🚀 Stage 1 - February 2025

• 🎯 Max Level: Five Dragons 12 (Level 72)
• 📈 Experience Rate: 2x
• 💰 Drop Rate: 2x
• 🗺️ Starting Map:Bamboo
Pick role and clan in bamboo at level 1.
• 🗺️ Grinding Map: Zengzhou (Shared for both clans)
• ⚔️ **PvE-focused**, with PvP zones at **boss locations**.
• 🏯 **Other Grind Maps PK:**
  • 💀 Cave of Conqueror (1st Floor)
  • ⚔️ Bloody Plain

🚀 Stage 2

🚀 Stage 3 – Detailed Overview

• Stats Increase: Base stats are boosted from 250 to 300.
• Even More EXP: Experience gains in Zhengzhou and Jinan are raised further.
• New Level Cap: Flower Crown 12 (Level 120).
• Maps Unlocked: Hangzhou, Nanchang, and the 4th Floor of Cave of Conqueror.
• Nanchang: A full PK map—players can attack each other freely.
  • Torment Ghouls and Necromancers roam here.
  • Torment Ghouls drop Ghoul Heads, plus have an increased chance to drop dungeon passes (WT/SCM).
  • Grinding starts at Level 114 but beware of PKers!

🗡️ New Weapon Tier: FC12 (0/30 Stats)

• Introducing the next weapon tier, starting at 0/30 stats.
• Upgrade paths: GB12 → FC12 (and even older weapons like FD12/GB12 can become 0/30).
• Use a Reset Stats Pill from the Item Mall to reset an older weapon’s stats, making it upgradable.
• A special item can be crafted in-game to add 0/1 hardness to a “dead” weapon (bringing it back into play!).

🔧 Refine Information

• Max Refine Level: +10
• Refine success rates:

• +1 → +6 = 100%
• +7 = 80%
• +8 = 50%
• +9 = 30%
• +10 = 5%

🏯 New & Updated Dungeons

• Silver Coin Mansion & Wild Tower become your go-to spots for leveling and loot.
• “Purple Run” is easier; bosses are around Level 114, and you’ll receive helpful buffs inside.
• Party Quests (PQ) unlock at FC7, yielding special PvE cloth sets, materials, and ornaments from chests.

📜 Quests

• Hangzhou offers multiple quests with valuable item and EXP rewards.
• New Party Quests let you team up and earn even more EXP.
• PQ scrolls can be purchased from the Hefei merchant—right-click and read them in-game to begin!

🎉 Events

• Storm vs. Storm will be activated once at least 20 players reach FC12.
• An Easter Event is planned a few days after Stage 3’s launch—stay tuned!

⚔️ Skills & Bosses

• AoE Skills: All AoEs can be learned starting at EC1, and melee AoEs now hit in all directions (not just front).
  Healers gain a special custom Chi Kung AoE skill.
• Boss Spawns: All bosses appear on a fixed timer via auto-events.
  • General Wei (FC12) drops a new relic, plus BE(s) and plates.
  • Defense Boss (GB10) can now only drop a CK defense trinket (no longer a physical def trinket).
  • Necromancer spawns in Nanchang’s Cane Castle—dangerous PK territory, but great drops like BE(s), materials, and ornaments.

🌟 Stage 4 - Phase 1

🌍 New Map Unlocked: Liaodong

• 🗺️ Map: Modified Liaodong is now available!
• This is a full PK map – play fair: 1 kill per hour, don’t harass grinders!
• Cap level increased to Heavenly Mirror 12 (156)
• Bosses spawn through auto-events and drop valuable items:
  • Blood Essence
  • Elixirs (Level 6)
  • Soul of Ancient Dragon
• ⚔️ General Updates:
• New CS relics added
• New HM12 weapons added
• FC12 weapons can now be upgraded
• Increased EXP on all mobs up to level 130 – leveling is now much easier!
• 🏯 Dungeon:
• Beast Tower Dungeon opened (Nanchang only)
• Zhurong and other mini-bosses drop materials for new weapons and relics
• Chests may also drop Elixirs (Level 6), Soul of Ancient Dragon, and more
• 💥 Skills:
• Scales on Hybrids are now self-buffed