The common settings in cultivation novels included spiritual roots, immortal fate, cultivation techniques, spiritual pets, magic treasures, medicinal pills, immortal caves, factions, sects, immortal realms, demon realms, heavenly tribulation, red spider lilies, and so on. Among them, spiritual roots and immortal fate were often used to indicate the aptitude of cultivators, cultivation methods and pills were important means for cultivators to enhance their own strength, spiritual pets and magical treasures could help cultivators fight, immortal caves and sects were the living and social environments of cultivators, forces and immortal realms and demon realms were the background of the entire cultivation world, heavenly tribulation was the test that cultivators had to face after reaching a certain realm, and the Red Spider Lily was often used to describe the strangeness and danger of the cultivation world.