I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

The students around him all looked at Li Lin with envy. Even Headmaster Dumbledore only made Peeves obey orders, how could he be made to act like a Japanese translator?

A few minutes later, Li Lin pushed open the door to the principal's office.

"You've come, Aatrox." Dumbledore was already standing by the window, with Snape standing behind him, saying nothing.

The fiery red phoenix Fawkes intended to fly to Dumbledore's shoulder, but upon seeing Li Lin, it trembled and quickly tucked its tail between its legs and fled to Dumbledore's shoulder.

“Well…it seems that what happened last time left a deep impression on Fawkes.” Dumbledore cleared his throat somewhat awkwardly, then said to Li Lin, “We plan to go and find Voldemort’s next Horcrux. If nothing unexpected happens, Slytherin’s locket is there.”

"Just in case, I'll bring the sword of Gryffindor."

Dumbledore's eyes were deep and unfathomable. He raised his hand and pointed to the empty glass box in the corner. As his will fell, a light flashed in the glass box, and the Sword of Gryffindor fell into Dumbledore's hand.

At this moment, he held the Elder Wand in his left hand and the Gryffindor Sword in his right, truly displaying the style of Gryffindor, the former leader of the Four Great Masters.

“I’m not sure how long it will take to resolve this Horcrux, so Minerva will take care of other things until I get back…” Dumbledore said hesitantly.

He wasn't sure if not assigning Li Lin any tasks was a good choice.

"Alright then." Li Lin subtly pursed his lips. "I'll head back now."

After he finished speaking, Li Lin remained motionless.

Dumbledore stared at him for a moment, then clicked his tongue: "You...didn't you say you were going back?"

"How am I supposed to get candy from you if you don't leave?" Master Li said indignantly. "This is the principal's office. You're the one who should be leaving!"

Dumbledore turned around, both amused and exasperated, and reached out to grab Snape. Fawkes, the phoenix, landed on his shoulder, a flash of fire disappearing in an instant.

The clouds in the sky inexplicably became tangled.

After seeing that Dumbledore had really left, Li Lin quickly went to Dumbledore's seat, opened the magic drawer, and poured all the desserts inside onto his dark green table.

The magical portraits of past principals on the wall behind them were speechless upon seeing this.

Li Lin always keeps his word.

......

A figure walked with his hands behind his back in the corridor on the eighth floor. As he passed the tapestry depicting the giant beating up Barnabas, the figure showed no intention of stopping.

He walked slowly down the stairs.

The figure arrived on the seventh floor, stopped in front of the office where he had lived for almost a semester, then pushed open the door and locked it from the inside.

Li Lin looked around, his gaze finally settling on the distant clouds.

A golden-purple twilight, like the glow of clouds, spilled from his cuffs, the hem of his clothes, and his mouth and nose, enveloping his entire body without leaving any gaps.

The scent of hawthorn blossoms lingered around Li Lin.

Hogwarts forbids the use of Apparition, but Li Lin is different.

He is a visitor who cannot be refused.

What he used was not a spell, but a secret technique.

He was a voter favored by Sichen Double-Horned Axe.

Without the influence of the Enlightenment, when releasing the Invisibility Technique, this secret technique is no different from its predecessor, Apparition; but only when the Invisibility Technique is fully activated does this irresistible activation feel so intense.

A white owl flapped its wings and landed on Li Lin's shoulder.

He took one step forward.

Dumbledore went to find Voldemort's Horcrux, but the Horcrux was fake. The real locket had already been secretly taken out by Sirius Black's brother, Regulus Black, and left in Black's old house at 12 Grimmauld Place.

Li Lin was also searching for Voldemort's Horcrux, but the Horcrux was real and was currently stored in the ruins of Gaunt's old house.

It was a gold ring inlaid with a huge black gemstone. Like the locket, the gold cup, and the crown, this ring was also a powerful magical artifact before it was made into a Horcrux.

Its magic lies not in the ring, but in the gemstone itself.

In the Harry Potter world, there are the three Deathly Hallows: the Elder Wand and the Invisibility Cloak are both in Dumbledore's possession, and the gem is the legendary Resurrection Stone, which can bring people back to life.

A golden-purple twilight shimmered in front of the Gaunt family’s old house.

A figure stepped out from among them, wiping his face with his right hand. It was Abraham Leigh, who had broken free of the secret technique of [Mottled Mimicry] and returned to his black hair and black eyes.

He reached out and pressed his hand on the Gaunt's door; a green light flashed and disappeared.

A sharp, inaudible screech echoed, and the spell protecting the Gaunt mansion was completely destroyed.

Li Lin pushed open the door and entered.

130. Nonsense literature is really interesting.

Just as Gryffindor is the founder of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw is the founder of Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff is the founder of Hufflepuff, and Slytherin is the founder of Slytherin.

The Gaunt House is the ancestral home of the Gaunt family.

Among the twenty-eight pure-blood families, not all are as glamorous as the Malfoys. The Gaunt are among the less successful ones, but even so, they still retain the custom of incestuous marriage.

This was naturally to carry on the illustrious bloodline of their ancestors, the most prominent of whom were Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, and Cadmus Peverell, one of the owners of the Deathly Hallows.

They once possessed immense wealth, but their excessive emphasis on extravagance and generations of research into dark magic led to the depletion of their original fortune several generations ago, leaving them penniless.

By the time of Marvolo Gaunt, Tom Riddle's maternal grandfather, they had almost nothing left except their house. More importantly, long-term inbreeding had caused problems with their bloodline.

Magic did not help them solve the problems of inheritance and health; on the contrary, rare mental problems deepened along with their bloodline.

The Gaunt family members are known for their violent, mysterious, and ruthless nature.

Whenever the word "mystery" comes to mind, Li Lin feels like running to the toilet and walking four steps counterclockwise.

The Gaunt family's old house consisted of three interconnected buildings. The largest one in the middle served as both the living room and kitchen. The floor was covered in a strange, greasy substance, and the ceiling was plastered with menacing mold. Everything here looked so filthy.

Li Lin continued walking forward. A metal box, somewhat out of place with the surroundings, was placed on the table. Inside the box lay a rather ugly-looking large gold ring, with a black gemstone set in its surface.

That was the true form of the Resurrection Stone, one of the three sacred artifacts of Death, but no one ever imagined that this was the Resurrection Stone itself.

It doesn't actually bring people back to life, but rather uses some means to summon a "matter" that is more illusory than the physical body and more real than the soul, like the "intermediate state" in Buddhist theory.

Aside from those who truly need it, most of the objects summoned by other holders are filled with sorrow.

Li Lin stood in front of the box.

He didn't reach out to touch the ring because when Voldemort made it into a Horcrux, he had placed some extremely vicious curse on it, a curse that had even severely injured Dumbledore, leaving him with less than a year to live.

Li Lin also did not intend to use the Killing Curse and Voldemort's curse to confront each other head-on.

He reached out and pressed his hand into the empty space in front of him, where there was a dark green tabletop.

Li Lin withdrew his hand, revealing a seemingly rusted metal sphere in his palm.

That was a rare, level-three casting artifact called "Ancient Casting"!

On the eve of Li Lin's departure for the Harry Potter world, he gave it to him.

He casually flipped the three concentric circles of the metal celestial sphere until the flames within suddenly became brighter.

Li Lin did not intend to summon Nian here, because she was an immortal being in the tempering arena... A hasty summoning might attract the attention of the named beings or Si Chen.

The gaze of these great beings, even without the slightest malice, is enough to swiftly and persistently alter the objective laws of this world.

Therefore, here he is using the last special effect of [Ancient Casting], [Ding Leap].

【Characteristics: 鼎革 (Dǐng Gé)】

This thing transforms everything. Centered on it, all things will be gradually changed, either quickly or slowly, either by altering their form or reshaping their essence. As time goes by, the scope of this transformation will also increase.

[Since you are the designated expert of the year, your special ability: the cost of overhaul has been waived!]

Li Lin silently calculated the time in his mind.

One minute later.

A faint metallic scraping sound rang out in the air, and the temperature was quietly rising around Li Lin. As he deliberately loosened his control over the [Ancient Casting], everything around him was inevitably changing its nature.

It started with the ground where I stood. The originally greasy floor was now covered with a dazzling silver color—it was some deeper, more mysterious change that had transformed the wooden floor into silver.

Then came the surrounding walls, which had subtly transformed from wood into stone walls, their color a deep black, like the reefs beneath Azkaban.

Li Lin quickly aligned the [Ancient Casting] with Gaunt's ring.

In an instant, the indestructible gold was covered with an iron color, which was then replaced by a darker rust color.

Click.

The once-gold ring snapped in two with a crack, the setting rotting away like fluff.

Black mist rose from the surface of the resurrection stone, but it was instantly evaporated by the high temperature, turning into a flickering flame.

This indicates that the structure of the curse has been completely destroyed by the ironclad law of [the revolution], and the fragments of Voldemort's soul that depended on it have begun to separate.

Li Lin quickly threw the [Ancient Forged], which had begun to take effect on a large scale, back onto the dark green tabletop. After it transformed back into a card and was placed back on the tabletop, the [Ancient Forged] dimmed and subsided again.

Green light emanated from Li Lin's hands. He grabbed the resurrection stone with his right hand and took out the golden cup with his left hand, reaching towards the still-burning flames in the air.

A fragment of Voldemort's soul could add seven years to his lifespan. If Li Lin didn't seize the opportunity to take advantage of it, he would be betraying his conscience.

After tossing the resurrection stone and the golden cup back onto the table, Li Lin closed his eyes again and turned around. Golden-purple twilight flowed from his sleeve, engulfing it.

Having finally found a chance to come out, how can I not take down all the Horcruxes in one fell swoop?

The next target, the last Horcrux within reach—the real Slytherin locket.