Hello! As a fellow enjoyer of xianxia/wuxia I really enjoy this mod and wanted to mention a few things. I enjoy what you're doing with the mod so far, I think eventually adding events/incidents for natural treasures would be fun.

Things like:

A natural treasure qi source has spawned and when you get there, some level of cultivation animal is protecting it while other lower level cultivators are trying to fight you for it too.

A manuscript has been found that holds the secrets to Insert style of cultivation manual. Similar to above, but maybe some ruins with item in it.

A young master series of incidents. Both good and bad would be hilarious.

As for the current manuals, I enjoy the ones in the game and what they do, I think you got some real good base ones and could probably do similar things as the fire one for lightning and cold. I think some sort of toxic/poison manual would make sense too.

As well as formations! I would probably need to think about this a bit more, but formations would be a cool way to make cultivation buildings. As an easy example, Take some specific resources, like some firestones, some yin flowers and some spirit stones to make some sort of confusing fog/illusion formation. Like you need some sort of number of these constructs/flags and they have to be within a certain area of each other and then they create a foggy boundary. the different tiers of spirit stones/infused materials could affect the effectiveness/radius.

I would expect a formations manual to start allow a pawn to even work with them. But it gives more reason to explore the depths of the mod too.

As for XP gains, I find the random additional attribute on path levels unreliable/ if I got a good weapon I skipped a few levels on a pawn and it lost potential resources because of it.

I'd happily chat more on this topic but figured I've gone on enough for now.