Spiritual Qi Law¶


Aliases	Imaginary Element (public cover) ⁶
Type	Named ²⁵
Known wielders	Jie Ming ²
First mention	Ch328¹

The underlying rule of the cultivation system, absent from the wizard world and therefore unique there; Jie Ming is its only wielder and builds it from nothing with the Incense Fire Divine Dao as his experimental platform.¹²²² Publicly it passes as a Fictional Law whose Imaginary Element is spiritual qi.⁶ It is the core trunk of his power and his sixth-level core law, past full mastery;²²²⁴²⁷ its count reaches three hundred points before the Great Ascension Realm and then crosses the elite seventh-level threshold.³⁵³⁸⁴⁰

What is known¶

Nature: Near-infinitely expandable; points to spirit, enlightenment and the true spirit; nourishes life and awakens wisdom.¹⁹
Research method: Cannot be studied from the environment or sped up with plane origin; needs a built environment and collected data, such as converting the whole Infernal Sulfur Plane's fire element into spiritual qi.¹ Unconventional research also counts, such as work on the Mustard Seed Dao-Holding True Body Art.⁴⁰
Key technique: Elemental-spiritual qi conversion, which the plane corrects back over time.⁴
Effect on wizards: Cripples third- and fourth-level wizards whose cognition is being reshaped; barely touches lower levels; does not shake higher ones.⁸
A hidden expansion into the field of fate.⁷
Thresholds: Mastery above one percent qualifies for the fourth level, above ten percent for the fifth; modified magic techniques need some understanding of it.³¹⁴¹⁷
Manifestation: The longest golden thread orbiting the Ring of Truth in his spiritual sea; at one hundred percent it serves as the plane origin of his Law Solidification Domain.¹⁶¹⁹²⁵
Origin: Great Dao Book Pavilion techniques localized to the wizard system; inspired the living plane project.²⁹
Growth rule: Rises with his understanding of the other laws and of the world, since creation is built on understanding; Divine Dao subsystems eventually give diminishing returns.²⁷³⁰ Past two hundred points, further gains need mastery of all the laws fused into it;³³ past three hundred, existing knowledge helps less and growth slows.³⁵ After the Great Ascension Realm the growth of his other golden law threads feeds it, projecting ten thousand points in under three hundred years.³⁷
Role: Raising it condenses, enlarges and speeds the growth of his domain, so it must be pushed as high as possible on either path; with other techniques it lets a sixth-level fight like an elite seventh-level.²⁷²⁸³¹ Its gains perfect the Third Layer Dharma Form, and a still larger Dharma Form can be built as the count grows.³⁴³⁹
Mastery progression: Over 5 percent from the Incense Fire Divine Dao, 12 after the Starfall exchange, 20 from the cross-space energy system, nearly 30 and then 33 with the Fate Subsystem, 50 after a century, 80 after Dao Integration, 90 from the All-Heavens Star Grand Array, 100 when the Creation System goes online, then ten points and a count past two hundred.²⁵¹³¹⁶¹⁸¹⁹²⁰²³²⁴²⁷³² Fifty-odd more points over 130 years,³⁴ three hundred through the Leap Power research,³⁵ then past the elite seventh-level threshold.⁴⁰
High-level cultivators use spiritual qi to enlighten inanimate objects, at very high cost.²¹

Wielders¶

Wielder	Since	Expression
Jie Ming	Ch339²	Main field, built on his own research rather than plane origin; chosen as sixth-level core law; strongest bracket among his laws;¹⁵¹⁹²²³² bound far closer to his mind from the Great Ascension Realm.³⁶

Interactions¶

Fictional Law: Its public cover; presented as an extension of the Fictional Laws.⁶²⁹ Itself a Fictional Law, like the Fate Law.⁴¹
Law of Spirituality: Resonates with it; Starfall drew its key inspiration from the Imaginary Element and uses it for Wisdom Ignition.¹⁰¹²
Time law: Studying it raised spiritual qi mastery by analogy; origins with similar knowledge help, as water-element origin helps time.¹¹¹⁵
Other laws: Embed only their sub-one-hundred-percent portions so they do not scatter the axis.²⁶

Open questions¶

The extent of the hidden expansion into fate.⁷

Chapter 328: Foundation of the Dao ↩↩↩↩
Chapter 339: Third-Level Wizard ↩↩↩↩
Chapter 363: A Study Plan and a Visit ↩
Chapter 378: Imaginary Element ↩
Chapters 378-395 ↩
Chapter 379: Fictional Laws ↩↩↩
Chapter 380: Fate ↩↩
Chapter 381: Research and Pulsation ↩
Chapter 384: An Invitation ↩
Chapters 384-387 ↩
Chapter 437: Taking Stock of Gains and Returning ↩
Chapter 440: An Invitation and a Visitor ↩
Chapter 454: New Magic Techniques ↩
Chapter 456: The Fifth-Level Wizard, Bottlenecks and Levels ↩
Chapter 466: Farewell and Farewell ↩↩
Chapter 543: Adjustments and the First Modification Target ↩↩
Chapter 545: Modification and a New Subsystem ↩
Chapter 548: The Fate Subsystem and the Information Plane ↩
Chapter 614: The True Bottleneck ↩↩↩
Chapter 678: Changes After Dao Integration ↩
Chapter 681: Temporary Enlightenment Technique ↩
Chapter 731: Thoughts and an Audience ↩↩↩
Chapter 738: Progress and a Gift ↩
Chapter 747: Decision ↩↩
Chapter 763: Advancing to Sixth-Level Wizard ↩↩
Chapter 764: Refinement, Payment, an Attempt, and a Thought ↩
Chapter 879: Elevation ↩↩↩↩
Chapter 881: The Wedding ↩
Chapter 953: Wizard Fate ↩↩
Chapter 970: Transition Chapter ↩
Chapter 971: A Technology for Leaping Ahead ↩
Chapter 972: Difficulties ↩↩
Chapter 979: Convenience ↩
Chapter 981: The War Begins, and Thoughts of Advancement ↩↩
Chapter 998: Departure, Research, Study ↩↩↩
Chapter 1001: Advancement, the Great Ascension Realm! ↩
Chapter 1002: The Requirements for Immortality, Improvement ↩
Chapter 1003: The Difficulty of the Immortal Art, News of an Advancement ↩
Chapter 1004: The Third Layer True Body ↩
Chapter 1005: Seventh Level, Bottleneck ↩↩↩
Chapter 1006: The Fate Law Extreme Learning Program ↩