New Content
Inner Gate of Eight Trigrams City. The Li and Kan trigram wards are now breakable, opening a six-boss raid wing for cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage who have cleared the outer ring.
World boss: the Drowned Tribulant. Rises from the mire at the city walls every four hours, dropping the first crafting cores for the Vault armor set.
Sword-art reforging. Temper a learned sword-art at the Skyforge bench, rerolling one of its three inscriptions while keeping its mastery rank.
Cloud-stride mount tier. The Mist Crane and Ashen Qilin join the stable, with a stamina dive that closes gaps between the city’s floating tiers.
Party Finder. An in-city board now matches cultivators by stage, role, and target wing, replacing the old shout channels.
Founder’s ascension cloak. All closed-beta accounts granted a cosmetic cloak that trails motes of qi light at higher stages.
Balance
Monk — Warding Bell. Reflected-damage share now scales with the Monk’s defense rather than a flat value, and the shield lingers an extra second.
Phantom — Veilstep. The after-image now expires on a fixed timer instead of on next strike, ending the cheap back-to-back blink loop.
Mystic — Sword Will. Orbiting blades ramp attack speed more gently early, so a Mystic must commit before reaching the storm cap.
Valkyrie — Searing Charge. Holds aggro on world bosses far more consistently, reducing peels onto ranged cultivators.
Breakthrough tribulations. Deity Form and Fusion lightning telegraphs a beat earlier — a test of reading, not memorizing.
Spirit-stone economy. Low-stage dungeon clears award slightly more, so the climb to the first reforge no longer stalls.
Bug Fixes
Fixed breakthrough VFX persisting after a failed tribulation until a zone change.
Fixed Party Finder listings failing to clear when the raid leader disbanded mid-wing.
Resolved a rare disconnect fast-traveling from a world-boss arena into a full city instance.
Corrected mislabeled crafting-core rewards on the Drowned Tribulant’s first daily kill.
Fixed flying mounts clipping through the lower floating tiers during a stamina dive.
Fixed a cultivation-panel UI overlap at ultrawide resolutions.