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The Holy Lord didn't care. As long as Kingpin offended Mephisto, he would know just how insignificant his power really was.

They will naturally compete for the talismans and seek his help.

The relationship between the two will no longer be as it is now, with Kingpin having a slight advantage; it will be reversed.

As for Kingpin getting the talisman but not giving it to him, Shendu wasn't worried. As long as the talisman wasn't in the hands of the Heavenly Court, everything was negotiable...

Chapter 157 Little Jade Who Caused Trouble

"Ugh! Tru, please let me rest for a bit! Please!"

Xiaoyu, who had been working on her test all day, looked pitifully at Tru, blinking her eyes and trying to look cute.

"I've only finished two-thirds of today's test, there's still a third left, and I haven't reviewed the questions I got wrong..." Tru recited Xiaoyu's upcoming tasks as if they were his own treasures. He spends every day with Xiaoyu, and although he may not know the content of the test, he can definitely recite Xiaoyu's schedule from memory.

"Only a third left! I'm going to rest for a bit! Just a little while!" Xiaoyu said to Tru, pinching a barely visible gap between her two fingers.

"Hmm..." Tru thought for a moment. According to Xiaoyu's usual pace of doing problems, she did finish faster than usual today and had some spare time.

However, if the free time is in the evening, Xiaoyu should be getting ready for bed and won't be able to play. In that case, it's fine to let her play for a while in the afternoon.

Tru felt sorry for Xiaoyu, who was engrossed in her studies every day.

“Alright then, but you can only play inside the store, you can’t go out.” Tru said, getting up from his chair.

His massive body, sitting in the chair, was enough to block the entire doorway, so even if he dozed off, Xiaoyu wouldn't be able to escape.

"Yay!" Xiaoyu darted away from Tru in a flash.

Being able to rest is certainly something to be happy about, but not being able to go out diminishes that happiness.

After running around up and down the stairs, Xiaoyu turned around and sat on the counter, feeling a little bored.

Suddenly, Xiaoyu saw the library where her father often stayed. After hesitating for a moment, she ran to the door, gently turned the handle, and pushed it open.

Sizzle~ The door opened directly; it wasn't locked!

The interior is largely the same as a regular library, except for a large box placed in the corner.

Some of the knowledge Xiaoyu learned came from her father's Qi magic, which was a kind of advance instruction, so she could tell at a glance that there were probably countless magic circles around her.

After circling the large box twice, Xiaoyu had an idea and started rummaging through the bookshelves using the movable stairs next to her.

Soon, a comprehensive guide to Qi magic was in Xiaoyu's hands. The book sounded impressive, but it was actually a popular science book written by her father. It didn't have any practical methods and was just some introductions.

But for Xiaoyu, that was enough. Squatting on the ground, relying on the illustrations and descriptions in the book, Xiaoyu found several key magic circles.

"Tru~ I have a question for you~" Xiaoyu made a mark in the book and ran out.

"How do you set up and deactivate magic circles? Why are you asking this?" Tru took the book and asked back, these were not within the scope of the entrance exam.

"Hmm... I'll have to study more. I can't just stop studying now that the exam isn't coming, and if I get in, starting a little earlier will probably improve my grades."

Xiaoyu's words sounded so true, but Tru thought about it for a while and realized that it made sense. Anyway, there's no harm in learning more.

Under Tru's careful instruction, Jade quickly grasped the basics of dispelling magic circles, which is the advantage of air magic.

With other types of magic, even if you spend more than an hour just practicing without discussing the theory, you still can't learn much. But with air magic, you can at least get a basic understanding of how to use it.

"Thank you! Oh, right, I need to put the book back where it was." Xiaoyu snapped the book shut and gestured for Tru to move aside.

"Oh? I'll return it to you." Tru reached out to take the book.

"No need, Uncle Long said that you have to do your own things." Xiaoyu bent down and hid, running out through the gap next to Tru.

Tru scratched his head, wondering when Xiaoyu had become so obedient.

After running into the library, Xiaoyu casually tossed the book onto the table, jumped up the stairs again, and started rummaging through the materials.

"Dried pufferfish...dragon's beard grass..."

While muttering to herself, Xiaoyu put the things in her arms, and after she finished taking them, she put them all on the ground next to the iron box.

"Demons and monsters, get out of here! Demons and monsters, get out of here!"

Xiaoyu didn't care about the consequences and mixed the materials for dispelling different formations together. If an ordinary person did this, even a magician would be in trouble.

However, Xiaoyu's luck was off the charts. The materials on the ground slowly floated up, and some of them actually worked. Green magical light shot out from the materials, entered the magic circle, and then disappeared without a trace.

Even good luck has to follow basic principles. If the formation that his father painstakingly set up was so easy to break, he, as a professor, should just resign.

However, the incorrect method of dispelling the magic circle caused it to activate its automatic counterattack mode. Just as the counterattack was about to begin, the mark left by her father on Xiaoyu's body began to take effect.

This was originally intended to prevent Xiaoyu from running around and accidentally getting hurt, but now it has caused a bug in the magic circle's operation.

The magic circle is set to automatically launch a counterattack against the intruder if the method of disarming is incorrect. However, the mark on Xiaoyu is displayed as a non-target in the magic circle. What's more, unlike the logic level triggered when accidentally touched, the level of the active counterattack is the same as the level of the mark!

Faced with this contradiction, the magic circle flickered twice and was forced to enter the restart phase.

Xiaoyu, who had no idea what had happened from beginning to end, thought she had succeeded. She reached out, opened the iron box, and took out the large box inside.

"What...just some chess pieces..."

Xiaoyu picked out two talismans at random, a little disappointed. When the chicken and rabbit talisman fell into her hand, the patterns on it lit up for a moment.

Brush brush!

Xiaoyu flew around the small library at great speed without knocking over the bookshelves.

"Whoosh..." Xiaoyu wiped the sweat from her brow after hovering in mid-air, glanced at the talisman in her hand, and exclaimed loudly, "Cool~~~"

"Xiaoyu! Have you finished releasing them yet?!"

Tru's voice rang out, accompanied by the thumping of his feet on the floor.

"Hmm...hehe~" Xiaoyu looked at the talisman in her hand and suddenly smiled. "Sorry, Mr. Tru, Xiaoyu is going out to play now~"

Halfway through their flight in the library, Xiaoyu returned, grabbed a few talismans, stuffed them into her pocket, and then, after gathering her strength in mid-air, sped off at full speed as Tru opened the library door.

Tru only felt a figure flash past his head, and he had no time to intercept it!

Tru glanced at the messy library and the opened metal box, then immediately ran out in a panic.

He shouted at Xiaoyu, who had already flown into the sky, "Xiaoyu! Stop fooling around! Come back!"

"I'll just go out and play for a little while and then I'll be right back!" Xiaoyu replied, and then disappeared from Tru's sight.

Chapter 158 Little Jade, holding the talisman, is invincible!

Ding dong ding dong…

The carousel was humming, and there were children laughing and talking all around, but one child looked very worried.

This child is Xiaoyu, who secretly ran away from her father's antique shop. The first place Xiaoyu went to was the amusement park she had always wanted to visit.

But once she got on the amusement park ride, Xiaoyu wasn't as happy as she had been when she ran away.

I didn't finish my homework... I even took the talisman... and I made Tru angry... I'm definitely going to get scolded and punished when I get back... and this isn't fun at all...

Sigh~ Xiaoyu sighed deeply and looked at the talisman in her hand.

Let's go home. The punishment shouldn't be too severe if we go back early.

Outside the carousel, Stan's eyes followed the spinning Jade, his body trembling uncontrollably.

The taste of hellish laws...

The Hell Contract within Stan kept urging him to hurry to the sealing location, but Stan, who had sensed the laws of hell, was like a dog that had smelled excrement, completely unable to take a step.

Soon, the carousel stopped, and the moment the exit opened, Stan pushed aside the people in front of him with both hands and squeezed in.

He wanted to act like a normal person, but what normal person would act like him now?

The parents who wanted to scold Stan were intimidated by his mysterious aura the moment they saw him, and quickly ran away with their children.

Xiaoyu dismounted and suddenly noticed that a talisman with a horse pattern engraved on it was glowing.

"Little sister...can I take a look at what you're holding?" Stan said shamelessly as he approached Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu took a step back. "Strange uncle?!"

"I can give you money, lots and lots of money, enough to buy the whole amusement park!" Stan became increasingly excited, waving his hands around like a madman.

Xiaoyu looked at Stan warily; this man didn't seem like a good person!

She looked around, but everyone had disappeared.

Stan was also very anxious. Why hadn't the spells he learned from the Hell Contract worked?!

Everyone else was scared away by the fear spell, but the little girl in front of them didn't react at all.

"Give him to me!" Stan lost all patience and shouted angrily, sulfurous smoke billowing from his nostrils.

"Don't come any closer! Otherwise, I won't be polite!" Xiaoyu said, raising the talisman at Stan.

Roar! Stan let out a roar that was not human and pounced on Xiaoyu.

Chicken - floating in mid-air!

With a flick of her wrist, Xiaoyu suspended Stan in mid-air, lifting him further and further from the ground.

"I'll tear you to pieces!" Stan dropped the pretense! Disguise gone! Demonized!

The demon's brutal nature was on full display in him. After transforming into a counterfeit Claw Demon, the Hell Contract emerged from Stan's body, directly breaking through the control of the Chicken Talisman.

Chicken and Rabbit - Super Speed ​​Flight!

Xiaoyu lightly touched the ground with her toes and dodged Stan's attack.

Stanley's claws pointed at Xiaoyu in the sky, and red blood flowed continuously from his body, which was transformed into control spells by the Hell Contract and shot towards Xiaoyu.

Horses can cure all diseases!

Xiaoyu held the horse talisman in her other hand and used it to shield herself. All the hellish spells were dispelled into a wisp of smoke upon impact with the horse talisman.

Pig - those piercing eyes!

Two deep red laser beams shot out from Xiaoyu's eyes, directly knocking Stan, who had jumped up, back to the ground.

Dragon - Scorching Flame Burst!

Xiaoyu took a deep breath and then exhaled violently. The surging flames turned Stan and the area around him into a sea of ​​fire. The amusement park's fire-fighting equipment was immediately activated, and sprays of water came out from various parts of the facilities.

I won't kill anyone, will I...?