Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 968 Let me see if you can do what I have done before?
Star City, located within the White Cardamom Farm, resembles a city floating on an obsidian inverted triangle base in the universe. Above the city, the stars are rapidly rotating, and each star is a unique spiritual force.

This is a miracle of architects.

As Locke and the wizard Guberdin walked along, they felt that every corner of this magical city seemed to exude some kind of complex and mysterious magical power.

They arrived at the very center of the city, where a triangular stone pillar appeared, stretching infinitely upwards and forwards, with countless streams of spiritual energy flowing from it.

When Locke's palm touched what appeared to be a stone pillar, he realized that it was the root of some kind of high-level magical plant, and that it was actually still alive. Countless kinds of spiritual energy were flowing through it, and its boundless vitality was astonishing. Compared to this, the combined spiritual energy of all the magical plants in his hand was like a drop in the ocean.

"If this is the root, then there must be the mature part of this demonic plant above the central triangular stone pillar."

Locke looked up at the sky, only to see the stone pillar stretching endlessly into the sky, its destination unknown. He could only see the countless stars below.

The wizard Guberdin laughed and said, "This is a sky full of peaches, or you could call it a sky full of peach trees."

"It can store many types of spiritual energy. It is the spiritual energy storage warehouse of our Golden Crown Mountain, and also the spiritual energy storage warehouse in this key laboratory. You can find all kinds of spiritual energy here."

"It has everything. In addition, with the various spiritual treasures stored in Star City, as long as a wizard stores his memories at the root of the Sky-Full Peach, he can use the spiritual treasures of Star City to solve the magic array and the spiritual energy inside the Sky-Full Peach to create a parallel world based on the stored memories."

"I'll take you wizards into this parallel world and let you experience what happened in those memories."

"The progenitor wizards left five memories of their past experiences here. Later, the Wizard of Truth and the Wizard of the Throne also left their memories here. By using the spiritual energy and spiritual power of Star City and the Sky-Full Tree, we can create a parallel world."

Locke never imagined there was such a way to create parallel worlds.

The archaeological forefather gave himself a historical parallel spell, which can create parallel worlds by interpreting information from negative energy particle fields from the past.

This key laboratory can create parallel worlds by combining a special magic array with a high-level magical plant and using a memory from high-level wizards.

This appears to be a method of creating parallel worlds from different magical directions.

Of course, this is indeed a key laboratory. The so-called interdimensional survival game is not virtual at all, but a legitimate creation of parallel worlds.

Of course, there should be differences between parallel worlds.

Locke pondered, because the parallel world created by the parallel history spell seemed to be based on a certain important historical event in the past, while this cardamom farm dimensional survival game was based on the wizard's memories, and even the spatial attributes of the parallel worlds were probably different.

The Parallel History Spell allows one to bring out an object that was destroyed in history but actually existed, from a parallel history into this universe.

The parallel universe above the cardamom farm's towering vines seems to only offer information, because according to the Alarite wizard Guberdin, he can only extract information from the parallel histories here.

Locke suspected that the reason they could only bring out information was because he and the wizard Guberdin did not have enough authority. After all, they were only second-ring wizards and did not know what it was like at the third-ring level.

Perhaps a third-ring wizard can bring something out of a parallel world.

Locke gazed at the base of the triangular stone pillar in the distance. As for why everyone was so eager to enter the key laboratory, it was truly an incredible opportunity.

Ordinary wizards are different from me. I also survived by the skin of my teeth and only obtained the limited number of times to use the Parallel History Spell by chance from the archaeological patriarch. It seems that as long as a senior researcher from Mount Golden Crown has the opportunity to enter this place, he can use the Dimensional Center mini-game multiple times and enter these parallel worlds.

This...benefit.

This mini-game at the center of this plane alone is enough to drive many wizards outside the plane crazy.

Locke felt that all the previous struggles and near-death experiences had now turned into real rewards.

The wizard Guberdin took out an application form and stamped it with a magical seal. Immediately, a line of emblem patterns appeared on the central triangular stone pillar.

Locke glanced at it and found that there were hundreds of badges, representing that hundreds of wizards had left their memories in it.

Wizard Guberdin smiled and said, "I have opened the entrance to the memories of the three founding wizards for you."

"However, according to the rules, you can only choose to enter the memories of one of the founding wizards of Golden Crown Mountain. That is to say, you can only choose one of the memories of the Golden Dragon Wizard, the Iron Fist Wizard, and the Sandstorm Wizard. The Golden Dragon Wizard left five memories, the Iron Fist Wizard left thirteen memories, and the Sandstorm Wizard left three memories."

"The Golden Dragon Wizard is a bloodline wizard and a breeder, and was the most famous agricultural master in the past. The Iron Fist Wizard is a wizard of the power school and the founder of wave power energy. The Sandstorm Wizard is a wizard of the energy school. He is an excellent weatherman."

"According to the rules, you can only enter the second memory after you have passed the first one."

"As for the memories of others, you must apply for access to the key laboratory before you can enter them on your own initiative. This usually requires the permission of the high-ring wizards of Golden Crown Mountain to enter their memories. If they are no longer alive or have left their posts, you will also need the approval of the relevant successor or the foundation that manages them. However, the memories of the three founding wizards are the public property of our academy, so you can directly select and enter them."

Locke nodded slightly.

Then I would definitely choose the Golden Dragon Wizard. Although the Iron Fist Wizard seems to have more memories, they are all memories of power masters. I don't need to work as a power master, so why waste this rare opportunity to enter a parallel world?

Even if it's just a basic parallel world experience that can bring out information, it's still a resource that outside wizards would crave but can't obtain.

Locke said, "I choose to enter the memories of the Golden Dragon Wizard."

Suddenly, only the Golden Dragon Wizard's emblem remained on the central stone pillar of the triangle.

Wizard Guberdin said to Locke, "Now, Wizard Locke can explore our Cardamom Farm on his own. The Cardamom Farm is quite large, and you are free to move around and learn about it as you please."

"If you still have any questions, you can find me in Xingyu City."

The wizard Guberdin smiled at Locke, then recited a spell and vanished on the spot.

Locke glanced at the spot where the wizard Guberdin had just stood. No wonder the wizards of the past had praised the Alarite people's talent in the magic school of pyromancy. Such spatial teleportation ability was truly amazing. It was probably because of these Alarite people that this cardamom farm could be maintained.

Locke touched the emblem on the central pillar of the triangle with his palm, and in an instant, he was pulled towards the emblem on the pillar.

The next moment, Locke was pulled into it.

When he opened his eyes again, he was stunned for a moment, because...

"The feeling I get from this plane of existence is... is this the Wizarding World?"

Locke's eyes widened as he saw a world covered in snow. This world was extremely low in magic; the abundant magical tides that once filled the wizarding world were now completely gone.

"How is this possible..."

Locke frowned, because as a Star Ring Wizard, no one knew the strangeness of this world better than him. If this was a wizarding world, why was the density of magical energy here... even lower than that of Corfu?

Has the Wizarding World ever experienced such a period of low magic levels?

What period was this in?
Mount Golden Crown is one of the main characters of the Pureblood Era, and this place is the memory of the Golden Dragon Wizard. So this place cannot be from a very distant period. Could it be that around the time of the modern magical era, the wizarding world once had a period of near-magic-free environment?

Locke saw three wizards in front of him, all dressed in black wizard robes, planting magical plants on the cold, frozen ground.

Locke glanced at the magical plants on the farmland and found that they were all ancient two-grain wheat-type magical plants. In other words, these wheat magical plants were not the modern wheat magical plants on Golden Crown Mountain in the modern era, but should be an early type of wheat magical plant.

Magical plants have evolved over time.

Many magical plants commonly used in wizarding civilizations did not exist in the past. Instead, they were bred by breeders generation after generation throughout history. However, as time has passed, when later breeders and wizards cultivate new magical plants, they may choose hybrid or grafted materials that are special varieties cultivated by generations of breeders.

The wheat plant has also undergone multiple rounds of evolution and elimination.

Locke recalled the main periods of cultivation and breeding of two grains of wheat, which should be the Pureblood Era or the Great Void Exploration Era.

'In the wizarding world's past, especially during the era of exploring the Great Void, two-grain wheat was indeed not a primary magical food, but merely a backup option. Wait, wheat-type magical plants are indeed more cold-resistant than other staple magical plants, so did two-grain wheat evolve into modern wheat because of this great winter during the era of exploring the Great Void and the Pureblood Era?'

'The current era here is probably between the Great Void Exploration Era and the Pureblood Era. It's very likely that this Great Winter caused the transition between eras.'

Three old wizards are emasculating wheat in a wheat field. This is an important step in hybridization. The wheat's caryopsis is cut off, and then the stamens are removed, but the pistil column must not be damaged. This means that the wheat cannot self-pollinate.

In this way, wheat with intact stamens can be brought here to be hybridized with these emasculated wheat.

This is a very troublesome step.

Among all staple magical plants, wheat grains have the highest hardness, along with the defensive thorns. Locke remembers that two-grain wheat is a first-ring magical plant, and its awns contain a variety of natural magical structural components, like the hardest diamond thorns in the world. If an ordinary wizard apprentice gets close, it won't be long before their palms are covered in blood.

Even first-ring wizards often end up with bloody, mangled hands when dealing with these wheat-based magical plants.

Hybridizing wheat-based magical plants is the most difficult and dangerous task among all staple food magical plants.

Because of the awns, because of the grains, and many other special structures of wheat-like magical plants.

The three old wizards in front of them had scratches all over their palms from the wheat awns, patches of bright red. The awns were injected with various natural magical structural components that were harmful to the human body. If they were low-level wizards, they would have to go for treatment right now.

It might even require the potion master to use a Focus Spell monocle and tweezers to carefully pluck the tiny clusters of wood elemental crystals left by the wheat awns from their palms.

The unique wood element crystal clusters of the first-ring magic plant are highly specialized on the wheat magic plant. The seemingly ordinary wheat awns are covered with standing wood element crystal clusters that look like spears and barbs.

A person's skin would be pricked if touched even slightly, but these three old wizards were all high-ring wizards, so even though their palms were pricked by the thorns more than once during the long process of demasking these two grains of wheat, they only had allergic reactions.

These three old wizards were drenched in sweat and had scratches all over their hands as they dealt with the troublesome wheat plant, but they remained very focused and serious.

As they used a growth-accelerating spell to complete the hybrid wheat plant, it quickly flowered and bore fruit. Then, under their magical control, it shook itself, releasing some wheat seeds, which then continued to germinate and grow into adult wheat plants.

But soon, these wizards, who were wearing thick scarves around their necks, shook their heads. The wheat plants that grew from these grains of wheat, planted on frozen soil, would wither and die quickly without their magical power to sustain them, and would never be able to grow into mature plants.

The magical plants that they grow using life magic are meaningless.

Because the current harsh winter has already caused too many people to go hungry and taken too many lives, they must find a single wheat stalk that can be planted on this frozen wasteland in order to obtain food and supplies that will allow everyone to survive.

At that moment, an old wizard who was processing wheat magic plants suddenly collapsed to the ground. The two looked at him immediately, and the old wizard raised his hand to indicate that he was alright, just too hungry.

The old wizard took out half a flatbread from his pocket and ate one-sixth of it with water made from the melted ice he had collected from the ground. The flatbread did not appear to be made of white flour, but rather had bran on it.

The old wizard looked in Locke's direction and said, "Junior brother, come here quickly. I have half a pancake made from the ground grains of two wheat kernels. You haven't eaten in a long time, have you? You can have the rest."

Locke looked at him in surprise, and for a moment, he thought it was Trajan calling him.

Has the relationship between Jin Mianshan and his disciples always been this good?

Locke walked up to him and looked at the thin flatbread in his hand. This flatbread was not a fine food made by the flavorists of the enchanting school in later generations, nor was it made from any particularly powerful magical plant. It was just a flatbread made by crushing the grains of a two-grain wheat plant that had been cultivated by breeders in history, mixing it with bran, and baking it on a stone under the sun.

It wasn't tasty, and there was nothing about it that appealed to me.

This thing is especially important to the old wizard in front of him. He is powerful, but his magical pressure is too weak. He is like a high-ring wizard who has not replenished his magic power for too long. His own source of power is collapsing.

The wizarding world itself is too powerful, and wizards living in it cannot recover their magical pressure by competing with the world for power.

Thus, this high-ringed wizard found himself in a desperate situation called hunger.

Locke pushed away the half-flatbread offered to him. He hadn't eaten anything like this in a long time. In fact, since entering Mount Golden Crown, he had rarely replenished his magic pressure through food, as it was inefficient. The concentration gradient of the magic tides on Mount Golden Crown was sufficient, and he could restore his magic pressure simply through meditation.

Hunger is a state that occurs when a living organism is about to run out of energy.

Since he can replenish his strength at any time through the local high-magic environment of Golden Crown Mountain, he naturally does not need to face hunger.

Locke naturally didn't care much about the half-eaten pancake and casually said to the old wizard, "Senior brother, you can have it."

The old wizard looked at Locke strangely. As a person from this parallel world, he didn't understand why his junior brother suddenly gave him the feeling that his temperament had changed.

The old wizard put away the flatbread and looked up at the wizard with the highest magical pressure among the three. The old wizard had a strange expression. He glanced at the two of them and then said to the old wizard, "Golden Dragon, you should put away that flatbread. It's something that can save lives."

"Jinlong, I'm leaving."

Locke looked at the wizard who had initially offered him the bread with surprise. He had always thought that the teacher among the three old wizards must be the Golden Dragon Wizard, but he never expected that this senior brother from the parallel history was actually the founding wizard of Golden Crown Mountain, the Golden Dragon Wizard.

The Golden Dragon Wizard looked at his teacher and asked, "Teacher, how long are you going to walk? Are you going to another settlement to find new seeds of two grains of wheat?"

"There must be a two-grain wheat magic plant that can grow in frozen soil! There must be! As long as we can find such a variety, we can grow it during this long winter, and we... everyone will be saved!"

The teacher lowered his head, shook it, and said, "No. Golden Dragon, you don't understand... I'm preparing to leave the wizarding world."

"An old friend of mine has made progress in his research. Although the Golden Route collapsed due to the breaching of the two rivers, an old friend of mine has found a risky method. We can take a warship into the Great Flood. Although we may not be able to escape the Great Flood in the Golden Route using a void warship, if we can, we can leave this hopeless world. We can find a new world in the endless void and start over there. We can create a brand new world that belongs only to us."

"He has completed the entire plan."

“Jinlong, I know you won’t leave this world, so I’m going to take the students who are willing to leave with me. That’s good too. The future is uncertain, and after this parting, we don’t know which group will survive.”

"Jinlong, our Donghuang Mountain is an ancient lineage that originated before the Imperial Era, and it has remained vibrant over time. However, by our generation, our school has declined. After I leave, you are free to do as you please. You can build your own power and no longer need to call it the Donghuang Mountain wizarding organization. At this point, the spirit of Donghuang Mountain has dissipated. If, after we leave, you successfully discover magical plant food that can grow in the frozen soil, then as long as the wizarding power you establish exists, it means that the legacy of Donghuang Mountain still exists. That will suffice."

“Donghuang Mountain has an ancient heritage. It was unknown in the past, but it once flourished during the era of laws and regulations. In any case, I still hope that future generations can remember some of the stories of Donghuang Mountain, even if they may not know that it is Donghuang Mountain.”

With tears in his eyes, the Golden Dragon Wizard said, "Teacher... why are you leaving so suddenly? If we had just persevered a little longer, we would have found the super cold-resistant species we were looking for."

"If we just hold on for a little longer."

"I believe we are about to find it."

The old wizard sighed.

“You don’t understand, Jinlong. An old friend of mine has died. He died of illness. He was my best friend. We walked hand in hand on the path to truth for so many years, but his sudden death has emptied my faith.”

"I suddenly realized there's another way to solve the current predicament of the two rivers breaching their banks—we leave this world." "The Heavenly River has breached its banks. All seven tributaries have breached. The Pureblood Order believes it's the fault of us half-blood wizards, while we believe it's a frame-up. In the Great Void Exploration Era, our civilization expanded too quickly, we committed too many sins, our civilization was mixed with the bad, and someone infiltrated our ranks, secretly causing the Heavenly River to breach its banks, plunging the wizarding world into a long winter."

"The Golden Route was also submerged by the Great Flood, severing our connection with the major worlds. The Wizarding World today is merely a prison where massive magical tides are frozen in the untapped depths of the earth, making it difficult to contact the outside world. In the past, we believed our expansion was the expansion of civilization, and that a few sins and bloodshed were just minor side effects of that expansion. But now, all of this seems like retribution slapped in the face of all of us."

The old shaman of Donghuang Mountain sighed.

"Perhaps it was all destined long ago. What brings prosperity will also bring ruin. Our civilization is now bearing the consequences of past atrocities."

"The great golden age—the age of exploration of the Great Void—has ended. Even if our civilization survives this era, so what? Can you feel the hatred in the eyes of those human wizards towards us wizards? Even if we successfully enter the next era, even if we enter the next era through our own talent and efforts, how good will the next era be for us, for everyone?"

"Jinlong, this world is too chaotic. I'm going to take the rest of us and make a final gamble to see if we can escape this world. This is our last farewell. Whether we succeed or not, I don't think we'll be able to contact each other or return. I hope that after this parting, we can both find our own new futures."

"But before I leave, I want to ask you one last time: do you want to leave with us?"

The Golden Dragon Wizard turned to look at Locke, then at the people around him, and at those mortals who had no chance of riding the void warship or forcibly breaking through the flood, even though they were starving. He resolutely shook his head and said to his teacher, "Teacher, I firmly believe in this land. There must still be life on this land that we haven't discovered yet. I firmly believe that as long as we continue searching, we will definitely find that super variety of two-grain wheat that can grow in such land."

"You said that as long as we have hope in our hearts, we can find the way forward."

“I firmly believe that I will find our future on this land, and this land has not abandoned us. And if I find it and successfully enter the next era, even if the human wizards of that era vent all their anger over these disasters on us, I will strive to protect these rejected compatriots and find like-minded partners in the process. Because I believe that there are still many people like me in our civilization who are working hard. So I will not leave the wizarding world.”

The Golden Dragon Wizard clenched his fist.

He had actually noticed the resentful looks those human wizards were giving them long ago. Could he really find companions to fight against those looks?
However, he didn't have time to think about that now, because he had to find super grain wheat that could be planted on frozen soil to withstand the low temperature and low magic environment.

The current magical tide concentration in the wizarding world is insufficient to sustain the existing population or support the current number of wizards' cycles. Therefore, wizards who could previously sustain themselves simply by breathing in the wind and drinking the dew are now finding survival incredibly difficult in this age of decline.

Hunger brings many problems, many diseases, and even the diseases that appear in wizards and high-ring wizards are all born out of hunger.

Hunger and disease go hand in hand.

The Golden Dragon Wizard knew that his teacher's old friend had also died from a disease caused by prolonged starvation.

Things that would never happen in times of peace, things that are completely impossible to encounter, things that one would never think of happening to a high-ranking wizard... will all happen in this age of decline.

But if he could find that one super grain wheat plant, he could solve these problems with that grain.

As long as these high-energy-density magical foods are available, they can replace the current environment that lacks a high concentration of magical tidal gradients, and continue to support the population and current ring number of this civilization.

The teacher from Donghuang Mountain shook his head and sighed, "Jinlong, you are not the savior of this civilization. We have been the savior of other worlds for far too long."

"But look at the ending."

He left with a large number of wizards from Donghuang Mountain, leaving only the Golden Dragon Wizard and Locke, along with a large group of mortals who followed them and some wizard apprentices who were learning from the Golden Dragon Wizard.

As the Golden Dragon Wizard watched his teacher's departing figure, he clenched his fist and whispered, "I am not the savior of this world."

"There must be many wizards like me in this world. We are all doing our own way to save those around us."

"Junior brother, aren't you leaving either?"

Locke was completely bewildered. "I'm leaving?"

Where can I go? This memory belongs to you, Grandmaster. In other words, I definitely cannot leave this settlement with those wizards.

The Golden Dragon Wizard looked at Locke, a hint of melancholy flashing across his face, and said, "Junior Brother, now it's just the two of us left."

The Golden Dragon Wizard entered a small hut on the frozen ground and took out a pile of documents and a large number of paper bags marked with magical symbols.

"But it's alright, I've compiled a list of many special varieties of emmer wheat with unique traits. I've also written a lot of information, you should take it and read it."

“We’re not afraid either. With the materials I’ve compiled, if you can learn them carefully, you can do the work of three people by yourself. The two of us are equivalent to a team, so it’s more than enough.”

The Golden Dragon Wizard seemed somewhat afraid that he might feel timid, so he tried his best to recommend the materials he had written. He told him all the secret knowledge about breeding without holding anything back.

Locke, on the other hand, sat upright and listened attentively.

Admittedly, many of these breeding methods are outdated, but the ideas of the founder of Jinmian Mountain are excellent, and this is the idea we listened to.

Locke felt that just hearing his ideas made him feel that his breeding techniques had improved a lot.

The Golden Dragon Wizard pointed to the documents in Locke's hand and said, "Junior Brother, you should study them carefully first, don't rush. I'll do the work first, I believe you can do it."

Locke nodded and said, "Okay."

The Golden Dragon Wizard turned around and went back to work in the fields. He continued to remove the tassels from the wheat grains and cut the awns and ears with scissors. His fingers were covered with cuts.

Because magical resources are limited, the energy of the limited magical items must be used to power the magical plants in the wheat fields. Moreover, there doesn't seem to be a perfect magical glove in this era, so he can only endure the pain and continue to process the two grains of wheat.

Locke, on the other hand, was thoroughly enjoying looking at the information.

This can be considered a perk of key laboratories. It's like a training program that can quickly improve one's breeding skills. Just looking at these secret materials can be very rewarding.

Locke flipped through the documents, enjoying himself immensely for a day or two.

The grafting cultivation method often used for weapon-type magical plants can lead to the degeneration of traits in the seeds as they are planted for generations. However, as long as the mother plant is kept, it can be crossbred or grafted with those degenerated magical plants to purify them and restore the traits of the seeds.

Although it's impossible to fully restore it, it's enough to sell it as a standard magical plant weapon.

However, the logic behind the seeds of staple food magical plants is completely different from that of weapon magical plants. Because large-scale production and stable traits are required, grafting is generally not used for cultivation; instead, hybridization is used.

Hybridization can stabilize the traits of the plant and ensure that the traits of the plant seeds remain consistent during large-scale production.

Because in the natural environment, the next generation of seeds from normal plants may not be as good as the previous generation of magical plants.

Just like it's difficult to determine the strengths of a child.

Even though they are the same plant, the grafted magical plants still have some slight differences, though not significant.

However, under large-scale grain production, such differences are likely to lead to a large amount of grain degradation and variation, so it is necessary to use hybridization breeding methods to completely stabilize its traits.

Locke pondered, "Currently, the Golden Dragon Wizard's approach is to primarily use hybridization breeding methods combined with magic frequency resonance breeding methods."

"We don't use the Spirit Breath Cultivation Method, which is much more powerful, because Spirit Breath consumes too many resources in this magical era. It's completely depleted with a single use of magical pressure and can't be replenished. Using this cultivation method when we're starving is suicidal. Similarly, the finite element cultivation method is in a similar situation."

"Furthermore, the finite element cultivation method also requires cultivating a large number of subspecies, then creating a sword mound, and finally gathering them into a super variety. However, that is a common practice for weapon-type magical plants. This kind of plant, which requires a specific and highly specialized plant, does not need to use this cultivation method."

Locke nodded. The Golden Dragon Wizard's training strategy was very clear and worth learning from and referencing.

However, on the other hand, aren't these two steps—using the Magic Co-frequency Cultivation Method to cultivate plant factor mutation plants and using the hybridization cultivation method to combine the superior traits of multiple plants—your strengths?
Locke placed three stalks of two wheat into his Rubik's Cube.

Start synthesizing!
"Developing a super-trait variety in such a low-temperature, low-magnetic environment is a first for me."

'But if this is the condition for clearing the level, then with my current level of nurturing and synthesizing cubes, I might as well give it a try.'

A week after arriving in this parallel world, Locke finished reviewing the current information and officially joined the Golden Dragon Wizard's team, starting to work in the wheat fields.

The Golden Dragon Wizard looked up at Locke in the wheat field, who was deftly using his magic scissors to cut open the wheat ears and remove the male parts. He smiled, because Locke was adapting quickly and was even more capable than he had originally expected.

"I never expected my junior brother to be so capable. It's strange, I've never seen him so diligent before."

"He's not just capable of doing the work of three people; his efficiency is practically equivalent to that of five people."

"She's really capable. It's like she's received some kind of highly efficient training; she's completely transformed from before."

Behind Locke, an evolutionary moon appeared, and the Moon Cultivation Method shone on a two-grain wheat plant in the farmland. The Golden Dragon Wizard looked up at the evolutionary moon, but for some reason, he wasn't particularly surprised.

He glanced at the Moon of Evolution, his eyes brightening slightly.

"Junior brother, your Great Magic Construct is truly impressive. This is your path to becoming a Third Ring Wizard."

Locke nodded to him and said, "Thank you for praising me, senior brother."

Being praised like that by the founding master made me feel a little uncomfortable.

Locke looked at the magical plant in front of him that had been exposed to the Moon Cultivation Method and frowned slightly. The Moon Cultivation Method allows the surrounding dimensional information to interact with the plant's essence, resulting in adaptive and vigorous evolution.

The problem is that resisting low temperatures is not difficult, but resisting low magic levels and low temperatures while maintaining a first-level magic plant is too difficult.

So Locke looked at the magical plant that had been illuminated by the Moon of Evolution, examined its characteristics, and found that it had indeed produced plant factors that resisted low temperatures, but it had not solved the problem of growing in a near-magic-free environment.

Locke was not surprised by this situation, as he had long anticipated it. However, if the Moon of Evolution was used in conjunction with the Magic Sun and the Magic Frequency Cultivation Method was employed, targeted accelerated mutation could be achieved.

That way, the speed at which results are achieved will be faster.

This is also the meaning of my own month of evolution.

Upon witnessing this scene, the Golden Dragon Wizard put down the rice stalk he was holding, looked up at Locke, and said, "Junior Brother, your powerful magic is very suitable for our breeding science."

"Your idea is good."

Locke nodded slightly. He then continued to use the Reversion Evolution and Surging Evolution of the Evolution Moon. However, the Reversion Evolution was not very useful because Two Grains of Wheat could not produce much from the Reversion Evolution, and the current Reversion accuracy was not enough.

As long as it relies on the Moon Cultivation Method.

A month later, Locke and the Golden Dragon Wizard had created a large number of subspecies, but they still hadn't found the super species they were looking for.

On this day, just as Locke was about to continue his previous experimental steps, he suddenly felt his magical pressure becoming chaotic.

"This is……"

Locke felt a long-lost hunger.

"That's impossible. Even in this magic-free environment, I didn't use spells like Spirit Breath Cultivation or Reverse Magic Potion Technique that consume a lot of magic pressure. With the Forest Sanctuary, it's impossible for me to experience such a rapid loss of magic pressure and hunger..."

"and many more……"

Locke thought of the cup of bitter tea he had drunk before entering this parallel world. Good heavens, no wonder he was told to drink that tea before coming in; so that was the purpose.

That cup of bitter tea seemed to have the effect of disrupting his magical pressure, causing it to become unbalanced, and thus making him feel hungry prematurely.

After all, insufficient energy will lead to hunger, and chaotic magical pressure will cause imbalance, which will also make one feel hungry.

Locke felt the chill, felt the hunger, and felt his magical pressure rapidly decreasing.

Our ancestor!

You've really gone to great lengths to scheme.

Locke looked at the old wizard beside him, who was looking at him with concern, and felt a mix of emotions.

The old wizard had been looking at me with great concern, but suddenly his gaze changed. He looked at me with an air of authority, not the concerned look of a senior brother towards a junior brother, but the condescending, authoritative, and distant look of an ancestor towards a junior.

The Golden Dragon Wizard said, "Now that we've reached this point, this memory can end. I consider you to have passed."

"You can leave now. From now on, you can directly enter the second memory."

"Continuing would be too painful; it's just a matter of enduring the pain without any real suffering."

“I just want my descendants to feel again what they have long forgotten along the way—hunger. I believe that truth lies in the daily lives of mortals, and if a wizard who seeks truth no longer feels hunger and cold in the process of exploration, he no longer has those needs of mortals, he becomes completely self-sufficient, and he will forget his original intention.”

"I want each of you to recall that memory of hunger again before you enter the key laboratory."

“I believe this will be good for you, my descendants.”

Locke knew that the person before him was not the real Golden Dragon Wizard, but merely a memory he left for all his descendants, similar to an echo.

However, Locke frowned, and after a brief moment of thought, said, "No, I refuse. Grandmaster."

“I don’t like failure, nor do I like stopping halfway through. I originally thought you needed me to cultivate a super wheat plant to leave this memory. Therefore, I had already made the overall design and plan. But now the Grandmaster wants me to leave this memory… I am unwilling.”

"Master, it's easy to invite me in, but it's difficult for me to leave. I can only leave after I complete this breeding work."

The Golden Dragon Wizard's pupils contracted slightly. "You want to complete this?"

"That's interesting."

The Golden Dragon Wizard looked at Locke with surprise. “Few wizards are determined to finish this nurturing work because they know how difficult it is and what difficulties and nightmares lie ahead. You are already feeling hungry. If you continue, you may starve to death and leave this memory by starvation. That would be a terrible and painful experience. But if you want to continue, that is your right.”

"Let me see if you can do what I have done before, my successor."

(End of this chapter)