Heavenly Secret Gu

Gu worm in Reverend Insanity

VII VIII IX

Heavenly Secret Gu is a rank seven Immortal Gu. Old Man Yan Shi keeps it as his vital Gu and can use it to expose secrets of heaven and earth without ordinary evidence.

From Shadow Sect blessed land, Old Man Yan Shi weighs whether to spend his vital Gu on Fang Yuan’s bulk wolf buying in treasure yellow heaven. When he summons the Gu, traces of cloud smoke flow out of him and the white cloud smoke rises and gathers above his head into a rumbling cloud, misty, with a thick Immortal Gu aura bursting out of it. The aura of the rank seven Immortal Gu itself is indiscernible, and there is no way to locate it. ch. 492

Appearance

It resembles a dragonfly, but on closer inspection it is more like a twig. The whole Immortal Gu is very long, about half an adult arm. Its body is thin and long like a twig, and very soft. On each side it has seven feathered wings that are thin and green, resembling leaves. ch. 1475

Effect and cost

Heavenly Secret is Old Man Yan Shi’s vital Gu and a rank seven Immortal Gu. It can expose the secrets of heaven and earth and lead a user to the truth even without ordinary evidence or clues. He does not succeed every time: out of ten tries, at least eight fail, and failure brings Immortal Gu backlash that targets lifespan while soul and body stay intact, cutting about ten to seventy years. When he found out that killer ghost doctor was under the slavery Gu, he used it to deduce that Fang Yuan would one day return to southern border. For Fixed Immortal Travel he spent a hundred and fifty years of his life: seventy to deduce where Fang Yuan went, which showed him in Hu Immortal blessed land, and eighty more with heavenly secret Gu to learn that Fang Yuan would return to southern border and join the battle of Yi Tian mountain. Over the wolf buying, he decides against another use. ch. 492

Origin and earlier record

Fang Yuan recalls that within wisdom path there is an Immortal Gu that lets a Gu Immortal obtain answers directly without colliding thoughts or making deductions, as long as they grab onto that strand of heavenly secret: Heavenly Secret Gu. Historical record names it as created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, who possessed a rank eight heavenly secret Immortal Gu that disappeared without news after his death. Fang Yuan treats that Gu as able to question heaven and earth, and as a threat that could expose his secrets if used against him. ch. 657

Fang Yuan’s refinement

Old Man Yan Shi later uses Heavenly Secret Gu and spends a hundred years of lifespan to deduce that Spring Autumn Cicada is in bad condition and has already been used. ch. 1017 Sixth Hair carries the refinement to its final step, then Fang Yuan takes over the refinement path immortal formation and drives the killer move Heavenly Light Ring through seven rotations until the ring shrinks to a speck and a rank seven heavenly secret Gu lands on his head. It is his second attempt after the first refinement failed, and the success surprises him; he guesses it may be down to his luck path methods and very good luck. ch. 1475 Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created the Immortal Gu, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable’s split soul Old Man Yan Shi refined it, and it was destroyed in the battle of Yi Tian mountain. ch. 1476 The finished Immortal Gu flies so slowly that it seems to float. ch. 1475 Old Man Yan Shi had created heaven’s will dissipation, a wisdom path killer move with heavenly secret Immortal Gu as its core that can get rid of heaven’s will completely, but left it incomplete. Fang Yuan completes it several days later and starts using it on Spring Autumn Cicada. ch. 1476

Second round of refinement

Sixth Hair says the second round of Gu refinement is complete. Fang Yuan refined Spring Autumn Cicada and Heavenly Secret in that round, after Cleanse Soul, Self Love and Snack in the first. ch. 1481

Heaven’s will dissipation

Heavenly secret Immortal Gu is the core of the immortal killer move heaven’s will dissipation, which can eliminate heaven’s will. Fang Yuan had already used it against Spring Autumn Cicada before using it on a dream realm for the first time. ch. 1490

Rank eight and heaven path

Fang Yuan lists rank eight Heavenly Secret Gu among his own heaven path accumulation. ch. 2227 He states that Heavenly Secret is in essence a heaven path Gu worm, though he had once thought it was wisdom path, and that Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable created it with heaven path attainment already in hand. Activation can peek into heaven’s will and answer from heaven and earth, and out of ten activations at least eight fail and cost ten to seventy years of lifespan on failure, tied to heaven path materials and dao marks rather than a mystery of the Gu alone. ch. 2275 Fang Yuan refines rank nine heavenly secret Gu and then modifies the killer move obscured heavenly secret. ch. 2283

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