Spiritual Power

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature

Cultivation System

Spiritual Power is a will-imprinted power formed through the interaction of essence, qi, spirit, and Spirit Energy. It can connect Benjamin’s consciousness to his Internal Space and is mobilized through cultivation methods and divine sense. 348

Spirit Energy itself is not merely energy: Benjamin concludes that it is the fundamental particle of the Immortal Cultivation World, more accurately described as “spirit particles.” It has yin and yang forms and underlies cultivation-world matter, energy, time, space, and fate. 82

Cultivation techniques normally work by decomposing substances or phenomena—such as physical essence, starlight, emotions, deathly energy, and Killing Intent—into usable Spirit Energy. 82

Spirit Transformation spells depend heavily on the real-time circulation and guidance of Spiritual Power. Dao-Integration spells instead apply the rules of the Great Dao directly, demanding far greater law comprehension than Spiritual Power alone can provide. 795

Cultivation Spiritual Power and wizard spiritual or mental power are interconnected in Benjamin’s practice but are not identical. His Qi Refining Method circulates the three treasures, allowing increased soul and mental strength to raise bodily vitality and cultivation energy, or a stronger physique to accelerate the growth of both forms of power. 383 439 456

Spirit Transformation demonstrates this distinction: Benjamin’s cultivation breakthrough greatly improves mental-power precision, efficiency, and thinking capacity without causing the quantity of his mental power, constrained by his wizard rank, to rise correspondingly. 396

Spirit Energy can be drawn from storage crystals, filtered and refined through Benjamin’s Internal Grotto-Heaven, and transformed into pure Spiritual Power circulating through his meridians. 795

Wizard System

In wizardry, spiritual power is centered on the Spirit Sea and is assessed by:

• Strength — measured through a blue crystal sphere during aptitude testing. 2
• Depth — measured by the number of rune layers activated on a testing platform. 2
• Refinement — Benjamin deliberately displays Level Six refinement while concealing his actual excess power. 2
• Control — used to construct and maintain Truth Runes, Wizardry Models, and the Ring of Truth. 8 101 222

Wizard spellcasting depends on spiritual power to construct Wizardry Models and manipulate environmental elemental particles. More complex spells require greater spiritual power and computational capacity. 504

The frequency of spiritual-power fluctuations can be adjusted to better accommodate different rune structures, modestly increasing the casting speed and power of most conventional spell systems. 830

From Level 3 onward, wizard advancement combines sufficient spiritual-power strength with the required mastery of laws. Level 5 specifically requires mastery of at least one law above 10% and spiritual-power intensity at the appropriate standard; Benjamin already exceeds 20% Spirit Energy Law mastery when his spiritual power reaches that threshold. 439 456 466

At Level 6, the Law Solidification Domain manifests thought in the material world after it breaks through the limits of the soul. Its foundation is the wizard’s will tempered through Spirit Fire, adjusted and strengthened by the Ring of Truth, and projected outward. 765

History

The Wizard World contains no natural Spirit Energy, making ordinary cultivation methods theoretically unusable there. Before entering Noren Academy, Benjamin could only rely on the obsolete Refining Essence into Qi method, consuming enormous amounts of food and bodily resources to attain the first Qi Refining layer. 1

Benjamin’s Inner Circulation Method provided the basis for his exception. Rather than drawing Spirit Energy from the environment, it forms a miniature circulation system using his own essence, qi, and spirit. It also conceals excess True Essence and spiritual power from external detection. 1 2

After completing his first Truth Rune, Benjamin gains a connection to external elemental power. By routing part of that elemental power through Inner Circulation and Refining Essence into Qi, he successfully converts mixed elemental energy into pure True Essence. This gives his cultivation a sustainable external fuel source and lets him regulate his apparent meditation speed. 11

His early talisman experiments expose another consequence of the spiritless environment. Talismans normally use a small activation input to invoke ambient Spirit Energy, but in the Wizard World they depend on Benjamin’s supplied True Essence and are less efficient than direct casting. This leads him to propose combining talisman invocation principles with wizard runes, eventually producing Rune Artifacts that use a trace of mental power to draw on environmental elemental energy. 34 581

Benjamin later confirms that his Internal Space can generate Spirit Energy without drawing energy from the outside world. Since ordinary elemental particles should not yield Spirit Energy, he concludes that his ability to cultivate in the Wizard World depends on an extraordinary mechanism connected to the Inner Circulation Method and Internal Space. 82 83

He eventually reverse-engineers the Elemental–Spiritual Power Conversion Technique. It first powers the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier and later becomes a central component of the Incense Divinity Path, allowing the Purgatory Sulfur Plane to convert elemental power and maintain a Spirit Energy environment. 157 328 337

While trapped in the Fantasy world, Benjamin experiences comprehensive suppression of his cultivation Spiritual Power, wizard mental power, and physical strength. Repeated attempts to mobilize his stagnant energy gradually improve through the Body Tempering Method’s adaptive evolution. He eventually guides a single thread of Spiritual Power into his Internal Space, restoring a limited connection even though the plane still blocks his artifacts and information signals. 343 346 348

After his Void Refinement Dharma Body becomes a True Form, accelerated Inner Circulation expands his Internal Grotto-Heaven at an enormous Spiritual Power cost. The Incense Divinity Path supplies power across space to balance this expenditure. Once the expansion stabilizes, the Grotto-Heaven exceeds ten times its former area and produces enough Spirit Energy to restore his Spiritual Power in a quarter of an hour. 625

After more than a decade of research, Benjamin determines that spiritual aptitude is fundamentally spirituality: a lifeform’s ability to receive external knowledge and laws and connect with Spirit Energy. His successful Blood Sacrifice Method enhancement makes Spiritual Power feel as natural and responsive as his own fingers. 788

Benjamin later develops a black Medium disguised as a “system” for the ordinary mortal Jack in another world. The Medium absorbs negative emotions as energy and transmits a deliberately limited amount of spiritual power across space, enabling Benjamin to monitor Jack remotely, repair injuries through Alchemy, and guide his bodily enhancement without exposing the connection to powerful local beings. 906 907 909

After arriving in Jack’s world, Benjamin plans to take control of a human stronghold and further strengthen Jack. He explains that Jack is then roughly comparable to a Level 2 Formal Wizard and that an additional increase in physical strength would permit substantially more spiritual power to infiltrate, enabling preparations to open a Spatial Passage. 923

During the confrontation with Sacred Spirit Civilization, Benjamin and Augusta demonstrate coordinated psychic control across a spatial rift. They reflect the Blood-Tentacle Tyrant’s attack and send targeted curses back along its Spiritual Link, forcing him to sever the connection. 948

Abilities & Applications

Perception and Sensing

Spiritual power extends Benjamin’s perception beyond ordinary senses.

• Following a major increase, it expands from less than 100 meters to several hundred meters and detects laboratory energy flow, mineral cracking, underground roots, and elemental concentrations. 63
• It can distinguish the activity and properties of nearby elements, including whether they are active, dormant, or restless. 63
• At higher cultivation, Benjamin combines spiritual-power perception with wizard detection sorcery and divine sense to search for hidden threats. 429
• Enhanced spirituality eventually makes Spiritual Power respond as naturally as Benjamin’s own fingers. 788
• The evolution of Benjamin’s soul grants him an innate capacity to organize knowledge comparable to an Entropy Brain, strengthening the cognitive foundation through which he directs and applies his spiritual power. 624
• Level 3 Wizard advancement allows his senses and spiritual tendrils to directly perceive subtle spatial folds and fluctuations rather than relying entirely on spell-translated data. 340
• Spirit Transformation’s integration of his powers improves the All-Purpose Eye sufficiently to observe minute energy-conversion balances, isotopic decay, and elemental polarization, approaching the precision of laboratory instruments for ordinary matter and energy analysis. 396
• A perfected Void Refinement True Form changes his perceptual reach from a clearly bounded range into a gradually thinning field. Its diluted outer regions provide less detailed intelligence but remain useful for warnings and emergencies. 628

Alchemy and Material Manipulation

Spiritual power can shape and analyze matter through wizard Alchemy.

• Instructor Clark demonstrates basic Alchemy by using stable spiritual-power control to reshape an irregular gold lump into a precise cube. 13
• Benjamin uses spiritual power through an Alchemy Disk to envelop and manipulate gold, but initially encounters resistance from the material. 13
• During potion refinement, he uses it as an “invisible carving knife” to reveal plant structures, inscribe runes into cells, and direct the fusion of materials. 584
• Through the black Medium, Benjamin remotely applies Alchemy to reshape Jack’s body, repair Xi Ya’s heart and chest, and enhance Jack by reorganizing his existing vitality. 907 909
• Cultivator divine sense ordinarily senses, scans, attaches to objects, and supports mental attacks or True Essence manipulation. Directly crushing matter with divine sense differs from Alchemy’s controlled alteration of matter’s form. 13
• Combining Alchemy’s spiritual-power analysis with Analysis Art’s sensitivity to energy fluctuations gives Benjamin unusually fine control over his own power. 65
• Material attacks can be reconstructed after destruction as long as their controller retains sufficient spiritual power. Augusta demonstrates this by gathering and reshaping metal fragments during the battle against the black-robed wizard. 521

Runes, Models, and Spellcasting

Spiritual power is integral to the construction and operation of Benjamin’s magical structures.

• Truth Runes allow spiritual power to establish a connection with environmental elemental power. 11
• Benjamin uses vast, delicate spiritual force to connect nine Truth Runes into the Ring of Truth during his Level 1 Wizard advancement. 101
• Dissolving Wizardry Models releases the spiritual power contained within them, enabling the reconstruction and expansion of the Ring of Truth at Level 2. 222
• Refining a Dharma Treasure resembles constructing Truth Runes or Wizardry Models: both require stable spiritual structures built from theories, concepts, and rules within the Spirit Sea. 68
• Adjusting the frequency of spiritual-power fluctuations can improve the casting speed and force of conventional rune-based spells. 830
• Rune Artifacts combine talisman techniques with wizard runes, using a trace of mental power as a key to invoke surrounding elemental energy and release spells. 34 581
• Spiritual force can guide the violent spatial shearing created when Phase Space overlaps the Main Plane, concentrating it along Benjamin’s palm for Spatial Slash. 513
• The original Li-Fire Extinction Divine Light requires pure fire-attribute Spiritual Power and relies on its unceasing vitality for persistent light-flames. Adapting it to elemental energy requires sacrificing continuous burning and Dao Rhyme erosion while retaining high temperature and annihilation. 402

Artifact Refinement

Spiritual power guides the refinement, reconstruction, and nourishment of Dharma Treasures.

• Benjamin envelops the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror with spiritual power while performing its first refinement. 158
• Guided by spiritual power and Talisman Seals, the mirror sheds its original physical form, retains its conceptual essence, and is reshaped around new light concepts. 158
• The mirror’s status as Benjamin’s natal Dharma Treasure gives it a close connection to his soul and considerable protective value during mental threats. 619
• Artifact-blank condensation merges a portion of True Essence and divine-sense origin with material, granting preliminary spirituality and malleability and creating a vessel for concepts. 64 65
• Condensing a stable vessel embryo requires precise shaping of soul power. Benjamin’s experience constructing Truth Runes and Wizardry Models makes this substantially easier than the lengthy visualization, arrays, or secret medicines ordinarily required by late-stage Qi Refining cultivators. 68
• Guiding concepts into a treasure places high demands on spiritual-power strength and control; the artifact then absorbs True Essence and soul or divine-sense origin to establish its life-bound connection and advance toward materialization. 68 69

Energy Conversion

Benjamin’s most significant application is converting Wizard World elemental power into cultivation-compatible energy.

• The first Truth Rune draws elemental power into the Spirit Sea, where it merges with spiritual power and strengthens the Spirit Sea. 11
• Inner Circulation filters incoming elemental power and converts it into pure True Essence, though its initial efficiency is lower than direct Spirit Energy absorption. 11
• The Elemental–Spiritual Power Conversion Technique creates an artificial Spirit Energy environment for breakthrough and cultivation. 327
• Benjamin’s Level 6 Law Solidification Domain can directly transform elements into Spirit Energy, but its range and efficiency remain far below the Incense Divinity Path conversion system. 765
• The conversion technique reproduces the conditions of the human body and the circulation of a cultivation method. This permits elemental-to-Spirit Energy conversion even before Benjamin understands its underlying principles. 157
• Return to Void Armor can break down and temporarily store incoming energy attacks, then release their energy as a directed Spirit Energy blast or return it to the user to replenish expended energy. 454
• Once his True Form is complete, Benjamin’s body begins generating a minute amount of Spirit Energy independently. Its immediate contribution is negligible compared with his total Spiritual Power reserves, but it demonstrates the Body Tempering Method’s potential for self-sustaining energy production. 625

Cross-World Transmission and Manipulation

Benjamin can use spiritual power through specialized media to affect distant targets across worlds.

• The black Medium has two basic functions: absorbing its host’s negative emotions as energy and transmitting a small amount of spiritual power between worlds. 907
• Its low transmission capacity and dormant design are intentional safeguards against detection by powerful beings in Jack’s world. 907
• An Auxiliary Control Crystal allows Benjamin to monitor Jack through the Medium while performing remote operations. 907
• The Medium’s apparent healing functions are actually Benjamin’s remote Alchemy. In the absence of sufficient external energy, healing Jack and Xi Ya consumes Jack’s vitality as equivalent exchange. 907
• Benjamin later uses the same limited connection to strengthen Jack’s body by carefully reorganizing his existing vitality rather than supplying substantial power directly. 909
• The Incense Divinity Path’s Cross-Space Energy Transmission System supplies energy from the Purgatory Sulfur Plane during combat, allowing Benjamin to replenish himself while fighting the black-robed wizard. 517 519
• The same system balances the astronomical Spiritual Power expenditure of his Internal Grotto-Heaven’s expansion after True Form completion. 625
• Jack’s physical strength affects the amount of spiritual power Benjamin can infiltrate into his world. Further bodily enhancement is therefore part of Benjamin’s preparations for opening a Spatial Passage. 923

Recovery and Adaptive Evolution

Spiritual power can improve through repeated depletion, restoration, and cultivation-driven adaptation.

• Purple Qi of the East strips impurities from Benjamin’s spiritual power, making it purer and more active while also improving the Spirit Sea. 23
• At Spirit Transformation, Benjamin can replenish expended Spiritual Power through external absorption or Inner Circulation, creating the sensation of nearly inexhaustible reserves. 396
• While operating Turret No. 3, repeated cycles of firing, exhaustion, Holy Soul Echo Elixir recovery, and renewed firing improve both his recovery interval and spiritual-power capacity. 477
• Soul reconstruction strengthens both the quality and quantity of his soul, which in turn raises his spiritual power. 509
• Enduring the pressure of a Level 9 aura severely damages Benjamin’s soul but also strengthens it as it recovers, confirming that his adaptive evolution can develop through extreme spiritual strain. 904
• Mortal World Heart Tempering uses a carefully limited trace of Mortal Aura to temper Benjamin’s soul and improve fine energy and mental-power control, making difficult alchemical operations considerably easier. 145
• Adaptive evolution gradually improves his ability to mobilize Spiritual Power under the Fantasy world’s comprehensive suppression. 346 348
• After resurrection, resistance to a weakened state persists despite Benjamin changing bodies, easing both bodily weakness and the mental pain caused by excessive spiritual-power expenditure. 359
• His enlarged Internal Grotto-Heaven can generate enough Spirit Energy to restore his Spiritual Power in approximately fifteen minutes. 625
• Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand restores Benjamin’s depleted strength and shattered Dharma Image during his sparring match with Augusta, and later reverses damage from her final attack. 800

Communication and Mental Defense

Wizard spiritual and psychic power can carry information, establish mental contact, and resist or redirect hostile mental influence.

• Artorius leaves spiritual-power strands that recognize a mark on Benjamin and automatically deliver stored information about the target’s defenses. 430
• Benjamin combines spiritual power, his Spirit Transformation Primordial Spirit, the Five-Skandha Rainbow Mirror, and the Clear Mind, Calm Spirit method to resist hostile informational and mental interference. 430
• Benjamin and Viola communicate through spiritual-power fluctuations. 595
• Augusta transmits intelligence extracted from a Mushroom People leader’s soul directly into Benjamin’s Spirit Sea through a spiritual-power connection. 859
• Benjamin’s released spiritual power rebounds malicious probes and spiritual-pressure tests in a teleportation plaza, forcing the probing individuals to recoil. 808
• Benjamin and Augusta jointly redirect the Blood-Tentacle Tyrant’s psychic attack across a spatial rift. Benjamin sends hastily modified curses targeting Spirit Race traits along the returning Spiritual Link. 948

Relationship to Spirituality

Spirituality is the basis of spiritual aptitude and determines a lifeform’s ability to perceive external knowledge, receive laws, connect to Spirit Energy, and wield Spiritual Power. 788

• Humans are born with spiritual roots in principle; ordinary mortals fail to cultivate because their spirituality is too weak to actively sense ambient Spirit Energy. 788
• Stronger spirituality improves both Spiritual Power control and comprehension of the Great Dao. 788
• Benjamin’s aptitude enhancement gives him an intuitive, automatic circulation of Spiritual Power when he thinks of a relevant technique. 788
• Spirituality can be extracted and fused through the Blood Sacrifice Method; Benjamin uses compatible spirituality from his clones to enhance his own aptitude. 788
• Spirituality is also essential to the formation of a plane soul. Benjamin and Viola use the Spirit Awakening Array to stabilize the newborn, fragmented spirituality of an Animated Plane. 535
• Benjamin identifies spiritual roots as the external manifestation or concrete designation of spirituality, rather than an entirely separate aptitude mechanism. 788
• His aptitude enhancement sacrifices more than six hundred Dao-Integration Realm clones made from his own flesh, blood, and soul, avoiding incompatibility and allowing instinctive completion of the first two steps of the Mustard Seed Dao-Containing True Body Art. 788
• Although Spirit Energy has no intelligence of its own, its “spirit” aspect connects with living intelligence, the spirituality of objects, and higher spiritual enlightenment. Exchanges with Starfall on these subjects help raise Benjamin’s Spirit Energy Law mastery from about 5% to 12%. 384 395
• High-level cultivators can use Spirit Energy to animate inanimate objects and grant spirituality or complete intelligence, though this requires extremely precise control and enormous energy expenditure. 683

Limitations

• The Wizard World has no naturally occurring Spirit Energy, so conventional cultivation techniques cannot function there without Benjamin’s special conversion mechanisms. 1 82
• Spiritual power alone does not determine a wizard’s combat power; knowledge, Wizardry Models, and the ability to apply them are more decisive. 191 456
• Powerful cultivation spells require continuous real-time Spiritual Power guidance and environmental resonance, preventing the rapid “package-trigger” casting typical of wizardry. 402
• Benjamin’s growth must remain balanced across essence, qi, and spirit. Excessive body strengthening can leave Spiritual Power and mental power behind, risking instability and reduced control. 439 458
• High-intensity spiritual-power expenditure can incapacitate ordinary wizards; even the Level 6 Holy Soul Echo Elixir normally requires thirty seconds to fully restore a Level 5 Wizard’s spiritual power. 477
• Dao-Integration spells cannot be supported by Spiritual Power alone: their use depends on sufficiently profound comprehension and application of the Great Dao’s rules. 795
• The black Medium can transmit only a very small amount of spiritual power across worlds. Its remote Alchemy must therefore rely heavily on the host’s own vitality or other available energy sources. 907 909
• Benjamin’s enhanced spirituality coincides with his True Form becoming fully integrated with his Internal Grotto-Heaven, preventing him from directly projecting a new body into the outside world and forcing him to use an alchemical puppet for external activity. 788
• Growth of spiritual power and the soul is constrained by aptitude, comprehension, resources, and other factors, becoming progressively harder at higher levels. 152
• Spirit Transformation cultivation can reach a comprehension bottleneck even while Spiritual Power, mental power, and bodily strength continue increasing. Accumulated power alone does not guarantee further progress in the Dao or entry into Void Refinement. 456 616
• Minor cultivation divisions are not uniform across all realms: Foundation Establishment has early, middle, late, and completion stages, while Golden Core and Nascent Soul generally have early, middle, and late stages. Later realms have less thoroughly established advancement pathways. 456
• Excessive bodily enhancement can increase hormonal and emotional influence, undermining the calm analysis and precise law control required of a wizard. 439
• Mortal Aura soul tempering requires time for its effects to settle. Repeated application while the soul is saturated risks irreversible damage; similarly, excessive short-term tempering can damage a Dharma Treasure’s spirituality. 145 146
• Environmental suppression can render Spiritual Power almost immobile, as in the Fantasy world. Restoring even a thread’s movement requires sustained guidance and adaptive improvement. 343 346 348
• Benjamin initially cannot cast Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand despite correctly circulating Spiritual Power: the spell’s temporal resonance collapses because his Time Law mastery is insufficient. 795
• A Space-Time Anchor can block further use of Void Ashes Return-to-Origin Hand, removing an important means of restoring Benjamin and his forces during prolonged battle. 897
• Energy attacks remain vulnerable to disruption of the spiritual-power Wizardry Models underlying them; destroying or deflecting the core structure can neutralize their threat regardless of the energy invested. 521
• Increasing cross-world infiltration through Jack requires greater host physical strength, so transmission capacity cannot be expanded solely by Benjamin supplying more power. 923