Chapter Summaries

Rhine infiltrated Skull Mountain alone and discovered Fenrir and his werewolves devouring a human child while plotting to capture young wizards. Horrified, Rhine revealed himself, awakened a trace of the Slaughter Sword Dao, and prepared to attack the monsters.

• Rhine ignored the system’s advice to bring reinforcements, deciding to face the evil cultivators alone so he would not endanger Nezha and the others.
• Fenrir told the werewolves that young wizards in a nearby manor were valuable bounty targets, and the pack eagerly discussed eating them.
• Fenrir retrieved a bloodstained bundle from a tree hollow and began devouring a child’s arm as the other werewolves scrambled for scraps.
• Rhine dispelled his concealment, condemned the werewolves as beasts, and faced them as they moved toward him.
• Rhine’s Clear Sword Heart stirred, and he comprehended a trace of the Slaughter Sword Dao before summoning red-glimmering sword qi.

Rhine used his newly awakened Slaughter Sword Dao to slaughter Fenrir Greyback and his werewolves, growing stronger with each kill. After the system revealed that his actions had thwarted Daoist Zhunti’s plans and provoked the Saint’s wrath, Rhine stood ready to face the threat.

• Rhine awakened the Slaughter Sword Dao and discovered its sword qi could grow stronger through the lives he took.
• Rhine killed a charging werewolf with a flick of his finger, then slaughtered the rest of the pack with Swan Goose on Sword.
• Fenrir Greyback fled through the woods, but Rhine’s sword qi caught and killed him.
• Rhine ordered the system to smelt Fenrir’s three talent rewards into Dao Charm, raising his total to twenty-three strands.
• The system warned Rhine that Daoist Zhunti was enraged because Rhine had ruined much of his thousand-year plot, and Rhine prepared to fight rather than flee.

Rhine defeated Fenrir Greyback’s resurrecting flesh monstrosity by using his protective treasure, divine abilities, and Slaughter Sword Qi, which grew stronger as it destroyed the creature. The system revealed that Saint Zhunti’s Dharma manifestation had intervened and warned Rhine, who decided to pursue the extermination of the werewolves anyway.

• Fenrir Greyback’s corpse mutated into a monstrous mass of flesh and attacked Rhine with madness, but Rhine’s Purple Gold Crown of Auspicious Clouds shielded him.
• Rhine used Lotus Brilliance Path Opening Sky Light and his Three Heads and Eight Arms Divine Ability to batter the monstrosity, but it regenerated and survived.
• Rhine sent Slaughter Sword Qi into the creature, and it grew stronger as it destroyed the regenerating flesh until the entity vanished into ash.
• The system described a battle against Saint Zhunti’s Dharma manifestation, which withdrew after Rhine’s Slaughter Sword Dao stirred remnants of Luohu’s soul in the West.
• Rhine welcomed Zhunti’s warning and resolved to exterminate the werewolves, while the system recorded his vow to draw his sword again if Zhunti’s schemes endangered living beings.

Rhine used his magic to make a Dark Wizard believe a trap was waiting for bounty hunters at his manor, frightening Knockturn Alley’s Dark Wizards into pretending they were law-abiding supporters of Dumbledore. Quirrell returned to raise the bounty, only to find the alley transformed, while Voldemort awoke in disbelief at the Dark Wizards’ new behavior.

• Rhine spotted a Dark Wizard watching his manor and used the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to transform himself into Scrimgeour, then staged a scene with Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and Moody.
• The Dark Wizard concluded that the Ministry had set a trap for bounty hunters, fled, and warned the Dark Wizards in Knockturn Alley that the werewolves were dead and powerful wizards were lying in wait.
• The Dark Wizards panicked, decided the bounty was a Ministry ploy, and resolved to stay clean and avoid giving the Ministry evidence against them.
• Quirrell returned to Knockturn Alley to increase the bounty on Rhine but found vendors selling protective items and the tavern’s Dark Wizards loudly insisting they were good, law-abiding wizards.
• Quirrell saw a huge portrait of Dumbledore painted in the tavern, and Voldemort awoke from the back of his head in disbelief at what Dark Wizards had become.

Rhine entered an epiphany through Wizard Chess, harmonizing his Chess Dao with his Slaughter Sword Dao, while Ron showed signs of a talent for entering the Dao through chess. At the competition venue, Quirrell prepared a lethal Dark Match intended to force Rhine to watch Ron die or risk his own life.

• Rhine used the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to play chess against himself and entered an epiphany that deepened his Chess Dao and made his Slaughter Sword Dao more harmonious.
• Ron arrived to take Rhine to the competition, glimpsed the profound power in the chessboard, and nearly lost himself before Rhine disrupted the game.
• Rhine cautioned Ron that the game was beyond him for now, then accompanied him to the competition venue.
• Quirrell revealed that he planned to trap Ron in a Dark Match against ten dead Wizard Chess champions, forcing Rhine to join or watch Ron die.
• Quirrell recalled that one of the champions was the Legendary Eight-Time Champion and ordered an attendant to bring champagne, confident in his plan.

Rhine and his companions traveled to Ron’s Wizard Chess tournament while Quirrell prepared a soul-based trap using a Myriad Soul Banner and Dark Wizard Chess. Rhine entered the cursed chessboard to rescue Ron, but its sinister pieces and the trapped souls bowed to him as an Underworld Judge.

• The system warned Rhine that Quirrell had made a Myriad Soul Banner and Soul Punishing Array, but Rhine continued toward the tournament, confident in his power over souls.
• Ron advanced through the tournament with little resistance and reached the final, while Rhine noticed that Quirrell had manipulated the brackets and controlled staff members with the Imperius Curse.
• A staff member revealed a bloodstained chessboard that pulled Ron’s soul into Dark Wizard Chess, where he faced ten renowned champions’ souls.
• Quirrell announced that Ron had to defeat the ten souls and expected Rhine to enter the trap, but Rhine immediately took the seat opposite Ron.
• Rhine used Soul Departure to enter the chessboard, where the pieces and the ten souls bowed to him.

Rhine entered the Dark Wizard Chess board to rescue Ron, and the souls and chess pieces inside bowed to him instead of attacking. After freeing Ron and removing the board’s restraints on ten champion souls, Rhine agreed to play them a final game, giving them the first move.

• Rhine walked through the Soul Punishing Array unharmed as the chess pieces and ten souls knelt before him and shouted their loyalty.
• Quirrell and Voldemort tried to force the board’s inhabitants to attack Rhine, but they endured the pain and continued pledging loyalty.
• Rhine freed Ron’s soul from the board and sent him back to his body, promising to handle the danger himself.
• Ron returned to his body and vowed to bring Rhine back if he failed to emerge safely.
• Rhine released the ten souls from their restraints, but their obsession with winning kept them on the boards.
• Rhine chose black for the final game and offered the ten souls the first move.

Rhine defeated ten Wizard Chess champions in the Dark Match and emerged, then drew their souls into the Judge’s Brush. Voldemort mistook Rhine’s soul magic for Horcrux creation and ordered Quirrell to fetch Dumbledore.

• Rhine played all ten Wizard Chess champions at once while Hermione, Harry, and Ron watched anxiously and Quirrell predicted his defeat.
• Rhine checkmated one champion, and the other chess souls’ sword intent faded as the Dark Match’s Myriad Soul Banner and Soul Punishing Array collapsed.
• Rhine left the Dark Match board, then stunned everyone in the hall before drawing the ten souls into the Judge’s Brush.
• Voldemort recognized Rhine’s soul magic as resembling Horcrux creation, panicked over the Sorcerer’s Stone, and ordered Quirrell to fetch Dumbledore.

During the Wizard Chess tournament, Rhine refined the Judge's Brush to its initial form, bringing judgment rules to the magical world's underworld and earning a great infusion of merit. As Rhine considered establishing reincarnation there, Empress Houtu's gaze fell upon him from within reincarnation itself.

• Quirrell rushed into the Great Hall and warned Dumbledore that Rhine was using Dark Magic, prompting Dumbledore to vanish toward the source of his foreboding.
• Aberforth felt the same foreboding at the Hog's Head Inn, but stayed with Ariana when her portrait showed fear.
• Rhine completed the initial form of the Judge's Brush, and the magical world's wandering souls bowed as judgment rules arose in its underworld.
• Purple-gold lotus petals descended on Rhine, granting him merit that he suspected came from bringing the underworld its first rules for judging souls.
• Rhine wondered whether establishing an underworld court and reincarnation could earn him sainthood, as the system announced that Empress Houtu had noticed him.

Rhine fought back the spirits and black mist pouring through the Ghost Gate, using the Judge's Brush to strengthen his judgment power and drive the underworld forces away. Afterward, Dumbledore appeared in a panic, searching for his sister Ariana, whose crying he had heard.

• Rhine recognized that the system identified the evil entity opening the Ghost Gate with Empress Houtu and realized the underworld forces could be in conflict with other evil entities.
• Rhine entered the fight, destroyed the black mist and corrupted souls, and fed their ghostly light into his Judge's Brush.
• Shen Tu announced that he had come under Empress Houtu's command, while a girl's ghostly crying and bloody rain accompanied another evil entity's approach.
• Rhine used the Purple Gold Crown of Auspicious Clouds and the Judge's Brush to repel the bloody rain, black mist, and attacking evil entity, forcing the underworld forces to withdraw.
• Dumbledore Apparated to the venue and urgently asked Rhine where Ariana was, revealing that he had heard his sister crying.

Rhine stopped Dumbledore from sacrificing himself to enter the underworld for Ariana and promised to bring her back without relying on the Deathly Hallows. After Dumbledore calmed down, Rhine reviewed the extraordinary rewards and merit he had gained during his journey.

• Dumbledore learned that Ariana had appeared among the terrifying beings from the underworld and tried to kill himself to follow her.
• Rhine stopped Dumbledore and urged him to remain alive for Harry and the wizarding world's looming dangers.
• Dumbledore considered using the Deathly Hallows to defeat death, but Rhine warned that their wishes were twisted by malice.
• Rhine promised to surpass death without the Hallows and bring Ariana back, and Dumbledore called him a good student.
• Rhine received system rewards for his bonds with the Immortal Official of the South Pole and Lei Zhenzi, including Heavenly Secrets Divination and Profound Fortune.
• Rhine recognized that the merit he gained from forging the Judge's Brush was enough to forge another Treasure of Merit.

Rhine suspected unseen forces were preventing Dumbledore and Grindelwald from reaching the level of the Four Giants, so he encouraged Dumbledore to reconcile with Aberforth. After the system warned that Rhine had become the enemy of all Saints, he resolved to forge a merit treasure from his Slaughter Sword Light.

• Rhine suspected that Ariana’s death and the Resurrection Stone’s curse had been engineered to keep Dumbledore from overcoming his inner flaw.
• Rhine urged Dumbledore to face his past and seek reconciliation with Aberforth, prompting Dumbledore to decide to visit his brother.
• Rhine used the Purple Gold Crown of Auspicious Clouds to bless Dumbledore, who appeared at the Hog’s Head Inn and asked Aberforth whether he was welcome.
• The system declared that Rhine had disrupted the arrangements of all Saints and would face their wrath when the Tribulation began.
• Rhine dismissed the warning and decided to forge his Slaughter Sword Light into a Treasure of Merit capable of slaying Saints.

Rhine refined Merit into a powerful golden-red flying sword and challenged the Saints who threatened him. Meanwhile, Dumbledore reconciled with Aberforth and Ariana’s portrait, restoring his resolve; the chapter ends with the Saints retreating as the grand prison realm opens.

• Rhine resolved to forge a Merit-infused sword to support his cultivation of the Great Dao of Slaughter.
• Aberforth rejected Dumbledore’s apology at first, but softened when he heard Dumbledore confess his loneliness and exhaustion.
• Aberforth let Dumbledore enter the Hog’s Head Inn, where Ariana welcomed her brother and asked to spend Christmas together.
• Rhine’s revelation helped the Immortal Official of the South Pole recover his state of mind, alarming the Saints and provoking threats against Rhine.
• Rhine summoned his golden-red flying sword and challenged his enemies, causing the Giant Squid and the presence in the Forbidden Forest to withdraw.
• The system announced that the Saints had retreated and the grand prison realm had opened in full.

Rhine forged the Abyss Prison Scenery Sword, erased the tournament crowd’s memories of the supernatural events, and helped Ron celebrate his Wizard Chess victory. After gaining Profound Fortune and Heavenly Secrets Divination, Rhine tried to uncover the origin of the wizarding world’s evil creatures and witnessed Pangu, leaving his Profound Insight Heavenly Eye shattered and his eyes bleeding.

• Rhine claimed the merit-forged flying sword, discovered its power to kill without accruing karma, and named it the Abyss Prison Scenery Sword.
• Rhine used Obliviate to replace the memories of the unconscious staff and contestants, and Ron was announced as the Wizard Chess champion and received his prize money.
• Ron planned to spend his winnings on his family and friends, and Rhine arranged to take him to Ollivanders Wand Shop for a new wand the next morning.
• Rhine claimed Profound Fortune and Heavenly Secrets Divination, then used his new ability to explore the secrets of the wizarding world.
• Rhine’s attempt to divine the origin of the evil creatures shattered his Profound Insight Heavenly Eye, and the system reported that he had witnessed Pangu.

After learning that Azathoth’s awakening had been hastened, Rhine resolved to grow stronger and pursue Ollivander’s artifact-forging talent. He gained the talent when Ollivander’s life was nearly over, then defied death and began an attempt to save him.

• Rhine learned that Pangu within the chaos was Azathoth and that his gaze and thoughts had advanced its awakening, so he sealed away his memories of the creature and resolved to accelerate his cultivation.
• Rhine realized that Ollivander’s Prove the Dao Through Artifacts talent could help him grow stronger and went with Ron to Ollivanders Wand Shop.
• Rhine found Ollivander being carried toward St Mungo’s Hospital and learned that the old wizard had exhausted his life while pursuing a new path in artifact forging.
• Ollivander gave Rhine his notes and asked him to follow the path he had discovered; their relationship reached Life-and-Death Friendship, granting Rhine the Prove the Dao Through Artifacts talent.
• Rhine knocked out the St Mungo’s doctors, brought Ollivander back into the shop, and declared that he would decide Ollivander’s fate before invoking an immortal’s blessing.

Rhine used spiritual energy and the Judge's Brush to restore Ollivander's vitality and secure a twenty-year extension of his lifespan. Ollivander revealed that ancient magic could explain the Elder Wand's power and mentioned a book that Rhine recognized as The Book of the Dead.

• Rhine replenished Ollivander's vitality with spiritual energy, but Ollivander still sensed the Grim Reaper closing in.
• Rhine used the Judge's Brush to approve a twenty-year extension for Ollivander, and the Grim Reaper's presence receded.
• Ollivander promised to keep Rhine's magic secret and explained that ancient magic had empowered legendary wands and alchemical items.
• Ollivander said he had found a ruin that might contain ancient magic and named the book the Four Giants had brought from the Middle East: The Book of the Dead.

Rhine gave Ollivander a protective wooden plaque before helping Ron choose a new wand, then used divination to discover Quirrell was seeking the Sorcerer’s Stone by eating Unicorn dung. Rhine cut off the vision in disgust, while Quirrell’s desperate plan left Voldemort horrified.

• Rhine divined two possible fates for Ollivander and gave him a protective plaque to carry on his dangerous search for ancient magic.
• Ollivander welcomed Ron into his shop and helped him choose a Black Walnut Wood wand with a Unicorn tail hair core.
• Ron promised that he, Harry, Hermione, and Neville would help Rhine face the enormous crisis he feared.
• Rhine used his Heavenly Eye and divination to see Quirrell in the Forbidden Forest, where Quirrell resisted Voldemort and sought the Sorcerer’s Stone to survive.
• Quirrell found fresh Unicorn dung and prepared to eat it as a tonic, terrifying Voldemort and making Rhine abruptly end his vision.

Voldemort and Quirrell tried to siphon life force from Slytherin students through enchanted letters, then devised a honey trap to learn Rhine Snow’s secrets. Rhine’s divination revealed their plan, and he welcomed the challenge as a chance to cultivate.

• Quirrell ate unicorn dung to restore his life force, while Voldemort reluctantly apologized to stop him from seeking more.
• Flint returned to Slytherin House disgraced and injured, then received an enchanted love letter written by Voldemort.
• Voldemort drew life force from Flint and other students through their responses to the letters, then proposed sending a young witch to seduce Rhine Snow.
• Rhine sensed Voldemort and Quirrell targeting him again and considered resuming the Nailing Head Seven Arrows Book.
• The system revealed that Daoist Duobao's incarnation planned to send female cultivators from the Chan Sect to tempt Rhine, who eagerly welcomed the idea.

Rhine decided to establish a cultivation sect in the wizarding world and prepared to teach Harry, Hermione, and Ron a simple cultivation method. After creating an immortal-style sanctuary in the Room of Requirement and naming it Spiritual Terrace Square Inch Mountain, Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave, he received immense Fortune Blessing and merit, and the system announced that he had created the Mythological Grand Unity Law.

• Rhine told Harry, Hermione, and Ron that a greater crisis than The Dark Lord might threaten the wizarding world, and they asked him to help them grow stronger.
• Rhine resolved to teach his friends the accessible cultivation method from the Flying Tiger Military Strategy and considered the power gained by founding a sect.
• Rhine invited Hermione and the others to the Room of Requirement at midnight and transformed it into an immortal sanctuary using the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.
• Rhine inscribed Spiritual Terrace Square Inch Mountain, Slanting Moon Three Stars Cave on the sanctuary's gates, prompting heavenly signs and a great influx of Fortune Blessing and merit.
• The system declared that Rhine had created the Mythological Grand Unity Law as a new path to survive the coming Tribulation.

Rhine realized that his plan to teach immortal cultivation had created the Mythological Grand Unity Law, giving the wizarding world a possible defense against the evil entities behind magic. He resolved to hide the cultivation method’s source from those entities and chose the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array.

• Rhine concluded that the system regarded his new cultivation path as the Mythological Grand Unity Law, a method that could transcend the wizarding world’s Saint-level traditions.
• Rhine suspected that wizards drew their seemingly inexhaustible magical power from the evil entities behind the wizarding world’s Heavenly Dao, which explained why powerful wizards were driven mad.
• The system warned that the Heavenly Dao and Saints feared the Mythological Grand Unity Law, and that its emergence would hasten Pangu’s awakening.
• Rhine recognized that his cultivation methods could give the wizarding world a chance to survive the evil entities’ return, but worried they would find him if he kept teaching.
• Rhine decided to block the evil entities’ perception using a method from the Heavenly Demon Treasure Refining Art and named the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array.