Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 724 Manipulating Arrows - Sea Sands!

A beam of blue-silver moonlight, under the influence of the Peach Blossom Thorn Arrow spell model, transformed into a powerful moonlight cannon and injected into the ten sea gold plants in front of Locke. Instantly, a large amount of lunar essence gathered into these ten sea gold plants, activating their [Plane Information Reverse Inflow] state.

In this state, due to Locke's deliberate biased selection, the information flowing in is mainly from the Fallen Rain Realm.

This refers to the power information of the fallen water god Omega.

The ten sea lynx trees underwent rapid evolution in an instant. All the steps that would normally take 10,000, 20,000, 30,000... 50,000 years to evolve were concentrated in this one instant, appearing on these sea lynx trees in less than a minute.

Therefore, Locke called this unusual method of evolution the "Leap Evolution Mode".

This is a special evolutionary mode that can only appear within a very short period of time, achieved through the Moon Cultivation Method, which is based on the Moon of Evolution.

This is a special kind of breeding magic that Locke developed by balancing the principle of minimal intervention with the pursuit of efficiency. It represents Locke's understanding of magic in the past, his current level of understanding, and his expectations for the future.

The Surging Evolution Mode is a collective evolutionary process undertaken by magical plants in a short period of time in the natural environment under the illumination of the Evolution Moon, in order to cope with external threats or to make certain changes.

In botany, there are currently twelve types of evolutionary patterns considered to be the mainstream evolutionary patterns of plants in nature, among which is the "emergent evolution pattern".

Locke's Evolutionary Moon, being a powerful magic technique leaning towards breeding and botany, naturally drew him to pay close attention to evolutionary knowledge in this area.

The "Evolutionary Leap" mode originally referred to the collective evolution of magical plants in a very short period of time in response to certain situations, discovered in some special planes.

However, the emergence evolution model has been controversial, mainly because although the proposer is a botanical psychic, it is a relatively new concept.

Therefore, it is still relatively niche and controversial.

This Wizard of Truth has not enough disciples, the pie is not big enough, and the faction is not powerful enough. He is just right. Everyone acknowledges that, without wizard interference and without the use of magic, such an evolutionary pattern does indeed exist in the void plane.

However, the surge evolution model lacks high-quality evidence from cross-dimensional observations.

Now that Locke has designed the spell model for the massive magic [Evolution Moon], he is even more certain that the [Leap Evolution Mode Theory] is correct.

Under the intervention of wizards, a certain plane in the endless void does indeed possess a [surging evolution mode] for plants.

'In the future, during the month of evolution, we should focus more on evolutionary biology.'

"Currently, the Evolution Moon is only in its unforged stage. There's still a lot of room for optimization in terms of energy dissipation, energy compatibility, instantaneous magic pressure amplification, and spell structure." Locke looked at the ten Sea Gold Sands before him and pondered, "The Surging Evolution Mode is just the first evolution mode I've mastered for the Evolution Moon."

'The Moon Cultivation Method is currently only at a basic level; it may still be able to be further developed.'

At that moment, three of the ten sea lycoris plants in front of him suddenly exploded and turned into fragments.

Locke's expression remained unchanged.

After all, this was the first time I had ever experienced the process of evolving from a first-ring magical plant to a second-ring magical plant, and whether I could succeed was still unknown.

However, I had already rehearsed this process countless times on paper beforehand.

The essence of the moon from the three exploding sea ginseng plants quickly concentrated on the remaining seven sea ginseng plants.

Meanwhile, the remaining seven Sea Gold Sand plants had already undergone some changes, acquiring several different sets of plant essences—[Water Element Affinity Plant Essence], [Weak Light Conversion Plant Essence], [Rainy Dimension Plant Essence], [Aquatic Spore Plant Essence], and so on…

This resulted in different changes in the characteristics of the seven Lygodium japonicum plants.

At this moment, the roots of another sea ginseng plant began to rot. In less than three seconds, the rot spread from its roots to the entire plant. This sea ginseng plant quickly perished as a dead end on its evolutionary path. Then, the Zero Elixir inside it entered the remaining six sea ginseng plants.

Even with the lunar cultivation method, there are still limitations. Whether it was the explosion or the root tissue rotting that just happened, it should be during the evolution process that the different plant essences within this sea lily conflicted.

Once a conflict arises, the magical plant can only suffer irreversible death due to the incompatibility of plant essences.

At this moment, a layer of water film appeared on the leaves of the fifth Lygodium japonicum plant, and the stems and vines of the Lygodium japonicum showed a tendency to become liquefied and hollow.

This change in appearance is likely due to the backflow of information from the Fallen Rain Dimension, resulting in a water element affinity with plant essence.

After all, a complete set of plant essences contains a large number of plant factors, such as leaf water film plant factors, root siphon structure plant factors, etc.

Although all ten Sea Gold Sand plants used the Moon Cultivation Method and underwent dimensional information inversion, the information in the Fallen Rain Realm was so vast that the information inverted into each of the ten Sea Gold Sand plants was not even very similar.

The evolution of the Moon Cultivation Method has been unstable in Locke's design and previous experiments, and it differs greatly from the traditional cultivation methods used by wizards.

This is itself a characteristic of [Emerging Evolution].

Or perhaps it was the limitations of being a low-level wizard as a designer. Locke only realized the true nature of the Moon Cultivation Method and grasped the general characteristics of the evolution of magical plants after becoming a second-level wizard.

Otherwise, in his view at the first stage, the evolutionary pattern of the Moon Cultivation Method would truly be a completely random and accelerated evolutionary state.

At this point, the leaves and stems of the fifth Lygodium japonicum plant appeared to have rotted, severely swollen, and eventually rotted completely, its entire body rapidly turning black.

Locke sighed; yet another magical plant had perished in the process of evolution.

Evolution, in essence, is a process where one person's success is built on the bones of countless others.

Especially at this crucial juncture where, under the influence of its own Evolution Moon, it forcibly evolves a first-ring magical plant into a second-ring magical plant.

Only five Sea Gold Sands remained. Locke weighed the current consumption of Zero Potion in his mind.

Thanks to the black wizard's gift of 15,000 magic pressure mass and almost all of his magic pressure, his quantity of zero potions was astonishing. However, in order to evolve a second-circle magic plant, about 60 percent of his zero potions were currently spent on this action.

On the contrary, the collective evolution in the mortal world and the Dharma realm, which involved ordinary plants evolving into apprentice-level magical plants, did not consume too much Zero Magic Potion.

After all, he hadn't managed to evolve the group of apprentice-level magical plants into first-level magical plants.

Locke reached out and used a regular grafting knife to graft the five imaginary roots he had obtained from the Timeshade Fern onto the stem of the Sea Gold Sand. He then used a first-circle botanical spell, Grafting Heal, to complete the grafting magic.

Locke doesn't need to worry too much about this step, because the mainstream theory about the origin of the Imaginary Root is that it comes from a parasitic magical plant. After parasitizing the host magical plant, it forms a symbiotic relationship with the host, which leads to the possibility of a first-ring magical plant evolving into a second-ring magical plant. The Imaginary Root itself has some natural magical structural components that can bypass the limitations of the magical plant itself, increasing the success rate of grafting cultivation.

In particular, I used stem grafting, which improved the success rate.

Therefore, this step will not increase the mortality rate of one's own sea hyacinth on the evolutionary path.

At this point, the five *Lygodium japonicum* plants each had their own characteristics and became quite different, although they were all mainly water-blue and had basically all developed hydrophilic spores.

After all, they were using dimensional information from the Fallen Rain Realm.

Less than a minute later, the sixth sea ginseng suddenly collapsed again after combining with the imaginary root. Because it was a plant, Locke didn't have time to analyze the imaginary root, and the imaginary root withered and died along with it.

The Moon of Evolution accelerated everything, both evolution and the death of magical plants.

Locke looked at the hollow imaginary root and pondered, "It seems that there is a set of plant essences that conflicted with the original plant essences of the sea ginseng, causing problems with the flow of liquid in the internal vascular column."

"There's a problem with the hydraulics. If it were inside the Queen's Chessboard, we could investigate which set of plant essences is causing the conflict... though it's unnecessary."

This means that for Haijinsha, this entire evolutionary path was a mistake, so there's no need for her to dwell on this path too much.

Instead of wasting time, it would be better to focus on studying the correct evolutionary path of Lygodium japonicum.

The Moon Cultivation Method is like randomly scattering seeds in a field; the evolutionary path that grows and possesses superior magical plant traits is what you should focus on.

At this point, the remaining few Lygodium japonicum plants also began to show problems.

Each sea lycoris plant, upon death, releases its lunar essence, which then merges into the body of the remaining sea lycoris plant.

In the end, nine out of the ten Lygodium japonicum plants had died, leaving only one Lygodium japonicum plant.

This sea lily was not without its problems with plant essence conflicts, but because of its strong constitution and good luck, it encountered only minor conflicts and thus managed to survive. During the process of information backflow from the other plane, it found the key plant essence information that could help it overcome the crisis, and thus it survived.

Of course, Locke could selectively carry a portion of the dimensional information with the lunar essence expelled from each dead sea lily.

Locke used this method, through the Moon of Evolution, to manipulate the evolution path of the Sea Gold Sand plant, interfering in a limited way and increasing the possibility of the Sea Gold Sand evolving into a second-ring plant.

In the end, he narrowly avoided the collapse of the last sea lily by adding a dimensional information of the Fallen Rain Realm.

At this point, the last Lygodium japonicum plant reached a critical point in its evolution. Its surface developed water-like fluorescent veins that emitted a pale blue bioluminescence, and crescent-shaped patterns appeared on its leaves.

Crystalline and ethereal imaginary roots are mixed in with the normal roots of this Lygodium japonicum plant. The spores on the triangular leaves of the Lygodium japonicum plant have mutated into water-filled vesicles, which are crystal clear and incomparably beautiful.

Like dewdrops, or like sapphires.

Crystallization occurred on the main vein of the underside of the leaves of Lygodium japonicum, and needle-like hydroconductive crystals grew.

Originally, it was an ordinary sea lychee plant shaped like a spiral staircase, but now the spiral staircase looks like an ice-blue ice crystal crown.

The spiral staircase of the ice crystal crown floated in mid-air, its magical pressure finally breaking through from 9999 to 10000!
Although it was just a close call, it was indeed a breakthrough.

Although Locke, at the crucial juncture of his breakthrough, drew back approximately 15% of the Zero Elixir from the mortal realm of the Dharma Realm and the Silent Dimension and infused it into this Sea Gold Sand.

But this Lygodium japonicum plant has indeed completed the evolution of a second-ring magical plant.

"The entire magic power of a dark wizard with 15,000 magic pressure, transformed into the Zero Potion, was mostly used on this magical plant." Locke reached out, and the two-ringed sea gold plant, shaped like an ice crystal crown spiral staircase, floated in his palm.

"It's done. My Moon of Evolution is complete!"

Meanwhile, Edgar was fighting Omega in the sky. At this moment, he looked down at the second-ring magic plant, Sea Gold Sand, in Locke's hand and showed an incredulous look.

"It actually evolved from a first-ring magical plant into a second-ring magical plant."

In Edgar's understanding, first-ring magical plants could be bred within a day using magic and equipment, but second-ring magical plants, no matter how fast, should be cultivated in a way that takes months.

The top-tier first-ring breeding equipment designed by the Root Crown Royal Court in the Dragon Crystal Ecological Dome can rapidly cultivate first-ring magical plants, but the energy and information required for second-ring magical plants are extremely demanding.

It is already extremely incredible that a breeder can complete the breeding of a second-ring magic plant in six months.

Therefore, the cost of the second-ring magic plant is very high!

Locke's Evolution Moon just now took less than an hour from start to finish!

So regardless of the quality of the second-ring magical plant, Locke's only trick is to make the magical plant evolve in a short time, turning a first-ring magical plant into a second-ring magical plant, which is extremely terrifying!

Of course, Edgar and Locke both realized that although this Sea Gold Sand had evolved into a second-ring magical plant, its quality should be considered that of a wild second-ring magical plant. It was essentially a different thing from the second-ring magical plants that wizards had carefully selected and designed.

It's as big as the difference between foxtail grass and millet.

But no matter what, this magical plant has reached the second ring level!
Next, as long as Locke uses the breeder's skills and spends time cultivating and modifying it, it can still become a true second-ring magic plant.

With just this skill, Locke is more than capable of becoming an excellent second-ring breeder in the foreseeable future!

After all, the time he spends on breeding generations is much less than that of an ordinary breeder of the same level!

Just as Edgar was deeply shocked, the wizard spectators watching the match were even more surprised by Locke's use of the Evolution Moon to evolve a first-ring magical plant into a second-ring magical plant.

This was even more intense than their previous reactions to the Reverse Refining Technique.

Since the reverse alchemy method has no visible effects, it's not something that would surprise anyone except for alchemists and wizards who can see the tricks of it.

Only a skilled potion master could recognize that Locke was an excellent potion master. Locke's act of creating a second-ring sea gold sand plant in front of everyone in a very short time demonstrated his talent as a breeder to all the wizards in Yunze Wetland!
(End of this chapter)