Gu Mang/Abilities

## Gu Mang

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Qingguang Elder
清光长老 *Qīngguāng Zhǎnglǎo*

	+ Wangba Army (commander, former)
* Liao Kingdom (former)
* Xihe Manor (former)
* Wangshu Academy

## Weapons

* **Fengbo** (风波, *Fēngbō*): Gu Mang's holy weapon, which he obtained upon entering the Cultivation Academy. It is a copper-colored suona with a white silk ribbon attached around its shaft. It is suitable for dealing with several opponents because of its power to make people bleed from all seven orifices. After his defection, he is unable to use it.

* **Yongye** (永夜, *Yǒngyè*): Yongye is a demonic holy weapon that Gu Mang uses after his defection. Unlike Fengbo, it is better suited for one-on-one battles.

* **Scimitar**:

## Abilities

* **Cultivation**: Gu Mang was a powerful cultivator during his youth, winning a glorious thirty-eight battles and only losing once. He is still powerful nonetheless even after his body was repeatedly tempered with black magic.

* **Physical Strength**: As a result of his years of experience in the military, Gu Mang is at peak physical condition, besting Murong Lian's servants even after losing his memories and spiritual core.

* **Intelligence**: Gu Mang is shown to be a very intelligent leader and capable tactician, easily able to analyze the situation at hand and being quick witted enough to bring solutions to it. His intelligence, leadership and quick wittedness is especially shown in the final battle against the Liao Kingdom.

* **High Pain Tolerance**: Gu Mang is able to withstand extremely high bouts of pain. An instance of this was when he was first tempered with black magic in the Liao Kingdom. It is said that *"in three days and three nights, the flesh of his back was completely cut open along the spine. Spiritual energy eating gu worms were placed deep into the wounds, thousands of puppet strings spreading out along the blood vessels in his flesh, snapping and scrambling every spiritual energy meridian used for Chonghua's magic spells, one by one. Flipping and twisting through his organs, stirring it all into complete disorder."* The thousands of threads in his flesh were refined with the power of compelling truth, so if Gu Mang was to be interrogated and he lied in response, the threads would immediately burst out further into his flesh. Despite this, when he was asked if he regretted it, he lied, saying that he didn't.

* **Spellcasting**: Gu Mang has a deep interest in spell casting and always tries to discover new spells, arrays, and techniques. Notable creations include turning into a cat for an incense time, making a facsimile of himself from wood, and the Illusion Butterfly technique that transforms his and Mo Xi's appearance.
	+ **Shared Heart**: A technique that allows the user to bind their life to their desired target. Gu Mang used this to bind his life to the Demonblood Beast.
	+ **I Agree with the General**: This technique transforms a piece of wood into the user's splitting image. Gu Mang used this to skip out on tedious military meetings from when he first enlisted.
	+ **Illusion Butterfly Transformation**:

* **Swordsmanship**:

* **Musical Abilities**:

* **Demonic Abilities**: Due to his body being tempered by the Liao Kingdom, Gu Mang has demonic curses carved into his bones, which allow him to use demonic spells and the weapon Yongye. He is able to utilize these abilities even without his memories or his spiritual core.

* **Domestic Skills**:

* **Acting Skills**:

* **Charisma**:

## Weaknesses

* **Barrier Technique**: It is remarked that while Mo Xi had a good grasp on barrier techniques, it was Gu Mang's weakness in turn.

* **Black Magic Tempering**:

## References

2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Novel, Chapter 186: Gu Mang and the Demonblood Beast
3. ↑ Novel, Chapter 14: Xihe-jun the Liar
4. ↑ Novel, Chapter 122: From Now On, Into the Abyss
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Novel, Chapter 16: Suspicion
6. ↑ Novel, Chapter 95: Shixiong Was Out of Line
7. ↑ Novel, Chapter 103: Suffering