Exchange student at Hogwarts

"Zhang, come with me." After dinner, the freshmen of each college were led by their prefects back to their lounges. Dumbledore stopped Zhang Chen and walked to the principal's office. The principal's office is on the eighth floor. There are two huge stone statues at the door. You need to give a password to enter. The room was filled with portraits of the principals of Hogwarts since the school was founded. Most of them looked dignified. Some of them had surprised expressions when they saw Zhang Chen coming in. It was obvious that no oriental face had ever entered this room.

"Have a seat, do you want some mints?" Dumbledore came in and clapped his palms, and the photos of all the principals instantly turned black, seemingly shielded from outside prying eyes. Then he sat down on the chair first, probably because he was worried that his height would put too much pressure on Zhang Chen.

"Um, no need. I was a little full from dinner just now." Zhang Chen sat across from Dumbledore, preparing for this long-anticipated meeting. You must know that Dumbledore is a master who is proficient in Legilimency. Although after Zhang Chen established the foundation, the consciousness of the sea was born on his own, and the Qinglian Sword Song has a miraculous effect on restraining external demons, Legilimency and other spells, but he didn't know Can he completely resist? After all, Dumbledore's Legilimency has reached the state of Taoism and nature.

"Hmm, the lotus in your mind is very interesting. Sorry, I didn't mean to use Legilimency on you, but I have been used to absorbing information around you for so many years." Dumbledore pointed at his head. Apparently, I accidentally peeked into Zhang Chen's consciousness just now. When I saw Qinglian Jiange's protection of Zhang Chen's consciousness, I suddenly woke up and hurriedly explained.

"The principal is really powerful. I wouldn't have noticed that you used Legilimency on me if you didn't tell me." Zhang Chen was very satisfied with the defensive effect of the Green Lotus Sword Code, and at the same time slapped Dumbledore with a rainbow fart for free.

Dumbledore shook his head with a smile and started to get involved: "Zhang Chen, since the East and the West have been isolated for so long, do you know why Hogwarts and Kunlun suddenly want to break the ice and start communication at this time?"

"Logically speaking, you can ask this question at any time during communication, so what you mean is that this time is a special time." Zhang Chen sighed inwardly. You are teasing me like a child. What are you doing? You are good at following the instructions, why don't you go straight to the topic?

"What your master said is indeed true. We should treat you as an adult and not an 11-year-old child. Then let me ask you another interesting question. Everyone says that the extraordinary systems in the East and the West are completely different. So what do you think between them? Is there something the same between them?" Dumbledore sat a little loosely, but looked at Zhang Chen with sharp eyes.

"Pursuing power" Zhang Chen was a little unsure this time.

"Let's not talk about the West. Do you think the most essential core of the extraordinary world in the East is the pursuit of power?"

"That's definitely not the case. We are mainly afraid of death. Whether it's Taoism's pursuit of great freedom or Buddhism's reincarnation of the body and the immortality of the true spirit, what we pursue is immortality." Zhang Chen probably understood Dumbledore's thinking. "You mean that the ultimate pursuit of Western magicians is actually immortality"

"Not bad, are you surprised?"

"A little bit. A mage doesn't cultivate his physical body or his soul. It seems that he can't pursue eternal life anywhere."

"This is because the way we pursue eternal life is to gain power, or to become a god. In your Eastern cultivation system, it means mastering a "Tao."" Dumbledore revealed the secret in his words, and there was an indescribable feeling in his eyes. of light.

"Acquiring authority is interesting, but how do you obtain it? You can't just drop it from the sky and hit it on your head."

"There are generally two methods. The world is developing. As the entire world develops and changes, there will always be old authorities falling and new authorities being born. These authorities that have lost their owners or are born without owners can be obtained through competition. As for I don't think I need to say more about the remaining one." After Dumbledore finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Chen quietly.

"I have read Greek mythology and Nordic mythology. God-killing is also taboo here, so you can't talk about it." Zhang Chen thought for a while and tested the principal's boundaries with his words.

"You are indeed very smart, so authority has another name in the West, called "godhead". It seems that those videos sent by your master cannot be believed casually." Dumbledore suddenly thought of something and pulled the flying sword from his sleeve. He took it out and threw it to Zhang Chen: "Kunlun has established a communication array on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. If there is something urgent and you want to send a message, you can ask Hagrid to take you there, but I remind you, it is very expensive."

Zhang Chen took the flying sword, and the first thing he did was to erase the scene of his sword practice, and smiled: "I haven't received my return flight ticket yet, and it's so far away, so I think I might as well find a place closer to him. It would be more convenient to make phone calls in Guacheng." Zhang Chen actually knew in his heart that in Kunlun, the biggest role of the communication array was not as simple as transmitting messages.

Dumbledore brought the topic back again: "When you came to England from China, did you feel that the surrounding environment was fundamentally different?"

"No, both sides are full of earthly spiritual energy. By the time we get to Hogwarts, the spiritual energy is as rich as the inner gate of Kunlun, so the spiritual energy should be magic power."

"Very good, now we know that the material basis of the extraordinary systems on both sides is the same, and the core goals are the same. In fact, the difference between them is just the means." Dumbledore raised the corners of his mouth and couldn't help smiling. "Then what's the difference?"

Zhang Chen became more and more accustomed to Dumbledore's rhythm and said, "The essence of cultivation is the use of spiritual energy, but the methods of use are different. Everyone has a forest in their hands. We go to the forest to hunt, pick, and eat." Drink enough to grow strong, and when you are strong, go out and fight. You go in and pick up a stick and go straight out to fight. If you are smart, you take your time to make a bow and arrow and go out to fight."

"Although we are not successful, we are not far off. If we are in the ocean of magic power, Eastern cultivation is to train the soul into a container that can hold magic power, and then all spells start from the magic power that has been assimilated in the container. The magic is induced through resonance and other methods to achieve extraordinary effects. The Western method is to use the magic wand, a thinking amplifier, to directly induce the sea of ​​magic through different methods to release spells.

I have discussed this issue with your boss many times. You want to retain your true self in the world of magic. First occupy a small territory, and then continue to expand your space. The ultimate effect is that you swallow the entire sea of ​​magic. But we give up ourselves and rely on the ocean of magic. We first imprint part of the magic with our own brand, and then render different magic sources one by one. Finally, we let all the magic imprint our own brand and achieve assimilation with the ocean of magic. .

This kind of thinking gives us an advantage in early practice. As long as we learn the skills, we can quickly find a certain fulcrum to move the magic ocean, become familiar with a "law", and gain powerful power. However, every time we encounter a different law, we need to Repeat the learning process again, and this improvement in power is only a multiple increase. But you are different. As you become stronger, just like a bubble, the larger your volume, the larger the surface area you have in contact with the outside world, and the faster you absorb external magic power, and for you, all absorption, The strengthening process is repeated, practice makes perfect, and the more advanced you are, the more proficient you will be and the more advantage you will have. "

"So what does this have to do with my status as an exchange student?" Zhang Chen thought for a while and asked this question.