Chapter 154

Chapter 154 Multifunctional Magic Plant Platform

A month later.

In the second small and medium-sized plantation, Locke opened up a ten-acre magic field to grow emerald iris lichen.

The ten acres of magic field in front of Locke was lush and green. The emerald lichen was a very beautiful magical plant. Every tiny leaf-like part of the lichen was as beautiful as a gem.

The iris lichen cultivated by Locke has a rainbow-like film covering the surface of its leaf-shaped parts.

This makes this magical field of emerald iris lichen look like a field of gems, and above this emerald gem, a rainbow light is reflected.

Next to the ten-acre magic field, there are five Minotaur noble slaves who, under Locke’s command, are watering the emerald iris lichens with nutrient solution.

Locke observed the scene, “The first batch of Emerald Iris Lichen is about to be produced. The cost of growing Emerald Iris Lichen is actually lower than that of Crystal Palm Fire Lotus.”

For the Emerald Iris Lichen, in addition to the fixed 200 magic stones for the Advanced Breeder three-piece set, the rest only require 100 magic stones for five tons of shadow agent and 50 magic stones for one pound of animal bones.

Because the Emerald Iris Lichen is actually a fungal magical plant, it needs to transform rotten animal bones to produce special nutrients.

There is a Blood Roar Colosseum in Lilith’s Cottage Academy, which is where wizards specializing in beast taming magic gather to study. There are a large number of corpses of magical creatures there every day, so the price is very cheap and it is not difficult to buy them.

Shadow Potion is a very simple product of potions, so simple that a third-class wizard apprentice can produce it in large quantities after a certain amount of training.

Except for specific pharmaceutical laboratories that specialize in this low-end industry, other pharmaceutical laboratories, including Locke’s, are too lazy to do this.

Because the price is very cheap, there are no technical barriers or cost barriers at all. The only barrier is that no one is willing to waste energy to produce this thing by themselves.

During the planting process of Emerald Iris Lichen, a small amount of shadow agent needs to be mixed into the soil so that this magical plant can thrive.

Because it does not require a weather controller like the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus, there are no special requirements for the planting temperature, and the animal bones and shadow agents used in conjunction are all cheap low-grade products, so the planting cost is indeed relatively low.

It only cost 400 magic stones to open up these ten acres of magic fields.

After this month, thanks to the income from the treatment center, the plantation, the magic stones saved from the previous bulk purchase contract, his own magic stone reserves, and the second bulk purchase contract, his total magic stone reserves had reached a staggering 28,300!

However, due to the total cost of meditation for the past two months, which was 16,800, plus the cost of developing the magic field and miscellaneous expenses, Locke’s current savings were only 10,700.

But this is still a huge sum of money for an ordinary first-class wizard apprentice worker.

Locke also planned to use this huge sum of money to go to the Chimera Market and buy a large amount of magic resources at one time to forcibly increase his mental power.

After all, compared to this huge sum of money, his mana only increased by 5 points in this month.

As slow as a turtle.

But compared to the stage without advanced meditation, the growth rate is many times faster. After all, at that time, when I had more than 200 mana points, it took me two months to increase 1 point of mana (the quality of mana was not as good as it is now).

The current growth rate of his actual mental power is about 24 times that of when he does not use advanced meditation methods and additional resources, and it is 4 times the speed of when he does not use additional resources and only uses advanced meditation methods.

Locke looked at the emerald iris lichen in front of him. In the past month, he not only cultivated ten acres of emerald iris lichen here, but also continued to use the emerald iris lichen here to improve his magic frequency cultivation method in preparation for the breeder examination in a month.

At the same time, Locke made a bold attempt.

Locke came to the five emerald iris lichens that had opened up a separate one-acre magic field. He gently cut off the upper half of an emerald iris lichen with a small knife, and then transplanted a section of the malignantly deteriorated Tivro root vine that he had obtained from Luckin’s body to the emerald iris lichen.

Locke used a bamboo stick to fix the two together, chanted a spell, used a [Secondary Grafting Healing Technique], and then sprinkled high-grade fast-growing agent gel into them with his left hand.

Under the effects of Locke’s magic and advanced fast-growing agent gel, the two grafted magic plants of different types healed together rapidly.

There were some subtle conflicts of magical energy between the two, which caused the wounds of both to repair, then fester, then repair again, and then fester again.

In fact, over the past month, he has been constantly fine-tuning the spell model of [Secondary Grafting Healing] and constantly trying to cultivate offspring of the emerald iris lichen that can adapt to the negative energy on the degraded vines.

The grafting and cultivation experiment in front of us has been repeated for more than half a month, and more than ten emerald iris lichens have been destroyed.

Locke stared at the wound of the Emerald Iris Lichen, and his pupils suddenly shrank, because under the effect of his secondary grafting healing technique, the wound of the Emerald Iris Lichen finally grew together with the degraded vine.

“Success.” Locke was slightly excited. “My idea is feasible. This is a variant of the Emerald Iris Lichen Magic Plant that I came up with after using the Rubik’s Cube to synthesize a high-level Magic Plant, based on the available materials!”

He saw that under the effect of the advanced fast-growing agent gel, the emerald iris lichen underwent some corresponding changes so that it could adapt to the degraded vines. At the same time, the degraded vines were rapidly undergoing some optimization.

The dark red on the vine’s surface faded to green, and the barbs gradually receded. The Tifrogan vine was actually slowly returning to its original state.

Although it is impossible to completely restore it to its original state, the vines that had already deteriorated significantly did see improvements in their varieties again.

At the same time, the emerald iris lichen that he owned changed its shape. Its color and hue did not change, but the leaves of the original small leaf-shaped fungal lichen began to fuse together and form a hard shell, which is a shell-shaped fungal lichen.

This hard shell is about the size of a small buckler.

It looks like a huge emerald round shield, reflecting rainbow light.

Locke used a bamboo stick to pick up a little of the fungal mucus on the surface of the special variety of emerald iris lichen that he had newly cultivated, and then smeared it on a piece of degraded magic plant vine he got from Luckin. The surface of the vine suddenly seemed to be burned and began to dehydrate rapidly, and some parts of the degraded magic plant vine also showed benign changes.

“Success.” Locke pondered, “I previously suspected that lichens were a kind of magical plant that was prone to mutation.”

“And my Emerald Iris Lichen possesses a highly adaptable magic resistance-altering ability. So, I can use the grafting method to graft the mutated magic vine from Luckin onto the Emerald Iris Lichen, allowing it to continuously adapt to this plant curse.”

“Generate corresponding magic resistance.”

“This way, we can create a magical plant that can resist specific curses.” Locke quickly calmed down. “The Emerald Lichen was originally just a consumable magical plant used in potions, not a combat magical plant.”

“The foundation is not good.”

“And right now, the special species of Emerald Iris Lichen I’ve created is only adapted to a single curse and isn’t stable yet. So, it’s just the beginning, not the completion of the work.”

“I need to use this mutant Emerald Iris Lichen as the mother plant, using the cutting cultivation method to continuously replicate it. I will also use its daughter plants, using the grafting cultivation method, to transplant more magical plant curses onto it. This way, it can adapt to different curses.”

(End of this chapter)