The Qi channels were completely different from what was described within the book. For starters, the number of channels within the avatar's body was twice that of the recorded numbers within the scriptures. Long Tao began to examine the small threads which allow the flow of Qi within a practitioner's body and was astounded to find how different his avatar was.
The number aside, even the structure of the Qi channels was quite different than the recorded ones. The recorded channel sets didn't have subbranches coming out of the main set, yet the avatar's body was filled with them. The network was extremely complex and it took around half a day just to identify the complete connection properly.