>>2343651
If you're familiar with wuxia, play on shitter difficulty and don't mind restarting every so often.

>>2343651
Don't resort to guides, the game is way too easy to break using guides. You can have things like infinite resource loops and infinite stat increase loops which once you find you can likely never ignore afterwards.

Making body cultivation and Yaoguai raising so RNG based ruined those parts of the game. Chinese will never excel in vidya, apart from profits, due to their love of gambling.

>>2343651
>Is there any hope for me
No
>if I want to learn and thrive in this game
Yes
>without resorting to outside guides?
No

>>2343651
Sure, just be willing to load often, also don't be afraid to search specific topics online, so long as they aren't specifically telling you what to do