Xia Tian felt that chatting with Hu Liena was very pleasant.
"Senior Sister, how should a spiritual attribute Soul Master better integrate spiritual power with soul power to enhance the power of Soul Skills?"
"That's simple. First do this, then do that..."
"Senior Sister is really amazing! Then how should a spiritual attribute Soul Master develop self-created Soul Skills? Do spiritual attribute Soul Masters have their own unique moves?"
"This touches upon more profound content, but since Big Sister is in a good mood today, I'll tell you..."
Little girls were just so easy to fool.
Just like the majority of little wizards protected inside Hogwarts, they were innocent and cute.
They would show off just to satisfy their boring vanity and sense of fulfillment.
In order not to lose face as a senior of the Inner Court, Hu Liena really revealed some knowledge that wasn't available in the Outer Court library.
Unfortunately, not all of Xia Tian's questions had answers; Hu Liena only answered the parts she knew.
Of course, none of this was core classified information, and... Spirit Hall's protection of this knowledge wasn't as strict as one might imagine.
Xia Tian even asked specifically.
"Senior Sister Hu Liena, will the teachers of the Inner Court punish you for telling me this knowledge?"
Seeing Xia Tian caring for her with a worried look on his face, Hu Liena just found it funny, but she still explained.
"Just call me Sister Nana."
"As for the punishment you mentioned, of course... there won't be any."
Hu Liena smiled and said, "Martial Soul theory isn't considered a secret. After all, theories can only be verified through mutual exchange."
"Moreover, the large library within Spirit Hall is also open to the outside world, though it requires contribution points to enter and study."
"Knowledge that can be placed in the library is naturally available for everyone to learn."
Xia Tian understood.
No wonder Yu Xiaogang could research theory in Spirit Hall in the original work; it turned out the Spirit Hall library wasn't closed off to outsiders in the first place.
And Hu Liena's last words, interpreted differently, meant that the truly important knowledge wouldn't be put in the library.
What was the truly important knowledge?
Naturally, it involved the secrets of Martial Souls and exclusive cultivation methods.
What serious faction would leave their foundation in a fixed location where others could approach it?
It was more likely passed down orally, with no written records left behind.
So how did Yu Xiaogang know the secrets of the Seraphim Martial Soul?
Bibi Dong, I'm asking you.
As time approached noon, Xia Tian politely bid farewell.
"Ideally, time is just about up."
"Thank you, Sister Nana. It was very pleasant chatting with you. Goodbye, Sister Nana."
Hu Liena smiled and nodded, "Goodbye, Junior Brother. I hope we have the chance to chat together again."
The farewell ended, and Xia Tian left.
After Xia Tian left, Hu Liena also noticed the time and left directly.
Without Yan's harassment, and having chatted with an interesting Junior Brother all morning, she was in a very happy mood.
But it wasn't until Hu Liena returned to the Inner Court that she realized something.
"Oh, I actually forgot to ask for the Junior Brother's name. I kept calling him Junior Brother."
"Forget it, I'll ask him next time I meet him."
Hu Liena didn't take this matter too much to heart because she was merely interested in Xia Tian, not that she attached great importance to him.
The gap in their innate soul power, as well as Xia Tian's benignly mutated Martial Soul, destined that their future paths could not run parallel.
In Hu Liena's view, perhaps the two would never cross paths again in the future.
Today was just a chance meeting, a coincidence.
Hu Liena even felt that getting along with her for the whole morning might be the honor of Xia Tian's life, becoming a beautiful memory he could reminisce about forever.
Hu Liena naturally knew there were people more beautiful than her, such as her teacher.
But regarding her own charm, Hu Liena never thought she was weaker than anyone.
...
"It is truly Hu Liena's honor to discuss theory with the Dark Lord all morning~"
"Just take your memories as payment."
Xia Tian smiled faintly, threw Hu Liena to the back of his mind, and began to study Hu Liena's memories.
Naturally, Xia Tian had used Legilimency on Hu Liena.
Hu Liena was only eleven years old now, more than four years older than Xia Tian, and her Spirit Rank was only that of a Great Soul Master.
Although her spiritual power had reached the Soul Elder level because she specialized in spiritual force, she was still insignificant in front of Xia Tian.
During the conversation with Hu Liena, Xia Tian quietly made his move, stripping Hu Liena's memories clean.
Xia Tian had no intention of playing the long game to catch a big fish.
In the short term, Xia Tian did not plan to have too much contact with Hu Liena.
No matter how beautiful a woman is, strip away the skin and flesh, and she is just two hundred and six bones.
Furthermore, Xia Tian could not afford to provoke Bibi Dong, who stood behind Hu Liena, at this moment.
Right now, Xia Tian was more interested in the memories in Hu Liena's brain.
"This is the Martial Soul Exclusive Meditation Technique... a bit interesting."
Besides enjoying richer resources due to her status as the Pope's disciple, Hu Liena also inherited her family's legacy.
For example, the Martial Soul Exclusive Meditation Technique.
Hu Liena and Xie Yue's parents were actually not simple; they both came from families with a long heritage within Spirit Hall.
Unfortunately, both families had completely declined by now.
But they still left behind quite a few good things.
And their parents' and families' legacies were successfully inherited by them.
The fact that the brother and sister had different surnames was because they had to inherit the family lineages of both parents.
"This situation is somewhat similar to those pure-blood descendants in the wizarding world," Xia Tian commented.
When some pure-blood families died out without an heir, they would adopt a child with the family bloodline to inherit the family surname and continue the family's glory.
And conveniently inherit the family property.
The Hu family and the Xie family passed down the Demon Fox and Moon Blade, two top-tier Martial Souls, respectively, and also had matching exclusive meditation techniques.
What Hu Liena practiced was the exclusive meditation technique for the Demon Fox Martial Soul, the Demon Fox Meditation Technique.
After researching the Demon Fox Meditation Technique and comparing it with advanced meditation techniques, Xia Tian discovered something interesting.
"Why does this exclusive meditation technique look a bit like the way magical power circulates during an Animagus transformation?" Xia Tian was surprised.
As a Transfiguration Master, Xia Tian was very knowledgeable about Animagi, but regrettably, he was not an Animagus.
Because in most cases, an Animagus takes the form of one's Patronus.
But Xia Tian's Patronus was not an ordinary creature, but a magical creature—a Demiguise.
And for a wizard to transform into a magical creature would produce unpredictable consequences.
So neither Xia Tian nor Dumbledore, who was also a Transfiguration Master, had ever tried to become an Animagus.
Key point: Although Xia Tian was called the Dark Lord and was the King of Dark Wizards, he could use the Patronus Charm.
Therefore, Xia Tian never considered himself a bad person.
However, although Xia Tian could not transform into an Animagus, it did not hinder him from researching Animagi.
When he served as an Auror, Xia Tian had caught quite a few illegal Animagi and then conducted in-depth research.
These people had broken the law and didn't deserve human rights, so Xia Tian naturally researched unscrupulously.
For example, Rita Skeeter, whose Animagus form was a beetle.
It was only after careful research that Xia Tian understood the way a wizard's own magic circulated when transforming into an Animagus.
Now, comparing it with the Martial Soul Exclusive Meditation Technique, he found many similarities.