Divine Power

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Divine Power (神力)
Type	Neutral character (AI); supernatural divine energy
Affiliation	Fang Ming's Divine Way; distributed to his believers and divine officials under his authority 1 24
Occupation/Role	Fuel for divine arts, protection, combat, divine administration, and the advancement of divine positions 4 5 24
Status	Active; ultimately becomes fully cyan when Fang Ming achieves Ancient God status 319
First Appearance	Chapter 1: “Transmigration” 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Nascent White Divine Power	1	Fang Ming begins with only a trace; spending it on a ritual shortens the time his ghostly form can remain in existence.
Principal Ninth-Rank Qingyu Village Land God	4	Incense and Fire Prayer Power from Qingyu Village's altar refines the Divine Position Talisman. Divine Power restores Fang Ming's wounds and supports the Golden Seal.
Subordinate Eighth-Rank Land God	9	Fortune condenses part of Fang Ming's white Divine Power into Red Divine Power, granting it the capacity to interfere with the mortal world.
True Eighth-Rank Earth God	23	Fang Ming promotes the Earth God statue and gains the Split Spirit Possession divine ability.
Seventh-Rank Earth God	34	Seventy percent of Fang Ming's Divine Power converts to red, stabilizing power that had become difficult to control; his jurisdiction expands to three townships and part of Anchang County.
City God	40 41	Fang Ming receives the City God Divine Position Talisman, gains inherent City God powers, and can manifest in daylight.
Sixth-Rank Divine Position / Golden Divine Power	84 85	Red Divine Power begins condensing into golden power as Fang Ming writes divine script onto his talisman during a dangerous promotion.
Fifth-Rank Golden Body	186	All Divine Power in the Spiritual Sea Divine Pool turns golden. Fang Ming achieves Golden Body Accomplishment and comprehends the Heaven Flipping Seal and Earth Piercing Seal.
Cyan Divine Power	245	A massive surge of faith and fortune gives Fang Ming his first, limited amount of cyan Divine Power.
Fourth-Rank State City God	299	Half of the Divine Power in the Spiritual Sea Divine Pool becomes cyan; the City God Seal begins developing jade-like qualities.
Ancient God / Third-Rank Heavenly King	319	Divine Power becomes fully cyan. Fang Ming merges his Divine Position Talisman with himself and establishes the “Wuzhou Benevolent and Manifested Sage Heavenly King” divine position.

Generation and Refinement

Divine Power is refined from Incense and Fire Prayer Power by a Divine Position Talisman. Unlike ordinary worshiped spirits, which possess impure and mixed power from offerings, a deity with a divine position can continuously refine incense and fire into usable Divine Power 5.

Source	Divine Power Yield / Effect
A believer's daily faith	Produces one thread of Divine Power per day 5
Burning incense and worshiping	Produces an additional thread of Divine Power 5
Individual daily limit	Children usually provide about three threads; adults provide five to ten. He Song can provide up to ten threads daily 5
Altars and temples	Can supply concentrated Incense and Fire Prayer Power for rapid refinement and divine-position advancement 4 9
Fortune and merit	Convert lower-grade Divine Power into red, golden, and cyan forms while enabling higher divine positions 9 84 186 299

Fang Ming treats Divine Power as a managed resource rather than granting wishes freely. He returns roughly half of believers' offerings as protective qi, reserves the remainder, and prices divine services above their operating cost to prevent depletion 5.

Grades and Properties

White Divine Power

White Divine Power is the foundational form generated by faith and incense.

• Can form protective radiance around Fang Ming or his believers, repel ghosts, and annihilate weaker evil spirits 2 4.
• One thread can sustain combat for roughly thirty breaths under normal conditions 2.
• Fuels early Land God divine arts, including Earth Escape, Land-Fertilizing, Disease-Dispelling, and Child-Bestowing Arts 4.
• Cannot directly interfere with the living world as effectively as Red Divine Power 9.
• Can be placed within believers as protective power; sustained protection gradually increases their Fortune 12.

Red Divine Power

Red Divine Power is condensed from white Divine Power at a ratio of ten white threads to one red thread 9 10.

• Can directly affect material reality, allowing Fang Ming to lift and manipulate physical objects 9.
• Powers the Divine Strike Technique, enabling devout temple keepers to temporarily multiply their physical strength 9.
• Gives protected fighters enhanced endurance; Li Dazhuang withstands clubs and defeats multiple Estate Guards while invoking the Earth God's power 17.
• Is highly consumptive: Fang Ming exhausts his red power after roughly a dozen breaths while testing its physical applications 9.
• Cannot be replaced with White Divine Power for Divine Strike 9.

Golden Divine Power

Golden Divine Power emerges through higher fortune, divine script, and advancement beyond the early stages of the Divine Way 84 85.

• Is more potent than red power and can reinforce the effects of spiritual powers 85 178.
• Condenses into liquid form within Fang Ming's Spiritual Sea Divine Pool 178.
• Enables Golden Body Accomplishment, making Fang Ming's manifested form substantially more solid and resistant to harm 186.
• Can empower the Prayer for Rain Spiritual Power through the City God's golden token 178.
• Supports the Heaven Flipping Seal and Earth Piercing Seal when combined with Fang Ming's Golden Seal 186.

Cyan Divine Power

Cyan Divine Power represents Fang Ming's highest documented grade before and after becoming an Ancient God.

• First appears in a small amount following the spread of City God faith across Wuzhou 245.
• Reaches half of the Spiritual Sea Divine Pool after Fang Ming becomes the Fourth-Rank State City God 299.
• Completely fills the pool when Fang Ming achieves Ancient God status 319.
• Allows Fang Ming to draw upon the power of Wuzhou itself; as long as Wuzhou endures, he cannot perish 319.

Abilities & Skills

Protection and Ghost Extermination

Divine Power can be shaped into white radiance for defense and direct attacks against ghosts.

• Protects Fang Ming from hostile ghosts and counters attacks with explosive force 2.
• Annihilates savage ghosts when released in sufficient quantity 4.
• Can be divided among believers before danger, giving them temporary protection against ghostly threats 3.
• Stabilizes weakening Yin Spirits, preventing their forms from dispersing 15.

Divine Strike Technique

The Divine Strike Technique allows a devout believer bearing a Divine Strike Talisman to borrow Red Divine Power from Fang Ming.

• Temporarily multiplies a user's strength and physical resilience 9.
• Requires one thread of Red Divine Power per use 9.
• Leaves the user weak for several days after activation 9.
• Remains under Fang Ming's authority through the talisman embedded in the user's body 9.
• Is used by Li Dazhuang to repel the Zhang family's Estate Guards and defend the Earth God Temple 17.

Divine Power Talismans

Fang Ming creates projected talismans by incorporating the principles of Divine Strike into Earth God spiritual powers 24.

• Allow designated subordinates to use spiritual powers after receiving and channeling Divine Power 24.
• Give Fang Ming ultimate authority to recall or self-destruct the talismans at will 24.
• Grant He Dong Earth Escape, Guo Sheng Land-Fertilizing, Zheng Kuan Disease-Dispelling, and Wang Liulang Child-Bestowing Spiritual Power 24.
• Allow Yin Spirits to channel their own spiritual energy only at severe cost; repeated use causes them to dissipate 24.
• Restrict subordinate divine positions to their assigned territory; removing one from Fang Ming's domain or host body triggers self-destruction 35.

Material Manifestation

Higher-grade Divine Power permits effects beyond dreams, ghosts, and spiritual domains.

• Red Divine Power can affect physical matter in the living world 9.
• Divine Power can manifest armor and weapons for Yin Soldiers 11.
• Fang Ming can transmit power over long distances to nourish his clone's body, though some power is lost across prefectures 53.
• Golden Divine Power can be issued as concentrated liquid through a City God token for official use 178.

Storage and Administration

Divine Domain

A temple-supported Divine Domain reduces Fang Ming's basic Divine Power consumption from one thread per day to one thread every two days 3.

• The domain depends on its physical temple and is destroyed if the temple is destroyed 3.
• Its apparent mortal-world size does not reflect its internal spiritual space 3.
• Fang Ming can conceal a temple with Divine Power 3.

Spiritual Sea Divine Pool

After reaching the sixth rank, Fang Ming develops a Spiritual Sea Divine Pool capable of storing liquid Divine Power 178.

• The pool is more than ten zhang in diameter when first described 178.
• Ninety percent of Fang Ming's accumulated Divine Power is stored there for security 178.
• Divine Power can be divided into divine way charm coins for officials to spend on authorized duties 178.

Denomination	Value
One thread of White Divine Power	One divine way charm coin 178
Ten threads of Red Divine Power	One divine way ounce of silver 178
Ten threads of Golden Divine Power	One divine way ounce of gold; valued at ten ounces of silver 178

Limitations

• Divine Power is finite and must be balanced against the wishes granted to believers; excessive spending risks leaving a deity unable to act or even forcing it into slumber 5.
• White Divine Power is less effective at acting upon the material world than Red Divine Power 9.
• The strength, range, and cost of spiritual powers vary with the requested effect. Prayer for Rain, for example, requires existing rain clouds and consumes more power as rainfall increases 41.
• Earth Escape is initially limited to within ten li of Qingyu Village 4.
• Disease-Dispelling Art initially treats livestock and minor animal illnesses, but cannot cure people 4.
• Fang Ming's Divine Domain remains vulnerable through its dependence on the temple housing it 3.
• Before Ancient God status, Fang Ming's power remains tied to believers, incense, fortune, and his divine position; faith disappearing poses a major danger to an incense-and-fire deity 242.