0.9.0

Cultivation v0.9.0 - Beyond the Peak, Extended

Ascension shipped in v0.8.0. Everything below is what got built around it since.

Beta: everything carries over, nothing you earned is lost.

符箓 Talismans, 天道誓言 Oaths, 器灵 Weapon Spirit

• Six talismans inscribed at your own desk -- explosive, recall, barrier, a temporary array, and two that break or dodge a hostile's attention. 60s ritual, real risk of a botch.
• Swear a binding pact with another cultivator -- break it and lose 15% Qi plus a 30-minute Dao-Heart Flaw that blocks breakthroughs outright.
• A well-refined weapon can wake a spirit inside it -- its own 5-level ladder, fed by your Qi, that speaks as it grows.

Breeding, and a real Auction House

• Two bonded beasts, one Beast Pen, an egg that incubates 4-12 hours offline-safe -- offspring lean toward their parents' nature.
• Player-run Auction House, off by default -- list, buy, cancel, 5% cut, nothing ever destroyed.

Four dashboards

• /ascend, /celestial, /tide and Formations all traded chat-only for a themed page. Formations gained remote disperse.

Expeditions, Journal, Bounty Board

• Send your bonded beast off on its own for 2-8 hours of Qi, cores, and XP.
• A Codex article that writes itself -- every breakthrough, tribulation, and mastery logged automatically.
• Rotating solo contracts -- hunt, retrieve, or survive tribulation strikes -- independent of your sect.

Spirit Fields, and two fixes

• Three new herb varieties that grow faster under matching weather.
• Realm/Court announcements now give real world coordinates, not a chunk index.
• A rare bug where a tribulation's storm sky could get stuck (relog was the only fix) is closed for good.

Store purchases now reach you in game: See it all running on Nine Heavens: play.xianxia.dev:9120