Damn it, damn it, damn it!!!
The last time Lu Yuan used the Great Tortoise Shell Technique, he had the misfortune of rolling the character "Misfortune." This time, he truly learned what it meant to choke even while drinking cold water.
He tripped on flat ground, ran into every kind of trap and poison imaginable, and even encountered one of the eighty-thousand-year Soul Beasts that had somehow wandered into the outer region.
One of the eighty-thousand-year Soul Beasts would not normally have been much of a problem. If it truly wanted to breathe at Lu Yuan, Elder Yi could simply deal with it. But of all things, it had to be an eighty-thousand-year Earth Mother Bear carrying cubs.
Generally speaking, unless absolutely necessary, even Soul Masters hunting soul rings would not deliberately kill pregnant Soul Beasts. It was deeply immoral and amounted to draining the pond to catch the fish. Thus, Elder Yi and Lu Yuan had to spend quite some effort driving away the irritable pregnant mother bear.
After dealing with the mother bear, Lu Yuan adjusted his mindset once more and recited the incantation for who knew how many times, "Hold Heaven and Earth, Determine Life and Death!"
This time, perhaps because the bad luck from the "Misfortune" die was still at work, a die engraved with the character "Death" finally fell from the golden tortoise shell after spinning around inside it!
As the golden light gradually faded, an indescribable terror gripped Lu Yuan's heart. The grass beneath his feet and the shrubs beside him began to flicker out as though Thanos had snapped his fingers at them, vanishing into wisps of green smoke with soft pops.
Lu Yuan also felt his left arm becoming incomparably stiff and impossible to sense. It was as if he had been