Ji Water

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Ji Water (箕水)
Alias(es)	Fountain-Spray Water; Water of Fine Winds 259
Occupation/Role	A Water Virtue cultivation lineage and Fang Qing's principal cultivation path 166
Status	Active; its principal position is held by Mysterious Void Subtle True Lord 399
First Appearance	Chapter 76

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Wind Takes Its Place Dao Foundation	112	Fang Qing cultivated the Profound Listening Cave Spring Scripture to the ninth layer of Qi Ingestion and formed this Ji Water Dao Foundation.
Mid-stage Dao Foundation	141	After consuming a Life Spring Pill, Fang Qing deepened the Wind Takes Its Place Dao Foundation and completed his breakthrough.
Purple Palace True Person	257	Fang Qing transformed his divine abilities through the Dao Birth Pearl and became a true Ji Water Purple Palace True Person.
Mid-stage Purple Palace	303	Fang Qing successfully advanced and began testing the compatibility of his divine abilities through the Dao Birth Pearl.
Ji Water Great True Person	359	He compiled and elevated Primal Spring Ripples, forming a stable three-divine-ability structure and attracting the attention of the Ji Water Golden Position.
Four-Method Great True Person	412	By achieving Moon in the Well, Fang Qing completed Ji Water's four functions—birth, concealment, storage, and illusion—and gained the threshold to Seek Gold.

Nature and Symbolism

Ji Water is one of the Water Virtue lineages alongside Shen, Zhen, and Wall Water 269. It is associated with springs, timely rain, ponds, marshes, wind, downward-moistening, and the nurturing of life amid mist and vapor 99 412.

Aspect	Ji Water significance
Wind	Ji Water favors wind; this relationship produces the imagery of “Ji Wind.” 99
Rain	Ji Wind and Bi Rain complement one another, creating conditions suited to water-method alchemy. 99 166
Water's Birth	Represents life, growth, spring rain, and primordial springs. 359
Water's Concealment	Represents hiding, evasion, and preservation. 230 359
Water's Storage	Represents containing and gathering water, with the sea embracing a hundred rivers as its image. 230
Water's Illusion	Represents the mutual transformation of reality and illusion, ultimately embodied by Moon in the Well. 230 400

Cultivation Characteristics

• Ji Water Dao Foundations require spiritual objects compatible with the practitioner's specific imagery and profundity; an item suitable for one Ji Water foundation may be ineffective for another. 76
• Fang Qing's original Ji Water foundation, Enduring Sweet Rain, required compatible objects such as Sweet Origin Spring Water, Earth-Surging Origin Water, or Heavenly Wind Spirit Spring. 76
• Ji Water is particularly suited to life, concealment, storage, illusion, healing, spirit-water collection, and water-method alchemy rather than direct combat. 230
• Water Virtue is commonly considered dim and vulnerable to restraint, causing some practitioners to avoid specializing in Ji Water alone. 259
• Completing four compatible Purple Palace divine abilities is necessary before a Ji Water cultivator can Seek Gold. 230 412

Cultivation Arts

Cultivation Art	Dao Foundation / Divine Ability	Notes
Book of Black Mausoleum Observation	Enduring Sweet Rain	Fang Qing's early Ji Water foundation; its compatible breakthrough resources are narrowly defined. 76
Profound Listening Cave Spring Scripture	Wind Takes Its Place	Fang Qing's main Ji Water inheritance; he cultivated it step by step rather than through forced conversion. 166 238
Forest Stream Sees Deer Art	Forest's Edge	A Ji Water Purple Palace art obtained from the Eastern Water Bai Clan through Sangji. 230
Long Sweet Rain Scripture	Long Sweet Rain	The Eastern Water Bai Clan's renowned divine-ability inheritance, capable of turning light heavy and motion still. 225
Primal Spring Ripples	Primal Spring Ripples	A Ji Water art compiled by Fang Qing as an orthodox-style inheritance representing Water's Birth. 301 359
Water Marsh Cloudglow Scripture	Shadow in Water	A new Ji Water art Fang Qing began creating after abandoning Moon in the Well; it remained incomplete. 441

Divine Abilities

Long Sweet Rain

A Water's Birth divine ability associated with spring rain, growth, nourishment, and the transformation between turbidity and clarity. 225 359

• Enhances the healing quality of sweet rainwater. 141
• Accelerates the growth of plants when used through spiritual rain techniques. 141
• Can make objects cold and heavy, turning motion into stillness. 225
• Was the Eastern Water Bai Clan's famous Ji Water divine ability. 225

Wind Takes Its Place

A Water's Storage divine ability that embodies Ji Water's affinity with wind and the image of containing a hundred rivers. 99 230

• Greatly strengthens the Swift Wind Shadowless Escape art. 141
• Enables short-range shifting and transfer comparable to teleportation. 141
• Benefits movement techniques when invoked through the incantation “Ji's light protects the body.” 194
• Served as Fang Qing's most natural and familiar Ji Water divine ability because he cultivated it personally. 238

Forest's Edge

A Water's Concealment divine ability derived from the Forest Stream Sees Deer Art. 230

• Initially conceals the cultivator's presence. 230
• At the divine-ability level, can evade death and prolong life. 230
• Was central to Bai Mu's attempt to conceal his survival and preserve his cultivation. 230

Primal Spring Ripples

A Water's Birth divine ability compiled by Fang Qing to better express Ji Water's original intent. 301 359

• Represents Ji Water becoming sweet rain in heaven and primordial springs in earth. 359
• Forms ripples that spread outward, gathering auspicious qi and encouraging the flourishing of grass and trees. 359
• Allowed Fang Qing to become a Ji Water Great True Person when combined with his other compatible divine abilities. 359

Moon in the Well

A Water's Illusion divine ability manifested externally as Jade Pivot Undying Palace. 400

• Reflects the moon within well water, storing secluded subtleties in a clear and cold illusion. 400
• Possesses the mysteries of flowing downward, evading and departing, and transforming yin forces. 400
• Completed Fang Qing's four-method Ji Water structure and enabled his immediate breakthrough to Four-Method Great True Person. 412
• Its affinity with the Great Yin made it vulnerable to outside influence; Fang Qing later dispersed it back into primal qi through the Dao Birth Pearl. 436

Associated Items

• Wondrous Spring Purifying Vase — A Dao Foundation Buddhist artifact made with Ji Water spiritual items. It preserves spiritual water unchanged for ages, gathers water veins, and improved Fang Qing's Ji Water cultivation. 140
• Juntian Pot — A Ji Water spirit artifact capable of collecting water veins; it was later found to contain a trace of Ji Water bloodline. 138 306
• Clear Spirit Spring / Spirit-Rhino Jade Rinse — A Purple Palace spiritual item suitable for a Ji Water Dao Foundation cultivator to forge divine abilities. 240 244
• Life Spring Pill — The pill Fang Qing used to break through from early to mid-stage Ji Water Dao Foundation. 141
• Floating Cloud Mystic Clarity — A Purple Palace spiritual fluid used to accelerate the completion of Ji Water divine abilities. 309

Notable Practitioners and Lineages

• Fang Qing — Ji Water is his primary cultivation lineage. He successively cultivated Wind Takes Its Place, Forest's Edge, Primal Spring Ripples, and Moon in the Well. 166 359 412
• Eastern Water Bai Clan — A hereditary Ji Water clan that produced three True Persons and cultivated a treasure ground rich in Ji Water springs and spiritual objects. 191
• Bai Mu — A former mid-stage Purple Palace True Person of the Bai Clan whose Ji Water attainments and Long Sweet Rain inheritance served as a reference for Fang Qing. 230
• Fang Clan of Azure Separation Mountain — A family long associated with Ji Water; one of its geniuses successfully condensed the Long Sweet Rain Dao Foundation. 299 396
• Mysterious Void Subtle True Lord — The holder of Ji Water's principal position and master of White Ze Attendant God. 399

Limitations

• Different Ji Water cultivation arts can conflict at the Purple Palace stage; Fang Qing found that maintaining three unrelated Ji Water methods together was nearly impossible. 299
• A Ji Water cultivator must select divine abilities that complement one another, or risk having their path to later Purple Palace stages cut off. 273
• Ji Water's Water's Illusion divine ability is especially significant for completing the four-method structure, but Moon in the Well carried a dangerous affinity with the Great Yin. 412 436
• Ji Water is less favored at sea than Zhen Water. 304