1. In 1980, Zhang Xiao was reborn. He spent his first year in a daze, then regained his clarity.
2. From 1981 to 1991, he gradually grew accustomed to his new life. Since he had been a thirty-two-year-old adult before his rebirth, his worldview was already firmly established, and he carried it straight into this life.
His impressions from his previous life left him rather afraid of slums abroad, so he got a revolver for self-defense (simple construction, easy to operate, not automatic).
3. During the summer after graduation, he stumbled upon Death Eaters raising a female ghost in the slums. They intended to use her wails to threaten the Ministry of Magic and had cast a Muggle-Repelling Charm around the area (Zhang Xiao was not a Muggle, so he walked straight in).
4. One shot from his single-action handgun dropped a Dark Wizard who looked down on Muggles and scared off another coward. His heightened emotions also caused him to cast several spells instantaneously (readers who have reached this point should understand why he managed to cast several spells instantaneously, right?).
5. He received his acceptance letter, and his parents revealed their identities (this was my mistake-I should have added that he was forbidden to practice Daoist cultivation before turning eleven; I overlooked it). They also told him what the divination signs had shown.
6. He enrolled and was sorted into Slytherin. Thanks to his foundation in Daoist visualization and his mature thinking, he progressed extremely quickly.
Some readers pointed out that a modern person with a firmly established worldview and a scientific education should not find cognition-based magic so easy.
That was a fair point, but it overlooked one issue: the protagonist knew about Harry Potter in his previous life. When he discovered that he had entered the