Hello, as the title says, I am looking for a cultivation method that would still work outside of a xianxia setting. I want my jumper to progress in their cultivation slowly and steadily across multiple jumps, instead of spending a million years in xianxialand and becoming a ubergod, thereby trivialising the rest of the chain.

This however poses a problem: cultivation requires resources that often don’t exist at all in other jumps. Besides cultivation systems where you need to eat your own weight in pills every minute to progress, many cultivation methods require things like Qi, special kinds of energy, or specific herbs or beast parts that exist only in the original setting to progress or breakthrough to the next realm.

So do you know of any cultivation methods that don’t require any external resources, just plain old hard work and meditation? It doesn’t need to be overpowered, just something that the jumper can practice in their free time and make steady progress.