Chapter Summaries

Rhine gained a Life-and-Death Friendship with Dumbledore and an opportunity to seek the Five Elements Primordial Banners after Dumbledore mistook him for a blood relative. Dumbledore brought Rhine to the Hog's Head Inn to meet Aberforth, who wrongly concluded that Rhine was Dumbledore and Grindelwald's child.

• Rhine accepted the system's opportunity to seek the Five Elements Primordial Banners rather than abandon it.
• Dumbledore suspected Rhine was descended from Aberforth and asked him to meet his living relatives.
• Dumbledore Apparated with Rhine to the Hog's Head Inn, where Aberforth came out and confronted him.
• Dumbledore told Aberforth that Rhine carried the Dumbledore family bloodline, and Aberforth panicked.
• Aberforth mistakenly accused Dumbledore of having a child with Grindelwald and thought Dumbledore wanted Rhine raised as his own child.

Rhine agreed to a Bloodline Magic test to determine whether he belonged to Dumbledore or Aberforth’s family line, and the spell instead identified him as an ancestor above the family’s oldest generation. A strange statue flew to Rhine and triggered a system notice that he had acquired an opportunity related to the Flame Light Banner Leaving the Earth.

• Aberforth and Dumbledore argued over which of them was Rhine’s father and proposed using Bloodline Magic to settle the dispute.
• Rhine hesitated when the system reported that an opportunity related to the Flame Light Banner Leaving the Earth was close, but he agreed to the test.
• Dumbledore, Aberforth, and Rhine each offered a drop of blood, and the spell confirmed Rhine carried the Dumbledore family bloodline.
• Rhine’s blood shot upward instead of toward either brother, leading Aberforth to conclude that Rhine’s seniority exceeded that of the family’s oldest ancestor.
• A strange statue awakened inside a chest at the Hog’s Head Inn, flew to Rhine, and prompted the system to announce that he had acquired the opportunity.

Rhine learned that the Dumbledore family statue was a key to an Old One’s realm and accepted the danger of pursuing its power. After divining that Peter Pettigrew’s talents and Harry’s Invisibility Cloak could help him enter the realm, Rhine discovered the cloak had been stolen by Voldemort and Quirrell and prepared Fluffy to stop them.

• Rhine used the Profound Insight Heavenly Eye to uncover that the statue led to an Old One’s realm and that the Dumbledore ancestor had sacrificed himself to protect future generations from the Old Ones.
• Rhine accepted the statue’s karmic burden, sealed it in his primordial sea, and divined that Peter Pettigrew and Harry’s Invisibility Cloak could help him enter the realm more safely.
• Rhine returned to Hogwarts and learned from Harry that his Invisibility Cloak had disappeared; Rhine confirmed that Voldemort and Quirrell had stolen it to reach the Sorcerer’s Stone.
• Rhine strengthened Fluffy, gave it a compass that detected invisibility, and instructed it to stage an act before attacking the intruder.
• Quirrell showed Voldemort the Invisibility Cloak, and Voldemort planned to use it to bypass Fluffy and seize the Sorcerer’s Stone that night.

Voldemort tried to reach the Sorcerer's Stone under an Invisibility Cloak, but Fluffy repeatedly struck him and then chased him off after its magic needle revealed his position. Rhine also manipulated bewitched Slytherin students into pursuing Voldemort, leaving Quirrell to face them as Voldemort abandoned control of his body.

• Voldemort entered the room beyond the trapdoor in his Invisibility Cloak, but Fluffy repeatedly hit him as he tried to pass.
• Voldemort decided the accidents were bad luck, only for Fluffy to knock him into a wall and reveal the South-Pointing Needle Magic Tool that tracked him.
• Rhine altered the Slytherins' bewitched love letters to summon them, and the students followed the arrows out of their dormitories.
• Fluffy resisted Voldemort's Killing Curse and chased him through the room until he fled through the trapdoor.
• The Slytherins followed their letters' arrows to Voldemort, mistook him for their beloved, and rushed to embrace him.
• Voldemort handed control of Quirrell's body back to him, leaving Quirrell to face the pursuing students.

Rhine recovered the Invisibility Cloak after Quirrell was cornered by Slytherin students caught in a love-themed prank, then discovered the cloak held rare spatial magic. He lent Harry the cloak in exchange for permission to study it, and the chapter ended with Dumbledore and Snape confronting the heartbroken students and wondering whether Hally could make them fall for someone else.

• Quirrell tried to escape the Slytherin students, but pink stationery revealed his location and made them believe they were in love with him; he was overwhelmed in the corridor, and his Invisibility Cloak vanished.
• Rhine retrieved the Invisibility Cloak and learned that the system identified it as the hide of Mengji, whose spatial properties might help Rhine advance his cultivation.
• Rhine returned the cloak to Harry, who agreed to let him borrow it and asked him to enchant a short set of women's robes and black silk stockings with various effects.
• Snape learned that many Slytherin students had skipped class and found them grieving over lost love; he and Dumbledore discovered they showed no signs of curses, potions, or Dark Magic.
• Snape suggested using Love Potions, but Dumbledore rejected the idea and wondered whether a young witch could distract the students; Snape thought Hally might be able to do it.

Dumbledore arranged a Quidditch exhibition to distract the students, while Rhine refined Harry’s clothes into magical robes that made Hally irresistible to nearly everyone at Hogwarts. As Dumbledore considered using the Mirror of Erised to understand Harry and Rhine, Trelawney prophesied that the mirror would shatter, and Rhine received a system mission to reach the pinnacle of a Dao Heart trial at Jade Void Palace.

• Dumbledore proposed inviting Quidditch stars from Gryffindor and Slytherin, and Snape hurried off to brew him a potion after misunderstanding his suggestion.
• Rhine used a trace of merit to refine Harry’s clothes into low-grade Magic Tools with protective, invisibility, and appearance-changing functions.
• Harry bound the artifact robes, and Hally put them on, experimented with their features, and decided to wear them to dinner.
• Hally’s appearance captivated students from all four Houses, including the lovelorn Slytherins, while Quirrell and Voldemort reacted with outrage.
• Dumbledore decided Harry and Rhine should look into the Mirror of Erised, but Trelawney prophesied that the mirror would soon shatter.
• Rhine received a system notification announcing a Dao Heart trial at Jade Void Palace and urging him to ascend to its pinnacle.

Rhine explained the Mirror of Erised to Harry and Ron, then tested its magic against his protected mind. When the mirror first showed only his reflection, Rhine let down a tiny part of his defenses, and a vast world appeared in it.

• Harry told Ron and Rhine that the mirror had shown her parents alive, and Rhine explained that it revealed desires rather than real futures.
• Rhine led Harry and Ron to the Mirror of Erised, where Harry saw her family and friends before stepping away, while Ron saw himself as a nine-time wizard chess champion and quickly broke free of the vision.
• Dumbledore watched from the shadows and admired Ron’s willpower as Rhine approached the mirror.
• The Mirror of Erised failed to penetrate Rhine’s mental protections and showed only his reflection, stunning Harry, Ron, and Dumbledore.
• Rhine opened a tiny gap in his mental defenses, and a vast, boundless world appeared in the mirror.

Rhine used the Mirror of Erised to examine his desires and discovered that his Dao Heart was to surpass every being and force so he could follow his heart. After shattering the mirror, he emerged with a firmer Dao Heart as waves surged through his Yuan Sea.

• Rhine let down his mental defenses and saw visions of himself witnessing and influencing the history of the Primordial world, but rejected immortality and ultimate authority as the sole purpose of his cultivation.
• As Rhine remained motionless before the mirror, Harry and Ron tried to reach him but were repelled, while Dumbledore attempted to pull him free with magic.
• Dumbledore used Fire God Paves the Way, but Rhine calmly suppressed the flames and assured him that the mirror could not harm him.
• Rhine concluded that following his heart was his purpose, then resolved to surpass the Ancestral Witches, Heavenly Demons, Quasi-Saints, Saints, Hongjun, and Pangu.
• Rhine's Dao Heart became clear and firm, and the Mirror of Erised shattered as towering waves surged within his Yuan Sea.

Rhine formed a Yuan Sea Divine Peak that could shelter living creatures, then used it to cultivate a Whomping Willow and pursue rare herb seeds from Professor Sprout. The chapter ended with Rhine telling Professor Sprout that the Desert Thorn Tree seed she had lent him had already sprouted.

• The shattered Mirror of Erised helped Rhine clarify his Dao Heart, forming a divine peak in his Yuan Sea that made his mana and abilities easier to control.
• Rhine drew a Whomping Willow and its branch into the Yuan Sea Divine Peak, where they thrived, then brought Huhu inside and saw the Fire Crab grow stronger.
• Rhine asked Professor Sprout for seeds of rare and extinct herbs, and she agreed to lend him one if he successfully cultivated a Whomping Willow cutting.
• Rhine showed Professor Sprout a thriving Whomping Willow cutting, so she gave him a Desert Thorn Tree seed to cultivate.
• Two nights later, Rhine visited Professor Sprout and told her that the Desert Thorn Tree seed had already sprouted.

Rhine showed Professor Sprout that he had sprouted the Desert Thorn Tree and, soon afterward, Blood Crown and other rare seeds, leaving her stunned by his talent. Professor Sprout recovered enough to seek more seeds for him, while Rhine left to continue cultivating plants for pill refinement.

• Rhine brought Professor Sprout a sprouted Desert Thorn Tree, and she praised his Herbology talent before giving him seeds of several other rare plants.
• Rhine stored the seeds atop Yuan Sea Divine Peak, where the Power of Yuan Sea could nourish them, while Professor Sprout prepared research materials for him.
• The next day, Rhine told Professor Sprout that Blood Crown and many of the other seeds had already sprouted, and the news left her sitting dazed on the floor.
• Rhine asked whether Professor Sprout had more rare seeds, and she immediately began writing to Herbology masters to obtain additional varieties for him.
• Rhine promised to keep making progress, while Professor Sprout wrote letters to her friends, eager to share his achievements.

Professor Sprout borrowed rare seeds from Herbology masters, and Rhine Snow revived every seed in his Yuan Sea medicinal garden. The revelation shattered the masters’ confidence and left Fflurina furious, while Rhine received a warning that Qingfeng planned revenge and that he should beware Zhenyuanzi.

• Professor Sprout wrote nostalgic letters to Herbology masters, who lent her rare seeds, including twelve from her resentful rival Fflurina.
• Rhine planted the seeds in his Yuan Sea medicinal garden and used Wu Tu Divine Light and the Power of Yuan Sea to nurture them.
• The seeds began sprouting within a day, and Professor Sprout sent Dame Isadora and the other masters evidence of their success.
• Professor Sprout revealed that nearly twenty ancient seeds had all sprouted, leaving the Herbology masters stunned and Fflurina convinced she would expose Sprout at Hogwarts.
• Rhine received notifications that Medicine Dao Loose Immortals had suffered Dao-heart collapses and that Qingfeng had become hostile and planned revenge.

Rhine fused the Medicine Dao Loose Immortals’ wood-element talents into Eternal Evergreen Immortal, a Quasi-Saint-level Dao that granted him immense longevity and near-immortality, along with the promise of Yi Mu Divine Light. As Herbology masters sought to visit Hogwarts, Fflurina gained her teacher’s permission to go there and planned to confront Sprout.

• Rhine realized the Herbology masters whose seeds he had planted had formed casual acquaintanceships with him, and he decided to fuse the high-level wood-element talents they provided.
• Rhine suspected that Zhenyuanzi’s wizard counterpart possessed a dangerous ancient plant and resolved to strengthen himself before facing any threat.
• British Herbology masters sent Hogwarts letters requesting academic exchanges, while Fflurina asked her teacher to let her visit and then sent her own exchange request.
• Rhine used the Profound Insight Heavenly Eye to review and refine his abilities while the Talent Furnace slowly completed its fusion.
• Rhine’s third talent fusion produced Eternal Evergreen Immortal, which gave him a lifespan as enduring as the sun and moon and a nearly indestructible body, and required him to obtain Yi Mu Divine Light.

Rhine awakened the Eternal Evergreen Immortal talent and used its Yi Mu Divine Light to accelerate the growth of plants in his Yuan Sea. After sensing Professor Sprout was in trouble, he arrived at the Herbology exchange and silenced her critics by producing a mature Great King Flash Flower.

• Rhine's Eternal Evergreen Immortal talent strengthened his vitality, recovery, and physical body, while granting him the Yi Mu Divine Light.
• Rhine used the Yi Mu Divine Light to mature a Desert Thorn Tree and nourish the other plants in his Yuan Sea, then noticed that the Yuan Sea was expanding faster.
• Rhine sensed through Heavenly Secrets Divination that someone connected to him was in trouble and went to the Hogwarts hall where Professor Sprout was presenting photographs of ancient plants.
• Master Flirina accused Professor Sprout of fraud and mocked her for entrusting the work to Rhine, a first-year student.
• Rhine appeared, supported Professor Sprout, and produced a mature Great King Flash Flower, leaving the Herbology masters stunned.

At Hogwarts, Master Fflurina accused Professor Sprout and Rhine Snow of faking the Great King Flash Flower, prompting a bitter confrontation over Fflurina’s past academic fraud. Rhine challenged her to stake thirty ancient seeds on his ability to make another seed mature, and Fflurina was left facing his demand to borrow them.

• Master Fflurina mocked the Great King Flash Flower and accused Professor Sprout of bluffing, while Rhine suspected Fflurina had connections to evil entities.
• Professor Sprout exposed Fflurina’s past academic fraud and fiercely denied having reported her, as Fflurina raged but restrained herself from attacking after seeing Rhine’s gaze.
• Fflurina argued that the flower could not have matured in days and suggested Hogwarts’s Transfiguration experts had created a convincing fake.
• Rhine challenged Fflurina’s belief that nothing could surpass the wonders of mythology, and Fflurina offered a seed as a wager if he could make it sprout and mature.
• Rhine demanded thirty ancient seeds, including those Fflurina had already sent to Hogwarts, and told her to borrow them if necessary.

Rhine used the Yi Mu Divine Light to sprout and mature Fflurina’s ancient seeds, while the resulting vitality transformed the Whomping Willow. Fflurina’s attempt to sabotage Rhine and Professor Sprout failed, and the reborn tree received the name Willow Immortal.

• Fflurina borrowed ancient seeds from Herbology masters and used Gringotts leverage to buy more seeds and stockpile Moon Marrow Grass and Bordeaux Potion ingredients.
• Rhine anticipated Fflurina’s purchases and helped the Herbology masters profit by trading against Gringotts, earning their friendship and property.
• Fflurina returned with thirty-two ancient seeds and challenged Rhine to make one sprout and mature without the scarce ingredients.
• Rhine cast the Yi Mu Divine Light, causing the ancient seeds to sprout and mature while their vitality accelerated the Whomping Willow’s transformation.
• The Whomping Willow shed its charred body, grew branches wreathed in Phoenix Nesting Parasol Fire, and Rhine renamed it Willow Immortal.

After Rhine’s ancient seeds matured and the Whomping Willow transformed into the Willow Immortal, Fflurina lost the wager and left Hogwarts plotting revenge. Rhine gained the Immortal-Slaying Sword Forging Method and rewards tied to Qingfeng, while Fflurina’s attempt to hire Dark Wizards to kill him ended in panic when they recognized his name.

• Rhine impressed the Herbology masters by rapidly cultivating thirty-two ancient plants and transforming the Whomping Willow into the Willow Immortal, then watched Fflurina leave Hogwarts in disgrace.
• Professor Sprout warned Rhine that Fflurina might retaliate, and Rhine received the Immortal-Slaying Sword Forging Method after his bond with True Person Yu Ding deepened.
• Rhine discovered that his feud with Qingfeng offered rewards including the Cloud and Rain Summoning Art, Wuzhuang Temple Talisman Arts, and the Resounding Cloud-Stopping talent.
• Fflurina went to Knockturn Alley and offered Dark Wizards a bounty to kill Rhine Snow, believing he was an easy target.
• The Dark Wizards recognized Rhine’s name and fled, remembering the previous failed bounty and the powerful figures who had protected him.

Fflurina sought help from her teacher after Rhine’s magic thwarted her, only to learn that he had groomed her to mature the ancient King of Curses and planned to drain her dry. Rhine killed Fflurina with the Nailing Head Seven Arrows Book, but the King of Curses swallowed the curse and discovered too late that it was burning inside it.

• Fflurina left Knockturn Alley and returned to her castle, where she contacted her teacher through the Blood Thorn and described Rhine’s magic.
• Her teacher read Fflurina’s memories, became obsessed with Rhine and the revived Whomping Willow, and revealed that he had manipulated her into feeding the King of Curses with her own blood and abducted Muggles.
• The King of Curses drained Fflurina and pierced her body as her teacher declared that her death would complete its growth.
• Rhine used the Nailing Head Seven Arrows Book to kill Fflurina, earning the Cloud and Rain Summoning Art, Wuzhuang Temple Talisman Arts, and the Resounding Cloud-Stopping talent.
• The King of Curses swallowed the lingering curse, mistook it for its own power, and screamed when it began burning inside its mouth.

Rhine destroyed a Blood Thorn that was part of the King of Curses with the Nailing Head Seven Arrows Book, then learned that Zhenyuanzi sought to restore the King of Curses by taking Rhine’s power. He claimed the Wuzhuang Temple Great Array and began studying its talisman arts, ending as he drew his first Calming Talisman and stirred heaven and earth.

• The curse power of the Nailing Head Seven Arrows Book destroyed the Blood Thorn, while the hidden King of Curses vowed to complete itself by targeting Rhine and the Whomping Willow.
• Rhine’s system revealed that Zhenyuanzi wanted to use Rhine’s Eternal Evergreen Immortal Dao Fruit to repair the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and offered rewards for damaging the tree or killing Zhenyuanzi.
• Rhine claimed the Wuzhuang Temple Great Array and decided to prepare it for Hogwarts, with the transformed Whomping Willow guarding its array eye.
• Rhine claimed the Cloud and Rain Summoning Art, Wuzhuang Temple Talisman Arts, Resounding Cloud-Stopping, and the Wuzhuang Temple Great Array, then spent three days studying talisman arts.
• Rhine used Dragon Hide, his golden blood, and his fingertip to draw a Calming Talisman, causing thunder and fierce winds to shake heaven and earth.

Rhine created a Golden Merit Calming Talisman and developed talisman arts as a way for people in the wizarding world to use power without relying on magic. When Filch’s Squib correspondence letter was exposed and he attempted suicide, Rhine saved him and showed him that talismans could let him wield power.

• Rhine drew a Calming Talisman that heaven and earth infused with merit, transforming it into a Golden Merit Talisman.
• Rhine made low-grade talismans and Heavenly Thunder Talismans, concluding that talisman arts could help counter the wizarding world’s madness and offer an alternative to magic.
• Filch discovered that students had exposed his Squib correspondence letter, and their mockery convinced him he could no longer remain at Hogwarts.
• Believing his life had lost its meaning, Filch attempted to hang himself in his office.
• Rhine arrived in time to break the chain and lower Filch safely to the ground.
• Rhine gave Filch a Fire Talisman, and Filch activated it to produce a ball of fire as Rhine introduced him to talisman arts.

Rhine encouraged Filch to pursue talisman arts despite being a Squib and taught him the Tianshi Method, making him the first Celestial Master. That night, students who had mocked Filch were confronted by him in his new robes.

• Filch doubted he could learn talisman arts, but Rhine assured him he had chosen him for a reason and warned him of the path’s hardships.
• Filch eagerly accepted Rhine’s offer to study talisman arts with Harry and the others, and Rhine called him Dao Friend.
• Rhine received the Nameless Dao Entry Method through Filch and named it the Tianshi Method before teaching it to him.
• Filch mastered the method, became the First Generation Celestial Master, and received ritual robes, Magic Tools, and talismans from Rhine.
• Students who believed Filch could not stop them caused a disturbance in the castle until the robed Filch appeared and angrily challenged them.