Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 960 Advancement to Star Ring Bloodline, Obtaining the Third World Leaf!
The Dark Lord seemed extremely angry. He slammed his fists into the ground, unleashing a powerful burst of dark energy. He attempted to detonate the energy by striking the ground once and for all, engulfing everything around him, including himself, his army, Locke, and Douglas.

He was indeed unable to move the Cloud Fields and Cloud Rice because he couldn't log into the Botanical Root Realm. After being tricked by Locke into drinking a potion mixed with Cloud Fields and Cloud Rice, he was trapped in place. At this moment, he could only use dark energy to corrode the magic rice, but this would take some time.

But the Dark Great Evil King reacted quickly. He didn't need to worry about the large army of demons and monsters around him. He simply smashed his fist into this world, detonating it and everything in it, annihilating everyone here in one fell swoop.

He didn't care about any army.

Meanwhile, the native audience of the dark world looked up at the sky with mocking eyes. The dramatic conflict before them made them laugh heartily. However, when the Dark Evil King was about to annihilate, bury, and destroy everything in this world, these native audience members also uttered angry curses, as if they thought the Dark Evil King was outrageous and hateful.

Douglas looked back and was terrified. He saw a pair of giant fists on the horizon. The pair of dark fists fell from the sky, but they were not aimed at them. They were aimed at the entire world.

A world-destroying demonic pressure descended.

That was the aura of the end of the world, that was the spirit of doomsday.

The moment the apocalyptic spirit appeared, his permanent defensive field began to malfunction. The spell model within the originally exquisite permanent defensive field of the Five Elements Reversal began to make mistakes and constantly conflict with itself, and one spell lightning bolt after another erupted from his body.

Douglas felt a chill run down his spine. He felt as if he had fallen into the clutches of that dark, evil king, feeling utterly hopeless and powerless.

"No!"

Douglas gritted his teeth and used all his strength to activate his Five Elements Reversal Permanent Defense Field to resist the apocalyptic spiritual energy.

Locke did not turn around.

Because he had felt this apocalyptic atmosphere before, he was very familiar with this feeling; he had seen this thing at least three times before.

One instance was in the Silent Dimension.

One instance was during a battle between the Rose Witch and the Red Dragon Witch.

The last instance was when the Persepolis gods, in a state of death, attempted to cause a higher plane to fall into the material plane, responding to the world's principle of destruction and thus putting the world on a countdown to its demise.

But now, as his level of spiritual energy has improved, Locke has realized part of the truth about the so-called end of the world. At least when such an end of the world is about to be born, the power of the world is activated by the principle of destruction, which will produce a special product called the spiritual energy of the end of the world.

Although it sounds strange, for some reason, the dimensional principles of a world, when impacted by a world-destroying force, will spontaneously generate a special spiritual energy—the apocalyptic spiritual energy.

If that's the case, then all third-ring wizards might be able to unleash a doomsday aura when they make a move, since every third-ring wizard basically has the ability to summon the end of the world.

Therefore, in the world of the Third Ring, the Doomsday Spirit Breath seems to be a standard feature.

At this moment, the lord of the dark world, clearly enraged, unleashed a full-force attack, attempting to annihilate everything around him, and in doing so, he also summoned the apocalyptic spirit.

Locke also noticed that under the apocalyptic aura, his spell model began to have problems. The main problem was that all magical power seemed to be dying out, and even the principles of the original plane, whether they were his own, the principles of this world, or even the principles of the plane he brought from the wizarding world, were all affected.

All of them declined under the influence of the apocalyptic spirit.

However, the specific nature of the doomsday spirit requires consulting relevant materials or extracting and analyzing them yourself.

But Locke didn't have time to collect this dangerous spiritual energy at the moment.

He and Douglas ran to the ruin pillar and used the token to open the ruin. However, it took some time to enter the ruin because the protective school's spell model hidden inside the ruin was activating. Beams of light refracted in the air, and these beams of light intertwined to form a very complex six-pointed star pattern.

Douglas swallowed hard; he had come here in his true form.

He kept turning back to look at the two giant fists that had fallen from the sky, and then back to look at the six-pointed star pattern that was gradually being drawn on the relic pillar.

He swallowed hard, wondering if even if the treasure was opened and they entered the treasure space, would they have time to return to the wizarding world?

Douglas could only place his hopes on Locke.

At that moment, Locke calculated the time.

'Time is a bit tight, but if we could just grab everything inside the moment the treasure is opened, without thinking twice, and then fly away with Douglas using the Great Roaring Dragon Sparrow, perhaps that's a possibility.'

'The Dark Lord cannot move, so he can only summon destruction. But it will take time for him to descend and destroy the world, and it will also take time for this world to face destruction.'

"However, based on the information I've gathered, the wizarding treasures of the Age of Stars are most likely of the interdimensional type. This means the treasure trove located here is just a teleportation portal. If that's the case, then things are much simpler. Douglas and I just need to open the treasure at the last moment and enter to avoid the apocalypse."

"Having this information is one of the reasons I dared to enter this place after becoming a Star Ring Wizard and seize the secret treasure from the Dark Lord."

But this requires taking a gamble.

Because Locke couldn't be sure if the entrance to this treasure was a portal, if he was wrong, he would need to find a way to leave this place the moment he took the treasure, before the Dark Lord destroyed the world.

The only person who knew about the type of treasure gate was the Witch King Lagmamon, but unfortunately, he had fallen into a deep sleep while helping himself and Douglas escape last time.

Locke summoned the Tree of Prosperity, which then used Mirror Copy to duplicate the Great Roaring Peacock behind Locke into two. Under Locke's control, the second Great Roaring Peacock automatically landed behind Douglas.

The banana leaves and wings of this Great Crying Dragon Sparrow were burning with golden spiritual energy, producing a special dragon flame. Meanwhile, the dragon horns were constantly fishing for golden spiritual energy from the Imaginary Sea.

Douglas felt much relieved. "Thank you, Boss Locke."

The six-pointed star magic circle at the top of the relic pillar suddenly opened, and two dimensional gravitational forces fell on Locke and Douglas.

Locke's face immediately lit up with joy; he had guessed correctly.

This is a portal-type dimensional passage.

At this moment, Locke directly manipulated two Great Roaring Dragon Birds to fly into it and disappear into the dark world.

Upon seeing this scene, the Dark Great Evil King's pupils widened instantly. The sky of this world was almost filled with his fist. In just 17 seconds, he could bury this world into the deeper darkness, into the deepest layer of the dark world, a terrifying region that even dark creatures and the principles of the dark world's planes dare not set foot in.

"hateful!"

At this moment, one-third of the Cloud Field and Cloud Rice inside the Dark Evil King's belly had been destroyed. He had regained some mobility, but he walked at a snail's pace.

With a wave of his hand, the pair of dark giant fists that had appeared in the sky vanished.

The destruction of the world has stopped.

Now that all the wizards have escaped, there's no need for him to destroy this world. After all, for the dark world, a world that has fallen into darkness is a treasure.

Meanwhile, the dark spectators in the dark world seemed to have stopped panicking. They all laughed. The infamous Dark Evil King, who had buried countless worlds in the endless void and who would never stop once he invaded other worlds, had actually suffered such a huge loss and had been tricked.

You must know that in the endless void, countless worlds have been invaded by the Dark Evil King, losing their families, friends, and everything they knew, becoming slaves to darkness.

But at this moment, the Dark Evil King could only watch as wizards from the same wizarding faction came and went freely in front of him.

This drew ridicule from countless viewers in the dark world.

"You guys, are you watching too much fun?"

Suddenly, the Dark Great Evil King raised his left hand, stretched it out completely, and opened his palm. Immediately afterward, a huge hand appeared under the countless eyes of the dark sky. Then, the huge hand clenched, and countless spectators screamed in agony.

One by one, the spectators in the dark world who were watching the spectacle were crushed by the Dark Evil King in his rage.

All these demons and monsters were destroyed.

The audience was in a state of panic.

The Dark Evil King finally felt some relief.

He still wants to kill.

If we can't kill those few wizards, can't we at least kill these natives of the dark world?
His brutality attracted the attention of beings deeper in the darkness. In the sky above, behind those panicked eyes, several enormous eyes appeared. These enormous eyes, located in the depths of darkness, were the observations of even more powerful dark lords.

"Stop, Great Evil King. All demons and monsters have the right to watch the performance. This is a rule we agreed upon beforehand. You cannot kill the audience to vent your anger."

"In the endless darkness, all we can do is watch the fun."

"The Dark World needs this grand performance to sustain itself. Do you want the deepest part of this world to suddenly expand and devour us all? That is true darkness."

The Great Evil King of Darkness looked towards the deepest part of the Dark World.

"Then you must not stop me from waging war on Golden Crown Mountain!"

The largest eyes in the sky retreated and disappeared into the darkness.

Just then, a large, dark red eye suddenly appeared in the sky. Countless spectators seemed surprised that this great being would descend. It was a fourth-ring level being, a being from the deepest part of the dark world.

The dark red eye first appeared as a black line behind the audience, then slowly opened to reveal its scarlet eyeball.

"Dark Lord, you must stop the war with the wizarding world. The Tower of the Black Sun is attacking us again. They have built wizard towers in our world and want to enslave us once more."

"We need to concentrate our forces, gather the power of all the Dark Lords, and stop provoking the enemy."

The Dark Evil King roared, "Absolutely not!"

Those dark red eyes seemed to have no patience to argue with him, and he simply disappeared.

"Then you'd better take care of yourself."

The Dark Great Evil King was temporarily unable to regain his mobility. He gazed into the depths of his kingdom in the Dark World, where nine worlds were gradually merging into a line in the vast space of the Dark Kingdom.

Of these nine worlds, only five are completely controlled by darkness, while the other four are merely drawn into the dark world without becoming completely corrupted.

The sacrifice of the world—this is what the Tower of the Sun brought to this world. After they retreated, most of the technological advancements they brought to this world remained here.

The Dark World was not always this powerful. It was only because the Tower of the Black Sun redesigned the dimensional laws and the system of demons and monsters of this world, and created the Dark Overlord, that the level of civilization of this world far surpassed that of the past, and it gained the most powerful force in history.

The most significant change brought about by the Tower of the Black Sun was that it taught them to sacrifice the world to the Dark World in order to obtain [Dark Echoes]!
"To wage war against Golden Crown Mountain, I will need to sacrifice even more worlds. Only by sacrificing nine medium-to-large-scale worlds at once can I obtain the rewards from the Dark World."

"My power will reach new heights. Great Dark World, grant me even greater darkness."

"bring it on."

Darkness seeped into his body, one wave after another.

……

Inside the secret treasure space, Locke and Douglas entered the space and both breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow behind Douglas began to distort and blur at the edges of its form, and then the Great Crying Dragon Sparrow completely disappeared.

Douglas bent over and began to gag, covering his mouth.

Locke tossed him a bottle of Holy Spring Dew Potion.

"This is my homemade potion, please drink it. Your soul was affected by the dark power of the Dark Lord just now, so it may have some effect on you."

Douglas drank the potion made from the holy spring nectar.

"Thank you, boss."

Douglas began to look around and found that the space was filled with lightning. They were enveloped by a ball of lightning, and beneath their feet was a floating island in mid-air.

Many lightning bolts seemed to possess a physical form, frozen in mid-air, with large skulls of creatures that were clearly not human or elves placed on them.

Douglas walked over and bent down to examine the skulls closely.

"It looks like the skull of some kind of orc, but it's much larger than any known orc skull, but it is indeed the skull of some kind of orc."

"These skulls appear to have been hung here as trophies. In the past... were these orcs very powerful?"

Locke noticed that many ancient magical plants were placed on the solid lightning suspension here.

However, many of the magical plants were already rotten inside and had lost all their vitality.

So Locke didn't touch them, but instead used archaeological magic to preserve them.

At the same time, Locke took out the prepared tools, intending to have Douglas and himself first make these ancient magical plants into specimens, and then take them out for careful study.

Douglas ran to the lightning bolt in the very center of the vault, a bolt held in the hand of a giant dragon statue. He swallowed hard, turned to look at Locke, his eyes filled with probing and inquiry.

Locke glanced at it and said, "That's a magical inheritance, right? You should accept it. I'm not a wizard of the Evocation School, so this is useless to me. Besides, this was originally the Witch King's intention."

Douglas was overjoyed.

He quickly followed the instructions of King Lagmamon, cut his finger, and dripped a drop of his own blood into it.

As his blood fell in, the entire lightning bolt instantly turned bright red.

The red lightning bolt continuously emitted sparks.

Douglas looked up expectantly at the inherited lightning bolt.

According to King Lagmamon, this is the secret realm of the Lightning Gate's inheritance. Only when a wizard qualified to receive the inheritance drips his own blood into the lightning will the inherited power be bestowed upon him; otherwise, a bolt of lightning will strike and destroy him.

Douglas felt uneasy.

Does he meet the requirements?

The next moment, a massive red lightning bolt burst forth from the inherited lightning, piercing through his heart like a thunder dragon.

Douglas screamed and was sent flying. Instantly, the lightning in the sky above this land of inheritance began to swirl, dark clouds gathered, and thunder roared. "Something's wrong with this energy."

Douglas felt an unusually violent energy seemingly destroying his body, his blood, his soul, his spirit, and his mind.

Douglas stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

"Does that mean I'm not of royal blood from an ancient magical kingdom, so I'm not qualified to receive magical inheritance? No! I don't believe it."

Douglas gritted his teeth, trying to stand up.

Just then, he suddenly heard the voice of King Lagmamon, who had not been heard for a long time.

"Don't panic, Douglas. You're always like this; you get easily agitated and impulsive when danger arises. This is your strength, but also a weakness you need to overcome."

Douglas exclaimed in surprise, "Teacher, you've recovered!"

Lagmamon the Witch-King said, “Douglas, listen to me. This is the normal magical inheritance of the Lightning Gate. But when you receive the magical inheritance of my Lightning Gate, you must bear an enormous magical burden. If you cannot bear it, you will die. Many successors in the past have died at this step. Because our magical inheritance is carried by a special kind of lightning, the Warhammer Lightning.”

"It is a special kind of magical lightning, which only occurs in special worlds and requires a hundred years of magical transformation and nurturing."

Douglas knelt on one knee, a deadly pain washing over him as every cell in his body bore the weight of the Warhammer Lightning.

The voice of the Witch King Lagmamon rang in his ears.

"But if you can survive this, then you will be eligible to use Warhammer Lightning."

"Warhammer Lightning is a special magical lightning, a magical item created by wizards who passed through the Lightning Gate over a hundred years of design and cultivation. It is both energy and a magical artifact. It belongs to the category of energy magical artifacts."

"Douglas, if you can hold out, you will be qualified to use the Warhammer Lightning."

Douglas was drenched in cold sweat.

"Teacher, what is the mortality rate?"

The Witch-King of Lagmamon was silent for a moment before saying, "It's about one in ten, I mean one in ten chance of survival. This is a simple ratio we made based on the number of deaths and survivals of the Lightning Gate inheritors. But they themselves have already received many years of special magical inheritance education, and their bodies have absorbed various special magical resources that increase the probability of surviving the energy of the warhammer lightning, so their mortality rate is not the same as yours."

Lagmamon the Witch-King said, “At that time, I had other magical heritages. I asked you if you wanted to switch to something easier to learn, but you might only be able to stay at the first level of wizarding. You said you wanted to learn the magical heritage of our Lightning Gate, but the magic of the ancient magic schools all have the characteristic of high selectivity, and this selectivity sometimes requires a wizard to pay with his life…”

“Douglas, the Warhammer Lightning hasn’t fully fused into your cells yet. If that’s the case, I still have a way to extract the lightning from your cells. Do you want to stop?”

Douglas whispered, "If we stop now, what will happen to you, teacher? Will I still... have a chance to advance to a second-circle wizard?"

King Lagmamon said, “With your talent, you would only be considered average. Such talent would be considered genius among lower-level wizards. You could become a first-ring wizard at around forty years old, and you could become a liquefaction wizard at one hundred years old. If you are even luckier, you could become a crystallization wizard.”

"But you are still far from becoming a second-circle wizard. You may not be able to cross the threshold of breaking through the racial limit for the second time. After all, even if you are a crystallized wizard, when you are over a hundred years old, your vigor will have faded, your accumulation will be insufficient, and your resources will be lacking... and then you will also have to face the period of soul decay."

"But our Five Elements Reversal can help you improve your aptitude, increase your magic pressure accumulation speed, and even reduce the difficulty of your advancement when necessary. But the price is that you need to absorb the Five Thunders into your permanent defensive field to make up for the deficiencies. There are two difficulties. The Five Thunders in the Lightning Gate School are extremely rare. With your status, you would not have been able to obtain them in ancient times, but you only have a sliver of a chance in modern times."

"Secondly, another difficulty is that your body has not been soaked in magic potions since childhood and has not been cursed by a powerful witch to enhance your adaptability in this area. Therefore, every time you absorb the Five Thunders, it is a life-or-death crisis for you. This time is your first attempt to absorb the real Five Thunders. The Warhammer Lightning is the Golden Thunder among the Five Thunders."

"However, Warhammer Lightning consumes a lot of life force, requiring a large amount of life force to withstand it. Although I intentionally allowed you to use some magical resources to increase your life energy after you became a formal wizard, and thanks to your ability to stay on Mount Golden Crown for a long time, I taught you some tricks to increase your life energy."

"But I can't be sure if the quality of your life energy right now can support this kind of consumption... After all, you weren't given a spell to increase your resistance from childhood."

"However, if you don't take this path, it will be extremely difficult for you to become a second-circle wizard with your original aptitude."

Douglas was already considering leaving.

Because he felt as if his life was being snapped by a warhammer of lightning, and the flame of his life was about to be extinguished like a candle flame.

He felt afraid.

Although his talent is average, he is not without hope of becoming a second-circle wizard; it is only difficult in a few ways.

The Witch-King Lagmamon said, “After I separated you from Warhammer Lightning, it will probably exhaust all my spiritual light, and I may fall into an eternal slumber. I don’t know what will happen.”

Douglas gritted his teeth. "Then, teacher, I'll continue..."

King Lagmamon looked at Wizard Douglas with surprise.

"you……"

The Witch-King Lagmamon's voice held a hint of relief, but he quickly rebuked him, saying, "As a wizard, you are far too sentimental. Is preventing me from falling into a deep sleep more important than your chance to advance to the second circle of wizards?"

"Let me make this clear first: even if you survive this near-death experience, you are not guaranteed to become a second-circle wizard. You will only gain the potential to become one. You still need to work hard and persevere."

The wizard Douglas gritted his teeth, his body covered in bright red lightning, which formed a red iron hammer behind him.

He gritted his teeth and staggered a few steps.

“I’ve made my decision. I don’t want to separate the magical energy of Warhammer Lightning.”

King Lagmamon's voice was filled with a bitter laugh.

“You child… well, there’s nothing wrong with a wizard being a little sentimental. Sensibility is a way of understanding the world and an experience and feeling. Those wizards who have completely abandoned their sentimentality and are hostile to their own sentimental parts don’t seem to have reached the final step.”

"So when we first met, I said you didn't have any wizarding talent, and that statement might have been wrong."

Locke glanced at Douglas. Since becoming a Star Ring Wizard, his perception of spirit energy and spirit macro had become much stronger. In addition, the Witch King Lagmamon did not seem to be on guard against him, so he had heard almost the entire conversation. He no longer needed to hear only bits and pieces of their words as he had before and had to guess what they meant.

Locke began to examine these ancient magical plants.

"It seems that the Witch King Lagmamon can handle things on Douglas's side, and he can deal with it himself. I'll just spend a little more time preserving these ancient magical plants as specimens."

In this treasure trove, there are many magic boxes on the solidified lightning rods. The magic boxes contain a lot of magical artifacts and magical resources, but most of them are no longer usable due to the passage of time and improper storage.

As for the magic scrolls and spellbooks of the Lightning Gate, he wasn't particularly interested.

I'm only interested in the part of this ruin that belongs to the magical plants.

"This is..."

Locke saw a pagoda-shaped cauliflower on a frozen lightning bolt. It was still alive, though most of it had turned black and seemed to have withered and died. The remaining cauliflower leaves had curled edges and looked wilted, as if they might wither and die at any moment.

Locke saw that it had been placed in a magic circle.

The magic crystals on this magic array have all exhausted their energy and shattered into pieces, clearly indicating that this magic array is what has protected this magical plant and allowed it to be preserved until now.

"A Star Ring-level magical pressure, and even higher than mine. What level of magical plant would this complete form be?"

Locke paused for a moment.

He easily reached out, bypassed the magic array, and touched the cauliflower-shaped magical plant with his palm.

A terrifying magical pressure suddenly emanated from the surface of the cauliflower plant, pushing Locke away slightly.

The cauliflower plant resembles several towers stacked together, forming a unique fortress. The other tower-like cauliflower parts have withered and died, but the smallest tower-like cauliflower head at the very edge still retains a glimmer of life, albeit in very poor condition.

Locke said, "This cauliflower, which resembles a pagoda, actually possesses such powerful magical pressure. Even with the protection of a special witch array, some of it has survived after such a long time, which shows that this magical plant is extraordinary. I will definitely take this magical plant today."

Locke reached out his hand a second time, and this time his magical pressure collided with the magical plant. Behind him appeared a golden tree under the moon, the Moon of Evolution and the Tree of Prosperity.

Locke's magical pressure collided violently with the cauliflower, and a powerful wind of magical pressure swept outwards, blowing many items off the solid lightning.

Nevertheless, he still couldn't get close to the cauliflower.

For some reason, this cauliflower was doing its best to resist my approach.

"Strange, where did the Lightning Gate of the Age of Stars obtain this magical plant?"

Locke noticed that the magical plant's vitality had weakened again as it resisted his approach.

"If this continues, it will burn out all its remaining life the moment I touch it."

“If you don’t come with me, you will wither and die. Only if you leave with me can I replant you and restore your vitality.”

Locke frowned.

The next moment, the demonic pressure wind that had been blocking his palm from moving forward disappeared, forming a demonic pressure shell.

Locke's palm touched the magical plant, and in an instant, they completed a magical grafting relationship. As Locke's magical pressure was transmitted to the magical plant, the remaining intact parts of the plant gradually began to recover and tried to absorb energy from Locke to restore the life of its last flower ball.

Locke said, "Strange, it was so resistant to my approach before, but now it has taken the initiative to establish a magical connection with me. Wait, there's a problem. Botanical wizards and magical plants in the Age of Stars shouldn't have a magical connection, right? Otherwise, the one I encountered before who used the Five-Snake Python Vine wouldn't have had a magical connection with him. But this magical plant has established a magical connection with me, and it was it that took the initiative."

A look of doubt flashed in Locke's eyes.

"Why? Could botanical wizards in the Age of Stars really establish a magical grafting relationship with magical plants?"

A voice sounded in Locke's ear.

"Ah, of course there is no magical grafting relationship. Although I am not very clear about what magical grafting relationships are for you modern wizards, I am quite sure that it is not a magical grafting relationship, but a soul binding relationship. In the Age of Stars, there was a magical plant that could be bound to a wizard, and it was called a spirit plant."

“A wizard can only be bound to one spirit plant at a time. As you can see, just as there are many magical techniques in the modern magical age that did not exist in the Age of Stars, there are also many things in the Age of Stars that have been lost in the modern magical age, such as energy artifacts and spirit plants.”

King Lagmamon offered an explanation.

Locke nodded. This was probably because these things had some kind of huge flaw, so over time, no one learned them, and then the technology was lost.

Lagmamon Witch-King said, "This is Pagoda Broccoli. A wizard from the Lightning Gate found it on the battlefield of the Orcish Great World. But at that time, the magical plant was already damaged, with only Moon Ring-level magical pressure. We could tell it was a spiritual plant back then, so even though no one would use it, we still recognized its value and preserved it."

"No one knows its name, only that it is a spiritual plant that can be bound to the soul of a wizard, but it seems that it was once bound to the soul of a wizard. By the way, we named it 'Pagoda Broccoli' back then."

Locke was taken aback. Was it already damaged back then?

After such a long period of time, a part of it is still alive.

At this moment, in Locke's eyes, this magical plant was full of mystery.

'Click~'

As the spiritual plant completed its soul binding with itself, the intact parts of the demonic plant suddenly broke off from the withered parts. Then, the remaining pagoda-shaped broccoli flower head suddenly fell off, revealing a small root at the bottom.

Locke realized that the demonic plant was trying to survive by cutting off its tail, but now that it had separated from its main body, it had no imaginary roots, so its demonic pressure was constantly decreasing. Locke had no choice but to immediately take a small section of ordinary imaginary root from under a second-ring sea gold sand plant and graft it onto this demonic plant.

Nevertheless, the magical pressure of this magical plant was still decreasing, but the rate of decrease had slowed down and become very slow.

Locke summoned the Great Glazed Winter Green Plum. He activated this magical plant, and streams of icy plum blossoms fell onto the pagoda-shaped broccoli, freezing it with the winter magic hidden within, thus slowing down the rate at which its magical pressure decreased.

"That was close," Locke said.

Fortunately, I still have some tricks up my sleeve. Otherwise, even if I had obtained an ancient treasure plant, I would have had to watch it drop in level or even wither and die.

At this moment, Locke looked towards the very center of this secret inheritance site, in an area with a peach tree.

That was the peach tree with world-shaped leaves that I had seen in that small world in the dark world before.

But at this moment, the peach tree seemed to have lost all its vitality and had become a withered tree.

Clearly, he had misjudged the situation; the peach tree was not in the center of that small world, but in this place of inheritance.

But clearly, this place of inheritance is also a demiplane of that world, so when the world leaves on its canopy were activated, he mistakenly saw it as the peach tree at the center of this world. Of course, he had suspected this before.

King Lagmamon said, "It was this tree that protected this place. But the peach tree's vitality has also disappeared."

Locke reached out his hand, and instantly a bright green light shone from the tree canopy. The peach tree transformed into countless spirits, lingering around him as they bid him farewell. Then, these spirits entered the Emerald Dream, while the leaves of the world on its canopy drifted into his palm.

This World Tree leaf emits a faint magical glow.

King Lagmamon asked in confusion, "What is this?"

Locke asked, "Witch King, this is the treasure trove of your Lightning Gate. Don't you know its origin?"

King Lagmamon said, “In my memory, this leaf is not among our treasures. But I do remember that peach tree. A skilled witch used plant magic to leave it here to guard the barrier.”

"But for some reason, a leaf fell onto the peach tree that served as the center of the barrier. This leaf came later."

"But that shouldn't be the case. Since the barrier wasn't destroyed and there were no signs of outsiders entering, how did it get in here? Did it float in by itself? That's too... impossible."

Locke lowered his head and began to think. Something was wrong.

He combined his previous knowledge of the secrets of creation with the understanding that the wizards of the Age of Stars might not have been able to access the knowledge of the secrets of creation within the void. However, considering the Force waves he had seen in the secrets of creation through advanced meditation when he was a first-ring wizard, it was highly likely that the World Tree Leaf had once spread out throughout the void like a Force flood.

If the Force Flood were delivering these World Leaves, they could very likely reach any location in the endless void. Naturally, they might pass through the barrier, sending a World Leaves onto that peach tree and causing the peach tree to strengthen the barrier, thus preventing this space from being swallowed by the Dark World.

Locke chanted the incantation, activating the modified "Twin Branches" spell model. Immediately, the World Tree leaf in his hand floated up automatically, releasing bolts of lightning. Then, these bolts of lightning connected with the bloodline of Locke's Three-Eyed Tiger Cat, their energies intertwined. Afterward, the World Tree leaf disappeared into Locke's palm, completely entering the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat's bloodline.

Locke used the Twin Branches spell model to combine the bloodline of the Three-Eyed Tiger Cat with the power of this World Leaf. As a result, his Three-Eyed Tiger Cat bloodline continued to boil, and its bloodline power increased. A star ring with a cat paw mark appeared under Locke's feet.

"Finally got the third one..."

(End of this chapter)