Six Paths Reincarnation Law

## Six Paths Reincarnation LawGong\_9\_Mu

### Description

One of the true elemental Laws of the Taiyi Sect. The cultivator will be the most powerful at the beginning of each state, but as the cultivation progresses, their power will regress step by step until the cultivator becomes as weak as any other mortal. One can only be reborn and advance in cultivation after breakthroughing. Therefore, this Law is popular among cultivators, but few have succeeded in it.

### Description on Selection

One will be powerful in battles when cultivating following this Law, but not skilled in alchemy or artifact crafting. However, one has to experience reincarnation and gradually lose their power until the final ascension

## Xiandao Aspects

### Skills

* Exorcise
* Bestow
* Protect

**Six Paths Reincarnation Law** is a Wood element Taiyi Law with a battle focus. Its particularity is in its cultivators going up and down in power between breakthroughs. At the Primordial Spirit stage, one can specialize in one between three forms: True Form (improving Max Qi), Hallowed Form (improving Spellcasting) and Supreme Form (improving generic battlepower).

## 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 Matching value with capped stats and without any Wood Law Matching Bonus for Six Paths Reincarnation Law is 209%.

## General

Six Paths is unusual for having wide swings in power. In each stage, cultivator is most powerful between Reborn and Sinking mid-breakthroughs. Passing Sinking will cause a loss of 1/3rd of the power at, and Reincarnation leaves you at the base Mortal power.

### Pattern

Six Path cultivators get the base Xiandao cultivator bonus, but not the standard Xiandao Bonus Properties except Demi-God. Instead, each stage follows the same breakthrough pattern: Reborn / Sinking / Reincarnation (next stage).

* **Reincarnation to Reborn**: Almost no bonuses, similar to a Mortal
* **Reborn to Sinking:** extremely high bonuses, higher than other Xiandao Cultivators at the same stage
* **Sinking to Reincarnation:** 2/3rd of the Reborn to Sinking bonus

### Stage-by-Stage Comparison

This compares the Reborn to Sinking period to the most comparable standard Xiandao Cultivation Bonus applicable. This ignores the bonuses to Artifact Crafting and Pill Crafting as Six Paths get none at all, and the food / energy considerations. Ideal Temperature Ranges are also ignored.

### Features

As can be seen above the rebirth pattern gives them significantly better raw stats bonuses than other laws between Reborn and Sinking, until they reach Demigod. However, they lack the basic bonuses from others laws in Artifact Crafting and Alchemy, which makes them a relatively poor fit for those tasks. They also have better lower Temperature Tolerance compared to other laws.

Breakthroughs are more difficult for characters with low Intelligence. The Reborn breakthrough adds lifespan that is immediately used by the following sinking breakthrough at it costs lifespan. However this still results in an extra 240 Lifespan over the full stages.

The law can generally be seen as a Spell Law, due to its Wood element being connective with Fire spell laws and Sixteen Supreme Steps Law, and its bonuses leaning more towards Spells. It can however be played as a generalist. They have extremely high Max Qi, which makes them good Formation Auxiliaries for a True Sun Refining Law pillar, but can be used in any position.

Their 3 lines of Mutually-Exclusive Manuals, True Form, Supreme Form and Hallowed Form give some flexibility to the law. While Supreme Form is generally better, the other forms may have their uses depending on your cultivator and the needs for that char.

If a cultivator has high max Qi when taking a breakthrough which reduces Max Qi (such as Sinking and Reincarnation), their current Qi will stay and their Max Qi will decrease, leaving the cultivator with more Qi than max. This extra Qi can only be used once (or one second for draining effects) before the value is normalized again, so for example it will only result in 1 extra tick of time for a Golden Core breakthrough. In other words, this can't be used to acquire any real in-game advantage.

## Stages

Due to the law pattern, the bonus after each stage will only be detailed at the Reborn stage. Instead, the power will be compared to a fresh Qi Shaping Xiandao Cultivator (from another Law) with only the base Xiandao cultivator bonus after a Reincarnation Breakthrough, and only summarized compared to the Reborn stage after a Sinking one.

## 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. ↑ `XiaWorld.Fight.FightMgr.SkillDamageApply()`, in the `skilldef.Kind == g_emFightSkillKind.Damage` conditional and `XiaWorld.Thing.ReduceDamage(FightSkillDef...)`