The shadow path is the Gu path of shadow path Gu Immortals, shadow path attainment, and methods that sit beside dark path and light path.
The novel treats shadow path as a named cultivation path with ranked attainment, Gu Immortals, and Gu that carry shadow methods, not as a generic word for shade.
What the path governs
Li Jun Ying tells Zhao Lian Yun that she recently became a shadow path great grandmaster, and that her Illusory Fairy skill plus that attainment let her tamper with Gu materials without easy detection. ch. 2089 Fairy Bai Qing later confirms the same: Li Jun Ying secretly became a shadow path great grandmaster, kept a low profile, and used that cover to alter Gu materials in a plot against Feng Jin Huang. ch. 2091
Branch of dark and light
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable explains that Sun Yuan Hua’s human path comprehension resonated with the inheritance of Heavenly Court’s former shadow path Gu Immortal Immortal Monarch Gu Ying, yielding the Immortal Gu recipe of shadow puppet Gu. In that inheritance Gu Ying states that although shadow path is only a small branch of dark path now, it has more potential: it is also part of light path, because there is no shadow without light, and if it develops it could fuse light path and dark path into a larger path. ch. 2284
Shadow puppet clone
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