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Why are you obligated to go on a years long trip to a location you don't want to go to when you know there are other places you can go?  Like, there were ways to just go randomly to a single element village that you hadn't finished, but you can't do that for the dual element ones.  Seems weird.

For what it's worth, I know I've been making a lot of critiquing comments, but I am enjoying the game (in case continuing to play and comment on it hasn't made that clear).

EDIT: All the moreso since you can actually stop the trip to the Village.

EDIT 2: It's also a little weird that you can know a road from a city by being told there is a direct one, but not be able to travel along that road unless you've already been to that city.  Why do I have to go back to the village to go from (Earth + Fire) to (Fire+Wood), for example?

Harmonized Qi seems to be what it calls the Qi you start a run with, so it probably raises the starting qi level.

Doing one more escape life should unlock something that seems to help a little, but I think it also needs a bunch more time investment (at least another 10 runs) to start to help.

EDIT: Beating the beast tide also seems to help a lot.

The drop rates are way too low on the boss relics.  I shouldn't be able to beat a boss 50k times and not have picked it up.  I know they're only one time drops, so they should be rarer, but it is kind of ridiculous.