Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

A beam of silver-blue moonlight, under the effect of the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow spell model, transformed into a fierce moonlight cannon and was injected into the ten climbing ferns before Locke. In an instant, enormous amounts of lunar essence converged into these ten climbing ferns, initiating their state of Planar Information Reverse Flooding.

In this state, because of Locke's deliberate directional selection, what was primarily flooded in was the planar information of the Fallen Rain Realm.

Which was the power information of the Fallen Water God, Omega.

The ten climbing ferns underwent rapid evolution in a single instant. Ten thousand years, twenty thousand years, thirty thousand years, fifty thousand years of evolutionary steps all converged into this one moment, all manifesting across these climbing ferns in under one minute.

For this reason, Locke called this unusual evolutionary method the Surge Evolution Mode.

It was a special evolutionary mode that could only occur within the Lunar Cultivation Method with the Moon of Evolution as its main component, completing evolution within an extremely brief span of time.

This was a special breeding studies magic that Locke had developed while balancing the minimum intervention principle against the pursuit of efficiency. It represented everything Locke personally understood about magic in the past and his current level, as well as his aspirations for the future.

The Surge Evolution Mode was a collective evolutionary approach in which magical plants, under the illumination of the Moon of Evolution in a natural environment, underwent rapid collective evolution in a short period of time in order to respond to external threats or to make some kind of change.

In botanical studies, there were currently twelve evolutionary modes recognized as the mainstream evolutionary modes of plants in nature, and among them was the Surge Evolution Mode.

Locke's Moon of Evolution, as a Grand Magic oriented toward breeding studies and botanical studies, naturally paid close attention to knowledge in this area of evolutionary studies.

The Surge Evolution Mode had originally referred to collective evolution occurring in certain special planes, where magical plants underwent rapid evolution over a very short period in response to certain situations.

But the Surge Evolution Mode had always been accompanied by controversy. Although its originator was a Truth Wizard in botanical studies, because it was a recently proposed new concept, it was still somewhat niche and contentious.

This Truth Wizard did not yet have enough disciples, the rewards were not yet large enough, and the faction was not yet powerful enough. It occupied a position that had just barely received general acknowledgment that in a void plane, without wizard interference and without the use of magic, this kind of evolutionary mode did genuinely occur.

But the Surge Evolution Mode lacked high-quality cross-plane observational evidence.

And at this moment, after Locke designed the spell model for the Grand Magic Moon of Evolution, he became even more certain that the Surge Evolution Mode theory was sound.

Under a wizard's interference, in some plane of the infinite void, the Surge Evolution Mode for plants did indeed exist.

'In the future, the Moon of Evolution should put greater effort into evolutionary studies.'

'Currently the Moon of Evolution is only in the un-forged stage. Whether in energy dissipation rate, energy compatibility, instantaneous magic pressure multiplier enhancement rate, or spell structure, there is still considerable room for optimization.' Locke looked at the ten climbing ferns before him and thought, 'The Surge Evolution Mode is only the first evolutionary mode my Moon of Evolution has mastered.'

'The Lunar Cultivation Method is still only at its foundation right now. There is no reason it cannot be deepened further.'

At this moment, three of the ten climbing ferns suddenly exploded and disintegrated into fragments.

Locke's expression did not change.

After all, this was the process of evolving from a First Circle magical plant to a Second Circle magical plant, something he himself was experiencing for the first time. Whether it would succeed remained uncertain.

Only this process was something he had deduced on paper countless times before.

The lunar essence from the three exploded climbing ferns quickly concentrated onto the remaining seven climbing ferns.

By now, the surface of the remaining seven climbing ferns had already undergone certain changes, having obtained several different sets of plant essences, the Water Element Affinity Plant Essence, the Dim Light Conversion Plant Essence, the Grand Rain Plane Plant Essence, the Water-Type Spore Plant Essence, and so on.

This caused the magical plant characteristics of the seven climbing ferns to change in different ways.

At this moment, the root system of another climbing fern began to rot, and in under three seconds the rot spread from its roots throughout the entire plant. This climbing fern rapidly perished as a dead end on the evolutionary path, and the Zero Potion within it then entered the remaining six climbing ferns.

Even the Lunar Cultivation Method still had its limitations. The explosions that had occurred just now, as well as the root tissue rot, should both have been the result of incompatible sets of plant essences arising during the evolution, which caused the internal vascular fluid flow to fail.

Once incompatibility occurred, the magical plant could only die an irreversible death from the incompatibility of its plant essences.

At this moment, a layer of water film appeared on the leaves of the fifth climbing fern, and the stems and vines of the climbing fern began trending toward a liquid-hollow state.

This should have been an outward change caused by the Water Element Affinity Plant Essence resulting from the flooding of Fallen Rain Realm planar information.

After all, an entire set of plant essences contained a large array of plant factors, such as leaf water film plant factors, root siphon structure plant factors, and so on.

Although all ten climbing ferns were using the Lunar Cultivation Method and had entered the Planar Information Reverse Flooding state, the Fallen Rain Realm planar information was so vast that the portions of information that each of the ten climbing ferns received had barely any overlap.

The evolution under the Lunar Cultivation Method had always been unstable in Locke's design and prior experiments, and differed greatly from the traditional cultivation methods used by wizards.

This was also a characteristic of Surge Evolution in itself.

Or rather, as the designer, the limitation of being a lower-circle wizard. Locke only understood the true operational nature of the Lunar Cultivation Method and grasped the general characteristics of magical plant evolutionary directions after becoming a Second Circle wizard.

Were it otherwise, in his First Circle wizard's eyes, the evolutionary mode of the Lunar Cultivation Method would have looked truly like a completely random and accelerated evolutionary state.

At this point, the leaves and stems of the fifth climbing fern looked as though they had been soaked to the point of destruction, severely waterlogged, and ultimately rotted completely away, with the entire plant rapidly turning black.

Locke let out a sigh. Another magical plant had fallen during the evolutionary process.

Evolution in a word was the achievement of a single triumph built upon the deaths of thousands.

Especially at this critical juncture of forcibly driving a First Circle magical plant toward Second Circle evolution under the action of his own Moon of Evolution.

Only five climbing ferns remained. Locke weighed in his mind the current consumption of Zero Potion.

Thanks to the generous contribution of that black wizard's 15,000-quality magic pressure and virtually all of their total magic pressure, the amount of Zero Potion he had was staggering. Even so, in order to evolve a Second Circle magical plant, roughly sixty percent of the Zero Potion had been spent on this action.

The collective evolution of the mortal world and the realm, by contrast, had not consumed much Zero Potion, since it was only ordinary plants evolving into apprentice-level magical plants.

After all, he had not driven the apprentice-level magical plant population to evolve into First Circle magical plants.

Locke extended his hand and used an ordinary grafting knife to graft the five virtual roots with exogenous origin obtained from the Temporal Shadow Fern separately onto the stems of the climbing ferns, then used the First Circle botanical magic Graft Healing to complete the grafting.

This step gave Locke little cause for concern, because the mainstream hypothesis for the origin of the virtual root was that it came from a parasitic magical plant, which after parasitizing a host magical plant had formed a symbiotic relationship with it, thereby enabling the possibility of First Circle magical plants evolving into Second Circle magical plants.

The virtual root itself contained some naturally occurring magical structural components that would bypass the host magical plant's own limitations and increase the success rate of grafting cultivation methods.

Especially since he used stem grafting, which further elevated the success rate.

So this step would not increase the mortality rate of his climbing ferns on the evolutionary path.

At this moment, the five climbing ferns were already each exhibiting distinct characteristics and had become greatly different from each other. However, they were all predominantly water-blue in color and had all essentially developed aquaphilic spores.

After all, they had all been using the planar information of the Fallen Rain Realm.

In under a minute, the sixth climbing fern suddenly collapsed again after combining with the virtual root, because it was a plant. Locke could not even separate and analyze the virtual root in time before the virtual root also withered and died along with it.

The Moon of Evolution had accelerated everything, whether it was evolution or the death of magical plants.

Locke looked at that hollow virtual root and thought, "It seems that one set of plant essences entered into conflict with the climbing fern's original plant essences, causing problems with the fluid flow in the internal vascular column."

"A problem with hydraulic pressure. If this had been inside the Queen's Chessboard, I could have researched exactly which set of plant essences came into conflict... though there is no need."

This indicated that for this climbing fern, this entire evolutionary path was one of incorrect evolution, and there was no need for him to be too fixated on this path.

What time he had was better spent studying the correct evolutionary path for climbing ferns.

The Lunar Cultivation Method was like randomly scattering seeds across a plot of land. The evolutionary paths that produced growth along with advantageous magical plant characteristics were the ones he should be paying attention to.

At this moment, the remaining climbing ferns also gradually developed problems.

After each climbing fern died, it would expel its lunar essence, which would then merge into the remaining climbing ferns' bodies.

In the end, nine of the ten climbing ferns had already died, and only one climbing fern remained.

This climbing fern had not been without its plant essence incompatibility issues. It was simply that because its constitution was strong and its luck was good, it encountered only minor incompatibilities and forcibly pushed through them. During the Planar Information Reverse Flooding process, it found key plant essence information that helped it survive the crisis, and so it made it through.

Of course, after each climbing fern died, the expelled lunar essence could carry some planar information that Locke selectively retained.

And Locke used this method, through the Moon of Evolution, to manipulate the evolutionary path of the climbing fern magical plants and conduct limited interference, improving the possibility of the climbing fern evolving into a Second Circle magical plant.

In the end, with razor-thin margins, he avoided the collapse of the last climbing fern by adding one piece of Fallen Rain Realm planar information.

At this moment, the last climbing fern reached the juncture of imminent evolution. Water-ripple fluorescent veins appeared on its surface, radiating a pale blue bioluminescence, and moon patterns appeared on its leaves.

Crystalline and ethereal virtual roots were mingled among this climbing fern's normal root system. The spores on the triangular leaves of the climbing fern had mutated into fluid-filled vesicles, crystal clear and beautiful beyond measure.

Like dewdrops of ice, or sapphires.

Crystallization had appeared along the main veins on the underside of the climbing fern's leaves, and needle-like water-conducting crystals had grown there.

An ordinary climbing fern was spiral staircase in form, and now this spiral staircase had transformed into an ice-blue crystal crown version.

This crystal crown spiral staircase floated in mid-air, and its magic pressure finally broke through from 9,999 to 10,000.

Although it had only barely broken through, it had genuinely broken through.

Although Locke, at the critical breakthrough juncture, had also transferred back approximately 15% of the Zero Potion from the realm and the mortal world of the Silent Plane and infused it into this climbing fern.

But this climbing fern had genuinely completed its evolution into a Second Circle magical plant.

'The complete magical power of a black wizard with 15,000 magic pressure, converted into Zero Potion, has mostly been spent on this single magical plant.' Locke extended his hand, and the Second Circle climbing fern in its crystal crown spiral staircase form floated in his palm.

"Complete. My Moon of Evolution!"

At the same time, Edgar was fighting Omega in the sky. At this moment he looked down at the Second Circle magical plant climbing fern in Locke's hand and showed a look of disbelief.

"He actually evolved a First Circle magical plant into a Second Circle magical plant."

In Edgar's understanding, there were methods of using magic and equipment to breed a First Circle magical plant within a single day, but a Second Circle magical plant, even at the fastest, should be measured in months as a cultivation approach.

The top-tier First Circle breeding equipment designed by the Root Crown Court from the Crystal Ecological Dome could allow First Circle magical plants to be cultivated quickly, but the energy and information required for a Second Circle magical plant were enormously demanding.

A breeder who could complete the breeding of one Second Circle magical plant within six months was already extraordinarily impressive.

So the cost of Second Circle magical plants was very high.

And Locke's Moon of Evolution just now, from start to finish, had taken under one hour.

So regardless of the quality of the Second Circle magical plant, Locke's ability alone, to allow magical plants to evolve in a short time and allow a First Circle magical plant to evolve into a Second Circle magical plant, was already extraordinarily frightening.

Of course, both Edgar and Locke could recognize that although this climbing fern had evolved into a Second Circle magical plant, its quality should be considered the state of a wild Second Circle magical plant, fundamentally a different thing from the kind of Second Circle magical plants that wizards had carefully selected and meticulously designed.

The gap was as large as the one between foxtail grass and millet.

But regardless, this magical plant had genuinely reached the Second Circle tier.

Going forward, as long as Locke used a breeder's techniques and spent time cultivating and refining it, it could still be turned into a truly excellent Second Circle magical plant.

With just this technique alone, Locke would be well positioned within a foreseeable future to become an excellent Second Circle breeding wizard.

After all, the time he would spend per breeding generation would be far less than that of an ordinary breeder of equivalent level.

Like Edgar, who had fallen into a state of astonishment, the wizard spectators watching the competition also had an even stronger reaction to Locke evolving a First Circle magical plant into a Second Circle magical plant through the Moon of Evolution.

This reaction was far greater than their reaction to the Reverse Refinement Method earlier.

As for the Reverse Refinement Method , after all, its effects were not visibly demonstrated. Only those potion masters and wizards who could see through it would consider it anything particularly astonishing.

Only those who could see through the technique would realize that Locke was a very excellent potion master. But Locke's act of producing a Second Circle climbing fern in an extremely short time before everyone's eyes demonstrated to every wizard across the entire Cloud Marsh Wetlands his talent as a breeder.