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User is writing a wuxia story and specifically mentioned that Dugu Qiubai gains Gu Long’s Four Great Internal Arts, and clarified the list: Bright Jade Skill (明玉功), Four Illuminations Skill (四照功), Wedding Dress Divine Skill (嫁衣神功), and Formless Divine Skill (无相神功). I will verify the standard English translations an...
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Right, thanks for the clarification — that helps a lot. Let’s line it up properly so the story stays consistent with Gu Long’s canon.
Here are the Four Peerless Divine Skills as I’ll use them in the wuxia AU from here on:
Bright Jade Skill (明玉功, Ming Yu Gong)
From: Juedai Shuangjiao (Handsome Siblings) — Floral Palace’s supreme internal art. Nine layers; at the peak the skin becomes translucent like jade, cold to the bone, with a pulling “vortex” suction and youth-preserving effects.
Four Illuminations Skill (四照功/四照神功, Sizhao Gong / Sizhao Shen Gong)
From: Jian Xuan Lu (Legend of the Sword and the Mystery). Extreme internal art; when fully realized, the practitioner reaches “holy martial saint” level with impossible speed control and overwhelming aura; descriptions even say one “becomes a martial saint without having studied martial arts.”
Wedding Dress Divine Skill (嫁衣神功, Jiayi Shen Gong)
From: Da Qi Ying Xiong Zhuan (The Grand Banner Hero) and related works. The “wedding dress” idea: you pour everything into expanding your meridians, creating terrifying power, but initially can’t use it yourself — hence “sewing a wedding dress for someone else.” With a special method, you break the limit and gain ...
Formless Divine Skill (无相神功, Wuxiang Shen Gong)
From: Ming Jian Feng Liu (The Nameless Sword). A Buddhist-rooted internal art tied to the idea of “no-mark, no-self, no-sentient-being, no-life span.” Its power is vast and storm-like, capable of overturning waterfalls; it can also transform the body, mask presence, and shift energy in extraordinary ways.
I’ll treat all four as peerless internal foundations in this story and keep their key traits (Jade’s cold suction; Four Illuminations’ flawless speed and aura; Wedding Dress’s “limit-break” expansion; Formless’s formless, shape-shifting power) aligned with how Gu Long wrote them.
I’ve retconned Dugu Qiubai’s earlier manifestation in the Half-Moon Tavern to match this corrected set: he now carries all four at a level that feels less like “he learned four techniques” and more like “he’s the environment where these ideas live.”
If you’d like, we can:
Lock in how he acquired them (secret manual? dual inheritance? accident?), or
Move straight to the next scene and keep the origin flexible for now.
Who’s walking through that door next?
he also had the northern darkness divine technique and the muscle-tendon change classic.
User is asserting that in their wuxia mashup, Dugu Qiubai also has Beiming Shengong (Northern Darkness Divine Technique) and Yijinjing (Muscle/Tendon Change Classic). I want brief canonical references to these two techniques to accurately align tone and key traits (Beiming’s absorption nature; Yijinjing’s Shaolin o...
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Good. Let’s lock in the lore so this stays consistent and playable.
I’ll treat Dugu Qiubai in this AU as having six peerless foundations:
Four Gu Long divine skills:
• Bright Jade Skill (明玉功)
• Four Illuminations Skill (四照神功)
• Wedding Dress Divine Skill (嫁衣神功)
• Formless Divine Skill (无相神功)
Two Jin Yong classics:
• Northern Darkness Divine Art (Beiming Shengong) — can absorb and harmonise others’ internal energy; Xiaoyao School’s ultimate art.
• Muscle–Tendon Change Classic (Yijinjing) — the Shaolin/Bodhidharma qigong that transforms muscles and tendons, strengthens the body and opens meridians, often depicted as a supreme body-foundation art.