Glossary: the Chinese terms behind every English guide

Almost every English reference for this game is a translation of a Chinese guide, and translation drift is the main reason two players can argue about a mechanic for an hour and both be wrong. This glossary fixes one English term per Chinese concept. Where no official English label has been verified, the site keeps the pinyin and says so rather than inventing a translation.

How should you use this glossary?

Use it as a lookup, not as reading material. If another site uses a different word for the same concept, translate it back to the Chinese term first — that is the stable identifier. Two labels that look like translations of different systems are often the same system, and two identical English words sometimes describe different Chinese mechanics.

Combat terms

Chinese	English on this site	What it actually means
灵压	Lingya (Spiritual Pressure)	Sum of the Lingya values on your equipped fabao; decides stun and shield strip
法宝	fabao	Flying treasure that fights alongside you; plural stays “fabao”
神通	divine ability	Slotted combat art; four slots define a build
会心	crit	Critical hit; “critical” as an adjective
真元	true essence	Resource pool spent by domain intrusion and some arts
护盾	shield	Layer that Lingya and shield-break arts strip
领域	domain	Ten-cast trigger; any aura-pressure lead intrudes (5% is Dominator's stricter rule)
威压	aura pressure	The value compared for domain intrusion
降神值	Descent Value	0–100 meter; 15 at start, 8 per second decay once triggered
阴神	Yin Deity	The figure compared during Descent; 阴神威煞 is the dread gap that scales damage and reduction by 0.5% per 1%

Progression terms

Chinese	English on this site	Note
炼气	Qi Refining	First realm
筑基	Foundation Establishment	Opens alchemy and market
金丹	Golden Core	Opens party play; enhancement cap 40
元婴	Nascent Soul	Opens spirit beasts; cap 70
化神	Spirit Transformation	Opens the Fengyao Record; cap 100
炼虚	Void Refining	Opens secret realms and artifacts
返虚	Return to Void	Alternate label for the same band in enhancement tables; cap 200
合体	Fusion	Mid-stage opens Tribulation Aperture; cap 230
大乘	Mahayana	Opens Qianji / Taihua / Yanhuang / Jueyun; cap 300
渡劫	Tribulation	Opens Nine-Turn Body Refining; cap 360
仙界	Immortal Realm	Opens Three Thousand Daos and the 1,050-stage track
证道之路	Path of Dao Verification	Endgame stage ladder

Faction and build terms

Chinese	English on this site	Note
道院	Dao Academy	The three starting schools
真武 / 太虚 / 焚阳	Zhenwu / Taixu / Fenyang	Sword / thunder / fire
剑修 / 雷修 / 火修	sword cultivator / thunder cultivator / fire cultivator	Lowercase in body text
绝魄	Juepo	The recurring buff art in every rotation
斩道	Zhandao	Slot-six finisher in Tribulation lines
断罪	Duizui	Glossed once as “Sin Judgement”
封妖录	Fengyao Record	23-beast collection system
封妖珠	Fengyao Orb	Blue / purple / gold; five blue merge into one purple
夺魄	soul capture	Three judgements per orb

Places and beasts

Chinese	English on this site	Where it appears
求道岭 / 五仙岭 / 游罗谷	Qiudao Ridge / Wuxian Ridge / Youluo Valley	Human Realm route
灭星舟 / 魔渊 / 巫山	Miexing Ark / Demon Abyss / Wushan	Spirit Realm anchors
业珠岛 / 三毒渊 / 煞魔眼	Yezhu Island / Three Poisons Abyss / Shamo Eye	Spirit Realm exploration
北冥雪原 / 鬼域深渊 / 琅琊书院 / 雷泽	Beiming Snowfield / Ghost Domain Abyss / Langya Academy / Leize Marsh	Hidden beast spawns
玄冰灵狐 / 九幽冥雀 / 天机龟 / 雷泽夔牛	Dark Ice Spirit Fox / Nine Nether Sparrow / Heavenly Mechanism Turtle / Leize Kui Ox	Hidden beasts
青木鸾鸟 / 土灵驹 / 玄水鲸 / 烈云犬	Azurewood Luan / Earth Spirit Colt / Black Water Whale / Blaze Cloud Hound	Spirit beast roles

Which lookalike terms must you not mix?

Four traps account for most of the confusion:

• 问剑长生 vs 御剑问长生. The second is a different title that appears in search results. Mechanics do not transfer.
• 炼虚 vs 返虚. Two labels for the same band. Do not treat them as two realms when you compare enhancement tables.
• Lingya vs combat power. Lingya is a fabao sum with a specific stun rule, not a generic power score.
• Fengyao Record vs “seal demon record”. Machine translations flip the verb and noun; the system is a capture collection, not a sealing ritual.

Why are ability names kept in pinyin?

Because there is no verified official English label list. Translating a name like 裂神 as “Splitting Spirit” looks helpful until a patch renames the art or a reader cannot find that string in-game. Pinyin is at least consistent and searchable. Where a name carries a mechanic in its meaning — 断罪, 斩道 — the page gives a one-time gloss in parentheses and then uses the pinyin.

If an official English glossary appears later, this page is the single place to update, and every other page inherits the change. Until then, the pinyin convention is the honest choice, and it is why the build library labels every rotation with the Chinese-derived names.