Xiandao Cultivation

**Xiandao Cultivation** (also known as "Qi Cultivation" or "Golden Core Cultivation") is the most common Cultivation Method found within the world of Amazing Cultivation Simulator. Most of the Laws practiced by Cultivators within this world are Xiandao ones.

## Element and Law match

Each Law is associated with one of the Five Elements or with None, which has a large influence on everything they do. Laws also have Five Attributes requirements, which influences how successful a Character can be when adopting a new Law, mostly their Cultivation Speed and the success chance of their Breakthroughs.

Xiandao Inner Disciples progress through diligent Cultivation, maintaining a healthy Mental State until they reach bottlenecks. Those require them to pass Breakthroughs of different kinds to keep progressing. Cultivation can be helped with the use of Cultivation Adventure Locations and both Cultivation and Breakthroughs benefit from element-dependent Cultivation Rooms.

## Manuals

Manuals represents a set of knowledge that a Xiandao cultivator may learn for an Inspiration and Attainment cost, the building blocks for most of their power.

### Manual Pavilion and Law transcriptions

*See: Obtaining Additional Laws*

A particularity of Xiandao Laws is that they're transcriptible in a Manual Pavilion. Each law consists in a different set of Manuals for a Character to learn and apply, and any Xiandao cultivator can transcribe the first level of every manual within any Xiandao law - including if they don't practice the law in question - for anyone to learn. For example, if the True Sun Refining Law is transcribed a Six Paths Reincarnation Law disciple can learn from its first level manuals to great benefit.

Xiandao Cultivators may learn anything transcribed within a Manual Pavilion with lowered Inspiration costs, and transcription brings in a large amount of it as well, thus it is best practice to transcribe all known Xiandao laws into manual pavilions. Learning from a Manual Pavilion has an associated Attainment cost, where this cost is higher if the Element of the Manual you want to learn counteracts the native element of the Cultivator's Law, and lower if it feeds or begets it.

### Law-Exclusive Manuals

Not all Manuals of a law can be transcribed in the Manual Pavilion: for law nodes having several levels, only the first one can usually be transcribed. The remaining manuals are called the Law-Exclusive manuals and are part of what makes the specificity of that law, as they can only be learned by their practitioners for a large section of the game. This limitation can however be bypassed by established sects by crafting Sub-Spirit Gear.

### Mutually Exclusive Manuals

Some laws have branching paths, where learning a manual excludes from learning another. This isn't limited to a single manual and can extend to entire lines of manuals. They can constitute a sort of "build path" for law practitioners.

### Unorthodox Laws and Manuals

The game randomly generates extra laws manuals with randomized strengths and effects, which can also be transcribed and used by xiandao cultivators, increasing their power and options outside of the power given by Supreme Laws.

## Features

The Xiandao cultivators excel or differ significantly compared to Shendao Cultivation and Physical Cultivation on the following aspects:

* the ability to mix-and-match skills, using the Manual Pavilion, and Sub-Spirit attaching
* access to a wide numbers of Miracles and Battle Spells
* Craft and use multiple Artifacts
* exclusive access to Alchemy
* main users of Formations
* exclusive access to Sub-Spirit Gear

## Laws

*See: Law#Supreme\_Laws*

The 12 (13 with Immortal Tales of WuDang DLC) Xiandaos supreme laws are the backbone of the Xiandao power, and effort should be made to acquire them all as fast as possible (see obtaining Additional Laws). The Unorthodox Laws being randomly generated and usually weaker, are mostly used to supplement the power of your Supreme Law Xiandao cultivators and not as a subject of focus.

### Distinction between Supreme Laws

Supreme laws mostly differ from each other by the following factors:

* Unique trait if any: this concerns Six Paths Reincarnation Law, Primordial Symbols Law and Law of Nimbus ConquestDLC
* Element
* Law Match or required Five Attributes,
* Breakthroughs, mostly their types and (for non-standard breakthroughs) length,
* Immortal's Mortal Body's powers, which also matters for Branches leaders
* Exclusive Manuals
* Cultivation Experience needed between breakthroughs

The following shows the sums of cultivation experience, days of Adventure breakthroughs and numbers of Void breakthroughs until a particular stage, or until the 2nd Achievement, the last Reborn stage for Six Paths Reincarnation Law, and the 5th natal talisman for Primordial Symbols Law, which corresponds to all non-demi god bonuses obtained, explained below, depending on law.

### Xiandao Supreme Laws specialties

*See: Recommendations on which law to use and where in this guide*

## Bonus Properties

Most Xiandao laws (Six Paths Reincarnation Law excepted) receive the same cumulative bonuses after Foundation or upon success on particular Breakthroughs, often resulting in going up a stage.

### Foundation

After building Foundation and choosing a Xiandao Law. the following is received:

* +15% Move Speed (`AddP`)
* +80% Natural Resilience (`AddP`)
* -3°C/+3°C Ideal Temperature range (`AddV`)
* -6°C/+6°C Temperature Tolerances (`AddV`)
* + 0.2 Qi Absorption Efficiency (`AddV`)

### Breakthrough

You can find all breakthroughs bonuses and their sums (when relevant) in this table or in their sections below

### Core Shaping

* +10 Lifespan (`AddV`)
* +250% Max Qi (`AddP`)
* +50% Bonus Artifact Power (`AddP`)
* +50% Artifact Qi Recovery Bonus (`AddP`)
* +50% Artifact Max Qi Bonus (`AddP`)
* +5% Barrier Power Bonus ()
* +100% Spell power bonus (`AddP`)
* +100% Spell Qi Cost Bonus Reduction (`AddP`)
* +100% Adventure Fly Speed Bonus (`AddV`)
* +10% Artifact Crafting Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* +10% Alchemy Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* -15°C/+60°C Temperature Tolerances (`AddV`)
* +0.2 Qi Absorption Efficiency (`AddV`)
* +100% Food Consumption Bonus (`AddV`)

### Golden Core

* + variable Base Max Qi (`BAddV`) from Golden Core Breakthrough
* +30 Lifespan (`AddV`)
* +600% Max Qi (`AddP`)
* +100% Bonus Artifact Power (`AddP`)
* +100% Artifact Qi Recovery Bonus (`AddP`)
* +100% Artifact Max Qi Bonus (`AddP`)
* +10% Barrier Power Bonus (`AddV`)
* +200% Spell power bonus (`AddP`)
* +200% Spell Qi Cost Bonus Reduction (`AddP`)
* +100% Adventure Fly Speed Bonus (`AddV`)
* +15% Artifact Crafting Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* +10% Alchemy Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* -20°C/+80°C Temperature Tolerances (`AddV`)
* +0.4 Qi Absorption Efficiency (`AddV`)
* +300% Food Consumption Bonus (`AddV`)
* -50% Energy Consumption (`AddV`)

### First Achievement

Every law besides Six Paths Reincarnation Law receives the bonus, but not in the same circumstances. This can correspond to the bonus received upon surviving a Tribulation of the law if there is any, reaching a higher stage or a particularly difficult Breakthrough.

* +60 Lifespan (`AddV`)
* +1200% Max Qi (`AddP`)
* +200% Bonus Artifact Power (`AddP`)
* +200% Artifact Qi Recovery Bonus (`AddP`)
* +200% Artifact Max Qi Bonus (`AddP`)
* +20% Barrier Power Bonus (`AddV`)
* +300% Spell power bonus (`AddP`)
* +300% Spell Qi Cost Bonus Reduction (`AddP`)
* +200% Adventure Fly Speed Bonus (`AddV`)
* +20% Artifact Crafting Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* +10% Alchemy Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* -30°C/+120°C Temperature Tolerances (`AddV`)
* +0.8 Qi Absorption Efficiency (`AddV`)
* -25% Energy Consumption (`AddV`)

### Second Achievement

Every law besides Six Paths Reincarnation Law receives the bonus, but not in the same circumstances. This usually is linked to an Adventure Breakthrough, but can also be received upon surviving a Tribulation of the law or reaching Primordial Spirit.

* +120 Lifespan (`AddV`)
* +2400% Max Qi (`AddP`)
* +500% Bonus Artifact Power (`AddP`)
* +500% Artifact Qi Recovery Bonus (`AddP`)
* +500% Artifact Max Qi Bonus (`AddP`)
* +30% Barrier Power Bonus (`AddV`)
* +500% Spell power bonus (`AddP`)
* +500% Spell Qi Cost Bonus Reduction (`AddP`)
* +300% Adventure Fly Speed Bonus (`AddV`)
* +25% Artifact Crafting Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* +10% Alchemy Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* -40°C/+200°C Temperature Tolerances (`AddV`)
* +1.6 Qi Absorption Efficiency (`AddV`)
* +600% Food Consumption Bonus (`AddV`)
* -15% Energy Consumption (`AddV`)

### Demi-God

* +100 Base Mental State (`AddV`)
* +180 Lifespan (`AddV`)
* +4000% Max Qi (`AddP`)
* +1000% Bonus Artifact Power (`AddP`)
* +1000% Artifact Qi Recovery Bonus (`AddP`)
* +1000% Artifact Max Qi Bonus (`AddP`)
* +40% Barrier Power Bonus (`AddV`)
* +800% Spell power bonus (`AddP`)
* +800% Spell Qi Cost Bonus Reduction (`AddP`)
* +500% Adventure Fly Speed Bonus (`AddV`)
* +30% Artifact Crafting Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* +10% Alchemy Success Rate Bonus (`AddV`)
* -45°C/+550°C Temperature Tolerances (`AddV`)
* +2000% Natural Resilience (`AddP`)
* +2000% Pain Tolerance (`AddP`)
* +200 Base Mood Value (`AddV`)
* +10 Qi Absorption Efficiency (`AddV`)
* +1000% Food Consumption Bonus (`AddV`)
* -1000% Water Consumption Bonus (`AddV`)
* -1000% Recreation Consumption Bonus (`AddV`)
* -15% Energy Consumption (`AddV`)
* +100% Natural Resilience for Inner Injuries (`AddV`)

## References

1. ↑ 260,400 for 2nd Achievement and 4 natals
2. ↑ `Settings/Modifiers/Modifier_Gong_Base.xml`
3. ↑ `XiaWorld.NpcPractice.GetBronkenNeckRewards()`
4. ↑ `XiaWorld.NpcPractice.Up2Disciple() & Settings/Modifiers/Modifier_System.xml [BasePracticeAchievements3]`