Brown Bear Innate Strength Gu

After Man Shi and Xiong Li die, Fang Yuan reaches the area hoping for Xiong Li’s Brown Bear Innate Strength Gu, but Xiong Li’s corpse and Gu worms are already gone. He judges that Xiong Lin collected them, and also notes the Gu might never have been on the body if Xiong Li had already returned it to his clan. ^{ch. 142}

In Shang clan city, Fang Yuan chooses a rank two brown bear innate strength Gu and spends four thousand one hundred primeval stones for it. ^{ch. 275}

Asked how many Gu he used to modify his body and raise strength, Fang Yuan answers that he used three: black and white boar Gu, crocodile strength Gu, and the brown bear innate strength Gu he just bought. Wei Yang then names those same three Gu as ones that can permanently increase strength but are expensive, and argues that the investment often returns only a portion of the body’s stored strength in real punches. ^{ch. 280}

Fang Yuan has been using brown bear innate strength Gu since he bought it and now masters it. In a stone-pillar test a brown bear phantom appears behind him, matching his right-palm smack as the pillar breaks. ^{ch. 288}