Half-Sage

Biodata

Rank in the Sacred Way

Characteristics

Sacred Power

Half-Sage power can affect the natural world on a vast scale. During an Appeal for Sage Judgment, leaked power caused day and night to alternate over Jade Sea City 114. A Half-Sage is stated to be capable of shattering a great sun 1372.

• A Half-Sage can sense their own name when it is spoken from hundreds of thousands of miles away. Hostile intent directed toward one can also expose the aggressor 436.
• A Half-Sage's presence can dramatically strengthen an army; during the first Battle of Two Worlds Mountain, ordinary soldiers possessed bodies comparable to Demon Generals because Half-Sages stood among them 2006.
• Human Race Half-Sages can analyze an enemy's Sacred Way and dissolve attacks by exploiting structural weaknesses, an ability ordinarily associated with Saint Ancestors 3036.

Incarnations

Half-Sages can act through incarnations rather than personally descending.

• Incarnations cannot regenerate flesh and blood; they recover slowly by absorbing heaven-and-earth essence or external power 2767.
• Exceptional incarnations can inherit a significant portion of their true body's power through secret techniques, as demonstrated by Lang Lu's incarnation 2062.
• Half-Sage blood-drop incarnations may oversee large-scale events such as the Metropolitan Graduate Spring Hunt and intervene to reduce casualties 663.

Posthumous Sacred Souls

Human Race Half-Sages can preserve their wills after death. Their wills gather into Sacred Souls without requiring Sacred Blood or sacred objects, unlike Demon Barbarian sages below the Ancestral God level 628.

• During Half-Sage Awakening, translucent phantoms of deceased Half-Sages manifested above the Sacred Academy 627.
• More than seventy Half-Sage Sacred Souls used Vast Righteous Qi to halt and drive back the descending Demon Moon Spear 628.
• Sacred Souls retain distinct Sacred Way abilities, including powers of the Historian, Legalist, and School of War traditions 628.

Authority and Society

Appeals for Sage Judgment

An Appeal for Sage Judgment can call upon a Half-Sage to resolve a dispute. Such appeals normally receive only a reply, making a visible leakage of Half-Sage power an alarming occurrence 114.

Direct Disciples

Becoming a Half-Sage's direct disciple is an exceptional honor. Half-Sage guidance can imprint knowledge through Sacred Way power rather than ordinary instruction 3088.

• Half-Sages may personally select direct disciples through Sage Appeals or similar trials 58.
• Apart from accidental death, every documented direct disciple of a Half-Sage becomes a Great Scholar 3088.
• A prospective disciple's prior teachers and conduct may be scrutinized, since changing teachers to join a Half-Sage could damage their reputation 59.

Half-Sage Families

Half-Sage Families possess inherited resources and influence, including specialized mechanisms made from demon-barbarian bones, hides, and protective metals 208.

• A fallen Sage Aristocratic Clan may risk offending even a living Half-Sage if it does not violate the Sacred Academy Iron Law 436.
• Families descended from Half-Sages often hold greater standing when the sage possessed exceptional Literary Guts during life 2370.

Associated Artifacts and Legacies

• Half-Sage Regalia — Human Race equipment modeled after Ancient Demon Half-Sage Battle Bodies. It is slightly weaker than the original battle bodies but more suitable for Human Race users 1244.
• Half-Sage Battle Body — A full-body treasure forged from the remains of a Sainthood being; it grants Sainthood-like battle instincts and suppresses opponents beneath the Half-Sage realm 1244.
• Half-Sage Former Residence — A residence sealed by Sacred Power and usually opened through bloodline rituals or by passing the deceased sage's trial 2651.
• Half-Sage Literary World — More valuable than a former residence; Literary Worlds of fallen Half-Sages may drift through the Myriad Worlds and can be discovered, defiled, or lost 991.
• Half-Sage Literary Treasure — Treasures such as the Measuring-Heaven Ruler can oversee and calculate large-scale battlefield results 663.

Selected Half-Sages