Survived my first Shapeshifting Tribulation. Xiong Gong, a Bear Yaoguai following the Six Paths Reincarnation Law, trained for over a year before reaching the second breakthrough of the Creed of Asura stage.
Second breakthrough, because for Six Paths, the initial part of each stage massively drops their stats - the start stage for Creed of Asura puts them about as weak as a decent-statted Qi Shaper.
By the time he broke through, he had already high skills, including one that more or less locked his Mental State at 125, no matter how long he cultivated or used Spiritual Breath Chant(mind the Obsessions). The breakthrough put his max qi at 108k.
Left my agency at Mt. South untouched for nearly a year as well, except for sending Xiong Gong to deal with disasters(even weak, a Primordial Spirit is still a Primordial Spirit as far as disaster recovery efforts go), allowing it to accumulate over 2 million belief - which for Xiandao Cultivators converts to skill points. Maxed out his Protection skill, and sent him to the library to study a lot of useful manuals: Reversa Cycle, a few unorthodox manuals, etc. After all that, fed him a Spirit Crystal, Spirit Stone, Qi Regen Pill, used Spiritual Breath Chant to fill up. Then started the tribulation.
Shapeshifter Tribulations are actually five tribulations, one of each element, in this case 5 clouds of 40k qi. It looked to me that most of Xiong's qi was spent recharging his artifact for about 1000 every few seconds. It was doing damage, though. I did stop casting Innate Qi for a while, because I thought it cost too much qi and because I misread the effect for Reversa Cycle. That one is a spell that instantly restores the user's qi, which I had
thought had said cost a little over 3000 qi to restore 17k qi, but I was wrong. I left an extra 0 off that. It restores 170k qi, and has no other cost. It's broken as hell. And with it so was the tribulation. And the now-human Xiong Gong has four ears for some reason, two human, two bear.
About halfway through the tribulation, the Seven-Slaughtering Sect, probably thinking that with our only Primordial Spirit-level cultivator tied up fighting a cloud of literally Heaven pissed off at him that it was an easy score. Except both were only Core Shaping-level. The promptly got punched in the face by our resident physical cultivator, their dying bodies thrown into the Hellgate, and one of them definitely going to feed the Crimson Tree that I probably never should have planted.
Amazing Cultivation Simulator.