Enslavement Path

Gu Masters on the enslavement path enslave beasts or worms. They must manipulate large numbers at once, which spends mental energy, so they often use a special set of Gu worms to train and raise the quality of their own soul. A strong soul greatly reduces the dizziness and backlash of intense group control. Named early Gu include dog enslavement Gu and dog guts Gu, a rank two supplementary Gu used on dogs to raise courage and morale in range. ^{ch. 350}

Fang Yuan lists three hard points. Food is a huge burden that scales with the size of the beast or worm group. Recruiting strong worms or beasts is difficult and can cause backlash that turns the Gu Master into an idiot. Enslavement path Gu Masters overly rely on their beasts or worms, so their bodies are weak and easy to deal with when alone. ^{ch. 350}

Resource demand is so high that even a middle-sized clan cannot afford to feed an enslavement path Gu Master. At most, large or super clans nurture a few for war. Within the demonic path, survival is even harder and barely any such Gu Masters exist. In the current Gu world of that stretch, enslavement path is extremely ordinary and hard to rise on; experts appear only briefly like shooting stars. ^{ch. 350}

Fang Yuan walked the enslavement path in his previous life, but in the San Cha mountain stretch he is a strength path Gu Master and does not choose enslavement again for those reasons. ^{ch. 350}

As Wolf King Chang Shan Yin he is called an enslavement path master whose strength path foundation is also very strong. ^{ch. 530}