River As Before Gu

Ma Ying Jie faces a drying spirit spring C in warm pond valley and notes that a river as before Gu could restore it at once, but he does not have the Gu. ^{ch. 545} Fang Yuan treats river as before and mountain as before as the main materials Tai Bai Yun Sheng will use to create Immortal Gu Landscape As Before after becoming a Gu Immortal. One plan is to capture Tai Bai Yun Sheng and soul search the Landscape As Before recipe from his mind, at the risk that he makes both Gu self-destruct; the other waits until he is a Gu Immortal holding the Immortal Gu and then deals with him. Vague rumors from Fang Yuan’s previous life say that when Tai Bai Yun Sheng became a Gu Immortal, Dao marks attracted each other and the two rank five Gu merged on their own into rank six Landscape As Before. ^{ch. 544} If Tai Bai Yun Sheng already holds a recipe for Landscape As Before, Fang Yuan hopes to plunder it along with both Gu and have Lang Ya land spirit refine the Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 554} Fang Yuan’s soul search of Tai Bai Yun Sheng finds no Immortal Gu recipe for Landscape As Before, which shows the rumors are true and the Immortal Gu forms on its own when Tai Bai Yun Sheng becomes a Gu Immortal. ^{ch. 592}

The core of Tai Bai Yun Sheng’s time path Immortal inheritance names three Gu: river as before Gu, mountain as before Gu, and man as before Gu. ^{ch. 604} During his immortal ascension Tai Bai Yun Sheng sends River As Before and Mountain As Before into the forming immortal aperture to stabilize it, then both sit under qi cocoons with man as before and other Gu. ^{ch. 609} Landscape As Before then forms by combining River as Before and Mountain as Before, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng reads its effect as their product elevated. ^{ch. 611}