Chi Magic Ideas

==Taoist Cultivation Senjutsu==
An art said to guide and refine one into becoming a Xian, beings who ascended to Immortality through Daoist cultivation practices. They have magical powers, can fly freely through the air, and have a close connection to the Dao and the natural world. The Japanese umbrella term used for this is Senjutsu.
This seems like the easiest and simplest base to use wuxia which ranma ½ is technically a part of are fictional stories about regular humans who can achieve supernatural fighting ability through Chinese martial arts training and internal energy cultivation. Xiānxiá are essentially a high fantasy version of wuxia. This means that it (or at least should) already uses a lot of the concepts
The principles governing the spectrum of Ki is often thought to be correlated with the universal forces regarded as "Yin and Yang" (陰陽, Inyō) the duality present in all aspects of the universe. For instance: Yin is Female / Soft / Death / Dark / the Moon, while Yang is Male / Hard / Life / Light / the Sun – the comparisons are endless. Yin & Yang describe how opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they mutually give rise to each other. Mōko Takabisha and Shishi Hōkōdan fall in to this emotions that are connected to the poles of Yin-Yang can cause ki to react, or surge, which in turn causes the ki of an individual to grow and strengthen, as well as affect both their mind and body.
Different proportions of the two forces combined with the user's intrinsic willpower leads to their Ki aligning with one of the Five Elements (五行 wǔxíng) – Wood (木 mù), Fire (火 huǒ), Earth (土 tǔ), Metal (金 jīn), & Water (水 shuǐ), which causes the Ki flowing across their bodies to take upon an elemental attribute that vastly increases the specialization and power of their Martial Arts. The Japanese version is referred to as godai Earth (地 Chi (sometimes ji) or tsuchi), Water (水 Sui or mizu), Fire (火 Ka or hi), Wind (風 Fū or kaze), and Void or sky or heaven (空 Kū or sora).
In this story Ranma is learning how to manipulate the Meridians (经脉 jīngmài) – the network of vessels/channels in the body through which Qi flows. Like blood vessels, but for Qi instead of blood.
Hado could be considered Qi Condensation (凝气 níngqì) – also known as Qi Refining (炼气 liànqì) or Qi Gathering (聚气 jùqì). An initial stage of cultivation which involves absorbing Qi from the natural world and refining it inside the body.
There is also the Interspatial Ring a magic ring with a pocket dimension inside it which hidden weaponry is obviously based on.
I don’t see Ranma becoming a Xian but he could become a Saint (圣 shèng) similar to, but distinct from Immortals. They don’t have a strong relation to Daoism, and they may not necessarily have eternal life. But other than that, they typically also have a close connection to the natural world and similar magical powers achieved through cultivation. Very generally speaking, Saints appear more often in Xuanhuan novels while Immortals appear more often in Xianxia novels.
Unlike Western alchemy that focused on transmuting metals into gold, Chinese alchemy primarily aimed to make elixirs to achieve immortality. That focus on gaining immortality could also be used to explains why no one was able to succeed in chi magic
The materials used in Chinese tradition were mainly minerals – many of them toxic by modern standard. These include cinnabar, mercury, lead, sulfur, and arsenic. So the people who tried it either died or disappeared like Xu Fu
===Street Fighter===
Its depiction in street fighter works well with Ranma’s character development as it states that training is described to be extremely rigorous, demanding, and a vast investment of time, desiring only those who are utmost willing to learn its secrets in the years needed to master it.
===High School D×D===
Senjutsu’s in High School D×D is what ranma described a technique that relies on ki instead of mana or demonic power, which are all separate sources of power. And its depiction comes across as an advanced variation of what ranma is already doing the power to control the flow of life energy or ki in living beings. Using it, one can strengthen both their internal and external bodies. Dealing internal damage as well as causing direct damage to the spirit and life-force. Disrupting the aura of others, thereby preventing them from using their abilities, ect.
===Outlaw Star===
Tao Magic is relatively the same as above, but it also adds chanting specific phrases and performing the required hand gestures in order to harness one's own spiritual chi energy. While there is a lot of versatility ranging from summoning spiritual entities, divining locations, telekinesis and forming powerful, magical barriers. It is also physically exhausting for most, requiring great amounts of concentration and energy.
===Fullmetal Alchemist===
Alkahestry is essentially using the principles of Chinese alchemy to perform western alchemy. It uses knowledge of Feng Shui or the dragon pulse as the series calls it transmit chi through meridians.
Formations (阵 zhèn) (阵法 zhènfǎ) – divided into battle formations and spell formations, although they are often just called “formations”. Battle formations are “fantasy-fied” tactical formations used by several cultivators or martial artists attacking in concert. Spell formations are also called Arrays. They’re essentially magic circles which cast a continuous area-of-effect spell on the location the formation encompasses.
Alkahestry uses spell formations or purification circles to project transmutations over long distances and wide areas.
===Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku===
Given that the big bad is Xu Fu’s wife this series places a huge emphasis on Taoism to the point where it uses the term tao instead of chi/ki/qi for life force energy.
===Naruto===
Ninjutsu in naruto takes a lot from Taoism such as nature transformation and shape transformation. Ironically its version of senjutsu has more in common with hado/qi condensation then actual senjutsu.
===Sengoku Youko===
While this series also focuses on senjutsu what the characters do with it has more in common with has more with what Shampoo does then Ranma’s plans.
===Reality Warping===
In Toaru Majutsu no Index Personal Reality is an espers ability to control a microscopic observations of the world and actualize the possibility of their choosing. While in that series it is based off of quantum theory, Daoist energy practices profess that the human body is considered to be a small universe: A microcosmic reflection of the greater macrocosmic structure.
Personal reality is essentially supplanting the way the world actually works with a version of reality unique to that person. In-universe, it is acting on the quantum scale, and is essentially ignoring and overriding certain quantum mechanics to create the criteria for an esper's powers to manifest. However it is not based in real world science, but actually more of a philosophical or psychological concept, so all you really have to do is replace quantum theory with Taoist theory and nothing really changes.
==Onmyodo==
This is the same as senjutsu except with aa focus on Shinto religion instead of Taoism/Buddhism though it did build itself off of those principles and other chinese philosophies. However given the fact Rei is a miko it probably can’t fall in the realm of chi magic in this universe, but it could still be used as a base.
===Bleach===
Fullbring and spirit awakening has a lot of in common in that it involves manipulating the soul/spirit of matter gained due to an experience with death. Zankensoki could be the yin to shampoo’s yang. Getting the basics out of the way reiatsu is just a battle aura. Outside of that there is another negima connection with shunpo and kidō revolves around channeling the inner energies of the spirit for offensive, defensive, and supplementary purposes.
====Kido====
There is really no difference between kido and an external chi gathering technique. The core concept behind Kidō is that reishi is drawn in by the will of the user who uses their own reiryoku as a bonding agent to coalesce the reishi into a mass of energy which is then turned into a specific spell by the desires of the spellcastor. Replace reishi with ambient chi and reiryoku with aura and you have the idea behind chi magic which is to one's own power to provide direction to the energy around them.
=== The Reincarnated Exorcist ===
I feel that Onmyodo is the way to go in this in fact I recommend you read this series, there is also a new anime out.
In fact you could just read the wiki for bullet points.
since an onmyoji gets isekai it goes through the difference between magic and spiritual arts.
There is a line that I feel matches what ranma is trying to do
The magic directly manipulates the target properties.
To first learn combat magic assuming one would fight their opponent directly and then fight based on the situation.
Compared to my previous life magic, where curses and fortune-telling skills were the priotize higher than others. It’s really different, huh. No matter how you see it, isn’t that more like martial arts
The technique of the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements that I devised uses the elements of the world (Wood, Fire, Earth, Water, and Metal). Five elements and a total of seven attributes of yin and yang, each is freely called.
There is already precedent you could put the hiryu shoten ha and hinako’s ability in yin and yang. Colone’s fist of the ice bear is an advanced application of cold chi. however there are other variations of positive and negative energy like increasing and decreasing gravitational mass electromagnetism. Figuring these out and mastering them will naturally increase ranma’s chi manipulation ability and from there he could move on to elemental energy and figure out how mixing them together creates different techniques. 
==Esper==
In the Toaru Majutsu no Index universe magicians can create many supernatural phenomena without restrictions, but they have to take the time and effort. Additionally, all forms of magic are based around a certain ideological premise. This kind of premise can originate from almost anything culturally narrative including religions, belief systems, mythologies, or even folklore and fairy tales.
Psychic powers by contrast work similarly to reality marble from fate stay night. Its based on the espers ability to substitute reality with their own. Their interference with and subsequent distortion of reality to create effects is an isolated phenomenon based on quantum theory, their observations of the world based upon their Personal Reality affecting things on a micro quantum level to cause phenomena on a macro level.
Obtaining esper is actually a lot similar to what happosai does rewiring the "circuits" of a person and make them different from normal people. Only instead of shiatsu drugs, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation techniques such as the Ganzfeld experiment are used. Though it is possible for this to happen natural, these are referred to as gemstones. The problem is that process is that it prevents you from using magic. As stated it is an extreme version of what Happosai does that locks ones aura/chi flow into a set pattern. It also tends to drive people insane due to their power being fueled by their ability to deny the world so strongly that their view of reality warps what is actually true into how the user wants it. Their delusion becomes real and the world changes accordingly. Out of the 5 strongest espers only one is sane enough to actually be presentable to society while three of the other known Level 5s are murderers or criminals.
===Accelerator===
Now that the foundation is out of the way I can get to my point Accelerator bith the character and his ability. Accelerator's ability allows him to control vectors (magnitude and direction) and influence objects that have vectors such as bullets, heat, and electricity. Accelerator is both passive and active in usage, or can even be referred to as defensive and offensive. The passive ability redirection reverses any oncoming vector coming towards his aura while the active effect manipulate vectors instead of redirecting them.
Using a more spiritual and less scientific definition everything is energy, whether it may take the form of sentient beings, nonliving materials, the supernatural, or even the intangible substances such as thoughts themselves. In the soft-style martial arts, the use of redirection, manipulation, and overall avoidance is strictly emphasized of the opponent(s), whom of which may be considered simply a form of energy to the eyes of the martial artist.
By applying these teachings it is possible to to move beyond the physical and preform absolutely mysterious and mystical feats. Without requiring any form of actual physical contact, you can actually provide "direction" to any form of energy that you may deem. Be it the physical strike of an opponent, an attack of spiritual means, or otherwise,
Aikido teaches the act of avoidance, aiming to take advantage of timing and footwork to use an opponent's movement to not only dodge an assault but to assume a position that can be deemed the most beneficial. Jujutsu teaches the act of manipulation. Even when confronting an opponent of seemingly great danger, such as one weilding a weapon when the martial artist is unarmed, this style teaches techniques that will for besting the opponent in any possible manner; disregarding, at times, moral sense entirely. Without a doubt, all of these teachings and those that follow similar traits (in other words, any form of soft martial arts) can be used through this mysterious method of materializing the will to "throw" and/or "redirect", among others. In truth, this art stands to be the "evolved" form of all soft-type martial arts.
All forms of energy function by following a path; in other words, everything operates by the rules of the energy flow of which it naturally exists within or has been willed into. User’s will literally materializes into a "flow", providing a new path for the energy to follow. The act of doing so allows for a variety of abilities on the user's part.
This is an extremely versatile ability and since Ranma doesn’t have an espers calculation ability or the sister he wont be so OP. He’ll have to rely on his own intelligence and imagination. Meaning he’ll have to analyze and study different laws. So his version would be more like yatagarasu from darwins game though his rhythm reading would help. Outside of cultivation I think this is the best process for ranma to learn chi magic.
espers are unable to use magic without severe harm to the user accelerators ability to manipulate vectors allows him to copy spells he sees. While initially he suffered the usual harm. As he gained more control over his ability and knowledge of magic he was able to lower the side effects down to unnaturally sweating rather than rupture of blood vessels and organ damage, but it still presents a great foil. Ranma’s ability to manipulate chi flow could do the same thing.
===AIM Stalker===
This is best described as an extremely advanced spiritual sense a cross between dragon ball byakugan and sharingan that not only allows user to see a persons aura but memorize it so they can track them wherever they go. I mention it because such delicate understanding of another persons aura has the potential of not allowing user to control it. As of now all that has been shown is the ability to stabilize someones power when they lose control. Controlling someone aura would not only mean increasing or decreasing their power level, it would also mean user could give different kinds of powers to anyone, switch powers between espers, or remove esper powers all together.
===Sogiita Gunha===
Sogiita is a gemstone whose power is based on raw determination derived from the fact that he is completely delusional. He’s not outright insane just in his own little world. He specializes in regularly ignoring the laws of physics. While other Espers subtly bend reality to make their powers work, his is the only one that completely and blatantly ignores the laws of physics. His aura is constantly bends and twists in an unstable way granting him the ability he needs or whats at that moment.
===Reality Warping===
Personal reality is ones own understanding and perceptions of a certain bit knowledge of the universe, this gives the ability to see and understand the actual inner clockwork of how it works not just accept it as fact e.g. actually understanding why electromagnetism is the way it is. Not just knowing it is like that. (People with similar personal realties will have similar powers I would assume and also have similar personalities too) note no one personal reality is the same just like one’s own personality.
AIM is an extension of the brain in order for your personal reality to interact with the uncertainty principle of the specific part of the universe you understand. For example your AIM field could produce heat and manipulate subatomic temperature by neglecting what the temperature “could be” to what you want it to be. The AIM field is directly related to a universal field e.g. Misaka AIM field is actually an electromagnetic field, her aim manipulates charge locations this subsequently creates electromagnetic fields.
Calculation is the ability to control of your own AIM diffusion field in order to create the “data” of the total manipulation of the microscopic world in order for it to have a desired macroscopic effect. E.g. Misaka controlling the flow of electrons by producing electromagnetic AIM diffusion fields at different points her body to create electrical currents.
This actually works with the fact that the magic system in this story is similar to the one from negima which is described as closer to science due to requiring a complex amount of calculation, theory and practice in order to make efficient use of.
This is also where dance combat comes in ranma will use rhythm reading of himself, others and the world around him in order to understand and perceive the universe. You then replace aim with chi, which is where Taoist philosophy comes in.
Energy is the capacity to do stuff (do work, actualize change, eat a burger, etc). chi energy is the capacity to excite an interference with observation. Chi magic would be ranma controlling his microscopic observations as to choose the possibility (observable reality) that he wants. Basically it is a form of chi manipulation where ranma uses his chi to both interacts with and manipulates the rhythm he’s read. He changes his microscopic observation of the macroscopic whole into something he wants and by extension causes that very same something (such as reality) to be detected/observed in the state that he wants it to be detected in.
Calculation is merely willpower, the effects that ranma can produce is only as good as his ability to manipulate his chi. Taking it a little further as AIM Diffusion Field is an area of space where the AIM emitted by an esper, always (regardless of whether the esper wants this to happen or not) produces a notable degree of effects. So ranma can only manipulate reality as far as his aura reaches.
Let's look at Kuroko's powers as an example. She is rewriting reality with her own personal reality, allowing her to teleport from one location to the next after calculating the coordinates and anything else required to make her move over there. Under the regular laws of physics of our world, this is not possible, but because she has utilized her personal reality, it becomes a reality.
===True Will===
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6mSktSTKw
Did you know that the crazy powers of the level 5 espers might actually have a hidden meaning, which changes everything for their characters. Not only are their psychic abilities cool as hell because they are based upon real life physics and boast serious firepower, but their esper abilities might just represent their personalities, or even their greatest selves as a whole.
 
As stated above one of the main components behind why esper powers work is a concept known as a personal reality. Essentially, espers are able to perceive the external world in a completely different way than normal humans, thanks to the mind-altering drugs and experiments they go through to develop powers. This is known as a personal reality, as it is the reality that exists in their mind which they can apply to the macroscopic world to alter reality, in the form of manifesting their unique power in the world. It all functions via quantum physics, which can be pretty complicated. Specifically, personal realities are a thing thanks to the Schrodinger's cat fort experiment. Let's say you have a cat who's placed in a box. The cat could either be dead or alive. You only know when you open the lid and see how it looks.
 
Since there is a 50-50 chance of the cat being alive or not, you could then say that when it's in the box with the lid on, it's in a state of being neither dead or alive, but somewhere in between. This is how Esper powers work. if you imagine the box as the esper, and then the alive cat as them distorting reality to use their power, or the cat being dead and nothing has changed in the external world.
 
Because personal realities are located in the mind, they may have some kind of a link to the personality of an esper, and perhaps something even greater. Each Esper is limited to only one personal reality, meaning they have access to just one specific power, and cannot use multiple ones. In that case, what the hell is even the criteria for why certain Espers get their specific power over something else entirely? Like, why did Accelerator get vector control power instead of Uiharu's thermal hand ability to slightly heat up objects. Multiple factors seemingly come into it, such as intelligence, potential, genetics, the quality of the experiments, or the scientific knowledge, amongst other things. But what about personality? Since everyone has a unique persona, then surely that could cause the drastic differences in each Esper's power. But at the same time, some Esper powers are more common than others, or are variations of the same type of power, like how there are a load of different Teleporter Espers or Electro Masters.
 
Therefore, how do we explain that then? if everyone's personality is unique? Well, it is revealed in the Index Light Novel that the artificial espers of Academy City were modeled after the magic system of Thalema, due to the influence of board chairman Aleister Crowley, a legendary magician who defected to the magic side to pursue science. Due to this, it is likely the case that personal realities represent what is known as the True Will. The true will is essentially the individual's greater purpose in life. It is not something that somebody can simply choose, as it is determined by the interplay between the self and the external universe. Huh, kinda like a reality contained within the self which can then affect the outside world.
 
Therefore, it can perhaps be implied that an Esper's power may be a reflection of their greater purpose in life, or even their soul itself. As a student becoming an esper, has zero say in what ability they get or what level they end up with. With the thousands of students who end up as powerless level zeros, their true wills likely imply they were never even meant to be espers to begin with. A stark contrast from the seven monsters who became level fives.
==Magic==
You could also use other magical systems as a base.
===Gold Digger===
If you look at a breakdown of how magic works Gold Digger its basically just different methods of energy manipulation that are even broken down into positive methods conjuration, illusion, abjuration, enchantments and negative methods summoning, transmutation, ignition, projection. 
===Fairy Tail===
Fairy Tail magic actually has a lot in common with cultivation, to the point where like with Jigokuraku you could substitute terms. Such as Internal Energy (内力 nèilì) (內劲 nèijìn) – also called Internal Strength / Internal Power / Internal Force the cultivated energy within a martial artist’s body for Magic Power. Qi (气 qì) the vital energy which exists in all things for ethernano. 
===Nasuverse===
While it’s been established to fictional in universe Fate Type Moon’s Magecraft would work rather well as chi magic. When you break it down a "reenactment" of the supernatural is exactly what Ranma wants to do.
Like King Solomon at the end of the Age of Gods Ranma is attempting to create a system that allows him to reenact the miracles produced by mana with chi. Naturally this will require the study of various schools of thaumaturgy such as Alchemy, Onmyoudou, and Kabbalah
Fundamentally speaking, the magic system of a school of magecraft is a set of common rules copied from the Akashic Records. It is a sort of universal manual on something that is already there, unlike True Magic, which exists outside of the boundaries of the world. The magic system provides the framework for the school's magecraft to actualize. It is engraved into the world through a magic foundation, which is essentially a Greater Ritual managed by the respective school.
Equivalent exchange is a fundamental theory of magecraft. To be able to cast a spell, or to create something, you must sacrifice something in return. True creation is the domain of the First Magic. When you apply this to the limitations of chi and mana I would say that chi’s free flowing nature would make it far easier for Ranma to copy spells then actually create them
The magic system contains all of the school's magic formulae, which are the functions of the spells falling under the school's domain. Magical energy is channeled through the Magic Circuits of the spellcaster to the school's system and activates the specific magic formula inside, actualizing a mystery. This is the basic sequence of spellcasting.
As seen magecraft works a lot like chi manipulation in that instead of manipulating ambient mana it converts magical energy inside the user’s body to transform the external world”. chi magic most likely will involve a lot of meditation and qigong so that ranma is able to alter the pattern of his energy circulatory system. Spell casting is even referred to less a method of speaking with the world and more a form of self-hypnosis.
You alter your energy flow and then project it outwards this new pattern of energy interferes with nature the way free flowing chi doesn’t. The greater the interference, the greater will be the amount of magical energy consumed.
===Reality Warping===
Reality warping is generally divided into 4 categories creation, destruction, enchantment and manipulation. Orihime's reality rejection falls into destruction. With just ki we have herb being able to make weapons the exploding point making people and objects stronger and absolute mouth control. Now just compare how beyond the realm orihime abilities are from them.
There are generally 4 different applications of reality warping namely creation which is the ability to produce something either out of nothing or from existing sources; destruction which as stated is the ability to destroy things; enchantment which is the ability to enhance something beyond its natural limits; and finally manipulations which is the ability to control and influence a subject, object, or concept using non-physical means.
The problem is that even if this is used all it would be doing is allow ranma to do what he has been doing since the beginning of the story namely catch up. Herb is able to create weapons out of his chi, there is the exploding point technique, Kuno is able to cut with a wooden sword and kasumi has that matter manipulation technique. To turn this from just a very strong and versatile form of chi manipulation into magic what you would need is Genki.
Genki (元気) means Origin Ki and is the original Ki of all matter. That is to say, matter in our world is composed of molecules, and below molecules are atoms, protons, neutrons, electrons, ions, neutrinos, quarks, gluons, and progressing infinitesimally downward to more microcosmic particles.
At the very origin of all matter, in the most microcosmic realm, is our Genki. It is what lies at the core of our being, buried underneath all those many layers of particles that end with the molecules that comprise our surface body.
Genki is composed of the characteristic of the universe and is virtuous and pure. It is the higher level, original, divine part of all matter, and it is extremely dense, refined and powerful.
Chinese Daoist culture does not distinguish between organic and inorganic, alive or dead. All matter is both simultaneously living and dying (the rotating Taiji of Yin and Yang), and all matter is composed of the same sub-molecular components. Therefore people, ghosts, gods, demons, trees, rivers, mountains, fish, planets and stars all have Genki.
Genki has another Daoist correlative with the concept of De (德), often translated as Virtue, and described as a white material substance aligned with the nature of the universe. It is the inverse of YeLi (业力), often translated as Karma, and described as a black substance aligned with wickedness.
All in all it is just a powerful external energy gathering technique. It is a collection of life energy from particles of matter that surround us, including the atmosphere and the Sun. Then the particles of this Genki (The Origin Qi at the root of all matter) are automatically drawn to the center of ranma’s body, like a vortex or magnet. They go inside the microcosm of his body.
===A Returner's Magic Should Be Special===
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special is a Korean Webnovel series that just got an anime. It has a school of magic called Analysis that I think could work for Chi Magic. Analysis is the interference of a magical circle, allowing its user to "hijack" and disable it, or send it right back at its caster. Analysis generally requires extensive knowledge of magical arithmetic and magical systems, and is seen as something only high tier magic circle users can do, but in reality anyone can utilize it.
Having the training and capability to Analyze is usually for breaking down situational information and understanding the runes and workings of spells one sees for replication or counters, which is great for supporting and strategy but ineffective in direct combat if the user doesn’t have the time to observe against a dangerous foe. The main character Desir, has 13 years of experience on his shoulders and has observed much if not all of the mainstream magic out there, so is able to near-instantly pull up counters and copy spells to send right back at his opponents.
Not only is Ranma's any Ranma's most prominent ability his super-human ability to utilize and adapt to even the most complex martial moves. But breaking down situational information in order to understand its inner workings is pretty much rhythm reading. You can already use rhythm reading on chi attacks so Ranma would just have to apply it to magic. Its only weakness is that it involves a lot of experimentation and studying which is what Ranma is already doing.
I also think Ranma will have to learn how to see energy flows. While there may be something in one of Happosai’s scrolls. He will most likely have to ask Shampoo for help.
===Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei===
While the magic system in the series seems needlessly complicated, it is actually an easier concept to consider if you think of things in two separate planes or dimensions:
The physical plane. This is the world as you can perceive it, reality. This is technically no different to the real-life world we are in right now.
The information dimension. This is a representation of the aforementioned reality, but not as we know it. Each entity in the physical plane (brick, desk, chair, person) is an information body (or Eidos) that is represented in the information dimension as, funnily enough, information.
The two, while different, are inherently linked. Anything that occurs in the physical plane will affect the corresponding Eidos in the information dimension, and vice-versa. This is, at the most basic level, how magic works. By overwriting the information of an Eidos in the information dimension, those changes are passed through to the physical plane, and affect the target in reality. This is, at the most basic level, how magic works. By overwriting the information of an Eidos in the information dimension, those changes are passed through to the physical plane, and affect the target in reality.
If you use this as a base then chi magic is just an advanced version of rhythm manipulation. You change the rhythm of an object or phenomena to manifest an effect. you can even go further and use just modern magic as a base. So chi magic can only effect.
* Acceleration (Speed)
* Weight
* Movement
* Oscillate (Vibrate)
* Converge
* Diffuse (Dissipate)
Absorption
Emission (Release/Disperse)
===Quantum Manipulation===
Quantum physics is a branch of physics that explains the behavior of matter and its interactions with energy on a microscopic scale. that is how personal reality works. It enables its user to ignore the Uncertainty Principle, and with regards to the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, will allow them to interfere with and distort the microscopic world using different laws. This is so the user can control their microscopic observations of the world and actualize the possibility of their choosing.
 
In fact quantum manipulation is often used to describe higher tier power in series. In get backers for example divine province or transcendental is is analogous to the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. Simply put, that which character cannot imagine (i.e. observe) cannot occur. For akabane it's dying, for ban mido its losing. Orihime powers from bleach also works like this as they are based around the concept of rejecting reality
 
When examining the world of ki at the most smallest level possible, one views a realm of vast unpredictability and utter chaos, in which all possibilities that could exist, can exist in some way or form; should it mean that these occur within the same existence or in alternate dimensions. When certain circumstances happen in one's life and lead to particular events, in the way that causality explains the world operates, other possible outcomes and scenarios either do not occur or happen in other dimensions that escape one's limited perceptions. However, this is overcome by the select those that have reached the precipice that transcends the physical and even spiritual chains that bind understanding, allowing them to perceive the "world's flow". This is something that allows one to actually view causality in its purest form and actually manipulate it to a degree. it is an art that makes it possible to manifest all possibilities within a causality relationship.
 
The following example is the most basic way of understanding what it does. Assume that Subject A and Subject B have engaged in a physical confrontation. Subject B throws a straight punch for Subject A, aimed at striking the latter's open chest. Logic would dictate that, while there are infinite possible responses, there are actually only a couple possibilities that would normally happen. Subject A would naturally respond with one of the following: he can obviously do nothing, which would logically lead to getting hit, he can block the punch, or he could dodge the punch altogether. Within each of these broad possibilities, there exists even further and deeper sub-responses. How does he block? How does he dodge? Will he follow up with a counter? Or just get to a safe distance? this allows the user to choose which possibilities to manifest into being. By doing so, Subject A can both "dodge the attack" and "do nothing" at the same time, expending no physical effort so as to reserve stamina while simultaneously dodging said attack. The end result that Subject B witnesses is that his punch will fade through Subject A's body, as though it isn't actually there even though it visibly still exists in that space. However complicated this may seem, it is still only the most basic expression
===The Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn as a Typical Nobody===
Script Magic is a form of magic invented by the main character. You make a pseudo magic circle midair and then cast your spell in the next instant. Script Magic uses the magic particles in the air to construct the pseudo magic circle. So anyone can use script magic without worrying about their mana. You can only activate weak spells this way. so it is mostly used for feints or picking off weaklings. In close-quarters combat, script magic isn’t ideal. Because you’ll be full of openings while projecting the magic circle. So make sure to put some distance between yourself and the enemy. Script magic is extremely effective when used against enemies that are far away from you. Script magic’s major advantage is how quick it can be casted. And unlike regular magic script magic can be casted rapidly with no delay. If your opponent shows an opening even for a single moment, then you can dominate them one-sidedly like this.
This is basically what ranma is trying to do combining keijutsu with external chi manipulation.
===Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchu===
Materia Prima is an armor utilizing a large magic capacity - a Magic Power Mass, what Makoto learned in the research journal Root gave him, in an effort to draw more magic from his body's source base. Yet, it isn’t just magic power, an application method of magic power, allowing it to physically interfere which ordinary magic cannot do. However, the expenditure of its magical capacity is extremely high, so only someone like Makoto who has an abnormal amount of magical power can use this technique.
 
Said avatar of solid mana, Makoto can use it in many ways, whether to defend himself, attack, immobilize, or even move through the sky, as if he were walking, or all together at the same time. The avatar as such, even if it adopts a humanoid form, Makoto can make it change from one form to another, to his liking, for when he needs it. If the magical avatar suffers damage, Makoto can rebuild it back to normal, due to the supreme magical power that Makoto has as a reserve.
 
This form of magic not only reminds me of Happosai’s human battle aura technique but the explanation of how unlike ordinary magic it is able physically interfere reminds me of how mana is very programmable while chi is more free flowing. So could this weakness of chi be eliminated by compressing it. The technique is to solidify the magic power inside the body outside the body, and since it is an object while being magic power, it can be used for defense, and can also be immediately diverted for attacks, etc. It is like a moving stuffed animal formed with magic power, and from the outside it looks like nothing more than a waste of money, but it is only possible with a true surplus of magic power. Unfortunately the human battle aura is an incredibly taxing technique and unlike Makoto ranma doesn’t have god like reserves of energy.
 
There are alot of other interesting examples that could be used like the fact that while makoto’s magic knowledge is rather he is able to quickly grasp how the magic works and how to change and improve it. So again while ranma doesn’t have makoto’s massive energy pool adaptation is a basic tenant of the anything goes system and taking techniques and other things and deconstructing them, which he can then use to reconstruct the previous technique or create new ones if he needs to is essentially ranma even this version when he is on his game.
 
Then there is the fact that alot of the magic taught to makoto his servants specifically tomoe is similar to techniques that ranma already knows or knows of. There is Isolation and illusion: Used to trap the targets mind in an illusion used on the students and Alteration memory or memory manipulation. The same applies with tsukuyomi’s blessing. Everything makoto does with his Multifunctional Magic ranma could do with rhythm manipulation/alteration and that technique he created with th help of ranko.
 
While there is something that could help with building up ranma’s chi reserves. Makoto is a skilled practitioner of kyudo as he is practicing 'archery' his mind goes blank as he hits the middle of the target accurately. Just thinking about that and concentrating on it by spreading his consciousness, it is changing his own existence into everything concentrating towards the path of his target. His presence becomes zero or more like the aura of a deceased person. But when he releases the arrow and hits the target his mana capacity and presence doubles every time he does that. Increasing his physical strength and capacities. It is more like increasing his own limits that equals or surpasses the mana and magic powers of a God. Since it is just the kyudo practice of using a repetition to calm his mind and body could ranma do something similar with meditation.
===Toaru Majutsu no Index===
Spiritual Tripping This is Aleister Crowley's primary combat magic and it has a lot of similarities with Kitsui’s Rhythm Alteration to the point where it could be a more advanced version of it.
 
Spiritual Tripping is a technique which links the user's body to a target's body in a way similar to a voodoo doll and synchs up their motions. However, rather than similarly manipulating their body, it allows the user into their target's mind. Using their gestures to indicate weapons, the users forcibly drives images into the target's mind along with the power associated with them, allowing them to manifest illusionary weapons which cause the same effects to the target as real ones.
 
When utilized, the user forms a gesture relating to the weapon they wish to use against their target. The visual is used to drive an image into the target's mind and create a foothold to influence their thoughts, having them picture the weapon. Several small numbers scatter from their hand like sparks, then the indicated weapon manifests, though it is only visible to the one who is being targeted. A certain degree of skill is necessary in order to convey the image through the gesture, with extremely skilled users such as Aleister Crowley being able to instill an image with details which would be normally be impossible to tell from a simple gesture, even if the image is that of something that the target has never seen before. In order for Spiritual Tripping to be effective, the target has to witness the gestures the user makes and has to be able to 'picture' the image in their mind. The technique uses mime and astrological suggestion to bind the user to the target, but it also takes advantage of the way the brain fills in gaps when it receives limited information. If the target's perception is distorted, there is a chance that Spiritual Tripping may not function properly.
 
The illusionary weapons only affect the intended targets and as such, will not affect or be affected by obstacles or surroundings (for example, if a gun is used to shoot a target inside a building from the outside through a window, the physical distance and atmospheric conditions won't change the accuracy of the shot, and the shot will pass through without breaking the window), through the movements of the target as a result of the attack will affect their surroundings as normal. Even if a Spiritual Tripping attack hits a target with enough destructive power to destroy the world several times over, only they will be affected by it. Normal obstacles won't impede Spiritual Tripping attacks but it is still possible to intercept them through magical means and Imagine Breaker (Ranko would be the equivalent to this).
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Rooted in the target's imagination, Spiritual Tripping draws out destructive power from their own mind.
 
To further go along with the martial arts dance aspect there is a character from bleach named. Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi. His Bankai allows him to use music to create physical illusions. Rose states his music gives him power over his target's heart: as long as the target's heart is deceived, the illusions are realistic and powerful enough to physically damage the target and affect surroundings as if they were real. Rose claims that his illusions can make the opponent stop breathing. By adding this principle to spiritual tapping Ranma could perform actual spells like shooting fireballs.
 
In fact this reminds me of Ryoga’s mothers Form Magic which also works on the power of belief though in that case it is Atsuko’s belief in her illusions and in this case it is the opponent’s belief.
==Misc==
===Yatahagane===
This might be interesting. It is from the series Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san
The Yatahagane is a family that consists entirely of pure humans with high spiritual power who learned to harness secret techniques that make them comparable to Gods. They can pass on those techniques from parent to child or master to disciple. One such technique is called Limitless Training. With it the Yatahagane can potentially grow infinitely stronger by constantly taking on attacks which trains their body. There is however a maximum limit and the spirit power needed for this increase requires an outside source.
The idea is that by Ranma learning to stabilize his energy flow he can prevent himself from getting healing sickness or at the very least make getting it harder. He then uses both his own energy as well as the gathered energy (either from the environment or from opponent) to fortify his body instead of for short burst of power. Basically if Burning Soul is Kaiōken than this is Zenkai
===Renkan Keikikou===
This is from Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero. The main character Akatsuki learned the Ultimate Martial Art from the Fist Saint, Granseiz in the Divine Realm. It lets him control the ki of himself and others as well as the area around him, through controlling his ki, he is able to heighten his senses and physical abilities thus make himself superhuman. Akatsuki can apply pressure to and control the organs of others, as shown when he was able to make Izumi and Myuu wet themselves. He can insert ki into weapons, making them sharper and durable, but a weaker weapon won't be able to withstand his ki and will shatter, but if he can find a strong enough sword, then he can channel ki into his opponent and destroy them from the inside.
*Vivification: A Renkan Keikikou technique. This activates and stabilizes ones' internal chi, increasing their healing abilities. A blue light spreads under the palm of the user, and it feels warm to the one being healed. Akatsuki first demonstrates this while healing Miu
*Energy Bomb: Akatsuki is able to refine his ki with the atmosphere to create an energy orb, which was as large as himself as first shown in his fight against Phil Barnett who confused it for magic. Though it would normally be referred to as a Ki Bomb as mentioned in volume 5, a Energy Bomb sounded better.
*Unnamed Technique: Akatsuki can use an Ultimate Technique of Renkan Keikikou, in which he makes the true ki within himself flow at high-speeds and compresses it, then continues this process until a bluish-white light beings to radiate from him, in which he stimulating the potential within his body letting him increase the amount of true ki within himself and surpass the limits of his body. However, this puts a burden on himself.
===Synchronization (Seireitou)===
The synchronization technique might be helpful
Martial Arts Dance seems to rely upon "concept synchronization". In the martial arts, each style and technique finds its origins from studying a certain idea in the world. By watching how the water flows in rivers, movement possibilities arose in the martial arts. The mountains inspired stance, the animals inspired action and reaction, and so on and so forth. A dancer may resonate with these concepts in order to produce a certain effect that goes beyond causality. They may produce techniques that simply cannot be explained with "cause and effect".
Synergy relies upon "soul synchronization" . When Rippa and Kitsui establish a dialect, they enter into a union between souls. The two souls essentially resonate with one another and allow an even greater power to take form.
Flicker Step relies upon "spatial/dimensional synchronization". Movement is a phenomenon that occurs between oneself and the surroundings they inhabit. If there is nothing around them — in other words, if they existed in a vacuum — moving about in a vacuum doesn't mean anything because a vacuum is nothingness. Moving from one place in a vacuum to another place has no meaning because it is an infinitely expanding nothingness that is the same no matter what location within it you exist. Therefore, movement has to be relative to an actual space, thereby requiring an actual space to be considered actual movement. Flicker Step is a communication between oneself and the world, and when taken to a degree, a synchronization between these two entities can be produced, resulting in various effects related to one's own positioning within that space. If there is only one of you standing at a single spot at a given time in a given space, it is possible to synchronize with that space allows one to make it so they exist in multiple locations at once; though this does demand concentration that is proportional to the amount of different locations one designates themselves to be. Furthermore, by simply willing one's self to move faster within the given space, one can invoke teleportation or even bring themselves to higher dimensions as a consequence of their speed.
Chi magic essentially relies upon "desire synchronization". The key underlying idea of magic is to perform a feat that simply does not happen on its own. In order to create fire, a mortal must ignite material in order to produce the flame. But with magic, a spellcaster can simply will the fire to appear. It has nothing to do with a previously established concept or idea, like with martial art dance's concept synchronization, but simply behaves and manifests on a whim. However, the desire will only come about if the caster has enough power to make it happen. Therefore, it can be said that with chi magic, desire is proportional to the amount of energy available. Chi magic’s true power is the ability to absorb the desires of its caster and manifest them into reality, but only if the necessary strength is available to accomplish the deed. You synchronize your desires with available energy to produce magical effects, such as various spells, curses, charms, wards, and so on and so forth.
==Enchantment==
Enchant Magic, Fukajutsu (付加術; lit. "Annexing Technique"), or Enchantment from Fairy Tail seems like the best basis for chi magic based off of what is been said so far.
The process of Enchantment amounts to the user to adding their own Magic onto living or inanimate objects, thereby increasing their natural attributes; i.e. enchanting wood to make it stronger than steel. For skilled enchanters, it is possible to attach their Magic in a manner that allows them to change and alter climates, manipulate the atmosphere, completely change geography, modify an organism's physique, and even vastly enhancing the power of individuals past their normal limits. High Enchanters also have the ability to extract Magic from human beings.
In fairy tail all magic is done by harnessing Ethernano to produce a specifically desired effect. However, Enchantment differs in that it revolves around the concept of Ethernano Manipulation. This is done by use of Aura Catalyst a unique magic skill wherein the caster utilizes their Magical Aura as a medium to gather and condense ambient Ethernano. By doing this, they are able to fuse the two together, allowing for the harnessing of not only the raw Ethernano in the environment, but the energy from the user’s own magical origin. As a result, spells released are far more potent than they would normally be.
This really isn’t all that dissimilar from the AST magical system you just replace ethernano with mana and chi. magic is done by harnessing mana while chi magic is an advanced form of chi magic that enabling one to therein influence their own body or the external environment with their power. Referring to chi magic as the skill of "bestowing and affixing one's chi" also might be rather interesting.
Taking it further the current chapter reveals that rippa is trying to apply magical theory to external energies while ranma is to stabilize his own chi flow. There are two applications of enchantment that this can be applied to.
What Ranma is trying to do corresponds with Performance Enchantments which are a type of Enchantment that enables one to enhance an individual or object's performance in various parameters. Through binding one's Magic onto their target, the caster specifies the parameters they wish to enhance, thus allowing their power to mold into the desired characteristic. These parameters can range from physically enhancing an individual's strength, defensive abilities, or speed. At the level of a High Enchanter, Performance Enchantments are capable of vastly increasing the physical or magical power of an individual.
Albeit such a surge of power often causes the loss of sanity and, in some cases, force the target to take upon characteristics of the undead, such as the sense of pain being outright eliminated. These enhancements are temporary and last for a duration determined by the user's level of power. In most cases, these are used as short bursts of power to land critical strikes on an enemy. Higher enchantments for ranma would probably be more aligned with Ukyo’s burning soul then fairy tail. Though it does have a lot in common with dark hado or neko-ken in that it gives someone a surge in strength at the cost of their reasoning.
What Rippa is trying to do corresponds with Atmospheric Enchantment which are enchantments that directly manipulate the flow of energy within a certain region. By flaring out their magical aura and allowing it to bleed into the environment, the user can combine the ethernano within their body with that of the energy that is housed within the ley lines, veins of ethernano that are naturally produced within Earth Land. By harnessing this fused energy, the caster is capable influencing the land, the seas, and the sky. These effects can range anywhere from stimulating elemental magic, to altering weather patterns, and all the way to rearranging geography in any given area. While versatile, these spells require intense concentration to keep from destabilizing, as well as a constant flow of energy to keep the atmospheric bond from fading.
With enchantments ethernano isn’t programmable like mana but free flowing like chi so you have to concentrate to keep it stabilized.
There is another one that would work well with the Glyphic language. Though it is considered basic in fairy tail here it would be considered really advanced something rippa and ranma would come up with after chi magic has been firmly established. Conceptual Enchantment or Adaption Enchantment allows for the combining of different essences, combining one attribute with that of a completely different object, individual, or even technique. In short, either the caster or their target can harness energies that are necessarily native to them, and as a result, utilize techniques they ordinarily would not be able to. To simplify, it is a spell that gives those effected the ability to use alternative sources of energy in place of raw magical power. To do this, the user casts an Enchantment upon themselves that changes their very physiology in order to match that new source of energy; a Magical Origin for ethernano, Demon Pedigree for Curse Power, an artificial container to harness Suspiria etc. From this physiological change, those under the influence of the Enchantment not only develop the ability to use different sources of power, but they can also utilize techniques that are based off the newly drawn on source. As a result, a human Mage could gain the ability to casts Curses as if they had always been brought up on the art. In that same vein, a user of the Conceptual Enchantment can expand their ability to harness abilities that are more native to them and casts spells they do not truly “know” such as Time Magic or Spatial Magic. In this regard, the Conceptual Enchantment could theoretically be called the most versatile of all magics in a way that is not dissimilar to that of Molding Magic: its limits being dictated only by the users skill and imagination.
Ranma could create a pseudo-Inferno style or just use Kankaho.
If you want to place some limitations on what I have so far why don’t we go back to the topic of espers from earlier. If chi magic is an advanced external energy gathering technique atmospheric enchantment would be an advanced form of emotional chi manipulation. The power of ki blasts appear to be based on the strength of the emotion that they are being focused through and the amount of ki used. Shishi Höködan uses depression and Möko Takabisha uses confidence. Esper powers affect reality based on their users' internal reality. According to the pseudoscience of the series, if a Schrödinger's Cat experiment was set up, espers would find the cat in the state that they believed it to be, because they believed strongly enough that the cat was that way. So while frost could just create a lightning bolt ranma would need the proper mindset to do it and probably a better understanding of how electricity works.
Or we could just streamline it using the noble arts from Chivalry of a Failed Knight. Noble arts come in four different categories.
*Body Enhancement: The simplest power to increase physical abilities; for example, Ikki Kurogane, who can double his physical powers, however, this power, in particular, is considered useless since all normal Blazers can increase their physical abilities several times over using mana alone.
*Nature Interference: The power to create and control specific elements that can be found in nature such as Fire, Water, Wind, and Lightning. Nature Interference Blazers are able to also control the attributes and/or elements related to their elements; water users such as Shizuku are able to use ice and vapor, which are solid and gaseous forms of water. These Blazers can absorb natural elements around them, then convert it into more power known as pseudo mana, letting them use more mana to empower their Noble Art.
*Conceptual Manipulation: The power to manipulate certain concepts; for example, Ayase who is able to manipulate the concept of "Wounds", letting her make wounds more severe. Others such as Stella who is able to manipulate the concept of "Dragon" are able to use different abilities like potent fire manipulation (Nature Interference) and enhanced physical attributes (Body Enhancement).
*Causation Manipulation: The power to manipulate causation itself, considered the strongest and rarest among Blazer abilities. Causation Blazers are able to control and overwrite events and fate itself; such as Amane who can manipulate "Fate", making all kind of skills and strategies useless against him. Despite a lot of the almost overpowered advantages, Desperado who exists outside of fate are immune to powers, which affects their fate.
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