Chapter 505 The Truth on the Other Side

Chapter 505 The Truth on the Other Side
While the Gryffindor Quidditch team was training hard, in the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, Daphne, Murray, and Susan were practicing seriously for their practical assignments in Charms and Transfiguration under the supervision and guidance of Sherin.

The spells to be practiced in the Charms class are the Summoning Spell and the Driving Spell; while the spells to be practiced in Transfiguration are the Vanishing Spell and the Inanimate Transfiguration Spell.

Although the three girls' strength has already surpassed that of students of the same age, exams and actual combat are different after all. Exams require more sophisticated operations to be completed under specific circumstances, while actual combat often only requires knocking down the enemy.

For example, the driving spell is to drive one or more objects to move to a preset location along a set route. Most people can perform it successfully, but it is not certain to get excellent results in the exam.

For example, when the Weasley twins were walking down the stairs with their luggage the day before school started, they almost knocked Ginny down because they didn't control their speed well. With such rough control, they could only pass the exam at best.

As for the inanimate transmogrification spell, it is actually part of the sixth grade curriculum. Fifth grade students only need to master the theory and some basic application.

But Schelling's requirements for them are higher than those for Professor McGonagall. Not only do they need to master solid theory, but they must also be able to conjure up a whole set of furniture in one breath (such as a dining table and chairs, rather than a single dining table).

The most difficult part of the Transfiguration Spell is actually the magic power. Because of the lack of magic power, the young wizards need to spend more energy to mobilize and manipulate the limited magic power. This is not a problem for the three girls at all. They all have Auror-level magic power, so they only need to find the most suitable way to cast the spell from the experience described by Sherin.

Xie Ling didn't let the three women stop practicing until they were sweating profusely and their magic power was exhausted.

Daphne panted and complained a few words, but was quickly pulled away by the other two. They walked towards the bathroom reserved for prefects while chatting and laughing, ready to enjoy a relaxing bubble bath.

After they left, Shaylin looked at the watch on his wrist - Draco was in the middle of Quidditch practice, which meant that Gryffindor had finished practice and returned the field.

Astoria was brewing new potions with the Dragon Tail crew to replenish the stock he had used up during the summer break.

Zhang Qiu and the Dragon Soul team members stepped up their research on the growth-promoting agent. As Zhang Qiu became his girlfriend, her attitude towards work seemed to have changed slightly, becoming more serious and hardworking than before. Xie Lin could often see her working alone in the laboratory until late at night on his watch.

Xie Lin sighed lightly, and a sense of inexplicable guilt rose in his heart. He had never thought of taking advantage of Zhang Qiu's feelings, but the facts were before him - she did put more energy into this relationship, and worked harder for him than before, as if she subconsciously wanted to prove her worth. This gave him a vague illusion that he had taken advantage of her, even though that was not his intention.

He left the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets and appeared in the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets in the blink of an eye.

There were three things on Ravenclaw's desk, one was Hufflepuff's gold cup, one was Paracel's bust, and the other was the Marauder's Map.

Schelling has temporarily put his research on the Hufflepuff Gold Cup on hold as he is still waiting for the blood of various rare and exotic animals that Ali Bashir has collected for him.

He looked at the bust of Paracelsus and recalled the plot in the original book - the statue was damaged after being used by Peeves to hit someone, and was thrown into the storage room in the Room of Requirement by the house-elves as garbage. Finally, Harry, who didn't know the value of the statue, used it as a mark to identify the cabinet where he kept the Half-Blood Prince's potion notes.

The bust has been in the hands of Peeves, the house-elf, and Harry, but none of them has triggered any magical reaction, which shows that the bust needs special means to be activated. However, it cannot be ruled out that it has lost its function after being smashed.

Generally speaking, if a wizard wants to leave a legacy to his descendants, then using the descendants' blood as the key is the most appropriate. But Paracel's roots are in Germany and Switzerland. Since he chose to leave the Chamber of Secrets in Hogwarts in Scotland, it is obvious that the heir he wants is not the Hohenheim family.

Xie Ling looked at the bust of Paracel quietly. He had examined the entire statue with his magic eye, but did not find anything unusual on it. He suppressed the urge to take the felicity potion immediately and thought quietly.

He had actually begun to feel the side effects of the Felicis Pharmacy on him—

He still remembered how cautious and low-key he used to be, but now he is obviously becoming more and more straightforward, relying more and more on and abusing power.

His excessive superstition of the original plot had caused him to fall flat on his face at the fake resurrection stone in the Gaunt ancestral home; in the battle of Knockturn Alley, he also carelessly overlooked the possibility that the werewolves had dark magic blood, causing Night Cat to lose a lot of his subordinates.

Although both times, due to some reasons, such as the pure blood in his body, he turned a disaster into a blessing, or the participation of Savannah, who was not in the original plan, he was lucky enough to turn the defeat around and reduce the losses; but this was enough to alert him - he would not be so lucky every time. It was time to get rid of his dependence on the Felicity Potion.

According to Dumbledore and his own guess, Paracel's inheritance should be the second half of the Book of Truth.

Then, the successor he is looking for will most likely be an excellent alchemist.

Or, there is another possibility——

Someone who can restore the complete "Book of Truth" to the world!
Sherin took out the upper half of the Book of Truth deciphered by the European Wizarding Union in the Middle Ages, placed it next to the bust of Paraser, and whispered: "In the name of Sherin Malfoy, please open the door of truth for me!"

The bust suddenly burst into a dazzling light, and Xie Ling disappeared on the spot.

……

When Xie Ling regained consciousness, he found himself standing in front of a huge stone door that stood alone. There was nothingness all around him, as if the entire world had been swallowed up, leaving only the light behind the door flowing silently.

The stone gate was so high that the top could not be seen. The word "Truth" was carved in ancient runes on the door. A faint glow of seven colors leaked out from between the cracks in the door.

"It seems that this is the supreme 'Gate of Truth' of alchemy that alchemists pursue all their lives." Xie Ling murmured.

Schelling strode to the door without hesitation and pushed open the door of truth with force.

Light poured out from the crack in the door, as if it were fragments of the origin of the universe. They were colorful, chaotic, and yet had a certain secret order, like a spectrum woven from thousands of colors, extending layer by layer to the infinitely distant other side.

Schelling only took a glance and felt something in his heart - that was the "other shore", the ultimate secret of life, and the ultimate answer to the essence of everything in the world.

His magic power surged quietly, and some forbidden power deep in his blood was activated. A strange light appeared between his eyes - the eye of magic quietly opened.

The world became completely different in his eyes. Those seemingly chaotic streams of light turned into interpretable tracks. They jumped, intersected, and rotated, forming rules beyond the scope of human understanding. However, under the analysis of the Magic Eye, they gradually revealed a hint of clues.

At that moment, Schelling finally saw the secret of the Philosopher's Stone.

It is not the ancient formula that the world is pursuing, nor is it simple alchemy, but a concept that transcends magic, reality, and even this world - "heaven beyond heaven".

Deep in the spectrum, he seemed to see a vast and boundless realm. It was an existence that was above everything else and was the key to the ultimate alchemy.

Only by borrowing the power of "heaven beyond heaven" can we truly forge the philosopher's stone.

When he returned to the real world, everything around him was the same, except that the bust of Paraser and the upper half of the Book of Truth on the table had disappeared. Instead, there was another closed book with a purple and gold-rimmed cover facing up, with messy handwriting on it saying -

"The Truth on the Other Side".

[The complete book of truth "The Truth on the Other Shore" is obtained! ]