Void
The Beheaded in Genshin ImpactContents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Nature and Origins
- 4Internal Structure
- 5Abilities & Skills
- 5.1Assimilation and Devouring
- 5.2Evolution and Ability Acquisition
- 5.3Imagined Effects and Creation
- 5.4Memory Analysis and Ley Line Integration
- 5.5Healing, Resurrection, and Continued Existence
- 5.6Tendrils, Restraint, and Gateways
- 6Void Eyes and Technology
- 6.1Void Eyes
- 6.2Void Armor
- 7Void Creatures
- 8Associated Entities
- 9Terminology
Contents
- 1Biodata
- 2Power Progression
- 3Nature and Origins
- 4Internal Structure
- 5Abilities & Skills
- 5.1Assimilation and Devouring
- 5.2Evolution and Ability Acquisition
- 5.3Imagined Effects and Creation
- 5.4Memory Analysis and Ley Line Integration
- 5.5Healing, Resurrection, and Continued Existence
- 5.6Tendrils, Restraint, and Gateways
- 6Void Eyes and Technology
- 6.1Void Eyes
- 6.2Void Armor
- 7Void Creatures
- 8Associated Entities
- 9Terminology
Biodata
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | Void (虚空) |
| Classification | Evolving power, extradimensional domain, and eventual nascent universe 95 205 260 |
| Controller | Jiang Xiaofeng, worshipped by its followers as the Void God 126 198 |
| Core | Void Heart; a later Void Heart serves as the domain’s black-light “sun” 95 158 |
| Origin | Linked to the Void Heart from Hollow Knight and the Abyss; Jiang Xiaofeng does not understand how the Heart became connected to Teyvat’s Abyss 92 95 |
| Associated Groups | Void creatures, Void Eye bearers, Void Knights, and the Void Church 65 137 164 |
| Status | Developing as an incomplete universe, with a separate world bubble containing the Void Sea and Mechanical City 205 260 |
Power Progression
| Stage / Realm / Level | Chapter | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Abyssal conversion | 63 | The Void Heart accepts Abyss power, which circulates through Jiang Xiaofeng and becomes purified energy. The Philosopher’s Stone resists excessive corrosion. |
| Birth of independent creatures | 65 | Converted power left in the Abyss produces three surviving Void creatures after numerous short-lived attempts. |
| Evolution and imagined abilities understood | 95 | After nearly ten subjective years of study, Jiang Xiaofeng discovers continual evolution, genuine undying existence within the Abyss, and the ability to enact imagined effects through Void Power. |
| Void Eyes established | 104 | Jiang Xiaofeng creates a distributable source of Void Power. Eyes also appear on people he has resurrected or previously empowered. |
| Replication database expanded | 149 | Absorbed creatures and gods supply physical data and abilities, allowing exact replicas of gods and Abyss Heralds to be produced. |
| Void Heart “sun” created | 158 | Jiang Xiaofeng extracts an alternate Teyvat’s Abyss and combines it with Kingsoul, forming another Void Heart that illuminates the domain with black light. |
| Mechanical technology integrated | 182 | Ark and Zea’s technology is analyzed, mechanical patterns appear on the Heart-sun, and the Void incorporates the AllSpark and produces Transformers from Void Power. |
| Self-contained world bubble formed | 205 | Absorbing the Golden Fruit and Helheim Forest enables Jiang Xiaofeng to organize a world containing the Void Sea, Mechanical City, a restored island kingdom, and an Irminsul-like network. |
| Incomplete universe formed | 260 | After obtaining the final Mind Stone, the Void outside the world bubble undergoes phenomena resembling a Big Bang and cosmic collapse, becoming a slowly evolving universe. |
Nature and Origins
- Connection to the Abyss: The Void Heart is described as a product of the entire Abyss and receives its protection. This makes its holder genuinely undying while within the Abyss—even Jiang Xiaofeng cannot kill himself there 95.
- Distinct from Elemental Power: Void Power can imitate elemental effects without being Elemental Power. Lumine confirms this after producing black hurricanes, Starfell Swords, and lightning through a Void Eye 164.
- A domain under active control: The Void stores captives, creatures, collected bodies, and research materials. It also responds to Jiang Xiaofeng’s orders, including opening a gateway to swallow and analyze the Strium Ray 185 197 200.
- Not inherently safe: Jiang Xiaofeng gives The Collector a Void Eye specifically to prevent the domain from devouring him during experiments 200.
Internal Structure
Jiang Xiaofeng’s constructed world is only a bubble within the larger Void, not the entirety of it 205.
| Region / Feature | Function |
|---|---|
| Void Heart sun | Illuminates the domain with black light and remains the sun of the constructed world 158 205. |
| Void Sea | Upper region inhabited by Void creatures and followers. Vast quantities of Void Power lie beneath its surface, with creatures drifting through it like fish 205. |
| Mechanical City | Lower region inhabited by silicon-based lifeforms; stores collected creatures’ “genes” and serves as a research site 205. |
| Network and Void’s Irminsul | Ark and Zea build a network modeled on the Akasha. A black tree crosses the sea and city, linking the Void to its followers 205. |
| Island kingdom | The previously destroyed kingdom is restored above the Void Sea. A Void-made Gatanothor beneath it attracts Void creatures and emits signals that awaken their intelligence 205. |
| Helheim Forest | Placed at the bottom of the Mechanical City, where its vines spread among the machinery. Jiang Xiaofeng can make its fruit edible, although untreated fruit can still transform mechanical lifeforms into Inves 205. |
| Outer Void | The space beyond the world bubble later develops into an incomplete universe 260. |
Abilities & Skills
Assimilation and Devouring
Void Power corrodes targets, absorbs their energy, and converts that energy into more Void Power 126.
- Works on Elemental Hypostases, Vision wielders, Delusions, and the Miasmic Tumor 126.
- Normally causes non-Void lifeforms to suffer a backlash, lose reason, and become slaughter-driven monsters unless Jiang Xiaofeng intervenes 84.
- Can consume entire environments: the Dead Cells island, its Lighthouse, and part of the seabed are erased without a trace 103.
- Scales to worlds and celestial systems. Jiang Xiaofeng consumes an alternate Teyvat and later an entire star system containing Cybertron 154 182.
- Can convert a planet’s core into Void energy, as demonstrated on Earth 225.
Evolution and Ability Acquisition
The Void Heart enables its holder to grow stronger, adapt, and acquire the use of energies he absorbs 95.
- Void enhancement at least doubles a demon god’s combat strength; continued absorption within the Void can increase it further 143.
- Absorbed organisms and gods contribute abilities and biological data for later experimentation 149 161.
- Technological assimilation extends to Ark, Zea, the AllSpark, and the production of mechanical lifeforms 182 205.
- Evolution is not automatic mastery: Jiang Xiaofeng later recognizes that his Void-based offensive techniques have stagnated and seeks new energies to develop them 250.
Imagined Effects and Creation
Jiang Xiaofeng can use Void Power to wield abilities he imagines, but must personally enact them and make them take effect 95.
- This is not passive reality favoring him. To achieve an effect comparable to “words becoming law,” he must first erode the relevant space with Void Power 95.
- For ordinary people without Visions, one week of exposure allows Void Power to read and enhance them, then bring abilities they conceive into use 145.
- Creates matter, weapons, armor, and replicas from stored information. Analyzed Ruin Hunters, Ruin Graders, and Ruin Serpents can be mass-produced 122 145.
- Reproduces gods and Abyss Heralds once their data has been obtained 149.
- Reshapes terrain and entire regions, culminating in the constructed world bubble 205.
Memory Analysis and Ley Line Integration
The Void can extract memories from Ley Lines and preserve information about the dead 101 232.
- Jiang Xiaofeng draws Diluc’s father’s memories from the Ley Lines, manifests him, and infuses him with Void Power 101.
- By the Black Tide invasion, Void Power and Teyvat’s Ley Lines exist in symbiosis: the Void prevents memories from disappearing, while the Ley Lines supply memories of fallen demon gods for reconstruction and experimentation 232.
- Void-enhanced Dead Cells monsters continually spawn in Mondstadt, resembling monsters born from the Ley Lines 232.
Healing, Resurrection, and Continued Existence
Void Power can restore health and sustain life beyond ordinary death 67 133 145.
- Stabilizes the injured Paimon after Jiang Xiaofeng pours power into her 67.
- Restores the health of elderly but physically sturdy followers 133.
- Allows empowered adventurers to revive after death and repeatedly attack monster concentrations 145.
- Supports the return of the fallen Yaksha; a Void Eye can simulate their former elemental powers 202.
- Its usual cost is postmortem conversion: users’ souls enter the Void after death and become Void creatures 255.
Tendrils, Restraint, and Gateways
Void Power forms chains, hands, tendrils, and portals 73 98 244.
- Tendrils restrain captives and drag them into the Void, including The Doctor 200.
- Can suppress a captive’s abilities: Decarabian loses access to his power when wrapped in tendrils 149.
- A Void Venti opens a black doorway directly to Lumine 244.
- Eldest’s tendrils withstand electrical attacks and soul skills, while Void Power crushes hostile systems 290.
Void Eyes and Technology
Void Eyes
Void Eyes distribute Jiang Xiaofeng’s power independently of Visions and Delusions 104.
| Type | Appearance | Distribution / Role |
|---|---|---|
| Complete Void Eye | Pitch-black Void Heart-shaped center with Jiang Xiaofeng’s crown design beneath it 108. | Granted directly or earned through service; some commoners upgrade theirs by repeatedly fighting monsters 137 147. |
| Inferior Void Eye | Resembles an extinguished Vision, with black trim and a dull gray center 108. | Available through worship at Jiang Xiaofeng’s statue; even the weakest bearer can defeat a Hilichurl barehanded 114. |
- Void Eyes can store armor and weapons, support flight, and simulate elemental abilities 133 145 202.
- Jiang Xiaofeng can regulate the power supplied to bearers. He considers daily limits and allocation based on the user’s strength 114.
- Unauthorized extraction or copying triggers assimilation of living beings present, including the host supplying the power 114.
- Void Eyes destroy compromised Akasha Terminals, protecting their bearers during The Doctor’s attack 268.
- Power distribution also enables coercion: unwilling Akademiya scholars receive Eyes that warp their subconscious into accepting the Void God as their new god 198.
Void Armor
| Generation | Features |
|---|---|
| First generation | Energy-absorbing armor; gauntlets provide a Void-powered shield and an energy burst 137. |
| Second generation | Belt-based deployment, stored weapons, all-around shielding, kinetic-energy absorption and release, cushioning, articulation, and limited flight 145. |
| Third generation | Incorporates analyzed technology from other worlds. Ark and Zea support transformations through their connection to the Void, which Jiang Xiaofeng describes as a giant processor 182. |
Void Creatures
- Early survival limitation: Newly born ghosts repeatedly perish without Vessel masks. The remaining energy eventually concentrates into three durable brothers 65.
- Shared affinity: The Knight recognizes their power as kin rather than something incompatible with him 73.
- Intangibility: The early creatures are spirit-like beings that ordinary Teyvat physical and elemental attacks cannot hit 73.
- Growth is not simple refueling: One brother tells Jiang Xiaofeng that the converted power he offers cannot strengthen them; it can only produce more of their kind 74.
- Soul interaction has limits: The shadow near the Border Between Life and Death consumes lingering souls, but cannot touch souls passing on normally 73.
- Experimental capacity: Jiang Xiaofeng initially fits only four powers into an artificial Void creature, compared with six in a creature converted from a demon god 161.
- Intelligence varies: Within the constructed world, Gatanothor’s signals help creatures awaken thought; Void creatures and mechanical lifeforms subsequently evolve independently 205.
Associated Entities
- Jiang Xiaofeng — Controls the Void, develops its applications, distributes its power, and constructs its internal world 95 104 205.
- Eldest / The Knight / Void God — One of the creatures born from Jiang Xiaofeng’s power. Develops in Hallownest and later defeats system holders using Void tendrils and overwhelming physical strength 65 141 290.
- Ark and Zea — Analyze technology, support the Void Knights’ equipment, and build the Mechanical City’s network. Jiang Xiaofeng gives them portions of the AllSpark to become mechanical lifeforms 182 205.
- The Collector and Albedo — Research Void life and artificial humans. Their experimental Hollow Knight becomes uncontrollable until Jiang Xiaofeng reverses it into moss and a small ghost 170 172.
- Osial and Orobashi — Gods converted or strengthened through Void Power and brought under Jiang Xiaofeng’s command 84 143.
- The Doctor — Both a captive experimental subject and an independent researcher of Void Power; uses it in his Akasha and Shouki no Kami schemes 200 268 270.
Terminology
- Void and Akasha are distinct: Their shared Chinese wording prompts Jiang Xiaofeng’s confusion in Sumeru. He later models the Void’s internal network on the Akasha’s capabilities 185 205.
- “Void” is also Jiang Xiaofeng’s assumed name: He introduces himself by that name to Bai Ye. The negation ability used in that confrontation belongs to his Stand, The World, rather than being identified as an inherent property of the Void domain 216 219.