Combining the information in the letters with what he already knew, Zhang Xiao could roughly guess when they had been written.
Before Hogwarts was founded, there had been enormous differences in wizards' abilities. Powerful wizards included Slytherin, Godric, and Ravenclaw, as well as members of certain wizarding families.
They had relatively comprehensive libraries and inherited knowledge, so their magical abilities were greater.
Those lucky few who had embarked on the path of wizardry through chance encounters, or by stumbling upon scraps of knowledge left by their predecessors, were far less capable.
At the time, the wizarding world favored an apprenticeship system. A wizard would take on one or two apprentices, though they were more like lackeys and servants.
They attended to their teacher's every daily need, while the teacher taught them a little "magic" as he saw fit.
Naturally, teachers kept their most powerful magic to themselves and never passed it on unless they were about to die.
This led to an even more serious problem:
With teachers withholding their knowledge, an unexpected death could wipe out an entire legacy, leaving behind only two pitiful apprentices who knew a few low-level spells.
This was precisely what Salazar Slytherin had witnessed. Compared with ordinary people, these wizards could do little more than perform a few extra tricks.
Zhang Xiao suddenly found it amusing. Wasn't this just the difference between sects and established clans versus independent cultivators in cultivation novels?
Setting down the letter, he picked up the second one.
This letter was much simpler and contained nothing particularly important. It mainly consisted of Salazar Slytherin excitedly telling his friend that he had a brilliant idea he wanted to discuss with his friends.
Besides Godric, he had invited two other renowned young witches who were also friends of his.
Ravenclaw and