84: Chapter 84 Luck Must Not Be Touched

Yu Xiu's thoughts stirred; he raised his hand and reached out, his palm instantly submerging into the Void Realm, a section of it disappearing into thin air.

Yet, thousands of miles away, beneath an unnamed mountain and above an exotic dimension, a hand suddenly appeared.

At the same moment, this exotic dimension erupted in violent resistance, with a mysterious force opposing the hand that had appeared out of thin air.

"Oh? It even recognizes people?"

Luck? Karma? Destiny? So that's how you want to play, huh?!

If nothing unexpected happened, the Luck, Karma, and Destiny upon Luo Yuanyou destined him to obtain the item within this exotic dimension; even Yu Xiu could not intervene.

He tried to reach out and take the scaled egg in advance, but was blocked by the exotic dimension.

If he were to force it, the item would very likely vanish on the spot.

In other words, this item already had an owner before it was even born.

And that owner could only be Luo Yuanyou.

"What a fine Destiny!" Yu Xiu did not persist and withdrew his hand.

In truth, he had many ways to obtain this egg.

The exotic dimension could not stop him, but he still chose to try a different method. After all, arguing with 'Heaven' about whether Destiny could be changed was not Yu Xiu's goal.

His goal was to see the traces of Destiny's arrangements within the world, the laws by which Luck drives the operation of the world, and the movements of the threads of Karma within it.

"It is not appropriate for me to forcibly take away the Opportunity arranged by Heaven, but if I change Luo Yuanyou's route, how will Heaven respond?"

Yu Xiu became interested.

He pointed from afar in the direction where Luo Yuanyou was located.

In an instant, a boulder weighing over ten thousand jin suddenly trembled. Then, beneath the earth, vigorous Earth Vein Qi gathered and surged into the boulder, as if gestating something.

At the same moment, Luo Yuanyou, who was rushing toward this place, suddenly reined in his horse, attracted by the scent of fruit nearby.

"What fragrant wild fruit." Luo Yuanyou's eyes lit up; he changed direction and headed toward the scent of the fruit.

Invisibly, he happened to avoid the boulder that Yu Xiu had enlightened.

It was also at this moment that Yu Xiu keenly captured a trace and immediately chuckled.

"Heaven, you've revealed your hand."

Because of his interference, the operation of the world changed accordingly, which in turn caused Luo Yuanyou to change direction.

This appeared to be just a change of direction on a whim by Luo Yuanyou, but in Yu Xiu's eyes, it was completely different.

He saw the fluctuations of Luck on Luo Yuanyou, followed by the resonance of the world, which was why the change occurred.

"Luck, this is Luck!"

Yu Xiu realized, "Is it the soul of the world?"

"If I were to take away this boundless Luck of the world, this world might decline, or even be ruined forever!"

Because of the loss of Luck, the 'soul' of the world would no longer operate in the direction most beneficial for its development, risking stagnation and death.

"Therefore..."

He looked at Luo Yuanyou.

"People who bear the Luck of the world like this are actually working for the world; they are pawns in the operation of the world!"

Perhaps they could also be called a link in the operation of the world.

When their Lifespan is exhausted in the future and they perish, the Luck they bore will naturally return to the world.

"This Luck must not be touched!"

If one bears too much of the world's Luck, they must either sever ties with the world and leave it!

Or, they must shoulder a link in the operation of the world!

For someone like Yu Xiu who cultivates the Dao of Yuanshi, once he gathers boundless Luck, the world will reject him, fearing that he might take the boundless Luck and leave this world.

Yu Xiu could even imagine that the world at that time would surely use immense Luck to spawn unimaginable experts to oppose him.

It would not even be strange if all living beings in the world became his enemies.

This was not what Yu Xiu desired.

Therefore, this Luck could not be touched.

However, although Yu Xiu would not touch it, he had already grasped the wonder of Luck.

If Yu Xiu were willing, he could create a person with deep Luck, but such deep Luck would have no meaning and would not receive any gifts from the world.

The reason is that bearing the world's Luck and the Luck that Yu Xiu actively creates are actually two different things.

While bearing the world's Luck, one also bears the Karma of the world, hence there will be all sorts of miraculous encounters. Just like Luo Yuanyou, even while walking on the road, Opportunities will appear; once he arrives, the Opportunity will naturally fall into his hands.

That is not just because of Luck, but also because of the Karma involved while bearing that Luck.

Whereas the Luck that Yu Xiu actively creates is just Luck; it will not lead to corresponding Karmic miraculous encounters.

However, once Yu Xiu sees through Karma and realizes Karma, then he too will be able to create the Sons of Luck that the world can create.

He did not intervene in Luo Yuanyou's path again, but quietly watched everything.

At the same time, the boulder he had enlightened suddenly shattered, and a stone giant over three zhang tall walked out from within.

The giant leaped out of the pile of rubble, bowed from afar in the direction of Yu Xiu, then escaped into the ground, and soon emerged from the ground again, blocking exactly in front of Luo Yuanyou, who was riding a Scale Horse.

"A Stone Demon?!" Luo Yuanyou was startled at first, then steadied his mind and asked, "Why are you blocking my path?"

The stone giant's words were stiff and rough: "I see that you are someone with good fortune, so I have come specifically to guide you. This path is dangerous; you should go that way."

Luo Yuanyou sneered: "You are a stone man; if I were to believe you, I fear that would be the real danger."

Although he was laughing, his heart was already pounding; he turned his horse's head, intending to bypass the stone man and leave.

"Boom!"

The stone man said nothing; his millstone-sized fist crashed down, smashing the path that was barely a road into smithereens.

"Are you still going to go or not?" The stone man's words remained coarse.

Luo Yuanyou smiled sheepishly: "This path is indeed dangerous."

After speaking, he turned and rode away.

"Where did this stone man come from to block the road? If that punch had hit, I and this Scale Horse would likely have been turned into meat paste. Can't afford to mess with him, can't afford to mess with him!" Luo Yuanyou's heart pounded like a drum; he had already lost his composure.

He hurriedly urged his horse and left quickly.

Yu Xiu watched all of this from afar; he wanted to see if this would trigger the Karma on Luo Yuanyou and return him to the correct route.

The facts were exactly as Yu Xiu had expected; after Luo Yuanyou had ridden for several tens of miles, he inexplicably circled back to the distance and arrived again before that unnamed mountain.

"I see no movement in Karma, nor do I see Luck resonating with the world. He..."

"How did he return to the starting point?"

Yu Xiu quietly watched all of this, not in a hurry.

Because the stone man he had enlightened had arrived.

"Boom!"

The foot of the mountain exploded, smashed by a punch; the huge stone giant emerged from the ground and blocked in front of Luo Yuanyou once again.

"You... you, how have you come again?" Luo Yuanyou suppressed the fear in his heart and asked.

The stone man spoke indifferently: "This path is blocked."

Once Luo Yuanyou stepped onto this unnamed mountain, the exotic dimension beneath the earth would inevitably resonate with Luo Yuanyou, and everything would fall into place.

"Rumble!"

Without the slightest warning, a thunderclap suddenly exploded above the firmament.

Then, a heavenly bolt of lightning struck down; before the stone man could even react, it was struck into rubble and scattered all over the ground.

"So it can play like this?" Yu Xiu's eyes lit up.

He saw it.