Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 832

Chapter 829 Spirit Breath Cultivation Method and Time-Limited Reading

In the dormitory of the Golden Crown Mountain True Knowledge Academy, Locke looked at the information transmitted by the witch Catherine through the water hyacinth network. There were two documents in total.

Both were encrypted magic books.

Locke looked at the first document, which was the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method.

Locke sat at his desk and casually waved his hand, lighting a magic lamp. At the same time, he said to the wood elf servant in the room, “Prepare some cold-brewed bluefish tea for me.”

Bluefish tea could help him maintain a high level of concentration, allowing him to better acquire information.

Especially this Spirit Breath Cultivation Method, with its magical text that puts pressure on the soul just by reading it.

If a wizard apprentice were to read such a magic book, it could easily damage his soul.

The wood elf maid looked troubled.

“I’m sorry, my master. It’s not that I’m unwilling to serve you, but I’m unable to brew you cold-brewed bluefish tea.”

Locke frowned, suddenly realizing that this wood elf maid was merely a mortal servant assigned to him by the academy free of charge. Asking her to follow a fixed procedure to brew tea bags already prepared by the tea master was fine for an apprentice-level servant, but asking her to brew first-ring bluefish tea was far too much for her.

Locke said to her, “I understand. Go and clean.”

No wonder many formal wizards liked to enslave their apprentices, making them do chores.

Indeed, some mortal servants simply couldn’t do things that only wizard apprentices could do.

He went to the kitchen himself and found the location of the bluefish tea.

Second-ring wizards at the True Knowledge Academy enjoyed a host of benefits, mainly in terms of living conditions, such as receiving magic rice every month and a certain amount of magic tea allocated to their dormitories each month.

He himself received a certain number of bluefish tea bags every month.

Of course, there were only five in total. This approach was quite clever, because after using Wizard’s Tea for contemplation, people would develop a habit of drinking it when grappling with difficult problems, which would then become a consumption habit.

This was probably what Brother Chad, the wizard, meant by cultivating the wizards’ consumption habits.

Locke extracted the tea bag with cold water, brewed himself a cup, and took a sip of the Bluefish Tea. Instantly, its fragrance filled the air, and his mind cleared.

Locke returned to his study and began reading the Spirit Breath Breeding Method.

He already knew what Spirit Breath was; its other names were Breath Soil or Virtual Soil.

If plant roots rooted in rocks, creating soil, then imaginary roots rooted in the Imaginary Sea would create Breath Soil in various senses.

Through reading the literature, Locke learned that the high-ring breeders had already proven one thing: the four elemental realms of each plane were basically formed by the accumulation of Spirit Breath.

“Spiritual energy is an evolution of spirituality, but it’s not simply spirituality. It’s like soil peeled from broken rocks, but it’s not just simple soil. Soil contains a large number of microorganisms and humus. Similarly, spiritual energy contains various natural magical structural components that can only be secreted from the surface of the Imaginary Root.”

Locke knew that the Imaginary Root was a biological tissue, so it wasn’t a magical artifact. Unlike magical artifacts, the Imaginary Root had countless pores, allowing it to interact with its internal and external environment.

Rooted in the Imaginary Sea, the Imaginary Root not only fished for spiritual energy from it but also actively secreted various natural magical structural components, even modifying the Imaginary Sea to some extent.

Locke rubbed his temples; acquiring this knowledge put immense pressure on his soul.

This wasn’t simply a second-level document; he didn’t know why the witch Catherine had included her unique interpretations in the materials she wrote for him, making acquiring this knowledge even more stressful than reading materials on spiritual philosophy.

“The Groudon world is a special world, inhabited by many Pandaren who have developed life energy to an extreme degree, calling themselves the Air Masters. In their world, the number of high-level magical plants is extremely vast. A large number of second-level magical plants simultaneously fish for the Imaginary Sea, resulting in a large amount of high-level spiritual energy. This spiritual energy has an overlapping property, meaning it attracts and superimposes on each other, thus creating a unique realm within the Groudon world—the Pandaren Celestial Realm.” “

In the Dragonlance world, there is a powerful magical plant called the [Genesis Mushroom], possessing the largest known Imaginary Root System in the world. That mushroom fishes for the Imaginary Sea, generating a large amount of spiritual energy, which, after countless millennia of accumulation, created a special realm—the Dragonlance Divine Realm.” “

In the Atlantis world, underwater magical plants, after hundreds of thousands of years of fishing for the spiritual energy of the Imaginary Sea, created a special realm—the Caspian Sea Realm.”

Locke immediately realized that spiritual energy has the ability to raise [level].

But a little bit of spiritual energy is probably useless; a large amount of spiritual energy needs to be accumulated to deepen this ability to enhance the [level] of life forms. Only then can the magical plants growing on it be elevated in [level].

“That’s why magical plants in a world are so important. The quantity and level of magical plants in a world directly affect the evolution of that world.”

“But it seems that what’s being elevated isn’t the level.”

Locke noticed the annotation that the witch Catherine had specifically given.

“The Dharma Realm generated by spiritual energy, or what some call the Spirit Realm, elevates not the level of power, but the level of life.”

“Most breeders believe that the Dharma Realm formed by spiritual energy can elevate the life level of magical plants. Therefore, the essence of the spiritual energy cultivation method is to utilize the characteristics of spiritual energy to strengthen and cultivate magical plants.”

“Most breeders at the second-ring stage believe that there are two core elements to the entire breeding method—spirituality and spiritual energy.”

“Breeders at this stage can directly see the power of the plane and the flow of spiritual energy with their n*ked eyes. Therefore, they can directly see spiritual energy in all five previous cultivation methods. This leads to the strengthening of the five cultivation methods. For example, in grafting cultivation, because breeders can see the flow of spiritual energy, they can use more advanced grafting techniques.”

“When using hybridization cultivation, multiple pollens can be transferred to a single pistil.”

“Using cutting cultivation, tissue culture seedlings without impurities and spiritual energy can be produced…”

“The Magical Resonance Cultivation Method and the Finite Element Single Component Analysis Cultivation Method have also been correspondingly enhanced. Furthermore, the Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method allows for the use of specific spiritual energy to specifically enhance magical plants using the five major cultivation methods, or for individual cultivation.”

A scene appeared before Locke’s eyes: a second-ring breeder, using a large amount of spiritual energy and various magical plants, created a small world filled with selected spiritual energy.

Then, a magical plant grew within this small world, and because of the spiritual energy, it directly influenced the characteristics of magical plants growing from within it.

It could become stronger and grow best within its group.

It can also alter some plant factors to create a new set of plant essences.

The key point is that the imaginary root and the spiritual energy are complementary; the spiritual energy arises because of the imaginary root, and the imaginary root evolves because of the spiritual energy.

Therefore, a skilled second-ring breeder can use the spiritual energy cultivation method to evolve the imaginary root, or to give the imaginary root of a magical plant special characteristics, becoming the special imaginary root Locke had seen before.

“Hmm? Only the first half?” Locke was completely absorbed when he suddenly realized it had abruptly stopped, and he couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

However, he discovered that the second half seemed to be about the in-depth application of the spiritual energy cultivation method, while the first half introduced the past, present, and basic applications of the spiritual energy cultivation method.

Clearly, the witch Catherine believed that Locke wasn’t ready to learn the second half.

Locke rubbed his temples and said, “The textbook the teacher wrote is excellent. But it must be a private textbook written for the sect. It couldn’t have been written just for me, could it? I need to save this textbook. I can look at it often in my spare time and gain a lot of insights. It might also be useful when I teach others in the future.”

Locke first skimmed through the entire magic book, but only got a general overview. Now he was going to gradually begin to study it in detail.

Locke looked back at the earlier contents.

A day later, Locke noticed that the witch Catherine had two major differences in her understanding of the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method compared to ordinary second-circle breeders in the outside world.

Locke read aloud, “Ordinary second-ring breeders believe that the core of second-ring breeding is spirituality and spiritual energy, but I believe that the core of the second-ring stage is only one thing: spirituality. Mastering precise understanding of spirituality is the key to mastering breeding methods.”

“Too many breeders waste a lot of time identifying spiritual energy (breath soil), which is completely meaningless. The types of breath soil are inexhaustible because new magical plants are born in this world every day, and the spiritual energy transformed from the imaginary roots of each magical plant is slightly different.”

“Spiritual energy is inexhaustible because new and subtle spiritual energy is generated every day.”

“Currently, the methods for learning spiritual energy are a mess, completely confused and inverted, yielding nothing but wasted time. Breeders should focus their main energy on understanding spirituality.”

Locke saw a special method for training eyesight that the witch Catherine had taught him.

It seemed to require a considerable amount of money to purchase a complete set of equipment.

It probably involved buying a large number of spiritual samples and then practicing recognizing and understanding them daily using a picture book.

“At first, you can refer to the atlas and identify samples. Eventually, you should be able to see a sample and directly describe its general characteristics and specific range,

without relying on the atlas,”

explained the witch Catherine. She said she trained herself this way during her second-stage training.

This was a small technique for learning the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method, used only by her personally and perhaps not suitable for everyone, so she recommended it to herself, not as a mandatory requirement.

The traditional requirements for learning the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method, as mentioned above, involve first creating a small space using the five basic Spirit Breaths, and then beginning practice.

It’s essentially about building proficiency—doing before practicing, learning through practice.

It also involves learning the basic theoretical knowledge of Spirit Breath.

However, this traditional method requires a huge investment of time and resources, and there’s still a chance of not learning it at all.

Locke looked at the witch Catherine’s second unique perspective in the magic book.

“The place where spiritual energy converges—the Dharma Realm—does not elevate the level of life. I believe most third-ring wizards are wrong on this point.”

“I call it elevating capacity.”

“What is capacity? The more water a cup can hold, the greater its capacity. The Dharma Realm, in essence, does not change the status of a magical plant; it only alters its total magical pressure and certain plant traits.”

“The life level of the magical plant doesn’t change much either; only its ecological niche may change.”

“Elevating the life level is like entering the Dharma Realm, where life can be sublimated, and the life level of magical plants within the Dharma Realm will fundamentally change compared to those outside. This description is incorrect; I think ‘elevating capacity’ is more appropriate.”

“A small error can lead to a huge difference,”

Witch Catherine warned in her book. “In my opinion, the reason many breeders struggle to enter the realm of second-ring breeding is likely because they misunderstand the role of spiritual energy. Spiritual energy can only enhance the capacity of a magical plant; it cannot elevate its life level.”

“And if this point is misunderstood, serious errors will occur in the structure of the spell model. At the same time, the true function of the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method will be completely misunderstood.”

Locke realized that his teacher’s so-called enhancement of capacity should refer to the special effect that the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method produces when cultivating magical plants.

However, he could not fully understand this part of the content just by reading this magic book.

Locke drank the bluefish tea in one gulp, his brain working at high speed, but he still could not make sense of this part of the content.

“It seems that only through practice can I understand the relationship between the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method and capacity.”

“The focus of learning the second-circle cultivation method is on spirituality, while the spirit breath enhances the capacity of magical plants. This seems to be the teacher’s unique understanding, not the common understanding of second-circle breeders. But I will still follow the teacher.”

Locke thought for a moment and said, “The teacher’s understanding should be better.”

After all, the teacher is about to advance to the fourth-circle wizard.

The understanding of a breeder of her level is obviously beyond the common understanding of ordinary second-circle breeders.

He was only fortunate enough to know these things after becoming her disciple.

Locke glanced at the magical clock in his study and realized he had been reading this material through the Water Hyacinth System for 30 hours.

Locke stood up and stretched, when suddenly a notification popped up on the Water Hyacinth System—[Remaining Reading Time: 270].

Locke froze, then quickly closed the virtual magic book.

“My teacher actually set a time limit for my reading. This means I can only read her book on the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method for 300 hours.”

Locke’s expression changed slightly, because the content of the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method was simply too vast.

For a novice breeder, it was like creating the world.

Creating a small world just to cultivate a single magical plant.

This method was truly miraculous.

And the witch Catherine had only given him 300 hours to read a magic book of this level.

Why?

Locke sat down and calmly pondered. First, he immediately recalled the content he had just memorized, finding that much of it was blurred due to the pressure on his soul.

He immediately sat down, using advanced meditation to enter a state of mental stillness, trying hard to recall the information, and wrote it down on magic paper with a magic quill.

Locke wiped his forehead and wrote down the most important training methods of traditional spiritual cultivation and those of the witch Catherine.

He also included Catherine’s two unique perspectives on spiritual cultivation.

“In that case, I need to cherish every moment I have to read the magic book my teacher gives me. And each time I read it, I need to memorize it.”

“Ideally, I should find a way to memorize the entire magic book. That way, I’ll essentially have a free, excellent textbook from her; I can read it myself and share it with others.”

“But the content of this magic book is too profound. Even if I force myself to memorize it without understanding it, I’ll forget it due to the pressure on my soul. Even using advanced meditation to enter a deep meditative state won’t be able to retrieve it.”

“Therefore, I need to understand it before I can memorize it and write it down from memory. The difficulty is unimaginable.”

Locke frowned. Was his teacher overly confident in his talent?

He realized this was a unique educational method for geniuses, a method possibly tailored to him based on his past performance.

Oh well.

Now that things had come to this, he could only try to pass his teacher’s test.

“In other words, if I don’t understand this magic book at least 70-80%, I won’t be able to memorize it directly,”

Locke said. “No wonder they only gave me half; I’m already struggling with the basics of the first half. If they gave me the second half, I’d be completely lost.”

Locke pondered for a moment.

“I’ve already read it through once. Before reading it a second time, I can go to the library and read a lot of related literature to improve my understanding. I can also practice and do some hands-on exercises.”

“To deepen my understanding of the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method.”

“At the same time…”

Locke’s mind was racing, “I can drink some wizard’s tea to improve my condition before reading this spellbook. By the way, if I use botanical magic while reading this spellbook, I can use the Root Realm to elevate my rank.”

“This can reduce some of the soul pressure.”

Locke looked at the second book, the Light Element Reverse Infusion Mutation Cultivation Method, and tentatively clicked on it. Good heavens, sure enough, the Water Hyacinth System popped up that he only had two chances to read it, and each time he only had 24 hours.

Locke smiled wryly.

“It seems the threshold for inheriting my teacher’s breeding legacy is indeed quite high,”

Locke thought. “So, it seems that the wizard Zeno also passed these tests to inherit the Light Element Reverse Infusion Mutation Breeding Method. No wonder none of the other second-ring researchers inherited my teacher’s breeding method.”

“If he could pass, I certainly can too.”

A confident glint flashed in Locke’s eyes.

It’s all about effort.

As long as he works hard and actively seeks solutions, he can definitely obtain the inheritance of the Catherine Witch’s second-ring breeding method.

Locke packed his things and got up. He needed to contact Hussein and the old pirate, as it was time to begin the interdimensional exploration.

…

The Boundary Between Darkness

and Light, the Golden Dynasty. This was a magical land. The land at the boundary between darkness and light contained abundant gold mines; even the sand kicked up by walking contained gold particles.

Even the bricks used to build houses contained many gold bricks.

Alaric, as a golden nobleman here, was adorned with dazzling gold ornaments, which were as common as clothing here.

At this moment, after reading Locke’s letter, Alaric was completely dumbfounded.

Alaric gave a wry smile.

“Brother Augustine, although I did say you could come to the border between darkness and light to find me, and I would host a banquet for you, what level am I, and what level is the Golden Throne?”

“I can’t even get a word in with my teacher myself.”

Alaric was speechless. He usually only caught a glimpse of his nominal teacher from afar during group meetings; otherwise, he couldn’t say a word.

Locke, on the other hand, had asked him to put in a good word for him and deliver a letter to the Throne.

At this moment, a catwoman, a first-class wizard apprentice adorned with gold rings around her neck, who was serving Alaric, was seductively licking Alaric’s chest with her tongue.

“Lord Alaric, since things are difficult, let’s just ignore him.”

“What an impolite person.”

“You already have enough useless friends like this.”

Alaric’s gaze turned slightly cold; the catwoman witch was still unaware of Alaric’s disdain for her.

“This is a letter from a second-ring archmage.”

The catwoman witch suddenly stiffened, automatically moving away from Alaric, and said incredulously, “A letter from a second-ring archmage?”

She realized her mistake.

In the Cloud Marsh Wetlands, a second-ring wizard was nothing special, but in the borderlands of Darkness and Light, a second-ring archmage was already a renowned figure, someone who carried weight wherever they went.

Alaric was merely a wizard at the Crystallization stage, yet he held a very high position in the Golden Dynasty.

Alaric snorted coldly, not bothered by this unique witch raised in the Qionghua Enclave.

She was merely a playmate in his absurd life.

The Enclave of Jade Flowers has been supplying witches to the border between the luminous and the illusory since ancient times, a tradition that has continued unbroken for millennia. Even now, the absurd wizard nobles of the Golden Dynasty remain immersed in the allure of witches, and Alaric is no exception.

Although the Golden Dynasty lacks a wizard monarch, it does have a regent and wizard nobles.

It is only because of the absence of a wizard monarch that the White Wizard Association tolerates the Golden Dynasty’s existence, considering it a product of modern reforms requiring no further changes.

Alaric pondered, “I’ve finally made a friend who’s a second-circle archmage; I can’t ignore his request. After all, he’s my teacher. Perhaps I can find an opportunity to speak with him during the group meeting tomorrow?”

“Hmm, sending a witch to my senior brother might provide that opportunity.”

(End of Chapter)