Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 1040

Chapter 1027 Discovering the Tree of Prosperity That Has Gone Astray Again!

For the next period of time, Locke went to the library every day to read the free magic books on spirit cultivation, increasing his understanding of the Four Noble Blessings. He also spent an hour each day diligently studying the incomplete map full of black dots that Teacher Sophia had given him.

During this time, Locke finished grading the homework of the students at the Tide Wizarding Tower via a message in a bottle, contacted his wizard teaching assistant, arranged the content for the second and third lessons, wrote the lesson plans, and then had the teaching assistant teach the lessons according to the plans, and assigned homework for the second and third lessons.

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The wizard teaching assistant sent Locke a message.

“Lord Augustine, how is the quality of the homework done by our students at the Tide Wizarding Tower? Headmaster Elliot asked me to inquire about your impressions of this group of students, and whether there are any outstanding individuals. Please forgive my intrusion.”

Locke thought for a moment, wrote a letter to his teaching assistant, then put the letter in a bottle, chanted a spell to summon the magic of the Frost River, and used the Frost River magic transformed by the March Palace to deliver the letter to the teaching assistant.

“Mr. Guttine, I haven’t seen any outstanding students yet; the quality of the homework is very poor. But I believe they will improve. Even if you don’t understand the lesson plan I gave you, you must continue teaching according to my requirements.

” Soon, the message in the bottle from the wizard Guttine appeared before him. Locke took out the letter inside. “I will remember your reminder, Lord Augustine. You have put a lot of effort into preparing the course materials, and I certainly won’t waste your hard work. I am very grateful for your dedication to our students at the Tide Wizarding Tower; you are a noble wizard. Although I feel that those who are only thinking about passing this course to obtain the White Wizard’s Covenant…” “The temporary wizards in these positions are not worthy of your dedication.

I am ashamed of their behavior. Perhaps you could lower the quality of some courses?

This is just my bold suggestion.

” Locke raised an eyebrow but did not reply to the letter.

His only requirement for his teaching assistant, Oldford Ding, was that he could deliver all the courses according to his lesson plan. He would certainly give his all to the Wetland Magic Plant course he offered at the Tide Wizarding Tower. It was true that the vast majority of students would not understand; they would only grasp the most superficial parts. This also meant that some would eventually be attracted to the world represented by the Wetland Magic Plant course and embark on the path of pursuing truth.

Both Locke and the witch Sophia believed that even ordinary wizarding apprentices in ordinary wizarding lands had the right to pursue the truth, if they so desired.

His courses were for these very people.

Since Headmaster Elliott had hired him to teach there, he couldn’t treat the Tide Grand Wizarding Tower merely as a stepping stone.

The Tide Grand Wizarding Tower wasn’t a tool for obtaining the region’s highest grant.

Locke thought back to his own time teaching at the Tide Grand Wizarding Tower; it was the first time he’d faced so many students. He had written a letter to the wizard Terence of Silver Peach Garden.

“Wizard Terence, I’d like to use my position as the head of the Silver Peach Garden to have you donate some wetland magical plant specimens to the Tide Wizard Tower’s wetland magical plant course. It won’t cost much, but it will strengthen our relationship with the Tide Wizard Tower; I believe this is normal business practice.” “

At the same time, I want to ask you about the second service station we’re building in front of the White Wizard Association along the Tianjiang River. How’s it going? “

Soon, a letter from Wizard Terence arrived.

“As you command, Lord Augustine.

The second service station is under construction, but a few days ago, some wizards working on the site suddenly caused trouble, demanding a price increase. I’m dealing with them, and I’ve realized that local wizards are behind this. But their appetite isn’t great; it’s just normal corruption.”

“President Fula is helping us mediate, so I think these things will be resolved soon. After all, you seem to have a good personal relationship with President Fula, and she herself values this service station very much.”

Locke glanced at the information transmitted by the other party. Currently, almost all the money earned from the Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow series has been used to build a second service station, continue the production of the Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow, and develop new series, such as the Great Azure Leaf Dragon Sparrow Transport Type that he developed before leaving.

However, overall, it is on the right track, and even if he leaves temporarily, it should be fine.

Witch Shirley and Wizard Terence can both help him.

Similarly, he has contacted Douglas, who is in the Three Hole World, several times to ensure that the wizards in Golden Peach Garden are helping him build a mine, but it will still take some time before the mine can develop the super emerald green spirit breath vein.

Just as Locke was dealing with these miscellaneous matters in the library, Witch Albin Thea came over carrying a stack of magic books that was taller than her.

“Locke, I spent all night researching and copying data all day yesterday, and I’ve finally compiled all this information. This is the data my teacher, the throne wizard of Green Steel City, the [Throne of Sunlight], extracted that special spiritual energy from the Azure Bamboo magical plant. Back then, I was a liquefaction wizard—I was responsible for helping him cultivate the Azure Bamboo magical plants, though I was just a member of that team. Look, this is it.”

The witch Albin Thea threw the pile of data in front of Locke.

Locke looked at her in surprise.

The witch Albin said anxiously, “Let’s get started quickly. To protect the magical plant ecosystem along the Frost River, we need to seize every moment. Every step we take slower, a plant will die from the humid climate of the Frost River—”

Locke nodded and opened the pile of data she had given him.

“The genus *Phyllostachys*, also known as the genus *Phyllostachys* ‘Square Bamboo,’ is a type of grass-like magical plant. Its characteristic feature is that the bamboo culms are square or nearly square, with distinctly protruding corners. The degree of wood element crystallization in the cells is extremely high, and *Phyllostachys* species in this genus generally possess a special energy-locking structure: plant opal. This is a type of solid root that absorbs earth element composite particles from the soil and allows these composite particles to adhere to the plant cell walls in a liquid state. This results in magical plants in the *Phyllostachys* genus possessing defensive capabilities and comprehensive elemental resistance far exceeding other types of magical plants.”

Locke pondered, “Plant opal? Isn’t that the main spell model structure of the Stone Skin spell series of earth element magic? It turns out it was derived from the energy-locking structure of *Phyllostachys* species: plant opal.”

“Besides possessing exceptionally strong defense, approaching that of mainstream tree-type magical plants, this genus of magical plants has another key characteristic: it can produce various natural magical structural components related to lightning. Current research has identified 131 such components, resulting in countless lightning spells being developed.”

Locke blinked. “Thea, this looks like a powerful magical plant genus.”

Genus is one level higher than species.

“The type species of this Azure Bamboo genus is the Sun Ring Magic Plant: Great Thunder Bamboo,”

said the witch Albin. “Yes. The area where the Great Thunder Bamboo grows is always shrouded in thunderclouds, and anyone who gets too tall will be struck by lightning if they get too close. Oh, sorry—”

“Anyway, there are a total of 111 magical plants in this Azure Bamboo genus. They are all various kinds of lightning-attribute magical plants, and their stem tips, leaf tips, and root tips are constantly covered with various lightning elemental spell models.”

“Plants in this genus prefer damp and shady environments, and not many can grow in water, but there are some. My mentor seems to have discovered that many species of magical plants in the Azure Bamboo genus originally had the ability to grow underwater, but later lost it for some reason, which is why he noticed this magical plant.”

Locke nodded, which means that there are still a few magical plants in this genus that retain the ability to grow underwater, and they seem to possess a special spiritual energy similar to water-drawing spiritual energy.

Other species of magical plants in this genus may have retained the special plant essence that resonates with this unique spiritual energy, and may very well regain their ability to grow underwater through grafting or hybridization.

No wonder the Throne of Sunlight noticed this magical plant.

The witch Albin said, “This is all the information, at least all the information I could find. Locke, we must work hard for all the magical plants in Tianhan River!”

Locke pursed his lips, “Alright, then we’ll work hard for all the magical plants, and for the wizards and magical creatures on the other side of Tianhan River.”

The witch Albin said, “Then you work hard for those wizards and magical creatures, and I’ll work hard for all the magical plants.”

The two smiled at each other.

At this moment, the witch Catherine approached. After Locke deactivated several of the isolation spells, Catherine glanced at Locke, then looked at the witch Albin, and said, “Locke, it seems you’ve made new friends. You two seem to get along very well. Good, young people should make more friends like this.”

When Catherine had red hair, she resembled a red dragon queen, and the sharpness of her personality began to fully emerge.

Locke stood up and bowed to his teacher, explaining to the witch Albin, “This is my teacher, the Red Dragon Throne.”

The witch Albin paused for a moment, then quickly stood up and bowed to the Red Dragon Witch, saying, “Throne—Greetings, Throne Wizard.”

Catherine nodded slightly to her.

“Lock doesn’t have many friends, so I hope you can have a good exchange. There’s still some time before we reach our destination, so perhaps your exchange will yield some good results.”

The witch Albin quickly replied, “Not at all, it’s all for the forest and the magical plants.”

“Your Majesty, this is a brochure for the Volcanic Plant Release Festival, made by my teacher, the Sun Throne. We plan to release magical plants from the volcano crater on the hottest day in the Southern Boundary. If you’re interested, you can participate.” “

In fact, I’d love to see you participate. Every participation of a Throne wizard adds strength to our Volcanic Plant Release Festival. This way, the magical plants will be better protected. Besides, we have many more plant release festivals—”

The witch Catherine, with a very subtle expression, took the brochure from the witch Albin, the front of which featured a huge volcano.

“Hello, Ms. Albin, I will carefully consider your proposal.”

“You two talk first.”

After the witch Catherine left, the witch Albin said to Locke, “I didn’t expect the Red Dragon Throne of Mount Golden Crown to be so easy to talk to. She must be a particularly kind and simple witch, the kind who doesn’t care about anything except her own research.”

Locke pursed his lips, then said, “Witch Albin, let’s officially begin the work of discovering a spiritual energy similar to my Water-Guiding Spiritual Energy from the Azure Bamboo magical plants. This is a very difficult task. Bamboo is probably one of the most difficult magical plants to cultivate in the world.”

The witch Albin nodded and said, “Indeed, that’s why most low-level witches avoid this magical plant.”

“Bamboo-type magical plants typically flower only once every few decades, and die once they flower. Even with magical models to increase their growth rate, this process still takes about ten years. Ordinary wizards simply don’t have the resources to research this type of magical plant. This is a field only ‘elite’ teams with abundant research resources dare to touch. My friend, Mr. Locke Augustine, are you afraid?”

Locke didn’t directly answer her question, but instead said, “But this time we’re not going to breed them. We’re just piecing together his experimental procedures from back then, based on your teacher’s research data, and then separating the special spiritual energy again. This is different from cultivating magical plants of the Azure Bamboo genus.” “

This time, we’re not aiming to cultivate a special Azure Bamboo genus magical plant.”

“Most fortunately, your teacher performed crucial plant essence sequencing on several key Azure Bamboo species.”

“With this research data, we can quickly pinpoint our key targets.”

The witch Albin nodded and said, “Because bamboo mainly reproduces asexually, while ordinary magical plants allocate resources to growth, expansion, flowering, and fruiting, bamboo focuses all its resources on growth and expansion. It reproduces asexually throughout its life using its vegetative parts, expanding through rhizomes formed by its underground root system. Therefore, a bamboo forest is essentially just one bamboo stalk.” “

Its plant essence is relatively singular. But my teacher is quite ingenious; he identifies special plant essences by comparing them with other magical plants of the same genus. He sequenced the plant essences of magical plants of the same genus and determined their evolutionary relationships. Then, by comparing the plant essences of early Azure Bamboo magical plants with those of evolved Azure Bamboo magical plants, he determined which plant factors experienced a massive increase or decrease, thus identifying the relevant plant factors.” “

And specific spiritual energy is always related to specific plant factors. For example, spiritual energy that increases fire resistance will always appear alongside certain plant factors related to fire resistance.” “

Therefore, tracking plant factors with specific characteristics may lead to finding specific plant spiritual energy.”

Locke’s eyes brightened slightly.

“Conversely, finding the special spiritual energy within some magical plants might also lead to the discovery of some special plant factors?”

Witch Albin said. “You could understand it that way. But it’s not absolute, because there’s no absolute correlation between the two. Besides, many plant factors are just different ways of channeling spiritual energy, resulting in different outcomes.” “

Locke, these are plant essence sequencing results my teacher did for magical plants of the Azure Bamboo genus. We need to read these materials to deduce which specific species of Azure Bamboo magical plants he ultimately identified and what kind of special spiritual energy they possess.”

“I remember my teacher saying that these spiritual energies are already quite thin in the existing Azure Bamboo genus. So he enhanced the special spiritual energy within this magical plant by grafting three different Azure Bamboo magical plants consecutively, and then separated it using a special method. It’s a pity he kept this special method a secret.”

Witch Albin said regretfully, “I don’t know how he separated it.” “

I can’t ask my teacher about something he himself didn’t want to write about in his writings. It’s probably because he used some special method that needs to be kept secret.”

Locke’s eyes lit up.

The key now is to find out which three types of bamboo the other party used for grafting.

Because bamboo magical plants only flower once in their lifetime and rely almost entirely on asexual reproduction, the available breeding techniques are indeed limited.

Locke said, “Albin, don’t worry about that. Perhaps I have a way.”

The witch Albin said, “I almost forgot, you’ve already successfully separated the Water-Attracting Spirit Breath once.”

“Locke, could you tell me how you separated that spirit breath?”

“This airship doesn’t have any advanced breeding equipment, nor any equipment capable of separating spirit breath.”

Locke said, “It’s very simple. I used the properties of Water-Attracting Spirit Breath to separate it. It’s okay, if you don’t have the equipment, just make one yourself. Because it’s not complicated.” The witch Albin looked

up at Locke in surprise.

“Make one yourself?”

“Did you make the equipment you used to separate that Water-Attracting Spirit Breath yourself?”

The witch Albin looked at Locke with a rather surprised and admiring gaze.

“I didn’t expect that Locke, as a wizard from an academy of the caliber of Golden Crown Mountain, would have such strong practical and execution abilities.

You even made the device to separate the spiritual energy yourself.”

Locke was also helpless, because he had conducted this experiment in the laboratory of the Tide Grand Wizard Tower, where many things were unavailable, so he had to find his own way.

The witch Albin sighed, “For your own purpose, you’ll do anything, no matter the cost.”

“Locke, I admire your spirit.”

Locke glanced at her, then continued reading the materials, which were extremely complex, listing a series of intricate plant factors.

But to find that special spiritual energy, he had no choice but to try his best.

Thus began the two of them frantically reading materials in the laboratory.

A week later, Locke was performing related calculations on paper. In the past week, he and the witch Albin had narrowed down the range from over a hundred species of the *Phyllostachys* genus to thirty-one species.

Albin the witch yawned slightly. She stretched across from Locke and was about to ask the second-class wizard apprentice waiter in the free library for a wizard’s coffee. She then squinted her eyes to relax for a while, but when she looked up, she saw Locke’s efforts and was taken aback. “Wizard Locke is working so hard,”   Albin thought to herself.

“I’ve only slept once this week, but he hasn’t closed his eyes for seven days and seven nights. ” She felt a pang of self-reproach.   ”Sigh, I was so determined to work hard to protect the forest and the magical plants, how could I be so lazy now?”   ”Wizard Locke’s work ethic is truly remarkable. He’s so dedicated; I feel like he finished a month’s worth of work in a week. He mentioned using some kind of wafer before, but I don’t know what that is. Are all wizards in the Eastern Boundary this diligent—   then should I be even more diligent to protect the natural forest?   ” “I believe my efforts in breeding are second to none, but now I’m starting to doubt myself.   Am I being too lazy?”   Albin, who had been about to get up to clear her head, sat down again.   Locke looked up at Albin and said, “Take a look, is this grafting combination correct? This is just a rough guess. I’m currently verifying the probability.” Albin   took the data Locke handed her.   “Every airship should be equipped with a germplasm room, and this one probably is too. Although it may have been neglected for a long time, I think we might be able to get seeds of magical plants there. I think this grafting combination might be wrong—”   The witch Albin quickly listed the reasons why she thought it was wrong.   Locke nodded. The witch Albin’s level of expertise in botany and breeding was definitely the strongest he had ever seen.   The key was that he couldn’t spend a lot of time communicating with other people.   Many things that he thought were fine, when shown to the witch Albin, she could immediately spot the problems.   This was because of her years of accumulation and talent in breeding, and of course, it was originally her teacher’s experimental data, which she had even personally participated in.   With her help, his work efficiency increased many times over.   The two continued to discuss, both feeling that they had met their match. Their ideas were constantly clashing, and they were both surprised by each other’s occasional strokes of genius, and amazed by each other’s talent and potential in breeding, as well as their current accumulation.

Because Locke was a breeder from the Eastern Boundary and the Witch Albin from the Southern Boundary, their knowledge structures differed somewhat. Although their commonly used breeding methods were similar, Locke noticed that breeders from the Southern Boundary seemed to prefer hybridization.

Furthermore, their hybridization techniques were more refined and detailed.

Breeders from the Eastern Boundary, on the other hand, preferred grafting.

Three and a half weeks might seem long to many, but for Locke and Thea, two breeders immersed in deciphering the Throne Wizard’s experimental process, it flew by. During those three weeks, they spent their days researching, calculating, and even conducting their own breeding experiments in the planting room. Through

their combined efforts, three weeks later, Locke and the Witch Albin stood in a corner of the primeval forest within the planting room, activating several protective magic arrays to avoid attracting attention. Then, they looked at the magical plant at the very center of the arrays and at a simple device they had constructed using water magic.

Locke, having read extensively on water magic at the Tide Wizarding Tower, was able to work with Albin to construct a temporary, small-scale water magic device on the airship.

Looking at the documents in his hand, Locke said, “Ultimately, we determined that the Throne of Sunlight used three grafted varieties: Azure Bamboo, Azure Cold Bamboo, and Azure Light Bamboo. Based on the experimental data, we speculate that he probably first grafted Azure Cold Bamboo onto Azure Bamboo, and then grafted Azure Light Bamboo onto the previously grafted varieties.” “

But this is just our guess. If they can’t be separated, if it’s not a problem with the homemade equipment, then our deduced grafting method is incorrect, or we’re missing a step not mentioned in the data. These are, after all, just our guesses. If it fails—”

Albin the witch said, “I asked my teacher two weeks ago, but he hasn’t replied yet. He might be busy with other things. Or maybe he saw it but didn’t reply. Both are possible; after all, this was just a small experiment from many years ago for him.”

Locke nodded.

At this moment, he plucked a section from the bamboo and placed it into his homemade water-flow device. Then, using water magic and the Moon of Evolution, he employed the Moon of Evolution’s spiritual cultivation method to try and bring out the spiritual energy and other magical structural components, while simultaneously flushing these substances with water.

The witch Albin assisted from the side; her ultimate magic, [Green Manor], was a pure breeding ultimate magic with various auxiliary breeding functions, especially in hybridization breeding and magical plant leap technology.

A day later, Locke and the witch Albin looked at the spiritual energy within the glass bottle.

They swallowed hard, then exchanged a glance.

Locke hadn’t expected that his guess, made without relying on the synthetic cube, was still correct.

He and the witch Albin had guessed the grafting sequence of the Sun Throne.

They were right.

In less than a month, the two of them, working together, completed this task.

Their friendship had improved somewhat. Previously, they had only met briefly, then developed a mutual appreciation, but now, a success resulting from their collaboration would deepen their bond.

Above the spiritual energy within the glass bottle, a phantom resembling a giant suit of armor—like a giant tortoise—kept appearing. The witch Albin

placed her wand at the bottle’s opening, and the phantom above the powerful spiritual energy became agitated, resisting the wand.

Albin then used an apprentice-level water spell, which was completely absorbed by the spiritual energy.

The witch Albin said, “Locke, you were right. Using this specially grafted bamboo, we can enhance the special spiritual energy of the Azure Bamboo genus, making it extremely easy to extract this spiritual energy. Locke, you’re truly clever.”

Locke replied, “It’s not that I’m clever, it’s because of your help, and the more detailed experimental data from the Throne of the Sun. Without that detailed experimental data, the time and cost we would have spent might have exceeded twenty million magic stones. No, if that Throne Lord hadn’t initially focused on the Azure Bamboo genus, we might have been like headless flies, finding nothing.” “

Essentially, that Throne Lord clearly discovered this spiritual energy, but for some reason didn’t study it in depth. This spiritual energy is so powerful; just extracting it and placing it in the air causes its immense life force to stir the air, conjuring a phantom of a demon god. It’s truly powerful. I wonder why that Throne Lord didn’t continue the research?”

“He gave this opportunity to us.”

The Albin Witch pondered for a moment, then said, “Our teacher wasn’t particularly interested in spiritual energy. Secondly, human energy is finite, and our teacher’s greatest pride in this life was his extraordinary branches. The extraordinary branches I gave you weren’t the most powerful; the most powerful extraordinary branches were the Sun Ring Branches and the Triple Ring Branches. Those were our teacher’s greatest pride. Therefore, our teacher didn’t want to waste his limited energy on these things. As for why he recorded the data in such detail…” “

Our teacher was someone who wasn’t interested in anything other than extraordinary branches.”

“Locke, this research was completed by us—no, by you and our teacher together.”

The Albin Witch placed a stream of water-guided spiritual energy next to this stream, and the two streams of spiritual energy blended together seamlessly, as if they were originally one.

Their vitality merged, becoming one.

The witch Albin said, “Indeed, Water-Attracting Spiritual Energy is the basic version of this spiritual energy. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be directly integrated into it.” “

Locke, my teacher extracted this spiritual energy by chance. At the time, he was only trying to create extraordinary branches. So he didn’t bother to determine what this spiritual energy was. After all, there are many spiritual energies in this world. Some are special, but not powerful, their uses unknown, and their applications limited. It was you—you used Water-Attracting Spiritual Energy to prove what this spiritual energy truly is.”

“I suspect that all anomalous aquatic magical plants—plants that were originally terrestrial magical plants—may contain Water-Attracting Spiritual Energy, and high-level anomalous aquatic magical plants may very well contain this special spiritual energy.”

The witch Albin looked at Locke with admiration.

“Even within the Hand of the Jungle, at least in my knowledge, there aren’t many breeders as excellent as you. Locke, you are an exceptionally talented breeder. If you could dedicate all your energy to protecting the magical plants and those poor, lifeless creatures with me, that would be wonderful. Therefore, I’ve decided to let you name this special spiritual energy.”

Locke looked at the witch Albin with surprise.

“Is this alright?”

“Ms. Albin, you and I have put in the same amount of effort over these three and a half weeks.”

The witch Albin said righteously, “The same? I don’t think so. If we’re talking about effort, you’re the most hardworking. Moreover, my teacher isolated this spiritual energy, while you found its specific type. The two of you are the crucial ones in discovering this spiritual energy. I’m merely a data carrier.” “

Locke, please name this spiritual energy.”

Locke thought for a moment and didn’t refuse.

“Let’s call it Xuanwu’s Spirit Breath. I can use it to publish a paper in Zone 1 with you. We can co-author it.”

The witch Albin smiled and declined, “Actually, I’m not that obsessed with Zone 1. If there’s anyone truly qualified to co-author with you in this matter, I think it’s my teacher.” “

So, you publish it. I’ll pass.”

Locke looked at the witch Albin in surprise.

“I’m only interested in protecting the magical plants,” said the witch Albin. “Besides, in this matter, I consider myself your experimental assistant.”

“This spiritual energy is also for you. I’ve memorized the relevant experimental procedures; extracting it again is very simple. You’ve given me the best, and I’m very grateful. Discovering the Water-Guiding Spiritual Energy and the Black Tortoise Spiritual Energy will greatly help me manage the magical plant ecosystem of the Heavenly Cold River. Besides, I’ll need your help again in the future.” “

Therefore, I want to give you my work, this spiritual energy, and the grafted magical plants we completed together, in exchange for a favor.”

Locke raised an eyebrow and tentatively asked, “To protect the Heavenly Cold River magical plant ecosystem?”

The witch Albin nodded.

Locke was silent for a moment, then nodded solemnly.

“Sure.”

“If you need anything later, and I have the capacity, I can help you. However, I’m currently participating in a competition, so if I’m too busy then, I might have to decline.”

The witch Albin said, “Of course.”

“Locke, I’ll be going now. The airship will arrive at its docking point today. We’ve been so busy this past month.

I really need to find a place to rest.”

“I noticed you were quite interested in the three-way hybridization breeding method in the Southern Boundary. This information is about the three-way hybridization breeding method. It’s just basic breeding information that even an apprentice in the Southern Boundary knows. If you’re interested, you can learn it yourself.”

The female dwarf witch handed the information to Locke and then stretched.

“See you later.”

“It was truly a pleasure to collaborate with a genius like you this time.”

“This feeling is unforgettable.”

“This is the first time I’ve ever had such a joyful collaboration with someone.”

Locke watched Albin Thea chant a spell, open a spatial portal, and prepare to leave the vast “primeval forest” planting room. He suddenly said, “Witch Thea, you’ve changed my perception of the Hand of the Jungle. You truly are a breeder worthy of respect.”

Witch Albin turned to Locke with a puzzled look.

“Me?”

“I just did what any breeder would do. What is there to respect about me?”

“See you later.”

Witch Albin yawned wearily, turned, entered the spatial portal, and left the planting room.

Locke withdrew the Xuanwu spiritual energy and then looked at the special Star Ring Magic Plant grafted from three types of Star Ring Magic Plants.

Because it was a combination of three types of Star Ring Magic Plants, he and Witch Albin had shared ten million magic stones to purchase the seeds from the airship’s germplasm bank.

In retrospect, he had essentially earned ten million magic stones for free.

However, this left him with very little money.

Locke looked at the magical plant he had grafted using two grafting cultivation methods, a feat achieved through his and the witch Albin’s combined efforts.

“The Throne of Sunlight doesn’t seem to have named it. Perhaps they don’t consider it a new variety. I wonder if I could name it.”

Locke pondered for a moment and said, “Let’s call it Xuanwu Bamboo.”

Although the Xuanwu spiritual energy extracted from the imaginary roots of Xuanwu Bamboo wasn’t abundant or pure enough, unlike his own Great Ming Dragon Sparrow, which could extract large amounts of Vermilion Bird spiritual energy during battle, it was still

sufficient.

He could easily prepare a large quantity of highly pure Xuanwu spiritual energy in the laboratory beforehand, using Xuanwu Bamboo.

Now, with the blessing of the Four Saints, he only lacked the spiritual energy of the metal and wood attributes, and he was one step away from obtaining them.

The most dangerous of these was the special spiritual energy of the metal attribute.

He might not even be able to intercept it.

Locke even considered collaborating with the witch Rose to obtain that special spiritual energy,

since she seemed to have suffered a great loss recently and desperately needed the healing of a second-circle potion master.

Half a day later, the wizard airship landed on the dock.

Locke and the witch Catherine’s clone stepped off the airship together, and Catherine waved the Xuanwu spiritual energy Locke had shown her.

“I just gave you a casual suggestion, just something off the cuff, but I didn’t expect you to listen to me so seriously and even extract this level of spiritual energy.”

“The quality of this Xuanwu spiritual energy is even higher than the water-attribute protective spiritual energy I used when I was young.”

“You two actually managed to create something of this level through communication. I’m quite surprised.”

“Locke, you seem to be better at communicating with people than I am.”

Locke looked at the witch Catherine with a puzzled expression and asked, “Why?”

The witch Catherine said, “Because when people communicate, they prefer to receive rather than give. It’s difficult to get people to treat you sincerely. In this respect, you are much better than me.”

“You and the witch Albin extracted this level of spiritual energy in just one month, which is indeed beyond my expectations.”

Locke said, “Teacher, after reading about the three-way hybridization cultivation method in the hybridization cultivation method of the Southern Boundary, I realized that my Tree of Prosperity may have gone astray.”

The witch Catherine was not surprised at all.

“It’s not that you took the wrong path. There are countless paths to the truth; you just took a detour.”

“Locke, come with me. I’ve received some private information. This time, when we go to the Valley of Despair Laboratory, we might run into some old friends.”

Southern Wizard City is an island-type wizarding territory located in the middle of the Tianjiang River.

Inside an underground academy in Southern Wizard City, a third-ring wizard was pondering the fate of his student, Sera, along the Tianjiang River, when a researcher suddenly knocked and entered his office.

“Not good. Lord Tumras.”

“Golden Crown Mountain—a reinvestigation of the truth behind the Valley of Despair Laboratory.”

Wizard Tumras suddenly remembered some things—the evil deeds he had committed against those young Star Ring wizards, the terrible things that led a promising Voidforge wizard to his doom.

His expression changed slightly.

“It’s been so long, why the sudden need to investigate?”

“But even if they find out, so what? In this matter, I haven’t broken any laws.”

“Fine, I’ll go there myself.”

The researcher said in a low voice, “But I heard the Red Dragon Witch is in charge of this, and she’s gone too.”

The wizard Tumras’s expression changed drastically.

The researcher said, “Of course, the main investigators are probably her team of investigators. Despair Valley Laboratory—high-ring wizards shouldn’t be able to enter now. Forcing entry would disrupt the experiment, and the truth from back then would naturally disappear.

“