False Second Aperture Gu

In the bronze main hall of the San Cha Mountain blessed land, Fang Yuan finishes a Gu like a beetle with a big graceful belly, pointed head and tail, no legs or antennas, vague like a carving on crude earthenware and grey as stone. ^{ch. 389}

Appearance

It is like a beetle with a big and graceful belly, a pointed head and tail, and no legs or antennas. Its shape is vague, like a carving on crude earthenware, grey as stone with no vitality. ^{ch. 389} After the lifespan Gu steps, it is like a peanut shell, golden, with scarlet blood-trace markings on the surface. ^{ch. 391}

Place in the recipe

Land spirit Ba Gui is joyous that Fang Yuan has refined this false Gu. Fang Yuan treats the next step as the qualitative change that requires Immortal Gu Divine Travel. ^{ch. 389}

Final refinement feed

Pressed for time, Fang Yuan takes out the false second aperture Gu and throws it into the bronze cauldron. Immortal essence combusts into blue smoke that covers the false Gu and turns it into dazzling yellow light while Feng Tian Yu helps blend the smoke and light. ^{ch. 390}

Forty-year shell

After lifespan Gu steps, Fang Yuan holds a golden peanut-shell Gu with scarlet blood-trace markings. The first false second aperture Gu could only survive for a week and was unstable; this Gu can survive for forty years. At that step the real second aperture Gu has already formed and is nurturing in the peanut shell, and only a strong external force from rank six divine travel Gu can eliminate the false and make it real. ^{ch. 391}

restart of the same step

New peanut shell after restart