Chapter 58: Roger's Choice for the Foundation of the Great Dao is...

As a prophet, Roger had naturally considered how to further enhance his precognitive abilities.

Within the Hogwarts library, he had basically read through all the collections related to this subject.

This made his prophetic abilities far surpass what they were when he was in the Middle East, but it also made Roger discover a certain boundary of his own.

When he was first learning prophecy and divination, his entry was indeed very rapid, but after advancing to a certain height, it became very difficult to progress further. His other prophetic abilities were two to three orders of magnitude weaker than his sense of crisis.

It was not that he couldn't use them, but the accuracy was just like that half-baked professor of divination at Hogwarts—sometimes working, sometimes failing.

Only when divining the past did it remain slightly more reliable.

Roger had also dabbled in astrological divination.

As mentioned before, because sentient beings believed that the sun, moon, and stars were special, special mystical powers manifested within them.

These mystical powers operated according to special trajectories, sometimes forming rituals that exerted influence upon the world.

This belonged to the destiny creation of the stars.

As everyone knew, Earth's atmosphere would interfere with the starlight people saw in their eyes, causing the starlight to flicker. Under the influence of the power of destiny, the atmosphere would be disturbed, and the intensity of the starlight would also change.

This belonged to the observation of starlight destiny trajectories.

Astrological phenomena were the grand trends of destiny created by the stars, while starlight belonged to the tributary of destiny generated by artificial changes.

If "Heaven's Will" and "Human Destiny" achieved a certain resonance, terrifying developments would occur.

The phenomenon mentioned by the centaurs earlier was somewhat similar to what Roger had seen in an ancient book.

Therefore, Roger had pressed for more details.

"Of course you can," the centaur Firenze replied respectfully.

As a race whose entire clan consisted of astrologers and who placed extreme importance on divination, centaurs held deep reverence for those possessing powerful prophetic abilities.

Naturally, he would not choose to antagonize Roger.

After having a brief exchange with Firenze regarding astrological phenomena, Roger confirmed that the phenomenon they observed with eyes more sensitive to astrology than his own was precisely the one he had seen in the books.

In the East, its colloquial term was... the Disruption of Heavenly Secrets!

It usually foretold that some major upheaval or crisis was imminent, causing the originally stable order of heavenly secrets to be broken, and making the operating rules of the world elusive.

Roger certainly did not believe that his mere existence alone could cause the centaurs to witness the signs of disrupted heavenly secrets.

Destiny possessed a certain degree of corrective force; his existence had altered the original destiny, which would only cause the celestial phenomena to manifest a new possibility.

Rather than sheer chaos.

The reason it was like this was probably because...

Returning to his laboratory, Roger looked at the rows of experimental records and collection of books on the bookshelf before him, his gaze somewhat complex.

"Could this choice of mine actually be related to the future trajectory of the entire world?"

With the assistance of his sense of crisis and his second brain, Roger conducted magical experiments at a speed thousands of times surpassing ordinary wizards, constantly eliminating erroneous paths one by one to find the correct direction.

Nowadays, Roger's transfiguration body modification technology was nearing its completion.

Within a month, it could basically be finished.

It was much faster than Roger's original estimated time by several folds.

Once Roger's research was completed, he would acquire near-infinite physical longevity.

As for the two aspects of soul longevity and spiritual longevity, Roger had not yet begun research. He did not know what the natural lifespan of a soul was, but even without research, judging from Nicolas Flamel's life, Roger could live at least 700 years longer.

From the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, spanning the Jin Dynasty, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui Dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, all the way to the establishment of the Song Dynasty, was just over 700 years!

This was already quite long.

However, Roger did not believe that the breakthrough of this technology could exert such a massive impact on the world.

Because Roger had no intention of popularizing this technology at present.

Roger did not exclude the existence of other immortals in the world, but he did not want everyone who pursued eternal life to walk his path.

Too much homogeneity was not a good thing. For Roger, it was better for everyone to walk their own paths.

Moreover, the heavenly secrets could not possibly be disrupted because of events hundreds of years in the future.

It had a certain time limit, generally lasting anywhere from a few days to a dozen or so years.

Therefore, it could only be because of another reason.

Recently, Roger was planning to establish the future path that truly belonged to him.

Having studied magic for nearly half a year, even without activating his sense of crisis during combat, Roger's strength had already swelled to a level surpassing Hogwarts professors.

Although he could not cover everything, in fields he excelled in such as "Life Modification" and "Alchemy," Roger's level of knowledge also surpassed most of the professors.

Yet, to take another step forward and reach the magical level of Voldemort, Nicolas Flamel, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald, Roger needed to establish his own "Dao"!

A path of one's own was the admission ticket to becoming a top wizard in the world.

Transfiguration body modification technology?

That was merely a "technique" Roger used to extend his lifespan, and could not be called a Dao at all.

The direction of the path had been chosen by Roger long ago.

However, what Roger chose was not merely a simple direction of magical development.

The possibilities of magic were infinite, but magic also possessed limits.

Because magic had to be cast by humans, the existence of humans itself was the boundary of magic. The limit of imagination was the limit of magic.

The path Roger chose encompassed magic, yet went beyond magic.

Roger pulled an ancient book from the bookshelf.

It was not a magical treatise, but many magics in the East had been developed based on it.

Its name was... the I Ching!

All things are subject to change, yet change itself remains unchanged!

Everything in the universe would undergo change, except for change itself, which never changed.

Roger did not know how to attain true immortality.

However, this was already the closest answer he had found after deep and thorough contemplation.

Roger wanted to become "Change"!

This was the path Roger had chosen!

Yet, choosing was not the end, but merely a beginning.

It did not mean that once you decided to take "the ultimate pursuit of soul and emotion" as your path, you could immediately become a Dark Lord like Voldemort.

After making the choice, you still had to practice the path.

This was the most difficult step.

Countless children chose to become scientists or major stars, but how many truly became scientists or major stars in the end?

It was the same for Roger.

He had chosen the path of "All things are subject to change, yet change itself remains unchanged."

But how could one become "Change"?

Hesitation arose within Roger's heart regarding this, and various possibilities constantly surfaced in his mind, only to be rejected by Roger one by one.

It was precisely this undecided state that caused the disruption of heavenly secrets to begin!

"It cannot go on like this. I should go ask how others made their choices and see if it can serve as a reference."

For a moment, several names flashed across Roger's mind.

Professor McGonagall, Snape, Voldemort, Dumbledore...