Ascend From Nine Mountains
Steam News 22 March 20262mo ago

[0.6.46] Jiaohua Romance

This version introduces the first of the Patreon voted content, Jiaohua Lin romance. Also included is the first of the long awaited discord voted content, a crafting flame. Changes You can now romance Jiaohua Lin Added…

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Full Ascend From Nine Mountains update

The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.

Extracted changes

16 fixes6 additions5 changes3 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Balance
  • Fixes
  • UI and audio
  • Store
  • Performance
addedChangesAdded a new shard trader character to the Shen Tian Court.
addedChangesAdded a new quest to unlock a new crafting flame.
addedChangesExpanded Pi Lip's crafting requests to include a wide variety of new equipment.
addedChangesAdded a 'Pause Auto-Battle at Low Health' toggle to Game Settings, which stops combat if the player's health drops to 25% or below.
changedChangesChanged sparring against characters to function as a training mode; health, Qi Droplets, and injury status are now restored after the fight, and any consumed pills are returned to the inventory.
changedChangesUpdated character images for Pi Lip, Jiaohua Lin, Lingxi Gian, Aei Ma, and Forewoman Kuang.
Increased Sunlight stacks granted by the Ascended Puppet (Celestial) technique3 to 5Increased Sunlight stacks granted by the Ascended Puppet (Chromatic) technique1 to 2

This version introduces the first of the Patreon voted content, Jiaohua Lin romance. Also included is the first of the long awaited discord voted content, a crafting flame.

Changes

  • You can now romance Jiaohua Lin

  • Added a new shard trader character to the Shen Tian Court.

  • Added a new quest to unlock a new crafting flame.

  • Expanded social reactivity and dialogue across various characters and events.

  • Expanded Pi Lip's crafting requests to include a wide variety of new equipment.

  • Added a 'Pause Auto-Battle at Low Health' toggle to Game Settings, which stops combat if the player's health drops to 25% or below.

  • Changed sparring against characters to function as a training mode; health, Qi Droplets, and injury status are now restored after the fight, and any consumed pills are returned to the inventory.

  • Updated character images for Pi Lip, Jiaohua Lin, Lingxi Gian, Aei Ma, and Forewoman Kuang.

  • Winning 3 tournaments over your realm now enables you to access higher realm shops, auction, and herb garden.

  • The Fallen Soulflame is now upgradeable.

  • Removed Burst Talismans, Dart Talismans, and their associated recipes.

  • Added forced loading to pull mods that steam didn't fully download.

Balance Changes

  • Increased Sunlight stacks granted by the Ascended Puppet (Celestial) technique from 3 to 5.

  • Increased Sunlight stacks granted by the Ascended Puppet (Chromatic) technique from 1 to 2.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed extensive localization and translation errors.

  • Disabled the ability to start combat quests whilst being injured.

  • Fixed the Seed Toxic Rose Rank 4 Mastery to correctly increase 'Toxic Blossom' stacks.

  • Corrected the stance order for the Thousand Darts manual 'Recycled Strikes' opener.

  • Fixed the Hungry Ghoul Realmbreaker to correctly function as a Realmbreaker enemy.

  • Fixed UI overflows on the Breakthrough screen and crafting menus in non-English localizations.

  • Fixed an issue where items with quality stars (2★, 4★) were not recognized or removed when gifting.

  • Corrected the 'Required for active quest' indicator overlap in the furnace menu.

  • Fixed 'Controlled Forging' to show exact percentages (e.g., 0.5%) instead of rounding down.

  • Updated the 'Venomous Extraction' tooltip to display mastery-modified Qi restoration instead of a static value.

  • Fixed a crash during Charisma calculation caused by undefined enchantments.

  • Added a save migration fix to ensure social stats like Charisma and Battle Sense are correctly initialized on older saves.

  • Fixed potential crashes when calculating bonuses from Qi Condensation art enchantments.

  • Fixed a bug where mod titles and descriptions failed to display.

  • Removed duplicate 'Starpower Talisman (II)' entries and fixed the Falling Star Observatory recipe to correctly include the Sublime variant.

  • Fixed Pillar Schemas to be in the Pillar Creation auction pool.

  • Fixed the Starpower Talisman recipe at the Falling Star Observatory to correctly include the sublime variant.

  • Removed an extra '0' displayed in the Star Observers guild shop.

  • Fixed recipe titles in the detail view to correctly use translated display names.

  • Fixed a display bug on the Auction Screen where character names for successful bidders were not being retrieved correctly.

Source

Steam News / 22 March 2026

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