Wisdom Gu

A later telling has Ren Zu regain youth with Longevity Gu, then use Rules and Regulation Gu to capture many Gu at once. Strength Gu and Wisdom Gu remain in the net. Wisdom Gu offers a second middle-age bargain; Ren Zu refuses, then Wisdom Gu tricks him into naming Rules and Regulation aloud, remembers those names, and escapes. ^{ch. 58}

Wisdom Gu also appears in stories of Ren Zu’s children. It teaches Verdant Great Sun to taste monkey wines of several kinds, then leaves when he will not pass the joy of wine to the sober. ^{ch. 213} When Verdant Great Sun later needs flight advice, Wisdom Gu hides rather than meet him again, and divine travel Gu names cognition Gu as Wisdom Gu’s mother. ^{ch. 371} After Verdant Great Sun’s death, Ren Zu finds Wisdom Gu for an explanation. Wisdom Gu points him to the Door of Life and Death and the roads of death and life, including Dang Hun Mountain, Luo Po Valley, and Reverse Flow River. ^{ch. 410}

Cognition Gu later sends Desolate Ancient Moon and Northern Dark Ice Soul to Wisdom Gu, calling itself its mother and wisdom the crystallization of cognition. Wisdom Gu takes Desolate Ancient Moon’s middle age and directs them to a still blue sea and a human-shaped life Gu, then leaves before further questions. ^{ch. 591}

Earlier text already groups legend Gu such as Wisdom Gu with rank nine Immortal Gu. ^{ch. 561} Inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, Mo Yao’s will confirms that one supreme true inheritance holds the rank nine Wisdom Gu. Approaching it ages Fang Yuan at once. The same passage states that using Wisdom Gu costs lifespan, matching the Ren Zu bargains that traded middle age for its help, and that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable sealed it there. Fang Yuan does not know how Giant Sun obtained it or sealed it. ^{ch. 601}

When the building collapses, Wisdom Gu gives off the light of wisdom. Under that light, thoughts form, collide, and break at extreme speed, which the text names as the true effect of Wisdom Gu and as the principle behind the wisdom path. ^{ch. 637} At the end of that crisis, Wisdom Gu flies to Fang Yuan of its own accord. ^{ch. 649} He brings it through a stargate into Hu Immortal blessed land. He has not refined it. Survival instinct brought it with him, and he can use a portion of the light of wisdom; his immortal zombie body has no lifespan for that light to burn. ^{ch. 651 ch. 655}

He has no choice but to expose Wisdom Gu to Lang Ya land spirit out of necessity, and the land spirit persuades Wisdom Gu into a hairy man Gu Immortal’s immortal aperture and relocates it to Lang Ya blessed land. ^{ch. 1028}

Later recounting places Wisdom Gu in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building under Giant Sun, for whom ransacking Northern Plains for lifespan Gu was one of the building’s most important purposes and feeding it only secondary, and adds that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable once found it there but could neither use it nor afford to feed it. ^{ch. 1074} Its food is lifespan Gu. ^{ch. 1083}

Wisdom Gu at rank nine flies around a lingzhi king, flapping its wings and bobbing up and down, like a child playing around. At times it bumps into the lingzhi king and is bounced back by the rubbery flesh. ^{ch. 817}

After exploring Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s dream realm, Fang Yuan reaches wisdom path grandmaster attainment level alongside star path, in under half a month, where his first two grandmaster paths had taken him more than five hundred years combined. He reflects that wisdom Gu is a rank nine Immortal Gu that has reached an agreement with him but is not his, so his degree of use of it is not high, though attainment level itself belongs entirely to the Gu Immortal. With this grandmaster attainment, he means to try using supplementary Gu worms to make use of wisdom Gu more efficiently than his earlier brute-force method. ^{ch. 916}

Wisdom Gu remains the crucial point as Fang Yuan weighs whether to keep pursuing Ying Wu Xie. Fang Yuan has regained his former strength path immortal zombie body, but he fears that Ying Wu Xie set a trap inside it that targets the soul. He does not dare act rashly: testing it by placing other Gu Immortals’ souls inside it would have to be done secretly, since doing so openly would expose secrets to Lang Ya land spirit, and the test would still be unreliable because he cannot tell whether such a trap would target weak souls, strong souls, or otherworldly demons specifically. The difficulty of using wisdom Gu is the greatest restriction on his development. ^{ch. 1152}

A Legends of Ren Zu excerpt, chapter four section twenty-six, has wisdom Gu fly out of the felled trees while Ren Zu’s daughter Boundless Forest Samsara and a miniman are chopping wood for a ladder out of Ordinary Abyss, and answer her surprise by saying wisdom hides in the ordinary, so it can be there. It then rules that although the two of them may use predecessors’ achievements, each must still build a ladder of their own and finish it alone, or neither can leave. ^{ch. 1276}

Recounting an immemorial secret of Reverse Flow River, Mao Li Qiu states that because fate Gu forbade a dead person a second life, wisdom Gu withheld from Ren Zu that the river had no end for someone trying to leave it from upstream, which was why Ren Zu failed to save his son there. ^{ch. 1283}

Fang Yuan reasons that refining cleanse soul Immortal Gu would let him use his strength path immortal zombie body and gain wisdom Gu’s acknowledgement, letting him use the light of wisdom to influence the great era. ^{ch. 1424}

A later chapter states that wisdom Gu’s move to Lang Ya blessed land followed Heavenly Court’s capture of Hu Immortal blessed land, and that Lang Ya land spirit had fed and kept it there ever since, without further transfer. ^{ch. 1446}

Seeking to purify Spring Autumn Cicada of heaven’s will, Fang Yuan turns to wisdom Gu, which flies around him before emitting the light of wisdom for his deduction. The deduction proves so difficult that his wisdom path grandmaster attainment level is useless here, beyond his current capability, and he persists across repeated sessions without sleep or rest. ^{ch. 1477}

When Fang Yuan lets his clone, now a time path Gu Immortal with its strength path dao marks removed, out in front of wisdom Gu, the clone is a living being and wisdom Gu does not respond at all; only after the clone uses strength reversing life and death to become an immortal zombie again does wisdom Gu fly around it in uncertainty, without emitting the light of wisdom. After the clone reminds it of their agreement, wisdom Gu hesitates further before finally landing and giving the light of wisdom; narration calls it quite a shock that wisdom Gu almost did not acknowledge Fang Yuan’s identity. ^{ch. 1481}

Heavenly Court records state that after Star Constellation Immortal Venerable became rank nine, she spent close to one hundred years to subdue and refine rank nine Wisdom Gu. Fairy Zi Wei later treats that history as fact: Wisdom Gu was refined by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, ^{ch. 1557} and the refinement process sits in Star Constellation’s true inheritance. ^{ch. 1580} Later Gu Immortal talk repeats that Star Constellation took a hundred years to refine a wild rank nine Wisdom Gu. ^{ch. 2245} Those passages do not narrate the handoff from Star Constellation’s era into Giant Sun’s seal inside Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Lang Ya land spirit adds that legend places large amounts of information path immortal materials in Wisdom Gu’s recipe, and that a wild Wisdom Gu can only finish advancement in areas rich in information path dao marks. The recipe itself is not in Spectral Soul’s or Lang Ya’s true inheritances; only Heavenly Court holds some records. ^{ch. 1562}

Fang Yuan later states that he once had rank nine Wisdom Gu, that Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had tampered with it long before, and that he had to sacrifice it in the fate war. ^{ch. 2025}

A later chapter restates that the rank nine Gu was used as a material in that war and ceased to exist. Under heaven’s will a wild rank six Wisdom Gu then appears. Fang Yuan’s main body stays outside the air bubble, because entering would risk bursting it. His clone Meng Qiu Zhen retrieves the wild Gu from the bubble and suppresses it, and Fang Yuan refines it as his own, noting that this copy is not tampered with by Giant Sun. The same passage says Star Constellation Immortal Venerable spent over a hundred years refining rank nine Wisdom Gu in her previous life. Fang Yuan considers raising that rank six Gu back to rank nine and judges there is no urgency, because stealing heavenly secret already covers much of his wisdom path deduction and information need. ^{ch. 2292} No cited chapter compares the rank six light of wisdom to the former rank nine Gu’s light in its own words.

In the legend of Ren Zu’s search after losing freedom Gu, cognition Gu tells him that wisdom Gu has been to many places and has no fixed location, and that he must find it himself. ^{ch. 2036}

After learning to survive Qian Kun Crystal Wall using ink text, Ren Zu asks the inkman elder how he can find wisdom Gu inside the crystal wall. ^{ch. 2160}

The inkman elder tells Ren Zu that although wisdom Gu often stays within Qian Kun Crystal Wall, it is hidden very deeply, and that ink texts and tiles alone are too superficial to reach it. Only by turning information into real knowledge, written down in words, can a path be created that goes deep enough. ^{ch. 2161}

After Ren Zu and his children search all of Qian Kun Crystal Wall without success, the inkman elder tells them wisdom Gu is intentionally hiding from them and does not want to meet them, and that if it is still inside the crystal wall at all, it can only be hiding in Primordial Domain. ^{ch. 2176}

Within Primordial Domain, Ren Zu’s group finally meets wisdom Gu, which is left helpless that Ren Zu found it after it had hidden itself so deeply, and self Gu takes a bite out of it in the end. ^{ch. 2177}

Angered at being bitten by self Gu, wisdom Gu recruits lie Gu to help it take revenge on Ren Zu, telling lie Gu to mislead him about the positions of Hu Land and Xi Land around Primordial Domain. ^{ch. 2184}