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Gu Tai

First-line Great Sect Elder and sect masterpeak expert below Great Dao ParagonSeven Moons Sect

Gu Tai is the senior leader who raises Seven Moons Sect to prominence and protects Su Ming during the Ancient Zang contest. Though an old wound prevents him from realizing his potential as a Great Dao Paragon, his experience, authority, and strategic judgment make recognized Great Dao Paragons treat him as a dangerous senior.

Biography

Ancient Zang and the final truth

Gu Tai first intervenes when Sen Mu enters Seven Moons Sect's Sky Beyond the Sky and seals its fifth layer. He rejects the intruder's courtesies, forces him to answer whether he will fight, and wagers the invaders' lives on Su Ming surviving an incense stick. Gu Tai has already read One Dao Sect's plot: instead of interrupting its attack, he turns its pressure into the crisis Su Ming needs to fuse his Seven Lives Art and enter Dao Spirit Realm. Sen Mu admits that the apparent agreement was Gu Tai's trap and that the old man's foresight, rather than the sect's size alone, explains Seven Moons Sect's standing. (Chapters 1407–1410)

Gu Tai then commits the sect to Su Ming's Dao Verification. He supplies records, organizes two hundred thousand cultivators, distributes altar-marking jade slips, and coordinates allied sects inside the shattered dimensions. His support is conditional on Su Ming proving himself, but once that proof is given he accepts the risk of the sect's destruction. A century after the Tree of Dao Verification collapses, two Great Dao Paragons attack Seven Moons Sect. Gu Tai gives up his own remaining hope of advancement and self-destructs to summon the sect's ancestral spirits, forcing them back and preserving a remnant. His wish for Su Ming to answer the attack survives him and becomes one reason Su Ming chooses a direct battle rather than intangible evasion. (Chapters 1410–1467)

Appearance and personality

Gu Tai is an old man who often sits with his eyes closed and speaks flatly. His outward stillness hides a domineering presence capable of stripping the smile from an invading Dao Paragon. He is blunt, proud of Seven Moons Sect, and ruthless in calculated wagers, yet his risks serve disciples and the institution he built rather than personal display. (Chapters 1407–1410)

Abilities and cultivation

Gu Tai once fought Imperishable cultivators beside three ninth-level Dao Gods and is described as the sole later cultivator who might have followed them. A burden and heart injury prevent him from becoming a Great Dao Paragon, so that potential is not a completed realm. Within the Dao Verification dimensions, his cultivation still suppresses acknowledged Great Dao Paragons. (Chapters 1407, 1440–1446)

His greatest demonstrated strengths are perception and planning: he sees through One Dao Sect's layered scheme, recognizes unusual Brands on Su Ming, coordinates mass forces, and turns enemy advantages into a breakthrough. His final ancestral-spirit summons requires self-destruction and permanently ends his life, making it a sacrificial defense rather than a repeatable combat technique. (Chapters 1410, 1435–1446, 1465)

Relationships

  • Su Ming: Gu Tai tests, protects, and mobilizes Seven Moons Sect behind him. Su Ming later regards Gu Tai's kindness as real enough to avenge despite knowing Ancient Zang is part of a Possession struggle.
  • Xu Zhong Fan: A younger sect leader whose concern Gu Tai restrains when Su Ming must face his own trial.
  • Sen Mu: A respectful enemy whom Gu Tai outmaneuvers during the assault on Sky Beyond the Sky.

Items

  • Reversed Spirit Pearl: A Seven Moons legacy treasure connected to Gu Tai's earlier disciple and reserved for successive great sect leaders.
  • Dao Verification jade slips: Mass-produced guides Gu Tai gives the sect so cultivators can mark altars and regroup.
  • Black-fog treasure: An unidentified object he prepares during the contest but does not need to deploy after Su Ming intervenes.