Xianxia: How do you properly write a breakthrough?

[MakBow]

Can you all tell me exactly how a breakthrough is written. Is there like some sort of mental thing or is just like that?
Like in major and minor realms

Need this information for the future.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Can you all tell me exactly how a breakthrough is written. Is there like some sort of mental thing or is just like that?

Need this information for the future.

Your question is vague at best.

If you mean a cultivation level breakthrough (from Qi Condensation one to QC two or from QC MAX to next level Foundation Building), it is both a mental thing and a physical thing.

Think of it like you are lifting a weight heavier than what you would usually do.

If you don't lift weights, you can also visualise doing a tough task like you usually wouldn't. Using me as an example, talk to a woman and hopefully woe her.

The task will be arduous, filled with obstacles seen and unseen and you have very little reaction time to correctly deal with them. And this is the physical aspect.

The mental aspect is to maintain a cool and collected mind and keeping your concentration up as long as possible, which is hopefully for the task to succeed.

In cultivation terms, a breakthrough is when the body has evolved (able to lift greater weights in future) and the possible obstacles can be the physical qi going too fast, too slow or even the wrong direction. The mental aspect would be testing the person to not panic and keep his head in the game.

 

[IWILLDEFYTHEHEAVENS]

Just tell gpt to write several scenes for you and pick the most meaningful one.
You can gradually learn from that

 

[Shamiko]

Tbh I feel like adding details of all the times the mc failed and the feeling of awe that mc is feeling for finally getting to that point could do smth imo

 

[LeilaniOtter]

You really need to provide us details of the "breakthrough", as this is too vague.
There are certain ways to approach certain types. ?

 

[MakBow]

You really need to provide us details of the "breakthrough", as this is too vague.
There are certain ways to approach certain types. ?

That's the thing. it's vague to me too. I'm not experienced in this genre so I can't really be specific here. But if I had to try, I would say the major realms, although I don't know if that's also too vague.

 

[LeilaniOtter]

That's the thing. it's vague to me too. I'm not experienced in this genre so I can't really be specific here. But if I had to try, I would say the major realms, although I don't know if that's also too vague.

Maybe you should explain the situation in detail, if possible Perhaps if you talk it out with us, you'll figure it out?

 

[CheertheSecond]

I do write breakthrough but I am writing wuxia so my cultivation is a solid hard magic system where everything has a reason to exist. I have no idea what xianxia breakthrough is like.

 

[autumnsugar]

Can you all tell me exactly how a breakthrough is written. Is there like some sort of mental thing or is just like that?
Like in major and minor realms

Need this information for the future.

Depends on context tbh, like did the character breakthrough while meditating or during a fight? Either way of it's a major breakthrough characters usually get struck by lightning, the higher the realm the more times the get struck. So you write them enduring the pain of that, if you want to add some extra tension you could make them almost fail and then dramatically emerge from the smoke or something like that.