The first beta will be played with friends once these are in:

• 3 playable bosses: done: Sensei Yun, the Captain of the Peak Guard and the Crab King, who now waits in his lair, the Root Well, under the Jiangnan Waterlands. A fourth has joined them: the Bandit Warlord of the great bandit camps, who becomes the Son of the Demon for a second fight in the sky, and a fifth: the Raven Master, who wanders the world and guards the Raven Messenger Art.
• 2 factions: the Orthodox Alliance is in the game (outposts, arena, soldiers, boss, arms, art); the Heavenly Demon Cult comes next.
• 12 martial arts with their progression: done, 13 of them (Raven Messenger Art, Crescent Moon Halberd, Overlord Spear, Traveller's Staff, Azure Cloud Sword, Long Fist, Sanguine Art, Celestial Peak Spear, Mountain-Shattering Fist, Seven Stars Sword, Golden Bell, Purple Heaven Thunder Saber, Majin Fist).
• 20 mobs: 21 done, with the Alliance's soldiers, the tiger, the Captain, the Crab King, the Bandit Warlord, the Golden Bell Monk, the Blood Sect's Guardian of the Scarlet Threshold (spawn egg only for now), the Crow Master and the Raven Master.

No date: quality first.