u/AstonishingArguement

The second aperture is one of the greatest gu, and I'm tired of acting like it's not.

We so often get caught up in the discussion of conflicting dao marks that we forget the true potential of having two apertures (this list does not include mortal benefits)

You have two sets of separate resources and immortal essence. You could cultivate the same path in both appertures, giving you double the cultivation resources for one path, dao marks, and achieving twice the gains in terms of cultivation knowledge during your ascension from heaven

You get two vital gu, allowing you to attempt to refine two immortal gu of your path, or two immortal gu from seperate paths without worrying about them shattering to dust.

You can place down one apperture and still leave using one like a defensive stronghold, a headquarters, or whatever else you so choose. The potential of this at rank 8 becomes insane, allowing you to consume a fragment of one of the heavens and still be able to leave and return.

If you awaken your apertures in two different regions, you can belong to two different regions in essence.

Listen well juniors.

While your pursuit of the dao is admirable, I must criticize such small thinking. Do all men wish to pursue eternal life and longevity?

Surley many masters grasp at straws to attain just to obtain a few measly years of lifespan. But what is such a thing for most men.

Who among you desires a life of solitude as you outlive not only your dao companion but your descendent up to the 10th generation?!

The wood charm gu has few equals in terms of mortal gu. Let us not forget when senior Gu Yue Qing Shu as a rank two gu master used the wood charm gu in order to close the gap between him and the Bai Ning Bing who was a rank three with the Nothern Dark Ice Soul physique as a simple B grade!

One might say "Senior Astonishing but I would become a Gu Immortal and challenge the heavens"... Junior dares? How would you even survive the first Earthly Calamity? Has Junior some sort of great secret? Or perhaps Junior is a once in a lifetime prodigy? Oh it must be a backer who rivals the heavens? I laugh at such a claim!

Another might chime in cooing, "Heh, Senior, i would trade immortals for my lifespan gu" Are you courting death? What man does trade with an ant? Does the ocean request permission before its waves hit the shore? You would be robbed!

With a Rank 5 Thousand year wood charm gu you would stand at the pinnacle of Rank 5 gu masters. Increasing your chances of truly becoming an immortal. What good is 1500 yeats if you die at 30.

Juniors are short-sighted, but senior admires your supreme grandmaster attainment in the delusion path.