Spiritual Substance

Above the Mandate of Heaven

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灵质
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Original Name:灵质Gender:NeutralScope:Novel-specificStatus:ActiveSource:AIOccurrences:1559Chapters:540
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Feature Value
Name Spiritual Substance (灵质)
Type Neutral substance / spiritual medium
First Appearance Chapter 31

Characteristics

  • Spiritual Substance can be stabilized within material through a Simple Spirit Essence Probe, which establishes pathways, runes, and imprints—the foundation of Modern Alchemy. 31
  • It cannot appear or vanish without cause; apparent losses indicate that it has performed work and been converted. 32
  • It can be drawn from Ji Jue and used to facilitate the fusion of materials. 32
  • A Chosen One's Spiritual Substance gradually acquires qualities associated with their Supreme Goodness lineage. 52
  • Pure Spiritual Substance can serve as a medium for alchemical construction without a physical vessel, though producing an independently existing construct this way is an advanced undertaking. 148
  • Its purity, compatibility, and qualitative transformations affect its usefulness as an alchemical material. 300 563

Manipulation

Material Enhancement

Spiritual Substance can alter and reinforce material properties through alchemical operations.

  • Embers-aligned Spiritual Substance can enhance hardness, toughness, strength, and other physical properties. 52
  • It can reinforce the user's own body, such as strengthening bones against fractures or hardening skin against attacks. 52
  • Through Fluid Alchemy, the strengthening of Spiritual Substance can cause physical properties to converge and improve alongside the soul. 101
  • It can be implanted into matter and anchored through Fluid and Solid Alchemy, allowing elevated spirituality and materiality to stabilize one another. 563

Spiritual Bestowal and Extraction

Spiritual Substance may grant, sustain, or remove a creation's spiritual response.

  • Ji Jue can infuse an ordinary object with Spiritual Substance, allowing it to develop a spiritual response. 147
  • A weak spiritual response can be destroyed by even slight fluctuations during extraction; preserving it requires precise control. 147
  • Freely extracting and transferring the sentience created by Deus Ex Machina is considered beginner-level Spiritual Substance manipulation. 148
  • A nurtured fragment of spirituality can react to the nature of injected Spiritual Substance and gradually grow into a divided spirit resembling its user. 668

Storage and Recovery

Spiritual Substance can be stored externally rather than kept entirely within a Chosen One's soul.

  • Mercury can be shaped into a Spirit Essence Cage for storing mechanical spirit essence and residual spirits. 181
  • Spirituality nurtured with a user's own Spiritual Substance can accept that user's essence without conflict, allowing immediate drawing and use. 668
  • Once sufficiently developed, a spirit within such a vessel can slowly absorb Spiritual Substance from the air and recover independently. 668
  • External reserves do not remove the limits of a user's input and output efficiency. 670

Uses in Modern Alchemy

Branch / Technique Use of Spiritual Substance
Ascension Bestows Spirit Essence upon matter, allowing it to approach the nature of Superior Virtue and contain Blessings. 114
Purification Filters impurities and interference, enabling an object to move toward a purer state. 114
Harmonization Unifies components, Spirit Essence Circuits, structures, and Blessings into a whole. 114
Extraction Metamorphosis Identified as Ji Jue's weakness and a major focus of his study. 114
Disintegration Art Rapidly cycles Spiritual Substance between vibration and stillness, creating interference that disrupts a target's internal structure. 106
Spirit Essence Refinement Uses pure Spirit Essence as a medium and can reveal the essential composition of creations when perfected. 961

Limitations and Risks

  • Maintaining self-enhancement through Spiritual Substance for too long is unsafe for a beginner; Lao Zhang advises Ji Jue to practice for no more than five minutes per day. 52
  • Complex manipulation can cause Spiritual Substance to dissipate and escape the user's control, leaving the user exhausted. 106
  • Recasting lingering spirits consumes excessive Spiritual Substance; if too much is depleted controlling a ferocious creation, lingering spirits can cause backlash. 150
  • Excessive use of external spiritual reserves can drain the user dry during storage or overwhelm them while drawing upon the reserve. 670
  • Artificial souls created with Spiritual Substance can be destroyed, manipulated, or destabilized by other lineages and hostile abilities. 349
  • Spirit Essence Crystal — A condensed crystal forged from extracted spirit essence; an absolutely purified example is called a Philosopher's Stone in theory. 267 300
  • Creation Spirit — A spirit associated with a crafted creation; some possess traits of both Creation Spirits and spirit-essence lifeforms. 563
  • Seed of Spirituality — A weak, nurturable spiritual fragment that can develop according to the user's injected Spiritual Substance. 668
  • Blessed Creation — Equipment that bears Blessings through materials and Spirit Essence Circuits, functioning as an external extension of a Chosen One's Matrix. 367