Blood Qi Value

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Blood Qi Value (气血值)
Alias(es)	Also rendered as Blood Essence Value in some passages 26 135.
Occupation/Role	Numerical measure of blood qi used to track martial cultivation and assess physical power alongside Strength Value 25 126.
Unit	Ka; some passages render readings as “cal,” “calories,” or “cards” 129 135 353 542.
Measurement system	Blue Star’s blood-qi detection system originated beyond the stars 353.
Highest documented value	20,000 cards, reached by Chen Lie and identified by him as the apparent human maximum 542.
First Appearance	Chapter 2: “Exotic Beast Meat” 2.

Power Progression

Blue Star’s Five Advancement Tiers

Blue Star’s official standard divides early Blood-Qi cultivation into five tiers. These govern when ordinary students can begin using increasingly potent resources; they are not the full extent of the Blood-Qi Stage 9 25.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
First tier: below 1 Ka	9	Training alone; supplements and medicines are not permitted under the ordinary advancement standard.
Second tier: 1 to below 3 Ka	9 25	Blood Essence Fluid becomes usable. One bottle followed by several days of training can add approximately 0.4–0.6 Ka; wealthy students can also use small amounts of supplements.
Third tier: 3 to below 5 Ka	9 25	Exotic Beast Meat becomes usable. Half a jin daily for a month, combined with diligent training, typically adds approximately 0.9–1.1 Ka.
Fourth tier: 5 to below 10 Ka	9 25	Medicinal baths become usable. Ten consecutive days can add approximately 1.4–2.1 Ka, depending largely on the ingredients.
Fifth tier: above 10 Ka	9 25	The body can frequently tolerate many supplements and medicines, provided they are not overused. Growth accelerates; Hong Chengshuo describes this as where Blood-Qi cultivation truly gets on track.

Higher Benchmarks

Blood Qi Value	Significance
Around 100 Ka	Generally sufficient to gather essence and cultivate qi toward becoming a Martial Artist, but an early breakthrough leaves a comparatively weak foundation 25.
Around 1,000 Ka	May indicate Grandmaster potential and qualify a student for substantial provincial support; refinement still matters 25.
Above 2,000–3,000 Ka	Does not automatically establish an Extreme Realm. Some cultivators exceed 3,000 Ka without reaching it 89.
20,000 cards	Chen Lie’s final documented Blood-Qi Value before preparing for Ranked Martial Artist cultivation 542.

Measurement

• Blood Essence Detectors scan the cultivator with light and announce a numerical reading. Chen Lie repeatedly uses them at the Dongchuan Martial Arts Hall 9 25 31.
• Recorded results are linked to students’ cards. At Dongchuan Martial Arts Hall, swiping a Student Card uploads the test result to the hall’s official website 20.
• Certificates can verify a reading: Li Xianyu presents a hall certificate for her 0.98 result, which her parents can check online 26.
• Blood qi and strength are tested separately. Blood Qi Value is read by a detector, while physical force is measured in jun by striking a Strength Detector 31 61 200.
• Readings can be altered by techniques. Chen Lie measures his natural value at 427.73, then manipulates his blood essence to produce a reading of 803.11. The second result is not permanent cultivation growth 135.

Red Flame Planet Comparison

Red Flame Planet’s Blood Qi Realm levels are compared with Blue Star’s Ka measurements as follows 353:

Red Flame Planet level	Blue Star Blood Qi Value
First	1 Ka
Second	3 Ka
Third	5 Ka
Fourth	10 Ka
Fifth	50 Ka
Sixth	100 Ka
Seventh	200 Ka
Eighth	500 Ka
Ninth	1,000 Ka
Tenth	Above 2,000 Ka

The comparison places the Blood-Qi Extreme Realm beyond these ten levels; elsewhere, the text explicitly distinguishes Extreme Realm attainment from a numerical threshold alone 89 353.

Cultivation and Resources

Training and Nutrient Conversion

• Ordinary Blue Star methods require exhausting physical training and produce slow gains. Even ten days of intense work may fail to add 0.1 Ka 4.
• The Basic Body Tempering Technique activates Chen Lie’s cells and converts stored nutrients into blood qi. Its first two forms raise his measured value to 2.31 9.
• Martial-art comprehension can accelerate growth. After Li Xianyu grasps Cloud Smoke Steps, Qu Xinyou predicts that diligent training and adequate nutrition will take her past 1 Ka within ten days 15.
• The Flood Dragon Rebirth Technique rapidly consumes nutrients, but cultivating it also increases the resources needed for equivalent numerical gains 86.
• Extreme Realm physiology makes increasing Blood Qi Value much easier. Maintaining refinement while doing so remains difficult 298.

Cultivation Resources

Resource	Documented use
Blood Essence Fluid	Supports growth after the ordinary student passes 1 Ka 9.
Exotic Beast Meat	Provides energy for blood-qi growth; access and safe use depend on the student’s stage 9 21.
Medicinal baths	Supply absorbable medicinal energy; ingredient quality strongly affects the result 9 135.
Spirit medicines and meals	Chen Lie uses Blood Linglong, Blood Ginseng, and prepared Spirit Medicine Meals to increase his blood qi 31 60 86.
Purity-enhancing herbs and Martial Dao Rare Treasures	Help preserve or improve refinement while Blood Qi Value rises 135 206 218.
Blood Origin Crystals	Particularly effective for first-time users, with major benefits to blood-qi purity 414.
Blood-Tempering Spirit Liquid	Supports repeated blood tempering; extraordinary tempering produces substantially greater improvement than the preceding ordinary rounds 432 458.
Divine Source	Chen Lie directly refines its energy into flesh and blood to complete his rise to 20,000 cards 542.

Costs and Safety

An ordinary Martial Arts Student needs at least one million Star Dollars to pass through the five early tiers. The resource gap widens as wealthy students gain access to expensive supplements and superior bath ingredients 9.

• Training age: Blue Star generally begins martial training after fourteen, when bones and tendons are sufficiently developed. Excessive training can cause damage that prevents later advancement 2.
• Nutrient depletion: Rapid growth consumes bodily nutrition. Chen Lie becomes hungry after a 0.4 Ka increase and stops later training sessions before exhausting his reserves 5 21 31.
• Physical strain: His rise to 22.91 Ka leaves minor bodily strain requiring medicine and rest 31.
• Unstable blood qi: Excessive supplements without sufficient stabilization can undermine further Blood-Qi cultivation 33.
• Secret-art depletion: For Chen Lie, forcing blood-qi secret arts without an extraordinary bloodline can leave him depleted for one or more months 350 373 422.

Relationship to Strength Value

Blood Qi Value tracks blood-qi intensity, while the Strength Value multiplier reflects its refinement. Wu Yunfei emphasizes that martial aptitude is demonstrated by increasing blood qi rapidly while maintaining the strength multiplier, not by a high reading alone 126.

Refinement indicator	Meaning
Physical strength below twice Blood Qi Value	Blood qi is insufficiently condensed. Forced increases should stop while the cultivator practices martial arts and stabilizes it 33.
Physical strength above three times Blood Qi Value	A recognized measure of deep refinement; maintaining it becomes harder as Blood Qi Value rises 25.
317.33 blood qi and 2,079.56 jun	Chen Lie’s multiplier falls from approximately 6.7 to 6.5 after he increases intensity without similarly improving purity 129.
1,511.28 Ka and 15,987.88 jun	Chen Lie maintains approximately 10.6-fold strength through balanced resource use 229.

Fixing the Multiplier

• Before Aperture Refining, excessive blood-qi growth can lower the multiplier. Chen Lie deliberately keeps his value near 3,000 Ka while strengthening his foundation 491.
• Opening the Mortal Aperture fixes the multiplier: ordinary cultivation and rare treasures can no longer raise it, but additional blood qi no longer lowers it either 491.
• The Void Heaven Demon Force provides an exceptional later transformation. Despite the previously fixed multiplier, it improves Chen Lie’s foundation enough for him to cross from 15.99-fold to sixteenfold strength 521 522.

Blood-Qi Extreme Realms

Extreme Realms are qualitative transformations of the body and its life level, not simply high detector readings. On Blue Star, their cultivation methods were introduced from the Outer Stars only a little over twenty years before the university lectures 89 292.

Extreme Realm	Defining characteristics
First / Small Extreme Realm — Marrow Refining Like Mercury, Blood-Qi Like Slurry	Refined blood qi becomes slurry-like. Life-level ascension produces stronger senses, vitality, recovery, and pressure on other people 89 200 201.
Second / Great Extreme Realm — Blood-Qi Transforming into Rainbow, Surging Against the Heavens	Blood qi manifests as a rising rainbow; cultivation centers on opening and refining bodily apertures 200 373.
Third / Supreme Extreme Realm — Blood-Qi Like Sea, Blazing as the Sun	Reached through the Life Aperture. The body can rival a juvenile Starry Sky Behemoth, with secret arts enabling physical contests against such creatures 167 200 373.

Refinement Requirements for Apertures

The multiplier established in the first Extreme Realm limits which apertures a cultivator can open 373.

Strength multiplier	Aperture potential
Eightfold	Generally limited to Mortal and Spirit Apertures
Ninefold or higher	Chance to open the Earth Aperture
Tenfold	Chance to open the Heaven Aperture
Elevenfold	Can open the Primordial Aperture
Twelvefold	Chance to open the Divine Aperture
Fifteenfold	Chance to open the Life Aperture and reach the third Extreme Realm

These are refinement requirements, not guaranteed breakthroughs at a particular Blood Qi Value. A cultivator with more than 3,000 Ka may still lack the necessary qualitative transformation 89 373.

Notable Recorded Values

Cultivator	Blood Qi Value	Context
Chen Lie	0.93 Ka	Early school test report 2.
Chen Xingyao	0.91 Ka	Already above 0.9 at fifteen, marking her as unusually capable for her age 2.
Li Xianyu	0.98	Certified result after learning Cloud Smoke Steps; up from 0.91 a few days earlier 26.
Shen Miaowei	2,677.88	Public test during a display of life-level pressure; she has reached the first Extreme Realm 72 80.
Chen Lie	1,007.68 Ka	Completion of the first Extreme Realm, accompanied by 10,381.88 jun of physical strength 200.
Luo Zhixun	2,400 Ka	Reported after completing Skin Refining and Muscle Refining 200.
Chen Lie	3,036.11 Ka	Paired with 48,546.76 jun, approximately 15.99-fold strength 450 451.
Chen Lie	4,572 Ka	Blood-qi growth after entering the Spirit Aperture Stage; physical strength reaches 73,106 jun 491.
Chen Lie	20,000 cards	Final recorded Blood-Qi Stage peak, reached by refining another 200,000 jin of pure Divine Source 542.

Institutional Uses

• Training-camp admission: East River Province’s Genius Training Camp requires 200, while even 300 does not guarantee entry in Yunchuan without adequate Strength Value 153.
• Food restrictions: Training-camp dishes are categorized by blood-qi suitability: brown plates for values above 3, red plates for values above 30, and Beast Bone Wine for three-digit values 153.
• Competition brackets: A Provincial Genius Group competition uses 1,500 as a division cutoff to separate stronger veterans from less-developed members 207.
• Star Alliance exemptions: Trainees above 700 cards are exempt from its point demands; those above 680 may also qualify with sufficient refinement and B-Rank martial proficiency 132.
• Combat assessment: Blood Qi Value does not determine results by itself. Chen Lie defeats opponents with substantially greater blood qi through refinement, conditioning, technique, and Mental Power 132 376.

Transition to True Qi

Blood qi supplies the foundation for refining essence into qi. Its amount and the Strength Value multiplier determine Essence Qi quantity, while the number of blood temperings determines quality 545.

Blood-qi foundation	Stated Essence Qi yield
1 card at onefold strength	1 strand
1 card at tenfold strength	10 strands
10 cards at tenfold strength	100 strands

Chen Lie’s 20,000-card foundation, sixteenfold strength, repeated tempering, Divine Apertures, and other enhancements allow him to cultivate 3,101,890 strands of Essence Qi. He merges three million strands into Origin Qi, which begins producing True Qi in his Three Dantians 545.