True Qi

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature and Function

True Qi is the energy cultivated by Law Seekers. A cultivation method allows its user to sense, strengthen, nurture, and control it while also evolving Spiritual Powers 15. When Lu Jun first recognized it, he described it as a warm current that reduced the exhaustion caused by killing demons 15.

True Qi is fundamentally different from demonic power. Human cultivators normally produce True Qi through cultivation, while demons and monsters possess demonic power innately 133.

Cultivation

Cultivation methods affect the quality and capabilities of True Qi. The River Lord Subdues the Flood Dragon Art increases cultivation speed, physique, comprehension, and mastery with every layer, while producing new Acquired Spiritual Powers 17.

True Qi can also be refined through visualization. By comprehending the Myriad Heavens River Lord Subduing Flood Dragon Diagram, Lu Jun caused his energy to circulate through a complete Zhou Tian cycle and developed the River Lord Subdues the Flood Dragon Art 17.

Spiritual Power Enhancement

True Qi serves as the operating foundation for Spiritual Powers.

• It enables the use of wind, water, lightning, and earth-based techniques 13 23 77.
• It can be infused into weapons, increasing their offensive force 35 73.
• It can create large-scale barriers and defensive formations 98 100.
• It can be used to manifest external avatars through advanced cultivation 100.
• It can be recovered more rapidly in water, rivers, lakes, oceans, or rainy conditions through the River and Marsh Edict 23.

Martial Arts Applications

True Qi can be concentrated into martial techniques and weapons. When Lu Jun uses the Fierce Tiger Blade Art, it produces a roaring tiger phantom at the blade’s edge; Cloud Treading Steps uses True Qi to support movement through the air while consuming less energy than ordinary wind-based movement 35.

Manifestation and Control

True Qi can take visible or tangible forms when used at high intensity.

• Wind and thunder can be fused into the Wind-Thunder Dharma Body 67.
• True Qi can summon lightning across a large area, destroying large numbers of demons 101.
• The Dharma Image of Mountains and Rivers uses enormous amounts of True Qi and can be pierced when its sustaining energy is nearly depleted 104.
• True Qi can be used to create External Avatars with a portion of the original cultivator’s strength 100.

Limitations

• True Qi can be exhausted through prolonged combat or large-scale techniques. Maintaining the Dharma Image of Mountains and Rivers while resisting the Sea-Burning Crow’s flames nearly emptied Lu Jun’s reserves 104.
• Techniques using True Qi are poorly suited against a Roaming Zombie protected by Impenetrable Dharma Body; ordinary water, fire, lightning, and True Qi attacks can barely harm it 24.
• True Qi and demonic energy can violently conflict when forced together. After absorbing the Sea-Burning Crow’s Demon Core, Lu Jun repeatedly lost consciousness because the two energies were constantly clashing 105 110.
• While the energies were in conflict, Lu Jun could not safely use his Spiritual Powers and risked permanent loss of sanity 110.
• Advanced sealing techniques can restructure or immobilize another person’s True Qi. Lu Jun’s silver threads transmitted the Heaven Mending Technique into Cao Yang’s body, sealing his meridians and preventing him from using True Qi or Spiritual Powers 134 135.

Interactions

• Law Seekers — Use True Qi as the foundation for Spiritual Powers and cultivation techniques 15.
• Demonic Power — A fundamentally different energy that can clash with True Qi when fused into the same body 105 133.
• Dragon Vein Qi — A powerful energy capable of suppressing the Golden Crow bloodline and potentially stabilizing Lu Jun’s True Qi 112.
• Heaven Mending Technique — Seals demonic power and Demon Blood into a pseudo-core, allowing uncontaminated True Qi to circulate again 128.
• Fake Lu Jun — Possesses True Qi identical in quality and form to Lu Jun’s, including a matching balance between True Qi and Golden Crow demonic energy 137.

Notable Quotes

“That is True Qi, and it is also the foundation for us Law Seekers to use our Spiritual Power.” 15

“Demonic power is the innate power of demons and monsters, fundamentally different from the True Qi cultivated by the Human Race.” 133

Trivia

• True Qi is normally distinct from demonic power, but Lu Jun’s body eventually contains both.
• The River Lord Subdues the Flood Dragon Art can create seven Acquired Spiritual Powers across its seven layers 17.
• True Qi can be used both offensively and defensively, ranging from weapon reinforcement to barriers, avatars, lightning storms, and giant Dharma Images 35 100 101 104.
• Lu Jun’s pseudo-core formed through the Heaven Mending Technique is a seal for demonic power, not the true Golden Core described by Empress Wa 127 128.