Handy tips and information:
Pick up every herb and vegetable you can find, it is tedious but from the end of the formation realm to the start of the virtuoso realm you will need to make your own XP bolus's

Almost every buildable you can put down has an anima rating, which influences your effectiveness in the cauldron and when breaking through realms, make sure your cauldron is in an area where it is either Endless or ancient or your pills won't come out well.
Luck value is hugely important as well

The gourd is one of the most useful items in the game,after you make your pickaxe and get given the minotaur and rhino forms, once those are depleted you use the gourd to get essences from mobs to do that you must damage the mob to 15-20% of their hp (Not 100% confirmed on this just rough guess based on my experience), then pull out the gourd and keep using it until you capture its essence, you need 5 of these to make a form.

Along side having your main melee weapon also have a bow, as of right now every open world miniboss is easily killed with the bow as long as you keep running them in a circle, especially helpful for ones that inflict poison/DoT.

Mellenia wood can be found in the Rifts from killing the bosses at the end

Every few hours your base will get invaded by monsters, they are incredibly weak but the ones with the hats on can drop items you will need

When using a melee weapon to attack, hold left click and after that hold right click, this will make it so if you take any damage you will automatically block

Your character doesn't die if you fail a tribulation, as for what happens I am not sure as of yet I will update it in an hour or two when I attempt

There is 1 gold location in the east of the desert near a cliff, this is the only one I have found.

If you use an Xp bolus your sectmates can also leech xp off of it by pressing F on you when you're in the animation, so save up lots of pills and allow everyone to benefit if you have friends (I do not)

The flower needed to make the 2nd tribulation pill is in the lake in the east side of the desert

You can automatically do the monster invasions by putting siege barricades/spikes infront of the bridge next to the 4 blue floating texts, they'll only come from the stone circles just past them, you will have to repair/replace them eventually tho

Your pickaxe and hatchet are secondary gathering tools, the main will be your forms.

You can find scale dragonhides in the top left of the desert (needed to make the 3rd tier of weapons)

Make food out of your apples, they are so much better than just eating the apples

And probably the most important, the silkworms aren't the main ingredient in XP bolus, they are used to make the success rate to 100%, once your anima density is at max, I personally use the fire breathing form (weird name one) to follow this recipe, i'm still tweaking it right now, but I want one that doesn't use iron as it's too expensive

Going with this recipe as it's looks to have potential from the guy in the comments so big thanks 我有只狗，名叫前女友 (or in english translation, I have dog named ex-girlfriend) I'll verify it later on
Yellow grade xp pill - 300 wood, 100 iron ingots, 5 silkworms with a minimum of 700 luck value

Max grade xp pill - 1 yellow grade xp pill 351 Gold Ingots and 7 silk worms

Sorry if this is long, I wanted to make an English guide as I can't speak Chinese, but if you guys have any tips/see I have made errors please tell me in the comments so I can update

The Spiritual root is divided into 5 talents, gold, wood, water, fire and earth

Gold: Gives stamina per level up
Wood: More hp per level up
Water: More MP per level up
Fire: More fire damage per level up
Earth: More armour per level up

You can reset these with a pill made inside the pill furnace using a jade oak and a star blue, this will kill your player and drop your items so make sure no one's around when you do it.