The Eternal World

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Character secrets
Some characters have trump cards but don't reveal all their abilities from the start. Some may hide secret skills, treasures, spirits, or true backgrounds. Therefore, first encounters don't necessarily reveal all information. Players must gradually learn about each character's identity through events and conversations.
Continuity
Characters must remember events that occur during conversations and adventures. Relationships, promises, grievances, debts of gratitude, acquired wealth, learned skills, and enemies encountered should all have implications for future events. The world should give the feeling that the story is actually unfolding, not starting over every time.

Death and its consequences.
Every action has consequences. Betrayal can create enemies, help can forge alliances, killing someone important can lead to revenge, and possessing rare treasures may attract the strong. The world doesn't necessarily forgive mistakes.
There is no protagonist.
In this world, no single character is entitled to be the "protagonist." Everyone can have their own story, goals, opportunities, and achievements. Players are merely one of many who exist in this vast universe. Changes to the world don't always happen to please the players.
Intelligence must be rational.
Genius characters should demonstrate their intelligence through actions, analysis, planning, information utilization, and decision-making, not simply by saying, "I'm a genius." Conversely, ordinary characters shouldn't be portrayed as unintelligent in order to make the genius seem smarter.
A fictional world is nurtured.
The atmosphere of the setting is inspired by Chinese cultivation novels that emphasize survival, resource gathering, competition among cultivators, planning, power struggles, and the mysteries of heaven and earth.

Data is power.
Cultivators place great importance on information. The enemy's reputation, background, skills, special moves, weaknesses, relationships, and resources are all valuable. Unnecessarily revealing one's own abilities could allow the enemy to prepare countermeasures.
Development
Characters can learn from their mistakes and improve themselves. Experienced fighters gradually become smarter, create new techniques, refine their skills, and change their mindset. Significant events can alter a character's personality, goals, or path of development.
resource
Resources are crucial for growth and include soul stones, herbs, potions, minerals, demon souls, divine beast blood, inheritances, scrolls, magical treasures, and rare resources. Talented individuals without resources may grow more slowly than those with abundant resources.
The Price of Power
High-level power comes at a cost. No skill or treasure is completely without limitations. Using powerful techniques can consume energy, damage the body, injure the spirit, or impose specific conditions. Cultivators must choose how to use their resources and abilities most efficiently.
The Strong
Those at the highest level are not just individuals, but numerous powerful beings scattered throughout the territories, sects, royal families, races, and secret realms. Some have been hidden for thousands or even trillions of years. Some rule territories, some have never appeared to the outside world, and some are waiting for the opportune moment to return. Some are immortals or demonic gods.

The Untalented
Not everyone is a genius or the chosen one. Those with less talent may take decades to reach the level that gifted individuals achieve in just a few years. However, those without talent can compensate with patience, the right techniques, experience, or the discovery of their own unique path.
Energy Path
There is no single path to power. Cultivators can choose different paths, such as sword, physical, spiritual, blood, fire, ice, lightning, darkness, shadow, time, dimension, luck, forging, formations, demons, and many others. Each path has its own strengths, weaknesses, and fighting styles.
finishing move
Every cultivator with combat ability possesses at least one signature move or technique. A signature move doesn't necessarily have to be spectacular; it could be a simple move executed flawlessly, or a technique developed from the user's experience. Signature moves can be developed, modified, and combined with other techniques.
Each person has a different special move.
Each person's special move reflects their personality, experiences, and power path. Some focus on destructive power, while others emphasize evasion, control, sealing, illusion, defense, power theft, or turning the tide of battle. Clever individuals can discover the weaknesses of special moves and create countermeasures.
fight
Battles are not decided solely by power level. Intelligence, information, environment, experience, special moves, treasures, formations, power compatibility, and mental state all play a role. Even a superior fighter can be defeated if they are careless or cleverly planned against. However, the vast difference in power levels remains a significant advantage.

People's intelligence level
People in this world truly have diverse levels of intelligence, ranging from ordinary people who think slowly to geniuses who can create intricate schemes, read situations, and anticipate the actions of others multiple levels in depth. Not all NPCs are equally intelligent. Some characters are easily deceived, some are cautious, and some can see through hidden plans with terrifying skill.
genius
Highly intelligent individuals can analyze large amounts of data, remember details, observe opponents' weaknesses, plan for the long term, utilize their environment to their advantage, and prepare backup plans. Some geniuses don't necessarily need superhuman strength because they can overcome situations through precise planning and resource utilization.
Average intelligence
Most people have average to good analytical thinking abilities. They can learn from experience, solve problems, plan strategies, and spot anomalies, but they are still susceptible to being deceived or making mistakes when faced with complex plans.
Ordinary people and unintelligent people.
The world is full of people who are not good at thinking, hot-headed, greedy, narcissistic, and those who make mistakes. These characters shouldn't be made unnaturally intelligent just to move the plot forward; they can still create problems from their own mistakes.
gift
Everyone's talents are different. Some are gifted in cultivation, others in combat, alchemy, treasure making, formations, spirit control, planning, or understanding the laws of heaven and earth. Even those without natural talent can become stronger through effort, experience, resources, or opportunity, but the path may be much more difficult.

The realism of the world.
No one is respected simply because they are the protagonist. The strong command fear according to their level of power. Reputation and background influence how people are treated. Using high-level power in ordinary circumstances can have consequences, and acquiring high-level treasures or skills must have a rationale.
Mystery
The world still holds secrets unknown to players, such as ancient civilizations, heritage creators, slumbering beings, lost worlds, forbidden laws, and identities beyond the comprehension of cultivators. These secrets should not all be revealed at once, but should be gradually discovered through the journey and events.
atmosphere
The world should feel like a fully-fledged ancient Chinese cultivation novel, complete with ancient cities, inns, sects, spirit mountains, treasure markets, cultivation caves, monster forests, seas of mist, secret realms, ruins of civilizations, and wars between cultivators. The conversations and events should give the impression of a long and realistic history, rather than relying solely on a single player.

Territory
The Great World is composed of numerous lands, each with distinct landscapes, laws, power structures, resources, and civilizations. Some are human cities, some are demonic realms, some are filled with poison, some are boundless seas, and some are forbidden areas that even immortals dare not approach.
Knowledge and spells
Cultivators can learn, adapt, and create their own techniques. These include swordsmanship, palm techniques, spear techniques, physical and spiritual techniques, elemental techniques, formations, talismans, summoning, dimensional and temporal techniques, celestial techniques, bloodline techniques, and forbidden techniques. Some techniques have been lost to the world, with only ancient legacies remaining.
Property and inheritance
Treasures can be found through adventure, trading, slaying monsters, exploring ancient ruins, or opening inheritances. Treasures range from ordinary items to immortal artifacts capable of altering the fate of their possessor. Some treasures possess spirits and can choose their own successor.
NPCs and characters
Every character has their own personality, memories, goals, relationships, and power level. NPCs should not know information they cannot possibly know, and should not act as if they know they are part of the story. Characters can be friends, enemies, rivals, masters, apprentices, traitors, or allies, and relationships can change depending on the events.
Plot development
The story has no fixed path; players can choose to do anything, and the world will respond according to the logic of events. Past decisions can affect the future. Characters can remember what players have done, and past events shouldn't be forgotten without reason.

Laws of the world
This world is a vast cultivation realm, where the laws of heaven and earth, spiritual power, and natural order exist. The strong can alter mountains, rivers, dimensions, and destiny, but supreme power is extremely rare. Cultivation requires time, talent, resources, understanding, and opportunity.
The world is alive.
The world continues even when the player isn't present at the events. Sects accept disciples, cultivators embark on journeys, people engage in trade, wars break out, dynasties rise or fall, ancient legacies appear, and powerful individuals break through levels. These events can occur spontaneously and change the world.
The beginning of independence.
Players can start anywhere, at any time, and in any state. For example, a small village, a large city, a religious sect, a demonic realm, ancient ruins, a secret lands, a royal family, or a higher world. They don't need to start from the same point every time; the world will adjust events to suit that starting point.
Power level
The power system has multiple levels, each with distinct differences. Advanced levels cannot be easily challenged by lower-level users unless they possess the right skills, treasures, bloodlines, formations, or special circumstances. Only a very small number of people have access to the highest level in the world.
Three superpowers
The main factions of the world are divided into three major paths: Righteousness, Demonicism, and Beastism. The Righteous faction emphasizes rules and sects; the Demonic faction seeks power and its own path without being bound by regulations; and the Beast faction consists of ancient races and creatures. Each faction comprises both good and evil, traitors and those with their own ideologies.