Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 234 Sea Anemone Mycelium, Magical Energy Principles

Around noon, the unidentified flying object sighted by the whaling ship returned to the headland rocky beach, where Lin Bo was already waiting.

In order to make the most of the day, he entrusted the care of today's visitors to his apprentices, while he himself took the deep-sea samples to the East Cliff Grottoes.

Water samples, soil samples, and live magical anemones were stored in their respective containers.

Lin Bo collected seawater samples from multiple areas, including the anemone growth zone and the fluorescent zone of the fruiting bodies. He also collected seabed silt and lava samples, as well as ten live anemones, ranging from young to mature, and undeveloped fruiting bodies.

Analyzing water quality and soil composition requires specialized instruments, which Linbo can only purchase from the Duolian Duoyi platform. These precision experimental instruments are not cheap, even more expensive than nuclear fusion batteries, mainly because the target audience is too small, resulting in low production capacity.

After sending the sample for testing, Lin Bo didn't rest. He first tried to find out the real name of the Magic Energy Sea Anemone.

He put on gardener's gloves, held the transparent, pale blue creature up to the light to observe it, listen to the whispers of the light, and explore its internal structure.

However, when Guanghui recounted what he had seen, the mage raised an eyebrow. This creature, which was the size of a palm, was actually a single cell with no nucleus inside, only many organelles, each with its own function.

This suggests that the Magic Anemone must have been very ancient at its evolutionary origins.

Lin Bo examined all the live specimens he had collected and roughly deduced the reproductive method of the Magic Energy Sea Anemone. When needed, the genetic material stored in its organelles would be replicated, aggregated, wrapped in the cell membrane, and excreted from the body.

He realized that all the magical anemones originated from the same source, or rather, they were all copies of the same creature.

When you bring it close to your nose, you can only smell a faint sulfurous odor, probably from volcanic hydrothermal fluid. Then, you scrape off a little bit of the flesh with a knife, put it on your tongue, and taste it, listening to the anemone's own words.

The creatures from the deep sea told the mage their oldest and most distant memories, the scenes from the very beginning of their existence. In the distant, ancient geological era, the sky above the primordial ocean was filled with endless thunderstorms. Frequent geological activity on the planet caused volcanoes to erupt, and massive amounts of inorganic matter dissolved in the water, like a pot of thick soup.

The Magical Sea Anemone was born in the era of the origin of life on the planet. It is a product of the convergence of lightning, volcanoes and the ocean. Unlike other primitive life forms that chose to cooperate, it embarked on a different evolutionary path.

Multicellular organisms differentiate into specific cells to form complex tissues and organs, while the Magical Sea Anemone stacks complexity within a single cell, its internal structure resembling an assembly line factory, a precision machining device, or an automatically operating alchemy furnace.

This evolutionary path is extremely rare and riddled with flaws. The fact that the Magic Anemone has survived to this day is due to an extremely low probability of being born; this extremely low probability is a miracle in the history of life.

Lin Bo clicked his tongue in admiration. A miraculous species giving birth to miraculous magical energy matter was truly a perfect match.

The evolution of the magic anemone has probably stagnated. For the past tens of millions of years, it has been guarding the volcanic zone on the seabed, living a peaceful life, never considering venturing to the surface, nor developing a second species of the same type.

Human civilization would need another century or two to develop the capabilities of deep-sea fishing and exploration before it could discover this mysterious species. Perhaps by then, whales would already be extinct, and the Kening Empire's industrial system, heavily reliant on whale oil, would suffer a devastating blow.

Now that the Lighthouse Mage has acquired this item ahead of time, it's not too late.

A moment later, Lin Bo had discovered the sea anemone's true name and, as expected, obtained a Pan-Spirit Star Language Rune.

Take a clump of mycelium from the primary fungal carpet, feed it with a complete Magic Sea Anemone, and wait for the all-purpose fungus to collect its genetic information into the gene bank. Then, Lin Bo softly pronounces the real name to induce mycelial mimicry differentiation.

The all-purpose bacteria are multicellular organisms, so when mimicking anemones, they naturally use a large number of cells to imitate the internal structure of the magic anemone, and the functions are largely the same. Lin Bo built many aquariums, setting up various environments as control experiments, and then placed the anemones simulated by the mycelium into them.

The mycelium was more active than the anemone, even after mimicking its appearance. When Lin Bo gently touched it, it chattered away in the wizard's ear. However, this also provided an opportunity to observe their adaptation to different aquariums.

He then introduced various energy sources into the different incubators, namely heat, electricity, and light, and regularly checked the concentration of magical energy.

Soon after, he concluded that mimicking anemones could survive in nutrient-rich aquatic environments, and that they could absorb and utilize energy in the form of heat, electricity, and light from the anemone hyphae. However, they could only produce magical substances in the silt and water collected from the seabed.

Lin Bo reviewed the test reports for the water and soil samples, then prepared a nutrient soil and nutrient solution according to the ingredient list, planted it on the mimic sea anemone, and soon it bloomed with an even brighter magical glow.

He basically had a good idea of ​​what was going on.

In the various worlds of the multiverse, there is a rich variety of magical energy substances, but the mechanism by which they are born has yet to be definitively explained.

Lin Bo had read many related theories and theories, and he speculated that this kind of marine magic energy was most likely an alchemical miracle. The cells of the sea anemone were like a reaction vessel, melting and transforming the material energy of the volcanic zone.

He considered other possibilities, but rejected them one by one.

Some magical energy comes from the sediment of death and often gathers in a ghostly form.

The vast ocean carries countless lives. As corpses and remains sink to the seabed, the essence of life is forged and regenerated in the mid-ocean ridge volcanic belt, which symbolizes new life. It is only natural that miracles occur.

If the sea anemones grow by absorbing this magical energy, we can surely follow the clues and find out the truth.

However, Lin Bo did not sense the existence of this type of magical energy at the bottom of the sea. Perhaps the magical background of this world is too weak to support the emergence of such energy.

Another possibility is biological uniqueness. For example, dragons are natural collections of miracles, and even when they enter a world without magic, their bloodline can still generate magical energy.

Some players on the cross-platform choose to make dragon herding their profession in order to obtain miracle energy in a world without magic.

Lin Bo knew the true name of the Magic Energy Sea Anemone and was fairly familiar with the species, fully aware that they lacked the ability. Experiments had also proven that without specific ingredients, they could not refine magical energy substances.

For now, the mage can determine that the ocean magic energy of this world is an alchemical product, and if the specific configuration process is mastered, it can be artificially synthesized.

Lin Bo could easily compile his conclusions into a highly valuable paper, which would yield a much higher return than the scientific data obtained from the [Botanical Garden].

He was certainly interested in researching this, but considering the cost of artificial synthesis, it was more cost-effective to use sea anemone mycelium in actual production.

The next thing to consider is the location of the magic energy production plant.

(End of this chapter)