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If FY wants to become rank 10 without becoming a dao emperor, I’d imagine he’ll need to refine his sovergin gu to rank 10. Which, if it doesn’t automatic happens when he improve his aperture, FY will need to revisit those advancement options; human, heaven, or refinement path. Personally, I think heaven and/or refinement path are FY’s best options since I can see him advancing sovereign gu via order refinement or regular refinement.
For the last two physiques, they should be inverses of each other or of the five chinese elements. After all, there’s sun and moon(yin and yang), wisdom and strength, and three of the five chinese elements; wood, metal, and fire. All that’s left is water and earth. Although, I don’t know what to do with northern dark ice. Maybe southern light flame? Lol.
Similar to the elemental and wisdom gu, FY should prepare and refine/obtain ahead of time [path] gu, like ice, snow, dream, weapon, pill, formation, information, rule, heaven, blood, cloud, emotion, food, illusion, phantom, moon, drawing, painting, poison, qi, restriction, shadow, soul, sound, sword, thief, transformation, wood gu. Besides preparing for dao of creation, it is also nice to have these probably highly sought after gus. Some of these gus haven’t been mentioned yet, but a few of these are probably in the hands of someone already.
unrelated but, while rereading the OG in where fang yuan finally gets to knows how to become a venerable, dream armour gu was only originally rank 7 so he refines it to rank 8 dream armour gu, there was also dreaming gu, and western desserts paradise earth inheritance has already been claimed, also what happened to fang di chang? most likely(definitely) dead but kinda wanna see him again
Now that I think about it, since responsibility has 8 sides as a rank 8, are there lower rank responsibility gu with respectively less sides? Maybe not 6 and 7 since theyd be immortal gu, but 1-5 should be possible. Although, I don’t know what you’d use it for. Maybe for a leader to manage their staff/soldiers?