Psychic Energy

Biodata

Properties and Sources

• Living beings: Psychic Energy can be stored within the body. Lou Shisui obtains it by consuming prey or absorbing energy through his evolved Kagune 3 13.
• Environment: Psychic Energy exists in the air, water and secret realms. Spirit Resonance River water contains enough that energy escapes as mist when boiled 13 20 39.
• Awakening Stones: These contain pure, gentle Psychic Energy and are used to bring out talents. Most Human Race awakeners use them 5.
• Spatial energy: Shisui’s evolved Ukaku can absorb violent spatial energy and convert it into Psychic Energy 12.
• Energy fluctuations: Psychic Energy use can leave detectable traces. Authorities have instruments designed to recognize the fluctuations of Awakening Stones 8 10.
• Spirit Race: The Spirit Race originated in the exceptionally pure Psychic Energy of Embracing Moon Peak and consists of beings composed purely of Psychic Energy 61.
• Ore veins: Psychic Energy-containing ore veins draw free energy from the air and fix it in place, increasing the Psychic Energy content of their surroundings 76.
• Spiritual pills and crystals: Spiritual pills store Psychic Energy in medicinal herbs and improve absorption efficiency. Flesh Crystals and Coagulated Blood Crystals can also supply energy 70 111 120.
• Condensed energy: Dense Psychic Energy can form visible spirit mist. Shisui also compresses energy into a liquid-like internal reservoir when preparing to advance 61 259 292.
• Planetary heart: Deep within Ruolan Star is a living, heart-shaped body of solidified azure-gold energy. Its beats release powerful blasts of Psychic Energy 388.

Awakening and Cultivation

Human Race teaching describes birth as a person’s first contact with Psychic Energy and talent awakening as the beginning of learning to use it 4. A large reserve does not necessarily mean a user can control it: before awakening, Shisui possessed energy comparable to the Fifth Realm but lacked a seasoned Fifth Realm awakener’s control techniques 10.

The book Soul, Body, and Psychic Energy proposes that the soul, body and Psychic Energy must advance together to produce an individual’s greatest strength. After strengthening his soul, Shisui recognizes the harmony between his soul and body and accepts this hypothesis 244.

Power Progression

Uses

Combat and Physical Enhancement

Psychic Energy can strengthen the body or be concentrated to enhance a particular movement 9 15.

• Attacks and speed: Concentrating energy in a fist increases striking power; concentrating it in the legs can produce a burst of speed 15.
• Defense: Energy can reinforce the body, though drawing it from other areas to strengthen one point can leave those areas vulnerable 15 16.
• Penetration: Shisui concentrates energy at the point of impact to break Bedrock’s armor and send damaging vibrations through it 19.
• Direct attacks: Psychic Energy can be released as an attack, including a laser cannon 29.
• Large-scale force: A sufficiently powerful release can devastate a wide area. Shisui mixes killing intent with Psychic Energy to shatter creatures around him, while Long-Life Elder releases a violent wave during the attack on his forest 169 334.

Perception and Talents

• Scanning: Users can extend perception by spreading Psychic Energy. Shisui’s initial precise range is a one-kilometer radius or 1.5 kilometers in a straight line; his control, rather than his reserves, limits the range 14.
• Observing energy flow: Shisui’s Kakugan lets him see energy moving through an opponent, helping him learn Malaka’s concentration technique 16.
• Talent use: Ye Luo draws on Psychic Energy to replay and slow a memory, nearly exhausting her reserves. Shisui observes energy gathering in her brain and eyes as she uses her ability 47.
• Talent conversion: Zhou Zhou’s living talent, [Survival in Desperate Situations], draws in, converts and releases his Psychic Energy. Shisui observes it changing gray-black energy into white energy while using equivalent exchange 128.
• Extended perception: By the Heaven Realm Sixth Realm, Shisui can use Feather Powder to roughly sense living creatures’ faint Psychic Energy auras and spatial fluctuations across thousands of kilometers 293.
• Soul attacks: After fusing with the Eye of Madness, Shisui’s Kakugan can affect observed energy and souls. With enough Psychic Energy, it can crush a target’s soul from a distance 309.

Devices and Barriers

• Seeking Spirit: The Yang Family compass detects fluctuations of a fixed wavelength. Originally made to find mineral veins and spiritual treasures, it is also used to track exam admission brooches 27.
• Spatial linking devices: Resetting a device requires an injection of Psychic Energy 32.
• Protective barriers: The Psychic Energy Shisui senses at Qiongfang’s gate comes from the city wall’s protective barrier 40 43.
• Psychic Energy weapons: A weapon powered by Psychic Energy is used during the fighting over the Awakening Stones 7.
• Cannons and chain weapons: Psychic Energy Cannons fire energy-charged projectiles; military models greatly exceed civilian versions in output, range and accuracy. Chain weapons use compressed energy to trigger a violent reaction in surrounding Psychic Energy 108 151 174.
• Suppressors and disguises: Xue Jiuyao’s artificial Spirit Treasure smooths out the wearer’s leaking fluctuations. Shisui later modifies a barrier earring to emit another cultivator’s aura while concealing his own 84 116.
• Psychic Energy-infused metal: Such metal can carry energy through machinery and can also block Psychic Energy. Refined plates protect a secret Human Race research base from Shisui’s probing 108 225.
• Formations: Sea Race Psychic Energy technology relies heavily on innate gifts, formations and totems. Its Water-Gathering Formation can produce a tsunami 172 183.
• Environmental absorption: Shisui incorporates a Sea Race formation into his Composite Radiant Feathers, allowing them to absorb atmospheric Psychic Energy to sustain flight and conceal their movements 249.
• Detection and identification: Residual fluctuations can identify an individual or provide clues about a species or weapon. Stronger fluctuations and postwar cleanup can obscure traces of earlier activity 59 83 269 280.

Interaction with Lou Shisui’s Ghoul Body

Shisui’s mutated body uses Psychic Energy to support the proliferation and evolution of Rc Cells. He experiences it as gentler than Rc Cells, and energy-rich flesh accelerates his transformation into a Kakuja 3 9.

• Hunger and exhaustion: Adapting to his Ghoul body consumes substantial energy. When his reserves are exhausted, feeding replenishes them and eases his hunger 4 8.
• Predator and Metamorphosis: His awakened talent improves energy absorption, conversion and output. Metamorphosis consumes stored Psychic Energy to strengthen him and can produce a cocoon for breaking through a realm 13.
• Kagune absorption: After awakening, his predatory organs can absorb energy directly. Absorption through Bikaku covers a wide area and is fast, but converts energy less efficiently than eating 13 28.
• Consumption limits: More powerful Kagune consume more energy. By the Half-Step Fifth Realm, lower-level awakeners can no longer nourish his evolution 26 30.
• Efficiency: Before awakening, Shisui strengthened himself by burning Psychic Energy. After training in the underground arena, he no longer relies on that wasteful method 9 28.
• Puppets: Shisui directs his puppets to absorb atmospheric Psychic Energy to support Rc Cell proliferation, although their absorption and conversion are less efficient than his own 61.
• Overcoming suppression: At the Sea Race’s Third Research Institute, a suppression effect weakens Shisui’s Psychic Energy. His Rc Cells carry the suppressed energy and reactivate it 181.
• Advancement: Shisui uses Psychic Energy from consumed prey and the environment to fuel Metamorphosis and attack cultivation bottlenecks. He breaks into the Heaven Realm with waves of energy and later reaches the middle stage of its Sixth Realm after compressing and releasing his reserves 230 234 292.
• Isolated cultivation: While fusing with the Eye of Madness, Shisui creates an Alternate Space that confines outgoing fluctuations but filters incoming energy. Its Koukaku walls draw on the surrounding seagrass forest’s Psychic Energy to sustain themselves 306 308.

Notable Locations

• Spirit Resonance River: Its water contains enough Psychic Energy to produce visible mist when boiled, giving the river its name 20.
• Wunu River: Shisui finds its Psychic Energy overflowing far beyond historical levels. Energy leaking from a spirit treasure enters the river with mountain snowmelt 39 46.
• Unified Exam Secret Realm: Shisui judges that much of its Psychic Energy maintains the realm’s size, powers monitoring equipment and produces prey for examinees 22.
• Embracing Moon Peak: The highest peak on Moonfall Continent has the continent’s purest Psychic Energy and gave rise to the Spirit Race 61.
• Moonwhite Shoal: Its widespread use of Psychic Energy-rich moonwhite rock leads Shisui to suspect a nearby energy-containing ore vein 76.
• Deep-sea seagrass forest: Bubbles among the seagrass contain Psychic Energy, which supports the forest. The seagrass gathers more energy when the bubbles are depleted 181 306.
• Spirit Resonance Rainforest: Its core contains a powerful concentration of spirit mist and a settlement with underground structures modified into a cultivation treasure land 259.
• Ruolan Star’s interior: The planet draws atmospheric Psychic Energy inward to protect its core, devastating the surface ecosystem. Shisui subsequently discovers its solidified energy heart deep underground 386 388.