Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 850

Chapter 846 Developing a Second-Ring Level Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow and Finding Locke’s Weakness

A month later, in the underground laboratory on the tenth floor of the 2nd Research Institute, the place was filled with subspecies of the Great Green Leaf Dragonfly, first-ring subspecies, fast-growing plants, like a sword tomb.

In just one month, Locke had spent five million magic stones in this laboratory.

The money required to cultivate a first-ring subspecies was incomparable to cultivating an apprentice-level magical plant subspecies.

Locke planned to spend another five million magic stones next month to cultivate these first-ring subspecies of the Great Green Leaf Dragonfly.

At the same time, Mason Witch and two other crystallization wizards were helping him record the plant essence mutation information of these magical plant subspecies.

Meanwhile, Wizard Douglas was working with him on the plant essence sequencing of the Great Green Leaf Dragonfly.

These were all basic steps to complete the final finite element cultivation method.

At this moment, the magical fields ten levels underground were filled with the unique spiritual energy fluctuations of magical plants. This was a sign that second-circle wizards were using the finite element cultivation method. For second-circle wizards, it wasn’t just about working with plant essences, but also with the spirituality of plants.

The spirituality of magical plants could be grafted, hybridized, propagated by cuttings, pruned, added to, and even mutated; naturally, it could also be spliced together.

Therefore, the four crystallization wizards helped Locke work on the plant essences of the magical plants, while Locke himself used his own research system—using the synthesis cube, the lunar cultivation method, and the blooming and withering of flowers—to cultivate subspecies of the Great Green-leaved Dragonfly. He also recorded the spirituality of these subspecies and then tried to use the spirituality of these subspecies for identification and grafting practice.

“But I need to remember that the spirituality of a magical plant and its plant essence are just two ways of identifying the same thing.”

“I can’t put the cart before the horse and mistakenly think they are two different things. This practice method can also train the spiritual energy cultivation method that a second-ring breeder should know.”

Locke beckoned to a fast-growing subspecies of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow growing in a magic field. Instantly, under the effect of the [Star-shaped Spirit-Attracting Magic Array], the spirituality within the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow was forced to manifest.

At the same time, Locke carefully distinguished the hundreds of subdivided magical plant spiritualities within the plant, each corresponding to a plant factor.

These are merely the spiritualities corresponding to those plant factors.

If one mistakenly believes that spirituality and plant factors are two different things, then one will inevitably go astray and achieve half the results with twice the effort.

Many breeders outside Golden Crown Mountain fail to learn the spiritual energy cultivation method well because they have gone down too many wrong paths.

Too many fundamental problems lead to flawed understanding, resulting in errors in perception. Even if one continues down a path of error, the flawed understanding makes it difficult to detect.

Locke had seen these warnings in many borrowed materials, so he knew that in the second-ring stage of finite element cultivation, a breeder absolutely could not make the mistake of believing that “the spirit of a magical plant and plant factors are two different things.”

They are simply different external manifestations of the same thing.

‘I will use this opportunity to participate in the Golden Cup and cultivate second-ring flying magical plants to improve my breeding level, elevate my various breeding methods to the second-ring level, and even gradually learn the Spirit Breath Breeding Method.’

Locke manipulated two sets of his own [Star-shaped Spirit-Attracting Magical Arrays], making the spirit of the second subspecies of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow magical plant in front of him manifest.

Then, he used a magical magnetic field to cut off the target spirit of the two accelerated subspecies, and then used grafting to graft the two magical plant spirits together.

Locke looked at the ball of green light in his palm.

“Ultimately, this is simply combining two plant factors. A first-ring breeder can only piece these plant factors together using the finite element cultivation method, creating a set of plant essences, and then injecting it into a seedling or seed of a magical plant.”

“A second-ring breeder can enhance their abilities at the spiritual level, performing more complex tasks—using the finite element cultivation method to extract the target spirituality from two magical plants and then grafting it.” “

In this way, the two plant factors are not combined, but fused together, forming a new plant factor that possesses all the characteristics of both.”

Clearly, because second-ring wizards can directly see dimensional power and deeper levels of spirituality, their five cultivation methods plus the spiritual energy cultivation method can reach much deeper levels.

This completely surpasses the capabilities of a first-ring breeder.

However, it also brings a more complex system of knowledge in breeding science.

Many wizards get stuck at this stage, thus giving up the possibility of further development in the field of breeding.

“Based on the fundamental finite element cultivation method of a first-ring breeder, one can perform grafting, hybridization, cutting, and magical resonance cultivation of plant factors at the spiritual level,”

Locke comprehended. “Currently, at my level, I can only use the finite element cultivation method combined with grafting cultivation to graft the spirituality of two magical plants, creating a new plant factor that combines the advantages of both.”

“It is said that those sun-ring level breeders can even extract the spirituality corresponding to the plant factors of multiple magical plants and graft them simultaneously to create a super plant factor.”

Yes, a super plant factor.

This is something that only second-ring level breeders can create.

Because at the first-ring breeder stage, breeders can often only use the five major cultivation methods on the magical plants themselves and cannot directly manipulate plant factors. Therefore, whether or not they can obtain a powerful super plant factor depends entirely on luck, but second-ring breeders possess far greater capabilities.

“Afterwards, I still need to practice the finite element analysis cultivation method + cutting cultivation method, the finite element cultivation method + hybridization cultivation method, and the finite element cultivation method + magic resonance cultivation method. Of course, these five cultivation methods themselves have many sub-fields of research. It’s simply as vast as the deep sea.”

Take the grafting cultivation method as an example. A simple grafting cultivation method, at the second ring stage, can have the approach grafting method, and there are even more in-depth and unique grafting methods.

Therefore, Locke looked at the vast subject of breeding science and was overjoyed, completely immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

He wanted to keep moving towards the truth ahead.

“Spiritual energy is still the key.” After Locke grafted a wisp of spiritual energy from the two magical plants, the spiritual energy was about to separate.

Spiritual energy is inherently difficult to graft together, even a second ring wizard cannot do it, so special spiritual energy is needed to stabilize these spiritual energies.

Locke used a [Azure Soil Spiritual Energy] purchased from the Golden Peach Garden, which is a commonly used spiritual energy.

This spiritual energy can stabilize spirituality. Therefore, in the second-stage cultivation phase, regardless of whether the finite element cultivation method is used as the foundation or any spiritual cultivation method is employed, the spiritual energy of the green soil is required to obtain the super plant factor.

Of course, the Azure Soil Spirit Breath is just the most common and ordinary spirit breath. Therefore, skilled breeders can even cultivate their own unique spirit breath to create super plant factors.

Thus, the foundation of a second-ring breeder is still the spirit breath cultivation method.

The better the breeder’s spirit breath cultivation method, the better their breeding level.

Locke inserted the special plant factor in his hand into an ordinary large-leaf dragon sparrow’s fast-growing seedling, simultaneously applying a powerful growth-accelerating effect and guiding a magic array to inject energy to aid its growth.

Soon, a mature large-leaf dragon sparrow—a fast-growing product—appeared.

Locke then used a magical magnetic field to cut off the implanted plant factor and placed it in his hand.

“Complete. This super plant factor is now complete.”

Locke placed the super plant factor in his hand into the [Factor Bead] crafted by alchemists. It looked like a glass marble; after the super plant factor was placed inside, the transparent glass ball seemed to have a green firefly inside.

Wizard Douglas held a Time Crystal Magic Box, the inside of which was full of small compartments containing many Factor Beads.

Locke said to Douglas, “This is a super plant factor that can triple the secretion of Feather Drop Essence, a type 2 natural magical structural component of the Great Blue Leaf Dragon Sparrow’s Feather Drop spell. The drawback is that it seems to inhibit the expression of plant factors related to the Great Blue Leaf Dragon Sparrow’s size, thus causing the Great Blue Leaf Dragon Sparrow with this super plant factor to shrink in size.”

“But we can use other super plant factors to enhance the Great Blue Leaf Dragon Sparrow’s size to compensate for this defect,”

Locke said. “Record this super plant factor as 3x Feather Drop Essence Super Plant Factor. I remember I made a 1.5x Feather Drop Essence Super Plant Factor a week ago, right? Keep it with that one.”

Locke said, “Although that 1.5x Feather Drop Essence Super Plant Factor is somewhat inferior to this one, that factor will not inhibit the Great Blue Leaf Dragon Sparrow’s size or force it to shrink.”

“So we might as well keep that super plant factor; we might need it in the future.”

Douglas nodded and then meticulously followed Locke’s instructions.

The Lagmamon Wizard King in Douglas’s mind seemed accustomed to speaking directly with Douglas in front of Locke, and thus spoke directly in his mind: “This young wizard from later generations is quite something. His progress and research speed in breeding science are different from ordinary breeders.”

“The research system he has built has the ability to make magical plants complete a growth cycle quickly, and it seems to have the ability to create more subspecies in a short time. In addition, he has an amazing intuition and accurate judgment on grafting different spiritualities to produce different super plant factors.”

“Impressive. He would have been a figure in my time. If I had met such a talent back then, I would have definitely brought him into my royal wizarding order. I would have given him a position and put him in contact with my crown prince, to consider the next generation.”

Douglas knew nothing about breeding science; he just did whatever Locke told him to do.

So, he asked his Witch King teacher in his mind, “Teacher, do you also understand breeding?”

The Witch King Lagmamon replied, “Not at all.”

Douglas was speechless, looking at his Witch King teacher with a questioning gaze in his mind.

If he didn’t understand anything, how could he so confidently comment on a second-circle wizard-level breeder? The

Witch King Lagmamon said, “Although I don’t understand, I can learn. Don’t forget, I am a third-circle wizard. I can at least force myself to understand some things.”

Locke glanced at Douglas, then focused his attention on the fast-growing magical plants before him.

“These fast-growing magical plants are only good for research; they’re all show and no substance.”

“Right now, my magical plant ‘Sword Tomb’ is undertaking three tasks. The first task is to use normal finite element cultivation methods to continuously accumulate subspecies and obtain excellent plant factors, then attempt to assemble a set of second-ring level Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow plant essences.”

“This is the core of Sword Tomb’s work.”

“The second task is to use a combination of finite element cultivation and grafting cultivation methods to create super plant factors, then select the best super plant factors and add them to the first task’s work of assembling second-ring Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow plant essences.”

“The third task is to use grafting cultivation methods alone to cultivate seeds of the Magic Dragon Rose, then find a way to create a second Magic Dragon Rose, and then graft the best Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow subspecies I cultivated using finite element cultivation methods onto it, allowing my Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow to obtain Magic Dragon essence.”

“Next, I’ll use ancestral evolution to force the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow to revert to the essence of a demonic dragon. I wonder what will happen. According to my plan, this should create a flying magical plant that has been reverted to the true power of a demonic dragon. It will be the king among ordinary second-ring magical plants and will help me win the championship in the Golden Cup flying competition.”

However, this step still has problems.

Because according to my plan, the grafting of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow onto the Demonic Dragon Rose cannot be merely superficial.

In other words, neither magical plant can be a fast-growing plant with superficial appearance; it needs to be a fully grown magical plant.

But the resources required to carefully cultivate a true second-ring magical plant to maturity are unimaginable.

Therefore, this is an exaggerated investment of resources. Investing a mere five or six million magic stones is like throwing money down the drain, barely making a sound.

Locke weighed the options and made his decision.

‘So, I need to complete the first two tasks first. Create a Super Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow that is closest to a second-ring magic plant before proceeding to the third step.’

‘Otherwise, if I invest tens of millions of magic stones, cultivate the adult Magic Dragon Rose, but the first two steps are never completed, wouldn’t that be embarrassing?’

This is why research is so expensive.

He was lucky enough to have the Synthesis Cube, a cheat code. He could graft the spirituality of different magic plants, inject the seeds using the finite element cultivation method, and cultivate them into adults. Then, using the Flower Bloom and Wither method, he could sacrifice the plant to obtain three cultivable seeds.

Next, he could cultivate them, synthesize them, and obtain an optimized magic plant implanted with new plant factors.

The key is that one can read the information about this new plant factor, and then from the entries, one can know which point is wrong and whether the direction is correct.

Then, one can adjust the next spiritual grafting.

In this way, it is naturally easier to create super plant factors. Therefore,

in some people’s eyes, the speed at which one cultivates the high-quality super plant factor of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow using the finite element cultivation method + grafting cultivation method is astonishing.

‘The finite element cultivation method + grafting cultivation method is the golden combination of grafting spirituality, and it is the easiest way to produce new types of plant factors,’ Locke thought.

‘The finite element cultivation method + cutting cultivation method can create a copy of spirituality out of thin air, and then just put this spirituality into that magical plant, so that multiple of the same plant factors can be generated inside a magical plant, thus making the expression of this plant factor more obvious and full. But this requires a Star Ring Wizard to use. It seems to be related to Great Magic.’

‘The finite element cultivation method + hybridization cultivation method cannot be used before the Moon Ring.’ It seems to be related to the transformation of spirituality into both sexes. I need to become a Moon Ring Wizard first to achieve this.

The Finite Element Cultivation Method + Magical Frequency Cultivation Method can easily induce spiritual mutations. However, it requires a special large-scale magical artifact, the [Magic Energy Fusion Blast Furnace]. Group 2 doesn’t have this equipment, and I can’t afford equipment worth hundreds of millions myself.

Unless I become a Sun Ring Wizard, I can rely on my own abilities to use the Finite Element Cultivation Method + Magical Frequency Cultivation Method.

Locke pondered, “Besides, I also need to focus on improving my foundation in Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method while working on this project. I want to strive to cultivate the next second-ring magical plant using this Spiritual Breath Cultivation Method.”

In any case, I’ll first use the Finite Element Cultivation Method to complete the cultivation of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow.

Without the first and second steps, I wouldn’t dare to start the third step, which costs tens of millions of magical stones.

But I think that as long as I complete the first two steps, I can at least upgrade the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow into an ordinary second-ring magical plant.

Therefore, there are two ways to become a second-ring breeder. One is to cultivate magical plants using the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method, producing three different second-ring magical plants.

The other is to use the traditional five cultivation methods, combining enhanced spiritual observation with the five cultivation methods to cultivate second-ring magical plants.

This also allows one to become a second-ring breeder.

The witch Freya walked over, admiring the ubiquitous subspecies of the Great Green-Leaf Dragon Sparrow magical plants in this ‘Sword Tomb’.

“Truly magnificent, team leader. But I don’t understand why you need to use the Finite Element Cultivation Method + Grafting Cultivation Method for spiritual grafting.”

“Is it possible that the Finite Element Cultivation Method itself is insufficient to cultivate second-ring magical plants?”

Locke knew that the witch Freya was asking him a question.

She was also a breeder, and when she encountered something she didn’t understand, she would naturally ask more questions, striving for the opportunity to learn from more skilled breeders.

Locke said, “Of course not. The finite element cultivation method can at most optimize a magical plant in a certain direction, assuming it is already a second-ring magical plant.”

“But it’s not enough to allow a first-ring magical plant to combine plant factors from a magical plant subspecies to form a second-ring magical plant essence.”

“The reason is simple. The gap between a first-ring and a second-ring magical plant is simply too great.”

“The finite element cultivation method is no longer sufficient to make a magical plant a second-ring magical plant.”

The tall witch Freya, wearing high heels, nodded thoughtfully.

“I see. That’s why we need to perform spiritual grafting to create the super plant factors you mentioned.”

“Use those super plant factors to reduce this gap.”

Locke said, “You’re right. But discussing this knowledge is too early for you, Freya. You don’t need to think about these things.”

The prerequisite for becoming a second-ring breeder is that you must at least be a second-ring wizard.

If you’re not even a second-ring wizard, then it’s impossible to become a second-ring breeder.

Freya stuck out her tongue; she knew Locke was right.

Since she didn’t need to cultivate a second-ring magical plant, she naturally didn’t need to think about it this far.

Locke didn’t react much to Freya’s obvious coquettish behavior; after all, Freya was a sociable witch, and she was like this with everyone.

Freya said, “Team leader, don’t you have a way to directly turn a first-ring magical plant into a second-ring magical plant? Why not turn the Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrow directly into a second-ring magical plant?”

Locke nodded slightly. Reversion and the Moon Cultivation Method did indeed have such effects.

However, the Moon Cultivation Method could only turn a first-ring magical plant into a wild second-ring magical plant.

And it required a Zero Potion.

He didn’t have any extra Zero Potions on hand.

Moreover, he didn’t want to create a wild second-ring magical plant.

As for Reversion, the reason he was able to revert Sea Gold Sand and Golden Foxtail Grass into second-ring magical plants the first two times was because those plants were already second-ring magical plants, but even so, those plants were still considered wild magical plants.

After all, the plant factors were mixed together without much modification.

This time, Locke needed to create a set of genuine second-ring level magical plants, cultivated by a second-ring breeder, to participate in the Golden Cup Flying Magical Plant Competition.

Locke smiled and asked the witch Freya, “By the way, how’s your first-class grant project going?”

Freya blushed and looked at Locke with admiration and respect, saying, “Team leader, with your help, Mason, Barrett, and I have all made rapid progress. You only gave us a few pointers, and all our chaotic thoughts have been cleared up.”

Locke nodded. The air plant varieties they were researching were synthesized by him using the Synthesis Cube. He could naturally remind them what equipment to use and in which direction to research, making it easy for them to find the key mechanisms and pathways of action and achieve results.

Of course, the three of them thought it was just his amazing judgment.

The air plants they were researching were also suitable for making wizard shoes.

The better the magical plant’s energy-locking structure, the more suitable it was for making wizard shoes

because of its high energy utilization rate.

Locke smiled at the witch Freya and said, “I’m really looking forward to you guys finishing your first-class project grant. I wonder who among you can complete it first. After all, the reason I can conduct my research so extensively in Group 2 is based on the special energy-locking structures of the air plants you three have researched.”

When Locke used the Synthesis Cube to synthesize those air plants, he used that plastic flower. So, these three air plants were essentially three different special energy-locking structures obtained from the plastic flower through plant mimicry and grafting cultivation methods.

Just like the spiral structure of the Pixiu’s horns and the glandular root sacs.

Freya the witch bowed to Locke and said, “I know, team leader. Team leader, you’ve only been a second-ring wizard for a short time, who knew you’d be as good as those second-ring wizard team leaders so quickly. All you do is urge us, your subordinates, to work. Sigh.”

Locke said, “Then how about I treat the three of you to a big meal at the Witch’s Kitchen tonight?”

Freya the witch’s eyes lit up. “Okay.”

At this moment, Mason the witch ran over from the other side of the magic field, holding a journal in her hand. “Team leader, the Boundary of All Things sent you a copy of this month’s journal.”

“Your article is on pages seventeen to twenty-seven of this journal.”

Freya the witch turned her head in surprise.

“A second-ring, first-district journal? Let me see it too, Mason, by the way, quickly call Barrett over, the team leader is inviting us to the Witch’s Kitchen tonight!”

The Lagmamon Wizard King in Douglas’s sea of consciousness exclaimed in surprise.

“Hmm? I didn’t expect this young fellow from later generations to publish articles so quickly.”

Douglas asked inwardly, “Teacher, when can I invite him to open the treasure?”

The Witch King Lagmamon replied, “Wait a little longer. We suffered a considerable loss at the hands of that idiot Brandy last time. This time, we can’t rashly reveal our trump card. It’s best if he truly needs the treasure, and we only need a portion of it.” “

Proposing it now is too risky. I need to wait until he encounters difficulties in his research before making the suggestion. That way, his need is equivalent to his weakness.”

“When someone has a need, it’s as if we’ve grasped their weakness.”

“We can then slightly restrain him. My treasure vault contains some ancient magical plants that he should be interested in.”

“His research this time is extremely difficult. Let’s wait and see if he encounters an insurmountable obstacle on the Golden Cup. That will be my moment to seize his weakness.”

(End of Chapter)