Hogwarts wizards who signed in to Middle-earth...

Bai Xian has finally matured!

Dui looked at the two tall and beautiful white hibiscus plants, but felt no pity whatsoever. He drew his cleaver and cut the hibiscus plants off at the root with two strokes.

Set up a pot, chop the white oyster into small pieces, and put it into the pot to steam.

Once the white scutellaria is thoroughly cooked, Dui stops the heat, filters out the residue with a cloth, leaving only the liquid. Then he boils it again until the liquid evaporates, leaving a thick layer of green slurry at the bottom of the pot.

And this is the magic potion commonly kept in every household in the magical world—White Dried Fruit Essence.

It is also the only potion that does not require stirring with a wand and is simple to make. However, its healing effect is very remarkable, capable of healing most wounds except those caused by dark magic.

The white styrax essence was packed into two jars, one large and one small. Dui kept the large one for himself, while the small one was given to Zogo Baggins as a thank you for his hospitality over the past few days.

Zhuoguo looked at the ointment in the jar with surprise and curiosity. "Duir, what is this?"

"This is a potion I made that can heal wounds. I'm giving it to you for future use," Dui explained. He took the rat from the cage, made a small cut on its body with a knife, and the rat immediately bled profusely and screamed in agony.

Zhuoguo was startled by this scene, and looked at Dui as if he were looking at an evil wizard.

However, the next moment, when Dui took out some ointment and applied it to the wound, and the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, he was immediately stunned.

This is simply a miracle drug!

He looked at the jar of potion in his hand and suddenly felt it become so heavy that he could hardly lift it.

"Duir, this...this is far too precious! I cannot accept it." Zhuoguo swallowed hard, refusing with some difficulty. He was not ignorant; such a miraculous medicine that could quickly heal wounds was worth a thousand pieces of gold.

Dui smiled and shook his head, stuffing the potion jar back into his hand. "No need to be polite, Zhuoguo. This is a thank-you gift from me. Besides, making this kind of potion isn't difficult for me. Please accept it."

Zhuoguo eventually accepted the white essence at Dui's request, and the two became closer as a result.

With the addition of white succinate flavoring, Dui's safety is further guaranteed.

So for the next few days, Dui would go to the old forest whenever he had the chance.

He didn't venture deep into the forest; he stayed on the outskirts of the old woods, grabbing as many branches as he could and running away, never lingering.

What Dui found most enjoyable was that his magical and combat skills were improving at a visible rate through constant battles with the old forest trees.

In this highly focused battle, he not only gained stronger control over magic, but also tested all the spells in "Standard Spells for Beginners," "Prank Spells," and "Dark Forces: A Defense Guide," with very noticeable results.

Of course, in the process of battling with the old trees in the forest, it is inevitable that there will be times when one gets injured.

But with the healing power of euphorbia pekinensis extract, he was back to his energetic self the next day, ready to cause trouble for the trees.

Dui used the trees in the old forest as his training ground, unaware that the trees were harboring growing resentment towards him and were secretly preparing to deliver a fatal blow.

Dui has been in Bucktown for two months, the longest he's spent there besides Hobbiton.

Following the principle of proximity, Dui decided to venture deep into the old forest to sign in.

Moreover, he has gathered dozens of different kinds of branches from the old forest in recent days, including ash, poplar, cypress, holly, redwood, and so on. Although these trees are suitable for making wands, they all have a magical resistance to some extent, which is obviously not a good match for him.

Therefore, he needs to venture deep into the old forest and collect more wood to find the right wood for his wand.

After making preparations, he told Zhuo Guo and then bid him farewell, crossing the high fence alone and entering the old forest once again.

As soon as he entered the woods, Dui sensed that something was wrong.

This time, the forest was unusually quiet! It wasn't like last time when it attacked him like a madman the moment it saw him.

Something unusual must be going on, Dui became alert and vigilant, but he did not retreat.

Continuing deeper into the forest, the system still did not respond.

This made Dui somewhat doubtful: could he really sign in at the old forest? Or was it only useful if he went to the center of the forest?

After walking for a while, a path soon appeared.

The path appeared very abruptly, as if it had just been opened up, with the trees on both sides neatly and tacitly making way for this forest path.

Dui looked around at the trees with great vigilance. The malice emanating from these trees was so intense that he had to be fully focused to guard against a sudden attack from them.

As soon as he stepped onto the forest path, the surrounding trees quickly closed in, forming rows of tree walls that completely blocked Dui's escape route.

At the same time, the surrounding trees began to attack Dui frantically, their thick branches lashing at him and their roots bursting out of the ground, trying to strangle him.

"Armor for protection!"

"Legs stiffen and he dies!"

"They'll all be petrified!"

……

Dui immediately cast a protective spell on himself, then used a leg-locking spell to lock the tree roots, and then added a petrification spell to immobilize the tree.

Having battled these trees for so long, Dui was quite familiar with their attack methods and handled them with ease, even collecting information on tree species he hadn't encountered before.

But what gradually made Dui sense something was wrong was that more and more trees were closing in from all directions, leaving him no way out except a narrow path leading deep into the heart of the forest.

Dui had no choice but to run down the path leading deeper into the woods unless he had to endure the trees.

He understood that the trees were trying to force him to the innermost part of the path, which was why they had made way for him.

If it were someone else, they would hesitate.

But Dui knew exactly what lay at the deepest part, so he ran along the path without hesitation.

The path behind them was gradually being reclaimed by trees and disappeared.

It was as if this path had never existed.

Surrounded by trees, Dui ran until nightfall.

The fog and increasingly dense trees in the forest completely blocked out the moonlight, forcing Dui to cast a glow spell just to barely make out the path on the ground.

Panting heavily, Dui finally emerged from the woods and arrived at a canyon.

There are no tall, dense trees here, only low shrubs and a wide meadow.

A small river flows through the canyon, and a very large old willow tree stands prominently on its bank.

The old willow tree was enormous and terrifying; it was taller and larger than all the other trees in the forest, its branches stretching towards the sky like slender gray arms.

The twisted, tumor-covered trunk is interspersed with huge cracks, like a grinning mouth, and makes a faint creaking sound as the branches move.