Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Lin Xia added another layer of seal to the shield-shaped artifact, which was soon discovered by Professor McGonagall, who had to check it three times a day, morning, noon, and evening.

She was discovered during a midday check-up; the fragments of her soul provided even less information than before, as if she were trapped in an invisible space.

Before, it was just shrouded in a layer of mist, but now it felt like she was trapped.

This worried Professor McGonagall.

However, considering the unique properties of the soul fragments, McGonagall gradually felt relieved.

After all, if space really does collapse, the soul fragment will do what it's supposed to do.

Right now, she just can't sense the messages from the forbidden book space coming from the fragments, but since the soul fragments are in the forbidden book area, her senses will be more acute.

After Lin Xia added another layer of magical runes to the shield artifact, she released the semi-immortal form of the magical runes with a thought.

In an instant, fine, dense golden patterns appeared on her body, and every part of her body shimmered with light.

It looks like a human-shaped diagram of stars.

In this state, every part of Lin Xia's body, including her blood, is constructed from magical runes.

After absorbing the energy of the Philosopher's Stone, her body transformed into the "Semi-Immortal" form.

Her physical condition represents the highest level of power in the current magic rune array.

She is called semi-immortal because she is still a person, not a life form entirely constructed from magical runes.

She also retains human emotions and basic life qualities.

Only by completely transforming herself into demonic runes and abandoning human emotions can she achieve immortality through demonic runes.

This is much more reliable than Voldemort cutting off his own soul whenever he feels like it.

And there are traces to this method of achieving immortality.

Nicolas Flamel lived for so many centuries by constantly creating elixirs of immortality using the Philosopher's Stone.

Her magical rune-semi-immortal form was created by using the scales of fate to analyze the magic stone, placing it inside her body, and merging her body with the magic stone, thus creating such a unique life form.

In the process of creating her, Lin Xia could have completely abandoned the human form.

However, during several moments of blurred consciousness, she still held onto the belief that she must be human, which is why she did not allow herself to be directly transformed into a life form in the form of demonic runes during the creation process.

Thinking of this, Lin Xia thought of the scales of fate again.

She gained such great benefits when she sacrificed the magic stone.

Although the scales of fate dared not openly intercept benefits at that time, the benefits they received in private must have been considerable.

Could it be that one time that the scales of fate were awakened, allowing them to consciously absorb stray magic?

She had completely fallen out with the Scales of Fate and had no intention of opening them, lest they absorb the power of the forbidden book area.

Lin Xia suppressed her doubts and continued reading the banned books.

This time, in the form of the Demonic Script - Semi-Immortal, it was as if a membrane, seemingly far away yet so close, had been pierced, bringing her even closer to these books that had transformed into stars!

Lin Xia then realized why she felt so comfortable with the books as soon as she entered the restricted book section, and why she felt comfortable with every single one of them.

Actually, it was her magical runes—her semi-immortal physique—that came into play.

Magical runes are the oldest power in the magical world, and these books summarize so much knowledge, but the source of all this knowledge comes from magical runes.

So she is essentially the source of all this knowledge, no wonder people are so open to her.

After entering a semi-immortal state, Lin Xia casually connected with a star.

Then she discovered another advantage of this form.

That is, knowledge spreads faster when reading books.

Before entering this state, I could read forbidden books just as quickly.

However, each page requires a certain amount of reading time; you have to read it word by word for the knowledge to be absorbed into your mind.

There is actually time for reflection within that time.

However, with the added benefit of banned books, the time for thinking is stretched out infinitely.

Knowledge that can be thought through and understood in a second actually involves tens of thousands of seconds or even longer of thought; it's just that the speed has been greatly accelerated.

But in the semi-immortal form of the magic runes, Lin Xia truly felt a sense of exhilaration.

It's as if it has transformed into a terminal for the human brain, allowing for seamless connection with this knowledge anytime, anywhere.

You can use them without even having to think about it.

In the past, it would take her one or two hours to read banned books.

Now, she can finish reading a banned book in just 10 minutes, almost page by page, flipping through it at a steady pace.

During this process, she also discovered something.

That is, the evil god's whispers seemed a little reluctant to get close to her body.

In her semi-immortal form, the evil god's whispers actually showed fear towards her!

A thoughtful look flashed across Lin Xia's eyes.

Is this why the world of evil gods has tried so hard for so long, only to surround these books with the ravings of evil gods, but has never changed the text content of the books?
That's because the evil god's power fears these words, so it can only confuse the outside world, but cannot change the content itself.

The reason why some wizards misunderstand the knowledge when reading it is because of this.

That's because the forbidden book itself refused to impart the relevant knowledge to this wizard.

Forbidden books inherently place high demands on wizards, as foolish wizards cannot see the true meaning they convey.

Lin Xia thought of Voldemort. Perhaps he had never been opened up to the knowledge about the split soul, which is why he was misled by the ravings of the evil god and went astray.

In just a few minutes, Lin Xia had finished reading two forbidden books related to magic spells.

When she read in this form, her thinking also changed, and she transformed all the knowledge in the banned books into insights.

Whenever she made a gain, the cultivation technique circulating within her body would become stronger and stronger, and the changes related to the demonic runes in her body would also change constantly.

Lin Xia then realized that the magic rune array within her body was not yet mature and had not reached its complete state.

She can continuously absorb knowledge to form new magic runes and attach them to her body.

Therefore, whenever she reads knowledge that is useful to her, her body will also undergo corresponding changes.

Her runes—a semi-immortal form—can continue to evolve.

Currently, her form is only in its initial stage; as she accumulates knowledge through reading, she will become more complete.

This completeness is unique to her and cannot be replicated by others.

Everyone's development trajectory is different.

Therefore, the form of the magic rune array is different for each person.

Even if Lin Xia passed this form on to another person, because their life trajectories and the knowledge they read were different, it would create a different form.

No two leaves in the world are the same.

Even if that person is raised according to Lin Xia's life trajectory, a 1:1 replica will ultimately result in a different magic rune array. This is because the magic rune array changes according to the user's thoughts.

Even if their life trajectories are exactly the same, it doesn't mean that person will share the same thoughts as Lin Xia.

Her soul core is ultimately from another world, which gives her body's magical rune array a unique charm.

During this process, Lin Xia also continuously explored how to use this new form.

She never believed that insisting on retaining human thought and a certain human form would cause the magic rune array to lose its most powerful effect.

Conversely, life forms constructed purely from magic runes, having lost human emotions, are more like robots.

Everything about it is driven by self-interest, which makes it easy for it to fall into self-destruction.

Ultimately, it needs a complex emotion to sustain its continuous evolution.

After reading in this form for three days, Lin Xia suddenly looked up at several dazzling stars.

After three days of exploration, she finally gained some familiarity and understanding of this form.

She felt that her abilities went far beyond that.

Therefore, she was simultaneously reading three forbidden books that were formed from the stars.

This is a dangerous attempt.

Every book in the forbidden section is filled with the ravings of evil gods. Reading three books in a row means she will be attacked by the ravings of evil gods that come with those three books.

At first, she only read one book, so she was only affected by the ramblings of an evil god, and she handled it with ease.

Now, as he tried three books at the same time, Lin Xia finally heard a faint whisper of the evil god.

However, the murmur only appeared for a moment before being quickly absorbed by the Nine Heavens Profound Yang Secret Record.

Lin Xia discovered that the cultivation technique seemed to upgrade itself as well.

At first, she absorbed the evil god's ramblings from a forbidden book with ease. But when she came into contact with three evil god's ramblings, she went from feeling overwhelmed at first to quickly adapting to their intensity and regaining her ability to handle them with ease.

Lin Xia raised an eyebrow, feeling that there was still much more to explore in the Nine Heavens Profound Yang Secret Record.

She came to the forbidden book area this time to upgrade the Nine Heavens Profound Yang Secret Manual to the Nourishing Life Realm, to explore her own potential and further develop the technique.

Therefore, after realizing that she could read more books at the same time even in her demonic rune-semi-immortal form, and that the Nine Heavens Profound Yang Secret Record could withstand it, Lin Xia embarked on her challenge journey.

She went from reading three books at the same time to four, five, six... until she could read ten at the same time, before she realized that her body's capacity had reached its limit.

If she wanted to push her limits, she could read more books, but there was no need.

First, get used to the difficulty of reading ten books at the same time. After you get used to it, you may be able to develop further.

Not in a hurry.

She said it to herself silently.

On the other side, deep within the forbidden forest.

Mikel felt he had reached his limit.

He could only passively, powerlessly, and even somewhat helplessly watch as that consciousness controlled his body and continued to outline the magic runes.

He thought that once that consciousness expanded a circle to such a large size and filled its contents, the magic rune array would be complete.

But as it turns out, he was too naive.

That consciousness's ambitions extend far beyond this.

Not only did it finish drawing the magic runes within the circle it had expanded, but it then began drawing two more circles.

The three magic rune arrays became three overlapping circles, and each circle had to be filled with magic runes.

Since his soul regained consciousness, Mikel has not fallen into a deep sleep.

He was no longer sure how many days had passed.

He could clearly see the sun rise in the east and set in the west, and he could also see the stars appearing and disappearing at night, but his consciousness was completely drawn to the magical runes drawn by that consciousness.

Once he saw those magical runes, they seemed to deeply attract his gaze, making it impossible for him to look away, ignoring the passage of time around him.

But Mikel knew very well that his body had reached its limit.

In order to complete the work as quickly as possible, that consciousness used extremely extreme methods, not allowing its body to rest, but instead drawing the magic runes day and night.

Because his body was so exhausted, Mikel felt that his soul was about to fall into a deep sleep again.

This time, the period of slumber will be even longer, because that consciousness has consumed too much of his body's energy.

He could even feel that his body was constantly drawing magical runes, and that something in his body seemed to be dislocated.

In the very end, all Mick could say was, "Take it easy, don't cripple me."

After he finished speaking, he fell into a deep sleep again.

Unbeknownst to Mikel, after his soul fell into slumber again, that consciousness suddenly stopped, tilted its head, and looked not at the magic rune array, but at the body it was controlling.

It seemed somewhat dissatisfied with the body's declining efficiency, and with a light tap of its fingertip, it could tear open spaces with a simple gesture.

That was her personal storage space. She took out a bottle of magic potion from it and drank it.

This potion is an energy potion she developed herself, and its effects are many times stronger than those on the market.

After taking the potion, all the damage in Mikel's body was cleared, including the negative effect of fatigue.

It was as if the soul had been reactivated by some kind of force.

Even Mikel's sleeping soul felt very comfortable.

The consciousness nodded in satisfaction and then resumed drawing the magic runes.

At the same time, on Harry and Ron's side...

They finally received a notification from the Ministry of Magic, agreeing to be picked up the next day to go to the assessment location.

Harry's situation is relatively straightforward.

When Sirius Black learned that he was going to take the Hogwarts entrance exam for outstanding students, he said he was proud of him and opened the Black family's treasure vault for him, selecting some life-saving artifacts for him to take to the exam.

Sirius said, "I'm not belittling your abilities or thinking you can't solve the problem by having you carry these protective items."

However, the assessment of outstanding students is full of uncertainty. When I was in school, I also participated in the assessment of outstanding students.

Those assessments were far beyond the capabilities of ordinary students; the Ministry of Magic had practically reached the level required to assess Aurors.

"Harry, I'm just a little worried about you. Please don't reject your godfather's concern, okay?"

Although Harry felt it was unnecessary, he happily accepted his godfather's affection.

On Ron's side, however, it was a completely different story.

After receiving the notification from the Ministry of Magic, Ron told his parents the news.

The parents, who had almost forgotten about the incident, were quite alarmed when they heard it again.

They even seemed more flustered than Ron, as if they themselves were facing the assessment of outstanding students. (End of Chapter)