Lightning Gu

Under Forest Lightning grotto-heaven, the two heavens alliance finds a lightning forest of flashing silver trees. Gu Immortals cite The Legends of Ren Zu that the source of a lightning forest is lightning Gu, and that this forest’s size is enough to prove a rank eight lightning Gu is there. ^{ch. 2020}

Forest Lightning Grotto Lord is refining rank eight lightning Gu when Lady Cold Ash and Night Heavenly Wolf Lord reach the forest’s center. He stops and threatens to destroy this lightning Gu. The alliance sees that it is still a wild Immortal Gu and that he has not refined it. An alliance immortal judges that a lightning path resource point birthed a wild lightning Gu, that this Gu turned the point into a lightning forest, and that Forest Lightning Grotto Lord fed that forest so the source Gu advanced to rank eight. He left it wild because refining it would interrupt that natural advancement. His goal was to advance lightning Gu to rank nine. Xiao He Jian treats the matter as a future rank nine lightning Gu and will not decide it himself. ^{ch. 2020}

Forest Lightning Grotto Lord refuses to give up the grotto-heaven. He offers to look after the lightning Gu for the moment and says that if the alliance wants rank nine lightning Gu, it can provide the resources to raise it in the lightning forest. Fang Yuan notes that this lightning Gu is only rank eight currently, and that raising it to rank nine would take an unknown cost in resources, with mishaps possible during the process. ^{ch. 2021}

Fang Yuan reads The Legends of Ren Zu. Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance and Myriad Gold Wondrous Essence are thrown into immemorial blue heaven, where a lightning forest stands and its source, a lightning Gu, roars that it is angry. Lightning Gu speaks. It has been trapped in immemorial blue heaven, wants a path out, and that anger attracted hatred Gu. It proposes cooperation: it will help break the heavenly wind qi wall if they bring it out. It lands on Blazing Glory Lightning Brilliance’s hand, obtains hatred Gu’s strength, and erupts with enough force to destroy that wall and shatter the whole of immemorial blue heaven. The two humans leave with lightning Gu and hatred Gu. ^{ch. 2021}

Fang Yuan reads that hatred Gu and lightning Gu can cooperate and amplify each other’s power into a killer move that destroyed immemorial blue heaven. He notes that only lightning Gu is in Forest Lightning grotto-heaven, and that without hatred Gu the combination will not work. Qin Ding Ling is eager for lightning Gu. Wu Shuai orders Forest Lightning Grotto Lord killed without regard for lightning Gu, calling it a mere rank eight Immortal Gu. Forest Lightning Grotto Lord tries to destroy lightning Gu. Lady Cold Ash seizes lightning Gu from his hands. The greatest gain of the battle is that wild rank eight lightning Gu, to be handed to Wu Shuai. Qin Ding Ling’s next letter treats it as already fallen into Wu Shuai’s hands. Fang Yuan notes that Lightning Gu is not fate Gu, and that Heavenly Court should have lightning Gu’s Immortal Gu recipe. ^{ch. 2022}

During a myriad tribulation in the sovereign immortal aperture, Fang Yuan’s formation becomes a basin that absorbs incoming lightning bolts into a pool of lightning plasma. That lightning pool’s core is a rank eight Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan had, Lightning Gu. ^{ch. 2045}