Volume 4 Chapter 172: Second-Order Yuan Wu Warrior!

  The next day, Hermione and others went back to class, while Lin Xiao slipped out of school again and came to the Forbidden Forest.

  Today is his breakthrough day. For more than a month, he has been working hard to cultivate himself. Finally, today will reap the results.

  Sitting cross-legged on the large bluestone at the highest point of Luanshigang, Lin Xiao slowly closed his eyes, feeling the abundant heaven and earth energy around him, and a picture emerged in his mind.

  The scene was exactly the situation inside his lower abdomen, at this moment a Wan Jie Pearl as big as an egg yolk was spinning around in his lower abdomen, and the surging energy inside seemed to have reached its limit, even if it increased by one more point, the entire Wan Jie Pearl would explode instantly.

  Lin Xiao stabilized his slightly excited mood, and in his mind appeared the breakthrough items recorded in the Wan Jie Secret Manual.

  The next moment, his spiritual power surged into the middle dantian, driving the energy inside the Wan Jie Pearl to run along a mysterious trajectory.

  One lap, two laps, three laps... Lin Xiao didn't know how many laps he had run himself until the energy in the Wan Jie Pearl was thoroughly divided into two parts, one large and one small.

  "It all comes down to this one move!"

  Only in the lower abdomen, a chicken egg-sized Wanjie Pearl suddenly trembled, and the energy that had been divided into two parts inside was actually colliding with each other under Lin Xiao's intentional control.

  Each impact would burst forth with a terrifying energy ripple, wave after wave of ripples crashing against Lin Xiao's middle dantian, reverberating back and forth within this space.

  At this moment, Lin Xiao gritted his teeth and directly drove the two energies to collide fiercely with each other. This collision was more intense than all previous ones, just like a cosmic Big Bang. In an instant, the surging energy filled Lin Xiao's entire Middle Dantian, and the terrifying explosion instantly expanded his Middle Dantian by more than ten times in size.

  Rumble!

  Lin Xiao's ears seemed to have really heard a loud explosion. A massive energy airflow burst out from his body through countless pores, suddenly forming a fierce gust of wind that even blew away some smaller rocks around him.

  Fortunately, because Lin Xiao had been cultivating here for some time, the creatures in the forbidden forest also knew that a formidable guy had appeared on this side. As a result, within a radius of five miles around this rocky hill, there were no other living creatures present. Otherwise, with such a big commotion caused by Lin Xiao, it would have attracted the attention of a large group of creatures long ago.

  Inside the lower dantian, everything had returned to calmness. The only difference was that the originally egg-sized crimson-colored Wan Jie Pearl had split into two, becoming one large and one small pearl.

  The larger one was about the size of a small egg, while the smaller one was only about the size of a soybean. The two Wan Jie pearls were arranged on either side at this moment, and in the next instant they began to revolve around each other, just like the orbit of planets, except that there was no 'sun' in between.

  While rotating, they are still constantly undergoing self-rotation. The external vast heavenly yuanqi is absorbed through the countless pores on Lin Xiao's body surface by this suction force. Gathered into the two Wanjie pearls, forming drop after drop of pure yuan power.

  Lin Xiao sat on the large bluestone, his eyes closed until nightfall. At this moment, his cultivation had successfully broken through to the second stage of Yuan Wu Zhe, and after running for several hours, his newly broken-through cultivation was initially stabilized. As long as he continued to cultivate for a few more days, his cultivation would be thoroughly stabilized, and then he could start taking the Xiao Yuan Dan to advance further.

  Lin Xiao didn't have many other options. With a large quantity of small yuan dan, he could raise his cultivation to the peak of a second-grade yuan wu in one or two years' time. By then, he would be worried about breaking through again.

  But that's a future story. Lin Xiao has just broken through and his mood shouldn't be too good now.

  That night, Lin Xiao directly returned to the Gryffindor common room. Hermione, who had already returned but couldn't find Lin Xiao, was getting anxious. Suddenly seeing Lin Xiao return, she rushed over and hugged him tightly.

  "Leslie, where have you been all day?" Hermione asked softly, stroking the soft fur of Lin Xiao.

  "Meow!" Lin Xiao called out, which was also a response to her question.

  Hermione had gradually become accustomed to the mysterious and elusive nature of Lin Xiao. Since he defeated the giant monster last time, Hermione knew that her Persian cat was not an ordinary one, but a truly magical creature. She had also flipped through many documents and finally found out that it was possible that Leysin's ancestors had some connection with certain magical creatures, which made their descendants possess some incredible abilities.

  As for Hermione's explanation, Lin Xiao was indeed speechless, but he also wouldn't spoil the fun by opening his mouth to explain anything.

  Time was still passing day by day, and Lin Xiao's cultivation had already been thoroughly stabilized in the early stage of the second-order Yuan Wu Zhe. Soon, Christmas would arrive, and most students chose to return home for the holiday, naturally including Hermione.

  Hermione spent the entire Christmas reading books, still working hard as ever. Lin Xiao spent the entire Christmas cultivating and researching magic and potions.

  By the time Christmas had passed, Lin Xiao's skills in both areas had also made some progress. At least he could now control the transformation of the compound potion, and as long as he was willing, even if the medicine was still effective, he could change back to his original appearance at any time.

  This breakthrough made him very happy, and with the end of Christmas, Hermione also returned to Hogwarts, and Lin Xiao naturally had to follow along.

  After reading a whole Christmas book, Hermione finally found some information about Nicolas Flamel, and after returning to Hogwarts, she told Harry and Ron the news at the first time.

  Just as they were marveling at Nicolas Lemann's legendary age, Lin Xiao was thinking about his own plans.

  This plan was thought out by him during the Christmas period, and it wasn't complicated. The only problem was that it couldn't arouse Dumbledore's suspicion. If he suspected this cat, it would be terrible.

  There was also one more thing: on Christmas Harry received a special gift - an Invisibility Cloak.

  Lin Xiao wasn't surprised by the invisibility of this cloak, as there were many mutants with invisibility abilities in the X-Men world. Several of his subordinates had such abilities, and the invisibility ability of this cloak was not strong either. It only made itself invisible based on optical principles, but in reality, you were still standing in that position and could still be touched or felt. Such invisibility was essentially meaningless.

  But what surprised Lin Xiao was that when he first saw this invisible cloak, he actually felt the reaction of the boundary force on it.

  "This thing actually contains boundary power, it seems that there is an opportunity to absorb the boundary power inside." Lin Xiao thought in his heart, but for now, it's not possible. Anyway, the stealth cloak won't fly away, as long as he absorbs it before leaving this world, there's no need to rush and absorb the boundary power immediately.

  The second is the Erised Mirror discovered by Harry.

  This magical mirror can reflect the most real ** in your heart, Lin Xiao is quite interested in it, of course, only slightly interested. A small brain closure technique can make it lose its function, and the helmet on Lin Xiao's head can also do this.

  That night, Lin Xiao was carried by Hermione and followed Harry and Ron to Hagrid's hut. Lin Xiao didn't know why Hermione had brought him along today, which ruined his original plan of cultivating for the whole night.

  Knock knock knock!

  Hagrid's hut was called a hut, but it was actually only small for Hagrid himself; to others, the house was not at all in line with this 'small' word.

  Knock knock, Haig in the house quickly opened the door.

  "Hegel!"

  "Ah, hello, sorry, don't blame me for being rude, I'm busy today and can't play with you guys." As Hagrid was about to close the door, however, a sentence from the three of them made him lose his composure.

  "We've found the Philosopher's Stone!" they shouted in unison.

  "Oh!" Haig's face changed color, and the door opened again.

  Three people entered in a row, and Harry opened his mouth as soon as he went in, saying his own conjecture.

  "Snape? You still suspect him?" Hagrid looked somewhat helpless, because he didn't suspect Snape.

  "We know he's after the Philosopher's Stone!" said Harry decidedly, "but we don't know why."

  "Snape's one of the teachers protecting the Stone, he won't steal it." Hagrid was still sticking to his point, refusing to believe that Snape would go and steal the Stone.

  "What?" Harry thought they had misheard.

  "Didn't you hear?" Hagrid shook his head helplessly. "Alright, alright, I'm busy today."

  Obviously, Haig is going to issue an eviction order.

  "He's protecting the Philosopher's Stone?" Harry felt a little incredulous.

  "Of course there are other ways of protecting it, aren't there?" Hermione looked at Hagrid with a knowing expression, "Spells and charms!"

  "That's right, I think it's unnecessary." Hagrid apparently believed that his pet could protect the magical stone on its own, and other protective measures were completely unnecessary in his opinion.

  Of course, this is just what he thinks himself.

  Lying on Hermione's legs, Lin Xiao looked up at Hagrid. The three-headed dog was quite powerful in Lin Xiao's eyes, but it would be a bit difficult to block Voldemort, not to mention that it had such a big weakness.

  A majestic three-headed dog, yet it falls asleep as soon as it hears music, heavens!

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