Wish Power

Biodata

Power Progression

Wish Power’s documented development concerns access to services and methods of using it, rather than cultivation realms of its own.

Nature and Origin

• Emotional investment: Objects holding intelligent beings’ thoughts and feelings can become Wish Power products. Most are collectibles without attributes; only a minority develop equipment effects 1.
• Shared meaning: Lin Hao later describes Wish Power as relatively pure faith power produced by sentient beings’ shared definition of an object. Prayer gathers a more disorderly form of faith that requires purification 533.
• Changing objects of value: Lin Hao reasons that, as silver becomes scarce and people redefine value, Wish Power should gradually accumulate in other possessions instead 221.
• Not restricted to positive feelings: Some equipment descriptions associate its history with slaughter or cruelty. Lin Hao suspects the killing of innocents helped turn the Three Luo Brothers’ possessions into Wish Power equipment 39.
• Not guaranteed by material alone: An Earth silver bracelet may contain no Wish Power, while Great Qi silver commonly qualifies as green-grade material worth roughly 100 Wish Power per tael 13 39.

Acquisition and Redemption

Wish Power Items

Wish Power remains embodied in objects until they are redeemed through Earth Will’s evacuation settlement process 75.

• Scavenging: Jewelry, collectibles, electronics, clothing, and household goods provide early resources. Lin Hao regards the valuables brought down with Earth’s residential districts as startup capital that is difficult to replace at the same speed 3 19 21.
• Other-world goods: Silver, antiques, weapons, and historically significant possessions can carry redeemable value 39 42 58.
• Creatures and natural materials: Wish Power beasts yield valuable meat, hides, blood, bones, venom, and medicinal organs. Black iron sand is a mineable gray-grade Wish Power material 86 88 321.
• Crafted products: Wish Power materials can be made into equipment. A newly crafted object can also acquire value through significance, as with Great Qi’s commemorative prototype flintlock 85 163.
• Evacuation Items: Submitting these grants specified Wish Power rewards and contribution points. The Imperial Ultimate Sword offers 270,000 Wish Power and five contribution points, though Lin Hao initially considers its abilities too valuable to surrender 124.

Evacuation Rules

Refined Faith

• With Divinity, Lin Hao can sense believers across worlds and mobilize power condensed from their faith 533.
• He strengthens his connections to controlled worlds and uses the Swarm Network to collect faith across worlds without the considerable losses normally suffered by other deities 534.
• This is not an unlimited additional supply: Wish Power generation remains roughly constant, and direct consumption slows the production of Wish Power Items 534.

Abilities & Uses

Healing and Recovery

Wish Power repairs training injuries and restores exhausted practitioners, allowing repeated cycles of extreme exertion 9 75.

• Basic Healing removes hidden injuries as well as restoring general condition. Clearing Lin Hao’s accumulated injuries from months of martial practice costs 230 Wish Power at his first settlement 75.
• Basic recovery stimulates the user’s own cell division. Repeatedly treating severe injuries this way may place additional strain on the body and accelerate aging 75.
• Special Treatment clears harmful effects from dragon lizard heart blood, pill toxicity, and the physical burden of combining breathing methods 90 174.
• Healing makes dangerous cultivation stages safer. Li Yanbing specifically credits it with protecting her during late-stage Blood Exchange 164.

Training Maintenance and Acceleration

Training Maintenance places Wish Power inside the body, where it is gradually consumed during practice to improve training results 75.

• It supports longer and more intensive training, but does not replace the need to practice. Survivors explicitly complain that they must still work hard before recovering 72.
• Better training methods improve the efficiency of Wish Power use 9.
• Medicines and Wish Power can complement one another. Later, pills provide cultivation gains while Wish Power shortens the time needed to digest and consolidate them 75 447.
• Swarm Adaptation further improves Lin Hao’s expenditure efficiency by strengthening targeted bodily adaptations 278 287 288.
• Applications extend beyond physical conditioning: Wish Power supports Internal Force cultivation, Yin Spirit cultivation, and integration of Lin Hao’s abilities 349 378 433.

Equipment Repair

Wish Power restores damaged attribute-bearing equipment 1 9.

• Repair cost depends on the item’s value and degree of damage 75.
• Its industrial uses include restoring Wish Power machinery after intensive operation. Yonghui Industrial Park’s five-axis machine tool can be maintained this way 350 356.
• Lin Hao’s equipment interface is a separate ability unique to him. Equipment inside it does not suffer ordinary damage, while equipment used physically can require Wish Power repairs 1.

Travel and Conversion Services

Earth Will also accepts Wish Power for services unlocked through higher privileges 75.

• Level II privileges permit paid relocation to a random arrival point within the same world 75.
• Higher privileges allow native Conversion using contribution points and Wish Power 75.
• Upgrading privileges requires contribution points; possessing a large Wish Power balance alone does not replace that requirement 75.

Direct Enhancement

Through Divinity, Lin Hao uses Wish Power as a general-purpose amplifier rather than solely as a recovery or cultivation resource 533 534.

• It can enhance martial moves, Daoist arts, and divine abilities, and can be spent on individual uses 533 534.
• It also functions as a sustained endurance reserve alongside his Blood Sea and Fusion Reactor 534.
• Against Demon Transformation, Wish Power magnifies an attack already combining his Dharma form, spatial attacks, Five-Colored Divine Light, Spiritual Artifact traits, and borrowed Astral Power 567.
• Lin Hao considers fulfillment of any wish theoretically possible with enough Wish Power, but emphasizes that consumption becomes enormous at higher energy levels 534.

Item Grades and Value

The initial quality sequence is gray → white → green → blue → purple → gold → red. Later examples include rainbow-grade products, dark-gold Evacuation Items, and black contaminated objects 3 124 251 422.

• Value is not the same as usefulness: Attribute-bearing equipment is often worth keeping rather than redeeming for its listed value 75 124.
• Quality does not require useful affixes: The blue Gold Ring has none, while the white prototype flintlock is equippable despite lacking affixes 3 163.
• Corruption can erase redemption value: A polluted Insect Source displays its value falling from 4.71 million Wish Power to zero while retaining its abilities 288.

Limitations and Resource Management

• Increasing physical cost: Stronger bodies require more Wish Power to recover and improve. During Hidden Force training, Lin Hao’s daily expenditure rises from roughly 1,000 to over 4,000 9 84.
• Diminishing cost-effectiveness: Spending more in a shorter period buys time at worse efficiency. Reducing intensity makes a reserve last longer 75 84.
• Cultivation bottlenecks remain: Wish Power does not itself supply missing cultivation methods or required resources such as a Source of Life for advancing beyond Epic 276 285 435.
• Transport restrictions: Pets cannot carry Wish Power goods, though they may wear suitable equipment. Lin Hao’s early quiver and herb-basket storage cannot hold Wish Power items while equipped 75 228.
• Later storage improvements: The Five Elements Secret Realm can contain Wish Power weapons and resources, but its contracted form is limited by their mass and energy rather than volume alone 439.
• Earth Will has limits: As his cultivation rises, Lin Hao anticipates that Earth Will’s own upper limit will eventually reduce the extraordinary effectiveness of Wish Power recovery 433.
• Reserves can still be exhausted: His Divine Transformation breakthrough consumes both the enormous accumulation from multiple settlements’ Evacuation Items and the Wish Power supplied by prayers across worlds 546.

Social and Economic Impact

• Shared cultivation resources: Rotating skill-bearing equipment, combined with Wish Power recovery, makes widespread Hidden Force cultivation a practical goal for Lin Hao’s settlement 162 164.
• Renewable supply encourages stability: Daphne argues that prosperous, populous worlds can continually produce Wish Power, giving Transmigrators an incentive to preserve peace and improve ordinary people’s lives 314.
• Large-scale collection supports rapid advancement: Great Qi and Antares become continuing sources of Wish Power, allowing Lin Hao to retain only enough for one emergency healing while spending the rest on cultivation 356.
• Production cannot match every increase in demand: Even supplies from multiple controlled worlds eventually fail to keep pace with Lin Hao’s rising consumption 435.
• Rewards can overcome poor aptitude: Lin Hao can use Wish Power and pills to raise contributors with limited cultivation talent and extend their lives 496.