Getting started----

If your still confused on how to get started or progress
To begin cultivation, eat either a spirit stone or golden pill.
After becoming a cultivator a tab named Dao will show up when selected. This is where you order cultivation jobs and see general info about the cultivator. All cultivation jobs duration is effected by cultivation speed. All cultivation jobs and breakthroughs can be done instantly through various pills. This excludes golden core breakthroughs.
Cultivation starts with Body Realms, using Exercise to progress and breakthroughs to advance to the next realm. Every breakthrough excluding Golden Core has a chance to succeed which is determined by breakthrough chance as seen in the dao tab. During body realms: gather qi does not effect cultivation speed nor breakthrough chance.
After body realms are Essence realms, which uses Qi Refining to progress and breakthroughs to advance to the next realm. The third Essence realm is Golden Core, which has a special breakthrough leading to it called Golden Core breakthrough. This breakthrough converts the qi used in it to your new golden core score, ending when there isn't enough qi to continue. Golden core scores are permanent and are considered one of the if not THE most important stat for a cultivator. They also cannot fail, leading to a fairly weak cultivator if done improperly.
Late into Essence realms a cultivator will achieve some form of immortality. Progress at this point will be more focused on (training techniques if/once technique rework is done)and anima conversion.