My incredible luck and the girl I picked up

[Skill: Demonic Phoenix Witnesses the World]

[Learning Level: 70]

[Cooldown: 500 seconds]

[Skill Effect: Summons a demonic phoenix to leap 100 meters, dealing magic damage equal to 1000% of the phoenix's magic power to enemies in the area it flies over. Enemies hit by the phoenix will also take double damage, and the burned area will automatically be buffed with the Dead Zone effect.]

[Next level: Deals magic damage equal to 1100% magic power to enemies in the area the phoenix flies over.]

[Dead Zone: Recovery effects within this area will be reduced by 50%, defense by 25%, and movement speed by 10%.]

By the way, this skill has a 5-second casting time. Although the range is very large, the Demon Phoenix will deal high damage and then disappear once it hits a target.

Okay, back to the main topic. Ten seconds is neither fast nor slow in the battle between the two, but it made every viewer very nervous, especially the fans who supported Tianhuo. Their hearts were in their throats. Anyone could see that Tianhuo was at a huge disadvantage, and it seemed that his previous form that could instantly cast skills had ended.

Having calculated the exact time for the end of the Heavenly Thunder Prison, Tianhuo began chanting his spell ahead of time. The instant the Thunder Prison disappeared, Tianhuo waved his staff, unleashing the level 40 skill [Heavenly Fire Wildfire]. Purple flames instantly ignited beneath the feet of Po Jing Lei and Tianhuo, while Po Jing Lei unleashed the level 50 skill [Lightning Storm], aimed directly at Tianhuo's feet.

In an instant, both of them were hit by the other's skills. Finally, one of them was injured. But the one who was most seriously injured was Thunderclap. The magic shield could not stop the all-around raging fire. The lightning storm was 'eaten' by the fire demon several times in a row, and it could not cause much damage when it hit the raging fire.

I forgot to mention that the Fire Demon's "eat" doesn't actually involve consuming the target; rather, it absorbs the energy of the attack. Each Fire Demon can only absorb damage from this skill once. For example...

The Heavenly Fire has ten fire demons. Leng Yihan used the Phantom Invisible Sword to slash the Heavenly Fire eighteen times. The fire demons can only absorb 75% of the damage from the first ten slashes. The Heavenly Fire has to either take all the remaining eight slashes or block them with a magic shield.

The attack method of the lightning storm is similar to that of the wind and thunder, but the difference is that several bolts of lightning run around inside it, causing damage to the target they hit. Once the damage is dealt, it will disappear. Moreover, these things are penetrating (ignore shields).

Fortunately, there were enough fire demons. Although the Heavenly Fire took a lot of damage, its health eventually stopped at around 70%. Although the Thunderclap's health only dropped to 80%, it was still decreasing. Moreover, the Netherfire's burning buff had been applied to the Thunderclap.

"Hmph, I won." At this moment, Tianhuo revealed a confident smile, having accurately calculated Po Jinglei's weakness.

Tianhuo immediately began chanting a spell, "Demon Phoenix Blazes the World," and Pojinglei instantly unleashed a lightning spear to try and interrupt Tianhuo's chanting, but Tianhuo ignored it and continued chanting.

Before long, even Po Jinglei could feel the terrifying power within the Heavenly Fire Staff, and it was clear that the incantation was about to end. Po Jinglei gripped the staff tightly, preparing to seize the opportunity to dodge the attack.

Skyfire raised his staff, and a medium-sized, purple phoenix appeared in mid-air. The temperature in the air instantly rose several levels. The most obvious effect was on the people on Doomsday's side. A large number of the weak had already knelt down, and even those of medium strength couldn't help but tremble. Several high-ranking members also felt a terrifying pressure.

The demonic phoenix let out a sharp cry, and just as Po Jinglei was fully prepared to deal with it, he realized that the demonic phoenix's target was not Po Jinglei at all.

It was Yan hope.

"Yan hope!!!" Po Jinglei hurriedly turned around. Yan hope was engaged in fierce combat with Lai and was now unable to escape. This attack was absolutely impossible to dodge, and the powerful magical fluctuations might even kill Yan hope in one go.

Po Jinglei didn't know what would happen if Yan hope died, but... he would absolutely not let such a thing happen, not even once.

Yan hope's face paled. When the Demon Phoenix was still a few meters away from Yan hope, Thunderclap had already flashed in front of Yan Xi and hugged him tightly. This was after he had already used the second special effect of his weapon.

[Weapon Effect 2: Son of Thunder (Restores health to 100%, grants an additional 300% shield, removes all negative status effects, increases lightning skill damage by five times for 10 seconds. Active skill, 300-second cooldown.)]

"I won't let you die... I won't..." The Demon Phoenix devoured Po Jing Lei, and the terrifying damage instantly burned away the shield and all the health. Po Jing Lei and Yan hope both turned into white light and disappeared on the Northern Plains...

"As expected..." Tianhuo's tone carried a hint of regret. "You're still too sentimental. If you had ignored that Lei Ling and used your skills to attack me directly, I wouldn't have survived. You would definitely have won the match that way." Tianhuo shook his head and looked at the people of Beiyuan who had already given up hope.

"Alright, it's time to end this." Skyfire looked at the high-ranking officials of Doomsday.

“Yes, it’s time to end this…” Dence stepped forward, his smile growing even brighter, a smile of joy after a successful revenge.

"Everyone... hold the line..." Bei Wei gave the order with a trembling voice, but everyone knew what was going on.

Beiyuan...it's over...

[Test complete, winner of this round: Skyfire]

[This match is a best-of-five (BO5) series. Current score: Thunderclap 1:1 Heavenly Fire.]

[Automatically start the second round...]

After this match, opinions were mixed. Some viewers criticized Tianhuo for being shameless and interfering in another battle, while others countered that Tianhuo never said he couldn't interfere. He stated at the beginning that it would be a 2v2 match, not two separate 1v1 matches. They argued that Po Jinglei fell for the word game, and who could be blamed? Moreover, Tianhuo also said that he could have won if Po Jinglei hadn't interfered with the Thunder Spirit; he chose to protect her...

In short, the chat was in an uproar over this point. Oh, and I forgot to mention, the live stream of this match can be found on the official Oracle website, and also on Red Fox TV, China's largest live streaming platform, which partners with Oracle. (The same goes for previous ranked matches.)

The subsequent battles didn't involve any particularly long dungeons. Po Jing Lei and Tian Huo met quickly and then went straight into combat. To the audience's surprise, Po Jing Lei's Thunder Spirit Yan Xi was still there and hadn't disappeared, and Tian Huo's Fire Spirit Lai was also present.

After that, they played five full BO5 matches. Po Jing Lei lost to Tian Huo 2:3, but the one match they won was particularly impressive. Tian Huo clearly did not hold back at all and completely suppressed Po Jing Lei in the early game. However, after the Netherfire state ended, Po Jing Lei seized the opportunity to make a mistake and used a set of skills to instantly kill Tian Huo without even having time to react.

However, Po Jing Lei ultimately lost. Tian Huo, as one of the four slowest players, entered the final semi-finals. The final list consisted of: Ji Han, Lan Yue, Tian Huo, and Yu Xiao.

However, the semi-finals will be tomorrow. Since it's already 6 PM, the semi-finals and finals will be held the following day, and most of them will be maps that can drag on for a long time.

The 200 people inside opened their gaming pods, and most left immediately since it was closing time. But there was no rush; the game expo lasted five days. Those who advanced to the semi-finals went backstage to collect their identification for tomorrow's finals.

Just as they finished taking their loot and were about to leave, Leng Yihan ran into an old acquaintance on her way out of the backstage area: Taiyang...

88. A dinner party for top professionals and an amazing sibling relationship.

"Good evening. Fortunately, my deduction was correct. You did indeed take this route out, otherwise, Jihan, you definitely wouldn't remember certain things." After greeting the four (Leng Yihan, Leng Binglan, Lin Yin, and Xiao Yulin), Taiyang got straight to the point.

"Huh? What?" Upon hearing Taiyang's words, Leng Yihan didn't immediately understand what Taiyang was talking about, but Leng Binglan reacted quickly and remembered something.

"Brother Yihan... Sun's sister wants to see you..." When she said this, Leng Binglan's tone was still full of dissatisfaction.

"Ah? Right!" Leng Yihan showed a look of sudden realization.

"Yeah, but it's all your fault. I was just planning to let my sister meet you, get an autograph, take a photo, and chat, and that was it. But do you know what happened?" Taiyang said, a look of extreme annoyance on his face.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yin asked instinctively out of curiosity.

"It's probably my sister who leaked this news to our teammates, and then our teammates leaked it to other teams. Now everyone in the professional scene knows that the famous Jihan is coming. We're all on vacation and die-hard fans of Shenyu, and after the game expo, some big shots in the industry booked a whole buffet restaurant. What was supposed to be a small meeting between just a few of us is suddenly going to turn into a meeting between you and other professional players..." Taiyang said, his tone gradually becoming helpless. Leng Yihan's eyebrows twitched, unsure of what to say. Lin Yin, however, became excited upon hearing this and grabbed Taiyang, asking, "What about Tong! Will Tong come?!"

"Tong, she's coming? I heard she's here to represent the Thousand Eyes team to try and win over Jihan." Taiyang said, shrugging and sighing, seemingly lamenting that they had gained another competitor.

"I'm really in high demand, but... who is Hitomi?"

"Huh?! Yihan, you don't know?!" For once, Lin Yin suddenly became emotional and pointed at Leng Yihan. Leng Yihan was stunned when she saw this and didn't know what was going on.

"Tong Ke... Tong Ke..."

"Tone, you can take a break... Let me explain... Tong's team, Thousand Eyes, is the two-time champion of our professional league, winning the Autumn Season last year and the Spring Season this year. She herself is the number one female player in our professional scene, ranking third among all players. However, most of our professional players rarely play ranked matches; most of the time they play 6v6 team practice or ranked matches." Hearing Taiyang's last sentence, Leng Yihan's previous question about why someone ranked third among professional players wasn't ranked high on the God Ranking was also answered.

“I see…” Leng Yihan nodded.

"Actually, that's not all. Tong's greatest strength is her control over the battlefield and her interaction with NPCs on the map. Why did their Thousand Eyes team win two consecutive championships? It's because they have someone as intelligent and skilled as Tong, who is also a great beauty. She has extremely high commercial value to the team. To be honest, I'm quite envious of the guys in Thousand Eyes, having such a beautiful woman by their side," Taiyang added.

"Right, right? Yihan, did you remember that!"

"Okay, okay, got it." Leng Yihan nodded helplessly; in truth, he hadn't remembered much at all... "So, shall we set off now?"

"Okay, follow me." Taiyang nodded, turned around and led the way. On the way, Lin Yin began to talk about the glorious deeds of various players in the professional circle. Xiao Yulin, Leng Binglan and Leng Yihan did not know these things, after all, they did not pay attention to the professional circle. They listened to Lin Yin talk a lot along the way and learned a lot. At least they knew which big shots in the professional circle had done amazing things.

For example, there's the player named Void who was completely outmatched by Cold Blue. He became famous after his team lost three members to the opponent, but he managed to pull off an incredible 5-for-1 trade with the help of NPCs during the first tournament. (It's been three tournaments now, and the fourth autumn tournament is coming up soon.)

Along the way, Taiyang would occasionally chime in with anecdotes about professional gamers, which successfully amused the group. The five of them left the exhibition hall chatting and laughing. However, when leaving the backstage area, Taiyang wore a hat, sunglasses, and a mask. After all, he was quite popular among professional gamers, with good looks and excellent skills, so he had to stay at least a distance away from the game show before taking them off.

After walking for a long time, the five of them arrived at a buffet restaurant on the fifth floor (the top floor) of the mall (I'm too lazy to make up a name). A very obvious sign hung at the entrance: "This restaurant has been booked." Several security guards were standing at the door…

Fortunately, there are no windows that allow you to see inside, otherwise Oracle fans would be furious, since most of the people inside are professional gamers.

After Sun scanned his face, the security guard let the five people in. On the way, Sun learned that the person who had booked the venue was Li Shangang, the captain of the Sengui team. The owner of the Sengui Club was his father, but outsiders did not know this. To avoid suspicion, Sun asked the group not to tell anyone.

"Sun, why are you so late? These must be some of the most famous people on the God Ranking, wow, four beauties."

"I'm sorry, I'm a man."

"Li Shangang, you should drink less, let me introduce you. This guy is Jihan, this blond guy is Yuxiao, this is Yinse, and this guy who's a dozen centimeters taller than my sister is Lanyue, who smashed that guy Xukong." Taiyang said to the burly man in front of him. If it weren't for his really unique hairstyle (duang~duang~duang~), Leng Yihan might not have been able to tell who he was.

However, Leng Yihan also noticed that Taiyang's eyes were glancing at a young man of about twenty years old who was preparing to grill raw meat at a Korean BBQ restaurant not far away. His hand was frozen in mid-air, and he turned his head with a strange expression to look at the group of people who had just entered.

"Oh right, that's the Void that you tortured to death, Blue Moon." Seeing Void looking this way, Sun betrayed her without hesitation. The remaining three people who hadn't noticed him all turned to look at him and then started discussing among themselves.

"So this is the void... Is Lin Yin really that strong...? Why didn't I sense it when I fought him one-on-one last time?" Leng Binglan said.

"He looks like a typical otaku. Doesn't he get fat eating so much meat...?" Xiao Yulin.

"You've really dragged us into this. We ate a lot of barbecue last night, and besides, I'm a total homebody who never leaves the house except for competitions and school." Leng Yihan said.

"I heard everything you said! I can let it go that I lost the one-on-one fight. Is it wrong for me to like eating meat? Is it wrong?! Is it wrong for me to be a homebody?!" Void couldn't help but retort, and after taking a deep breath, he gave a serious self-introduction.

"My name is Void, I am 20 years old, and I am the vice captain of the Demon Eye Team."

"Hello, I'm Jihan, I'm about 17 years old, currently going from my first year of high school to my second." Leng Yihan introduced herself, and the girls next to her, who had only been joking before, now greeted her seriously.

The professional players were originally just watching the drama unfold... oh wait, I mean eating barbecue. But then they saw three beautiful women standing at the door. After asking around, they found out that the second, third, and fifth-ranked players on the God Ranking were there. They immediately came up to chat them up and try to win them over, even though they were all rejected without hesitation.

While the three girls were surrounded by a group of male professional players (among whom were a few valiant female bosses), Leng Yihan secretly slipped away and hid to the side to prepare her own barbecue. Li Shangang paid for it all, so she could eat as much as she wanted.

"Oh my, I've never enjoyed a buffet without paying before..."

"Really? It seems you rarely attend gatherings of professional players. But that's normal, isn't it? Only Li Shangang hosts events where you can eat all you want for free. Besides, you don't seem to have met any professional players before." Someone suddenly interrupted Leng Yihan's mutterings, startling her so much that she almost dropped the plate of food.

"Hmm? That was really an accident." Leng Yihan turned around. The person who spoke was a girl, a stunningly beautiful woman, needless to say. She was breathtakingly beautiful and otherworldly. But what attracted Leng Yihan the most and made him stare in amazement were her eyes.

The eyes, multicolored and bottomless, are as deep as an abyss, yet so dazzling. It is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but these eyes, though clearly alive, are as if dead, devoid of any emotion, truly empty, devoid of anything...

"Stunned? You're surrounded by three stunning beauties. You've seen your fair share of beauties, haven't you? And those beasts are practically swarming around you, aren't you jealous? Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm Tong, captain of the Thousand Eyes Team." Tong said, her expression a mix of amusement and something else—perhaps a forced smile.

But even without her saying it, Leng Yihan could recognize her, because Lin Yin had mentioned on the way here that while Tong excelled in the game due to her intelligence, her most striking feature was her alluring eyes. Upon seeing someone with such unique eyes, Leng Yihan immediately thought of Tong as the person in question.

"Why are you jealous? They're not all my girlfriends. Besides, these people probably all have their own partners. All this flirting seems like their main goal is to recruit them, but actually, they all want to get the three of them into their teams. Do you think I can't see that?" Leng Yihan rolled her eyes at Tong, then turned back to continue picking out her food. The people who had surrounded the three had already dispersed, with only a few female players still chatting enthusiastically about other things… Oh, and these didn't include Leng Binglan, who had already run over…

"Brother Yihan, you're flirting with other girls again."

"It's more like she seduced me than me seducing her," Leng Yihan couldn't help but roll her eyes. "That's very impolite, you know. By the way, you should call me 'sister,' I'm 21 years old this year."

"Okay, okay, sister." Leng Yihan paused for a moment after saying that, but quickly resumed her normal actions as if nothing had happened.

"That's strange... We've only just met, so why can't I feel any tension or wariness? This woman is too odd." Leng Yihan's face didn't change, but he was already puzzled. Even so, he still couldn't feel any tension or wariness towards Tong.

"Hey~ little sister, be good~" Tong said, reaching out to pat Leng Yihan's head. She was tall, about 1.75 meters, so patting Leng Yihan, who was about 1.6 meters tall, was more than enough for her.

However, her hand was grabbed halfway by another hand, and Tong's gaze shifted slightly to a cold, blue face that was filled with dissatisfaction.

"Oh right, you haven't introduced yourselves to me yet, have you?" Tong realized that her attempt to flirt with Leng Yihan was futile, so she withdrew her hand and changed the subject.

"I am Jihan, almost 17 years old, currently in the summer vacation of my first year of high school."

"Lan Yue, 15 years old, summer vacation after first year of high school." Leng Yihan and Leng Binglan took turns introducing themselves, but Tong suddenly looked at Leng Binglan with a rather strange gaze.

"Oh, another little prodigy! Just like Taiyang's sister, she's also going into her second year of high school this year, but she's about ten centimeters shorter than you."

Is he more than ten centimeters shorter than Cold Blue? He's only about 1.4 meters tall! Why are you all making such a fuss about this?

"Sister Tong, you're talking badly about me." At this moment, a childish voice said from behind Tong. Tong moved aside slightly, revealing a girl who was about 1.4 meters tall, wearing a Lolita dress for a white rabbit tea party, with long silver hair reaching her waist, and skin that was so fair and delicate that it was hard to see any color in her skin.

Her face was expressionless, her black pupils fixed on Leng Yihan, while behind this little guy stood Chen Cheng, the sun, a stark contrast to him.

"Let me introduce you. This is my younger sister, Chen Yaming. You can just call her Xiaoming." Taiyang ruffled Chen Yaming's hair, which made her squint her eyes comfortably.

"Ah... hello." Leng Yihan hesitated for a moment, then looked down at Chen Yaming with a strange expression. She remembered that Taiyang had mentioned this guy wanted to see her...