Hogwarts: This Dark Lord is so evil.

Chapter 466 You need spiritual roots to cultivate immortality...

"Don't be discouraged. If it doesn't work this time, try again next time..."

Zhang San was comforting his brother at home.

"Sigh...maybe I should find another job to do for now. I can't just do nothing and then..."

Zhang Qiming looked like a wilted eggplant, completely deflated.

"What nonsense are you spouting? I'm your older brother! Do you think I wouldn't take care of you? Besides, this time it wasn't because you weren't capable enough..."

As the two brothers were talking, there was a knock on the door.

Mrs. Zhang, who was watching the two brothers from the side, quickly opened the door.

Outside the door, a middle-aged man who didn't look like him was standing there carrying a bag of gifts.

"Good day, Mrs. Zhang. I've come to visit Mr. Zhang," the man said politely, taking off his hat.

Mrs. Zhang turned to look at her husband.

"You are..." Zhang San hesitated before walking over.

He was certain that he did not recognize this person.

In fact, after being mistaken for a member of Li Weide's family last time, no strangers have come to visit him since.

"It was Li Weide who sent me to find you," the middle-aged man replied with a smile.

"Oh... I see... Please come in." Zhang San heard that this person seemed to have been sent by Li Weide, so he let him into the house.

"Please sit down." Zhang San gestured for the middle-aged man to sit down.

Zhang Qiming also sat down on the other side, looking at the stranger with curiosity.

A short while later, Madam Zhang brought over the tea.

"I wonder what Wade wanted to talk to you about?" Zhang San asked.

The middle-aged man shrugged and smiled, "First of all, I must apologize to you. I had no choice but to do this..."

The middle-aged man was speaking, but his face was subtly shifting and changing!

Startled, Zhang Qiming drew a bronze short sword with a whoosh.

Zhang San leaned back slightly, his right hand already touching the wand handle in his pocket...

However, after the distortion on the middle-aged man's face ended, Zhang San was stunned for a moment.

"Wade? It's you?"

At this moment, the middle-aged man who was sitting on the sofa had turned into Li Weide.

"I'm so sorry, Brother Zhang. I have no choice. I'm afraid to be seen when I go out now, so I have to change my appearance to visit you again..." Li Weide said helplessly.

Hearing that Li Weide spoke fluent Chinese this time, Zhang San's vigilance gradually relaxed.

"That's true... You're quite the celebrity now... Tsk tsk, no wonder you're a young talent who could defeat the Wolf King. I believe many adult wizards can't even do that kind of human transformation technique," Zhang San exclaimed.

"You flatter me..." Li Weide spread his hands and said, "To make sure I am the real Li Weide, you can continue to verify."

"No need," Zhang San waved his hand. "Why would such a powerful wizard be so bored as to come and scam an ordinary Ministry of Magic employee like me?"

After joining the Ministry of Magic, Zhang San kept a low profile. Who would bother to scheme against him?

Moreover, he was very self-aware and couldn't think of anything he possessed that would require a wizard of this caliber to come and deceive him in person.

In fact, with such magical skills, plotting anything for oneself wouldn't require such complicated methods...

Li Wade smiled and said, "Ever since I saw you at the Ministry of Magic, I've been wanting to visit you. But we had to stop talking because of other matters..."

"Oh, so you wanted to know about your hometown." Zhang San suddenly realized.

This is understandable. A child who grew up overseas from a young age speaks such fluent Chinese, so he probably wasn't an orphan from birth.

In other words, Li Weide's parents may have passed away for some reason after he was old enough to understand...

For children like this, it's easy to understand where their parents were born and raised.

Moreover, according to his understanding, Li Weide is a very studious person.

At this moment, Zhang Qiming also put away the short sword in his hand.

Li Weide glanced at his short sword and immediately became interested.

When Zhang San encounters danger, his first instinct is to reach for his magic wand, but Zhang Qiming draws his sword...

Clearly, in their hometown, wizards did not use wands to cast spells.

"Brother Qiming, did you get into the Ministry of Magic?" Li Weide couldn't help but ask.

"Sigh... I didn't get in," Zhang Qiming said dejectedly.

Upon hearing this, Li Weide was momentarily speechless.

Zhang Qiming didn't seem weak, so Li Weide was somewhat surprised that he couldn't get into the Ministry of Magic.

Zhang San understood Li Weide's confusion.

“It’s not because he’s incompetent, it’s just because of language problems… his foreign language skills aren’t very good, so…” Zhang San shrugged.

Li Weide suddenly realized, "I see, I was wondering about that..." Zhang Qiming scratched his head, "I really don't have any talent for these gut-like foreign languages..."

“You have to learn even if you don’t have the talent. You’re going to have to make a living here… You can’t be unable to even communicate normally,” Zhang San said helplessly.

Li Weide smiled and nodded, then silently kept the matter in mind.

"I'll do my best..." Zhang Qiming said bitterly.

Zhang San turned to Li Weide and said, "Let's not talk about my brother's affairs. As for what you want to know, if you have any questions, feel free to ask me."

“Okay, then I won’t stand on ceremony…” Li Weide said happily.

Then, Li Weide inquired in detail about the situation in the wizarding world back in his hometown.

Soon, Li Weide gained a basic understanding of the situation back in his hometown...

In fact, in the East, magic is not called magic, but Taoist magic.

Magic isn't called magic, but rather spiritual power or spiritual energy...

If a child has magical talent, they will be considered a potential immortal with "spiritual roots".

As for those Muggle children, they are mortals without "spiritual roots"...

Each reclusive family or sect has its own unique lineage and methods of cultivation.

They didn't use magic wands when employing Taoist magic, but rather various magical artifacts; the better quality ones could even be called magical treasures...

There are reasons why China would have a Ministry of Magic under these circumstances.

It turns out that as times progressed and China and the Western world gradually came into contact, the wizarding world could not avoid it either.

Western magic gradually spread to China.

Thus, the Chinese wizarding world evolved into two factions...

A faction is a reclusive family or sect that does not concern itself with worldly affairs and is solely focused on seeking immortality and enlightenment. They use and learn ancestral Taoist methods, which are never passed on to outsiders except for their own people.

The other faction only emerged in modern times. Most of them were "unaffiliated cultivators" who, for various reasons, did not join any reclusive families or sects.

Because they failed to learn the ancestral Taoist arts, they came into contact with the Western wizarding world by chance and began to use wands like Western wizards, and thus began to use Western magic.

Since the reclusive families and sects did not emerge from the world, these first wizards who came into contact with Western magic established a Chinese Ministry of Magic.

This group opposes the reclusive lifestyle of hidden families and sects. They believe that the stubbornness of these families and sects has led to the loss of many traditions that should not have been interrupted...

This has led to a very poor relationship between the two parties.

Since reclusive families and sects don't care much about worldly affairs, they only recruit disciples based on their aptitude, aside from children born within the family.

They won't accept someone whose "spiritual root" isn't good enough...

To prevent these rejected children from causing problems, the Ministry of Magic had to take them in and raise them.

There's nothing they can do; the Ministry of Magic simply can't beat these old gods...

Therefore, many of the Chinese wizards in the Chinese Ministry of Magic who study Western magic are the ones who were rejected...

The three Zhang brothers all come from a reclusive family surnamed Zhang. This family is said to have originated from a branch of Longhu Mountain, but the history is too long ago, and the brothers were still young when they left the family, so they don't know if it's true or not.

The reason Zhang San mastered Western magic so quickly and could use it as soon as he left his family was because he had been very interested in these things at home and had even studied them specifically...

This is also why he was kicked out of the family.

While studying Western magic, he met a beautiful girl who was also studying Western magic, and they naturally fell in love while researching Western magic together...

That girl is now Mrs. Zhang.

The reclusive family has always looked down on Western magic.

Now, the direct descendant of the family has deviated from the norm and fallen in love with a woman who studies Western magic, so the outcome is quite obvious...

No wonder Zhang San can use a magic wand skillfully, while Zhang Qiming would instinctively draw his sword...

That bronze short sword must be his magical weapon, that is, his magic wand.

These secrets were incredibly new to Li Weide, and he listened with great enthusiasm...

After finishing his sentence, Zhang San picked up his cup, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and said, "I still think those people in the Ministry of Magic are right. Holding onto outdated ideas only hinders the development of magic... While Western magic, due to its simplicity, isn't as powerful as some other magical arts, I can see its development throughout Western magical history... This is inextricably linked to the establishment of the major Western magic schools. However, my thinking is destined to be unacceptable to those old fogies..."

Li Weide asked curiously, "Those old guys you mentioned...did any of them really become immortals and live forever?"

Zhang Qiming sighed, "Immortality? Who can live forever? I don't know about other families or sects, but our family doesn't have any. Otherwise, we'd grown up in the family since childhood, and the names of immortals would be on our lips by now. But... they are indeed very long-lived..."

“What’s so strange about wizards living long lives?” Zhang San said helplessly. “The old headmaster of Hogwarts is over two hundred years old, isn’t he? I heard he can still fight Grindelwald.”

Hearing this, Li Weide couldn't help but feel a little itchy, "Um, Brother Zhang..."

"Hey, if you don't mind, just call me Third Brother," Zhang San said, waving his hand.

Zhang San still had a good impression of Li Weide.

Li Weide rubbed his hands together, a little embarrassed, and said, "Ahem, then I won't stand on ceremony... Third Brother, could I take a look at that Taoist magic or something? Just the basics will do. Of course, if it's inconvenient..."

“What’s inconvenient about this?” Zhang San took out a booklet from the cabinet next to him and handed it to Li Weide. “Actually, basic Taoist techniques are everywhere. Those people who learn them don’t find them effective and think they’re just tricks, but that’s only because they’re all Muggles… In the words of those old guys, you need to have spiritual roots for the Taoist techniques to work.”

　The settings regarding the Chinese wizarding world are all fabricated by the author; just enjoy them for fun... and please be gentle with your criticisms...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)