Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 556

Chapter 553 Nutritional Soil Science

Chapter 553 Nutritional Soil Science
Locke thought about whether he could have plans to buy the four element rings of wind, water, fire and earth in the near future, but he denied it himself.

Because buying one of the rings is useless, and buying the whole set costs 800,000 magic stones.

Although he had a deposit of 1.2 million and could earn 160,000 magic stones every month, the second-class Zhenzhi Academy fund project he was in hand would require him to use the three major three-ring magic mirrors at least 35 times.

Since this project is currently his, Mason Witch and the others should help him with research and use the magic mirror, and he should also pay 20,000 magic stones for the use of the magic mirror.

During the research process, he was still using the one-acre magic field on the top of the banyan tree canopy to synthesize and discover new mechanism pathways and new natural magic structure components.

In other words, I will need to use the magic mirror more often in this project in the future.

It would cost at least 700,000 magic stones now, and it would only cost more in the future.

I also need to keep 200,000 magic stones as a backup in case I suddenly need to spend money.

Therefore, at the moment, he definitely does not have the money to spend 800,000 magic stones to buy the four elements ring.

I am just barely wealthy, and I will need money in the future.

So what about taking out a loan?

Locke thought about it and decided that if he wanted to plant the seeds of the ancient tree of life in the druid ring as soon as possible, he could go to the fairy family bank in the Dragon Blood Market and get a loan.

Of course, in this white wizard society, if a formal wizard wants to borrow money or take out a loan, there must be countless ways.

Money is an item for allocating resources, so in the white wizard society, industries related to money are extremely developed.

In this plantation, Alsace can provide many of the things needed for farming free of charge.

Locke found an ordinary first-ring wizard staff member from Alsace in the plantation and said to him, “I need first-ring-level nutrient soil and nutrient solution, as well as fast-growing agents.”

The ordinary staff member of the first ring said to Locke, “Hello, Breeder Augustine. The supervisor has instructed me to provide you with the resources you need to backcross the Hydra Demon Plant. I’m just wondering if you need to mix your own nutrient soil, or use the nutrient soil prepared by another breeder?”

Locke asked, “Make your own nutrient soil? Do you need to make your own nutrient soil for the Yunze Wetland?”

A look of surprise flashed in the eyes of this ordinary first-ring wizard. Breeders who cooperated with the Alsace Shop Alliance rarely asked such basic questions.

But he immediately thought of something, and the contempt that had just arisen in his heart quickly disappeared, and instead became more respectful.

“You’ve just arrived at our Yunze Wetland, haven’t you? You’re truly young and promising. It’s rare for wizards to arrive at Yunze Wetland and already have their work partnered with our Alsace Shop Alliance for commercial development.”

The First Ring wizard patiently explained, “In Yunze Wetlands—the breeder’s paradise—we have a comprehensive science of nutrient soil. Take this First Ring-level nutrient soil, for example. Other wizard lands would simply mix a bunch of trace elements needed by plants into the nutrient soil and irrigate it with an excessive amount of magical energy.”

“But Yunze Wetland doesn’t just aim to do that. We’ve conducted a great deal of basic research, and within that detailed research, we’ve discovered that different magical plants require different trace elements and have different specific growth environments. This has led to the development of numerous different nutrient soil formulations.”

“This can reduce the unnecessary consumption of magic resources and also allow the magic plants to grow better.”

Locke nodded slightly. He had been here for four and a half months, updated a lot of knowledge, and learned a lot of things. He had just entered the Emerald Dream and completed the project a few days ago. Time was tight, so he had not completed many details.

Before, when I planted two acres of magic fields, I didn’t need to use nutrient soil at all because I planted ordinary one-ring pineapples, or even apprentice-level pineapples.

Moreover, when I went to the store to buy nutrient soil, I just said, “Boss, I want nutrient soil.”

Then, the boss gave him a bag of nutrient soil and took away a thousand magic stones from him.

Now that I think about it, the shop owner simply looked me up and down, automatically made a judgment for me, and threw me a bag of generic nutrient soil.

Locke coughed and secretly glanced at his two students. The two students had no expression on their faces, as if they hadn’t seen anything.

Locke said, “I see. I’ve only been in Yunze Wetland for four months and just joined Golden Crown Mountain.”

After hearing this, the ordinary first-ring wizard immediately became more respectful towards Locke.

Although Locke doesn’t understand these small details for the time being, it’s not something an ordinary wizard like him can cheat.

A wizard who can cross the wizard land and join the wizard organization in Yunze Wetland must have excellent abilities.

Otherwise, he would not be able to break through the restrictions of the wizarding land and join the wizarding academy in Sanze Land.

For example, he himself could not find a teaching position in the wizard academy, and was unwilling to leave Sanze to develop in other wizarding lands, so he could only join the store alliance and become a senior employee here.

The First Ring wizard murmured, “That’s right. Let me briefly explain this to you. Augustine the Breeder will also understand these things very quickly.”

“It is my honor to explain it to such an excellent breeder like you.”

“The nutrient soil in the Yunze Wetlands generally comes in eight types. The first is general nutrient soil, which is basically a mixture of peat soil, perlite, and humus from green manure magic plants and wind-fixing elemental magic plants, then mixed with the [Plant Nutrition Potion] prepared by the alchemists in a ratio of 7:3.”

“Its characteristics are balanced fertility, water retention and air permeability.”

“There are also nutrient soils for drought-resistant magic plants, nutrient soils for humid magic plants, nutrient soils for seedling-growing magic plants, nutrient soils for flowering magic plants, nutrient soils for woody magic plants, nutrient soils for herbaceous magic plants, and nutrient soils for vine-growing magic plants.”

This ordinary first-ring wizard patiently explained, “These eight categories are only applicable in the most common situations. Certain special magical plants require specialized nutrient soil. For example, orchids that grow on rocks or trees can’t use these eight types of nutrient soil and need to mix their own.”

“There are also many special magical plants that need to be grown in high-temperature environments, and they also require their own special nutrient soil.”

“So, understanding these eight types of nutrient soil is just the beginning.”

Locke nodded slightly. He indeed still had a lot to learn in Yunze Wetland.

For example, I should catch up quickly on the nutritional soil science which is related to my old profession as a breeder.

There are more types of magical plants in Yunze Wetland, and the levels of magical plants are higher, so the corresponding nutrient soil and nutrient solution science will naturally be more complicated.

Locke didn’t pretend to understand, but directly asked the Alsace staff member, “So, can vine-type magic plants use vine-type nutrient soil?”

The ordinary first-ring wizard was stunned for a moment. “If it’s a magical vine planted in the soil and doesn’t have any special requirements for high or low temperatures, then it can indeed be used.”

“The key to making these eight categories of universal nutrient soil is actually to consider the drainage requirements, acidity and alkalinity requirements, and air permeability requirements of these magical plants, as well as the magical element requirements of the major categories of magical plants.”

“It’s just about these four requirements.”

“But in the Yunze Wetland, theoretically, each magical plant can have its own specialized nutrient soil and nutrient solution. However, this requires extensive basic research on this magical plant, gathering information on its various properties and what it needs from multiple perspectives.”

“Then, you can make your own nutrient soil.”

Locke nodded slightly. This means that he might be able to buy special nutrient soil and nutrient solution for Sea Gold Sand in Yunze Wetland, but he cannot buy special nutrient soil and nutrient solution for Hydra.

Because Hydra is a brand new magical plant, while Sea Sand is a magical plant that has appeared for a long time.

This ordinary first-ring wizard said, “So, generally speaking, the breeders here will try to mix their own nutrient soil and nutrient solution specifically for the magical plant, if that magical plant is very meaningful to them.”

“As for the vine-type magical plant nutrient soil, it’s mainly made of 40% leaf mold from the first ring magical plant, 30% core rock, 20% bark mold from the red holly, and 10% Tartarus burrow worm excrement, plus the [Plant Nutrition Potion] made by the alchemist.”

“The main features are breathability, water retention and strong support.”

The first-ring wizard said, “So, we have nutrient soil breeders here. They are plant nutritionists who specialize in preparing nutrient soil for those breeders.”

Locke nodded slightly, indicating that he understood. From the description of this first-ring wizard, he already knew that the vine-like magic plant nutrient soil could be used to cultivate Hydra.

After all, the so-called professional nutrient soil for each magic plant is just icing on the cake. The general nutrient soil for vine-type magic plants is actually enough.

You know, in other wizarding lands, there may be only one kind of nutrient soil, but in Yunze Wetland, there are eight kinds of general nutrient soil alone.

This is impossible. It is a magical plant that came from the outside world and became delicate when it arrived at Yunze Wetland.

This is because Yunze Wetland, in the long-term internal competition and pursuit of performance-based learning, has reached an extremely exaggerated level in its pursuit of the quality of magic plants and the efficiency of cultivating magic plants.

But the Hydra Magic Plant is its own work, and there should be no similar competitors at present, so it is a blue ocean market, not a red ocean market.

You don’t need to be so excited.

Therefore, there is no need to follow what the ordinary first-ring wizard in front of you said, and find someone, or make a special version of nutrient soil for the Hydra Demon Plant yourself.

It’s just a waste of time and money.

Specialized versions of nutrient soil don’t actually increase efficiency much.

Especially in the blue ocean market, there is no need to get involved to such an extent.

Locke said, “Then give me three tons of vine-type magic plant nutrient soil, one ton of vine-type magic plant nutrient solution, and five hundred kilograms of King Oxhorn Mushroom fast-growing agent.”

Ordinary growth hormones are extracted from fluorescent moss, which can no longer meet the rapid growth needs of the first-ring magic plant. Therefore, the breeders found the King Horn Agaricus, a special fungal magic plant that is as big as a house, has rapid self-repair capabilities, and amazing reproductive capabilities.

Breeders extracted several key natural magical structural components from it, which enable it to have rapid self-repair and strong reproductive capacity, and mixed them into the King Oyster Mushroom Fast-Growing Agent.

In addition, with the dragon crystal ecological dome within this plantation, it can be said that with these things, as long as there are no special insect pests and magical fungal disasters, basically, no matter how you plant it, the Hydra magic plant can grow.

The ordinary first-ring wizard quickly brought these things with the astral ring, and Locke asked two students to pick up shovels and go to work. They dug a deep pit with one shovel at a time, and then filled the deep pit with the mixed soil made of nutrient solution, nutrient soil and fast-growing agent prepared by Locke.

Then, Locke asked two dusty apprentices to walk out of the magic field, and then planted a nine-headed snake magic plant in each acre of the magic field.

Locke watched the two students working in the fields and thought to himself, “The first-ring magic plant is too delicate. I need a first-class wizard apprentice to plant it for me.”

“However, I am also responsible for coaching them in the game, so it’s a win-win situation.”

‘Not really a slave owner.’

Locke said to Gregor and Williams, “You two take care of it first. I’m going to use Rapid Growth later. Hurry up. I want to hand over the first batch of Hydra plants within today.”

Locke will use the seeds of the Hydra Demon Plant to grow different Hydra Demon Plants, and then use these demon plants to hybridize, and then obtain new seeds, and then plant them out again. This cycle will be repeated several times. By the sixth generation or so, if the planted Hydra Demon Plants do not show any trait mutation or trait degeneration, then the traits are considered stable.

You can just sell it directly.

This is also what Alsace requires of itself. After all, Alsace does not want to have problems with its products while selling them, which would then cause disputes with customers.

Of course, the money and resources that were paid were also provided by Alsace.

“The Hydra plants we need to use don’t need to be fully grown,” Locke pondered. “Just like when I first developed the Hydra plants, I didn’t use fully grown plants either. I only needed to use fast-growing plants.”

There is a huge difference between fast-growing organisms and true adults. They are basically induced organisms, and their power is very different from that of true adults.

It is a state of forcing things to grow.

But he only needs to ensure that the sixth-generation Hydra Demon Plant can grow into a normal adult, and then the normal adult of the sixth Hydra Demon Plant will still have characteristics similar to the Hydra Demon Plant in his hand, that is, the characteristics are stable.

You can obtain a certificate of permission to sell issued by the Alsace Shop Alliance.

Whether it is special nutrient soil or backcrossing, they are all special regulations of Yunze Wetland. In Yunze Wetland, a fertile land for cultivating breeders, the sale of magic plant works seems to have become much stricter than in the southeast corner and the six towers.

A day later, Gregor was so tired that he sat on the ground, but Williams, in order to maintain his demeanor, naturally could not sit on the ground and could only stand there reluctantly.

As a mentor, Locke is naturally spotless, but the two poor students are controlled by Locke.

Locke took out two stools from his astral ring and gave them two stools to sit on. “You sit down.”

The two students immediately looked at Locke with gratitude.

Locke looked with satisfaction at the ten fast-growing adult seedlings of the Hydra Demon Plant that had grown rapidly under his first ring of magic [Rapid Growth].

They are basically in a state of underdevelopment, but that doesn’t matter, all that matters is that they have the ability to reproduce and produce seeds.

If he wanted to fully cultivate the sixth generation of Hydra Demon Plant, not to mention the mere 100,000 yuan of self-funded funds, even if he gave himself 1 million yuan, it would not be enough.

Doing scientific research means learning to save money in every loophole.

That’s why Locke felt that providing special soil for the magic plant was completely inconsistent with his needs.

I am not that famous now, so I need to be so meticulous.

If you think about it carefully, maybe the first-ring wizard doesn’t understand the ins and outs of the Academy of True Knowledge, and many of the wizards he comes into contact with are second-ring wizards. After all, Arthas’s biggest partner is still a second-ring wizard.

Therefore, many of the suggestions he gave himself were the habits of a second-ring wizard and were not suitable for his current self.

Locke collected seeds from these fast-growing Hydra plants, and because he used magic to induce growth, he hurt this wave of Hydra plants again.

Locke said to the two, “You two, please work harder and dig out these fast-growing magic plants. Be careful not to damage the roots. I just need to enchant them so that they can’t reproduce. Then I can sell them and recoup my costs.”

Gregor didn’t even consider refusing and immediately got up from the ground. “Yes, teacher.”

Williams showed an expression that looked like she wanted to cry but couldn’t, but she quickly straightened her mind and said to Locke, “I understand, teacher.”

Williams glanced at Locke secretly, his heart full of anticipation. Locke said, “It’s getting late, everyone go back and rest.”

But when he turned around, he found that Locke had taken out a pen and paper and was calculating the self-pollination algebra. He then used the concentration monocle and the small breeder equipment provided in the plantation, the differential magic mirror, to simply observe the characteristics of these fast-growing Hydra plants to see if any changes were found.

After all, it is just a backcross to stabilize the traits, and it certainly cannot be put on the three magic mirrors of large breeders’ equipment.

I would like to go, but I don’t think the team leader will approve it.

That’s like using a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Williams secretly asked Gregor, “Isn’t our teacher from the southeast corner?”

Gregor, who was carefully shoveling the soil around the base of the magic vine, was stunned for a moment. “Yeah, what’s wrong?”

Williams whispered, “What do I need to say? We’ve been working all day, and he’s been working all day, and it’s almost midnight.”

“Teacher, how did you adapt to the pace of Yunze Wetland so quickly?”

Williams held her forehead with her hand. She originally thought that after being assigned to a wizard from an outside wizarding land this time, she would be able to stay away from 007.

But the familiar recipe and familiar taste are here.

Gregor glanced at Locke with some fear. “Teacher, you are working too.”

Locke frowned slightly when he heard them talking, and suddenly remembered that he was a crystallized wizard, a first-time transcendent, and his body and spirit were far superior to those of an apprentice.

Therefore, there is a serious difference between my own perception and that of the apprentice.

Being tired for yourself and being tired for your apprentice are two different concepts.

As a first-ring wizard, I’m afraid I’ll have to tire myself out to the point where they’ll die of exhaustion several times over.

It was my own mistake not to notice this.

Locke said, “You two should go back and rest.”

“I still have work to do here. You two should go back first and come back tomorrow morning at six o’clock.”

“By the way, when you get back tonight, take a look at the information I gave you.” In order to prevent the two from slacking off, Locke said, “I’ve already registered you two.”

“The Yunze Wetland Association-level Breeder Competition has three rounds. The first round is an internal competition within the school, the second round is the association-level preliminaries, and the third round is the main competition.”

“Prepare for the first round first. A good ranking will help you obtain the title of Wizard Candidate Seed and Breeding Rising Star in Breeding, as well as some special rewards from Golden Crown Mountain. If you rank even higher, you may even gain entry into the Apprentice-level Wizard Secret Realm.”

Speaking of the opportunity to enter the wizard’s secret realm, the two of them were shocked again.

Who doesn’t want to enter the wizard’s secret realm? Whoever enters the wizard’s secret realm will be greatly improved after coming out. Everyone can see this.

After the two left, Locke looked at his magic field and began to ponder.

After testing, I found that the self-pollination of the Hydra Demon Plant was very successful, and there was basically no degeneration of traits. I only needed to pick out the seeds of some of the demon plants that might have problems, and continue the experiment with the seeds of those Hydra Demon Plants that had stably inherited the traits.

Soon the Hydra Demon Plant will be available for sale as a commodity.

If the Hydra Demon Plant can be sold, it can further alleviate the problem of lack of scientific research funds.

With a large amount of scientific research funds, he might be able to accomplish something that might be beyond the expectations of Witch Ekaterina.

But there is still a problem.

“If I can turn the Hydra into a Three-Headed Snake, I can further increase the sales rate of the products, which will be of great benefit to me.”

Locke thought for a moment. “But even if we use the synthetic cube, combined with the grafting method, the magic frequency method, or the finite element method, we still need some funds to develop the subspecies.”

But I am really short of money. It would be great if I can use this little money to fund the second-class project of the Zhenzhi Institute.

“Research is really expensive. I’m relatively wealthy, but wouldn’t it be even harder for researchers who don’t have any extra income and can only rely on the 10,000 magic stones they receive monthly from the Institute of True Knowledge to do research?” Locke said, “Forget it. If I can cheat Arthas out of his money, I’ll do it.”

“I’ll just ask the wizards here for money directly. As long as they don’t refuse, I’ll pretend I don’t know.”

This is all for the purpose of getting some research funds.

If you can make a fortune, do it first.

Locke already has three ideas for dealing with the three-headed snake. One is to use magic vines with fewer heads to graft onto the nine-headed snake, taking advantage of its specificity to suppress the multi-headed characteristics of the nine-headed snake.

One is to use magic inhibitors to suppress the side heads of the Hydra plant so that it cannot develop.

The third one is to use the magic frequency cultivation method.

Of course, these can all be sped up using synthetic cubes.

At that moment, a witch in the first crystallization stage walked into the plantation. After searching the area, she found Locke among the regular wizards working there. “Hello, are you Locke Augustine? I’m the brand operator assigned to you by Arthas.”

“I will be responsible for the specialized operations and related business for your Hydra. I came here this time to communicate with you.”

“Please rest assured, I’m a professional brand operator. I’ve been responsible for the operation of hundreds of magical plants and have extensive operational experience. I’d also like to open a special section interface for our store alliance within the Water Hyacinth system for you.”

“You can see the future sales figures for each Hydra order, along with related reviews and rankings of Alsace products on the interface.”

(End of this chapter)