books, which are:

1. **Windseek**, which increases your discovery range when performing Geomancy.
2. **Flying Star**, which increases your chance of finding Monster Lairs.
3. **Gentle Wind**, which increases your chance of finding Treasure Chests.
4. **Planetary Alignment**, which gives you more accurate information of whatever you discover (otherwise, the discovered spots will be shown as "unusual spots".)
5. **Ghost Deed**, which increases your chance of finding Cultivator's Tombs.
6. **Rocksunder**, which increases your chance of finding Rich Ore spots.
7. **Yin Yang Duality**, which increases your chance of finding Qi Rich spots.

**Gentle Wind**, **Rocksunder** and **Ying Yang Duality** increase the overall chance of finding any kind of treasure, so for example; not always when Ying Yang Duality is activated is the result a Qi Abundant Spot; they do, however, have a slightly higher chance of discovering their respective elements. Qi, Ore and Herb spots can be found in the world without the need of using Geomancy.

When any particular ability is activated, the message, along the number of unusual spots discovered, will refer to that particular ability and the result of what it has discovered. Below is shown an example:

As shown on this image, the player is told the number of unusual spots detected around them, as well as an example of a Geomancy ability, in this case, **Ying Yang Duality**, being activated by chance, finding an additional unusual space, this being an Abudant Qi spot.

With **Story Events** that require the use of Geomancy to find something specific (which regardless of the level or learnt abilities, as they are part of a Story, they will always be discovered), Geomancy is a great tool to find almost anything the player is looking for in the world; **Battle Tiles**, **Qi/Herb/Ore Spots**, **Bosses**, and their respective additional special spots, i.e **Treasure Chests**, **Cultivator Tomb's** and **Monster Lair's**.

Example of an unusual spot, without information.Example of an rich Ore spot.Example of a rich Herb spot.Example of an Abundant Qi Spot.Example of a random Event spot.Example of a Cultivator's Tomb spot.