Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 839 Atavism: The Giant Mountain Dragon Naked Fern!

Yunze Wetland, Quinnjoll District, Xiaoxishan.

Xiaoxi Mountain boasts the third-ranked magical spring in Yunze Wetland, the "Spring of Life." Thanks to the life magic emanating from the Spring of Life, Xiaoxi Mountain is an important botanical research base in Yunze Wetland.

While learning the basics of spiritual energy, Locke discovered that the foundation of the Fountain of Life was the various spiritual energies beneath this magical spring, especially the most important life energy.

That was a spiritual aura of extremely high quality.

Similarly, whether it's Mount Golden Crown, Boniface University, or Quinnjoll, the magical springs they all possess are all beneath spiritual energy.

Spiritual science is not only important for botanical wizards and breeders, but also for earth wizards and ocean wizards.

At this moment, a staff member in the Xiaoxi Cup tournament committee office, a Star Ring Wizard, looked at Locke with a puzzled expression.

"Wizard Augustine, you took five million magic stones ahead of time, and now you're short of money, so do you want more sponsorship?"

Clearly, this Star Ring Wizard has a lot of experience in this area.

As a newly established second-level competition, the Xiaoxi Cup lacks sufficient prestige, so it often takes the initiative to sponsor some promising ordinary second-level wizards to participate in their competitions.

Moreover, this Star Ring Wizard, Nicklus, often encountered situations where some of the seeded players they sponsored, after running out of funds, would try to get more money from them.

After all, it's actually quite difficult to control costs when doing research.

Sometimes, you spend a lot of money, but end up not finding anything.

The key is that it's still difficult to judge whether you're just one step away from giving up and all your previous efforts will be wasted, or whether you've completely gone down the wrong path and continuing to invest will only result in nothing.

Wizard Nicklus had extensive experience dealing with wizards who would ask their Little Cup tournament committee office for additional funding; in fact, in the last decade, only one wizard from Storm Tower had managed to persuade him to accept the funds.

He convinced everyone else.

Wizard Nicklus deliberately feigned difficulty and said to Locke, "Wizard Augustine, I'm sorry, but our tournament committee has its own rules and regulations."

"We are unable to provide any additional funding."

"I regret this."

Locke said, “Wizard Nicklus, you misunderstand. I’m not here to ask you for more funds. I’m here to tell you that I have achieved a breakthrough success in reverting golden wheat to its ancestral form using golden foxtail grass and green foxtail grass.”

Locke held up the golden foxtail grass, which had undergone a primordial evolution, and showed it to the wizard.

Wizard Nicklus paused for a moment, then checked the time.

"What? It's finished? So fast?"

As a second-circle breeder himself, the wizard Nicklus naturally knew what it meant to complete the atavistic evolution of Golden Wheat.

First, golden wheat was one of the symbols of the boundary between darkness and light, and it had been extinct for many years.

Once the golden ear wheat re-evolves, it will be of great significance, which is definitely a positive for Xiaoxi Cup.

Because what Xiaoxi Cup most urgently wants is fame.

What could be more captivating than reviving an extinct golden wheat species across time?
Secondly, if the golden wheat can successfully revert to its ancestral form, it means that Locke's reversion technology is already very mature, and could even be published in a top-tier journal in the second ring.

I should be guaranteed a spot in Zone 2, but it's hard to say about Zone 1.

The main reason is that the Sun Ring Wizards also publish the Second Ring Journal, and the First Ring is generally the Sun Ring Wizards' backyard.

A wizard who can publish a second-circle, first-zone journal during non-daytime wizarding periods is either a prodigy or has an incredibly powerful team behind them.

The wizard Nicklus looked at the golden foxtail grass in Locke's hand, and suddenly he chanted a spell. A magical glow appeared in the phantom image.

A brilliant white light shone on Locke.

But the light was distorted. The 360 ​​sun awns of the golden foxtail grass in Locke's hand released light, distorting the magical radiance and absorbing it into the magical plant.

Wizard Nicklus swallowed hard.

"This is the most distinctive feature of Golden Wheat—the Brilliant Photon Plant Factor. It is the most important plant factor component of the Golden Plant Essence Group. Legend has it that Golden Wheat can absorb the surrounding sunlight and all magical radiance, condensing the Brilliant Photon of Golden Wheat."

"This is the key gene of Golden Wheat. The magical plant in your hand is Golden Wheat."

Locke coughed and reminded him, "Wizard Nickrus, that's not accurate. This magical plant is probably still missing a lot of the key plant factors that Golden Wheat possesses."

"Atavism cannot completely revive a magical plant that existed in the past from its complex and redundant plant essence group. This is not the real Golden Wheat. The real Golden Wheat is at least a Moon Ring-level magical plant."

Wizard Nicklus said, "The presence of the Brilliant Photon Plant Factor indicates that it is Golden Wheat."

Locke saw that he was adamant that this was Golden Wheat, so he didn't say anything more.

Clearly, for Xiaoxibei, insisting that this golden foxtail grass is golden wheat would be very beneficial to them.

The key point is that there is no Golden Wheat now, not even a specimen. There are only records in ancient books. So, it is not impossible to say that this Golden Foxtail Grass, which is 70% similar to Golden Wheat and has the same Brilliant Photon Plant Factor, is Golden Wheat.

It's just that the connection is somewhat far-fetched.

The troubled look on Nicklus's face vanished instantly, replaced by a joyful smile, making him appear much more amiable.

"Wizard Locke, you are truly a young man of great talent. You are indeed a genius among breeders. You have actually revived the golden wheat that had been extinct for many years."

"However, in that case, you can directly participate in our competition and start preparing to write and submit related articles. Why contact me then?"

Locke said, "That's right. I know that some competitions have a mechanism to determine the champion in advance. I want to win the championship as soon as possible."

The wizard Nicklus's smile didn't fade much. He thought for a moment and said, "Deciding the champion in advance, huh? I know what you're planning."

As long as you don't talk about money, you can talk about anything.

Moreover, Locke's magical plant is of great significance to their Little Rest Cup. If they win a championship in a competition of this level, it will actually enhance the prestige of their competition.

If a competition were to randomly award the championship to unqualified magical plant projects, then no matter how famous the project was in the past, it would soon become a joke.

If the winning entries in a competition are very famous, it can actually increase the prestige of the competition.

If the prestige of a competition increases, it will attract more outstanding entries.

Furthermore, the title of champion in this competition can be considered recognized by Wizarding University.

At this moment, Wizard Nicklus cautiously said to Locke, "Wizard Locke, I understand that as a young second-ring wizard, you must be eager to turn the projects you have completed into championships and articles. However, the deadline for registration for the Little Rest Cup is still six months away, and we have never had the experience of completing the competition ahead of schedule before."

"So I need to talk to the director about your request. Please wait a moment."

Wizard Nicklus turned and left his desk. About five minutes later, he led in a bearded wizard with a full, white beard. The Moon Ring Wizard looked at Locke with a satisfied smile, and at the golden wheat he was displaying.

Maupassant, the head wizard of the Moon Ring, said to Locke, "Wizard Augustine, our Little Rest Cup has never ended a competition prematurely before. You only need to wait six months before participating again, and you will definitely win the championship with this work. That's what I said."

Just kidding, Maupassant, as the director of this competition, certainly knew the average level of the past champions.

The magical plant in Locke's hands, in terms of its completion, significance, and innovation, has completely surpassed the average level of past champions of the Little Rest Cup.

Even though the level of the champions of the Xiaoxi Cup has improved dramatically over the years, it has not yet reached this level.

However, after discussing it with Nicklus, the wizard Maupassant still felt that, what if...

What if, during this six-month period, some geniuses still want to participate in the competition? Wouldn't announcing the results in advance cause the Xiaoxi Cup to suffer a huge loss?

Most importantly, the Xiaoxi Cup has never ended a match prematurely before.

Maupassant said, "Of course, as long as Wizard Locke participates in our Little Retreat Cup in six months, in addition to the five million magic stones I previously agreed to give you, I will also take out three million magic stones from my personal account."

This was the result of Maupassant's careful consideration.

Regardless, he needed Locke to do his work, so naturally he dared not offend Locke.

Therefore, after carefully balancing the interests, he was willing to offer another three million magic stones to appease Locke.

Maupassant had calculated in his mind that Locke would only have to wait about six months, while he had only been in the Golden Crown Mountain Institute of Knowledge for a year. Logically speaking, a senior researcher should not be in a time crunch right now.

Therefore, Locke's cost of waiting for half a year should not be too great, in principle.

Moreover, he had already offered three million magic stones as compensation for Locke's Golden Wheat, so logically Locke would most likely agree.

Although Locke's work could enhance the reputation of the Little Rest Cup, Maupassant felt that the tradition of the Little Rest Cup should not be broken in this way.

Locke frowned; making him wait six months was unacceptable.

why.

For me, as long as I complete this project, I can immediately receive the special reward from Golden Crown Mountain.

Moreover, I have too many projects on hand, and once I finish one, I have to immediately move on to the next.

Unlike other wizards, I would definitely suffer a loss if I waited for half a year.

However, Locke was not in a hurry. He remained calm and said to the wizards Maupassant and Nicklus, "You two probably think there might be a dark horse later on. But in the end, it's because you don't have enough confidence in my work."

"But I'm confident I can convince the two of them to let me win the fifth Xiaoxi Cup championship ahead of schedule."

Locke said, "Both of you are breeders who are better than me, so I won't say much. I'm going to use ancestral evolution to evolve a magical plant."

The wizard Nicklus hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.

At this moment, Maupassant stopped Nickrus with a look, and looked at Locke with a smile: "Sure."

Wizard Nicklus immediately understood what the master was thinking.

The prestige of the Xiaoxi Cup is not only related to the level of the champion's work, but also to the level of the champions themselves.

The better the champion develops, the greater the significance for a competition like the Xiaoxi Cup, which lacks sufficient experience.

It was just that the wizard Nicklus was thinking.

'A second magical plant undergoing reversion to its ancestral form? If this is possible, then Locke Augustine's technique for reverting to the ancestral form of Golden Wheat is already quite mature and widespread. This carries a completely different meaning.'

'But can he really do it?'

'The Golden Wheat, which reverted to its ancestral form, required so many resources to complete. Can other reverted magical plants be done so quickly?'

Locke took out an ordinary sea ginseng from his astral ring; this sea ginseng wasn't even a tree fern.

Originally, his own method of ancestral evolution was indeed insufficient to directly revert a demonic plant to its ancestral form, even with complete research data.

Putting aside everything else, just the plant essence sequencing of a single magical plant needs to be done in advance in order to undergo atavistic evolution.

Before using the yellow-skinned mushroom extract for reversion, it is necessary to know the approximate plant factor sequence inside the plant essence so that the relevant suspicious plant factors can be removed in the early stages of malignant changes.

Secondly, even with such conditions, it would be difficult to achieve atavism due to insufficient basic research data.

The combination of yellow-skinned mushroom extract and golden vine is used to revert the dogtail family to golden wheat.

Whether the Golden Lantern Vine can parasitize other magical plants is still unknown, and the extent to which the yellow-skinned mushroom extract disrupts the expression mechanism of inhibitory factors in other magical plants is also uncertain.

But Locke possesses a sufficiently excellent catalyst—the Zero Potion!
The blank spiritual energy within the Zero Potion can be injected into the plant essence of a magical plant undergoing a process of atavism. Because the blank spiritual energy can temporarily compensate for the lack of a complete set of plant essences, it reduces the damage the magical plant suffers when the Golden Lamp Vine absorbs plant essences.

Because blank spirituality can be attached to plant essence, stabilizing the atavistic evolution process and reducing the damage of yellow-skinned mushroom extract to the plant factors of magical plants, the effect of yellow-skinned mushroom extract can be stabilized.

Therefore, one dose of Zero Potion can assist in the reversion and evolution of a magical plant.

This is the source of Locke's confidence in making an ordinary sea ginseng revert to its ancestral form in front of two breeders with higher magic levels than himself.

And coincidentally, I recently obtained three Zero Potions!
Locke placed the sea gold sand into the magic field in front of him. At the same time, two objects, one silver and one gold, resembling enchanted knives, flew out of Locke's hand.

They are the Fire Tree Silver Flower Curse carrying the Yellow Cloth Mushroom Extract, and the Golden Lantern Vine driven by a lone tree struggling to survive.

The two 'enchanted knives' twirled in his hands like two throwing knives, exquisitely swirling and dancing around the sea ginseng plant, modifying its plant factors.

At the same time, Locke used the Moon Cultivation Method to inject a Zero Magic Potion into this Sea Gold Sand.

At this moment, both Maupassant's master and the wizard Nickrus looked with great curiosity at the sea ginseng in the magic field in front of Locke.

What will happen?
Speaking of sea ginseng, it is a very ancient magical plant. It seems that its ancestor is an even more ancient fern magical plant, but there seems to be very little research on what it is.

After all, it was just a single-ringed magical plant, and wouldn't attract the wizards' special attention.

At this moment, the sea ginseng seedling, nourished by Locke's magic and the Zero Potion, grew rapidly, and one leaf after another fell, while some of its climbing stems began to grow very thick.

It's like a dragon crossing a mountain.

Locke blinked in surprise.

"Gymnocypris chinensis?"

(End of this chapter)