A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

Upon entering the room, Qianyu saw a familiar person.

Behind a row of towering walnut bookshelves, an old man dressed in a coarse cloth robe and wearing round reading glasses sat in front of a candlestick.

At this moment, Dad completely lost his usual loud and boisterous monk demeanor.

He was furtively flipping through a thick parchment book, like a thief.

Qianyu floated silently in mid-air, observing from above for a while.

The book is covered with complex arrays of runes, and the sides are filled with dense annotations in ancient Chinese.

He quickly figured out the situation.

Although the old man's memories had been altered by the Book of Time, turning him into a mere page who could only clean bookshelves for demons, his deep-seated yearning for magic had clearly not been completely erased. He even dared to secretly learn Chi Spells behind the Holy Lord's back.

After keeping this in mind, Qianyu did not rashly alert the enemy while in her spirit form.

Instead, he safely returned the way he came, carefully noting down a safe route from the storeroom to the secluded library as he passed through the wall.

A few minutes later.

Qianyu returned to her physical body.

The moment I opened my eyes, my hands and feet felt numb, as if I had been soaking in ice water for too long.

He flexed his fingers a few times, stood up from the pile of sacks, and carefully put away the sheep charm.

Without a moment's delay, following the safe route she had familiarized herself with in her spirit form, Qianyu smoothly slipped into the library.

The father, who was secretly studying deep inside the bookshelf, heard the unusual noise and shuddered. He shoved the magic book under the table, stood up, and glared at the uninvited black-haired boy at the door.

"Hey! Who are you? How did you get in?"

Qianyu stood at the door, glanced at the dimly lit library, and walked in unhurriedly.

The old man walked around the table and waved to Qianyu, sternly urging her to leave.

"Get out of here! You unruly brat!"

"This is the master's library; only pageboys are allowed to enter!"

"I know."

"You knew that, yet you still came in?!"

Dad's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

"Young man, are you tired of living?"

Faced with her father's threats, Qianyu showed no panic. Instead, she casually pulled over a scratched wooden chair and sat down nonchalantly.

"Don't be in such a hurry to kick them out."

"What I'm trying to say is, if the Holy Lord finds out that his pageboy is secretly reading his magic book, your fate might not be any better than mine."

Dad's reading glasses slipped down a bit.

How did you know I was looking at a magic book?

Qianyu was too lazy to explain the concept of astral projection and fast-forwarded directly to the extortion part.

"Time is of the essence, I don't have time to explain how I know this."

"You only need to understand one thing: help me with one thing. If you find it, I'll keep your secret about learning magic a secret. If you don't find it, don't blame me for mentioning it to the Holy Lord."

The old man's expression changed.

"You're threatening me!"

"Yes, that's right," Qianyu said without any attempt to deny it. "I'm in a hurry, so please cooperate."

Seeing that this deadly weakness was firmly in the other party's hands, no matter how loyal the father was, he had no choice but to bow down in the face of a threat to his survival.

What are you looking for?

Qianyu walked to the bookshelf and got straight to the point.

"I need to find an extraction spell."

"Something that can forcibly strip the power of the twelve talismans from the Holy Body. It could be an ointment, or it could be a scroll spell; in any case, there must be relevant records in this library."

The reason why Qianyu was so certain that what he wanted was here at this time was entirely because he remembered the plot of the "Jackie Chan Adventures" Chronicles.

In the storyline, after Xiaoyu ran into this magic library, she quickly and efficiently produced a large jar of green extract solution all by herself.

If you think about it carefully, in the original timeline, when her father was brewing the extraction spell, Jade didn't watch at all and didn't know the formula for the extraction solution.

Therefore, the only explanation for Jade's later ability to effortlessly create the extraction spell in this library is that she found the original version there.

Since the item was right there, Qianyu naturally decided to take it and use it.

However, this request was like a bolt from the blue to the old man's ears.

Upon hearing that this young man was so audacious as to seek out a spell targeting the Holy Lord, the old man, who had been brainwashed and oppressed by the demons for a long time, instinctively felt extreme fear.

This is no longer just a matter of being punished for peeking at a magic book; this is practically a plot to rebel.

"Oh no! That won't do!"

Dad refused on the spot.

"Are you crazy? You're trying to do something to my master! I will never help you, you're just asking for trouble! Get out of here, and I'll pretend nothing happened!"

"OK."

Faced with her father's refusal, Qianyu turned around and pretended to walk towards the door.

Just as Dad breathed a sigh of relief, he heard the other person say...

"Since you are so loyal, then I will have to take the trouble to go and have a chat with His Majesty the Holy Lord. Tell him that there is a page in the west library who has been secretly learning Qi magic spells."

"As for how serious the consequences of this crime are, I believe you know better than I do."

Faced with Qianyu's pressure, the old man said.

"Even if you say that, I can't help you, because the extraction spell you're looking for isn't here at all. I've been in this library for over ten years, and I have to sort these books eight times a day."

"I can tell you exactly what books are on each shelf, which row and which shelf they're in, even with my eyes closed. I guarantee you won't find that kind of spell that can strip power from its owner here."

Qianyu didn't reply. She shifted her gaze from her father's face and slowly scanned the densely packed bookshelves on the four walls.

The books, bound in thread, in scrolls, in sheepskin, and rusted and chained, were piled up like the library of a greedy old dragon.

He didn't press the matter further and simply changed direction.

"If you don't have the extraction spell, then what about Shendu's complete spellbook?"

Upon hearing the book title, the old man looked at the outsider in front of him with a face full of surprise. The outsider hadn't even managed to get a set of servant's clothes.

How did you know about that book?!

"I know a lot of things, just tell me if I'm here or not."

After hesitating for a moment, the old man finally spoke frankly.

"The book is indeed here, but I advise you to give up on that idea. That encyclopedia is full of advanced magic."

"No one can understand it except the master. Even after looking at it for more than ten years, I still can't understand a single word on it."

Chapter 182 Directly Taking Tara's Ghost Legion

Chiyu didn't care at all how difficult this overhyped magic book was to digest.

"I don't need to understand it."

"You just need to take it out; I have a clever use for it."

Seeing Qianyu's resolute attitude, the old man shook his head helplessly, climbed to the top of a giant bookshelf in a corner, and felt his way through the thick dust toward a hidden mechanism disguised as a book spine.

With a dry, grinding sound of gears turning, a rectangular hidden compartment popped open in the wall.

The old man climbed down the wooden stool carrying the thick, brick-like "Complete Book of Spells," handing the book to Qianyu while continuing to nag and issue warnings.

"You're wasting your time holding this book that you can't understand at all. If the patrolling guards find out you've touched it, we'll all be thrown into the fire and roasted alive..."

Qianyu completely ignored her father's nagging.

He took the heavy magic book and stared intently at a pattern on the leather cover that resembled a demon's mask.

This is Tara's logo.

That is also the true target that Chiyu is looking for.

Who says you have to learn a magic book just because you get one?

As a transmigrator familiar with the plot, Qianyu was making her plans meticulously.

He clearly remembered that as long as he imprinted the Tara mark from the cover of the "Complete Book of Spells" onto his body, he could forcibly seize supreme control of the entire Shadow Legion.

In the nineteenth episode of the original novel, Xiaoyu, in order to show off in front of her classmates, had the ghost face from the cover of the magic encyclopedia copied onto her ankle.

As a result, that thing couldn't be washed off, and it also came with the supreme authority to summon the Shadow Legion, directly turning a twelve-year-old girl into the Shadow Queen and taking away all of the Holy Lord's military power.

Later, in the final episode of the fourth season, Tru used this tattoo to infiltrate the Shadow Kingdom and retrieve the mask.

In other words, this pattern itself is a backdoor to the Shadow Legion, independent of the mask system.

No need for a ghost mask, just print this face on your body and the shadow ninja will kowtow to you like they've seen their own father.

Previously in San Francisco, Chiba used the Shadow Card to directly control the Holy Lord's Shadow Legion, thus gaining his own ninja army.

But now that the Holy Lord has altered history, he has deleted that dark history along with it, and the summoning privileges he obtained for free have also been cleared.

With the loss of a perfect workforce that could serve as laborers, cannon fodder, and scouts, Qianyu always felt somewhat constrained.

In order to win back this group of free and obedient laborers, he decisively decided to use the back door left by the government in Tara.

Qianyu looked around and pulled out a thick quill pen covered in black ink from the messy pen holder on her father's desk.

Without any hesitation, he bent down and pulled up the left leg of his trousers.

Under the watchful eye of his father.

Qianyu picked up the quill pen, which was soaked with ink, and smeared a thick layer of ink onto the mask of Tara on the cover of the magic book.

Then, he lifted the heavy magic book and, as if stamping it, pressed the wet Tara symbol on the cover heavily onto his exposed calf.