Raindrop Gu

Wei Yang brings Fang Yuan into the crowded fifth inner city battle zone of Shang clan city to explain battle-stage rules, including that a winner can take a Gu from the loser. In the press of spectators, bystander talk runs through recent matches: one speaker asks whether the other saw Wang Da Han and Ma De Quan’s battle, and the reply is that Wang Da Han lost to Ma De Quan, losing his most important raindrop Gu, and is nearly crippled. ^{ch. 279}