Self-reliance Gu

Fang Yuan plans a strength path set with All-out Effort Gu as core and Self-reliance Gu plus Bitter Strength Gu as support. ^{ch. 286}

He already holds the Gu when he locks that set around All-out Effort Gu, and he treats further spending as needing to go toward useful areas such as still-missing Bitter Strength Gu. ^{ch. 296}

Once he holds all three, they form a tight combination: injuries raise output while healing keeps that injured state usable. Against Ju Kai Bei he sometimes restrains the Gu so injuries stay high for Bitter Strength Gu, then activates it when fractured arms threaten combat, healing while he evades with horizontal charge Gu and vertical crash Gu. ^{ch. 318} Broken arms can be forced back into place while the Gu regrows bone, then flesh, then skin. ^{ch. 319} After he beats Ju Kai Bei, onlookers name the same pairing again and treat Self-reliance Gu with Bitter Strength Gu as near perfect beside Strength Qi Gu. ^{ch. 321}

In the aperture it is shaped like a cockroach: a dark-brown flat body, with feelers on its head and wings on its back. ^{ch. 292} Later refinement material copies repeat the same cockroach shape and dark brown flat body with feelers and wings. ^{ch. 1570}

In his aperture it looks like a cockroach: dark brown, flat body, feelers on its head, and wings on its back. He bought this rank three healing Gu for a huge outlay of primeval stones. A rare copy prices at forty-five thousand primeval stones, above sword shadow Gu in that comparison. ^{ch. 292}

It is among the best Gu for strength cultivating Gu Masters. The greater the Gu Master’s physical strength, the stronger the healing; the weaker the body, the weaker the heal. It heals only the Gu Master who owns it, never others. With the strength of two boars, one bear, and a crocodile, Fang Yuan’s use sits on par with Flesh-bone Gu, and further strength gains can push it past that mark. ^{ch. 292}

Healing can overwrite other Gu law layers already in the body. While Steel Tendon Gu hardens tendons, reconnection is slower because Self-reliance Gu must also overcome that steel-tendon law fragment. ^{ch. 292}

Against Zhu Ba he heals internal shock damage between assaults, then uses the Gu for potent sustainability after blade-aura wounds, stopping blood loss and growing flesh while tendons heal more slowly. ^{ch. 299 ch. 300} After he drops one boar strength and adds bull, horse, and half a turtle strength, the effect has surpassed flesh-bone Gu. ^{ch. 299}

Later fights again show him healing critical injuries with it while under pressure. ^{ch. 360 ch. 362}

Later the healing has far surpassed flesh-bone Gu. ^{ch. 342}

By the San Cha Mountain stretch the same Gu is still rank three, already at peak stage, and he has no recipe to advance it. Even so, when he can display formidable strength, its healing can match rank four healing Gu. ^{ch. 345}

In Northern Plains the rank three Gu can only show rank two effects; after wounds close a little, that weakened heal falters further. ^{ch. 428}

His second aperture still lists the healing Gu as rank three Self-reliance Gu among Southern Border strength Gu under region suppression. ^{ch. 504 ch. 516}

Hei tribe goods offer a rare rank two Self-reliance Gu. The rank three price sits at forty-five thousand primeval stones, or forty-five hundred battle merits there, while a rank four copy can price like a rank five Gu and rarely appears. He buys the rank two lot as a foundation for later refinement if no better path opens. ^{ch. 517} He later finds a rank four Self-reliance Gu among expanded alliance resources and judges he must take it, because his Southern Border copy is suppressed and he lacks the recipe to raise it himself. ^{ch. 522}

After he becomes a Gu Immortal, Self-reliance Gu remains among the second aperture mortal Gu that underpin killer move Myriad Self beside rank four All-out Effort Gu and other strength Gu. ^{ch. 650}

When he uses immortal killer move Myriad Self, First Style, Giant Hand, the aperture again lists it among the circling mortal Gu around Self Strength Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 782}

Even when Myriad Self’s core Immortal Gu are Self Strength, Pulling Mountain, Pulling Water, and Cleanse Soul, Self-reliance Gu is still named among the supplementary mortal Gu. ^{ch. 1561} During refinement of myriad self Immortal Gu, Third Hair tosses in rank three Self-reliance Gu first; Sixth Hair adds several hundreds, and the calculated count is treated as a dao mark quantity problem before the copies burn into an odd rock. Self-reliance Gu is a strength path Gu worm with healing effects, cockroach-shaped, and those copies serve as refinement material. ^{ch. 1570} A later comparison of old Myriad Self still lists Self-reliance Gu among the many mortal Gu the move once needed. ^{ch. 1571} When Fang Yuan recreates the original mortal Myriad Self for comparison, he again lists it among the supplements under rank four All-out Effort Gu as core. ^{ch. 1774}