Sit down on a quiet mountain, breathe, and climb fifteen realms of cultivation, from nameless Mortal to Dao Ancestor. Nine Heavens Ascent is a calm, mystical pixel-art idle game: tap to draw in Qi, let your cultivation sources gather it while you are away, and break through when you are ready. At the end of every realm the heavens test you with lightning.
Season 3, The Three Treasures, grows Qi, body and soul side by side: Soul Cultivation, Immortal Arts refined with Immortal Jade, graded pills with FILL 24H and an auto-furnace, the SCENERY picker, Samsara TURN ALL and auto-turn, and Hall of Ascension Season 3. At the top waits your Dao Domain, a quiet place to fish, farm and cook over any scenery you choose.
Free, with no ads and no in-app purchases. Made by one solo developer.
How to play
Your goal is to climb from Mortal to Dao Ancestor, then keep going: the Three Thousand Daos and your own universe wait beyond. Progress saves automatically and keeps growing while you are away.
- Tap the sanctuary to breathe Qi
- Spend Qi on eight cultivation sources, from Breathing Technique to Heavenly Dao Insight
- Press BREAKTHROUGH when the bar is full; each stage multiplies all Qi
- At the end of a realm, tap the falling lightning to deflect it and pass the tribulation
- Hunt beasts on the Body tab for Spirit Stones and Beast Blood, and temper your body
- When a life runs long, reincarnate for Dao Insight and awaken the Dao Tree
Season 3: The Three Treasures
Qi, body and soul now grow side by side, and the furnace, the arts and the wheel all learned new tricks.
- Soul Cultivation: nine soul realms of three layers each, under Arts > SOUL. The soul reincarnates with you
- Immortal Arts: eight arts refined with Immortal Jade from True Immortal on
- Graded pills: Mortal, Earth, Heaven, Immortal and Dao grades, brewed x1, x10 or FILL 24H, with an auto-furnace
- SCENERY, in the MENU: rest your sanctuary in any realm you have reached, or in your own universe
- Samsara: TURN ALL, and auto-turn on every rebirth
- Hall of Ascension Season 3: the fastest journeys from first breath to Dao Ancestor IX
The Dao Domain
From your first True Immortal, a place of your own opens above the scenery you choose. There is nothing to fail here: a missed bite just lets the fish swim away, and herbs never wither.
- Spirit Pond: cast, wait for the bite, reel gently. 24 fish in mortal, spirit, immortal and cosmic waters
- Herb Field: up to nine plots of spirit herbs that ripen in real time
- Kitchen: twelve dishes that boost your cultivation for a while
- Codex: every finished page doubles all Qi, forever
Beyond Dao Ancestor
Comprehend the Three Thousand Great Daos, 30 Daos of 100 laws each, then forge your own universe through nine epochs of Genesis, gather Faith and issue Divine Decrees.
Controls
- Touch / mouse
- Tap the sanctuary to breathe; tap bolts to deflect them; hold on the pond to reel
- Keyboard
- Space breathe, B breakthrough, Q and E switch tabs, Esc menu
- Gamepad
- A or X breathe, Y breakthrough, LB and RB switch tabs, Start menu
Features
- Fifteen realms from Mortal to Dao Ancestor
- Lightning tribulations you deflect by hand
- Eight spirit beasts and nine body realms to Body Ascension
- Nine soul realms to Soul Ascension
- Immortal Arts and Immortal Jade
- Five pill grades, FILL 24H and an auto-furnace
- Dao Tree, Heavenly Dao and the Samsara wheel
- The Three Thousand Great Daos
- Genesis: forge your own universe
- Dao Domain: fishing, farming, cooking and a Codex
- Choose your scenery
- Hall of Ascension Season 3
- Offline progress
- Portrait play, two columns on wide screens
- Save codes to move your progress
- Free, no ads, no in-app purchases
Support
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Made by one solo developer with Godot 4 on vbgnt.
Art, music and code were produced with generative tools and hand-tuned.