He could... see spells directly?
Wasn't that another kind of Dharma Eye?
Or rather... a Magical Eye?
Realization dawned on Zhang Xiao. His Dharma Eye allowed him to see anomalies, but he had never been able to identify exactly which spells they were.
Left with no other choice, he had developed his "Sledgehammer" method of solving puzzles, using brute force to destroy the protective spells around them.
He had thought his cultivation was simply too lacking, that his skills had not reached the required level.
Now he realized that was not the only reason. More importantly, he had been using the wrong method.
The Dharma Eye had developed to meet the needs of the East. There, practitioners needed to see through illusions and identify demons and ghosts, so it could perceive soul and spirit. What it saw was the truth.
But what Dumbledore described was entirely different. Their Magical Eye developed from various analytical spells, allowing them to see all kinds of spells, but not to glimpse the truth as the Dharma Eye did.
That fundamental difference in purpose was what set the Magical Eye apart from the Dharma Eye.
"Zhang, I imagine you understand exactly what I mean?" Dumbledore said with a smile. "After all, you have a pair of extraordinary eyes. What surprises me most is that you seem to have already established a fixed method for opening up this extraordinary perspective, turning it into something like a spell.
"It's very convenient, so I've been wondering how to create a spell that could achieve a similar effect. That's difficult, because the effect is far too abstract."
Zhang Xiao nodded. The Standard Book of Spells System had only emerged in the past few centuries. Hogwarts itself had only been founded a thousand years ago, and it had become properly