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Chapter 187: The Saint's Words! Magic is Power!

With his mind made up, Rhine's gaze became sharp as a sword, without further hesitation.

Even the Sword Heart Enlightenment talent he had obtained was now shimmering with light in the system's reward column.

Within his Yuan Sea, the Abyssal Hellscape Sword whistled and flew out, striking against the sea waves, its sharpness further enhanced.

Rhine felt a surge of joy.

"As expected, sword cultivators are the most adept at fighting and killing in the primordial world. They grow through strife and slaughter, their battle intent like firewood for the sword, the more it burns, the faster they improve."

"Now that I have comprehended the Dao of Slaughter Sword, possess the Abyssal Hellscape Sword, and am bolstered by talents like the Sword Heart Enlightenment and the Swift as a Flash, even in the Jade Void Palace, I would be considered a sword genius."

However, after a brief moment of joy, Rhine's expression remained grave.

Whether from his own divination of the heavenly secrets or the prompts on the system screen, it was clear that if he were to address the madness caused by magic in the magical world, the evil entities would not let it go easily.

Even if they cannot manifest in their true forms yet, the eerie and maddening auras, such as the gray mist and black mist encountered before, would certainly be unavoidable, and perhaps even more intense.

While the Azure Cloud Purple Gold Crown and the Abyssal Hellscape Sword are extremely powerful and unafraid of these evil auras,

the safest course of action would be to refine the Zhou Tian Star Formation flags.

Relying on the spiritual energy cultivation fed back during the process, coupled with the power of the flags themselves, would allow him to face any heavenly or earthly killing intent as if it were a gentle breeze.

With a wave of the flags, any evil entity would be reduced to dust!

"All that's missing is the dragon skin. With Voldemort's efficiency, it should only take a day or two. I'll just have to wait."

Rhine calmed his thoughts and proceeded to the restricted section of the library as usual.

The system screen displayed that he was only two hundred or so demons away from achieving a life-or-death friendship with Madam Pince and obtaining the Myriad Demon Golden Elixir formula.

With a burst of energy, he could achieve it today!

Immediately, Rhine strode towards the restricted section of the library once more.

After so much clearing, he had penetrated quite far into the restricted section, reaching its deepest part.

Originally, the floor of the restricted section was covered in dust, but occasionally, one could still see a faint footprint or two, indicating that a professor or a student with permission had been there in recent years.

But in the deepest part of the restricted section where Rhine was now, there were no footprints to be seen, suggesting that no one had been there for many years.

As the feather duster gently waved, dust rose from many books, revealing the names of ancient tomes.

Rhine's eyes revealed a look of realization.

No wonder this place was deserted; almost all the books were from eight or nine hundred, or even a thousand years ago.

Moreover, there was no specific magic within them, almost all were discussions on magical theory or even the concept of how wizards should exist in the world, left over from that time.

Compared to the present, the content was long outdated.

Rhine didn't mind; he only needed to dust the books to obtain the Myriad Demon Golden Elixir formula from Madam Pince.

"Fifty, one hundred, one hundred and fifty, two hundred..."

As Rhine went deeper and completed his predetermined goal, he was about to leave the restricted section with the cleaned book catalog.

Suddenly, his gaze swept over a book titled "Blood Purity Theory," and his footsteps paused slightly.

"Hmm?"

Rhine naturally had no interest in this book.

What made him stop was that there were extremely faint traces of madness remaining on the book, as if it had been read and annotated more than once by a being afflicted with madness.

Moreover, Rhine could vaguely feel that there was more than one source of madness, one of which was extremely similar to that on the giant squid in the Black Lake.

"Could it be... all four founders frequently read this book?"

"If I didn't have the Insightful Heavenly Eye to detect subtleties and perceive even such faint traces of madness, I probably would never have noticed the abnormality of this book among the vast sea of books in the restricted section."

Rhine's eyes showed curiosity.

At the same time, a line of chaotic words appeared on the system screen.

"[You have been slaying demons and monsters all the way in the Demon Cave, honing yourself and gradually entering the depths of the Demon Cave.]"

"[Here, you inadvertently discover a jade scroll, surrounded by a trace of chaotic aura, which is actually a volume of the Yellow Court Sutra casually annotated by a sage, containing some of the sage's insights into the Dao of Heaven, left here to await a destined person!]"

Rhine's heart stirred, carefully taking down the book "Blood Purity Theory" and opening its ancient pages.

What met his eyes was mostly the tired and worn-out rhetoric of pure-bloods or Muggle-haters in the magical world—magic is power, blood is nobility.

There were also many annotations from the same ancient era, from different times, some supporting, some opposing, and one could even see some annotations cursing out a previous annotation from a hundred years ago.

Rhine saw an annotation with a date close to the present, the signature was Albus Dumbledore!

He wrote his own annotation—with great power comes great responsibility—after a sentence: "Magic gives us the ability to surpass Muggles, and also gives us the responsibility to lead Muggles."

Evidently, this was the thinking of a young Dumbledore.

But these were not what Rhine was looking for.

These annotations did not have the residual madness; they were clearly not the work of the four founders.

After a moment, Rhine's heart stirred slightly.

"Hidden in some way?"

The Insightful Heavenly Eye opened, and a golden light flickered within.

In the next moment, the annotations of the four founders, hidden on "Blood Purity Theory" for a thousand years, which even a young Dumbledore had never discovered, came into view.

Even some of the words in "Blood Purity Theory" quietly changed amidst a blur.

Rhine followed the pages stained with madness and saw the chapter on [The Origin of Wizarding Bloodlines].

He saw a line of words and raised his eyebrows, revealing a look of surprise.

He clearly remembered that what was written here before was that the source of wizards' magical blood was certain magical creatures.

At the same time, this was also a widely accepted view in the current magical world.

But in the unhidden "Blood Purity Theory," this passage had become—

"Humans originally had no magic, and there was no distinction between wizards and Muggles."

"Until some people, with great audacity, either through sacrifice or intercourse, actually obtained the bloodlines of those existences. Therefore, the source of wizards' magical blood undoubtedly points to those unspeakable existences from ancient times."

"From then on, the bloodline of magic was passed down through the generations among wizards. Magic is a right that humans have stolen from unspeakable existences; it is the only way for humans to approach and even contend with those existences."

"Otherwise, when the rulers of old awaken and the ancient ones return, how can humans resist the unspeakable existences with their human bodies?"

"Therefore, magic is power—Salazar Slytherin."