My incredible luck and the girl I picked up

[Test complete, winner of the fourth round: Blue Moon]

[Matchmaking has begun. Other players have finished their matches. Matchmaking is now in progress...]

The system notification sounded in Leng Binglan's ears, signaling the start of a new round of the competition.

"Well... I'll just have to keep fighting with your hopes intact."

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This match will be a 1v1 single-elimination game, and your opponent will be randomly matched.

[Confirmation complete: All players have finished their match and are now being matched with opponents.]

[Match complete. Player who had a bye this round: Skyfire. Your opponent is: Moon.]

[Starting random map generation...]

[Map confirmed: Altar]

"Wow, look what I've run into. A bye last round, this is interesting." Leng Yihan revealed a mysterious smile. At this moment, the Moon's master, a certain Mr. Sun who wished to remain anonymous, covered his face in despair, "Why is my luck so bad..."

Just like the last game, this game also features a map introduction with narration.

On a moonlit night, a dangerous ritual, unknown to the world, was taking place at a deserted, eerie altar.

Once the ritual is complete, the world will fall under their absolute rule.

[You are an old adversary of the organization that summoned 'them'. After receiving this news tonight, you traveled a long distance to stop this ritual.]

What no one knew was that the most important thing in this ceremony... was...

The narrator's voice stopped there, and Leng Yihan appeared not far from the altar entrance.

The first thing Leng Yihan did after being born was to observe her surroundings to make sure there was no one else around. Outside the altar was a forest, completely deserted, with only the sound of Leng Yihan breathing in the air.

"Sigh... It cuts off right at the crucial point. This narrator is really... irresponsible." Leng Yihan complained inwardly before the main quest and side quests refreshed together.

The main questline has been refreshed.

[Defeat the opponent, Moon.]

The side quests have been refreshed.

[Stop the ritual?]

Leng Yihan glanced at the side quest and immediately felt a chill run down her spine. Stopping the ritual was one thing, but why add a question mark? Was it as if they wanted people to know that this ritual was strange?

Leng Yihan looked inside from the wall next to the entrance of her birthplace. In the very center was a huge, temple-like structure, and in the four corners of the temple were four altars of varying sizes.

"It seems there shouldn't be any problems..." Leng Yihan swaggered out and walked into the wall, but he was indeed careless.

The small, dim red sphere directly above the temple suddenly bloomed into a flower—a spider lily. In just a few seconds, the ground around the temple was covered with spider lilies, and the moon in the sky turned blood red. When Leng Yihan tried to retreat, she discovered that the entrance she had entered through had disappeared without her noticing.

"Fine, they're clearly not letting the players out. Are they trying to scare us to death?" Leng Yihan complained. Since the exit was gone, Leng Yihan was in no hurry to leave. Soon, the ground underwent another change.

All the spider lilies that Leng Yihan had seen along her path to the temple had withered and died, leaving behind a path made of dead spider lilies. If Leng Yihan wasn't mistaken, the reason for this path was probably some kind of system prompt: don't waste time elsewhere, hurry up and get into the temple.

"I wonder where the moon was born..." Leng Yihan murmured to herself as she walked onto the path.

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Meanwhile, when Yue Liang entered the temple, she was startled by the sudden change. When she saw the dense clusters of spider lilies on the ground, she felt a chill run down her spine. When she saw the path formed by the corpses of spider lilies, her legs went weak and she couldn't walk anymore.

Moon is that kind of person. She's terrified of ghosts. In reality, she could still walk because she knows they don't exist, but now... she's in a game, where anything is possible, including ghosts.

And so, this person, who was also famous on the list of gods, was so frightened by the ghosts that she collapsed in the place she had just entered, while her master, Taiyang... just wanted to find a hole to crawl into.

After wasting a few more minutes here, Moon remembered that this was a competition. After convincing herself that she was strong, she finally managed to stand up and trudged heavily towards the temple step by step.

The area around the temple was extremely quiet, or rather, deathly still. The red moonlight shone on the spider lilies and the temple, giving it an even more mysterious and eerie feel. When they were halfway there, the moon felt as if someone was staring at it. Goosebumps rose on its skin, and it almost collapsed to the ground in fright.

"I'm strong... I'm strong... So what if there's a ghost?! I'll cut it down with one strike!" Moon comforted herself, but she was also putting another layer of pressure on herself... What if the ghost wasn't afraid of physical attacks? Then wouldn't her strength be useless?

Under such mental pressure, the moon began to move again, slowly making her way towards the temple...

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"Oh~ I'm already hallucinating." Leng Yihan wasn't very brave. He already felt uncomfortable when he sensed someone watching him. However, he used the same method as Yue Liang—so what if there's a ghost? Just cut it down. After all, his greatsword Chaos doesn't care whether you're on the physical plane or not. As long as you're in the same dimension as Chaos, Chaos can cut you. So Leng Yihan felt much better, but he was still terrified.

He had already walked three-quarters of the path lined with spider lilies. Just as he was enduring his visual and auditory hallucinations and reached the temple stairs, a 'female ghost' in red appeared not far in front of Leng Yihan...

79. About the two challenges and the final staircase

"..."

"..."

Leng Yihan and the 'red-clothed female ghost' stared at each other for a few seconds without making a sound.

"Hey buddy, why aren't you calling out..." In the end, it was the woman in red who spoke first. Her voice was ordinary, neither ethereal nor melodious, let alone clear and pleasant. Her voice... was indescribable, hard to describe. If you had to describe it, it probably didn't sound like a living person's voice. But that's normal, she's a ghost.

"Hmm..." Leng Yihan fell into deep thought. Why didn't he scream just now? He wasn't the kind of person who was particularly brave. He quickly came to the conclusion that he was so frightened that his brain went blank and he didn't react in time.

Then the two fell into an eerie silence. The woman in red kept looking at Leng Yihan, and Leng Yihan kept looking at the woman in red.

"I said... are you going in?"

"Yes." Leng Yihan said expressionlessly and coldly, "If you don't let me in, I'll chop you down." After saying that, Leng Yihan put away the katana Xueyi and drew the greatsword Chaos from her back.

"Cough cough... Sheath your sword! Young hero, sheath your sword! If you can complete two challenges, I will let you pass. This is a rule set by our ancestors. Young hero, please help me! I don't want to die!" The red-clad female ghost's attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees, pleading with Leng Yihan. It seemed that she had realized that the person in front of her was not someone to be trifled with.

"Pfft, alright, what challenge?" Leng Yihan couldn't help but laugh out loud when she saw the red-clad female ghost's drastic change in attitude. The contrast was too great, and she wanted to laugh too much, especially since the red-clad female ghost spoke those words in her ghostly voice, which sounded rather incongruous.

"Here's the thing," the red-clad female ghost said, "If you take this bell, you can find the guardians on the two altars behind you and accept challenges from them. Once you complete two challenges and obtain two tokens, I can open the 'door' to the temple and let you in." She reached into her sleeve and pulled out a bell.

Item: Bell

[Type: Tool]

[Effect: As a token of love and to prevent rituals?]

Usage requirements: None

[Note: Is this a token of something, which can be used to stop a ritual?]

"I just want to know how much you want us to know there's something wrong with this ritual, with that question mark after it..." Leng Yihan thought to herself, without saying it aloud. After taking the bell, a cool breeze blew by, and the red-clad female ghost disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Hmm... what should we do next?" Leng Yihan turned around, and two more paths paved with withered spider lilies appeared on the road. There was no doubt that these were the two paths leading to the two altars.

"Okay, it's an obvious hint." After looking at it for a while, Leng Yihan chose the right side without hesitation. After all, men go left and women go right... ah no, he's right-handed~ so he decided to go to the altar on the right to accept the challenge first.

There were no obstacles along the way, so it seemed that Leng Yihan's vigilance had been in vain. When she arrived at the altar, there was nothing on it. After thinking for a while, Leng Yihan took out the bell given to her by the red-clothed female ghost and stood on top of the altar.

As expected, the magic circle on the altar was triggered, flashing with red light. This scene lasted for about half a minute, and then something that was clearly not human appeared in the very center of the altar.

Finally, the monster's form appeared before Leng Yihan's eyes. The thing summoned by the altar was none other than the slime that had been abused by all sorts of people in various games. However, this slime was so large that it could probably be considered the king of slimes...

“…Um, I’ll accept the challenge…” Before Leng Yihan could finish speaking, the slime slashed a tentacle off its body and hurled it at her. Instead of retreating, Leng Yihan advanced. Chaos seized the opportunity and slashed at the connection between the tentacle and the slime’s body, severing the tentacle in one blow.

"Ouch—" The slime seemed to scream, its sticky body turning into all sorts of irregular shapes, as if it were in great pain.

"Oh? No intelligence... Hey, I already said I'm here to accept the challenge, why did you attack me without warning?" Leng Yihan looked up at the slime and asked, but it was clear that it had no intention of answering Leng Yihan's question. Countless tentacles rushed out of the slime's body and slammed towards Leng Yihan again.

"Troublesome." Leng Yihan frowned unhappily, gripping his greatsword tightly with both hands, drawing his sword and charging up his attack. But at this moment, he also guessed that this slime was the challenge of this altar.

"So, I can get the token just by killing you...?" The tentacle slammed down, aiming at Leng Yihan's location, but missed. Leng Yihan's sword slash was aimed directly at the center of the slime, clearly the core.

"Die!" The spatial rift cleaved by chaos flashed by, swallowing the slime's core and disappearing into the endless turbulent flow of spacetime.

Having lost its core, the slime's body surged towards Leng Yihan like a burst dam.

“Wow…” Leng Yihan didn’t dodge, because there was no way to avoid it… Just when Leng Yihan thought he would have to endure this terrible thing for the whole round, the bell hanging on his waist suddenly rang. The slime’s body, which had just broken through the dam, froze not far from Leng Yihan, and then, as if time had reversed, it ‘reclaimed’ the water. Soon, the slime’s originally huge body turned into a green bead about the size of an egg.

[Item: Slime Essence (Green)]

[Type: Consumable]

[Effect: Used as a token to open the door to the temple]

Usage requirements: None

[Note: After the slime's core is destroyed, use the essence condensed from its body to open the temple door. Do not eat it!]

"Who would eat such a disgusting thing!" Leng Yihan took the slime essence with a look of disgust, put it in her backpack, and after confirming that there was nothing else on this altar, she turned around and returned to the previous temple entrance, and then headed to the next altar.

Midway through, Leng Yihan suddenly remembered that he could cross the sea of ​​red spider lilies and quickly get to another altar. Just as Leng Yihan took a step and stepped onto the red spider lilies, his health began to drop at a rate of 1% every 0.1 seconds. He quickly pulled his foot back, but he was still losing health and was also given a debuff that lasted for ten seconds.

【Red Spider Lily Sea: Reduces HP by 10% every second for 10 seconds. (Cannot be dispelled)】

"Is this what they want me to die..." Leng Yihan helplessly continued to return along the original path. When her health was down to 20%, she activated her Qi recovery skill, and her previously low health instantly returned to full.

This experience taught him a lesson: never try to cross this sea of ​​spider lilies. He only has five seconds to recover his energy... Crossing the sea of ​​spider lilies to the other altar would take at least two or three minutes, and who knows how many times he would die that way...

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Meanwhile, on the other side, as the moon endured being stared at and experiencing auditory hallucinations, she reached the stairs in front of the temple. Suddenly, a man in a yellow robe appeared in front of her and knocked her down again, leaving her lying on the ground, looking at the suddenly appearing man in yellow robes with a panicked expression.

"I'm so sorry, beautiful lady, I'm so sorry to have startled you to the ground... Please allow me to help you up." The man in the yellow robe elegantly extended his hand, forming a perfect contrast with the woman in the red robe beside Leng Yihan. Perhaps this is a privilege reserved for women.

He wasn't particularly handsome, but standing next to him made you feel incredibly safe. His voice wasn't the kind that's more appealing, like a male god's voice or a cute boy's voice, but rather a voice that gave you a very reliable feeling, a sense that this person must be a good person.

"Thank you..." The moon, pale-faced, reached out and pulled the man in the yellow robe to his feet.

“It’s alright, beautiful lady, but… are you here to enter this temple?” The man in the yellow robe didn’t mince words and went straight to the point, asking.

"Yes……"

"Hmm... You can enter, but you need to complete two challenges. This is a rule set by our 'Gatekeeper' clan. Miss, take this bell. Then go to the other two altars, complete the challenges, obtain two tokens, and return to me. Then I can open the door and let you in..." The man in the yellow robe finished explaining everything in one breath, handed the bell to the moon, and disappeared from her sight.

Although still somewhat confused and not yet recovered from the terrifying feeling, the sensation of being stared at and the auditory hallucinations had disappeared, giving the moon enough time to process the information. After the moon regained its composure, it looked back and indeed saw two paths made up of withered spider lilies.

"I hope nothing strange happens on the way..." the moon prayed as she set off for the altar on the right.

There was no danger or interference along the way, and Yue Liang arrived at the altar without any obstacles. Holding the same bell that the woman in red had given Leng Yihan, she stood on the altar.

A red light flashed, and half a minute later, another slime appeared on the altar. Unlike the one Leng Yihan encountered, this slime that the moon encountered was blue...

Without a word, the slime pulled out its tentacles and slapped at the moon. The moon was not weak to begin with, so how could it be hit so easily? As it raised its left hand, a claw shot out and grabbed the four beads next to the altar, pulling itself over and dodging the slime's first wave of tentacle attacks.

This first round was just the first tentacle, and in the second round, a bunch of attacks suddenly appeared, shooting towards the moon in an instant. The moon used an assassination attack, and although it was unknown where they would appear, avoiding the attacks in front of it was the most important thing.

Then the moon appeared inside the slime's body, in the only part that wasn't filled with liquid, which was the slime's core. The moon reacted quickly, raising its left hand and shooting out a grappling hook to grab the core that could escape, while its right hand used a dagger to pierce through the gem that shone with blue light.

"Solved... It was pretty easy..." Moon breathed a sigh of relief, completely unaware of the slime's unstable state. Of course, even if she had noticed, she wouldn't have been able to escape.

The moment the slime's body burst, Moon realized that at that moment she even wanted to die, and she used the slime's body to give herself a good bath in the game.