A crimson aura extended around Dio's body as he broke through again.

This crimson aura entered to his body and quickly it began to repair his wounds.

Due to the sheer power he felt, Dio laughed heartily he charged towards his opponent whilst exclaiming.

"Do you have the guts to fight on me one on one?"

The wood spirit 'frowned.'

"Is that man crazy?"

It shrugged internally.

"Whatever, if you wish to die, allow me to grant your wish."

From the ground many roots and vines with the form of a palm surged, Dio was directly smashed and squeezed towards a nearby falling rock.

Somehow, Dio's head hadn't exploded due to the sheer pressure on his craneum.

Instead there was a pink-gray star-trail gathering on his head colliding with the tiny red fog on his body which was his blood boiling.

Dio feel a sharp headache he was on the brink on collapsing, but his smile widened even further.

"You were beaten on a battle of wits, by Dio."

A few moments before, Dio was observing his muscles which they're being repaired at an visible speed, as his aura surged he inspected his luck.

"This breakthrough was rather costly for me, it shrank down my good luck by a 40%!

At this pace, I will ran out of luck before I reach rank 2 peak stage...

Yet, on spite of all that, the form and shape of this 'blossom' or 'lotus' become clearer.

Its pink-purple color are revealed to me, together with the now blue leaf's which are now clear and solid to me."

He chuckled.

"I get it.

Even during all this fight, I've not been taking too seriously, all this was a huge massacre to harvest this 'lotus' or 'blossom' which is now clearer to me because is already complete, he now only needs to reap what he sew.

...

I must think of this clearly, this 'blossom' or 'lotus' are a fountain of good luck, whilst the one who brought them to me is a source of bad luck...

Wait, source of bad luck, there were two main threats to my luck Ma Shang Feng a rank 5 Gu master and...

Him.

He's a rank 4 peak Gu master, with many Gu's which were an exclusive creation of Ma Pa Hung, whose recipe was never revealed and never will because he's death.

Hah, hah, laughable, the only proof I, and others have of his death are a letter he left on a 'Blood pigeon messenger where he stated that he had little time of life, because one of his experiments had gone wrong and because he was pursued by a fierce beast..."

Dio squinted lightly.

"Blood path, hah, hah.

Isn't this too obvious?

This inheritance has been a mere ploy of his to kill and destroy every of his 'fellow' tribesmen.

With each bath of blood he harvests a 'lotus.'

If a single lotus has such influence of my luck, how much power would they have together?

The answer lies on my luck, the threat of Ma Shang Feng and he are almost equal, which means that Ma Pa Hung will become an existence equal or above rank 5!

I see now, as long as I get that 'lotus' I'll be able to claim victory again.

But what I should do now that I know this?"

He frowned to himself.

"My luck, my luck is the thing that allowed me to notice this of course, and it will give me the last clue I need to complete this puzzle."

Dio inspected his luck carefully again, this time he noticed that there was a huge concentration of luck gathering just behind his neck.

He touched his back.

"The Joestar's mark, the 'star!'

Is shining brightly, but what does it mean?"

Dio turned his head again, and glanced at the starfog close to the meteors.

"Heh, finally another answer has appeared before me.

I always wondered why I had the exact facial factions of the devil's luck and also the reason why the Joestars were born with a birthmark with the form of an star.

But now I see, similarly to Red Lotus this is the materialization of our luck, and my luck now has formed a thread, this thread tells me that there's a connection between my neck, spinal cord and craneum.

...

Heh, I think I get it already, 'Star thought' to produce such kind of thoughts without Gu's I need to be a bit more gutsy, well, now that all has been said and done, I now only require bravery!"

Whilst Dio's mind was collapsing, he activated 'Aggressive Learning.'

His pupils morphed, they took the shape of two stars for a brief moment.

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"Another wonderful idea has come to me."

Dio stood on the spot, tiny golden-red air currents surged around him.

"Do you believe in gravity?

I believe that all forms of interaction are a form of gravity, a form of 'Fate' or 'Destiny.'

The connection between Gu masters is also a form of gravity, as it is the fact that we meet each other.

Spiral, spinning...

Everything spins around a 'center', around the world.

You know, this was a belief I had, even before arriving to this world, however, when I heard the tales of Ren Zu, I saw that great minds thinks alike, and that the 'Careless Children of Disaster and Fortune', acts on this same concept.

And I Dio, happen to have that same aperture, that same physique and that same 'luck.'

Obviously, due to my condition as a 'Vampire', an state which I shall not share its details with you, has 'mutated', of course its core still remains.

Do you get what I'm trying to say?

Thanks to my new Killer Move, 'Everything orbits around my luck' I can mimic the same power which I'd experience upon shattering my aperture!

On this case, I Dio shall use;

'Blood Rivers orbit around my luck!"

Finally, after finishing his sentence, Dio's Luck exploded into a magma river which was so dense and thick that it could be seen by the naked eye.

It was such its density that it even began to erode the meteor with its raw heat which affected everyone, but Dio.

Afterwards his luck was shoot towards all directions and began to spin around him.

The perimeter of his luck became denser and denser by the second, it was such its raw power that Ma Pa Hung had to retreat, afraid of being burnt to ashes by it.

Dio's luck began to pierce towards the earth's dome, moving on the tiny gaps where the earth had lower density and its minor imperfections, eventually it began to crumble.

Ma Pa Hung tossed a green liquid from its mouth, and multiple of his roots shattered instantly, luckily due to the second earth dome his Formation hadn't shattered yet.

After piercing the first dome, his luck entered the tiny gaps of the second and it began to attract a dense red mist which covered Dio from head to toes.

It condensed principally from where this Killer Move had been set, inside his aperture!

That's right, this Killer Move wasn't an ordinary method which relied only on the power of Gu's, rather Dio relied on his own aperture's Extreme Physique to trigger a similar phenomena to the one which would occur in case his aperture broke down internally.

Dio put his hands at the attitude of his stomach where his aperture was lying in, then he began to vert the condensed blood essence towards his aperture.

Due to its mutated state and due to his incredible good luck his aperture could intake a huge sum of this essence as substitute which would soon convert into Primeval Essence.

This energy, the usage of Relic Gu's and Dio's own Primeval Essence brought a qualitative change where his aperture was in the verge of breaking down, but due to Dio's regeneration his aperture repaired most of the damage in time.

Soon, he became a rank 2 Upper stage Gu master, then a rank 2 Peak stage Gu master, and finally with the last drops of good luck he had, Dio became a rank 3 Gu master.

Dio trembled lightly upon looking at his luck.

The two surges of bad luck had now touched his shoulders, whilst the pink-purple lotus was covering his neck.

If he doesn't get that lotus he was bound to suffer a terrible, unavoidable Fate.

"Crck. Crck."

The earth dome shattered, the silhouette of two Gu master appeared.

The Earth Champion and Ma Shan Hu.

Ma Shan Hu frowned lightly, his sharp golden eyes inspected Dio.

After doing this, he sighed and simply threw a Gu to him.

"I admit defeat, to both you Dio and to him, I simply can't win.

But, even if I can't win, I'll still ensure my own safety.

Dio, the rank 4 Gu house is yours now, I admit defeat!

Hence, I fulfilled my side of the bet, and now that I'm not trapped on that bet any longer, goodbye, Dio."

"..." Ma Pa Hung and Dio glanced at each other.

"Explosive seeds, Vine release!"

Ma Pa Hung's wood spirit raised its main arm, and threw a barrage of explosive seeds which after exploding took multiple vines which tried to grab Dio from all sides.

Dio dodged nimbly with ease, his mind was refreshed.

"I no longer require good luck now that I'm this strong-"

Somehow, despite his perfect body's control, he stumbled upon a rock, fell from a tiny hill and fell right on one of the explosive seeds that just shattered.

In this way he was caught by those poisonous vines.

"I spoke too soon.

Variables are constantly coming and screwing me over, my bad luck attracted Ma Shan Hu who threw the Gu house to me, hence I can't longer rely on his support or luck.

Those and other variables are surrounding me now, that I'm this unlucky."

He sighed.

Dio activated 'Flesh Bone' Gu, with this Gu he extended his ribcage and slashed all those vines.

"Though, at the good side now I can use this Gu, heh, which is pretty suitable for me.

Generally this Gu is used on measure as overusing or overextending the bones of a normal human would end up with them bleeding out.

In my case, though I can endure the pain easily, whilst a bit of bleeding, broken bones and busted organs can't stop me."

His smile widened, he touched his shoulders.

"Besides, this was not my only intention in mind when I selected this rank 3 Gu...

Bone recreation, alteration, manipulation and other abilities are now within my grasp!

On the near future I'll increase the bone's marrow density and increase the production of blood and its quality, for now, I'll focus on simply raising the overall bone strength and durability."

Dio clenched his fists, the sounds of dozens of his bones cracking resonated through his body, due to his bad luck he even impaled his lungs, but quickly he retracted some of the bones upon noticing this.

"...

For now I can't longer use my 'Destiny Gu' or 'Luck Deduction' Gu, and hence all my investigation means have vanished abruptly.

All except one.

When my luck was still huge, it instinctively condensed some small drops of many, diverse blood samples from his fellow tribesmen.

Due to my Quasi-Grandmaster attainment on Blood path, I can track its location, if my guess is not wrong, the 'lotus' is printed with his blood, and to defeat him I only need to find its exact location."

After a long analysis Dio smiled widely.

"Even though I'm on a dire situation, I can already a see bright future for me already.

After I defeat him, I Dio shall take the lotus from him.

Then, now that nobody is here to witness my actions I'll take all those Gu inheritances with me, after enough preparations I'll be strong, strong enough to ransack the treasury of the Ma tribe and take enough blood as I see fit.

Heh, I planned to do this after a year or so, but it seems my strength grew faster than my wildest expectations!

With all of that blood, Primeval Stones and Relic Gu's they have on their possession I'll quickly rise to the top of mortal Cultivation and finally, I shall claim victory once more!"