Hogwarts: I'm the only cultivator here!

"Mr. Ye Feng, you have no objections, do you?" As he spoke, Dumbledore lowered his head and glanced sideways at Ye Feng.

Ye Feng: ┐(??｀)┌

"I have no opinion."

The Three-Way Championship was not important to Ye Feng, so whether he could win the championship or not was not important to him. Therefore, whether he entered early or late would not affect him, so he agreed directly.

Although Dumbledore knew Ye Feng would definitely agree, he waited for Ye Feng's affirmative answer before turning around to announce the start of the competition, and had Harry enter the maze first, followed by Cedric, Krum, and Fleur.

When Ye Feng saw Harry enter the maze, curiosity was evident in his eyes. Unfortunately, the entrance to the maze was immediately covered up after Harry entered, and he did not see what happened inside.

Although he couldn't see it, he did hear it. Not long after Harry went in, just as Cedric was about to go in, Ye Feng heard Harry scream.

Although the scream was very faint and could not be heard at all if you weren't paying close attention, Ye Feng was certain that it was Harry's scream.

If Harry's scream went largely unnoticed, almost everyone heard Cedric's exclamation after he went in, which made Krum and Fleur, who were about to enter, instantly nervous. But in the end, they still bravely entered the maze.

After Furong went in, Ye Feng immediately became eager to try it out.

Although he was very familiar with the maze's route, he didn't actually know what had happened to the plants after he had watered them for several days, because he had used talismans such as the Concealing Breath Talisman when watering them, so the plants hadn't been activated at all.

Now, with Harry and the others entering, the maze that Ye Feng had been watering for several days has been completely activated. It is now like a living, terrifying beast, and even Dumbledore feels a sense of dread when he sees it.

"This thing, I knew it wouldn't be just a matter of watering it. This maze is practically alive! I hope Harry and the others can hold on..."

Chapter 306 You Need to Use Your Brain to Enter the Maze

"This thing, I knew it wouldn't be just a matter of watering it. This maze is practically alive! I hope Harry and the others can hold on..."

As Dumbledore prayed, Ye Feng entered the maze with a hint of curiosity. The very next second after he entered the maze, a vine quietly stretched out from the plant wall beside him.

The entire maze is made of various plants, so it seems to be alive now. Ye Feng has only just entered and has already been attacked.

Of course, although Ye Feng didn't know what a fully activated maze would look like, he was at least somewhat prepared, so he put a shield on himself as soon as he entered.

However, the shield he put on himself wasn't armor; it was a proper magic shield.

The reason for wearing a magic shield instead of armor is quite simple.

While armor provides strong defense, its protection is similar to deflecting attacks, preventing them from hitting the user.

This type of protection is excellent against spells or attacks driven by magic, but vine attacks are not included in either of these two types of attacks; they are entanglement-type.

You can reverse the direction of spells and deflect attacks like piercings, but you can't deflect or reverse the direction of vines that wrap around you, can you?

And even if you manage to turn things around, what's the point? You'll still be able to entangle them anyway.

Therefore, when facing vine-like attacks that involve entangling the body, armor is not very suitable; a magic shield is necessary to prevent the vines from binding you.

However, this approach isn't very reliable, because in addition to the vines, there are also giant flowers that will attack, and these flowers don't care whether you're wearing a shield, armor, or a magic shield.

If you encounter them, and you fail to dodge them immediately, they can swallow you whole.

If it's a regular magical plant, even if you get swallowed, as long as you have a shield, especially a magic shield, you can escape by casting a corresponding spell in time.

But these are not ordinary plants. They have been watered with spiritual spring water for several days and have undergone a mutation, becoming even more powerful.

Therefore, they not only have higher magic resistance, but also have a certain ability to suppress and break magic.

In other words, if you really get entangled and can't break free in time, even if Dumbledore came in, things would go wrong.

There's no need to worry about Ye Feng's strength causing an accident, even if he only uses magic, because he himself doesn't know the extent of his magical mastery.

Basically, if he wants to, there's nothing he can't handle with magic, except for things like bringing someone back to life or destroying the world.

Even if you let him use magic to destroy a star now, as long as you give him enough time to inscribe a magic circle or to layer magic, it's not impossible.

Of course, this is because even if he uses magic, he still uses celestial power. It's just that he has to convert it slightly in order to avoid being discovered. So, as long as he understands magic, he can release it.

It's like his cultivation side and magic side share the same mana bar, only the skills are different.

However, in order not to bully others, Ye Feng always maintained his magical power at a level slightly higher than Harry's and the others, which was in line with his 'genius' character.

This level of skill is neither too high to stand out, nor too challenging to avoid becoming boring and completely overwhelming. Moreover, it is quite suitable because it is manageable yet slightly difficult in the event of any unexpected incidents.

Therefore, in order to avoid disaster, Ye Feng affixed several talismans after putting on the shield, including but not limited to the Concealing Breath Talisman, Lightness Talisman, and Vajra Talisman.

After Ye Feng finished affixing the talisman, the vine that had quietly reached out had already firmly bound Ye Feng.

However, because he had put a magic shield on himself, it was like putting a transparent glass dome over himself. So although it seemed like the vines were binding him tightly, in fact the vines were only wrapped around the magic shield, and he still had enough room to move.

With this buffer, Ye Feng could calmly cast a spell on himself and then calmly think about how to escape.

Yes, it's about figuring out how to get out of this predicament.

He had watered the flowers, plants, and trees in this maze with his spiritual spring for several days. Although they were far from becoming demons and had not even developed the most basic consciousness, they had already acquired a certain instinct.

In other words, they are no longer mindless, passive, waiting objects; they now possess animal-like instincts.

Therefore, if the magic you use to escape is too loud, it may attract the attention of nearby plants, causing them to attack you.

Yes, it's an attack, because the plants in the maze aren't for ornamental or edible purposes; they're planted there specifically to create difficulties for anyone entering the maze.

In other words, they inherently possess the characteristic of proactive attack, and now, after Ye Feng has watered them with spiritual spring water for several days, this instinct has become even stronger.

Therefore, if you make too much noise in the maze, it may cause all the plants in the maze to attack you.

Ye Feng knew this, so after he was tied up, he didn't rush to use fire magic to burn the vines. While fire is the nemesis of plants, it can also easily make these plants extremely irritable.

Animals can escape and hide from things that frighten them, such as fire, but plants cannot, because with very few exceptions, most plants cannot break free from their roots.

Therefore, when plants encounter flames powerful enough to destroy them, they panic and try to escape. However, when they realize they cannot escape, they make another choice—to nip the danger in the bud.

Why did Harry and his friends scream? The reason is simple: they used magic to attack the vines immediately after being attacked, and the result was...

Although their magic was indeed effective, quickly clearing away the vines that were attacking them, the commotion caused by their attack also attracted the attention of nearby plants. And then... Ye Feng could only say, good luck to them.

Having learned from Harry and his friends' experience, Ye Feng was not about to follow in their footsteps. So, after a moment's thought, Ye Feng raised his wand.

"Freeze!"

A chilling aura emanated from the protective shield, and the vines binding Ye Feng's magic shield, sensing the pervasive cold, retreated swiftly as if encountering a natural enemy.

Besides fire, cold is also the "mortal enemy" of most plants. However, compared to fire, cold is more "gentle", so although it retreats quickly, it does not have a very violent reaction.

Seeing that the cold was effective, Ye Feng simply walked forward with an ice shield on his head. Wherever the ice shield went, all the plants retreated. Compared to Harry and his group on the other side, this was much better.

"Some things can't be done by brute force; you have to use your brain."

Chapter 307 Ye Feng: No, it's become a spirit?

The cold winter may not seem like much in the south, because many places in the south remain lush and green even in winter, but it's different in the north.

In the north, the fact that everything is silent when winter arrives is not an exaggeration, so when Ye Feng walked through the maze with his ice shield, the nearby plants all made way.

Of course, not all plants are afraid of the cold. After all, there are plants even in the Arctic. So Ye Feng did have a smooth start, but the reason why an accident is called an accident is because of its unpredictability.

As Ye Feng, shielded by an ice barrier, staggered forward, a large, pale blue flower suddenly emerged from the maze-like bushes.

!!!∑(?Д?ノ)ノ

The sudden appearance of a large, pale blue flower startled Ye Feng. The next second, the pale blue flower grew even larger in Ye Feng's shocked gaze, and the originally curled-up buds fully opened.

Ye Feng: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

"No, wait, you can't eat this!"

"Whoo~"

Before Ye Feng could finish speaking, the enormous flower roared and swallowed him whole, shield and all, leaving Ye Feng speechless.

"There are so many different kinds of plants in this maze. Not only are they not afraid of the cold, but some even like to eat things that emit cold air. I really don't know where Dumbledore and the other professors found them."

Although he was swallowed up along with the shield, Ye Feng wasn't too worried. With the shield, even if the unknown plant had magic-breaking effects, it wouldn't be able to harm him for a while, and he could calmly find a way to break the deadlock.

"Kacha~"

Ye Feng: [?_??]

Suddenly, he heard a shattering sound, which made Ye Feng look puzzled. Then his expression turned to shock because his shield... had cracked.

"Hiss~ What the hell is this? Even if this thing has a built-in anti-magic effect, it shouldn't be this fast. It's only been less than two seconds!"

"Kacha~"

While Ye Feng was ranting and raving, the cracks on his magic shield widened, and it was at this moment that Ye Feng discovered the reason why the magic shield broke so quickly.

The magic shield is a type of shield that, while lacking the ability to reverse or reflect attacks, possesses excellent resistance to pressure and impact. Furthermore, because it is composed of abundant magical energy, it is also very effective at blocking magical attacks.

It can be said that, in some aspects, magic shields are superior to protective magic such as armor.

However, it also has a drawback that isn't exactly a flaw: it cannot transfer damage.

Because they lack the ability to transfer or reflect damage like armor, all magic shields directly withstand all kinds of damage, which easily leads to the magic shield breaking when subjected to attacks exceeding its limit.

The magic shield Ye Feng is currently using has not reached its maximum damage tolerance, but the plant that swallowed it is of the ice attribute, and it has a deep thirst for ice-attribute magic.

Generally speaking, when plants are lacking or craving a certain nutrient, they will keep searching for it, and once they find it, they will absorb and transform it like crazy. This plant has inherited this instinct.

In other words, after the plant 'swallowed' Ye Feng, it immediately began to frantically absorb the ice-attribute magic power from the ice shield, and at the same time, the petals of the flower continued to shrink.

The immense pressure caused the magic of the external shield to continuously drain away, leading to a rapid weakening of the shield's protective energy, which ultimately resulted in the shield shattering so quickly.

"I never expected there to be such a plant. Since there's one with ice attributes, there must be other attributes too, right? This competition looks even more interesting."

As he spoke, Ye Feng quickly replenished his shield, but this shield was no longer of the ice attribute but of the fire attribute.

As a result, after absorbing the outer ice shield, the scorching heat swept over the ice-attribute plant, causing it to shut down instantly.

However, the intense heat reminded it that this thing was not edible, so it only paused for less than a second before Ye Feng, along with his shield, was 'spit out'.

As soon as he was spat out, Ye Feng immediately controlled the magic shield to reduce its intense heat, because he didn't want to be surrounded by the surrounding plants.

However, Ye Feng was stunned the moment he came out and saw his surroundings clearly, because he found that he was in a place filled with all kinds of strange flowers.

Besides the unidentified flowers blooming brilliantly, there were also enormous trees. Without exception, these trees were all over twenty meters tall, but this was not what surprised Ye Feng the most.

What surprised Ye Feng the most was that there were blurry human faces on the thick trunks of these trees.

Although the face was still very blurry and not fully formed, wasn't this the prototype of the tree spirit or tree person in Western games or movies?

"Did these plants actually become sentient after being watered?" Ye Feng was a little confused as he looked at the plants that had gathered together and clearly gained some consciousness, and began to protect themselves.

Meanwhile, in a small village in another country across the ocean, the cats and dogs that Ye Feng had 'harmed' suddenly couldn't help but sneeze in unison.