And throwaway game became more throwaway...
Finally pushed someone to Golden Core! And they died to a Qi Shaper. Damn Resurrection Law and it's negative Qi breakthroughs.
What really killed my Golden Core is that I had them cast Firestorm without enough reserve Qi, so instead of draining the enemy's Qi, their Qi dropped to zero.
Nobody else was in the fight (remember, this play through I've gotten no pets), so a lucky hit by the enemy's artifact pulverized my Golden.
The character that had kept my interest, Liu Bei, also died. This was after having gone Nirvana Pill, and being rerolled from the Reincarnator's default.
One outer is laying in the ground as the only survivor onsite. I expect an artifact hit to kill them off, as the raider is hitting the buildings nearby.
My remaining sect member is one Inner that I was hoping to Golden Core in the Summer (Earth, Heaven Stealing Law). Great stats, horrible Qi sense skill, Yaochin with tribulation in 22 days. Actually had zero Qi sense, I basically made them an inner because their stats were good and I was curious how much Qi sense they would get with the Earthmother +5. Not bad actually due to having such high starting Constitution (10!). I guess Qi Sense total of 20 isn't awful.