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

Starting from the hole in his chest, black scales peeled off one by one, revealing not flesh and blood, but grayish-white powder.

The collapse was very rapid, as if someone was speeding up a video of a sandcastle being washed away by the tide.

The dragon's head, limbs, and tail all turned into a pile of grayish-white powder in just over ten seconds.

In less than half a minute, only a pile of burnt, smelly ashes remained on the bed, roughly retaining the outline of a dragon.

Qianyu pinched her nose, walked forward, and squatted down.

He forced back his nausea and quickly rummaged through the still-warm ashes.

Soon, his fingertips touched several hard octagonal stones. Those were the remaining four talismans: the horse, the monkey, the dragon, and the rat.

Qianyu deftly shoved the four talismans into his pocket, finally completing his collection of all twelve talismans.

He was about to get up when his fingers touched something at the bottom of the ash heap.

It felt like bone, but harder than bone. Qianyu pulled that thing out.

It was a tooth, gleaming coldly, about the length of a little finger, with dried black bloodstains at the base.

Qianyu rummaged through the ashes and found seven dragon teeth in a neat row, each one perfectly preserved and unaffected by the ash reaction.

He stared at the teeth in his palm, his mind going blank.

In the fifth season of the original comics, Shendu's son, the demon dragon, traveled from the future to the past, using a dragon tooth as the core material to perform a resurrection spell.

Although she didn't know why the dragon teeth were there, Qianyu still put them away.

He stuffed the last dragon tooth into his inner bag, dusted off his hands, and walked out of the palace without looking back.

The return trip was much smoother than the way there.

All the tendrils in the corridor had withered and died, hanging on the walls and ceiling like dried bacon strips, crumbling into powder at the slightest touch.

Qianyu summoned a shadow ninja and disappeared into the shadows. In just a few breaths, the ninja traversed the entire palace and landed in the shadows at the base of the outer wall.

It's only about a hundred meters from here to the rocky beach.

The three of them were still waiting at the same old spot.

When Qianyu emerged from behind the rock wall, Xiaoyu was the first to see him.

"Brother Qianyu! You're back!" Xiaoyu jumped up.

She jumped off the rocks and rushed over, her eyes scanning Qianyu's entire body. Only after confirming that she was not missing any limbs did she breathe a sigh of relief.

"So? Is the Holy Lord really asleep?"

Jackie Chan and his father also gathered around.

Without wasting any words, Qianyu untied the rough, tattered cloth around her waist and dumped everything inside onto the flat rocks.

By the dim moonlight, the three of them could make out the objects on the ground.

Upon closer inspection, they were four talismans that had just been taken from the Holy Lord.

"Dragon, Horse, Monkey, Rat!" Xiaoyu counted them off, "Adding to the previous ones... twelve! That's it!"

Jackie Chan leaned closer and stared wide-eyed.

"How did you do that? Are you alright? What's the situation inside?"

Chiyu pondered for a moment and said

"The Holy Lord was sleeping like a log. When I sneaked in, he was lying motionless on the bed, not even turning over. It took less than three minutes to take the talisman out of him, even easier than during the day."

He decisively concealed the hellish scroll in his bedchamber that was draining his sanity, and didn't mention the evil god Gatanothor at all.

This kind of terrifying information, which goes beyond conventional understanding, does nothing to help the current situation except create useless panic.

The old man sniffed suspiciously.

"Oh dear. Why do you smell so strongly of burning? And also of the sea?"

"The extract smells terrible." Qianyu tossed the pot aside without batting an eye.

"Add to that the perpetually poor ventilation and sulfurous smell in the castle, and that's what makes it smell like. Let's pack our things quickly; now that we have the talisman, we can't stay in this awful place for even a second longer."

Jackie Chan nodded in deep agreement.

Xiaoyu's eyes lit up.

"That's so cool! Qianyu-ge, you're practically a super agent!"

The old man stared at Qianyu suspiciously for a while, but eventually turned his attention back to the pile of spoils.

"Now that it has been confirmed that the fourth rule is a trap, and that the Holy Lord is indeed asleep, there is no reason for us to continue wasting our time in this godforsaken place."

Jackie Chan nodded. "Yes, we need to hurry to Australia, find the historical records, and change history back."

Xiaoyu took out the flying carpet.

The four quickly boarded the flying carpet. As Xiaoyu pressed the chicken and rabbit talismans onto the front of the carpet, the tattered carpet suddenly rose from the ground, transforming into a streak of light that shot straight into the sky and sped towards Australia.

Taking advantage of the moment when no one was paying attention, Qianyu leaned against the edge of the flying carpet, rolled up her trouser leg, and revealed the Tara mask tattoo on her right calf.

As the talismans were collected, he could clearly feel the dark power belonging to Tara within his body stirring, and the strange sensation grew stronger.

If this symbol is allowed to remain, Tara's will could easily overshadow the symbol.

Qianyu silently raised her right hand and snapped her fingers in the wind.

A shadowy ninja emerged halfway from the shadow beneath his feet, holding a bottle of blue tattoo remover in his hand.

Qianyu took the bottle, unscrewed the cap, rolled up her trousers above her knees, and poured the solvent directly onto the emblem.

"Sizzle—"

A puff of white smoke rose up, and as the purple liquid came into contact with the skin, the dark red pattern melted away like ice and snow, turning into wisps of black smoke that dissipated into the air.

Half a minute later, the tattoo completely disappeared, and the eroded gray-black skin returned to its normal flesh color.

The ghostly ninja who had half his body sticking out also turned into a wisp of black smoke the moment the tattoo disappeared, completely dissipating in the wind.

Qianyu stretched her ankles. Although losing control of the Shadow Legion felt somewhat empty, she gained absolute control over her body in return.

After eliminating this major threat, he secretly began to plan his next move.

The most pressing issue is what to do with the twelve talismans.

He now had all twelve talismans in his hands, but unlike when he absorbed the Rat Talisman, he was not in a hurry to integrate them all into his body.

Because the fusion spell requires first breaking the stone outer shell to release the magic inside, and then absorbing it.

However, on the one hand, the old man and others had limited knowledge of talismans in this world and didn't know how to cast spells that extract talisman power.

Therefore, in order to extract the magic power of the talisman, Chiba can only rely on the Clow Cards in her hand.

However, once the power of the magic card, which does not belong to this world, is used, the fifth rule on the fragment of the Book of Time will be immediately triggered, attracting the attention of "He".

"He" is Gatanothor.

Chapter 190 Sky Demon, Ximu

Qianyu's mind conjured up the image of the bloody hole on the Holy Lord's chest from which tentacles were oozing out.

He knew his own limitations very well. Even if he fused the infinite magic power of the Dragon Talisman into Dark Tiga's body and went head-to-head with Gatanothor, the result would only be a one-sided massacre.

The Dragon Charm provides unlimited mana and sustain, but it does not change the maximum base attack damage.

Battery life addresses the question of "how long can it last", not "whether it can actually be used".

Qianyu's current attack power hitting Gatanothor's thick carapace is like trying to poke a steel plate with a toothpick.

Zero damage means that even if you have an infinite mana bar and can attack a thousand times, it will still be zero.

On the other hand, Gatanothor could easily drain most of Blackie's health bar with just a flick of one of its tentacles.

This disparity in combat power, which was completely on a different level, made Qianyu decisively abandon the impulse to immediately absorb the talisman and become the savior.

Avoiding direct confrontation is the most sensible choice at present.

We should find the historical records as soon as possible, restore history to the normal timeline, and then avoid a direct confrontation with the evil god in this place.

After diligently repairing the historical records, restoring this distorted underworld to normal, and completely severing Gatanothor's cross-dimensional gaze.

It's not too late to digest these talismans when we return to the real world.

Having sorted out her thoughts, Qianyu reached into the pile of talismans and rummaged through them a few times.

Rat, Tiger, Dog, Horse, Dragon.

He picked out the five talismans and stuffed them into his two pockets.

He pushed the remaining six coins in front of Jackie Chan.

"Ox, rabbit, snake, monkey, chicken, pig."

Qianyu pointed to the pile of stones

"You three can divide these up. The road ahead is bound to be turbulent, and the more cards you have up your sleeves, the less trouble I'll have to worry about."

Faced with Qianyu's blatant act of taking the lion's share, the three people on the flying carpet had no objections. They knew very well that if it weren't for Qianyu's rescue, they would probably still be working as slaves for the demon.

Dad casually grabbed the pig and snake talismans and stuffed them into his pocket, Jackie Chan took the cow and monkey talismans, and Jade happily hugged the chicken and rabbit talismans.

After distributing the talismans, the flying carpet flew smoothly over the South Pacific Ocean for a long time.

The next day, Xiaoyu sat cross-legged on the edge of the flying carpet and took the initiative to talk to Qianyu, bringing up the contents of Rule One.

"Brother Qianyu, I just remembered something."

"Okay, go ahead."

"The first rule on that parchment states that this is a 'world ruled by eight great demons.' Since Shendu is only one of them, will we encounter the other seven demons on our way out of his territory?"

Qianyu didn't even open her eyes, and shifted to a more comfortable position.

"Won't."

"Why?"

"Because we don't travel on land." Qianyu gestured towards the sea below. "The demons' territory is divided according to continental plates. The Pacific Ocean has no lords; it's considered a public area. As long as you don't land on any continent, you won't trigger the territory rules."

In the original story, the reason the main characters frequently encountered demons was simply because Jade was traveling all over the world, from country to country, to gather the Dragon Team, which is why she ran into all eight major demons.