My incredible luck and the girl I picked up

After the moon finished bathing in the slime's corpse, it sat stiffly on the ground, staring blankly at the sky, when the bell rang. Then, as the liquid flowed back, it gave the moon another bath. However, the recycling process also collected the liquid mixed in with the moon's body and clothes, so the moon was no longer physically uncomfortable, but it had suffered a severe mental humiliation.

The essence of slime appeared before the moon, but she didn't take it. Instead, she stared blankly at the sky, contemplating whether to give up on the competition...

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Back to our protagonist, Leng Yihan, the woman in red did not appear when he returned to the stairs in front of the temple. After glancing at her, Leng Yihan turned around and headed towards another altar without looking back. Although he was not slow, he was not fast either. At least when he reached the other altar, his cooldown for recovering his energy would definitely be over.

Upon reaching the second altar, she repeated the steps from the first altar, standing on it with the bell in hand. Another slime appeared, but unlike the green slime from the first altar, this one was red. However, its strength remained the same as the green slime, and she easily dealt with it. After obtaining the red slime essence, Leng Yihan glanced around casually and immediately rushed back to the temple stairs.

Before even reaching the temple's stairs, Leng Yihan spotted the woman in red standing on them. "Open the door," Leng Yihan said simply, handing the two lumps of essence to the woman in red as she walked up to her.

"Oh...oh, okay, okay, I'll open the door for you right away." The woman in red hurriedly took the two lumps of slime essence, turned around and walked to the door, holding the slime essence high in both hands, chanting some incomprehensible incantations...

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"Boss? What's going on? Why did that guy send two people? Which one is the 'sacrifice'?" At this moment, a man who looked like a lackey asked his boss tremblingly beside the central magic circle at the highest level of the temple.

"Isn't that obvious? Two people have come, which means they're both sacrifices. Let's arrest them first. Isn't there a beautiful woman among them? Let's catch her, play with her, and then use her as a sacrifice, hehehehe..." The leader said, chuckling evilly.

"Got it, boss! Hehehe..." the underling chimed in, laughing along...

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But all of this was under Leng Yihan's control...

"Oh ho, this is interesting..." Leng Yihan looked at the scene in the mirror with amusement. Beside the mirror stood a man in a yellow robe whose legs had gone limp with fear, while the woman in a red robe... she was now kneeling.

"Can...can you let us go now? We really have nothing to do with them! We're just a group of gatekeepers for this temple...we really have absolutely no connection to them whatsoever. If we did, I'd gladly offer my life as a sacrifice!"

"Alright, alright, you don't need to be so nervous. The information you've provided is enough to spare your life. Oh, and remember to let the other girl in too." Leng Yihan said with a smile to the man in the yellow robe. The man in the yellow robe nodded vigorously and fled the place as if he were running away from the King of Hell.

A few minutes ago...

"Alright, please come in, young hero..." The women in red respectfully made way for her, but Leng Yihan didn't go in. Instead, she asked her a question, "Have you been here since you were born?"

"Ah? Yes, our clan is the gatekeeper clan. Our mission since birth is to guard the gate, and we also have certain authority to monitor people who enter the temple or other ruins..." The woman in red honestly explained her situation, even revealing that she could monitor people who enter the temple.

"Oh? Then may I ask, has anyone been here before?" Leng Yihan asked with a smile, but his smile already carried a hint of something strange.

"Ah? Yes, yes... but I can't help you monitor him..." Before the woman in red could finish speaking, a greatsword was already pressed against her throat.

"Oh, by the way, brother in the yellow robe over there in the corner... could you please come out for a moment?" Leng Yihan sheathed the greatsword that was pressed against the throat of the woman in red, took out the katana Xueyi, activated the Qi Blade Slash, and casually slashed, the sword energy grazing the neck of the man in the yellow robe.

"Wait, don't do anything! We'll keep watch for you! We'll keep watch for you!"

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"Alright, we can go up by taking this staircase, right?" Leng Yihan walked to the spiral staircase in the center of the temple, turned around and looked at the woman in red before asking.

“Yes! Just keep going up and you’ll find a teleportation array. You can use it to get to the real temple!” the woman in red quickly replied.

"Okay... thank you then." Leng Yihan withdrew her gaze and stepped onto the stairs, a symbol of the imminent end of the fifth round...

80. About the Demon King Loli and her older brother and sister

"Phew... In the end, I didn't give up on the competition, otherwise I would have been beaten to death by my master..." Moon muttered to herself, glancing wryly at the yellow slime essence in her left hand.

"Now I can enter the temple, right? I wonder if Extreme Cold has gone in yet, otherwise I'll be in trouble if he's lying in ambush there beforehand..." Moon licked her dry lips and returned to the temple stairs along the long path. The man in the yellow robe had been waiting there for a long time, but his expression was a little strange. However, Moon had just recovered from the fear of being dominated by the slime, so she didn't notice.

"Um... beautiful lady, may I ask for the two tokens...?"

"Ah! Excuse me, here, please take this." The dazed Moon came to her senses upon hearing the yellow-robed man's voice and quickly took out two slime essences from her backpack. After the yellow-robed man took the slime essences, he held them up high, just like the woman in red, and chanted a magic spell that Moon couldn't understand.

A magic circle gradually appeared on the temple gate. Why do we say gradually? It's because there was no magic circle on the gate at first. It only slowly appeared after the man in the yellow robe chanted the incantation, and now it's so obvious.

The slime essence seemed to be controlled by the Force, flying towards the magic circle and merging into it. "Click!" Accompanied by a sound like an unlocking, the door opened, revealing the interior decorations.

"Alright, beautiful lady, now all you need to do is go to the hall, go up the stairs and you'll find the real way to the temple..." The man in the yellow robe bowed to the moon and quickly made his escape.

"Huh? Why does he seem so afraid of me..." Yue Liang was puzzled, but since the other party had already pointed out the way, she might as well go. The sooner Leng Yihan was, the sooner she could ambush him, and the better her chances of victory would be.

There is only one path to the temple so far. Moon walked down and soon arrived at the hall that the man in the yellow robe had mentioned. Sure enough, there was a spiral staircase against the wall. Although the temple did not look particularly tall from the outside, when Moon stood in the center of the temple hall and looked up, she found that she could not see the top.

"Wow, that's really high... So let's hurry up." Moon leaped onto the stairs and quickly ran uphill.

Even though Moon was an assassin and not slow, it still took her about ten minutes to run from the bottom to the top of the building, even with all her might, before she reached a large door.

The moon didn't push open the door immediately. Instead, it carefully checked the area around the door for anything. After staring at the magic circle on the door for a while and realizing that it was incomprehensible, it finally reached out and pushed the door open.

But the moment Moon's hand touched it, a flash of white light appeared, and Moon was momentarily blinded. When she regained her sight, she found herself standing in a place that looked like a church, with two half-dead people wailing at her feet.

Standing not far from her was her opponent in this round—Extreme Cold. At this moment, he held a katana, a strange smile and confidence on his lips as he looked at the moon that had just arrived.

"Oh, you're so late? That must have taken you way too long," Leng Yihan said, her words carrying a hint of sarcasm: How come you took so long to get here? I've been here for ages.

"Oh? Then why aren't you attacking?" Moon took a few steps back, maintaining what she considered a safe distance from Leng Yihan, cautiously watching Leng Yihan who stood motionless in place.

"Hey, I'm much stronger than you, and I'm a gentleman, ladies first. You should go first."

"Ladies first... I think you can do it too." Hearing Yue Liang's words, Leng Yihan's eyebrows twitched, and the smile on her lips almost crumbled.

"Are you afraid? Forgive my bluntness, but if you let me make the first move, the whole game will lose its fun, because you won't have the slightest chance of winning. Victory will definitely belong to me." Although this sounded arrogant, Yue Liang knew that Leng Yihan was right. If Leng Yihan made the first move, she didn't have the confidence to avoid Leng Yihan's attack.

"Although I know it sounds arrogant of me to say this, but..." Before Leng Yihan could finish speaking, the moon disappeared from his sight. Having played the assassin before, how could Leng Yihan not know that the moon was trying to catch him off guard with an assassination attempt?

In normal circumstances, ambushing someone while they are speaking is indeed a bit despicable, but this is a battle against Jihan. To win, he doesn't care about being despicable. But as I said, this is normal circumstances. The current situation is... the moon has entered a trap.

"How could this be..." Just as Moonlight teleported behind Leng Yihan and raised her hand to strike, she felt weak all over and collapsed to the ground. Leng Yihan heard Moonlight fall to the wooden floor behind her with a "thud..." and she too collapsed to the floor.

"What kind of move is that..." Moon looked at Leng Yihan with resentment, while also wondering why he didn't make a move.

"It's obvious. There's a trap here, and I didn't set it, so I fell for it before you. My conversation and aura just now were all a facade, just to lure you in." Leng Yihan wasn't worried that Yue Liang had any tricks up her sleeve to kill him. As for why... Leng Yihan had already figured it out. There was only one way to break free: destroy the magic array that had turned them into this state. Oh, actually, there was another one, but Leng Yihan didn't know it, but the author did.

The two were completely helpless in their current state, forced to lie awkwardly on the ground, facing each other and waiting for the system to make progress, because the system wouldn't leave them in such a dead end...

Side quest completed.

The side quests have been refreshed.

Stop the Demon King!!!

"Oh ho, how am I supposed to stop the Demon King?" Leng Yihan waved his weak hand. He had barely managed to hold the knife, let alone wield it.

A magic circle gradually appeared where the two were lying. When the moon saw this magic circle, it vaguely overlapped with a magic circle in her memory.

"The magic circle when the door opens." Leng Yihan kindly reminded Yue Liang when he saw her frowning in thought, and at the same time, he changed to a prone position.

"So what should we do next?"

"Don't worry, we'll just wait and see. The system will definitely give us a chance to decide the winner eventually. It's just a matter of who can seize it." Leng Yihan replied calmly to Yue Liang, as if the other party was no match for her at all.

As the colors of the magic circle grew more vibrant, Leng Yihan shifted her gaze from the magic circle on the ground to the spacetime rift that had opened in mid-air at some unknown time.

A pair of fair hands reached out from the spacetime rift, prying open the originally small rift with brute force until it was wide enough for an adult woman to pass through.

“Hmm… If the Demon King were a woman, and a beautiful one at that, I wouldn’t mind submitting to her.” Leng Yihan said with narrowed eyes. The Demon King did not disappoint him. A little loli with black hair and two devil horns emerged from the space-time rift.

"Why did she tear open a rift big enough for an adult to get through when she's just a little girl?"

"Shh! Don't you know that every little girl wants to grow up?" Although the two spoke very softly, every word reached the ears of the Demon King Little Girl.

"So it was you who talked about me?" The demon loli reached out and clenched her fist in the air, as if she had grabbed Leng Yihan's throat from afar, wanting to strangle him.

"Why... why are you pinching... me... even though... the moon said so too..." The demon loli's strength was immense, gripping Leng Yihan's neck so tightly that it caused her pain and made it increasingly difficult to breathe, while her blood volume began to drop.

"Hmph, you dogs of a man, none of you are any good."

"Gender...discrimination..." Just before Leng Yihan's health was about to reach zero, the Demon King Loli released her hand, allowing Leng Yihan to breathe. Oxygen flowed back into Leng Yihan's lungs, and he almost got killed right there...

"I won't let you die so quickly. You dared to insult me ​​like that. I'll torture you to death..." The demon loli sneered and reached out as if to grab Leng Yihan's throat again, but found no response.

"Hmm?" The demon loli frowned in confusion, and then made two more cute grabbing motions in the air, but Leng Yihan still didn't react at all.

"Hehehe... Just as I thought..." Leng Yihan stood up from the ground, activated her Qi recovery skill to fully restore her health, and then threw away the bell that she had already crushed in her hand. The moment the bell was thrown away, Leng Yihan also saw the look of surprise on the face of the Demon King Loli.

"How could you..."

“I’ve seen similar plots in other novels before. Some demons and monsters can suppress the strength of the person who possesses the item through special items. I’ve been wondering why the bell says there’s a ritual to stop it… I didn’t know it could be used like this!” Leng Yihan picked up the katana that had fallen to the side. With his skills unsealed and his full strength restored, he might still have a chance to fight this demon king.

"You're confident you can beat me?"

"Not necessarily, but I have a way out." Leng Yihan glanced at Yue Liang, who was lying on the ground unable to move. As for why this was the case... it was a matter of equipment. Even if Leng Yihan was suppressed, she could still try her best to weaken the suppression effect with her full set of equipment.

"Heh...hehehe...then let me see if you really have the strength!" The demon loli disappeared in front of Leng Yihan in the blink of an eye, and a purplish-black dagger pierced through Leng Yihan's heart.

"Pfft... What the hell is that speed..." Leng Yihan complained even while enduring excruciating pain. The dagger in his heart was pulled out, indicating that the Demon King Loli was very confident in pulling it out. However, this did not kill Leng Yihan. Instead, it triggered his Chaos passive ability, making him immune to fatal wounds. He didn't lose a single drop of blood, and the wound was repaired in the blink of an eye by the black energy created by Chaos.

"Hmph, nothing special..." The Demon King Loli obviously didn't notice that before she could finish speaking, Leng Yihan turned around and slashed with her katana, easily hitting the Demon King Loli's body. However, it didn't cut her in half, but instead made a clanging sound, as if it had hit something harder than steel.

"Alright, I didn't break through their defenses." As Leng Yihan sheathed her katana, she activated her sword and shield. The next moment, the Demon King Loli's dagger stabbed out seven times in a row, all of which struck Leng Yihan's sword and shield, managing to pierce through it again.

"I want to complain about this injury." Although he said that, Leng Yihan's body still put up a series of resistance. He swung his katana again, and this time he deliberately used his lucky charm to strike the demon loli's dagger.

Frost covered the Demon King Loli's dagger at a visible speed, then spread to her hand holding the dagger. The Demon King Loli reacted quickly, decisively discarding the weapon. The dagger fell to the ground with a clang and instantly turned into a block of ice.

"The power of ice..." The demon loli drew another dagger from the void with her left hand. "The 'Darkness' just now couldn't melt your ice, so what about 'Netherworld'?"

Before the Demon King Loli could finish speaking, Leng Yihan's katana had already slashed out, aiming at the Demon King Loli's left wrist. The Demon King Loli retracted her left hand, and the blade of 'Ming' collided with the edge of 'Xue Yi', only to be bounced away in an instant. Moreover, this bounce was from both Leng Yihan and the Demon King Loli, and both of them took several steps back.

"Pah... What a hassle... Not even 'Ming' is acceptable..." The Demon King Loli spat, glancing gravely at the frost on the 'Ming' blade. Leng Yihan wasn't much better off; a small patch of purple, completely different from the blade's color, appeared on the pure white edge of 'Xue Yi'.

"Tsk... I was thinking the same thing, it's really troublesome." Leng Yihan said, and Xue Yi put away the Chaos.

"...Human, let's make a deal," the demon loli suddenly said.

"Oh? What kind of deal?" Leng Yihan asked, but she didn't let down her guard against the Demon King Loli.

"I'll give you something, but you must make a contract with me. After the contract is fulfilled, neither of us can kill the other." The demon loli said, and a parchment-like object appeared between them, with writing in characters that Leng Yihan couldn't understand, but she had a system to translate it.

After confirming that the contents were correct, Leng Yihan weighed the pros and cons and signed her name. The contract became effective, and if either party violated the contract, one of them would die immediately.

"Hmph, consider yourself lucky." The Demon Queen Loli snorted coldly, threw a purple stone at Leng Yihan, opened a space-time rift, and left.

The reason why the Demon King Loli signed a contract with Leng Yihan is simple: she dared not waste too much power on Leng Yihan, otherwise she might be sealed away again. And having played this far in the map, Leng Yihan also understood the general setting.

He and the Moon are supposed to be sacrifices. From the very beginning, the system CG has been misleading us, making us unaware that we are sacrifices. The so-called "stopping the ritual" is actually just breaking the seal. As long as Leng Yihan and the Moon arrive at the real temple at the same time and enter the sealing array together, the seal will be broken. But why would their entry break the seal? Leng Yihan doesn't know, but the author does. Well... hehehehe...

Leng Yihan glanced back and a dagger shot towards her. After the Demon King Loli left, Moon regained her full strength and tried to ambush Leng Yihan, but Leng Yihan still spotted her and dodged the attack.

"Sigh...why are you in such a hurry? Let me see what special effects this thing has." Leng Yihan said, her eyes looking at the round, gem-like object in her hand.

[Item: Dragon Marrow]

[Type: Consumable]

[Effect: Increases all attributes of a weapon (any quality) by 30%, and adds additional dark attribute damage.]