Qi deviation can lead to various adverse effects on the cultivator's mental and physical state, and one possible outcome is entering a catatonic state. In this state, the cultivator may become unresponsive and display a lack of movement or awareness of their surroundings.
Venerable Luo Geming, the six-winged demon, employed a strategy to deceive his enemies by leaving his empty physical body behind while he transferred his consciousness into a new vessel. By doing so, he aimed to create an illusion that met his demise in a nasty case of Qi deviation, thereby misleading his adversaries.
The strategy employed by Luo Geming, leaving behind his empty physical body while transferring his consciousness, can be likened to the behavior of a lizard shedding its tail. When threatened or pursued by predators, certain lizard species have the remarkable ability to detach their tails as a defensive mechanism.
