#chi powers

Yep! That's right. It's time to finally do ki After all this time.

Woof I'm gonna need to make a master post with links just to keep things set right aren't I?

Well that's just how it works I guess. Time to delve right into the life energy of miracles and harmony itself. Ki

Ki is the origin of all the bodies energy(and the true form of wild power.) None of the chis that are in your body or in the worlds would exist without ki to be the original and the progenitor. If spiritual energy is a parent energy to magic and psionics then ki is what you would consider the grand parent energy.

Ki is neither pure good nor is it pure evil. It is neither pure light or pure dark, it is neither pure order nor pure chaos. Ki is a balance. The purest state of balance between both parts of you. And this Balance is best seen between it's two components that make up the whole makeup of ki. The empathic light known as reiki and the empathic darkness known as yoki. this is why these 2 energies. Among other things are some of the two strongest forces in the world. But just because it's a balance doesn't mean the ideas of wicked ki or righteous ki Don't exist at all. As mentioned ki is a balance but it's up to you to find what your balance is and to keep that balance no matter what the it looks like when you yourself start channeling your ki.

Most ki users(even if very rare and sometimes called a shameful practice in some spaces) if not all of them agree that out of all energies this is the one where you should get a teacher or otherwise some form of practitioner if you want to properly cultivate your skills without damage or leaking into places that the olden days of wild power once treaded. The exception to this however, are those kinds of special wild thinkers who were able to understand how to access wild power in a safe mannervor otherwise that sort of person that is driven by their intuition just knows not to be brutal and force yourself on the energy. But to go with the flow and let your instincts/intuitions(emotional and otherwise.) guide how you drift and nudge the flow.

Ki itself is actually still very prevalent in the 3 chi that descend from it. Even when the olden day wild shamans began to stop using the power Certain pieces of it manifest in the 3 energies. The sanitized and safer spirit power and it's descendant magical and psychic energies took one certain aspects of ki. Now the light and dark side of ki provided certain stabilities and allowed magic and psionics to flourish. But there are aspects do exist.

Spirit energy took the sensory powers from ki. Enhancing it's amazing sensing and empathetic capabiltiies if not enabling them. And especially beng prevent in spirit energies balanced ties to both(but dampened) the empathic light and darkness.

Arcane power took the power over the physical body from ki. As well as tieing itself with the empathic darkness we call yoki . This gave magic it's phenomenal power over the physical world and the physical form of the user.

And psionics took a part of ki that led to a very interesting aspect of psionics powers. It took the knowledge of ki. Psionics holds within it the know of kis miracles and has been learned how to tap into portions of that knowledge and power for a short period of time (leading to the infamous psycho state where psychics may temporarily perform feats of impressionable mental power over the world itself) psionics also holds extreme tie to the empathic light we call reiki

Ki itself when in full activation flows through all the ki points inside your body(points that can house the other energies. The neural web and arcane anchor run alongside ki points alongside the astral heart) and when in use it's default color seems to use indigo. But more often then not automatically customized to the users special soul colors. And if you switch to mainly using specific ki points that runs along one of the chi holding zones the color of your ki changes to match the color codes of the chi that is usually housed inside there.

When you concenteate ki you get pulse. Or the energy of miracles.

Ki is as exhausting as you let it be. It can be physically, emotionally,and mentally taxing. And if you somehow exhaust yourself in all 3 places then it'll really exhaust you in ways you never even knew. Dangerously so.

While we're on the subject of exhaustion and miracles I should cover those.

For those who think ki and its healing power of miracles are the kind of healing of pure fixing it up good as new you're sorely mistaken.

For ki it is Rehabilitation vs restoration. There miracles and wishes you can cast and grant with ki are not perfect. They're imperfect, they're personal, they're messy. They're better than perfect if you can believe that.

Ki is the energy of miracles. But it's you the caster who has to perform the miracle with pulse. No higher powers are there to guide you. Just you and your intuition and your knowledge from experience of listening to what your energy and the energy around you is telling you.

Your final product will not be as smooth and perfect. It never could be without being shallow and vain,Your healing isn't a reversal of all the damage.

And even the illustrious power to create there items(which will be covered with items another time) might have slight nicks in their material form. But that's the power of it all.

If you know what you're doing. What you might perceive as imperfect recovery or not a full heal can put you in your original state or even put you in a better state then you were pre heal for a short time (like a medicine or therapy that helps with your symptoms.that is if you know what you're doing) But sadly unless your life is in danger and you're at the death's door Ki really has a hard time performing that kind of signature insta heal one might want for an organic sentient life forms body.

For the recovery of people ki seems to be a Slow and steady vs trying to fast track it kind of deal.you could try to perform the 'perfect miracle' and 'perfect recovery' but it isn't worth the immense strain on your body and the body of whoever your healing(it'll be even worse on yourself because healing yourself with ki takes more power out of you)

The energy of miracles will let you do many wondrous and powerful things. And even let you recover and help others recover from things that'll ruin them or cause them great pain. but you need to understand it's not perfect. And trying to be perfect will turn you into a drained husk. The true imperfections of ki make its miracles the special little things they are. And makes them even more powerful then anything that is 'perfect could ever be'

Ki in this system is based on 4 things.

Aura from Pokemon

Ki from DBZ

Chi from kung fu panda

And ki from street fighter.

And that is ki.

You might think animals have disappeared from ki but they have not. But instead they're more tame and deeper. More aligned to what spirit energy and inner beasts get when finally unlocked Taking the way of the iron fist once again from their unstable counterpart.

And that's finally doing ki. Whoo boy what a rush.

Council! I summon thee late at night sadly

Chi or ki as it's also been called exists in all living things, and has been harnessed and used by others for centuries with a variety of methods. From channeling it into objects, to using mantras and or hand signs, to tags and seals(disposable one use and permanent) using all kinds of wording and symbols (studies have shown mainly kanji work the best. Perhaps this is due to the origins of where chi manipulation comes from or that this type of manipulation is most used and practiced there) now the picture above class is a loose representation of a soul... My soul to be specific. The inner layer of pink is known as a core. The s surrounding my core is what we call the chi wellspring. You could also call cores the true soul. All cores are personally tailored to you as an individual. This representation is my soul as a child. It's tailored but not as much as it could be. A blank slate that becomes less blank if you will.

Is that why it looks like your eyes minus contacts

Are you saying look blank?

You have no pupils

Neither do you buddy.

And who's fault is that?

Can we do this when I'm not teaching a class? I have at least one diligent student out there waiting for our lessons.

Sure sure sure teach,teach away

Now unlike some other supernatural energies we'll cover in the future Chi is more of a subtle power system. It's flash and glow is often very low. However The effects and the flashiness of chi spells and techniques can be strengthened by repetition of actions within the spell. Things like repeating certain mantras and hand signs in your techniques. However do not think you can do this willy nilly.

Despite the references to games we like to use in our lessons sometimes this isn't a game. Starting chi practitioners can get very hurt or potentially suffer more dangerous versions of the usual drawbacks of chi.

That my students is why beginners mustn't use more then 3 to 4 repetitions per spell at a time without some form of support in the form of other chi users or gofu(a lesson we'll cover another time)The more repetition in your technique the more strain and drain put onto your chi wellspring

I don't think we talked about the wellspring yet prof

And if you hadn't derailed my initial talk about cores with talk of my eyes we wouldn't need to cover it here. The wellspring would be the blue fiery energy surrounding the core. We all start with a specific amount(some more then others) and those that typically are told of there potential to manipulate chi or sharpen spiritual intution often have even more chi.

However do not despair students. If you were born with a low chi wellspring. There are many ways to increase your wellspring. Meditation not only replenishes one's wellspring but also can increase it's depth. Similarly when one empties their wellspring dry they also can increase it's depth.

Do not take that as an invitation to waste spiritual energy. Running low on or out of chi can give you quite the fatigue. Massive headaches and even some drowsiness are very common as well. There's even been accounts of things like anemia and nosebleeds from straining or using too much... Even partial seizures for particularly mentally draining techniques

That's not even counting for the overdrive

Ah yes, a very dangerous problem indeed. The overdrive happens when one reaches their limit on chi. And replenish their drained wellspring with a special form of fighting meditation and continuing to fight with it without proper rest or meditation technique. Sort of a quick meditation to get the core flowing energy again. Only now all 7 chakras are in overdrive alongside your core. Producing larger and larger portions of chi. But There is a trade off. Core overdrive is a last hooray style of technique. That should only be used in the most dire of circumstances.

The technique is so dangerous because your body is not meant to produce so much spiritual power so fast. It causes your body to enter a comatose state. In worse cases of over use you could even experience something called the phasing soul travel. Now soul travel is another fancy term for an astral plane journey. The phasing soul journey however is not a good one at all. Your very physical form phases out of reality and into the astral planes as a wandering soul. While this is reversible students you might not want to. The planes have been known to be very euphoric to these souls. So getting them to return is much much harder.

However do not let that discourage you from trying to get a wandering soul home. You'll know the difference between these wandering journey souls and a normal one when you first see them. The chi markings on there body alone are the indicator of a soul can phase back to the mortal world into there body

Please do not let this discourage you from studying chi. While these side effects and consequences are dangerous so long as you have proper help with managing your chi usage and have the proper help and knowledge you'll be safe.

As well as proper managing of chi and how much your wellspring has left. Like mr L has said before we like to use gaming terms many times in our lessons but chi is always not a game. We have no real built in ways to say we have nothing left. Not like role play games with their spell slots. Or a screen and bar to tell us were out of mana. Not even a point system to say we are out of points. What we do have are techniques you might consider cantrips. Techniques that use up so little to no chi in your wellspring that you can use them all the time. You'll find all chi techniques in some way or form come from these wisp techniques as we'll call the cantrips of chi. They're one of the building blocks of chi itself.

Another building block would be the level system for chi. A little different to usual systems found in other powers because chi runs with repetition. So the level system operates on a different level to say mystical powers or even powers you need to charge in order to get stronger.

Chi can be charged. In fact it's the bread and butter of a sect within chi manipulation called chi weaving. Needing to charge your techniques. Something we will cover in next weeks class?... Mr l whats next weeks chi class?

It would be chi items and spirits... So maybe next weeks class after that.

Ah,okay.

While i have it here perhaps we should open up on chakras?

Excellent idea! Now pay attention to the board class

This would be a rough estimate of the 7 chakras from the root to the enlightenment chakra. Please thank mr L for his generous rough drawing of the 7 chakras.

Why thank you for the compliment.do not think there are only 7 chakras these are only 7 out of the 100s of chakras. These are simply the most important ones for chi work.

That's correct, there are in fact hundreds of chakras out there. But chi manipulation cares the most about these main 7.

The red root chakra

The orange sacral chakra

The yellow solar plexus chakra

The green heart chakra

The blue throat chakra

The indigo 3rd eye chakra

And the violet enlightenment chakra

Think of these chakras almost like gears or water wheels for the chi to flow around and get to turning

Or even stops on a road while chi is the car that travels to and stops at them

You could even think of chakras as wells the chinriver travels under that can be collected by the wells buckets. the process makes your aura more vibrant and visible

Aura could be what you'd consider the 'flash' of chi. Your spiritual energy given physical and visible form to others that cannot see them normally. But on its own this aura is still low flash.

Chakra points also tend to mix into your techniques powers or harmonize with whatever your trying to do by merging their powers with your chi. It's something we in the modern day use to help explain the powers we can get from chi.

Another thing that helps us is a method as old as chi manipulation itself

Even older L. It predates the 6 principals and the more ways we have to focus chakras and chi into techniques... The infamous kuji in... Or it should be familiar to you if you're serious about this class

Perhaps we should do another quick lesson on This. We are in an introductory class after all.

This class is the kuji in. Sometimes in chi you'll also see it be called the kuji kiri, this was a term usually coined by ninjas for there meditation.

This would be why many of the chi users are ninjas or ninjutsu knowledgeable in some way.

The kuji kiri are also sometimes called the 9 sacred cuts. It's very important for you to know what each of these 9 are. What each mantra stands for.

Rin for Strength

Pyō for Channel

Tō for Harmony

Sha for Healing

Kai for Sense of Danger

Jin for Reading of thoughts

Retsu for Control of space and time

Zai for Control of sky and elements

Zen for Enlightenment

The very first words ever truly used to control and dictate the energy of the soul. And with time, the healing hands mantra came from it as a way to increase the cuts that healed in some way. Each mantra has some effect of recovery of some kind within it.

Whether it be to and sha doing the back bone of physical and mental healing and balancing. Or kai and jin letting you sense the danger around or where it hurts the most for a patient, or channel the phantom purifying essences of the elements zai and zen filled enlightenment of zen. It was all channeled to a point by pyo and strengthened by rin.and retsu could slow down the injured bodies worsening condition All to work with the spiritual energy and chakras of not just the healer and healing patient,but by anyone who is willing to chip in. Proper/more refined chi manipulation would come later on as well the 5 chi principals. But the 9 sacred cuts meant to work with the 7 chakras and your own souls energy well was the most primal form of chi manipulation... Some might consider it the most pure air easiest to understand. Many ninja clan passed down the sacred cuts and some even tried to alter,add or improve on the sacred art for better results.

As it stands these 9 short mantras that make up the mantras of the healing hands that make up the backbone of chi as a whole are often used by starting chi practitioners as guiding points and stabilizers to keep unstable chi techniques from getting too dangerous. The words are so grounded and stable using them in mantras not from the original circle will actively stabilize a rookies chi techniques so hotshots or people with difficulties on the lesson don't hurt themselves or others.

What were looking at children is essentially the mother tongue of chi. The most important and oldest words and movements chi will ever have.

Hence why this mini lesson shouldn't have been needed.

Is that why you didn't even bring up the picture i got for this lesson

No it's supposed to be right... There...

Why don't we take a small break so me and professor s can see what's going on.

-----------------------10 minutes later-----------------

Alright class we're back and it looks like we hit a limit with our board. Only 10 pictures per lesson.

Totally bogus by the way.

But that's neither here nor there. We'll just simply paste a reminder lesson about the 9 hand signs after class. Let us move on for now to the final topic of our lesson... The 6 chi core principals.

Chi has existed far longer then we have recorded. But chi itself has a class of 6 core principals we began developing and further learning about after we learned about the kuji in and how to use it

Now because of that class we have 6 symbols to show you. One for each chi core principal. Let's get to it class because i know long lessons get you and your brains very tired

Specialization 

The principal of specialization involves the infusing of your chi or aura with a unique effects.great examples include giving your aura the effect of increasing recovery in yourself or others

Rather great pair up with the healing hands matras

There's also magnetizing something covered in your aura or making your aura as warm as a flame.

Do remember your aura itself doesn't actually change forms. Its effects will change but you cannot use specialization to make real fire or similar tangible elements. But this does not stop specialized auras from affecting fire or plants. Or even from producing light. It all comes down to changing the auras nature and effects on things

Manipulation

The symbol itself speaks for itself but to explain it a bit more the principal of manipulation allows the use of your chi to manipulate or control something that's got your chi in it.

Think of this being Like telekinesis or even puppeteering with strings. Do remember class People or objects with chi of their own will fight you if you try controlling them.

It's also very good at puppeting your own body if it's unable to on its own. Like if you had broken limbs or paralysis of some kind. That in itself is very taxing and requires precision and finesse

 seal and release 

Seal and release will be talked about a bit more next lesson but for now the basics on it are simple. Using your chi to seal or release something.

A big example of this principal is astral projection. Where one releases their spirit from there body or seals it back inside themselves again.

But the biggest seal and release principal examples are gofu. But that's the main subject of next lesson.

Enhancment

Now do keep in mind that despite conevntional ideas of use the principal of encanment is not just defined by strengthening a person. Even if that sounds and feels like the kost obvious use.

Enhancement can also be used on objects as well object. Any possible upgrade is possible. Something like softening skin or bolstering a piece of paper both count as enhancements.

If I'm not mistaken a lesson in enhancements for students at the school starfall academy of spiritual power uses pillows one sits on for meditation

You'd be correct.

Transmutation

The prinipal of transmuation is a simple and familar one. changing the qualities of your chi to match something else like becoming fire or electricity. It's still energy but has changed in a way

It's almost always energy related on it's own So don't go thinking you can make any item with one principal. You'll need another for that. It's a very important part to creating energy called mental chi and mystic chi.

Please do not confuse specialization and transmutation. They are separate in their own ways. But you need both principals for those power sources mr L mentioned. It'll be a second before we cover them.

conjuration

 And now class we finally reach the last principal of chi. The principal of conjuration.

This conjures up crystalized versions of whatever object you want. Might seem very weird of useless to the non knowing but spiritual energy is very in tune with crystals. Rock crystal,ice crystals.

Sugar crystals! And you can also imbue it and manipulate its qualities onxyour own for stronger crystals or more powerful effects.

every chi technique needs several of the core principals in some way shape or form. Not just the main one for them. But chi techniques have a main principal they use and ones that follow follow it(usually 1 or 2 additional principals). Even being upgraded by using the other not needed ones.

Let's give an example. If you mix conjuration, transmutation and specialization. What you get is the ability to turn chi into just about any item with enough practice.

tricks like that are not all this combination can do. Last month i lost my right arm and had heavy damage to the left. And with a lengthy healing process that resulted in about 2 days of constant sleep i awoke with a massive scar but my arm reattached.

When he says lengthy he means lengthy. The healer needed astral footholds and the chi of our professor here just to keep going. A lot of repeated Rin,pyo,sha and to.

They had to use conjuration to form not only new nerves but also to form rose quartz wands and eggs. A gemstone of healing in the form of a director and healer respectively.

Specialization made my aura and there's extra healer strong. Giving healing and purifying properties to both pur auras and purging the arm and body of whatever toxins that were still around.

The wands and eggs combined with pyo also gave much help in directing all energy to both our heart and solar plexus chakras. The 2 most healing chakras out of the 7. Solar plexus especially could.be considered a multiplier of energy.

Let me tell you that was a light show. 6 chakras shining brightly between the healer and the professor here. Yellows,greens,and red all mingle with that rose quartz pink and plue chi and white healing aura. The process was somewhat lengthy. Making new nerves or healing and reattaching damaged ones as possible is a process you don't want to skip if you want minimal nerve damage

My arms are fine now, but they are still some more movement therapy and my arms have some pains now. Looks like the body and soul still remember the loss of my right with how it hurts sometimes. The healer wasn't as experienced as I'd like so i was nervous he'd end up taking the final bang.

While this example was more detailed then i thought we'd get were officially out of time.

i have a list to somewhat describe these energies

what the energy is called

what the energy uses to generate itself

where the energy is often stored

what materials best absorb the energy

the concentrated version of the energy

its color palette

and what i used as theming or what inspired me for the energy.

it's best to start with the very beginning of the energy. with what i call wild mana

wild mana(or primal chi) was the very first ever energy that people channeled from themselves and the world around them. and known often as the most chaotic and unstable in certain circles. it would eventually Fall to make way for the current umbrellas of chi power. this very wild and animalistic energy is what we would call wild mana or primal chi(many names were given to this energy but this has often been lost to time) Wild mana often holds tales of great beasts made of the elements or of a channelers own wild spirits. Some channelers of this wild power (known as the wild shamans) even having the power of bringing forth an animal form based within there own spirit animal. and with it bringing many tales of great beasts bound or dressed in materials so similar to the channelers biological body mass..

wild mana had only one need to generate it. instinct/intuition. nothing else is required to generate the energy.

this wild power has 2 places its stores itself inside. the special animal themed marks that decorate its users body called wild marks or beasts scratches. if it isn't stored in these special chi icons then it lies incomplete and dormant within the casters soul as what would be known as spirit energy

as mentioned before beasts mana best absorbs and adheres itself to organic materials. things like bones,hair,even the blood of the caster.

the concentrated version of this energy is often been called prena(predators mana)

its powers are heavily influenced and inspired by several sources(the wicked weaves of bayonetta,maria renard,umbras from mtg,vixen from dc)

now that is it for now. we will return another time to talk about spirit power what is often considered the "safe way" (read sanitized or refined by some communities) to use the power of chi when the dangers and problems of wild chi were discovered... feel like i should apologize if this post looks bad or very unwieldy to read. but i hope i got it across.

edit: i forgot another character who helped me with the ideas for this system. the immortal iron fist! and in even more recent time this cool pick of the immortal weapons skins for marvel rivals