This version is focused around a complete overhaul of the character system. A great number of new interactions are now available, including attacking hostile characters (finally you can get revenge on Shiao Gian and steal his items), trading with neutral characters, and developing your relationship with companion characters. Included is a new system that allows you to invite a companion that you have grown close with to travel and fight alongside you. See below for a full changelog.

New Features

• New character interface and interactions.
  • Companion characters have an approval system that can be raised by interacting with them, sparring, gifting. Once gaining enough approval, characters can be invited to team up, providing you with in-combat buffs for a few months.
  • Pi Lip can now craft items for you. His success chance can be increased by teaching him crafting actions, or by gifting him crafting pills and equipment.
  • Hostile characters can be attacked, allowing the player to steal some of the items they carry.
  • Characters that have custom interactions (e.g. Needle Fairy and the Vault Curator) now have those interactions moved to a dedicated button when selecting the character.
  • Many new minor characters have been added, including Sect Disciples, Free Cultivators, Traders, and Demonic Cultivators
• The Body Forging and Meridian Opening breakthroughs now have multiple options at the maximum level.
  • Body Forging now has 2 Nephrite breakthroughs, and both have been buffed.
  • Meridian Opening now has 3 possible 'best' breakthroughs that require an extra item from the depths of the mine.
• Some keybindings have been added
  • Escape closes dialogs.
  • Enter can be pressed to advance through an event, to begin a round in combat, or to enter/explore the selected location.
  • Number keys can be used to select event choices.

General Changes

• The reputation system has been reworked.
  • Reputation is now location specific.
  • Every 10 reputation is a new named tier, and each tier provides a discount on items purchased in that location.
  • Events with the various travelling characters now grant reputation for the associated location.
• The selected location dialog has been reworked to be more visually appealing.
• Aei Ma and Pi Lip now advance much slower. They can still be helped along by interacting with them, sparring with them, or gifting them items.
• The Crystal Shore now sells a variety of items.
• Charisma now affects prices in the Favour Exchange.
• Fragrant Blossom no longer decays at the end of the round. This means that blossom practitioners can build up extremely large stacks to unleash in one overwhelming blast.
• Characters no longer interact with you back to back. A 2 day cooldown has been added.
• Technique crystals now unveil techniques that aren't included in a manual first.
• Items now indicate their realm in the top left corner of the icon.

Balance Changes

• Pills
  • Bottleneck pills are now much more expensive.
  • Ancient Flaring Pill (II) now last longer and grants much more power.
  • Healing pills now restore much more health.
  • Inner Fury pills are now twice as effective.
  • Ironskin pills have been heavily buffed.
  • Meridian Opening regen pills are now stronger.
• Talismans
  
  • Building fury talisman has been heavily buffed.
  • Dart talisman has been heavily buffed.
  • Empower talisman has been heavily buffed.
  • Heal talisman has been heavily buffed.
  • Protection talisman has been heavily buffed.
  • Sunfury talisman has been buffed.
• Techniques
  
  • Arterial Ejection has been slightly buffed.
  • Blood Bolt has been slightly buffed.
  • Scarlet Spear has been slightly buffed.
  • Violent Purge has been heavily buffed.
  • Razor Blossom has been slightly buffed.
  • Iron Blossom has been slightly buffed.
  • Fragrant Regeneration now gives much less health per blossom.
  • Impenetrable Thorns now gives much less barrier per blossom.
  • Petal Cascade deals less damage per blossom.
  • Scatter Blossom now gives less blossom.
  • Seed Fragrant Rose now gives less blossom.
  • Sunlight and Moonlight give slightly more power and defense respectively.
  • Chilling Radiance has been slightly buffed.
  • Dawning Rage has been slightly buffed.
  • Deepen Shadows has been slightly buffed.
  • Ecliptic Blast scales slightly less with sunlight and moonlight.
  • Intensify Light has been slightly buffed.
  • Lunar Rebuke has been buffed.
  • Moon Strike has been slightly buffed.
  • Searing Lance has been slightly buffed.
  • Sun Strike has been slightly buffed.
  • Suppressing Gale now decays per round, instead of per technique. It therefore lasts much longer.
  • Focus Blast has been heavily buffed.
  • Create Weakpoint has been slightly buffed.
  • Forge Dancing Axe has been slightly buffed.
  • Forge Dancing Dagger has been slightly buffed.
  • Forge Dancing Sword has been slightly buffed.
  • Forge Dart has been slightly buffed.
  • Forge Unstable Automaton has been slightly buffed.
  • Hammer Foe has been slightly buffed.

Bug fixes

• Control and Intensity pills no longer give a 3000% boost to their related stat, reduced to the correct value of 30%.
• Inner Fury Pill (II) now gives the Meridian Opening version of the buff, instead of the Body Forging version.