The release contains two major new pieces of content. A new character, and year-end festivals. Alongside a number of other bugfixes and tweaks, see below for details:

New Features

• A new character, Zi Liang has been added. He can be met in Xidian Outpost, Liang Tiao Village, The Falling Star Observatory, or the Jiao Rest Stop.
• Year end festivals have been added, available in Liang Tiao Village and Shen Henda City.
• A new artefact has been added to Body Forging and Meridian Opening.

Changes

• Hufu Shan now stocks Qi Condensation variants of the Flow, Metal Shard, Cloud, and Fragrant Blossom talismans.
• Shops and merchants now always show their full stocks from every realm up to the current.
• Perfect Crafts now count for 2 Basic Crafts for the purpose of unlocking Instant Crafting.
• Max Barrier now displays in combat statistics dialog.
• Aei Ma now weakens the beasts she faces alongside you more.
• Seek Danger with Aei Ma will now have you face Alpha+ variants of beasts.
• The Month End dialog now shows in the mine.
• The stacks of a buff now display in the buff tooltip.
• Added location keybindings. 'T' leaves a locations, and 'Enter/Spacebar' will select the current location.
• Crafting actions now have keybindings, displayed in the top left of the action. Only 0-9 are mapped, so the final 2 actions have no keybindings.
• Condensation Arts now have different lifespan and charisma values.
• The location screen now displays any events or quests available at that location in the bottom right, avoiding the need to navigate to the map to do them.
• The Mountainview Pass is now available from the start of the game, with a dialog prompting you to return to it later.

Balance Changes

• Aei Ma team up buff is now stronger.
• Max barrier is now higher, and scales harder with Dantian.
• Clothing that grant max barrier have been buffed.
• Added 2 new enchantments that buff max barrier.
• Repurpose Armour has been buffed. It now no longer has a max usages of 10 times. It also now gives 5 shards.
• Crushing Downpour no longer removes at the end of the round, halving its stacks instead. Its power reduction per stack has been reduced as a result.
• Storm Blade has been buffed.

Bug Fixes

• Mystical Region should no longer have the market ambience.
• Shadow Sickness tooltip now accurately reflects its actual health loss.
• Fix unknown abilities (such as incomplete stances) appearing in the combat statistics dialog.
• Enter no longer reopens combat statistics or options dialogs after having clicked it once.
• Removed the ability to tab through nodes in the mine / world map.