What is the threshold of a pre-GC sun pill cultivator's max qi that needs to be hit to qi cap them by Primordial Spirit?

[Wolfguarde]

I've managed to make my first pre-GC sun pill character, despite having a bugged spirit pagoda. I've maxed out her sun pill resistance and am in the process of stuffing her with as many spirit seeds as I can. However, I don't know what her qi actually needs to be to reach the qi cap (100 million?) when I get her to PS. Does anyone know?

[Atrophus]

According to the guide:
"10,000,000 = 5 Years and enough to hit the Qi cap, of 100Mil."
You will need to feed spirit seed until you got 10 million pre gc qi.
Remember you can still take max qi manuals giving +2000% max qi at PS, that will save you quite some spirit seeds.

(Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MiVEuwl_DoH_swuF1WbodZznbHsMxpzDmpGVWOOiCyI/edit?tab=t.0)

[Wolfguarde]

Thank you! I was working off the Sentient Spirits guide, which only has info for reaching sun pill capacity.

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Originally posted by Wolfguarde:

Thank you! I was working off the Sentient Spirits guide, which only has info for reaching sun pill capacity.

Note that the Sentient Spirit guide is quite outdated. There are several shortcuts you can take if you have DLCs or play with Chaos enabled.
There are chaos effects that halve medicine resistance or that straight boost base qi (both with huge drawbacks of course)
Didn't test it, but I'm fairly sure you can turn anyone with enough POT to have >72k Qi pre GC in current version of the game

[Wolfguarde]

True... I know the DLC manuals cut down the grind quite a bit (these were how I got around needing the spirit pagoda for a non-pill cultivator, for example), and I've seen the Divine Law Formation referenced... somewhere. But I think I found the guide Atrophus linked a while ago and wrote it off because I couldn't quite make sense of it compared to the older one, so I went with that as a baseline and improvised a bit.

I don't think I've got it in me to start a new file at this point, as I've sunk quite a lot of time into getting this one where I want it.