Han Li

Villagers praise how much grass he cuts. He returns to a broken wooden door, finds his parents out, grinds dagger grass for three fat sand scorpions that are the family’s main assets, and cooks while hungry. Fang Yuan watches and confirms he is the future rank seven with countless fortuitous encounters. Luck above the family is like a huge cracked stone leaking golden luck. ^{ch. 674}

After Fang Yuan connects luck, Han Li’s luck turns deathly black and he chokes on food as a weak mortal child. Doctor Mo, a rank two healing Gu Master, arrives, saves him, and leaves while the parents thank him. Fang Yuan finds Gu worms already modifying Han Li’s flesh and blood for human medicine Gu refinement, which also explains the unharmed hands on dagger grass and Doctor Mo’s monitoring. Fang Yuan leaves Doctor Mo alive so Han Li stays cared for the few years needed for that refinement, because Han Li must remain alive for the luck connection to keep working. ^{ch. 676}

Now a low-ranked Gu Master serving as a guard for a Western Desert merchant caravan, Han Li is swept into a golden thread tornado during a bandit attack on the caravan. An old man who says he caused the tornado himself finds and saves him, and tells Han Li that he lost a bet with someone named Tian Jin, and that before dying he will impart the true inheritance of his entire life to him. ^{ch. 1059}