Wasteland Martial

Biodata

Power Progression

Advancement Requirements

Rule Comprehension and Origin

• Reach Demigod and condense the True Essence of Rules. These must be fully comprehended before attempting to master a rules origin 676.
• Perfect the controlled rule intents. At Peak Demigod, the final barrier depends more on comprehension and enduring the burden of will than on accumulating power 684.
• Withstand the void’s will. The breakthrough requires resisting its erosion while uniting true spirit, flesh, and rules 684.
• Obtain and accommodate origin power. Countless Peak Demigods remain unable to advance because they cannot draw upon and control it 708.

Finite Origin Shares

Rules originate beneath the five great wills. Although rule power permeates the Endless Void, its origin is finite: every new Wasteland Martial practitioner claims a share and makes advancement harder for later cultivators on the same path 676.

• Lin Sheng reasons that killing an Inferno Wasteland Martial being could release enough origin for his own advancement; this is his proposed solution, not a demonstrated breakthrough method 676.
• He later infers that the number of available origin shares corresponds to the aspects of a rule’s authority 722.
• Born with a wisp of meltform origin, Little Black possesses an exceptional advantage in accommodating further origin upon reaching Peak Demigod 708.

Preparations and Breakthrough Aids

Abilities & Characteristics

Rules Origin and Domain

Wasteland Martial beings unite body, Divine Soul, and a domain of rules, placing them beyond conventional combatants 651.

• Virtually no ordinary energy weapon can affect them 651.
• Their control of origin prevents Little Black’s rule-stealing secret art from absorbing their power 709.
• Their bodies retain innate domain pressure: Kasjin’s unattended body still produces a psychic barrier and disturbs surrounding rules 690.
• Mastering a second origin is exceptionally difficult. Xia Leisheng’s dual-origin attainment places him among the few Sunstar experts capable of it 700.

Physical Transcendence and Void Survival

Entering Wasteland Martial frees the body from mortal limitations 621.

• Practitioners can cross the Endless Void physically and survive and cultivate there for a limited time 621.
• Ordinary cultivators below this realm require vessels and defensive barriers to withstand void turbulence 621.
• Lifespans are described as reaching ten thousand years, compared with approximately one thousand years for Martial Corrosion practitioners 676.

Destructive Power

• At full strength, Wasteland Martial beings can destroy small planets 643.
• According to Mary’s account of the Fighting Association president’s explanation, an unrestricted practitioner can affect the operation of rules across an entire planet 694.
• Xiao Zhenshan’s blood-baleful aura is sufficiently intense that Lin Sheng fears prolonged direct observation could injure his true spirit 715.
• Naka and Simo’s battle shatters the Ghost Whale World, throwing Lin Sheng into the Endless Void 820.

Phantom Body

A Phantom Body is an origin-powered avatar created through a secret art available only to Wasteland Martial practitioners 736.

• Lasts several days and possesses approximately eighty percent of the original body’s strength 736.
• Kalon uses Villen’s body to manifest one at Black Cliff Valley 736.
• This manifestation bypasses the expected warning from Sun Radiance City’s grand formation, allowing his ambush to proceed 733 736.

Existential Rank

• Little Black explains that existential-rank power normally becomes available after entering Wasteland Martial, followed by further advancement and the condensation of one’s own origin 806.
• Lin Sheng distinguishes a refined Desolate Beast corpse from a living Wasteland Martial threat because it possesses the aura but lacks the rank power characteristic of the realm 814.

Limits & Vulnerabilities

• Fallen Star Extreme Lightning: Erodes rules, tears apart domains, and penetrates origin-protecting barriers. It can seriously injure Wasteland Martial beings and potentially kill them 651.
• Return to Stillness erosion: Prolonged exposure diminishes cultivation and damages foundations. Even veteran practitioners avoid extended duty guarding its forbidden zones 766.
• Destructive authority: The innermost destruction authority of the Return-to-Quiescence Will terrifies Wasteland Martial beings; Naka believes only Peak Realm power could barely withstand the force attacking him 820.
• Higher-realm opponents: Equal-realm battles are difficult to settle without fighting to the death, but a realm advantage can decisively change the balance. Xia Leisheng’s Second Realm power forces Kalon and Prison Demon to retreat 699 700.
• Breakthrough failure: Silver King’s failed attempt shatters his body and leaves the outside world believing him dead 757.

Death & Origin Release

• A Wasteland Martial death can trigger Heavenly Weeping. Kasjin’s fall produces this phenomenon and attracts powerful investigators to Forest City 698 699.
• Mary explains, with some uncertainty, that a practitioner’s death makes the corresponding rules tremble 694.
• After witnessing an Erosion Zone strengthen alongside a death phenomenon, Lin Sheng concludes that returning origin power empowers the Return-to-Quiescence Will 770.
• Third Realm and Peak Realm remains can retain origin residue rather than losing it immediately. Over time, this residue gathers rule fragments and forms Void Spirit Liquid 783.

Political & Military Significance

Rarity and Authority

• The Alliance may go a thousand years without producing a new Wasteland Martial expert 684.
• Major powers rely on them as their ultimate protectors. Wasteland Martial cultivators commonly build extensive lineages over centuries 651 706.
• Wasteland Martial Seeds are exceptional prospective successors cultivated by top powers, often possessing combat strength far above their apparent realm 701 708.
• Xia Leisheng becomes the Alliance Council’s Ninth Council Speaker after revealing his Second Realm strength 782.

Desolate-Prohibition Pact

• The Alliance, Crimson Blood Empire, and other major Sunstar powers agree to prohibit Wasteland Martial battles on the planet; disputes are supposed to be settled in the void 694.
• Repeated planetary battles show the pact losing force 694.
• The Council later bars the Kane Group’s two Wasteland Martial beings from Alliance territory for one hundred years following the Black Cliff Valley incident 782.

War and Return to Stillness

• An earlier Return to Stillness catastrophe kills numerous Wasteland Martial experts and transforms much of Sunstar into dangerous territory 766.
• During the later continental war, multiple Wasteland Martial beings fall. Bo Di judges that even Initial Realm practitioners can no longer guarantee their safety, while Middle Realm practitioners can barely secure a foothold 794.
• The demands of this war draw Su Shui and Bo Di away from their prolonged attempt to trap Lin Sheng 770.

Notable Practitioners

Lin Sheng’s Connection

Lin Sheng pursues Wasteland Martial primarily through flesh cultivation after learning that Inferno origin has nearly been exhausted. He nevertheless continues cultivating Inferno and considers taking an existing practitioner’s share through combat 676.

• His later use of borrowed origin power does not establish a Wasteland Martial cultivation breakthrough. He distinguishes temporary access to its power from actually entering the realm 772.
• By the time he confronts Wei Xuan, he believes he could test himself against an ordinary newly advanced Wasteland Martial fighter, but recognizes Wei Xuan as substantially stronger 842.
• His last explicitly displayed realm in the supplied record is Lower Demigod, not Wasteland Martial 835.