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Entity Info
Original Name:蛊方 (gǔ fāng)Gender:NeutralKind:ConceptScope:Novel-specificStatus:ActiveSource:AIOccurrences:87Chapters:16
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Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Gu Recipe |
| Original Name | 蛊方 |
| Type | Gu-refinement formula |
| First Appearance | 1 |
Function and Refinement
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Records the combination method needed to refine a specific Gu insect; a successful recipe lets a lineage repeatedly produce that Gu. 1 |
| Core process | Required Spirit Insects are sealed in a Gu vessel and forced to devour one another. Given sufficient time, the surviving materials may form a new Gu insect. 1 5 |
| Ingredient scope | Recipes may use Spirit Insects, but are not limited to them; Long Xuan confirms that animal organs and other unconventional materials can also be valid components. 15 |
| Refinement risk | A recipe can have a success rate as low as one in ten or one in a thousand. Failed refinement destroys every material placed in the vessel. 5 |
| Refinement time | Formation time varies by recipe, ranging from forty-nine or eighty-one days to several years for particularly powerful Gu. 5 |
| Duplicate outputs | Gu insects instinctively consume their own kind, so a cultivator can only maintain one Gu of the same type and must quickly sell or otherwise dispose of duplicates. 5 |
Value and Secrecy
- Gu Recipes are the foundation of a Gu-cultivator lineage’s long-term prosperity and are guarded as closely held inheritances. Ordinary people rarely have any opportunity to learn them. 1
- A recipe’s commercial value includes both its output and its secrecy: widespread circulation allows rivals to refine the same Gu and research ways to counter it. 3
- Rogue cultivators may develop and sell the Gu insects produced by their recipes without revealing the recipes themselves. 3 5
- A Gu’s grade is generally determined by the grade of its main ingredient—the material expected to survive the refinement process. The documented hierarchy is low-grade, middle-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. 5
- A longer recipe is not automatically stronger or more useful, but ancient recipes with immense ingredient lists can produce Gu capable of affecting heaven, earth, space, or time. 15
Recipe Completion and Research
| Method | Application |
|---|---|
| Progress observation | Long Xuan’s ability displays the completion percentage of an incomplete recipe. A rise in progress indicates a compatible addition; disappearance indicates an incorrect one; 100% denotes a completed recipe. 1 |
| Theoretical ingredients | The ability can register progress for insects or concepts from Long Xuan’s previous life, allowing him to pursue Gu species not previously known in this world. 1 |
| Zero-material testing | Because he can test ingredients on paper before buying them, Long Xuan can research recipes without consuming refinement materials during the design stage. 1 |
| Recipe-selection limitation | When several possible recipes share the same materials, the ability identifies the version requiring the greatest number of ingredients, potentially forcing Long Xuan toward excessively large and expensive formulas. 15 |
| Refinement certainty | A visible progress bar on a Gu vessel indicates that its refinement will succeed, allowing Long Xuan to avoid wasting materials on failed attempts. 5 |
Documented Gu Recipes
| Recipe | Key materials and development | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Cockroach Gu Recipe | Long Xuan’s first self-created recipe uses one hundred cockroach-based ingredients to combine resilience, regeneration, and survival traits. 3 4 | Produced the low-grade Little Strong Gu, later sold as Cockroach Gu. It withstands ordinary same-rank damage, can slowly regenerate severe injuries such as lost limbs, and consumes nearly anything. 5 6 7 |
| Eye of Heavenly Secrets Recipe | Built around the rare Stone Eye insect; Long Xuan added materials such as ox eye and eagle eye while pursuing microscopic magnification and long-range vision. Its completed version required more than three thousand materials. 14 15 | Produced the internal Eye of Heavenly Secrets, granting the Origin Realm illusion, microscopic vision down to atomic nuclei, long-distance sight, and vision through obstructions. 16 17 |
| Wine Gu Recipe | Uses four Spirit Wines representing sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy flavors. Long Xuan developed the wines from fruit wine, glutinous-rice wine, wormwood wine, and baijiu principles, then refined them with a Supreme-grade Wine Worm. 45 46 47 | Produced Little White, a Wine Gu with both a Slowing Domain and an Acceleration Domain—an unprecedented pair of domain abilities for a single Wine Worm. 49 |
Story Role
- Long Xuan’s discovery that incomplete recipes possess measurable progress transforms his apparently useless ability into a method for independently reconstructing and inventing Gu Recipes. 1
- His Cockroach Gu Recipe establishes his first reliable source of income and proves that cheap, low-grade materials can produce commercially valuable abilities. 5 6
- The immense cost of the Eye of Heavenly Secrets Recipe demonstrates that recipe completion does not solve the separate problem of acquiring rare ingredients. 15
- Long Xuan consistently keeps his most exceptional recipe-making capability secret, intending to reveal only ordinary unique Gu while concealing his capacity to develop high-value formulas. 5 15
- His later Wine Gu experiment shows how knowledge of brewing and distillation can be adapted into Gu refinement, producing results beyond conventional expectations. 45 49