Vertical Crash Gu

Fang Yuan first shows Vertical Crash Gu on Shang clan city’s battle stage against Li Ran: he charges about fifty steps in one step and, with a wild boar phantom from all-out effort Gu, breaks Li Ran in a single pass. ^{ch. 286}

Effect

Activating it pours primeval essence into the Gu and uncontrollably sends the Gu Master’s legs rushing forward in a straight line. Its ability is to break through by force. With a clear path, the charge can run about fifty steps before it stops. Obstacles cut that momentum short. ^{ch. 288} It already showed a fifty-step charge on first use. ^{ch. 286} Li Hao treats the effective range as fifty steps and the cooldown after each use as five breaths. ^{ch. 290}

The Gu can only charge in a straight line. An opponent who reads the line can dodge and leave the attack empty. ^{ch. 318}

Its force comes from the Gu Master’s body, not from the worm alone. As the body grows stronger, the break-through grows with it. That makes it more suitable for Fang Yuan than jumping grass, whose jump strength comes from the worm. ^{ch. 288} In battle he times a three-breath gap between this Gu and horizontal charge Gu while each charge covers about fifty steps. ^{ch. 291}

Fang Yuan’s early use

He sells jumping grass and buys horizontal charge Gu and vertical crash Gu as his movement Gu. Training in Shang clan city costs about five percent of his light silver primeval essence per activation. Without all-out effort Gu he still knocks down stone pillars in a straight rush before a later pillar only shakes. ^{ch. 288} He combines it with all-out effort Gu’s boar phantom against Li Ran, and later uses the same charge to send other battle-stage opponents flying. ^{ch. 286 ch. 288 ch. 290}

Against Zhu Ba’s rolling blade meat, he repeatedly charges head-on with Vertical Crash Gu and a boar phantom, then shifts to horizontal charge and Vertical Crash Gu while circling the meatball. With a horse phantom the fifty-step charge gains about thirty percent more speed than boar strength. ^{ch. 300} Horse strength later drives another Vertical Crash Gu activation in the same stretch of fights. ^{ch. 316} Against Ju Kai Bei the straight-line limit shows when the target dodges of his own accord. ^{ch. 318} While healing fractured arms with self-reliance Gu, he keeps using horizontal charge Gu and vertical crash Gu to evade, doing three tasks at once in the black stone forest. ^{ch. 319}

Path

Fang Yuan frames horizontal charge Gu and vertical crash Gu as extremely suitable for strength path Gu Masters because the Gu Master can exert force while moving. ^{ch. 288}

Rank four refine

Hei tribe purchases

Supply camp choice