Chapter 499 He's Gold Cup

Chapter 499 He's Gold Cup
At night, after dinner, Xie Ling returned to the dormitory alone.

He lay on the bed a little tired, still thinking about the passionate kiss with Zhang Qiu not long ago. He felt the pain on his lips, and he didn't expect Zhang Qiu, who usually looked weak and even a little shy, to be so crazy when he exploded.

He sighed softly. The passion at that moment was indeed intoxicating, but now that he had calmed down, his heart was more complicated than ever before, and there was even a hint of regret.

He carefully counted his current girlfriends - Daphne, Astoria, Murray, Luna, Eleanor, Furong, Zhang Qiu, and sighed in his heart, there are already seven of them...

This doesn't even include his secret lover Sally, and Meredith who has not yet been rescued.

He must be crazy.

In his previous life, he had read a lot of Harry Potter harem fan fiction, but he had never seen one as exaggerated as his.

He kept telling himself not to get into new love debts, but the reality was always the opposite of what he wanted. Facing the strong and proactive offensive of beautiful girls, he fell again and again.

Of course, although the long-term practice of black magic did not drive him crazy, it magnified certain desires of his and made him more obedient to his heart rather than simply suppressing them with reason.

After all, he had a good impression of Zhang Qiu. If he didn't already have a girlfriend, it would be a happy thing for Zhang Qiu to become his girlfriend.

However, the reality is that if he continues like this, something will happen to him sooner or later.

Not to mention whether he has the time and energy to meet the needs of his girlfriends, how to deal with the relationships between his girlfriends has also become an issue that he must consider seriously.

This is not just a simple emotional problem, but a responsibility he must face and deal with seriously. Different girls, different personalities, different emotional needs - how can he make them all happy instead of letting this relationship eventually turn into an unmanageable mess?
However, that was a matter for the future; right now he had more important things to do.

He suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind, first entered the Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets, summoned Aquila and Aslan, then took out the Hufflepuff's gold cup from his pocket space and carefully placed it on the table.

It's been a while since I got the golden cup, but I've never had the time to deal with it. I'll take advantage of tonight to get rid of it.

Xie Ling was already very familiar with dealing with Horcruxes. He cast the "Soul-Torture Spell" on the Hufflepuff gold cup. A silver-white magic power shot into the gold cup. Along with a shrill but short scream, the evil aura floating faintly on the surface of the cup quickly receded, and it glowed with warm golden light again, as if it had just been carefully wiped.

Aquila landed on the table, his eyes twinkling. He stared at the golden cup for a moment, and suddenly exclaimed softly: "I recognize this cup. This is the golden cup of Master Hufflepuff."

"You are right," Sherin nodded and said, "It is the Hufflepuff's gold cup."

"Of course." Aquila flapped her wings slightly, with a look of nostalgia and surprise in her eyes, "Master Hufflepuff often used this golden cup to drink or take potions that she made herself."

Xie Ling tapped the cup thoughtfully: "Do you know what's so magical about this cup?"

Aquila shook her head slowly. "I don't know its true purpose. I only know that Lady Hufflepuff cherishes it very much. It is one of her most cherished treasures. It is worth mentioning that among the four founders, she has the longest lifespan. Perhaps... this cup has some connection with her longevity."

"Then, let's start the experiment with drinking. Come and help me." With the help of Aquila and Aslan, Xie Ling filled the table with bottles and jars filled with various liquids.

"Let's start with the most ordinary water!" Xie Ling took out a bottle of water and slowly poured it into the cup. However, the moment the water dripped into the cup, it disappeared silently as if it had never existed.

He frowned. He could clearly see from his magic eyes that at the moment the water was poured into the cup, a momentary spatial magic fluctuation appeared on the cup, causing the water to be transferred to another place.

This means that Hufflepuffs cannot use this cup to drink plain water. This cup can probably only be used to hold specific liquids, the most likely being magical alcoholic beverages.

Then he tried pouring butterbeer, elderflower wine, red currant rum, eggnog, giggles, wizard sherry, canyon water, and mead into the cup one by one, but without exception, all the liquids disappeared completely the moment they touched the bottom of the cup, as if they were swallowed by the cup.

He gritted his teeth, cruelly took out the precious Fire Whiskey and Ice Flower Vodka, and poured four pints of each into the glass. However, the result still disappointed him. Not even a drop of alcohol was left in the glass.

"Aquila, are you sure Hufflepuffs could really drink from this cup back then?" Sherin had tried almost every alcoholic drink he had.

"Yes, I am very sure that I will see this cup every time the four founders of Hogwarts get together to drink." Aquila said with certainty.

Aslan also chimed in: "Dead Bird is right, I have also seen Master Hufflepuff drink from this cup." "Then do you know what kind of wine she drank?" Sherin asked unwillingly.

The two familiars looked at each other and shook their heads slowly. Aquila said, "Ms. Hufflepuff has very high requirements for food and wine. From what I know about her, what she drank was most likely herbal wine that she brewed herself."

Schelling: ...

"It doesn't matter," Xie Ling said, perking up himself. "Just now you said that Hufflepuff would also use this cup to hold the potion she took. So this time, let's try the potion."

He took out a bottle of colorless and odorless strong nutrient potion and poured it into the golden cup. The result was the same as before, as soon as the potion touched the bottom of the cup, it disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

Xie Ling frowned, and tried various common potions one after another - healing potion, divine power potion, stimulant, confusion potion, intelligence-enhancing potion... Without exception, all were "swallowed" by the cup.

The more he tried, the more frightened he became. In the end, he simply gave up on ordinary potions and used more rare and expensive advanced potions. He took out a bottle of "magic supplement", which was an extremely precious potion that could quickly restore a wizard's magic power. Unfortunately, it still couldn't escape the "swallowing" of the golden cup.

Then, he gritted his teeth, took out a bottle of "Living Hell Potion", and carefully poured it into the golden cup, but - it disappeared, disappeared again!

Xie Ling's face looked a little ugly.

"What's wrong with this cup..." He muttered in a low voice, with a hint of unwillingness in his eyes. He did not give up easily, but continued to take out more rare potions and poured them into the golden cup one by one.

After the Felixir Potion was declared a failure, Xie Ling's expression changed from surprise to anger. Potions such as the Felixir Potion and the Living Inferno Potion were extremely difficult to make, and required a lot of time and effort. This experiment could be said to be a considerable loss.

He looked at his gradually running out of potion reserves, his eyes darkened, and finally he gritted his teeth and took out a bottle of potion that would make all potion masters heartbroken - Phoenix Elixir.

Ever since he gave the last bottle of Phoenix Elixir to Eleanor, he spent a lot of effort to make another bottle. He asked Ali Bashir to help him buy a small bottle of Phoenix Tears from a distant Eastern country. It was very difficult to refine it. He only has this one bottle, which is an insurance deliberately prepared to prevent any accidents from happening to the people around him.

"If this fails again..." he whispered through gritted teeth, carefully uncorking the bottle.

The clear Phoenix Tears slowly flowed into the golden cup, but just as it was about to touch the bottom of the cup, a layer of light golden magic fluctuations appeared on the golden cup, as if it had awakened - but just when Xie Ling thought that something had changed, the liquid still disappeared mercilessly.

Xie Ling was stunned. His fists clenched slightly, his forehead twitched, and he couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "Damn cup..."

Seeing this, Aquila was also a little surprised and said: "It can't even hold Phoenix Tears... It seems that the restrictions of this cup are stricter than we thought."

No wonder Hepzibah Smith and Voldemort in the original book knew that the golden cup possessed magical powers, but did not study it carefully. It seems that it is really not easy.

Xie Ling took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

"Could it be... that it only accepts potions prepared by Hufflepuff himself?" Aslan guessed tentatively.

"Impossible. In this case, the gold cup has no value as a family inheritance. Hufflepuff would never make such a mistake," Aslan retorted. "I think you have all fallen into the trap of preconceived ideas—"

Sherin raised an eyebrow and motioned for Aslan to continue.

"What you tried were all ordinary liquids or potions." Aslan said slowly, "But Master Hufflepuff is a wizard who is very good at magical zoology. Her golden cup may not accept ordinary potions, but -"

"- the blood of magical animals." Xie Ling immediately understood what he meant, and his eyes lit up again.

Aslan nodded slightly: "Dragon blood, phoenix blood, or even unicorn blood... these may be the real medium of this cup."

Xie Ling pondered for a moment and finally decided to put away the golden cup for the time being. He planned to ask Shanshan to help him pass a message to Ali Bashir after returning to the room, asking him to help him collect the blood of various magical animals.

After doing all this, he patted the golden cup gently and whispered to himself: "I hope you are really worth my effort."