Jiang-Shi

A jiang-shi is held at bay by cooked rice, mirrors, or ringing a handbell. It must stay at least 5 feet away from the object of its revulsion and cannot touch or make melee attacks against a creature brandishing such an object. Holding a jiang-shi at bay is a standard action. After being held at bay for 1 round, a jiang-shi can attempt a DC 20 Will save at the beginning of its turn to act normally.

A jiang-shi’s claw attack has the grab ability (Starfinder Alien Archive 155) and the operative weapon special property.

When a jiang-shi succeeds at a grapple combat maneuver, it can drain “chi,” or life energy, by drinking its victim’s breath. A victim must succeed at Fortitude save or gain 1 negative level and be staggered for 1d4 rounds.

jiang-shi moves by hopping, and its land speed is reduced by 10 feet from its base creature’s speed. A jiang-shi ignores difficult terrain and can’t be tripped. Other speeds (such as fly and swim speeds) are unaffected by this ability.

The holographic prayer scroll at a jiang-shi’s brow grants immunity to any effects from spell gems or other items that store spells, as if the jiang-shi had unbeatable spell resistance. It also grants the jiang-shi fast healing 5 and prevents the jiang-shi from being destroyed. When reduced to 0 Hit Points, a jiang-shi crumbles to dust, but it re-forms in 1 minute with 1 Hit Point in the nearest unoccupied space. Scattering the dust or mixing rice into the dust with a dose of vinegar before the jiang-shi re-forms destroys it permanently.