Fang Xiu gave a faint smile and said.
There was no point in over-explaining things to an octopus.
So Fang Xiu didn’t bother.
"ROAR!"
This time, the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast could only nod.
Only then did Fang Xiu speak, satisfied. "You can go. You should be able to sense when I enter this world, right?"
"ROAR!"
That one roar was all the Octopus could manage.
It then scrambled onto its eight arms and scurried off in the other direction.
"Brother Fang, that... that thing was won over by you just like that?"
It was only when Ye Fan saw the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast run away that he finally snapped out of it.
He hurried to Fang Xiu’s side and spoke.
"Yeah. He’s just a classic bully—preys on the weak and fears the strong."
Fang Xiu chuckled and said.
"Let’s keep moving. I only have a little over a day before I have to leave this place."
At this point, Fang Xiu had no intention of continuing his Cultivation.
After all, he had shot up a full ten Levels inside the Demon Beast Tombstone.
’What’s the point of focusing on Cultivation? Lucky encounters are what’s most important.’
"Yes!"
Ye Fan nodded quickly.
THUD THUD THUD!
Just then, the sound of rapid footsteps reached their ears.
Fang Xiu’s brow furrowed slightly.
’Why does that sound so much like the Octopus when it ran off?’
And just as Fang Xiu turned his head...
...he saw the Octopus, standing a short distance away.
It seemed to want to approach, but also looked a bit frightened.
Fang Xiu said nothing, merely watching the Octopus.
The Octopus, in turn, watched Fang Xiu.
After a moment, seeing that Fang Xiu wasn’t speaking...
...it extended a tentacle and pointed toward the nearby campfire.
Ye Fan’s roasted meat was still on it.
Seeing the roasted meat, Fang Xiu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
’What a foodie.’
He muttered to himself in resignation.
Fang Xiu told Ye Fan to take the roasted meat over to the Eight-armed Octopus Demon Beast.
The creature was clearly a glutton.
It knew full well there was danger here, yet it risked coming back just for the roasted meat.
’Still, a Demon Beast that loves to eat probably can’t be all that bad.’
The two of them then packed up, extinguished the fire, and set off.
"Old Ye, you mentioned before that there are special locations in this central region where unique things can appear, right?"
Fang Xiu asked as he walked forward cautiously.
Ye Fan nodded. "Yes, but you have to be lucky enough to find them, and they can’t have been taken by anyone else."
"Are they in fixed locations?"
Fang Xiu asked again.
Ye Fan looked a little embarrassed. "That... I’m not entirely sure."
"People just say you can find them if you’re lucky. They never say what the things are, much less where they might be."
Ye Fan explained.
Fang Xiu nodded.
’Another one of those unspoken secrets, it seems.’
Fang Xiu didn’t press the issue.
He simply led Ye Fan forward.
Just then, Fang Xiu’s phone rang.
He glanced at it. An unknown number.
He rejected the call.
It rang again, and Fang Xiu rejected it again.
Once more, it rang.
"That... I think that’s a call from the Awakening Hall!"
Ye Fan glanced over from the side,
he said timidly.
Fang Xiu had been about to reject it again.
But hearing this, he held off.
"Hello! Fang Xiu, are you okay?"
As soon as Fang Xiu answered.
The voice on the other end was Li Mu’s.
"Huh? I’m fine!"
Fang Xiu was taken aback.
’What’s going on?’
’Nothing seems to have happened to me!’
"Your and Ye Fan’s badge cameras have been off for nearly six hours. I thought something happened to you two in the Demon Beast Tombstone!"
Li Mu’s voice crackled over the phone.
Only then did Fang Xiu remember that he had turned off his camera when he entered the Demon Beast Tombstone.
He’d completely forgotten to turn it back on.
’Didn’t I say I was... going to the bathroom?’
’Oh no. Six hours.’
’If I say I was constipated, will the people from the Awakening Hall even believe me?’
’But wait, why wasn’t Ye Fan’s on either?’
Fang Xiu looked down at his badge and discovered a black mark on it.
"Fang Xiu, I think my badge camera is broken!"
Ye Fan chimed in at that moment.
Fang Xiu blinked, taking a look. His badge also had a black mark on it.
Just then, Fang Xiu remembered the Netherworld Thunder Fall he had used earlier.
’Could it have been damaged then?’
’Is my luck really this good?’
’The heavens are on my side!’
"Sorry, it seems both my and Ye Fan’s badge cameras are broken. That’s why they weren’t on."
Fang Xiu seized the excuse.
"Broken?"
Li Mu’s voice was tinged with disbelief.
’What a coincidence. They broke right after they were turned off?’
"Yep, broken. We turned them off inside the Demon Beast Tombstone, but then we ran into some Thunder. I think our badges were affected and just broke!"
Fang Xiu said offhandedly.
Beside him, Ye Fan committed Fang Xiu’s story to memory.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to turn it on; he had simply forgotten.
After all, he wasn’t in the habit of turning off his camera.
Plus, he had just obtained a full set of Silver Equipment and jumped five Levels.
For Ye Fan, this was all incredibly exciting.
He’d forgotten all about turning his camera back on in the heat of the moment.
Thankfully, Fang Xiu was there to smooth things over.
"Is that so? You have just over a day left before you have to leave the Special Gate World. When that happens, you can come to headquarters to get yours repaired. Bring Ye Fan’s, too!"
Li Mu’s tone made it clear she still wasn’t entirely convinced.
But there was nothing she could do right now.
Fang Xiu had given his explanation, and she knew Ye Fan’s character. He was simple and honest and probably wouldn’t lie.
"Okay, got it. We’ve run into another Demon Beast, gotta go!"
Fang Xiu said.
"ROAR!"
Just then, the roar of a Demon Beast conveniently echoed from the distance.
"Alright, you two stay safe!"
There was nothing Li Mu could do.
Fang Xiu and Ye Fan were, after all, still inside the Gate World.
She would just have to wait for them to come out.
After hanging up, Fang Xiu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Phew. Why didn’t you turn your camera on, either?"
Fang Xiu asked Ye Fan.
"I... I forgot!"
Ye Fan said, a bit embarrassed.
Fang Xiu smiled. "Good thing you forgot. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known what to say!"
"Are we... going to be okay?"
Ye Fan asked worriedly.
It was the first time he’d ever lied to someone from the Awakening Hall.
"Are our badges broken or not?"
Fang Xiu retorted.
Ye Fan nodded. "They really are!"
"Then that’s that, isn’t it? Let’s go. When the time comes, just tell the Awakening Hall people exactly what you got in the Demon Beast Tombstone."
Fang Xiu instructed.
He knew that Ye Fan was a very honest person.
Fortunately, the Equipment obtained in the Demon Beast Tombstone was soul-bound.
Otherwise, Ye Fan would likely have been taken advantage of by the Awakening Hall.
While Fang Xiu couldn’t care less about a Silver Set...
...that didn’t mean no one in the Awakening Hall would want it.
If a Power Awakener stronger than Ye Fan took a liking to it, they would probably try to find a way to take it off his hands.
"Okay!"
Ye Fan nodded. He would follow Fang Xiu’s lead in all this.
"Let’s go. That Demon Beast roar from just now... it sounded a little strange."
Fang Xiu looked off into the distance.
He had just said it offhandedly before.
He hadn’t expected there to actually be a Demon Beast nearby.
But the roar Fang Xiu had just heard sounded odd.
’I should go check it out.’
’What if I run into one of those special locations?’
After all, Fang Xiu’s current Luck was so good it was almost frightening, even to himself.
’This luck is just too good, isn’t it?’
The key, the Demon Beast Tombstone, his Thunder coincidentally disabling the badge cameras...
All of these things could only have happened...
...if one’s luck was absolutely off the charts.
And yet, Fang Xiu had experienced them all.
In other words, the Luck Value added by his Celestial Wolf Ring was the real deal.
At least for Fang Xiu, it had a profound effect!
"Mm!"
Ye Fan didn’t overthink it.
He knew that without Fang Xiu, his luck would never have been this good.
All these item drops, leveling up, and even getting a full Silver Level set...
It was all thanks to Fang Xiu.
So now, wherever Fang Xiu went, Ye Fan would follow!

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