Qi & Breakthrough Calculator · Cultivation

Target

Realm to reach

Hours played / day

Qi per hour: 6,534meditation 6,534 · cores 0
Total Qi to Nascent Soul: 445,439banked across every rung
Time to Nascent Soul: 68.3 hincluding 13 min of rituals
At 3 h/day: 22.8 daysreal-world days of play

The Qi Curve

From Config.json. These four values decide the entire cost of the climb.

Base-Qi-Requirement

Realm-Base-Multiplier

Substage-Growth-Rate

Realm-Breakthrough-Multiplier

Qi cost reduction %tier-8 nodes, capped at 40

Gathering Rate

Meditation draws Spirit-Vein-Drain-Per-Second from the vein, scaled by your talisman and the weather. Uptime is the honest lever: nobody meditates 100% of the time, because veins run dry and you have to move.

Drain / second

Meditation uptime %

Talisman multiplier

Weather multiplier1.15 ambient, 1.5 matched

Qi Gain Bonuses

These scale everything you bank, cores included.

Race Qi gain %Human +10, Demon −10, Deity +5

Skill tree Qi gain %Insight branch

Sect hall bonus %5 rich, 8 dragon

Yin-Yang balance %up to 10 when centered

Combined×1.1

Cultivation Cores

Cores roll rarest-first and at most one drops per kill, so the expected value per kill is a chain of conditional rolls rather than a plain sum.

Kills / hour

Spirit chance

Spirit Qi

Profound chance

Profound Qi

Divine chance

Divine Qi

Meditation bonus

Absorb while meditating

Expected per kill8.78 Qi

Ritual Time

Small next to the gathering, but real, and it scales hard with realm. Ritual speed nodes multiply the duration by 1 − speed%.

Advancement seconds

Advancement × / realm

Breakthrough seconds

Breakthrough × / realm

Ritual speed %

Every Rung

Rank-up	Qi required	Time	Cumulative Qi	Cumulative time
Body Refinement, Early → Body Refinement, Middle	175	2 min	175	2 min
Body Refinement, Middle → Body Refinement, Late	271	2 min	446	4 min
Body Refinement, Late → Body Refinement, Peak	420	4 min	867	8 min
Body Refinement, Peak → Qi Condensation, Early breakthrough	3,584	33 min	4,451	41 min
Qi Condensation, Early → Qi Condensation, Middle	744	7 min	5,195	48 min
Qi Condensation, Middle → Qi Condensation, Late	1,153	11 min	6,347	58 min
Qi Condensation, Late → Qi Condensation, Peak	1,787	16 min	8,134	1.2 h
Qi Condensation, Peak → Foundation Establishment, Early breakthrough	15,233	2.3 h	23,367	3.6 h
Foundation Establishment, Early → Foundation Establishment, Middle	3,161	29 min	26,528	4.1 h
Foundation Establishment, Middle → Foundation Establishment, Late	4,899	45 min	31,428	4.8 h
Foundation Establishment, Late → Foundation Establishment, Peak	7,594	1.2 h	39,022	6 h
Foundation Establishment, Peak → Golden Core Formation, Early breakthrough	64,740	9.9 h	103,762	15.9 h
Golden Core Formation, Early → Golden Core Formation, Middle	13,434	2.1 h	117,196	17.9 h
Golden Core Formation, Middle → Golden Core Formation, Late	20,823	3.2 h	138,019	21.1 h
Golden Core Formation, Late → Golden Core Formation, Peak	32,275	4.9 h	170,294	26.1 h
Golden Core Formation, Peak → Nascent Soul, Early breakthrough	275,146	42.1 h	445,439	68.2 h
Nascent Soul, Early → Nascent Soul, Middle	57,094	8.7 h	502,534	76.9 h
Nascent Soul, Middle → Nascent Soul, Late	88,496	13.5 h	591,030	90.5 h
Nascent Soul, Late → Nascent Soul, Peak	137,169	21 h	728,200	111 h
Nascent Soul, Peak → Soul Formation, Early breakthrough	1.17M	179 h	1.90M	290 h
Soul Formation, Early → Soul Formation, Middle	242,651	37.1 h	2.14M	328 h
Soul Formation, Middle → Soul Formation, Late	376,110	57.6 h	2.52M	385 h
Soul Formation, Late → Soul Formation, Peak	582,970	89.2 h	3.10M	474 h
Soul Formation, Peak → Void Refinement, Early breakthrough	4.97M	761 h	8.07M	1,235 h
Void Refinement, Early → Void Refinement, Middle	1.03M	158 h	9.10M	1,393 h
Void Refinement, Middle → Void Refinement, Late	1.60M	245 h	10.70M	1,637 h
Void Refinement, Late → Void Refinement, Peak	2.48M	379 h	13.18M	2,017 h

How This Is Calculated

The curve is the mod's own formula, not an approximation of it:

required = Base-Qi-Requirement
         × Realm-Base-Multiplier  ^ realmIndex
         × Substage-Growth-Rate   ^ stageIndex
         × Realm-Breakthrough-Multiplier   (Peak stage only)
         × (1 − Qi cost reduction)

Because the realm multiplier is an exponent, each realm costs several times the last. That is why Void Refinement is a server event and not a weekend.

What this cannot know

Uptime is an estimate, and it is the number that moves the answer most. The model assumes you can sustain your chosen uptime indefinitely, but a real vein depletes: meditation drains 2.75/second against 1.5/second of regeneration, so a single chunk cannot feed you forever no matter how long you sit.

Formations, Cave Abodes, Gatherer beasts, Qi Gathering Pills and Spirit Springs all add Qi this model does not include. Treat the result as a floor on speed, not a promise.

Planning a server's pacingSet uptime to what your players realistically do, pick your target realm, and read the "days" tile. If it is wildly off from the arc you want, Realm-Base-Multiplier is the strongest single lever. See Tuning Presets.