Wind Empress Qimen

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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

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

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
• Repeated displacement is highly draining for Ning Rongrong at her current cultivation, exhausting her after several consecutive uses. 36

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

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

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

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
• 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