Qi / Spiritual Energy (灵气, Língqì)
Summary
English: The fundamental spiritual energy that cultivators absorb, refine, and use for breakthroughs.
中文： 天地万物中的生命能量，是修士吸收、炼化和突破的基础。
Definition
English: Qi / Spiritual Energy is a recurring xianxia and cultivation concept. The fundamental spiritual energy that cultivators absorb, refine, and use for breakthroughs. The exact rules change from novel to novel, but the term usually helps explain progression, conflict, resources, or cultural imagination.
中文： 灵气（Língqì）是修仙叙事中的常见概念。天地万物中的生命能量，是修士吸收、炼化和突破的基础。不同作品会有各自设定，但它通常用于解释境界进阶、资源分配、修炼风险或文化想象。
Role in Cultivation
English: Qi is drawn into the dantian through techniques and refined into higher forms of power.
中文： 灵气可以被功法引入丹田，逐步由气态、液态、固态转化为更高层次的力量。
In Classic Works
English: In works such as A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Stellar Travel, and Xian Ni, this concept is usually embedded in a larger system of realms, techniques, sects, and resources.
中文： 在《凡人修仙传》《飘邈之旅》《仙逆》等作品中，这一概念通常与境界、功法、宗门和资源体系共同出现，帮助读者理解角色成长逻辑。
Related Concepts
References
- Baidu Baike entries for 修仙 and 修真
- Taoist inner-alchemy background materials
- Representative cultivation-fiction settings