Eating One's Words Gu

The finished Gu is a lion head image. After the last fusion step it shrinks by more than half, and its white body glows in light blue, dark green, and pink. ^{ch. 278}

No cited chapter states a numeric rank for Eating One’s Words Gu in its own words.

The finished Gu appears as a lion head image that has shrunk by more than half and glows in light blue, dark green, and pink. It chants as it works, then lasts only ten breaths before it destroys itself. ^{ch. 278}

Poison vow Gu carries a restriction law that stays in a Gu Master’s body. Under Eating One’s Words Gu that Dao mark is forced into view and then exterminated. The law in Eating One’s Words Gu is opposite to poison vow Gu’s and slightly stronger, so it can overwrite the vow. ^{ch. 292}

In use, colored light shines on Fang Yuan and draws out faint purple smoke that gathers into poison vow Gu images. The lion head swallows and chews those images until no purple smoke remains on him. He removes only his own side of the vow, so Shang Ya Zi and Bai Ning Bing keep their poison vow restraints. ^{ch. 278}

Later narration restates the same counter in plain words: he uses Eating One’s Words Gu to disperse the poison vow Gu on him. ^{ch. 288}

Fang Yuan buys the materials in Shang clan city shops and mixes in unused purchases so the recipe is harder to guess. The fusion chain runs rank one Smelly Fart Gu with rotting swamp mud and Rice Bag Grass into rank two Defecate Gu; Defecate Gu with Big Strength Gu into rank three Big Strength Defecate Gu; then Lion Roar Gu eats that Gu while three colored Paper Crane Gu keep the lion image stable until Eating One’s Words Gu is complete. ^{ch. 278}

Because the finished Gu lasts only ten breaths, he calls it to himself at once and spends those breaths clearing the vow. ^{ch. 278} Another refinement follows after one failure, again to remove a poison vow Gu on him. ^{ch. 297} He is already tired of refining Eating One’s Words Gu when someone again proposes a poison vow. ^{ch. 303}

The finished Gu lasts only ten breaths before it destroys itself. ^{ch. 278} No cited chapter describes a feeding method for a lasting copy. Later stretches treat it as a recipe he can refine again when he wants to drop a new poison vow. ^{ch. 500}

He first clears the poison vow shared with Bai Ning Bing and Shang Ya Zi, which he had accepted earlier in the city. ^{ch. 278} Days later he has already used the Gu again to disperse a poison vow tied to his deal with Li Ran, while still paying and acting cooperative so the arrangement stays useful. ^{ch. 288}

From previous life knowledge, the Gu only appears about two hundred years later in that timeline. It originates from a tribe leader in Western Desert, spreads after further decades, and is later answered by Black and White Paper Gu, which Eating One’s Words Gu cannot break; Distorting Black and White Gu then overrules that paper Gu. Fang Yuan treats this chain as one stretch of the longer struggle between making agreements and breaking them. ^{ch. 278}

When Wang Xiao of Wu mountain offers a poison vow for safety inside the King Quan Inheritance stretch, Fang Yuan knows he can create Eating One’s Words Gu to break it, but he refuses to spend the time while his other work is urgent. ^{ch. 382} In the Northern Plains alliance stretch he does not keep a ready copy. He possesses Eating One’s Words Gu as the recipe and prior use: a western desert chief develops it two hundred years later, he used it in Shang clan city to break his poison vow with Bai Ning Bing, and with treasure yellow heaven he can refine it again whenever he wants to drop a new poison vow. Others in that alliance do not know of Eating One’s Words Gu and trust poison vow Gu completely. ^{ch. 500}