Ascend From Nine Mountains

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• Patch Notes·30 Aug 2026Official

  [0.7.10] New Content

  ChangesThe Celadon Flame Brewers, Immortal Fang, and Star Observers now have a new rank.Added two new companions that can be found by exploring the lower realm areas of the world.Added visual indicators to the combat preview bar for auto-use items to highlight toxicity-capped pills that will not fire, complete with a tooltip explanation.Changed the Techniques window to remember the currently selected tab when closing the menu, opening other screens, or reloading the save.Added auto-grouping, collapse, and group drag for stances.Added an animated visual glitch effect to corrupted text, tooltips, keys, and mystical region elements.Reworked Bloodmoon Vestment effect to match the Bloodmoon technique.Allowed players to click active companion portraits to demote them to the inactive list when an inactive companion is available.Updated tournament talisman recipes to allow using higher-tier technique crystals of the same element as substitutes when crafting.Updated The Elder's Pattern quest to immediately grant the schema if the player already has Honoured or higher reputation with Jade Serpent and Heavenly Sword sects when visiting Gu Wanshu.Added ctrl instant except to all guild task boards.Updated the final reward icon on event and request completion screens to automatically trigger its fly-away animation to the bottom-left inventory anchor after a brief delay.Updated the dialogue and description in the Shen Henda ward petition event.Added hover tooltips to quest reward items in the quest log.Reworked opening cinematic trailer handling and subtitles for smoother playback and better localization support during game startup.Updated the expedition team display to wrap companion cards onto multiple centered rows when bringing teams of 5 or more members.Added a notification log when a barrier is completely broken during combat.Added a rebindable hotkey (default 'k') that toggles the 'Skip Previously Read Dialogue' setting while reading events.Added an option to the bug report...
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• Patch Notes·23 Aug 2026Official

  [0.7.9] Charisma and Story

  ChangesBuffed Charisma:Charisma now controls the maximum size of your party. You party can be filled with any companion, not just permanent ones.Charisma now grants a bonus to the buffs of a party member.Charisma now grants a dual cultivation buff to satisfaction gains.Shen Tian now has its own reputation ranks, and an exalted reward.Buffed the crafting Insight package, including overhauled techniques, new techniques, and new cauldrons.The guild task board now displays missions from both your current rank and the previous rank in two separate, so you aren't immediately locked out of content.Added Ctrl+Click shortcut to automatically accept crafting missions in the crafting hall when enough spirit stones are available.Add some new world building events in lower realm areas.The cultivation chamber now displays the name of the room currently under construction on its building status button.Added a "Next Month" shortcut button to the house meditation dialog that automatically calculates and sets the exact number of days needed to advance to the start of the next month.Reworked Purifying Flame. It now raises the cap of maximum quality achievable, and also grants bonus quality at higher realms. Removed the additional hidden potential it used to give.Added more core formation masteries to many crafting actions.Added the crafting loadout selector to the tournament menu so players can switch loadouts before proceeding.Expanded and updated beast wave events across various locations to recognise life flourishing characters.Added a number of life flourishing dialogue branches to many common dialogues and events.Adjusted tournament progression so that Lingxi Gian doesn't get knocked out of the tournament as often.Added a new setting to the options menu allowing players to automatically skip unread dialogue alongside previously seen dialogue. For those who 100% refuse to read anything.Added a persistent title banner at the top of the formation puzzle screen that displays the name...
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• Patch Notes·9 Aug 2026Official

  [0.7.8] Tournaments Part 2

  ChangesAdded proper crafting tournaments. These are available in the mid-year Shen Henda open bracket, and reward unique crafting gear.Reworked the Shen Henda festival crafting tournaments to instead be a crafting 'challenge'.Added preset switcher and auto-use toggle controls directly to the Stances, Crafting Actions, combat, and crafting interface bars for quicker access.Added a desperation mechanic in combat where both combatants gain a stacking damage boost buff starting from round 50 to prevent infinite stalls.Added two new sublime effects to the Recursion Talisman.Updated Aei Ma's request board post-combat dialogue and animations to better match her combative, danger-seeking personality.Added a shortcut allowing players to accept sect missions directly by holding Ctrl and clicking the mission card, bypassing the detail dialog.Reordered the choices in the Skypiercer quest Houlu encounter dialog so that 'Leave' appears at the top and 'Attack' appears at the bottom, matching standard game conventions.Added a Crafting Actions counter buff to the avatar buff row during crafting that counts down from 100 actions and includes a tooltip detailing the Turbid Qi penalty soft cap.Lingxi Gian will now only appear as a participant in tournament brackets that match her current realm and if you have already met her.Improved the bug report upload flow so that background retries no longer keep the upload indicator permanently stuck on screen, instead showing a brief failure notice before disappearing and delivering the final outcome via a notification toast.Updated the Protection stat display across tooltips, item descriptions, and upgrade interfaces to show as a raw number rather than a misleading percentage.Updated the Prismatic Chain buff icon badge to show the live chain length directly instead of always displaying a static stack count of one.Removed the fixed realm tier indicator badge from all condensation arts icon cards.Added an Item Effectiveness percentage multiplier ...
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• Patch Notes·3 Aug 2026Official

  [0.7.7] Tournament Rework (Part 1)

  ChangesTournaments have been overhauled.They are now 5 rounds, with placement based rewards.New visuals showing the tournament actually simulating.The option to heal or buff between each round, the same given to the other npcs.A crowd that reacts to your actions.New exclusive rewards.Reworked the Flame of Discordance to manipulate condition probabilities, and reduced its penalties.The True Bifang Flame has new effects, and is upgradeable.Added a maximum limit of 3 in-game years per bulk instant craft batch to prevent long-lived characters from causing game freezes.Style and crafting loadout exports now include any paired auto-use items and their conditions.Added hover tooltips to acquired soul shard delve rewards to view detailed item, technique, aspect, and stat increase information.Added harmony upgrade paths and drop harmony support for all Jade Sect bloom-corruption mine items.Soul shard and pillar inventory filter settings now remember your last choices across delve runs and game restarts instead of resetting.Events and encounters that increase pillar tiles can now be triggered anytime before reaching Pillar Creation.Disabled the calendar's skip-to-next-month button while an active event or festival is running to prevent exploiting re-entrant events.Updated the school filter order across the technique list, manuals list, edit stance, stats dialog, and challenge board to consistently display as Blood, Blossom, Fist, Cloud, Weapon, Celestial, with Neutral last.Added a new crafting recipe for Cruiser Shot to the Star Observers' Recipe Hall.Added a Preview Bonuses button to the sublime item column on the recipes page to inspect and compare harmony stats and bonuses without entering the crafting interface.Added a badge to each crop card in the garden plant sidebar displaying how many of that specific crop are currently planted in the active garden layout.Added an artist recruitment notice to the main menu that opens a dialog with details on commissions, requirements...
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• Patch Notes·27 Jul 2026Official

  [0.7.6] Better Research

  ChangesReworked research to be a queue-based system, with craftable upgrades via harmony.Added the crafting loadout selector to the Choose a Harmony dialog.Added random chance for harmony and quality to auction-spawned equipment.Added a Favourites tab and inline star toggles to the sell list. Added a Sell All Favourites option alongside the Sell All Treasures button in the market shop interface.Renamed the 'Upgrade' and 'Reforge' mode selection options, buttons, panel titles, and pinned tab labels to 'Reforge Realm' and 'Unlock Potential'.Reworked techniques/action search to search the contents of the item tooltips, instead of the internal object.Expanded interactions with Tidao Feng when handling the Yichan Formation Core.Moved the crafting Quick Access grid to a single-row bar at the bottom of the Crafting Loadout tab.Added Forgelord's Crafting Chamber to the Wasteland Workshop.Tied crafting auto-use loadouts to their paired action loadout.Added a '(This Effect)' self-reference condition to auto-use rules.Renamed the crafting technique False Fusion to Strive for Completion and updated its associated artwork.Allowed players to choose their preferred harmony type when performing sublime crafts on quests.Added Pill Replication as an available combat condition.Reworked the Unstable Rift event tile and item selection interface, allowing it to duplicate an item instead of 'extract' it.Allowed players to select and fight any tier of training ground puppets in the preparation dialog.Added quest-board encounters for Aei Ma allowing her to join faction alpha hunts.Added a greater variety of background art for the main menu, based on game progression.Relocated sublime crafting rumours and the ruins-in-the-sky rumour to the Court Whisper Steward vendor in Shen Tian Court.Improved herb garden performance and eliminated lag during cursor movement, tiling, and simulation calculations.Updated the maximum qi button in meditation to correctly cap meditation duration.Added a 'Max pe...
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