Chapter 975

Chapter 969 The Future Development Direction of the Two Great Magics!

Before the frozen farmland, a golden tree appeared behind Locke.

The golden tree of prosperity seemed to be blown by the feathery leaves of the forest, and then countless golden spiritual energy scattered across the farmland.

Instantly, the one hundred two-grain wheat plants on the one hundred acres of frozen farmland split into two plants—a mirror replication!

Next, Locke used the Moon Cultivation Method on both hundred two-grain wheat plants simultaneously. Countless dimensional information poured into the plant essence of these two-grain wheat plants. Ten minutes later, all the plants had completed the mutation. Then Locke began to search for the traits he needed in these farmlands.

Half an hour later, Locke found three two-grain wheat plants that preferred a low-magic environment. With a wave of his hand, all the magical plants that had been replicated by the tree of prosperity merged with their original forms.

Seeing this, the Golden Dragon Wizard praised, “Junior Brother, the combination of your two ultimate spells saves a lot of resources and speeds up our search for super wheat. It’s truly excellent. It’s just a pity my ultimate spells are primarily for combat and self-protection, so they haven’t focused much on their breeding function.”

Locke nodded slightly; this was normal, as self-preservation was probably the most important thing at the end of this Great Void Exploration Era.

The Golden Dragon Wizard’s confidence soared. Locke’s two ultimate spells seemed to have given him extra confidence. The Golden Dragon Wizard and Locke once again toiled in the fields, sharing the remaining food on his person. After that, they began eating the bark and roots of some wild magical plants they had found in the icy wilderness.

Because of the Golden Crown Mountain Ancestor’s scheme—that bowl of bitter tea—Lock also found himself lacking magical pressure.

He could only accompany the Ancestor in searching for food in the snow, enduring the sharp awns of the two grains of wheat cutting their hands.

Their conditions were harsh.

Soon, half a year passed.

Locke, relying on two powerful spells and the continuous synthesis of the magic cube, found many two-grain wheat plants with cold resistance and the ability to adapt to low-magic environments. He then continued to cultivate these plants, using the Evolution Moon and the Magic Sun to mutate them, hoping to find magical plants with even more advanced traits.

Through generations of purification, Locke gradually found a two-grain wheat plant with cold resistance and a lower required magical tide concentration gradient.

Locke looked at this magical plant in the field and fell into deep thought, because this two-grain wheat was not a first-ring magical plant, but only an apprentice-level magical plant.

“By giving up the ability to crystallize wood elements, the required magical tide concentration gradient can indeed be significantly reduced. Although it is no longer a first-ring magical plant, it can further reduce the resources required for its growth. In today’s barren environment, such degeneration seems reasonable.”

This was a desperate solution he had come up with after half a year of thought.

The Golden Dragon Wizard encouraged him from behind, “That’s good, it’s a last resort.”

Locke shook his head slightly.

But that won’t work. Lowering the plant’s level to reduce the environmental conditions needed for growth and germination would be too easy; the Golden Dragon Wizard and his teacher would have done it long ago.

The key is to provide sufficient magical energy to Star Ring Wizards like myself and a large number of formal wizards. The fruit of an apprentice-level magical plant is definitely not suitable. Only the fruit of a first-ring magical plant, possessing the characteristic of wood element crystallization—where each plant cell is enveloped by wood element crystal clusters, like a miniature high-pressure reactor—possesses this potential.

Therefore, the variety I’ve found over the past six months is still very far from the super wheat I desire.

The Golden Dragon Wizard reminded Locke, “But I see that the cold resistance of your two-grain wheat plant is indeed extraordinary.”

Locke explained, “Yes, this is a magical plant with special characteristics that I managed to cultivate using my unique lunar cultivation method. Like many winter plants, it can secrete various natural magical structural components, lowering the freezing point of the intercellular fluid, making growth and flowering possible in low temperatures.”

The Golden Dragon Wizard’s eyes brightened slightly, and he nodded repeatedly, saying, “Give me some of its seeds; perhaps I can find a use for them.”

Locke nodded and then gave him the seeds of this wheat.

The Golden Dragon Wizard then handed Locke a pancake made from two-grain wheat flour.

Unlike when Locke first entered this parallel world half a year ago, when he first saw the pancake in his hand and thought it was very rough, this time, when Locke saw this pancake and smelled the fragrance that filled his nostrils, he was even a little dazed.

Because it was so fragrant.

Just smelling it made him feel as if every taste bud on his tongue was reminding him that it was incredibly delicious.

Locke recalled the grass and tree roots he had collected over the past six months. Although he had roughly processed them, they were nothing compared to this thin pancake baked in the sun.

Locke took the pancake, bit into it, and instantly the food was transformed into magical pressure, replenishing his dwindling mana.

The Golden Dragon Wizard took a wolf pelt from his neck and hung it around Locke’s neck.

“This is the fur of a magical creature to keep us warm. We need to use our mana wisely now, every bit counts. If we don’t have enough mana, we’ll die. But we can’t die; the people here are counting on us. They’re giving us most of their rations so we can grow our own food.”

“Junior Brother, let’s keep trying. Keep going, you’ll definitely find the super wheat we need.”

Locke nodded.

Over the past six months, he had been learning hybridization techniques from the founder of Golden Crown Mountain, learning many of his interesting ideas and solidifying his skills and understanding of hybridization.

The Golden Dragon Wizard said, “Junior Brother, I’ve wanted to ask you this for a while. Have you encountered the Persepolis gods before?”

“Perhaps the Titans as well?”

Locke raised an eyebrow in surprise, asking the Golden Dragon Wizard, “Senior Brother, I have encountered both the Persepolis gods and the Titans before. What happened?”

The Golden Dragon Wizard smiled, “I heard the Persepolis gods are embroiled in a civil war. It’s fortunate that way; otherwise, if they attacked now, we would be powerless to resist. I guessed this from your ultimate magic. Your Tree of Prosperity uses a large amount of divine power.”

“You can easily replicate those magical plants; this is itself a manifestation of divine power.” “

The creativity of [Secondary Creation] is what those divine powers excel at, so this part of creativity isn’t magic, but divine power. Although I don’t know where you obtained this divine power from, and how you can use it so freely, it’s actually used very reluctantly, like a foreign object being placed in your ultimate magic. Right now, you’re only at the Star Forging stage, so it’s fine, but what if you later…”

“Ordinary wizards probably wouldn’t think much of it, but because I used to deal with those gods a lot, I’m quite familiar with this kind of thing.”

Locke felt a chill run down his spine, realizing that his ancestor was referring to the use of the principles of the Three Worlds’ Book of Gods in the construction of his Tree of Prosperity.

Indeed, creating something new from something already existing was a skill excelled at by the Persepolis and Titan gods. The two races simply had two different facets in secondary creation, but the most essential part of their power was indeed secondary creation.

The Golden Dragon Wizard succinctly revealed the essence of this.

And the manifestation of this essence of secondary creation in his ultimate magic was that he could use the magic of the changing seasons to replicate magical plants, or combine replicated magical plants into one to enhance the original.

The Golden Dragon Wizard suddenly spoke, “I can sense that your Tree of Prosperity Great Spell has unfinished business. If you could further purify this Great Spell, replace the divine power within it, and substitute it with life magic, the forging of your Great Spell would rise to another level. And perhaps then it could even enter the lunar ring and possess a completely new form. Your Tree of Prosperity is still not the end. Of course, this is just my opinion; every wizard’s Great Spell is unique.”

“Junior Brother, perhaps you have other considerations.”

“And your Moon of Evolution, I think it’s excellent, but the special magical artifact it serves as a vessel, while good, actually limits your development, Junior Brother. You should replace it. It’s like a baby needing support when learning to walk; now there’s no need for that anymore.”

Locke nodded repeatedly. In the six months he’d worked with these Golden Crown Mountain progenitor wizards, constantly exchanging ideas with them, his various breeding methods had improved significantly, and they’d gradually begun to share magical ideas with him.

This exchange of magical ideas occurred three months after he insisted on staying.

Perhaps it was a benefit, but in any case, the progenitor had begun discussing magical ideas with him. Although he lacked the information about later wizards, the progenitor spoke cautiously, never mentioning things he didn’t understand. Furthermore, his clear and excellent thinking often provided him with great inspiration.

Of course, he couldn’t listen to everything the progenitor said, but he still needed to think things through.

‘My natal magical porcelain, even after I’ve synthesized it several times, is ultimately just an external object researched by the Magic Nexus City.’ But the moon does indeed need a physical vessel; a pure energy body would be too fragile and unstable. ‘

Use magical plants as the vessel for the Moon of Evolution?’

Locke pondered deeply.

‘This really needs careful consideration. I need to think about what vessel would be best for my Moon of Evolution. Entering the key laboratory this time was definitely worthwhile; I’ve gained tremendous improvements in all aspects. No wonder so many wizards are lining up to enter here.’

‘And there’s the principle of the Book of Gods; that is indeed the path of divine power. My Tree of Prosperity can only be constructed this way because of my half-body’s struggle with the Persepolis gods and the need to obtain the second World Leaf, but in reality, it has many hidden dangers.’

These are all things related to his future development.

However, right now, he needs to focus all his attention on this field of hybrid wheat, searching for the super wheat he desires.

Another three months passed.

Locke felt increasingly unable to balance the energy he absorbed and the mana he output.

As time passed, he consumed more and more mana, and the difficulty of finding food on this land increased day by day.

As Locke watched the population of his settlement dwindle, his initial motivation for research—driven by a desire for success—shifted to a desire to solve the problem of hunger as quickly as possible.

Although he knew this was a parallel world, Locke took it seriously.

This was a parallel world. Therefore, the people there were all flesh-and-blood human beings.

Locke glanced at the commoners and wizard apprentices who had given up their food supplies to help him find the super wheat as quickly as possible.

He looked at the two-grain wheat plants in his fields. These ordinary magical plants, the cheapest in later generations, were now more precious than the world’s most valuable treasures in Locke’s eyes.

Locke looked at the two-grain wheat. Through continuous self-breeding of the apprentice-level two-grain wheat, and after ten generations of selection, he had found a two-grain wheat plant that was almost perfectly adapted to the current harsh, low-magic environment.

This two-grain wheat plant could draw magical energy from the ground through its strong roots to replenish itself.

In this way, it could adapt to the current environment and grow normally.

Locke also discovered another type of two-grain wheat. After completing its growth, it actively transfers all its nutrients to the fruit and initiates a series of aging processes to wither away, thus preserving the nutrition of a batch of grains.

Originally, two-grain wheat wasn’t an annual magical plant, but a long-term one.

However, Locke realized that most apprentice-level wheat magical plants are annuals. So, through grafting with a large number of lower-level wheat plants and using the reversion evolution of the Evolution Month, he reverted the two-grain wheat back to its annual characteristics.

Utilizing this annual characteristic, it directs all its nutrients to the grains, making it possible to use an apprentice-level magical plant to hatch two-grain wheat fruits with an energy density approaching that of a first-ring magical plant.

However, this type of two-grain wheat lacks cold resistance and strong root development.

Now, Locke intends to hybridize the two magical plants he has selected to create the super wheat he desires.

Locke, his hands roughened by the scratches from the wheat awns, picked up a pair of scissors and cut off the stamens beneath the grains of a two-grain wheat plant. He then placed a different type of wheat above it, allowing them to pollinate.

Next, he used the Accelerated Growth spell to make it flower and bear fruit quickly.

The two children in the settlement watched Locke with expectant eyes; they came every day to ask if they had successfully grown the magical wheat.

Today, they came again with the same question.

Locke gestured for them to be quiet, then scattered a handful of wheat grains on the ground. He then began using Accelerated Growth again. One after another, seedlings broke through the hard frozen soil and sprouted, quickly bearing abundant fruit under the accelerated growth spell. Many seeds died along the way.

Each death of these seeds, which Locke would normally not have cared much about, saddened him more.

If all failed, he would have to start the process all over again.

He needed to find food and replenish his mana before he could begin again.

In this frigid world, every magical resource was incredibly precious.

Suddenly, a stalk of two-grain wheat caught Locke’s attention. After completing its growth and producing grains, a gust of wind blew, scattering the grains, breaking the ears of wheat, and the stalk itself turned yellow, withered, and died.

Locke’s expression shifted slightly. He walked over, picked up a grain, and put it in his mouth. In an instant, a burst of magical pressure exploded in his mouth.

His long-depleted magical pressure was recovering!

He had succeeded!

Locke resisted the urge to eat a second grain, because he needed to immediately expand the production of these grains, cultivate more of these two-grain wheat, and then consume them to restore his magical pressure.

Of course, to stabilize the trait, he also needed to create sterile lines and crossbreed, because self-pollination would inevitably lead to phenotypic deterioration; crossbreeding was essential.

Otherwise, he would have to start all over again to obtain these hard-won seeds.

These seeds were so precious that Locke felt their weight in his hands at that moment.

Locke looked at the seed in his hand, then said to the two children, “I succeeded.”

“I’m going to find the Golden Dragon Wizard and tell him I succeeded.”   (

Next chapter tomorrow. End of this chapter.)