Weird Energy

Biodata

Properties

• Source: An Evil’s heart is the source of its Weird Energy. Xu Kai could survive severe injuries while his heart remained intact 36.
• Appearance: Weird Energy can take visible forms, including Xu Kai’s bright red energy and Stone Statue Weird’s ink-black energy 8 19.
• Pain: For an Evil, forcing energy outside the body causes intense pain that persists while it remains outside. Xu Kai’s experience of repeated deaths gave him an unusually high tolerance for it 7 8 28.
• Quality and quantity: Both vary between users. Greater quality can allow a smaller amount to suppress a larger amount of weaker energy 7 50.
• Environmental concentration: After becoming a Weird, Xu Kai could not enter the real world because its Weird Energy concentration was too low 50.

Uses

Physical manipulation

Once forced outside the body, Weird Energy can be controlled and shaped by its user. The master of ceremonies described external energy as much stronger than energy kept inside the body 7.

• Weapons and restraints: Xu Kai formed blades and ropes; the master of ceremonies coated a metal blade to make it more dangerous 7.
• Movement: Xu Kai made grappling claws to climb a mountainside and anchored himself in cliff cracks with strands of energy 16 17.
• Remote manipulation: Stone Statue Weird used wisps of energy to hold a crematorium door ajar 10.
• Communication and sensing: Xu Kai disguised his energy as liquid in a toothpick container to exchange messages with Leng Chong. He could also sense events affecting his projected energy 28 34 45.

Survival and defense

• Weird Energy kept Xu Kai alive after severe wounds, pulled damaged tissue together and helped stop bleeding. In one encounter, it stitched his body back together after he was cut in half 5 36 48.
• It can protect vital areas, though protection is not absolute: fragments still pierced Xu Kai’s limbs during an elevator attack 36.
• Xu Kai used his energy to resist the force controlling a hearse and to break Wang Hua’s immobilizing hold 4 5.

Illusions and attacks

• Stone Statue Weird used Weird Energy to create illusions, including effects at the road bend that obscured drivers’ vision and sent vehicles toward a cliff 4 7 18.
• His energy could also bind victims, petrify them and crush them under pressure 6 19 23.
• Xu Kai used energy to torture Zhang Dekai by crushing his pain nerves, fulfilling a fragment-integration condition 13.

Consumption and recovery

At first, Xu Kai found that projecting and shaping Weird Energy did not deplete his reserve; damage did. He could therefore continue using it as long as he endured the pain and remained alive 8.

Abilities gained from fragments had explicit costs: Xu Kai’s fire and falling effects each consumed ten points, while his energy recovered at ten points per hour. In a later battle, his remaining energy was needed to hold his wounds shut, leaving him unable to spend it safely 13 36.

Related forms

Xu Kai’s development

At promotion, Xu Kai’s Fire of the Gaze ignited things he stared at for more than one second, while High-Altitude Fall forced elevated objects to fall. Both skills incorporated Weird Energy Strength into their effects 50.

Countermeasures and limitations

• Gui Resistance: JK’s passive talent let him withstand the impact of low-level Weird Energy. Xu Kai later gained improved resistance to other Evils’ energy and illusions 14 24.
• Weapons and objects: Nurse Lin’s saber could cut through Weird Energy, while the Hospital High-Level Access Certificate blocked Xu Kai’s Weird Blade 26 45.
• Ice: Leng Chong enclosed Xu Kai’s projected energy in ice, but could not sever its connection to him 34.
• Promotion risk: Origin Weird Energy arrived in such volume that Xu Kai risked being crushed or bursting if he failed to absorb and control it. The promotion could not be stopped once begun 50.