Koi luck was a profoundly mysterious concept.
It might work only for a particular person or type of person, or it might bring good fortune to everyone.
However, people with this trait did not have "I'm a lucky koi" written on their foreheads, making it difficult to tell directly whether it really existed.
Xu Ran had a simple, blunt method for identifying his lucky koi: whether he could repeatedly obtain the highest-level skills currently available through Fur Plucking from them.
This method had proved reliable time and again.
Back in Qingzhou City, Xu Ran's Fur Plucking had just advanced from D-Rank to C-Rank, raising the highest obtainable skill from one-star to two-star. Liu Gu, who yielded two-star skills in succession, had become his first lucky koi.
By the time he reached Cloud-Gathering City, Xu Ran's Fur Plucking had advanced to B-Rank, and the highest obtainable skills had become three-star skills. Using the same method, he had discovered the Qin siblings' koi luck.
Unfortunately, Xu Ran had failed to encounter anyone like that later in Demonwood City.
Now that he was in Minghui City, however, things seemed to have changed somewhat.
Qiu Yue, the lucky koi girl he had met the day before yesterday, was only an Elite Beast Tamer.
She had no monarch species contract beasts, and it was impossible to obtain three-star skills from her contract beasts through Fur Plucking, so her koi luck had manifested another way.
Obtaining two two-star skills at once.
Just today, Xu Ran had encountered a Beast Tamer customer who yielded four three-star skills in succession, but the man was not a lucky koi: ten draws without a purple.
And the Azure-Eyed Thunder Serpent he had just groomed had also yielded a three-star skill...
Xu Ran stopped and tipped his head up slightly, looking