Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 598

Chapter 595: Obtaining Advanced Meditation and Imaginary Root Magic

I have spent a lot in the past two months, and the speed at which my magic pressure increases has increased, and my combat effectiveness has also increased sharply.

Moreover, you have a lot of things that can make money in the future, just waiting for your subsequent development. As long as they are developed well, they can be converted into resources.

“Recently, I’ve spent a total of 6.05 million magic stones.” Locke said, “I currently have 450,000 in savings and the 200,000 magic stones I just received last month.”

His original total monthly income was 160,000. He also had some scattered orders for Hydra and Pentacles on the Arthas platform. Although it was not as much as he earned on the True Love Festival, it still brought him an income of about 40,000 magic stones a month.

Therefore, he currently has a deposit of 650,000 magic stones.

Moreover, he paid off the 500,000 yuan principal and 25,000 yuan interest owed to the Fairy Family Bank in advance.

As long as the interest on the one-year payment can be paid in one lump sum, there is no reason for the Wizard Bank to refuse to pay the entire principal + interest in advance.

“For the development of Overlord Element No. 2, I still need to ask Teacher Ekaterina to act as a go-between for me and discuss with those high-level wizards.” Locke thought.

At his level, developing a project would cost around one million magic stones, and for a slightly larger project, the amount of money required would skyrocket.

I am a wizard with amazing utilization rate.

Therefore, with my current savings, I don’t need to think about developing a second Overlord Demon Plant project, and I don’t need to use my own money to do this.

Just wait and cooperate with the research team of Gaohuan Wizard, maybe I can attract some horizontal investment for myself.

Not only will you not lose money doing research, you can also make some money!

Although this is counterintuitive, the development project of Overlord No. 2 does have this capability as long as it is managed well.

“I will try to use the remaining money to buy some resources to improve my strength.” Locke wrote a list on the desk. It contained various purification potions and some potions to replenish his own magical energy.

Then, Locke rang the wizard bell on the table and summoned Ginny, the half-dragon maid given to him by the witch Catherine.

Locke looked at Ginny in surprise. “Have you reached the gasification stage?”

Ginny didn’t expect that Locke’s mental sensitivity was so high now. Just by being in the same room with her, Locke could sense the changes in her magical power just by looking at her.

Ginny said, “My dear little master, the master recently rewarded me with a dragon ingot, which increased my bloodline power. This is why I can become a bloodline wizard at the first level of Qi transformation.”

Locke nodded slightly, but was a little surprised that the Ekaterina Witch Society would suddenly reward Ginny.

“Dragon Yuan Baoqi is the product of the combination of the breath of a true dragon and the power of elements, but it can only be created by a true dragon at the third ring stage. For bloodline wizards and races like you who mainly have dragon bloodlines, it is indeed a rare treasure.”

But it’s of no use to me.

The level of the dragon blood in his body is not low. Using the aura of other dragon bloods of the same level will pollute his own blood and instead put himself in shackles.

Locke handed the list in his hand to Ginny and said, “Go buy the supplies on the list. Here are the corresponding magic crystal cards.”

Locke was already familiar with most of the supply lists at the Dragon Blood Market. Moreover, Ginny was a member of the clan of Ekaterina the Witch and a part of her great magic. It was basically unlikely that she would embezzle the money.

Ginny looked at the list in her hand and found that they were all high-value magical items. It would be difficult to buy them outside the Yunze Wetland, let alone just hear about them.

“Dream Tears Vitality, Barrier-Breaking Witch Porcelain…”

“I understand, Master.”

After seeing her leave, Locke packed up, boarded the Cloud Whale, and prepared to go to Witch Ekaterina to learn the advanced meditation method.

Soon, he was sitting above the white clouds and arrived at the Zhenzhiyuan Castle. He entered the seventh floor and walked in the corridor that looked like the bottom of a volcano.

Locke stopped for a moment in front of the Red Demon at the end of the corridor. He saw that the Red Demon, which had once completely attracted his desires and almost caused his death, was still powerful at this moment. It turned into a black and red rose, constantly stimulating his desires, especially his desire for knowledge.

However, Locke used the flow state he learned from Taohu Jishi magic and fell into a spiritual vacuum, and was never affected by it.

“It is said that the second-ring magic plant is fundamentally different from the first-ring magic plant. The first-ring magic plant possesses a revolutionary wood element crystal cluster, which transforms each plant cell into a high-pressure energy reactor, thus breaking through the first limit and reaching the first-ring stage from the apprentice stage.”

“And the two-ringed demonic plant evolved a special imaginary root in order to obtain more energy.”

Locke looked at the roots of the Red Demon God in front of him, and saw some normal roots in the magma, but outside of the normal roots, there were some roots that could only be observed with [Spiritual Vision] and existed only at the spiritual level.

Locke used the two Mist powers to protect his soul, which allowed him to observe the imaginary root at the bottom of the Red Demon God up close.

“The evolution of plants is essentially a recurring process of acquiring and utilizing energy, as well as innovating how to utilize it.”

“From the vascular bundles of mortal plants, to seeds, to flowers, and finally to fruits, the acquisition of photosensitive pigments, every evolution of plants creates a new batch of plants.”

“The Second Ring Magic Plant needs to solve the problem of insufficient energy acquisition efficiency.”

“No matter how traditional plant roots change, they can’t support the enormous energy required by the two-ring magic plant. Therefore, plants have found a correct evolutionary path – imaginary roots…”

There are many types of imaginary roots, but while imaginary numbers (perpendicular to the real number axis, which runs from negative to positive and can be used as a rotation axis in three-dimensional models, serving as the third number axis) don’t exist in the physical world, they do exist in the spiritual world. Imaginary roots are powerful roots that can simultaneously absorb the energies of both the real and imaginary worlds—one world, two energies.

Therefore, only magic plants with imaginary roots have the possibility of evolving into second-ring magic plants.”

After carefully observing the Red Devil, Locke turned around and pushed open the door of the conference room.

This is what I learned from the second-ring related magical plant documents in the borrowing library.

With my current knowledge, my understanding is certainly not comprehensive.

For example, why the magic plant only has imaginary roots, but its wood element crystal cluster cells will be strengthened.

Also, I only have a conceptual understanding of imaginary roots. I just know that there is such a thing, but I have no idea about the specific mechanism and principle.

In fact, this thing is equivalent to absorbing enough energy from the same area out of thin air.

For me at the moment, it is basically creating something out of nothing.

It’s really incomprehensible.

Moreover, judging from the backward process of the results, when the wizards chose to advance to the second ring, for some reason they did not refer to the advancement route of the magic plant, but chose the extreme magic route.

I didn’t choose the imaginary magic route mentioned in the book.

Historically, there was a time when imaginary magic and extreme magic were parallel.

But over a long period of time, those wizards who chose imaginary magic all chose to switch to learning extreme magic, and the once popular imaginary magic was lost.

However, these can only be explored further after becoming a second-ring wizard.

In the conference room, the witch Catherine, wearing an elegant red silk dress, without a crown but with her hair loose, was spraying water mist on a basin of dragon’s blood coral.

Locke looked at the witch Ekaterina in surprise, who was so casual, and said, “Teacher, I’m here at the time you agreed.”

“Should I step out for a moment so you can freshen up?”

Witch Ekaterina waved her hand and said, “No need.”

“Locke, why didn’t you come in right away? You were standing in the corridor for a long time.”

Locke said to the witch Ekaterina: “Teacher, I am observing the imaginary roots of the Red Devil.”

“I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.”

Witch Ekaterina nodded slightly. “No, quite the opposite. Far from being angry, I’m actually very pleased that you’ve made significant progress in the past six months.”

“Remember the first time you came to my office? You almost fell into the Red Devil’s trap, so you didn’t dare to look at it again. But now, you can observe it carefully, even observing its spiritual level magic plant organs, the imaginary roots.”

“That’s good. You let me see your growth.”

Witch Ekaterina didn’t ask Locke to demonstrate the Peach Arc Thorn Arrow magic to test whether he had truly learned it. Instead, she spoke directly to Locke, “Here is a catalog of advanced meditation methods from Golden Crown Mountain. According to the inbound contract that Director Morrison negotiated for you, you can choose from them.”

Locke picked up the document with anticipation and began to read it.

There are a total of twenty-one advanced meditation methods in Golden Crown Mountain.

The name of each book is written in advanced magical language. It takes some effort for an ordinary first-ring wizard to just remember the words written in this magical language.

“Heart of Nature Advanced Meditation, Crown of Flame Advanced Meditation…Potion Mountain Advanced Meditation…”

Witch Ekaterina said, “Whether it’s ordinary meditation or advanced meditation, they’re essentially just simplified versions of advanced meditation.”

“In the ancient wizarding world, advanced meditation was originally learned directly. Advanced meditation, also known as original meditation, was the first batch of meditation methods. Later meditation methods were either simplified versions, namely ordinary meditation and advanced meditation, or advanced versions.”

Locke looked at Witch Ekaterina in surprise.

Witch Ekaterina said, “It’s just that wizards gradually discovered that the consequences of forcing them to directly learn advanced meditation methods were too serious. Only one in ten wizards could master it, and advancement was simply too difficult. Therefore, simplified versions of advanced meditation methods gradually emerged, and they were simplified twice.”

“If the first two meditation methods allowed you to visualize certain mythical beings and increase your magical power by analyzing and imitating them, then the true meditation method now is not to visualize them, but to visualize yourself.”

“That is, entering a state of [no thought], by forcing yourself into that state, visualizing yourself, digging for strength from within, and visualizing the rules of the corresponding Force world.”

Locke was stunned for a moment.

Witch Ekaterina said, “Golden Crown Mountain has a total of twenty-six advanced meditation methods, all of which are primitive meditation methods passed down from ancient times to increase spiritual power. Five of them were taken away by Lu Xuqiao, so you can only choose from these twenty-one.”

Locke hesitated for a moment and asked, “Teacher, what meditation method would you recommend for me? After all, I really don’t understand it.”

Witch Ekaterina said, “That depends on you. If you want to be a complete botanical wizard and breeding wizard, choosing the Nature Heart Meditation method is the most suitable.”

“If you have greater ambitions, you can choose the Eye of the World meditation method. This meditation method itself is also biased towards natural forces. It also requires sinking into one’s own heart and visualizing the root power of the natural force plane in order to gain the power of the natural force plane.”

“Actually, advanced meditation and advanced meditation are the same thing. They are both ways for wizards to use the Force plane to enhance their mental power.”

“It’s just that I no longer visualize mythical creatures. Instead, I visualize the underlying power of that Force plane directly through my own visualization.”

“There are only slight differences in observation methods and directions. Each advanced meditation method has some biases. Therefore, the nature of the mana gained varies, but the impact isn’t significant.”

Witch Ekaterina said, “Gaining magical power is the most important thing. The Heart of Nature meditation will increase your compatibility with nature. The Eye of the World meditation will also increase your compatibility with nature, but not to such a deep level. However, it will also increase your compatibility with other magic.”

“Similarly, the Holy Beast Horn Meditation Method allows one to visualize the plane origin of the Divine Force. The Flame Crown Meditation Method allows one to visualize the plane origin of the Fire Force. The Flame Claw Meditation Method also allows one to visualize the plane origin of the Fire Force. However, the emphasis is different, and therefore the resulting mana characteristics are slightly different…”

“Even with advanced meditation methods, one can only focus on one aspect and visualize the origin of a Force plane.”

Locke pointed to an advanced meditation called Heart of Myriad Beasts and asked, “Teacher, which plane of the Force does this meditation visualize?”

Witch Ekaterina took a look and said, “That is the Force plane of the visualized soul.”

“The Force plane is like the sun, radiating the world and spreading energy in the endless void. We wizards use meditation to obtain this energy and use it to replenish our magic power.”

“However, the so-called meditation method is just a way to gain mana and increase magic pressure.”

Witch Ekaterina raised her left finger, and suddenly flames appeared in the void and gathered on her left finger.

At the same time, powerful magical tidal energy poured in. “When using advanced meditation, you can simultaneously gain the magical tidal power of the wizarding world and the world force of a certain Force plane.”

“But for example, I can use the energy in the elemental fission well of this wizard tower under my feet to gather it in a wizard’s body and help him increase his magic pressure. It’s just that the efficiency is very low.”

Locke had a flash of inspiration. “So, for high-level wizards, meditation isn’t the only way to increase magical pressure?”

The witch Ekaterina reminded him, “Yes, and no.”

“Because even for low-level wizards, or even wizard apprentices, there’s more than one way to increase your magic power. Drinking potions or eating special world wonders are all alternative ways to increase your magic power, but they’re not long-lasting.”

“Currently, the most mainstream and efficient way for wizards to increase their magic power is to visualize the Force plane and gain its power.”

Witch Ekaterina said, “This is also a unique feature of our wizard civilization. The Force Plane is one of the main sources of energy in the void, but generally only the world can convert the energy of the Force Plane to form new planes in the void, or to grow and maintain the plane itself.”

“The energy radiation from the various Force planes primarily serves those planes that have independently formed within the void.”

“Almost all civilizations are unable to utilize the Force plane, or can only indirectly utilize the energy radiated from the Force plane. However, the high-ring wizards of our wizard civilization have successfully transformed the Force into their own energy by visualizing the world—meditating on themselves—and understanding everything.”

“In a sense, we wizards are helping the wizarding world increase its efficiency in absorbing the various types of Force radiating from the various Force planes within the void. To a large extent, our wizarding civilization is giving back to this world.”

“This is also one of the main reasons why the wizarding world is becoming increasingly powerful.”

Locke nodded. He finally had a clearer understanding of the advanced meditation method.

Locke asked, “Teacher, what is your advanced meditation method?”

Witch Ekaterina thought for a moment, then said, “It’s been too long. There’s no point in asking me this. How to make the choice is up to you.”

Locke nodded and said, “Then teacher, I will choose the Eye of the World Advanced Meditation Method.”

Basically, I have two priority goals: one is the Eye of the World, and the other is the Heart of Nature.

Both of these meditation methods involve visualization of the natural force plane.

It’s just a different focus.

Along the way, I have invested the most in the plane of natural force, and I have a lot of things related to the plane of natural force, so there is naturally no need to give up.

The Heart of Nature, on the other hand, tends to be a completely pure botanical wizard. I’m afraid its creators are all pure botanical wizards.

The Eye of the World is more comprehensive.

Due to his own research and investment in alchemy and archaeology, the most suitable one for him is definitely the Eye of the World Advanced Meditation Method.

Moreover, as the teacher said, improving magical power is the most important function of advanced meditation.

As for other so-called mana characteristics, there is really not much difference.

So, there is no need to hesitate too much in this regard.

Witch Ekaterina raised her lips. “Well, the characteristics of advanced meditation methods don’t actually have a serious impact. Unless there are two advanced meditation methods pointing to completely different planes of the Force.”

“Then the impact of making the wrong choice will be greater.”

“For example, you, a botanical wizard, use the advanced meditation method of the Fire Force plane. Although it can also increase the magic pressure…”

Locke was surprised and asked, “Can it be possible?”

Witch Ekaterina nodded. “Actually, it can. As long as it’s an advanced meditation method, it can help a wizard continue to increase his magic pressure. Even after becoming a second-ring wizard, it can still help increase his mental strength. It doesn’t matter.”

“But it would be a very bad match. Even if it could barely work, it would affect your future.”

Locke nodded. It was probably because the hardware and software didn’t match, but if he wanted to force it, it should be usable.

Witch Ekaterina added, “Botanical wizards who use advanced meditation techniques related to the plane of fire force will be restricted in the future, even if they become second-ring wizards, and their progress will become increasingly difficult unless they switch to meditation techniques. Visualization is essentially a form of learning.”

“If you contemplate the plane of fire every day, you’ll lack a lot of knowledge and understanding related to the plane of nature. Furthermore, your own magical pressure won’t be suitable for studying botany, and you’ll miss out on the many sudden insights that come with this advanced meditation method.”

Ekaterina fell into deep thought. “But there are exceptions to everything. The current vice-president of Golden Crown Mountain, a fourth-ring wizard, spent his youth in the wizarding land of the Salty Dead Sea in the eastern border. Due to a lack of resources, he could only learn what was available. Thus, even though he was a bloodline wizard, he learned an advanced meditation method that connects to the plane of wind force.”

“This caused him a lot of trouble. But he overcame these difficulties and eventually became a fourth-ring wizard.”

Witch Ekaterina’s tone was full of respect. “Well, if you need it in the future, you can also find ways to obtain other advanced meditation methods and learn from them. Anyway, this is the Eye of the World Advanced Meditation Method.”

“By the way, this is also the meditation method I chose during the first stage of crystallization.”

Witch Ekaterina chanted a spell, and a small black hole appeared between the two of them. Then a magic book made of spirituality erupted from the black hole.

The spiritual magic book turned into a stream of light and flew into the center of his eyebrows.

The next moment, countless spiritual runes flew out from the magic book and fell into his sea of consciousness.

Locke felt as if his thoughts were being forced to fly away, and then his mind fell. For a moment, he was overwhelmed with thoughts, and the scene he saw before him was bizarre.

He seemed to be crashing into the natural force plane in the endless void.

Locke subconsciously wanted to control his mind and break free from the influence of advanced meditation, but it was a bit difficult.

Countless thoughts seemed to suddenly appear in his mind.

The advanced meditation method allowed him to directly visualize the world, and then a thought that he couldn’t control popped up in his mind –

‘I am not me!’

‘I don’t exist!’

“I don’t exist. I am the world, and the world is me. I am the plane of natural force!”

The next moment, Locke felt something was wrong and immediately used his remaining attention to consolidate his consciousness and prevent himself from being assimilated by the world in the advanced meditation method.

Then, he thought of Momokazu Kiyomi’s flow state.

He forced his spirit to transform into a blank state, and then he had no thoughts or emotions, and in the process, he saw himself.

Confirmed his existence.

Abandon all random thoughts and, under the influence of those world forces, still be able to clearly distinguish yourself from other things.

Because of the emptiness of one’s own spirituality, the chaotic forces of the world are naturally as clear as black and white!
(End of this chapter)