Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 728

Chapter 725 Generational Alternation and the Fallen Rain World Plant Essence, and Horizontal Gene Transfer!

At this moment, many wizards in the Golden Crown Mountain audience area stood up from their seats, each showing an expression of surprise that was no less than that of people from other wizarding academies. It

had actually completed its evolution.

Without using any known second-ring cultivation methods, nor the five major cultivation methods, but using a special cultivation method, a Sea Gold Sand plant had been cultivated into a second-ring Sea Gold Sand plant in such a short time!

Even though it looked like a wild magical plant!

Wizard Fisher remained unusually silent. He somewhat suspected that Locke wasn’t someone Catherine the Witch had brought back from outside; otherwise, what a coincidence it would be to bring back such a wizard from outside.

Perhaps, ten years ago, Catherine the Witch had been cultivating him outside and meticulously guiding him back to the Cloud Marsh Wetlands!

This wasn’t impossible.

The Senate had done it before.

Meanwhile, the wizards on the Academic Committee, while surprised, applauded Locke.

Becoming a second-circle wizard is the true entry into the wizarding world, allowing one to glimpse its true nature.

Today, they have gained another companion on the path of truth.

Golden Crown Mountain has gained another excellent breeder!

All the wizarding factions in the Golden Crown Mountain region, witnessing this scene, had differing thoughts.

The wizards of the Nexus City felt mostly envy and jealousy, feeling that the addition of another excellent breeder to Golden Crown Mountain was a blow to them.

The wizards of Kungudin Academy simply admired it, while the wizards of the Everlasting Hall and the Sand Tower had different perspectives.

A second-circle headmaster of the Seven-Colored Nursery looked up at this scene, his eyes flickering. “It seems to be a very powerful private breeding method.”

“If we could invite this excellent breeding expert to lecture at our Seven-Colored Nursery’s Red Garden and offer such a course, that would be wonderful.”

The Seven-Colored Nursery was cultivated by Golden Crown Mountain specifically to enhance the influence of wizarding academies like Kungudin Academy and Nexus City within the Golden Crown Mountain region. It has a de facto alliance with Golden Crown Mountain and naturally receives many of its favors.

At this moment, the second-circle wizarding academy headmaster dared to dream that he might be able to invite Locke to his academy at the Seven-Colored Nursery to offer a special open course, thereby strengthening the prestige of the Seven-Colored Nursery and the Red Garden.

The Seven-Colored Nursery has seven gardens in total, with their Red Garden being the most powerful and also the most vocal advocate for an alliance with Golden Crown Mountain.

Meanwhile, the wizarding agents of the Melochy and Solas shops, all with grim faces, looked as if they had lost their parents.

Things were unfolding in the way they least wanted to see.

What both families found most unacceptable was Locke winning the Silent Grail Tournament on behalf of Golden Crown Mountain.

They could almost foresee how their shop alliance’s stock price would plummet tomorrow.

If Locke won the Silent Grail Tournament, his Augustus Wizard Shoes would become a champion brand. The most troublesome thing was that once he became a second-circle wizard, things would change drastically.

The group exchanged glances.

Capital usually seemed like polite and civilized gentlemen, but when faced with something that could cause them huge financial losses, the wizard agents of the shop alliance, and even some wizard shareholders, had a fierce glint in their eyes.

Capital would stop at nothing to increase its own value. It would

even seize the wizards’ autonomy. It would

expand for the sake of expanding assets, completely detaching itself from human relationships.

At this moment, the atmosphere between the wizard agents and wizard shareholders had become extremely strange.

On the other side, in the audience seats of the Mithril Law Firm, Hussein was sitting in his seat, holding the case files, working while watching the match.

The senior partner beside him smiled at Hussein and said, “You said before that this is your friend, not bad, young Hussein. You should cherish this kind of quality friend.”

“I think he’s in quite a bit of trouble.”

The senior partner of Mithril Law Firm looked at Solas and Melochy’s group, his eyes full of amusement.

“In our line of work, we can’t be slow to react; we have to anticipate conflicts between people. Even earlier than before those conflicts occur.”

“It seems your friend is going to be embroiled in lawsuits for a while now. Or even worse.”

Hussein chuckled. “From the first day I met Locke, I felt he was always caught in a vortex of trouble.”

Meanwhile, Hoo Brooks, a wizard from Quinjol University, narrowed his eyes and smiled, saying to his friend, Master Milady from Cassilos University of the Arts, “I told you that kid was amazing. I said he would become a second-ring wizard before; now I say he will become a sun-ring wizard.” Master

Milady from Cassilos University of the Arts said, “So confident?”

“A sun-ring wizard is different; that requires four forgings of great magic. In the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, one could call oneself a great wizard.”

“Don’t make promises you can’t keep. Prophet brother, pull back your magic. The market is harder to predict than a girlfriend. Leave some room for maneuver, and maintain

your composure; that’s how we keep our accuracy.” Master Hao smiled dismissively. “This isn’t a prophecy. He’s already taken the first step that distinguishes ordinary wizards from Sun Ring wizards: having his own system.”

“No wonder he’s a student nurtured by that throne. Even as a second-ring wizard, he already possessed the potential to become a Sun Ring wizard. Second-ring wizards exhibit a strong ‘systematic tendency,’ but in this world, there are many wizards with other people’s systems, but very few with their own.”

Wizard Milady remained silent, but a third-ring witch from Cassilos University of Arts beside them suddenly spoke up: “I think inheriting someone else’s system is far more difficult than creating your own. Inheriting someone else’s system requires extensive research into higher-ring wizards, while your own system… even a first-ring wizard can try.”

“What this world truly lacks are wizards who can properly pass on their systems. Most wizards chatter on and on like larks, constantly talking about creating their own things, yet they haven’t even properly preserved the systems established by the great wizards of the past,” the

Black and White Witch said. “I think this wizard has also fallen into this trap.”

Wizard Hao countered, “On the contrary, this issue is very complex. Given a system of equal quality, creating a new system is certainly more difficult than passing it on. But ultimately, most wizards’ so-called creations are just creating one or two minor spells, spells that others may have already mastered.”

“Creating a system, having your own style, is actually less valuable than a wizard who honestly learns from others’ magical systems.”

“Only through professional academic training can one truly possess the ability to create their own system… This is precisely the significance of the seven top universities in Yunze Wetlands.”

The third-ring witch, with half black and half white hair, retorted, “Second-ring wizards are merely experiencing the true cruelty of the wizarding world for the first time; how can they create their own system?”

“Even sun-ring wizards only need to improve upon existing systems, which is sufficient. Ultimately, it’s impossible to truly possess one’s own system at the second-ring stage. You know what I’m saying.”

“Master Hao, I disagree with you.”

“That’s just a wizard with some magical knowledge, who might have a talent for breeding, but to say they’ll definitely become a sun-ring wizard is uncertain. There are too many unexpected events in this world.”

Wizard Hao smiled, looking at the black and white witches of Cassilos Art University. Cassilos Art University has always had a reputation for being unconventional, and the witches in this academy are all argumentative.

Therefore, he had no intention of continuing the argument.

Besides, the Black and White Witches were always arrogant and difficult to persuade.

If she could be persuaded by him, she wouldn’t be an artist.

Wizard Hao looked at Wizard Milady and whispered, “Let’s make a bet. I still believe that child will become a Sun Ring Wizard within ten years.”

“How about a bet, using a three-ring magical artifact?”

Wizard Milady’s eyes lit up. “Alright. But I also believe that child.”

The Black and White Witch immediately challenged, though she was just challenging for the sake of challenging.

In addition, becoming a Sun Ring Wizard was indeed not easy for a wizard; it was full of unexpected events that could interrupt the process.

A Sun Ring Wizard represented a special achievement, the final step to becoming a three-ring Wizard.

Every wizard in Cloudswamp Wetlands who could become a Sun Ring Wizard was not an ordinary wizard.

A Sun Ring Wizard was like the sun in the endless void; once one became a Sun Ring Wizard, their status would rise to another level.

Therefore, she was naturally willing to make the bet. “Then I’ll bet you, Prophet Hao. Just one third-ring magical artifact.”

“I bet he won’t become a Sun-ring wizard within ten years.”

The surrounding wizards couldn’t help but glance over, especially some Sun-ring wizards, who raised their eyebrows, revealing expressions of incomprehension.

Becoming a Sun-ring wizard was that simple? A ten

-year bet?

Would thirty or fifty years be more appropriate?

However, since the bet involved two third-ring wizards, these Sun-ring wizards, though somewhat dissatisfied, dared not say anything.

Many Sun-ring level breeders began to discuss in hushed tones how Locke had managed to evolve a magical plant into a second-ring magical plant in such a short time.

His cultivation method seemed to be related to a magical potion.

But after discussing for a long time, they couldn’t reach a conclusion, so they had to look at Locke’s past articles.

One of the tower masters of the Tower of Transformation, a Sun-ring wizard, scanned all of Locke’s articles downloaded from the Water Hyacinth System and shook his head slightly. “This breeder has published an astonishing number of articles, a whopping sixteen in Zone 1.”

“But he hasn’t mentioned much about his method for rapidly evolving magical plants. I guess he hasn’t had time to publish it yet; perhaps this is his most recent achievement.”

A group of Sun Ring wizards expressed some regret.

After all, this breeding method isn’t important in other aspects; the breeding effect isn’t very good, and for a true second-ring breeder, it’s just a waste. But its greatest use lies in efficiency!

Evolving a second-ring magical plant within an hour, regardless of the cost, is incredibly efficient and attractive enough to them.

It’s just a pity that Locke hasn’t published it yet; it will probably take some time before he announces the method.

Even if they wanted to reverse engineer it, they have no information at the moment, and these wizards are clueless.

After all, Locke’s Moon Breeding Method was developed through multiple stages of discovery and research, with the most important turning point being the Dune Plane that the witch Catherine arranged for him to go to.

Locke even suspected that the witch Catherine had known about the existence of the Dune people all along.

There’s another stage: the Zero Potion.

Both of these stages are extremely rare and difficult to obtain.

Even most wizards, including those at the Sun Ring level, struggle to meet both conditions. In

the Rose Council’s audience area, Witch Lana smiled at Witch Nina, saying, “See? I told you this kid was pretty good.”

“Now you know?”

Witch Nina laughed, “I should be the one saying that. I was one of the judges for his first-class grant thesis defense at the Institute of True Knowledge back then.”

…

In the Silent Plane, Locke looked at the Sea Gold Sand in his hand, seeing many sapphire-like spores swirling around it.

At the same time, he grasped the magical plant, shaped like a spiral staircase and an ice crystal crown, then turned and swung it towards the swarm of rain mantises in the distance. Simultaneously, two emerald green rings appeared in his right hand—Second Ring Botany Spell: “A Single Tree Cannot Support It!”

This is a second-circle spell from the Aura Ecology Spellbook. Back then, recommended by the witch Catherine, he had read the Aura Ecology Spellbook countless times. Even though he hadn’t mastered this second-circle spell during his first-circle stage, he now had the ability to quickly use this spell, which he had memorized thoroughly from his previous ecology spell studies.

Locke chanted the incantation, “A Single Tree Cannot Support,” a spell from the Aura Ecology Spellbook used to control general second-circle magical plants. It

‘s also common in other second-circle botanical spell systems, and on its own, it’s a classic botanical spell.

This spell is similar to the “All Plants Are Soldiers” spell used in the apprentice stage, possessing the power to control general second-circle magical plants, allowing control over any second-circle magical plant.

Now, as Locke used the general botanical spell, the second-circle sea gold sand in his hand rapidly curled inward, transforming into a spiral spear. Around the spiral spear hung numerous ice-blue, gem-like droplets of water, which were actually spores floating nearby.

Then, Locke swung his weapon forward.

In an instant, countless ice crystal droplets shot forward.

In a flash, all the rain mantises blocking his way were torn to shreds.

‘What is this?’ Locke looked at the Golden Fern Spear in his hand. After becoming a second-ring magical plant, the Sea Gold Sand seemed to have undergone a special evolution in its vascular bundles, which acted as a material transport system for plants, producing a highly efficient mid-branch energy-locking structure.

Moreover, the leaves of the Sea Gold Sand developed many stomata, constantly absorbing moisture from the air, creating a kind of [vortex fluid] that could convert water vapor. By increasing water vapor, it reduced the external energy requirements for various combinations and conversions of special energy substances.

In other words, it used water vapor as a threshold to lower energy reactions, thus indirectly gaining the ability to convert water vapor as energy.

Because the magical plant evolution occurred through the reverse flow of dimensional information from the Fallen Rain Realm of the Disc Creatures, this Sea Gold Sand seemed to have naturally adapted to the 100,000 years of heavy rain. In this heavy rain, not only did its combat power not decrease at all, but its combat power became exceptionally strong.

Although it was just an undesigned wild plant, in this… Omega’s home turf, its combat power was forcibly amplified, giving it considerable strength!

Magical plants cultivated using the Lunar Cultivation Method in their Leap Evolution mode inherently possess adaptive combat characteristics.

What they need isn’t the strongest ability, but rather the ability to best adapt to the environment!

At this moment, the raindrops transformed into a sky full of bullets, streaking across the heavens. The astonishing water elemental conduction, water elemental magic conversion, and water elemental magic absorption rate caused this second-ring botanical magic to become overwhelmed. After fully utilizing its original abilities, it produced… rain bullets covering a third of the mortal sky.

One after another, the raindrop bullets pierced the pebbles within the bodies of rain mantises.

Brutal!

This was all because, under the influence of the Fallen Rain Realm, its second-ring Sea Gold Sand possessed three key plant factors from the Rain Realm plant essence set—

vortex plant factor,

superhydrophobic water ducts, and

porous water membranes in its leaves.

This set of Fallen Rain Realm plant essences granted this second-ring Sea Gold Sand a powerful ability to manipulate water.

Many wizards in the audience, witnessing this scene, immediately recognized the various second-ring plant factor characteristics of the Sea Gold Sand plant in Locke’s hand.

This indicated that the magical plant in Locke’s hands had undergone a **horizontal gene transfer**, also known as **non-vertical inheritance**. This refers to the process by which a magical plant acquires special plant essence from other species or sources through non-reproductive means.

Locke’s Lunar Cultivation Method, utilizing a large amount of dimensional information and power to accelerate the evolution of magical plants in a very short time, is essentially an atypical form of **horizontal gene transfer**.

This is something Locke, as the founder of the Lunar Cultivation Method, only understood after becoming a second-ring wizard.

In the early stages of plant evolution, plants already rely heavily on the essence of many foreign species, such as bacteria and fungi. The influx of dimensional information is essentially using the evolutionary power of the plane to shorten this process.

Therefore, magical plants cultivated using the Lunar Cultivation Method rarely involve new concepts or structures, but rather evolve classic structures.

Especially the second-ring magical plant traits produced using the Fallen Rain Realm, which are basically classic second-ring magical plant traits.

Therefore, the wizarding audience is quite familiar with them.

But even so, these classic second-ring magical plant traits, when combined, do indeed form a completely new set of plant essences.

Therefore, this is not a major problem; it’s just that the mechanism of the Moon Cultivation Method leads to the evolutionary direction of the cultivated magical plants.

The essence of the Moon Cultivation Method is probably to utilize the instinct of plants to steal the essence of other things.

However, Locke still needs to study this point carefully. With

one strike, Locke temporarily cleared out the rain mantises and waterfall golems in the mortal world. At the same time, the treant population in the magic realm began a counterattack because after evolving into apprentice-level treants, their strength greatly increased, and they adapted to the Rain Realm’s climate.

Locke noticed that Medea’s magical pressure suddenly vanished from the mortal and magical realms of the Silent Plane. She seemed to have used the remnant of a celestial meteor left by Wizard Smith on the crystal wall system in the mortal realm, transforming it into a rudimentary and unsafe voidcraft. She then plunged into the Fallen Rain Realm of the disc-shaped creature Omega. Normally,

this action would have been certain death.

Once she left this world, the Virtual World Stone within her would disappear, causing her to fall below the level of a second-circle wizard, and a first-circle wizard is extremely vulnerable in the void.

However, because Omega’s dimensional gravity locked onto the Silent Plane, constantly drawing everything from it towards it, this made it possible for her to travel to the disc-shaped plane.

Locke instantly understood her plan.

At this moment, after all her hard work, she had only managed to obtain a second-circle wizard trial card and construct a large-scale magical model. However, she judged that she couldn’t gain anything more here, so she had to find a way out.

Outside the Silent Plane, she was being watched closely by the Storm Tower.

She had nowhere to escape, neither above nor below.

Therefore, her only escape route was to leave the Silent Plane, enter the Void, and enter the world of the Disc Creatures.

The Disc Creatures possessed the characteristic of unifying all timelines, so once she entered one, she could essentially leave its body, enter the Void, and return to other parts of the wizarding world.

Of course, this was easier said than done; every step was fraught with peril.

For example, the Disc World itself was a world of certain death.

She had paid such a high price and taken so many risks, yet she still hadn’t achieved what she wanted: becoming a true second-circle wizard.

But this wasn’t surprising.

For many formal wizards, the breakthrough from first-circle to second-circle wizard was an insurmountable chasm.

Medea’s gains were substantial enough for an ordinary, formal wizard; it was an opportunity to construct a model for a massive spell,

regardless of who she had offended.

At that moment, Omega roared angrily in the sky, seemingly extremely displeased with Locke’s actions of intercepting his dimensional information, infusing it into his magical plant, and evolving it into a second-circle magical plant.

Instantly, countless torrential rains transformed into waterspouts, attacking Locke.

Waterspouts pierced towards Locke.

That was Omega’s true form as a fallen water god making its move.

It was clear that its power had risen to a new level during this period.

At that moment, Locke swung his Ice Blue Fern Spear, and in an instant, all these waterspouts were shattered by the Sea Gold Sand in his hand.

This was the Sea Gold Sand’s own power; he had only crudely used the general botanical attack spell [A Lone Tree Cannot Support It] to control it.

This Sea Gold Sand, fighting in the Rain Realm environment, received numerous enhancements, and its masterful manipulation of rain subtly countered Omega’s power.

Omega, as a Sun Ring-level creature, was far beyond this world, unable to unleash its true power or display its full potential!

Locke said, “Let’s call this magical plant ‘Manipulating Arrow – Sea Gold Sand.'”

“And Omega, I finally understand your trickery. This match should end now.”

At this moment, pieces of fabric appeared around Locke, falling and rolling on the ground, spreading out in a scattered circle.

Clearly, the witch Georgina was using a powerful spell against him.

Locke raised Manipulating Arrow – Sea Gold Sand and used the second second-circle spell under the Aura Ecological Spell System: Generational Alteration!

Simultaneously, with the help of Antoine and Preston, he quickly added a powerful rune to this spell.

This was the second second-circle spell he had chosen for his Evolution Moon, to be incorporated as part of its forging process!

The alternation of generations, like a lone tree unable to support a single branch, is a classic spell, and a key second-circle spell in the Aura Ecological Spell system.

Georgina’s voice appeared in Locke’s ear. “Locke, this is the spell I’ve prepared for you.”

The fern spear in Locke’s hand trembled, continuously scattering spores into the air.

These spores rapidly transformed into gametophytes in the moisture-filled air.

(End of Chapter)