More Dumb Questions

[cadfan17]

1. Do transcribed manuals have a purpose? No one seems willing to pay for them. They don't gain qi so you can't melt them down for fortune stones.

2. Does artifact capture have to be on an offensive secret body to work?

3. Does artifact capture, or qi penetration, have any effect on tribulation clouds?

4. Does accuracy affect tribulation clouds? Does dodge affect tribulation clouds?

5. I know you cultivate faster when there's more qi energy around. Is there a cap, or, do I get better results from just pumping in as much qi energy as I can find?

6. The exact details around energy and stamina are a little... opaque. My inner disciples in my cultivation branch keep acting weird, and I think it's because their stamina is flatlined. I can't feed them food because they're inner disciples. So I have them stamina pills. It didn't seem to do anything. Is the issue stamina conversion? There are skills for that but I don't want to blow the attainment on something irrelevant if that's not what that means.

7. If something says, +X% hunger, what does that mean? It makes the character eat more? Is that helpful?

8. Ok. This He Zudao guy. I know I can just murder him and take his stuff, but lets say for the sake of argument that I'm trying not to be evil. I've got him to 100% friendship. I've given him presents. So many presents. I've talked to him about his secret law, and his secret skills, and he's given me a skill scroll but not the law. What do?

9. I once saw someone reference a pill to reduce divinity in a shendao cultivator. Is this a thing? Where? Or is divinity a one way trip?

[Celentis]

I'll answer what I can.

1 - I haven't found a use for them so far so I smelt them but maybe someone else has found somethingl.

8 - If it's the scroll I'm thinking of, have it put on the ground and click on it. You should have an option to interact with it or read it or something. Do that and you'll unlock the law.

[cadfan17]

No, he just gave me a really basic book for like a small bonus to artifact crafting or something. He's still got the law.

[>]Dest[<]

1. AFAIK, no purpose
2. don't think so, you can equip it anywhere, however its easier to just kill the cultivator than capture the artifact. i dont recommend even bothering with artifact supression, just go for dmg and qi penetration
3.the clouds are just qi, so im guessing both doesnt have any effects.
4. yes, especially dodge, i'm at tribulation 14 and the clouds barely hits me, sometimes i dont even get hit, taking down sects get me dmged more than that.
5. not sure, all the guides emphasize it
6. inners can eat red ginseng, that will fill their stamina. Food > Stamina, so food consumption bonus will increase stamina conversion too. Easiest is just plant loads of ginseng and feed the red ones, or go on adventure looking for it.
7. hunger consumption means food will decrease faster
8. knock him unconscious, then search him for the law, he's having the law equipped on his body.
9. shendao cultivators earn divinity by cultivating, once reach 100 they will ascend, you can eat a pill, equip a talisman etc to reduce divinity so you dont ascend and lose your cultivator

[cadfan17]

Which pill or talisman reduces divinity? I don't think I've seen them yet.

[bmanders7480]

He Zudao's law has heaven concealing talisman. That reduces divinity. Supposedly if you draw a good one on grade 12 paper it will put the divinity cap under 100, hence your guy never ascends.

[Arctic]

Does your He Zudao have have Greedy Personality? Only way to get it off greedy He Zudaos is to knock em out and take it. Preferably a location that isn't your sect.

[cadfan17]

No, he's just dull. I really feel like I did everything I was supposed to do, he just didn't drop what I wanted.

I guess I'll go mug him.

New questions!

10. I've done spectral refining on a talisman and on a shirt and in both cases did not see an improvement. Do I need to do the refining before I create the item instead of afterward?

11. Is there any way to freeze a demigod in place without them ascending, or is it just an inevitability once they reach that level? I know you can take pills that delay tribulation, but they have medicine resistance so that's a limited trick. I thought I saw something in a guide about them not ascending if they just cultivate forever but that doesn't seem to be working. I have my first demigod and the counter seems to still be counting down in spite of him cultivating (he's cultivating by my first spirit tree in case that matters). Is the idea just to get to demigod, craft a legacy artifact or something, finish up with your sub spirits, complete as many tribulations as you can and maybe earn Heavens Breath, and then vanish? Tribulations every five days is... a lot of tribulations. I don't know how fast they scale up but it seems unlikely that he'll last out the month.

[Arctic]

10. Yep, you gotta specter refine the talisman before you draw on them.

[cadfan17]

12. What exactly does Potential do? My understanding is that it increases the amount of extra qi you can cultivate during core shaping. Does it do anything else? What's the point of raising it after core shaping? Heaven Stealing Law gives you lots of opportunities to raise it in the late game, so there must be a reason.

[cadfan17]

Correction. Idling your demigods in cultivation really does seem to stall their tribulation timer. I didn't realize it did because the timer still sort of wobbles and I thought it was dropping, but when it goes down it just goes back up.

[cadfan17]

He Zudao dropped the stupid law, finally. I had to hunt her down and give him a present on a map that wasn't my home map. Then she handed it over.

I guess something just had to reset from all the interaction we did on my home map.

[annie]

transcribed manuals are great fodder to feed to sentient items for elemental adjustment, since the elemental % they gain is based on the tier of the item and books are tier 9.

room qi bonus is weird and not well telegraphed. the +++++ bonus for xiandao is not actually the max, as physical cultivators will only have ++ in those areas. additionally, a room that gives +++++ qi bonus to a physical will end up producing better core formation results for xiandao, so i dont think there is a cap, or if there is, it's not what the game shows as the cap.

[Totocoroco]

9. No pill to reduce divinity only talisman,"Sarira"raise divinity+Mental+ Max divine Residents 12. More potential= faster cultivation speed+ bigger inner cauldron limit

[Kain Yusanagi]

1) They're pretty and thus serve good use as beautifying fodder for your sect's rooms, esp. "plain" or "common" bedrooms.

6) You most assuredly can feed them food. You want them on a constant diet of the three types of pills that increase food & stamina conversion, though.

7) "+%hunger" means an increase to the max cap of their hunger, so they can consume more. That's it, AFAIK, as the other effect you usually see paired with it of needing to eat more is on Physical Cultivators, and that is specifically noted separately in the remold.

8) Gift him one of each of the types of talismans if he's not greedy, one after the other.

9) The thing you're thinking of re: eating a pill is the rebirth or similar pills which make you reborn as a mortal so you can start over again. Only the anti-divinity talisman and not being on restrained can prevent you from reaching the threshold of 100 divinity and being forced to ascend.

[dimm_ddr]

1. Transcribed manuals are amazing as a honeypots for thieves. They are a high grade items, worthless to you and you can get tons of them. Put a storage just for manuals somewhere accessible and if you fail to kill someone or they get up without you noticing they will very likely to actually grab a manual instead of anything else. Especially if you have 10+ of 12th level of them chilling just outside your base. After I started doing this I never get anything valuable stolen.

8. It is chance based. The higher social you have on a character you use to make a gift the more you likely to get a gift in return. If you manage to get your hands on cultivator with 90+ social you will get the scroll first time you will gift him simple talisman paper. At least if you get him to 100%. I guess you can try to do it with 60% if you don't want to mess around with breaking his guard but I'm not sure how high your chances are. Also I never noticed any differences in doing that on your sect map or somewhere else.