Experiences from the "Past" Can Save Lives / Lockhart Is Stunned into Stupidity by a Glare

It's Legilimency again!

Harry gritted his teeth and secretly vowed that if he could make it back alive this time, the first thing he would do was find someone to learn Occlumency!

"Hmph, Occlumency, a useless ability~" Salazar's Spirit read Harry's thoughts once again, and seemed quite dismissive of it. "Truly powerful wizards always act on impulse, never deliberately suppressing their emotions, and certainly never giving their enemies the opportunity to spy on their minds."

All right...

Harry discovered that Salazar was indeed extremely arrogant and conceited.

However, he's not wrong. After all, as long as you eliminate anyone who dares to read your thoughts, the Occlumency becomes irrelevant.

"Hmm...we've already wasted some time, we need to get down to business." Salazar's Spirit muttered to himself, "You are indeed a young wizard with exceptional talent, but like Godric, you have committed an unforgivable sin of being friendly to Muggle! Therefore, I must punish you severely."

With a wave of its hand, Harry's suitcase flew to the statue and opened itself, throwing Hermione and Luna Lovegood out one after the other.

The two girls had their eyes closed and were clearly unconscious.

Hermione was still clutching Voldemort's diary in her hand. At that moment, the diary was drawn by an inexplicable force and flew straight to Harry, who was unable to move, and began to turn its pages in a strange manner.

Immediately afterwards, the young Tom Riddle reappeared in the diary.

"Slytherin... sir?" The young Voldemort was both surprised and delighted upon seeing Salazar's Spirit.

They had clearly met before!

"We meet again, my useless successor." Salazar's Spirit spoke with deep displeasure. "The last time we met, you were a young wizard with a flawed bloodline but exceptional talent; but now, you've become a fragment of a soul possessing this Horcrux diary... Your actions are utterly foolish and deeply disappointing!!"

"..." Faced with Salazar's Spirit's accusations, Voldemort lowered his head cautiously but did not utter a word in agreement.

Clearly, he doesn't think he's wrong for becoming this way.

However, Harry heard another word during this conversation... Horcrux!

According to Salazar's Spirit, this diary should be Horcrux; and is Tom Riddle, the man before them, one of Voldemort's soul fragments?

"That filthy-sounding kid, don't waste your time guessing about the Horcrux." Salazar turned to Harry nonchalantly. "Anyway, you'll find out a lot of things passively later."

"What exactly do you want from me?!"

First he bound himself, then he summoned Voldemort's soul... If Harry still doesn't understand that Salazar him, then he's truly a fool!

"I told you, you'd find out soon enough." Salazar ignored Harry and turned to Voldemort. "You don't seem to think you did anything wrong? You promised me you'd find a way to fuse with the Elemental Hearts, which is why I gave you the spell to seal souls. But all you did was create Horcrux, completely forgetting my instructions! Tom Riddle, how dare you deceive your own ancestors?!"

"I tried before... I just couldn't fuse with that thing!" Voldemort cried out, pointing at the azure gem in the statue's hand. "I've really done my research over the years, and the conclusion is that no human can fuse with that thing! Elemental magic... that's a magical system that completely died out even before you were born. Modern wizards could never incorporate natural elements into their bodies... So, Lord Slytherin, stop your stubborn delusions! Your so-called Water Elemental Heart is utterly useless!!"

"Impossible! How could I, Salazar Slytherin, do something so futile?!" The Salazar's Spirit trembled with rage at Voldemort's words. "My Water Elemental Heart, formed from magical energy, is absolutely capable of fusing with a wizard! And as my descendant, you have no choice but to succeed!"

Damn... Harry was speechless at that moment.

Just what kind of arrogant, autocratic, and twisted old man was Salazar Slytherin?

The gem called the Water Elemental Heart should be an unusual object similar to those in games and fantasy novels, capable of casting water magic. However, wizards' bodies have been unable to contain elements for over a thousand years, so even though Salazar created this thing, he couldn't use it at all.

Therefore, this is his true purpose in leaving the Chamber... Eliminating students from ordinary backgrounds was just a side effect; Salazar actually wanted every heir who opened the Chamber to try to integrate with the treasure left by his ancestor!

Because I made it, it will definitely work;

Because you are my descendant, you have to do it~

After witnessing Salazar's actions firsthand, Harry suddenly realized that Albus Dumbledore's overbearing parental behavior last year was nothing compared to what he had done.

"However... you're truly useless and can't fuse with it, so I've decided to try a different approach." After a moment of contemplation, Salazar's tone grew increasingly smug. "I'm going to have this kid forcibly fuse with the Water Elemental Heart, and then inject your soul fragment into his body!"

"In this way, if he fails to fuse with the Water Elemental Heart, then death will be the punishment I inflict on both his and your souls; but if he succeeds, you can work together with the original soul fragments within him to attract the soul fragments from other Horcrux, and finally, after reuniting, completely seize his body!"

"Wait a minute!" *2

At that moment, Harry and Voldemort spoke in unison.

"I (him) have a piece of my soul inside me?!"

Salazar's words left the two mortal enemies frozen in place...

Chapter 176 Past experiences can save lives

He actually had a fragment of Voldemort's soul inside him?!

This news surprised Harry greatly, but it also made him suddenly understand, and he could now understand many things that he couldn't understand before.

So, this is why Dumbledore was so eager to take control last year?

According to Salazar's Spirit, he was also one of Voldemort's Horcrux, and it was clear that even Voldemort himself was unaware of this... After all, if he knew, he wouldn't be here pacing around in shock.

"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible! Why would my soul be attached to Harry Potter?!"

So if that's the case, as long as one makes good use of their identity, it's indeed possible to catch Voldemort off guard.

But if Voldemort is completely defeated, what will become of me, a Horcrux...?

So... whether I live or die is entirely up to Albus Dumbledore, and all I can do is pray that he will have mercy and be a good person.

"You two..."

A flash of anger crossed Salazar's Spirit's face. It had finally come up with a brilliant idea to use Harry to fuse with the Water Elemental Heart, but the two people in front of it were only interested in Horcrux. It was so angry that it broke off its beard.

"Both of you, behave yourselves! Now, right now, fuse with the Water Elemental Heart!!"

Salazar's Spirit once again adopted his domineering, patriarchal attitude, and his actions were so outrageous that Harry wanted to curse him out.

With a wave of its hands, the Water Elemental Heart shot out like a bullet, mercilessly crashing into Harry's body!

"You can go in too!"

"No... no! I don't want to merge with him!!"

At the same time, disregarding Voldemort's objections, it used some special magic to forcibly extract a fragment of Voldemort's soul from the diary and injected it directly into Harry's body through the Lightning Scar on his forehead!

But Harry had no time to care about any of that, because immense pain was assaulting him!

"Ugh... Ughhhh!"

The azure gem shattered into countless fragments the moment it entered his body, and Harry couldn't help but let out a series of screams!

Pain! Cold!

These are Harry's two most immediate feelings right now.

His whole body ached, as if he had been injected with blood that was completely incompatible with his own, and it felt like needles were pricking him from his veins to his bone marrow.

Moreover, this 'blood' is extremely cold; wherever it flows, it feels as if the ground is frozen, so cold that it makes one shiver all over!

The excruciating pain and icy cold tormented Harry, his body rapidly becoming riddled with holes, and his consciousness gradually fading. If it weren't for the Unicorn Blessing that gave him a strong physique, he would probably have died on the spot!

Salazar Slytherin was indeed a madman. He wasn't a dark wizard, but he was far more sinister than any dark wizard!

"Hateful..."

However, Harry's consciousness ultimately couldn't withstand the torment of pain. His eyes closed, his mind gradually went blank, and the excruciating pain in his body slowly subsided...

Just when Harry thought everything was over, he suddenly felt a bright light appear before his eyes.

He subconsciously looked around and found himself in a strangely empty space.

It was very quiet here. There was nothing but myself; everything around me was pure white, with absolutely no other colors in sight, and no sound could be heard...

Including one's own heartbeat.

"Where am I...?"

Harry began to search tentatively, and at first he couldn't see anything, but gradually, he seemed to think he was seeing some images.

It was a gray that appeared in a pure white space; one of them looked like a baby, while the other looked like a tall teenager.

They seemed to be arguing about something. Harry couldn't hear their conversation, but he vaguely saw two gray shadows eventually merge together, and the new shadow turned into a child of about five or six years old before disappearing in a flash.

What is that?

The images Harry had just seen puzzled him greatly, so he looked ahead again and saw other images.

There were three different figures; judging from their outlines, they appeared to be two men and one woman.

They seemed to be chatting, Harry tried to move closer to the image... This time, he heard voices.

"So, what kind of magical artifact do you need to suppress your Obscurus?" The man who spoke first sounded somewhat familiar to Harry.

"Let's forge a ring, and call it the Space Ring," another man's voice followed, clearly joking. "You know, in fantasy novels, if you're not wearing a Space Ring, you're almost embarrassed to greet people."

"A ring...perfect, that's what I've been thinking about." The woman spoke last, her voice ethereal, like singing.

At this point, the images gradually changed, and Harry could only see the blurry figures of the man and woman who were speaking later.

"Regarding the spell... what do you think would be a good setting?" the woman asked softly. "I hope only you can use it, so I don't have to worry about it being taken away by those people."

"Let me think... I've got it! 'Clear Mirror Still Water,' that's the spell!"

The young man hesitated for a moment before uttering four words in perfect China characters.

"Ming... uh, I can't say... what does this mean?"

"This is China, and simply put, it means to have a calm and peaceful state of mind, like water," the man explained gently. "This is actually an insight I gained when absorbing the Water Elemental Heart. Since I can transform into the Obscurus assimilate the Water element, I can naturally use the calm and peaceful characteristics of the Water element to suppress the Obscurus."

"That's a very apt description, but it's fortunate that you thought of that method back then, otherwise it would have been really dangerous."

"Hey, I Obscurus, it was pure luck~"

Both the phantoms and the conversations gradually blurred here, but Harry's previously unfocused gaze began to refocus!

He thought he was doomed, but unexpectedly, the footage from the 'past' gave him a glimmer of hope to survive!

As his consciousness returned, Harry felt the excruciating pain of the water element entering his body again; his body was on the verge of collapse.

However, under these circumstances, the Salazar's Spirit no longer binds him!

"Clear Mirror Still Water!!"

He kept chanting incantations, and with his last bit of strength, Harry gripped the ring on his hand tightly, then unleashed his Obscurus without restraint!

In an instant, Harry completely lost his physical form, transforming into a pure magical energy that resembled oil and mist; while the water element, which had previously been incompatible with his body, gradually transformed into a clear, azure magical energy, like the ocean, and began to merge with Harry in his Obscurus form.

"Hmph, I knew it! Since he's Obscurial, he must be able to... Wait! Why is he also Obscurial, and what's his appearance like?"

Suddenly, Salazar's Spirit, recalling some past events, stood frozen in place.

In his eyes, Harry, who was merging with the Water Elemental Heart, began to resemble a young man from decades ago!

"Could it really be him... but how is that possible?!"

Chapter 177 Lockhart was stunned by the look in his eyes.

In fact, the reason why the Salazar's Spirit was so certain that someone could fuse with the Water Elemental Heart was because it had actually seen it with its own eyes.

That was even earlier than when Tom Riddle opened the Chamber; a young man in his early twenties also opened Chamber.

The other person was wearing a cloak and glasses, and Salazar's Spirit didn't suspect much at the time, subconsciously assuming that the person was his descendant.

But as the man began to fuse with the Water Elemental Heart, the Salazar's Spirit suddenly realized he had been deceived!

That kid doesn't know Parseltongue at all; he can only imitate a snake's hiss a couple of times to open the Chamber.

Moreover, he actually dared to use Occlumency to deceive himself?!

It was precisely because of that previous experience that Salazar's Spirit shamelessly used Legilimency even when facing Harry, a second-year wizard.

"So that's it... that guy definitely survived! And he's absolutely that Half-blood bastard kid!"

Salazar's Spirit stared intently at Harry, who was gradually returning to human form, his eyes blazing with murderous intent.

The swindler from before suddenly broke out Obscurus escaped. Salazar's Spirit, not knowing whether the other party was dead or alive, used the spell to seal the soul as a bargaining chip to allow his descendant Tom Riddle, to investigate the possibility of modern wizards successfully integrating with the elements of nature.

But his worthless descendant only had eyes for Horcrux!

Now, when Harry appeared before it as Obscurial and actually began to merge with the Water Elemental Heart, the Salazar's Spirit finally understood!

The conman and the bastard are actually the same person, but... why is time so strange about him?