Chapter Summaries

Dumbledore confronted Rhine about learning Dark Magic, but Rhine demonstrated that his Rebellious Demonic Origin talent could transform dark spells into righteous magic. Impressed by Rhine’s firm character and talent, Dumbledore apologized and offered to teach him magic.

• Dumbledore warned Rhine against studying Dark Magic, and Rhine admitted he had learned several spells in the Restricted Section.
• Rhine argued that magic’s morality depended on the wizard using it, angering Dumbledore, who accused him of being corrupted by Dark Magic.
• Rhine activated Rebellious Demonic Origin and transformed Fiendfyre into holy Gubraithian Fire before casting altered versions of Sectumsempra and Avada Kedavra.
• Dumbledore witnessed the transformed spells, reconsidered his judgment of Rhine, and apologized for misunderstanding him.
• Dumbledore offered to teach Rhine magic, and their relationship reached Acquaintances.

Rhine befriended Dumbledore and considered the powerful system rewards associated with Immortal Official of the South Pole. Dumbledore began teaching him magic in the Room of Requirement, and Rhine chose to learn the Patronus Charm while rejecting costly forms of immortality.

• Rhine saw that befriending Dumbledore had unlocked rewards including merit, Heavenly Secrets Divination, and a chance to obtain the Five Elements Primordial Banners.
• Dumbledore led Rhine to a greatly expanded Room of Requirement and offered to teach him Transfiguration, Alchemy, duelling, or ways to extend his life.
• Rhine questioned why Dumbledore's Room of Requirement was more elaborate than the one he had created before.
• Dumbledore tested Rhine's interest in immortality, and Rhine rejected any method that required sacrificing his humanity or quality of life.
• Rhine told Dumbledore he wanted to learn the Patronus Charm.

Dumbledore taught Rhine Snow that the Patronus Charm embodied a wizard’s will and could amplify other magic, prompting Rhine to combine it with his spells. Rhine achieved an epiphany and created a unique lotus-and-fire magic called Lotus Brilliance Path Opening Sky Light.

• Dumbledore explained that a Patronus reflected a wizard’s heart and that the Patronus Charm cultivated the will needed for profound magic.
• Rhine reasoned that a Patronus could focus a wizard’s thoughts and greatly increase the power of other spells, and Dumbledore confirmed his insight.
• Dumbledore’s explanation helped Rhine connect the Patronus Charm, Gubraithian Fire, and Transfiguration in his mind.
• Rhine entered an epiphany, comprehended the techniques he had gained in the Demon Cave, and unleashed a powerful aura.
• Rhine combined silver light, a Thirty-Six Petal Lotus, Gubraithian Fire, and Transfiguration to create Lotus Brilliance Path Opening Sky Light.

Dumbledore invited Rhine to inspect Hogwarts’s level-clearing game, where Rhine encountered Fluffy, the Three-Headed Dog guarding the trapdoor. After testing his powerful lotus spell and healing Fluffy with a pill, Rhine advised Dumbledore to give the dog soundproof earplugs to prevent music from making the first stage too easy.

• Dumbledore was astonished by Rhine’s Patronus and invited him to advise on a Hogwarts level-clearing game.
• Rhine agreed despite the system’s warnings, and Dumbledore led him through the fourth-floor trapdoor to Fluffy.
• Rhine attacked Fluffy with Lotus Brilliance Path Opening Sky Light until it yielded, then fed it a Flying Tiger Pill that healed it and seemed to spur a new head to grow.
• Dumbledore asked Rhine whether Fluffy made a suitable first stage, and Rhine pointed out that music could easily put the Three-Headed Dog to sleep.
• Rhine suggested giving Fluffy soundproof earplugs.

Rhine proposed making Hogwarts's trials more challenging, and Dumbledore accepted his suggestions for strengthening the Three-Headed Dog and Devil's Snare trials. Rhine then outlined an elaborate Flying Keys course, alarming Dumbledore and the Immortal Official of the South Pole with his ruthless ideas.

• Rhine suggested fitting Fluffy with soundproof earplugs, and Dumbledore agreed that the change would strengthen the first trial.
• Rhine dismissed the young Devil's Snare as too easy and recommended multiplying it tenfold and adding Whomping Willows and Mandrakes; Dumbledore agreed to ask Professor Sprout for the plants.
• Rhine criticized the Flying Keys trial and proposed puzzles, branching routes, fake doors with warnings, and Dark Magic creatures lurking around corners.
• Dumbledore told Rhine that his suggestions were far too extreme, while the Immortal Official of the South Pole decided to keep him away from formation arts after the formation was perfected.

Rhine gained the True Immortal of Virtue and Merit talent and discovered that helping others slowly increased his merit, while strengthening the Three-Headed Dog brought him a much larger reward. He set out to find a faster way to build merit, leaving Harry and Ron with breakfast and asking Fred and George for Stink Bombs.

• Rhine urged Dumbledore to make the challenge game a yearly Hogwarts program, but Dumbledore sent him back to his dormitory and privately forbade anyone from letting Rhine learn about the Triwizard Tournament.
• Rhine claimed the True Immortal of Virtue and Merit reward and realized his good fortune came partly from helping orphans, thwarting Voldemort, and encouraging others to do good.
• Rhine stayed up performing helpful tasks around Hogwarts, then used magic to dress Harry and Ron and laid out breakfast for them.
• Quirrell fled after the Three-Headed Dog drove him away, and Voldemort blamed Dumbledore for strengthening the dog with a potion.
• Rhine realized that feeding the Three-Headed Dog a Flying Tiger Pill had earned him substantial merit because the dog consumed more of Voldemort's power.
• Rhine asked Fred and George to lend him Stink Bombs so he could do what a true Gryffindor should do.

Rhine borrowed Stink Bombs from Fred and George, intending to force Professor Quirrell to remove his turban and reveal Voldemort. His system mistook the pranksters and their bombs for mythic allies and thunder treasures, and Rhine left the attack’s result unresolved as the bombs struck toward Quirrell’s head.

• Fred and George eagerly gave Rhine three Stink Bombs after he explained his plan to smear them on Quirrell’s turban, and they joined him.
• Rhine’s system identified Fred and George as Jin Zha and Mu Zha, mistook the Stink Bombs for Thunderbolt Heavenly Thunder Seeds, and announced their Close Friendship.
• Rhine led Fred and George to ambush Quirrell along his route, and the system reinforced their confidence in his plan.
• Rhine hurled all three Stink Bombs with a stone-throwing technique, and they changed direction in midair toward the back of Quirrell’s head.
• Voldemort began to scold Quirrell, then stopped and cried out in terror when he saw the incoming bombs.

Rhine used Stink Bombs to attack Quirrell and Voldemort, then arranged with the Weasley brothers to gather troll feces for stronger prank products. After Jin Zha and Mu Zha left to obtain Nitre Spirit Soil from Yuan Hong, Rhine received a refined swordsmanship talent.

• Quirrell and Voldemort were hit by the Stink Bombs, and Quirrell fled to the washroom after Voldemort threatened him over the contaminated turban.
• Rhine gained merit from the attack and asked the Weasley brothers to make more Stink Bombs, but they said they needed new materials.
• The Weasley brothers explained that troll feces could strengthen their Stink Bombs, and Rhine promised to ask Hagrid to guide them into the Forbidden Forest.
• Jin Zha and Mu Zha said Nitre Spirit Soil was scarce, so Rhine revealed that Yuan Hong was his sworn brother and helped them secure access to Plum Mountain.
• Rhine received Sword Skill Achieved Naturally from both Jin Zha and Mu Zha, and the duplicate rewards refined into Sword Skill Reaches Divinity.

Rhine claimed new sword and insight talents from Jin Zha, Mu Zha, and the Weasley brothers, then transformed Sectumsempra into powerful flying sword qi. He received the brothers’ Troll Feces Bomb and discovered it had been presented as a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Thunderbolt.

• Rhine examined the talents and divine abilities associated with Jin Zha and Mu Zha, deciding he wanted both their wisdom and sword Dao strengths.
• Rhine claimed Sword Skill Reaches Divinity, Clear Sword Heart, and Telepathic Insightful Eyes, then tested his strengthened swordsmanship.
• Rhine used Sectumsempra as an invisible flying sword and blasted through the Room of Requirement wall, shearing off a nearby tower’s pointed roof.
• The Weasley brothers summoned Rhine to the Forbidden Forest and explained that their Troll Feces Bomb prank had succeeded, though its smell had overwhelmed them.
• Rhine cautiously accepted a Troll Feces Bomb, which was identified as a Nine Heavens Divine Thunder Thunderbolt crafted by Jin Zha and Mu Zha.

Rhine planted a Troll Feces Bomb beside Quirrell’s pillow, causing a stench-filled explosion that devastated Hogwarts and earned Rhine and the Weasley brothers detention. Quirrell survived in the Black Lake, while Voldemort ordered him to kill Rhine and Quirrell hesitated.

• Rhine secretly placed the Troll Feces Bomb beside Quirrell’s pillow and fled before it exploded.
• The bomb released a powerful stench that drove portraits, suits of armor, students, professors, and owls from their places across Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore identified Rhine and the Weasley brothers as responsible, then punished them and banned them from brewing feces in public bathrooms.
• Rhine’s system credited the explosion as a mighty divine thunderbolt and granted him a blessing, while Dumbledore said Quirrell was soaking in the Black Lake.
• Voldemort ordered Quirrell to kill Rhine, but Quirrell doubted he could defeat him.

Quirrell was pressured by Voldemort to kill Rhine Snow, while Rhine spent two weeks building fortune and virtue and strengthening his bond with the owls. He completed the first restriction of the Iron-Beaked Divine Eagle method on Hermes, gaining his first Magic Tool.

• Voldemort threatened Quirrell with worse punishment if he failed to kill Rhine Snow.
• Rhine remained under Dumbledore's watch and continued accumulating fortune and virtue while waiting to fuse talents.
• Rhine fed Roberts jerky and Flying Tiger Pill powder to deepen their friendship and move closer to gaining the Essence of Sun and Moon talent.
• Rhine continued cultivating Hermes with the Iron Beak Divine Eagle Cultivation Method and high-grade Flying Tiger Pills.
• Rhine completed Hermes's first restriction, and Hermes flew at tremendous speed before returning to Rhine's shoulder.

Rhine’s Iron-Beaked Divine Eagle, Hermes, revealed his formidable speed and power, but Quirrell later attacked him in the Owlery. Rhine activated Hermes’s first restriction and summoned sword qi, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Rhine watched Hermes demonstrate his growing speed and sharpness, then reflected on the heavy cost of cultivating the Iron-Beaked Divine Eagle.
• Quirrell decided to punish Rhine by killing Hermes and went to the Owlery under a Disillusionment Charm that night.
• Hermes dodged Quirrell’s Cruciatus Curse and attacked him, but Quirrell used spells and Transfiguration to limit Hermes’s flight and corner him.
• When Quirrell taunted Hermes to call Rhine, Rhine sensed the danger through their connection and prepared to intervene.
• Rhine activated Hermes’s first restriction and summoned sword qi, declaring, “Sword, come!”

Rhine used Hermes to nearly kill Quirrell, who retaliated by engulfing the Owlery in Fiendfyre. As Harry’s scar reacted and he wanted to save the owls, Rhine reassured him and flew toward the flames, determined to end the danger himself.

• Rhine controlled Hermes as a flying sword, shattered Quirrell’s Shield Charms, and wounded him.
• Quirrell deliberately let Hermes pierce his shoulder, then cast Fiendfyre and trapped himself, Filch, and Mrs. Norris in the burning Owlery.
• The flames woke Hogwarts, and professors gathered the students while Harry feared for Hedwig and Hermes and felt drawn to the Fiendfyre.
• Rhine calmed Harry, promised no one would die, and mounted his Nimbus 2000 to fly into the flames.
• The system warned Rhine that the Fiendfyre could destroy even Golden Immortals, but Rhine charged toward it, determined to bring the danger to an end.

Rhine entered the Fiendfyre engulfing the Owlery and subdued it with his fire-controlling abilities, saving the trapped owls, Filch, and Mrs. Norris. After the students cheered his survival, the system awarded Rhine a new talent for befriending Roberts.

• Gemma Farley recognized the Fiendfyre, while Snape and Hermione rushed toward the Owlery to help Rhine.
• Dumbledore stopped Snape, Professor McGonagall, and Hermione, insisting that Rhine could handle the flames.
• Rhine defied the system's warning and drove back the Fiendfyre monsters with sword qi, golden light, and the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover Refinement Method.
• Rhine forced the Fiendfyre monsters to bow, then helped Hermes, Roberts, and the other owls escape the Owlery.
• The students cheered as Rhine emerged through the flames, and the system announced that Roberts had become his Life-and-Death Friend and granted him the talent Essence of Sun and Moon.

Voldemort took control of Quirrell and unleashed a transformed Fiendfyre against Rhine, Filch, and Mrs. Norris. Rhine saved them with his Lotus Brilliance Path Opening Sky Light, gained new spiritual energy talents and fortune, and prepared to refine his talents.

• Rhine sensed Voldemort watching from a nearby tower, and Voldemort took control of Quirrell to cast an empowered Fiendfyre Curse.
• Voldemort transformed the Fiendfyre into a giant serpent and surrounded Rhine, Filch, and Mrs. Norris with flames, alarming Hogwarts' staff and students.
• Dumbledore sensed a sacred will within the Fiendfyre and decided Rhine did not need his help.
• Filch jumped from the Nimbus 2000 to distract the serpent, but Rhine pulled him and Mrs. Norris back and promised to protect them.
• Rhine unleashed Lotus Brilliance Path Opening Sky Light, shattered Voldemort's Fiendfyre serpent, and escaped with Filch and Mrs. Norris as Voldemort retreated.
• Rhine received the Exhale and Inhale Essence talent, gained fortune from the gatekeeping child of Jade Void Palace, and realized he had enough resources to refine his talents.

After three days of being followed around Hogwarts, Rhine finally found time to test his new spiritual-energy talents and began a massive fusion of his energy-gathering and elemental-control talents. The furnace blazed with chaotic radiance as the fusion began, leaving its result unknown.

• Filch thanked Rhine for promising to help Squibs and allowed the students to celebrate in the castle.
• The Weasley brothers and other students showered Rhine with fireworks and tossed him into the air.
• Three days later, Rhine slipped away from Harry and the others during flying lessons and entered the Room of Requirement.
• Rhine claimed the Essence of Sun and Moon and Exhale and Inhale Essence talents, then felt their spiritual energy effects.
• Rhine learned that his merit and virtue could improve fusion results and that Neville's grandmother's badge could protect talents if fusion failed.
• Rhine added his spiritual-energy and elemental-control talents, along with his merit and virtue, to the Talent Fusion furnace.

Rhine’s Talent Furnace completed a mysterious new talent, triggering a Five-Colored Lightning Tribulation over Hogwarts. Dumbledore and the professors defended the castle while the lightning pursued Quirrell, and the chapter ended as Rhine saw the new talent’s name appear in the rewards column.

• Rhine watched chaotic radiance form inside the Talent Furnace as a five-colored vortex and lightning gathered over Hogwarts.
• Dumbledore raised Hogwarts’s protective magic and ordered everyone inside, while Trelawney prophesied and the Giant Squid spoke of the end of an era.
• A bolt of lightning pursued Quirrell, and Voldemort took control of his body to flee; students mistook Quirrell’s escape for a selfless act.
• The lightning struck Hogwarts in a growing barrage, and Dumbledore, Fawkes, McGonagall, Flitwick, and Snape fought to protect the castle.
• After the lightning waterfall ended, Rhine’s talent completed, and he saw a new name appear at the top of the rewards column.

Rhine gained the Five Elements Inversion Returning Yuan Sea talent, which let him absorb and refine many forms of spiritual energy into a growing Yuan Sea. He then fused several sensory and intelligence talents and obtained Profound Insight Heavenly Eye.

• Rhine discovered that Five Elements Inversion Returning Yuan Sea was a rare talent associated with beings near Sainthood and realized talent fusion had created it.
• Rhine tested the talent and drew in diverse spiritual energies, which the five-element millstone refined into pure vital energy and formed into a Yuan Sea.
• Rhine assessed how the Yuan Sea could strengthen his energy reserves, spellcasting, elemental control, and physique.
• Rhine decided to fuse Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart, Telepathic Insightful Eyes, Night Vision, and Sharp Ears and Clear Eyes.
• Rhine obtained the talent Profound Insight Heavenly Eye from the talent furnace.

Rhine used his newly acquired Profound Insight Heavenly Eye to uncover the Room of Requirement’s magic and confirm that the Giant Squid was Godric Gryffindor. When Rhine’s gaze drew a dangerous ancient aura from the Black Lake, his protective golden light barely endured, and the system revealed that he had glimpsed Old Ancestor Hongjun.

• Rhine activated the Profound Insight Heavenly Eye and discerned how the Room of Requirement gathered students’ wishes to power its Transfiguration.
• Rhine looked through the castle toward the Black Lake and confirmed that the Giant Squid was Godric Gryffindor transformed by Animagus magic.
• The Giant Squid sensed Rhine’s scrutiny and warned him as an ancient, mad aura surged toward the Room of Requirement.
• Achieve Vajra Indestructible Body activated, but the aura dimmed Rhine’s golden protection before dissipating.
• The system revealed that Rhine had glimpsed the Purple Sky Palace and Old Ancestor Hongjun beyond the Thirty-Third Heaven.

Rhine concluded that Pure Spiritual Water could suppress Godric Gryffindor’s sinister madness and sought pill recipes to accelerate its creation. While cleaning the Restricted Section to strengthen his friendship with Mrs. Pince, he received a message that the Guardian Immortal would tell him of an opportunity related to an Innate Great Divine Ability.

• Rhine suspected the wizarding world’s magic and Ancient Magic carried a sinister hidden cost, and decided suppressing Godric Gryffindor’s madness could help him uncover the truth.
• Rhine planned to obtain pill recipes from Mrs. Pince so he could expand his Yuan Sea and condense Pure Spiritual Water sooner.
• Rhine refined several unused talents into three strands of Dao Charm and reviewed the talents and abilities remaining on his panel.
• Rhine went to the Restricted Section, where he had already cleaned more than eight hundred books and hoped to soon earn the Demon Refining Pill Recipe.
• Mrs. Pince considered sharing a secret passed down among Hogwarts librarians with Rhine.
• While cleaning, Rhine received a system message saying the Guardian Immortal planned to reveal an opportunity related to an Innate Great Divine Ability.