White Elephant Primeval Strength Gu

A brown bear phantom and a white elephant phantom rise together when Fang Yuan charges with horizontal charge Gu. The blow sends Ju Kai Bei flying. In a later charge the same pair appears, but two dragon-elephant phantoms rise behind Ju Kai Bei and the pair pales beside them. Once his injuries and bitter strength Gu let him bring out three phantoms at once, white elephant joins brown bear and green bull. ^{ch. 318}

When strength qi Gu turns the eight phantoms solid, the white elephant attacks with its tusks. The other seven charge, smack, bite, gore, stomp, suppress and coil. ^{ch. 320}

In the fourth step of the second aperture Gu recipe, Fang Yuan sends the white elephant phantom first into the centre of the yin and yang clouds. Elixir fire and golden sand grind it down, and it turns into a ball of white light. Black python, stone turtle and horse phantoms follow it in. When he controls them, the white elephant phantom is steady and simple, black python coiling and cold, stone turtle still as a mountain, and horse running with the wind. The four then fuse into a rank five Gu, the beast strength placenta Gu. ^{ch. 378}

Cited chapters do not describe the Gu worm’s resting look or food.