ROCH Snake Gallbladders

[tape]

Those snake gallbladders improved his inner strength, along with the training, to almost Greatlike levels in a month. He went from well below Huo Du to slightly below Great in a month, which is at least 100-200% increase at least. How come he stopped improving at that ridiculous rate? You think the gallbladders only really help if your inner strength was mediocore in the first place, such as clearing your meridians and channels, or is it a rigid amount that just becomes insignificant after reaching a certain level?

Would they be useless to a Great who has already cleared his channels and thus have no noticeable benefits? If so, do you think Yang Guo would have reached Great level anyway, but he just got there much faster, but would have wound up on the same level? I assume the bladders strengthen your inner strength and clear your channels so it won't have much of an effect if someone like a Great takes it, unless he was sick or injured. I wonder if Hong Qi Gong would have been healed by these bladders. If so, it's kind of funny how it could have done what 9 Yin did by just eating bladders, and it would also grant 9 Yin level Martial arts. Rather broken.

[kyss of the sword]

the snake gallbaldders increased yang guo's strenght quite a bit but the qi itself was quite unrefined. he wasn't able to use it to do any LDA's and when he used the divine flicking finger against LMC, the stone he flicked lost strenght beofre it struck her. he had to practise for six years to refine it to great level and increase it. the strange medical herbs and animal galbaldders can increase your inner power need refinement through practise to be of use. however there are limits to such. keep on taking and you are like to suffer from over abundance of qi in the wrong channels or fire deviation. yang guo prbably ate more ballbaldders when he went back to the valley but his inner power was already so high, it was difficult to increase by the gallbaldders alone. he had to find new ways to traain his qi to get more benefits.

[yittz]

Ran out of giant snake gallbladders. Notice how there's no mention of giant snakes after ROCH? They have become extinct.

[Tazzy1972]

Prob all killed to provide YG with the gallbladders

[pannonian]

the snake gallbaldders increased yang guo's strenght quite a bit but the qi itself was quite unrefined. he wasn't able to use it to do any LDA's and when he used the divine flicking finger against LMC, the stone he flicked lost strenght beofre it struck her. he had to practise for six years to refine it to great level and increase it. the strange medical herbs and animal galbaldders can increase your inner power need refinement through practise to be of use. however there are limits to such. keep on taking and you are like to suffer from over abundance of qi in the wrong channels or fire deviation. yang guo prbably ate more ballbaldders when he went back to the valley but his inner power was already so high, it was difficult to increase by the gallbaldders alone. he had to find new ways to traain his qi to get more benefits.

There's a difference between the effect of the gallbladders as described by Yideng, and as experienced by Yang Guo. Yideng described them as increasing one's internal, but Yang Guo felt his internal to be running freely thoughout his body. I go for Yang Guo's description, that the gallbladders opened his meridians, but it was his training that increased his internal and taught him to direct it at will.

[kyss of the sword]

the training helped him to increase his inner strength further and learn the sword skills, but he felt increases in his inner power almost immediately after eating the gallbladders. he was able to lift the heavy sword with much less effort. the snake gallbladders seemed to increase both his inner and external strength and the training improved both as well. it's possible that training while the gallbladders were still in effect led to fast increase in inner power.
mention was made in ode to gallentry of the gallbladder of extraordinary beast and millennium mushrooms that can increase inner power. rev yideng also mentioned shaped ginseng and the mushrooms that can increase inner power. the 1000yr old snow ginseng given to guo xiang was of the same type. HR mentioned it would be worth 20 to 30yrs of inner power practice. neither of them took it then, i wonder if guo xiang did.

[ChanceEncounter]

How come he stopped improving at that ridiculous rate?

Power of the Plot.

[smurf120]

How about Guo Jing's Snake Blood vs. Yang Guo's Snake Bladders?

Presumably, the snake that GJ ingested lived under constant love and attention for 20 years while YG's snakes were all wild hunted by Diao Hing.

Which snake would kick the other's ummm gall?

[tape]

I think the ROCH snake is much tougher. If GJ encountered those snakes, I think he might very well have died.

[kyss of the sword]

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the snake guo jing drank the blood from was a rare poisoness snake but not as unique as the pusi snakes yang guo ate the gallbladders from. the red snake was about ten feet while the pusi snakes were about twice that.

[Dennis Chen]

Perhaps, there's a limit as to how much the snake gall bladders can help.

Or, there's a maximum limit as to how much a person can build their internal energy at any given time without first opening up the right meridians to control and hold such massive amounts of energy. As many have noted, the training in the waves is what helped Yang Guo control and harness the major internal increase that the snake bladders were giving him.

Xu Zhu absorbed major energy but the people he got it from had a special kung fu to handle such things.

Linghu Chong had Xixing Da Fa and was able to absorb all kinds of energy, but was unable to harness it because he didn't have the ability to open the right meridians to merge the energy and it was killing him.

I think Yang Guo is more like the latter. Yes, the snake bladder boosted his energy, but if he ate too many without practicing the HIS constantly, too much of a boost could cause him to fire deviate and die.

The question is, what is the limit of what a internal power a person can hold? That, of course, depends on their martial art and how it helps them open their meridians. At what point would a person start getting diminishing returns from eating snake gall bladders?

[kyss of the sword]

old man bai zizi in ode to gallentry once drank the blood and ate the gallbladder of a rare snake which led to a significant increase in his inner power equal to fifty years of practice, it made his inner power stronger then the leaders of the top sects even through the snow mountain sect's inner power was rather ordinary. it was likely the same type of snake that YG ate. but bai zizi only ate one(but couldn't match SPT's inner power level). YG ate several. the difference between a great and an ordinary expert is a great can gain in five years what an ordinary fighter needs fifty years to gain. i think one of the pusi snake gallbladders leads to five years of great practice or fifty years of ordinary expert practice.

[Trien Chieu]

Did Dugu Kau Bai ever eat any Snake Gallbladder? I don't recall he ate any in the series. I remember he ate a Gold Fish and a 1000 year old ginseng that increase his internal energy significantly but not snake gallbladers.

[Banh Mi]

That series was BS and made up by TVB, it doesn't count as part of Jin Yong's canon.

[kyss of the sword]

the series was never written by jin yong, it was a fake story, the real DGKB story should be more awesome then that.

[Western Eccentric]

Why Yu Guys forget that this item also granted YG's wound recovery faster and give him almost "super human" external/physical strength..

[Ken Cheng]

Why Yu Guys forget that this item also granted YG's wound recovery faster and give him almost "super human" external/physical strength..

Up to a point. It wasn't unlimited.

[Western Eccentric]

Up to a point. It wasn't unlimited.

Yeeep just like "doping" the snake organ affect was "temporary" not "permanent"..