True Qi

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Original Name:真气 (zhēn qì)Gender:NeutralKind:ConceptScope:Novel-specificStatus:ActiveSource:AIOccurrences:93Chapters:18
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Name True Qi
Original Name 真气
Type Cultivated internal energy 4 6
Known Form Nine Nether True Qi, produced through the Nine Nether Art 4 10
Known User Zhang Yao 4
Role Cultivation resource, skill fuel, and source of bodily reinforcement 4 7 10 15
System Display Blue resource bar beneath health in the Attribute Panel 6 7
First Appearance First explicitly cultivated by Zhang Yao in Chapter 4 4

Power Progression

The following records Zhang Yao’s documented True Qi development, separately from his character levels.

Stage / Realm / Level Chapter Notes
Entry into qi drawing into the body 4 After eight months of practice, Zhang Yao senses his first current of True Qi in his dantian. His first successful breathing session doubles it; subsequent sessions produce negligible gains.
50 True Qi 6 After the Guiding Stone drains his reserves, cultivation in the Chosen One’s Hall restores them to twice their former amount. The blue resource bar appears, and his qi becomes easier to control.
80 True Qi 7 Comprehending Fetal Breath Technique grants +30 True Qi, alongside constitution and spirit bonuses.
85 True Qi 15 16 Merging 20 points of newly acquired battle aura into True Qi grants +5 True Qi, removes the separate battle-aura resource, and mutates Basic Battle Aura.
Heart-based qi discovered 27 Zhang Yao finds a wisp of Nine Nether True Qi near his heart. He attributes it to assimilated battle aura and begins nourishing it with absorbed spiritual energy.
90 True Qi 30 Overnight cultivation adds five points, but a painfully swollen dantian prevents comfortable continued accumulation.
92 True Qi 30 He exhausts his reserves through Concealment Technique and mutated Basic Battle Aura, then replenishes them. The successful experiment also increases both skills’ proficiency.
502 True Qi 31 A month of secluded cultivation raises his reserves to approximately 500; the panel lists 502. Both qi-consuming skills reach level 3.
600 True Qi 49 His panel records 600 True Qi while his Nine Netherworlds talent remains at the first layer.

Nature and Cultivation

Formation and Storage

  • Regulated breathing and cultivation draw spiritual energy through the skin, muscles, and internal organs into the dantian, where it becomes True Qi 6.
  • Qi normally circulates within Zhang Yao’s dantian but can flow into injured areas or throughout his body 4 10 50.
  • After battle-aura assimilation, cultivation feeds both the dantian and a smaller heart-based reserve 27 34.
  • Character leveling does not increase True Qi. His reserve remains at 80 through several early level gains 7 10 11 14.
  • Increasing his reserves in the Chosen One’s Hall does not immediately change his basic attributes 6.

Environmental Differences

Location Cultivation Conditions
Zhang Yao’s original world Spiritual energy is so sparse that he estimates a full day and night may not refill his dantian. During his visit home, he prioritizes refining True Qi rather than repeatedly spending it on skills 37.
Rodos Dense spiritual energy allows him to refill his dantian in under two hours. He estimates that accumulation requiring one or two years at home could take one or two months here 27 37.

Expenditure-and-Replenishment Training

  • A full dantian causes swelling pain and initially forces Zhang Yao to pause cultivation 6 27 30.
  • He develops a repeatable cycle: consume True Qi with skills, cultivate to replenish it, then repeat. This increases his reserves while also building skill proficiency 30.
  • Activating level-1 Concealment Technique and mutated Basic Battle Aura together exhausts his 90-point reserve in one minute 30.
  • He later observes that sustaining the swelling ache benefits his dantian’s expansion and nourishment, continuing until he can no longer endure it 34.

Acupoints and Realm Advancement

  • Opening the lesser celestial circuit is required to advance from qi drawing into the body to body tempering with qi 4.
  • Body tempering promises major physical changes through Nine Nether True Qi nourishment and permits practice of the Nine Nether Yin Wind Step 4.
  • Zhang Yao sets a personal target of 5,000 True Qi before attempting to open every acupoint along the conception and governing vessels in one continuous push. This is his chosen safety margin, not the art’s minimum requirement 39.
  • He diverts absorbed energy into nourishing his meridians to ease the breakthroughs and reduce the danger of forceful qi rupturing them 39.
  • His latest recorded panel still lists Nine Netherworlds, first layer; the second-layer breakthrough has not been documented 49.

Abilities & Skills

Fetal Breath Technique

True Qi replaces breathing through the mouth and nose with breathing through the pores 7 8.

  • Awakens instinctively when Zhang Yao is near drowning, restoring his clarity as bubbles emerge from his skin 7.
  • Enables him to remain underwater and attack opponents who cannot survive submerged 8 9.
  • Is self-comprehended and explicitly cannot be upgraded; no numerical qi-consumption rate is given 7 8.

Injury Relief and Bodily Reinforcement

Nine Nether True Qi can respond to physical injury and reinforce Zhang Yao during combat 10 50.

  • Flows from his dantian into his injured chest, producing a cooling sensation and easing internal pain after repeated kicks 10.
  • Helps him maintain his grip despite the injury; this scene demonstrates pain relief rather than complete healing 10.
  • Circulating dantian True Qi alongside heart-based Mutant Battle Aura produces a qualitative increase in strength and speed during his attempted escape from the Ironblood Brotherhood 50.

Concealment Technique

This shadow-based support skill uses True Qi as its operating resource 12.

Skill Level True Qi Cost Movement Penalty Restrictions
Level 1 1 every 2 seconds Speed reduced by 90% Attacking cancels concealment; unusable in illuminated areas; 180-second cooldown 12 30.
Level 3 1 every 3 seconds Speed reduced by 80% The same attack, lighting, and cooldown restrictions remain 31.
  • Provides concealment for ambushes and escape while doubling as a means of deliberately spending qi during cultivation 12 30 34.

Battle Aura Assimilation

The system identifies True Qi as a higher-grade energy of the same type as battle aura, allowing the two to merge 15.

Version Strength Bonus Agility Bonus Defense Bonus Resource Cost
Original Basic Battle Aura, level 1 +5% +5% +10% 2 battle aura per second 15.
Mutated Basic Battle Aura, level 1 +20% +20% +20% 1 True Qi per second 15.
Mutated Basic Battle Aura, level 3 +30% +30% +30% 1 True Qi every 2 seconds 31.
  • The merger raises the level-1 proficiency requirement from 100 to 500, trading slower skill advancement for stronger effects 15.
  • Advancing the mutated skill to levels 2 and 3 grants one constitution point per advancement 31.
  • Both the original and mutated versions have no cooldown 15 31.
  • Guiding Stone — Absorbs and completely drains Zhang Yao’s True Qi before his cultivation session in the Chosen One’s Hall 4 6.
  • Bewitching Siren Boots — Their attached Afterimage skill costs 5 True Qi to create a stationary, non-attacking decoy lasting three seconds; its cooldown is 300 seconds 15.

Appearances

93
Total Mentions
18
Chapters Appeared
5.17
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