I've been feeling similar lately, especially with Armok trying to burst through my frontal lobe. Antihistamines and Tylenol and Advil help.
So, uh, my Sect Leader is a Yaochin Golden Core 5 with 19 days left before tribulation, only got 18,000 Qi after breaking through. I didn't realize that you needed to stash Qi items in the area where you plan to breakthrough to Golden Core, or get a -5. Any chance of surviving the transformation tribulation at that level? She is in the Heaven Stealing, so dunno if she will be getting any boosts on the breakthroughs. I'm trying to push to Primordial Spirit and hope that will boost her to a more survivable level.
On the game completion, am I correct that 12 sects means you have to dominate all the other sects? Would an alliance due to being bestest buddies be ok?
1) Stack Max Qi, Qi Regen, and Qi Barrier stuff/skills.
2) You could pop a Qi Regen Pill and a Spirit Stone or Crystal to raise survival chances.
3) Since you got a GC, you can go back to Taiyi sect and grab the special orb from there. Send anyone else there if you can't send your GC. The special orb can be opened with your GC. One of those items can be equipped to boost Qi Barrier.
4) You can supercharge Qi Regen by using the GC breakthrough rooms that you didn't set-up for your Sect Leader. Just remember to turn off firefighting and building on your outers, unless you are fine with random losses. You may have to manually tell em to screw off if they wander into the vicinity regardless.
5) There probably is a whole thing somewhere about artifacts attacking Tribulations, so buffing artifact Qi stuff and power probably doesn't hurt if you got everything else down.
I play an easiest settings and I don't use 2, 3 and 4. I just only today learned what spirit stones can do. I assume you will need those if you are any higher.