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Chapter 216 Mo Xuan's Background! Cleaning Up the Battlefield!
Yes, the Voldemort split soul that was originally inside the giant snake Nagini eventually ended up in the tattered Ten Thousand Soul Banner of the ghost cultivator Mo Xuan.
Dudley had been overlooking one point: since the Soul Chain could transport the ghost servants formed from the souls of ordinary people, it could also secretly transport Voldemort's fragmented soul.
It's just that Voldemort's divided soul is evil and powerful, and it hasn't been refined by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, so transporting it will take a lot of effort.
From the moment Dali interrupted the Soul-Hooking Chain's retrieval process and grabbed one end of it, the ghost cultivator Mo Xuan secretly manipulated the Myriad Soul Banner, using the Soul-Hooking Chain as a conduit to have his ghost servants pull and transport Voldemort's divided soul into the Myriad Soul Banner.
He even deliberately left a tiny fragment of Voldemort's soul in its original position to influence Dudley's judgment.
Dudley's efforts to resist the pull of the Soul-Snatching Chains, the cutting of Professor Flitwick's blue magic saw, and the biting of the Orca Guardian were all in vain.
While the ghost cultivator Mo Xuan was still waiting for the orca guardian to bite off the soul-snatching chain, and Dali thought he had succeeded, he deliberately mentioned Voldemort's split soul, just to confuse Dali and make him unaware that he had wasted so much effort.
If Dali is ultimately stripped of his soul and refined by Mo Xuan, turning into a ghost general, then needless to say, consider it as Mo Xuan saying something unnecessary.
However, if things develop as they do in reality, and Dali has a trump card to escape, then this move will make Dali furious and help Mo Xuan salvage some emotional value.
In fact, just as Mo Xuan had planned, he successfully outmaneuvered Dali in this move.
But Mo Xuan was still unwilling to give up. He felt that his efforts and gains were disproportionate. That foreigner who made him hate him so much still managed to escape from what he thought was a foolproof killing move!
What exactly is that broken black passage? It remains completely undamaged no matter how it's attacked!
Why did this weirdo, the little foreigner, have to appear in front of him and ruin his plans?
Could it be that his meteoric rise is about to turn around?
Mo Xuan was originally the sole inheritor of an ancient ghost cultivation lineage in China, but due to the incomplete inheritance and his lack of talent, he remained at the bottom of the cultivation world.
They are neither accepted by the orthodox cultivators of China, nor can they connect with the emerging wizards in modern China who study Western magic, cast spells with wands, and connect with the international magical community.
Life was miserable; even digging up graves and digging up ghosts and antiques required extreme caution.
Fortunately, heaven took pity on him. His ancestral graves were emitting auspicious smoke, and during an excavation, he actually unearthed the ancient treasure of the ghost cultivation lineage - the Ten Thousand Souls Banner!
Although the Myriad Souls Banner was tattered, and the ancient ghosts sealed within it had all fallen into the underworld over the long course of history, a treasure is still a treasure. He simply refined the Myriad Souls Banner and recognized it as his master, and his own strength increased exponentially.
With his newfound power, given his personality, he would never again live the pathetic life he once did.
He slaughtered villages and towns, harvesting the souls of tens of thousands of ordinary people and refining them into ghost servants within the banner.
He also killed several low-level cultivators who had previously been at odds with him, refining them into ghost soldiers.
For a time, he was incredibly powerful, evolving from a pariah to a fearsome demon feared by ordinary people and hunted down by righteous cultivators.
But in the end, Mo Xuan was cornered by more than a dozen righteous cultivators.
He wasn't the only one with powerful magical treasures. In terms of cultivation foundation, he couldn't even come close to the holy sons and daughters of those righteous sects who were chosen from among thousands. They also had methods to deal with ghost cultivators and monsters.
Faced with the encirclement and suppression of the younger generation of righteous cultivators, he could only do what he did tonight when dealing with Dali and the others: sacrifice his lifespan, deplete his ghost servants, unleash the power of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, and then put on a show of force to carry out his scheme.
After going through countless hardships and paying a heavy price, they barely managed to escape China and ended up overseas.
As a result, he went from a strong eighteen-year-old lad to a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, and the tens of thousands of ghost servants in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner were reduced to nearly ten thousand.
This was because the righteous holy sons and daughters who besieged him were minors who were two or three years younger than him at the beginning.
They lack both combat experience and mental fortitude.
Those older generation cultivators of the righteous path held the idea of using him as a whetstone to train their own sect's holy sons and daughters.
Otherwise, if the younger ones were beaten and the older ones came, Mo Xuan would have no chance to escape China.
Now, having barely escaped one wolf's den, he has fallen into Dali's tiger's mouth, losing most of his savings before finally escaping.
His body had deteriorated to that of a fifty-year-old man, his qi and blood were deficient, and his vital energy was almost completely depleted.
In the future, he will have to make good use of his precious Ten Thousand Souls Banner and that incomplete but powerful evil soul as start-up capital in order to make a comeback.
I've heard that in the Western magical world, some deceased wizards, fearing death, have become ghosts lingering in the human world.
This is the soul resource that is most suitable for the Myriad Soul Banner!
These ghosts have been rejected by the underworld.
They won't be taken away by the underworld while they're using them, and the strength of their souls is far beyond that of ordinary people.
We need to plan this out carefully...
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Dali had no idea where Mo Xuan went or what his plans were.
He, along with three professors and Sirius, extinguished the Fiery Blaze in the Albanian jungle and cleaned up the vast, ravaged battlefield.
Set up a time-limited Muggle expulsion spell around the battlefield to prevent Muggles from discovering it and creating unnecessary rumors;
Professor Sprout also used magic to cool down the Fiendfire after it had burned, then sowed seeds of plants and used her plant growth charms to encourage their growth.
She collected the plant seeds from nearby, unaffected dense forests.
Dudley found his half-broken Smetin cane in the fire.
The cane is now covered in charred marks, with only about one-third of its length remaining, including the metal handle.
He had previously transformed his staff into a tall, sword-wielding armored warrior, who first dealt with the Demon King's demon tail, then endured the aftershocks of a massive explosion to subdue the giant serpent Nagini, and finally spent half a day being roasted in the Fiery Inferno.
As a result, at some point, the magic that Dudley had attached to it was exhausted, the transformation was broken, and it became what it is now.
This was only because Smetine's staff wasn't too far from where Dudley was fighting, and it received some magical protection, preventing it from being directly burned by the Fiendfire. Otherwise, it would have been completely reduced to ashes and molten iron.
Dudley used all his healing spells on the charred and half-damaged Smetine staff, but he couldn't restore it to its original state. He only reduced the charred parts and restored some of its length, making it about half its original length.
Unfortunately, restoration spells that haven't undergone conceptual refinement aren't omnipotent; otherwise, there wouldn't be any old or irreparably damaged items in the magical world.
Ron wouldn't hold a grudge against secondhand items he'd used for years.
Needless to say, the repair of magical items is something that even top-tier experts wouldn't be able to achieve with repair spells.
Like Hagrid's oak wand that was broken, most wizards, including the wand maker Ollivander, thought it was beyond saving.
It was Dumbledore who, wielding the Elder Wand, used his full power of the Restoration Charm to repair it.
Ordinary items that have nothing to do with magic, if they have been damaged for too long, their parts are scattered and missing over too far, or they have been damaged by multiple rounds of powerful magic, will have their properties changed at the time of damage, and repair spells will be powerless to fix them.
In layman's Muggle scientific terms, the Restoration Charm is incredibly effective against physical changes, but less so against chemical ones.
The Smetine cane of Dali underwent a chemical change that resulted in combustion.
The missing half must have been scattered elsewhere when the armored warrior was forcibly shrunk by the earth-shattering explosion. Later, those places turned into a raging inferno, and that half of the staff was also consumed by the flames and could not be repaired.
Dudley did not abandon his old companion just because the Smetin cane could not be repaired at the moment. Instead, he put it into his personal space to repair it later.
Afterwards, the five members of the special snake-catching team created another stone portal key and teleported back to Hogwarts.
With their status as Hogwarts professors and teaching assistants, they have the authority to create port keys that provide direct access to the Hogwarts grounds.
However, the port keys that are created can only reach the edge of Hogwarts grounds; to return to the castle, one still has to travel a considerable distance.
On the way back, everyone was in low spirits.