Wind Empress Qimen

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Wind Empress Qimen
Original	风后奇门
Type	Inheritance-type soul skill; a method of understanding and controlling change 13 19
Primary User	Yang Xing, as his eighth soul-ring skill 9
Known Inheritor	Ning Rongrong 18 19
Occupation/Role	All-purpose combat, control, mobility, transformation, environmental-manipulation, perception, deduction, and concealment technique
Status	Active
First Appearance	Chapter 12: “The Unspeakable Power of Wind Empress Qimen”

Power Progression

Chapter(s)	User	Advancement / Demonstration
9	Yang Xing	Assigns Wind Empress Qimen to his eighth soul-ring slot after choosing the Eight Extraordinary Skills. 9
12	Yang Xing	Reveals the technique’s broad foundational applications: elemental creation, bodily transformation, spatial and temporal control, and material alteration within a formation. 12
18–19	Ning Rongrong	Selects the technique as her first inherited skill and receives its knowledge directly through Yang Xing’s innate one qi. 18 19
20–21	Yang Xing	Tests its destructive elemental output, time reversal on a burned tree, and long-range spatial displacement. 20 21
27	Ning Rongrong	Makes her first recorded combat use, spatially displacing herself out of Zhao Wuji’s seismic area attack. 27
30–36	Ning Rongrong	Develops movement applications by reducing resistance and altering terrain, then uses repeated spatial displacements to evade Dai Mubai and Li Yusong. 30 35 36
54–56	Yang Xing / Ning Rongrong	Yang Xing demonstrates superior spatial control against Gu Rong and uses fine temporal adjustment to cultivate the Blue Silver Emperor seedling; Ning Rongrong’s extended use continues to reveal mental strain. 54 56
62–63	Ning Rongrong	Undertakes further transformation training under Yang Xing and displays increasingly refined spatial movement and perception. 62 63
72	Ning Rongrong	Learns to conceal the evolved Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda by maintaining its former Seven Treasure appearance, gaining an additional illusion-based application. 72
105	Ning Rongrong	Uses the fully unfolded formation for precise battlefield prediction and team command during the Huangdou Team battle. 105
117–120	Ning Rongrong	Demonstrates mature ranged elemental combat, combined earth-and-fire techniques, defensive earth walls, white flames, and the ability to defeat multiple Shrek teammates when fully unleashing the skill alongside her pagoda’s enhancements. 117 118 119 120
125	Yang Xing / Ning Rongrong	Yang Xing continues personally instructing Ning Rongrong in Wind Empress Qimen’s cultivation principles alongside his other disciples. 125
131	Yang Xing	Uses the technique’s inner landscape and deductive capacity to determine the most compatible times to approach Hu Liena and Shui Bing’er for discipleship. 131
133	Ning Rongrong	Begins intensive coordination training for the formation’s Heaven and Earth Plates and demonstrates spatial folding while sparring Xiao Wu. 133
135	Yang Xing / Ning Rongrong	Yang Xing precisely cancels Ning Rongrong’s instinctive spatial escape with matching spatial ripples when she awakens after her abduction. 135
146	Yang Xing	Reassesses his plan to recruit Hu Liena through Wind Empress Qimen’s deduction, concluding that the planned inheritance-ring approach is not optimal. 146
148	Yang Xing	Freezes the surrounding time and space during his private discussion with Hu Liena, immobilizing her Soul Douluo guardians and the forest environment. 148
157	Yang Xing	Uses the technique to calculate the most suitable location for planting the newly created Blue Silver Emperor at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. 157
176	Ning Rongrong	Uses the technique to dry herself immediately after emerging from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. 176
183–184	Ning Rongrong	Coordinates the positions and fighting rhythms of her seven-person team, then uses named fire and wind applications—including Li—Crimson Refinement and Xun—Wind Mirror—in battle against the Fierce God Team. 183 184
202	Ning Rongrong	Demonstrates elemental, spatial, and time-related techniques against Zhu Zhuqing, then fights Xiao Wu to a standstill using a broader range of elemental and spatial abilities. 202
222	Yang Xing	Transports Qian Renxue to the Far North and shifts them again from the air to a snowy slope. 222

Abilities & Skills

Formation of Change

Wind Empress Qimen establishes a formation beneath the user’s feet, with the user acting as its central focal point. Within its effective area, it governs changes to elements, space, time, and material form. 12 19

• Manipulates the generation and restraint of the Five Elements.
• Alters spatial positions and physical properties of matter.
• Can make minute adjustments to the flow of time. 12 19 20
• Its core principle is not a fixed technique, but a teachable method of comprehending “change.” 13
• Its practice centers on fixing the Central Palace, shifting the Four Plates, and discerning the underlying laws governing phenomena. 78
• The Four Plates include the Heaven, Earth, Human, and Spirit Plates; Ning Rongrong has begun dedicated training in coordinating the Heaven and Earth Plates. 120 133
• The formation’s perception can monitor subtle energy changes within a controlled environment, including the flow of ice-fire energy through Xiao Wu’s body during her body tempering. 99
• Yang Xing can use the formation to freeze a localized area of time and space, rendering people and environmental motion within it motionless. 148

Elemental Manipulation

Yang Xing demonstrated control over fire, water, ice, earth, lightning, wind, light, and darkness as applications of the same soul skill. 12

• Creates and transforms elemental matter directly.
• Produces offensive wind blades capable of piercing a wooden roof and felling trees. 12 20
• Can create large-scale fire and lightning effects in combat. 20
• Ning Rongrong can alter air temperature on a small scale and create tiny whirlwinds through fine control. 30
• Ning Rongrong can launch continuous fireballs, ice spikes, and wind blades while repositioning around an opponent. 117
• She can combine earth and fire manipulation into mixed attacks, create earthen walls, and release destructive white flames after amplifying herself through the Radiant Bird. 118 119
• Ning Rongrong’s Li—Crimson Refinement concentrates fire and soul power into a close-range palm strike; her Xun—Wind Mirror forms a wind blade more than three meters long. 184
• In a later spar with Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong displays wind, rain, thunder, lightning, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth manipulation. 202

Spatial Movement

The skill enables abrupt spatial displacement and high-speed movement.

• Yang Xing uses it for long-range flight, aerial travel, and repeated spatial jumps. 20 21 55 56
• Ning Rongrong uses it to evade Zhao Wuji’s area attack and Li Yusong’s staff strikes. 27 35 36
• Yang Xing’s spatial control overwhelms Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon-derived spatial abilities and can transfer targets over great distances. 49 54 58
• Ning Rongrong can apply spatial folding in combat to supplement her pagoda-enhanced mobility against stronger close-range opponents. 133
• Yang Xing can cancel Ning Rongrong’s spatial movement by producing identical spatial ripples with greater control. 135
• Repeated displacement is highly draining for Ning Rongrong at her current cultivation, exhausting her after several consecutive uses. 36
• Ning Rongrong can use successive short-range shifts to traverse hazardous terrain, including a cliff face near the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. 63
• Wind Empress Qimen’s spatial folding cannot directly cross several thousand li in a single movement; Yang Xing combines it with the Rabbit Talisman’s extreme speed when he requires travel on that scale. 149
• Yang Xing uses spatial shifts to take Qian Renxue to the Far North and reposition them within its frozen landscape. 222

Perception, Prediction, and Concealment

Wind Empress Qimen grants perception beyond ordinary sensory awareness by allowing its user to observe changes, positional relationships, and possible developments within a formation. 63 105

• Ning Rongrong experiences an instinctive perception of the threads of her own fate, which led her to recognize the Qiluo Tulip as an opportunity meant for her future. 63
• With the formation fully unfolded, Ning Rongrong can make millisecond-level predictions of battlefield flow and issue precise movement commands to her allies. 105
• During the Huangdou Team battle, she functioned as the Shrek team’s second tactical core while the Radiant Bird assumed the burden of auxiliary output. 105
• Yang Xing uses its deductive function to calculate future opportunities and compatibility, including the optimal times to contact Hu Liena and Shui Bing’er. 131
• He can reconsider and alter a planned course of action after using the technique to evaluate likely outcomes, as he does before approaching Hu Liena. 146
• Yang Xing taught Ning Rongrong to use the technique to conceal her Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s evolution by continuing to manifest it as a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. 72
• Her success in concealing the pagoda’s true form also gave her an illusion-based application of Wind Empress Qimen. 72
• Yang Xing uses the technique’s calculations to devise Xiao Wu’s ice-fire body-tempering plan, then monitors the herbs’ energy as it moves through her body. 99
• Ning Rongrong can bring teammates’ positions, movements, and offensive and defensive rhythms into coordinated battlefield control. 183

Transformation

Within the formation, the user can alter their own body and the form of matter.

• Yang Xing transformed into a bird, snake, rabbit, humanoid flame, humanoid water, and a massive bird-type soul beast. 12
• He states that the technique allows the user to alter their body at will within the controlled space. 12
• Ning Rongrong considers using it to transform into soul beasts, though she prefers aesthetically pleasing forms. 33
• Yang Xing has used transformation exercises to train Ning Rongrong’s control over the technique, including changing her into various objects. 62

Mobility and Environmental Control

Ning Rongrong applies Wind Empress Qimen to movement by modifying her surroundings rather than relying on physical endurance. 26 30 33

• Reduces wind resistance and increases glide or slipperiness beneath her feet.
• Changes the ground’s elasticity to improve jumping and acceleration. 30
• Completed ten village laps while Oscar had not finished one; her stamina expenditure was negligible. 30 31
• Uses real-time changes to terrain, airflow, temperature, hardness, and elasticity to evade Dai Mubai. 35
• Her movement applications allow her to kite more physically powerful opponents while maintaining elemental pressure from range. 117
• She can use the technique for minor practical effects, such as drying herself after leaving the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. 176

Temporal and Natural Restoration

Yang Xing tested the skill’s time-control aspect by reversing a burned tree to a growing state, producing new shoots from the ashes. 20

• Can fine-tune time flow within a prepared area. 19 56
• Yang Xing used it alongside talismans to regulate spiritual-energy concentration around the Blue Silver Emperor seedling. 56
• Yang Xing can freeze time and space within a localized area, halting the movement of people, wind, birds, and falling leaves. 148
• He uses the technique’s calculation function to identify suitable environmental arrangements, including a planting position for the newly formed Blue Silver Emperor. 157
• Ning Rongrong includes time-related techniques among the abilities she displays while sparring Zhu Zhuqing. 202

Limitations

• The technique is an inheritance skill restricted by Yang Xing: Ning Rongrong cannot explain it verbally or pass it to another person. 19
• Its effects depend on the user’s own soul power rather than Yang Xing’s soul ring or martial soul. 13
• Ning Rongrong’s spatial displacements consume substantial soul power and can cause pronounced physical weakness. 36
• Even after restoring her soul power, extended use leaves Ning Rongrong mentally exhausted. 54
• Ning Rongrong ordinarily restrains the technique’s output because she considers its fully unleashed power dangerous to her fellow students. 120
• Despite its great versatility, Ning Rongrong’s use remains incomplete: she relies on a small number of fixed spatial movements and repetitive elemental combinations, while the Human and Spirit Plates remain undeveloped. 120
• Wind Empress Qimen’s spatial folding alone cannot directly bridge distances of several thousand li. 149
• Yang Xing received a system-granted temperament that allows him to withstand the skill’s price; the exact nature of that price is not specified. 12

Known Users

• Yang Xing — Original demonstrated user; assigned Wind Empress Qimen to his eighth soul ring after choosing the Eight Extraordinary Skills. 9
• Ning Rongrong — Chose the technique as her first lesson from Yang Xing and received its knowledge through his innate one qi. 18 19

Story Role / Major Arcs

• Yang Xing reveals Wind Empress Qimen to Ning Rongrong after she dismisses his transformations as street performances. His elemental displays, bodily transformations, and roof-piercing wind blade overturn her assessment of him. 12
• He explains that the technique can be taught as an inheritance, using Ning Rongrong’s interest in its offensive, defensive, and mobility potential to persuade her to become his disciple. 13 16
• Ning Rongrong selects Wind Empress Qimen over Yang Xing’s other teachable skills because it suits her support-type martial soul and provides both attack and defense. 18
• After inheriting it, Ning Rongrong uses spatial displacement during Shrek Academy’s entrance test against Zhao Wuji, revealing that she has means of self-protection beyond the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. 27
• She later publicly identifies the skill to her classmates, describing its control over elemental forces, spatial movement, and material transformations. 29
• The skill allows Ning Rongrong to evade Dai Mubai and repeatedly escape attacks from the Soul Emperor Li Yusong, though the latter encounter exposes the limits of her soul-power reserves. 35 36
• Yang Xing employs its superior spatial control during his clash with Gu Rong, using it to dominate the Bone Douluo’s spatial abilities. 48 49 54
• Yang Xing uses the technique’s temporal and environmental control in preparations surrounding the Blue Silver Emperor seedling, demonstrating that its applications extend beyond battle. 56
• Ning Rongrong’s growing mastery enables her to conceal the evolution of her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, preserving the sect’s secret. 72
• Yang Xing calculates a plan to rebuild Xiao Wu’s cultivation foundation with immortal herbs and ice-fire body tempering, using the formation to supervise the process. 99
• During the Huangdou Team match, Ning Rongrong uses Wind Empress Qimen’s predictive capacity to direct the Shrek Seven Monsters’ movements with exceptional precision. 105
• In Shrek’s later combat assessment, Ning Rongrong uses the technique’s full offensive and control potential to prevail over multiple teammate combinations, establishing herself as far more than a conventional support-type soul master. 117 118 119 120
• Yang Xing identifies Ning Rongrong’s lack of coordination between the formation’s Four Plates and begins further cultivation guidance, later assigning her intensive Heaven-and-Earth-Plate coordination training. 120 125 133
• Ning Rongrong’s instinctive attempt to escape after Yu Luomian abducts her is neutralized by Yang Xing’s superior spatial control, emphasizing the difference between her developing mastery and his own. 135
• Yang Xing uses Wind Empress Qimen’s deduction to plan his disciple-recruitment efforts, first calculating optimal opportunities for Hu Liena and Shui Bing’er, then revising his planned approach to Hu Liena. 131 146
• During his encounter with Hu Liena, Yang Xing freezes the surrounding time and space to isolate their discussion from her Soul Douluo guardians and the surrounding forest. 148
• Yang Xing later applies the technique’s environmental calculation to establish the newly created Blue Silver Emperor at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. 157
• Ning Rongrong subsequently coordinates her team’s movements in battle and uses concentrated fire and wind attacks against members of the Fierce God Team. 183 184
• Bibi Dong observes Ning Rongrong’s elemental, spatial, and time-related techniques during her spars with Zhu Zhuqing and Xiao Wu. When questioned afterward, Ning Rongrong names Wind Empress Qimen but declines to explain the details of her master’s inheritance. 202 203
• Yang Xing uses spatial movement while accompanying Qian Renxue to the Far North for her next soul ring. 222