Beside the bed, his parents knelt on the ground, kowtowing non-stop to an old Gu Master, thanking him profusely.
"Doctor Mo, thank you for saving my son!" "Doctor Mo, my wife and I will remember your great kindness for the rest of our lives!"
"Father, Mother..." Han Li opened his mouth with difficulty, calling out softly.
"My son, my precious heart! You're finally awake!" Hearing his voice, Han Li's mother rushed to the bedside, crying tears of joy.
"You little brat, you're finally awake! Hurry up and thank Doctor Mo. If he hadn't happened to be passing by, you would have died for sure." Han Li's father was also overjoyed. He walked over and quickly reminded him.
"D-Doctor Mo, thank you for saving my life." When Han Li saw Doctor Mo, a flicker of fear passed through his eyes.
"Mm, I'm the Gu Master stationed at Han Family Village. Saving you is only right. You were lucky today, happening to have me patrolling the village at that time." Doctor Mo smiled.
Afterwards, amidst the profuse thanks of Han Li's parents, he leisurely left the place.
"Huh? This is interesting." Fang Yuan had not gone far. He was lurking in the distance, taking in the whole scene.
After he had successfully bonded their luck, Han Li's fortune plummeted sharply, rapidly transforming into a faint Black Death Luck.
If Han Li were a Gu Master with strong power, he could have ignored this luck. But he was just a mortal, a weak child among mortals, and was immediately counterattacked by the Black Death Luck, choking to death while eating.
Fang Yuan immediately wanted to act and rush to the rescue. He had a large number of healing Mortal Gu. A simple death by choking, as long as the time of death wasn't too long, could easily be reversed and brought back to life.
As long as a person is alive, their luck will flow continuously. If Han Li had died like this, Fang Yuan's own terrible luck would have merely been alleviated somewhat, and would eventually worsen again; it would only be treating the symptoms, not the root cause.
If Han Li survived, he would constantly be linked with Fang Yuan's luck, continuously improving Fang Yuan's bad fortune.
But just as he was about to set off, he suddenly spotted a figure. It rushed out of a large house in the village and quickly headed toward Han Li's home.
Judging by the Movement Gu he was activating, it was obvious. He was a Rank 2 Gu Master.
Fang Yuan squinted his eyes, quietly approached the village, and decided to wait and see how things developed.
This Rank 2 Gu Master arrived at Han Li's doorstep and straightened his clothes. Deliberately pretending to be calm and detached. Then, he "accidentally" discovered the situation where Han Li had choked to death.
At the earnest request of Han Li's parents, he promptly administered treatment, reviving Han Li on the spot.
"Judging by their conversation, this Doctor Mo should be the resident healing Gu Master. But it seems that Han Li has some secret connection with this Doctor Mo." Fang Yuan's mind stirred.
In order to control the mortals, the Gu Master forces usually dispatch one or two Gu Masters to take turns stationed in the village.
Like Gu Yue Jiang Ya of Qing Mao Mountain, who was exactly this kind of stationed Gu Master.
After Han Li and his parents had fallen into a deep sleep. Fang Yuan quietly sneaked into the house. He went up to Han Li's side and used a Mortal Gu to make his sleep even deeper.
Fang Yuan stretched out eight large hands, probing various parts of Han Li's body, and soon discovered the anomaly.
On Han Li's body, quite a few Gu were parasitic, and the flesh and blood of his entire body seemed to have been influenced by them.
These arrangements gave Fang Yuan a vague sense of familiarity.
The drawback of being a zombie was stiff thinking. Fang Yuan couldn't grasp the key, and had to mobilize the will stored in his mind to help him think.
He scoured his memories, and this time quickly discovered the truth: "So this so-called Doctor Mo wanted to refine a Human Medicinal Gu."
This Human Medicinal Gu was a Rank 3 Gu. It used human children as its main material for refining, taking several years to slowly complete.
Once the Human Medicinal Gu was successfully refined, it could only be used once, granting the user additional lifespan, but with considerable side effects.
"That Doctor Mo is no longer young. Clearly, he wants to use the Human Medicinal Gu to extend his lifespan, so he set his sights on Han Li. No wonder Han Li could directly grab the leaves of Dagger Grass with his bare hands when he was cutting grass. It's because his body has been secretly modified. No wonder that after Han Li's accident, Doctor Mo rushed over like lightning. It's because the Gu on Han Li's body can constantly monitor his movements. No wonder that after Han Li choked to death, he was so easily revived, because according to the refining steps of the Human Medicinal Gu, it greatly improves a person's physical functions." Fang Yuan suddenly understood everything.
However, although he had discovered Doctor Mo's conspiracy, he did not want to interfere for the time being.
"If Doctor Mo mysteriously dies, Han Family Village will definitely be investigated, leading to unforeseen trouble. If he doesn't die, for the sake of refining the Human Medicinal Gu, he will definitely take extra care of Han Li. There are still three or four years until the Human Medicinal Gu is completed. I just need Han Li to stay alive."
Fang Yuan activated the Fortune-Telling Gu again to check Han Li's luck.
Ever since the bond was successfully established, Han Li's fortune had plummeted, and he no longer had any special bearing before. Instead, his entire fortune was thin and faint, like a wisp of smoke, just like the mortals around him.
Fang Yuan observed carefully and found that the black color in Han Li's previous fortune had disappeared, replaced by a grayish-white color.
Fang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
He summarized from his experience: black represented death luck; without the black, Han Li had no immediate danger of death.
As the saying goes, after extreme adversity comes good fortune; one who survives a great disaster will have great fortune later. After this fatal crisis, Han Li's luck had clearly improved.
"Thinking about it this way, in the Northern Plains, relying on my own strength and schemes, I barely managed to survive the tribulation. After escaping from the Great Harmony Wind Screen, my original Black Coffin Luck should have mostly dissipated. Still, even with this, Han Li almost died because of me. It seems I need to find a few more targets and bond my luck with each of them one by one."
Fang Yuan's eyes flickered a few times. Finally, before leaving, he secretly placed some Gu on Han Li's body.
With his ingenious methods, he could ensure that Rank 2 Doctor Mo would be unable to detect them.