680: Buying natal witch porcelain and renting a small-scale world.
As a drop of zero potion was poured by him onto that rock, the spirituality of the entire stone seemed to undergo a certain change.
This zero potion was refined by King Otto back when he demonstrated the Historical Stele Spell for him, and by using the royal artifact to refine the false into the true, it became a bottle of magic potion.
In essence, a wizard who drank this potion would possess a blank spirituality, and this blank spirituality was of ordinary Second Ring quality.
The main reason Locke hadn't drunk it before was that this item involved the foundation of a person—spirituality—which was a level he could only view using the queens chessboard at his current stage.
Therefore, without knowing its effects, having no one else drink it, and having not conducted the third-phase experiments of modern magic civilization, he dared not gamble with his own spirituality by merging it with the spirituality inside an inexplicable potion.
Moreover, there was nothing in blank spirituality; apart from increasing a portion of spirituality, it had no other function.
A person's soul would not undergo any changes just because they reached the Second Ring level in terms of spirituality.
The soul shackles between the First Ring and Second Ring still existed.
But at this moment, after the rock absorbed the zero potion, a special change suddenly appeared. The surface of the rock quickly absorbed the spiritual liquid of the zero potion, and then it seemed to gestate some kind of new life.
Inside this rock, which had accepted the worship of the Dune Plane people for decades, a response from the spiritual level was sent to Locke, as if some kind of hazy consciousness had been born within it.
"Did the rock produce life?"
Locke was stunned. He had only added Second Ring level spirituality to this rock. "Although Stone Spirits are very common in the Wizard World, Stone Spirits are elemental lifeforms. And what counts as this rock? Elemental lifeforms have distinct life structures, possessing distinct biological macromolecule types—ordered energy flows."
"That is the characteristic of life."
"But this is indeed just an ordinary rock. Even if wisdom and mobility were granted to it to constrain its form by the Spellcasting School, it is still just a magic creation, not true life."
Locke had deeply engaged with the Spellcasting School in both the Southeast Corner Region and the Six Towers Land, so he understood that granting wisdom to dead objects and creating life were two completely different concepts for the Spellcasting School.
He once had several Rotten Earth Devil Taro Kings and had also used the Spellcasting School's magic to grant them the ability to judge and make decisions on their own.
But they were still not intelligent creatures.
Yet at this moment, in the eyes of Locke's spiritual vision, this stone had become something neither life nor non-life at the spiritual level.
Locke had a strange expression. "This wasn't caused by me and the zero potion. I just used the zero potion to strengthen the special spirituality inside this rock, which led to me accelerating its original natural evolution."
"I personally accelerated its formation. However, I don't know if this state means it has already become a complete entity, or if it is still in the process of forming."
"Forget it, let's extract its spirituality first, and then use Full Moon Growth to fuse this spirituality with my sea gold sand to see if it can promote the evolution of the sea gold sand."
Locke placed his palm on the rock. This strange, neither-life-nor-non-life spirituality was guided out by him. At the same time, under the illumination of a full moon, this spirituality underwent a seamless fusion with the spirituality of the ordinary sea gold sand in his hand.
Suddenly, the branches and leaves of this sea gold sand shone brilliantly, flickering with bright moonlight; the moonlight covered it like gem dust.
This ordinary sea gold sand, which looked like a spiral staircase, broke free from his hand and floated into mid-air.
Because of the addition of the blank spirituality, the quantity and quality of the special spirituality expanded. Originally, it could only accelerate the slight evolution of ordinary plants, but at this moment, it could directly interfere with a One-Ring Magic Plant and force it to enter the [Rapid Evolution State].
All the potential of the sea gold sand was developed, and it was evolving in a direction that had the possibility of advancing.
The energy required for evolution was paid for by the special spirituality whose quantity had been increased by the blank spirituality.
And the special spirituality was placed by Locke into the Full Moon Growth, transformed into moon essence, and amplified by about two times to reflect onto this sea gold sand.
That ordinary sea gold sand seemed to have turned into a moon fern, awakening in the moon.
Locke frowned. "Was that special spirituality influenced by my magic power? No. That special spirituality itself is a possibility; it might be neutral. It's just that this possibility was granted by my magic, so this possibility leaned towards the characteristics of my magic."
"Whether it is blank spirituality or that special spirituality, they are easily tainted by other magic, causing fusion phenomena."
At this time, under the illumination of the moonlight, the ordinary sea gold sand changed its overall color from golden-green to a silver-blue gradient, while white spirituality coiled around it.
The fern leaves released moonlight themselves, and the leaf veins conducted the moonlight like optical fibers. In the middle of each fern leaf, a translucent crescent-shaped pattern appeared.
Locke took a look and gave it a name—[Crescent Pattern].
Locke summoned the Magic Plant, which had grown the Crescent Pattern and changed color, back into his hand.
"The ability of the Magic Plant form seems to have doubled, and the ordinary sea gold sand, which was originally of Golden Magic attribute, seems to have developed an Ice attribute."
"The appearance of the Crescent Pattern represents that it has accepted my grace." Locke pondered: "As long as I guide it into a contract mechanism within this grace, I can make them sign a contract with me at the moment these Magic Plants accept my gift."
Locke glanced at the Dune Plane people who had been startled. These Dune Plane people looked at the moon fern floating in mid-air, kowtowed, and called out to the Moon God.
Locke looked at them, then placed this ordinary sea gold sand into his left palm. "From a rough spiritual perspective, it has raised its life level by half a grade. That is to say, Second Ring level spirituality can guide Magic Plants to improve by half a grade."
"It's just that I don't know yet what the highest level of Magic Plant it can specifically guide is."
"Is it effective for second ring magic plants, and is it effective for top-tier One-Ring Magic Plants?"
"And..." Locke placed his palm on the fern leaf of the sea gold sand, his fingers absorbing its spirituality, and then extracted it.
As this spirituality, which was like moon essence, was extracted, the original sea gold sand was slowly returning to its original state.
"Because of the special property that blank spirituality can be fused and separated. Therefore, I can bestow, and I can also take back, the bestowal to the Magic Plants."
"I can take whatever I want from the Magic Plants under the illumination of this moon."
Locke spread his left hand, and the ordinary sea gold sand floated in the palm of his left hand. "Actually, using this special spirituality cultivation method, cultivating Magic Plants may not necessarily be like this sea gold sand, which was forcibly raised by half a grade in life level in a short time, and showed corresponding changes."
"That was just me injecting a large amount of special spirituality into it when I urged it to evolve, turning it into energy, and forcibly ripening it."
"If only a portion of special spirituality moon essence is injected, it will only give this Magic Plant the possibility of improving its life level in a short time."
"Therefore, the amount of special spirituality moon essence injected determines whether it is direct forced ripening and evolution, or just a possibility of evolution, or if I give a little more, it is adding to its occurrence of some kind of evolution."
Locke just sorted it out slightly and discovered three uses for this special spirituality.
In battle, one can directly inject a large amount of special spirituality moon essence into a Magic Plant to ripen it in a very short time.
And in normal times, when conducting Magic Plant breeding, one can use this special spirituality cultivation method to accelerate it while using other cultivation methods.
It should be known that there is a great limitation that determines the speed and quality of Magic Plant cultivation, which is the growth generation of the Magic Plant.
The more powerful a Magic Plant is, the longer the growth generation, and the higher the cost of each generation.
And if this special spirituality cultivation method is used to accelerate the growth generation iteration of Magic Plants in other cultivation methods, it is a huge improvement for the cultivation work of other Magic Plants.
At the same time, it itself can grant a Magic Plant the possibility of upward transition. As long as it is operated well, perhaps it can make a Magic Plant that was originally stable in traits and unable to develop upwards have a chance to continue evolving.
In the cave of the Dune Plane people, Locke looked up at the moon. "Moon Magic Mirror? No, this is the moon of evolution."
"This is the essence of the Great Magic I need."
"Only this essence has enough height to support me all the way down, and even become a higher-ring wizard in the future. I have found the path of Great Magic; the rest is to consolidate the foundation and thoroughly build the Spell Model of my moon of evolution and the ecological cycle."
The Grand Magic Modeling Competition seems to be a competition of how strong everyone's ecological cycle construction is.
Therefore, being able to perform Great Magic modeling simulations in the Silent Grail would indeed be very useful.
Locke looked at the special spirituality that had turned into moonlight and pondered: "For the sake of convenience, let's call it Moon Essence."
"So the abbreviation is moon essence."
"This cultivation method shall be called the Moon Cultivation Method."
"Although I can't figure out for the time being what this special Stone Spirit is, it is indeed very useful."
Locke spent another day analyzing from all angles what would happen if he moved this stone.
After confirming that this stone was already self-contained and that nothing would happen even if he moved it away, Locke took it into the space where his Forest Sanctuary was located.
That group of Dune Plane people saw the Stone Spirit disappear suddenly and were immediately very anxious, while Locke hesitated for a moment, blinked his right eye, and opened a demiplane gate.
These two hundred Dune Plane people were just a group of mortals.
Even if he let them enter his Forest Sanctuary, if they could shake the five thousand acres of Magic Plant forest, that would be too ridiculous.
It wouldn't be a big problem to let this group of mortals enter; even if they wanted to destroy the ecology, their current numbers wouldn't be enough.
Temporarily settle them here; he has money on hand now and can go to the Dragon Blood Assembly to rent Plane conquest services, find a Plane exploration group, and let them help him find a small-scale world to settle these Dune Plane people first.
At least until he finds out how to replicate this Stone Spirit, these Dune Plane people are treasures at the level of non-renewable resources for him.
Of course, if he could replicate them, the Dune Plane people might become even more precious, because in the vast Endless Void, for an individual wizard like him to find a life race suitable for creating such special Stone Spirits, it might really require a bit of luck and time, as well as a large amount of magic stones.
Seeing the Stone Spirit through the dimensional gate, these Dune Plane people did not hesitate much and immediately believed that this was the guidance and grace of the Stone Spirit.
Because... the world behind the dimensional gate, no matter how you looked at it, was a heaven.
Compared to this Dune Plane, it was simply heaven and earth.
So, they all went in.
Locke spent another day watching this group of Dune Plane people who had entered his demiplane and confirmed that they had built some simple buildings next to his Forest Sanctuary and initially settled in there.
He only needed to throw in some water sources and food regularly, and they would all be able to survive, multiply, and live in it.
Anyway, these mortals would probably think that these were the grace of the Stone Spirit.
He was too lazy to step into the foreground.
With the omnipotent Stone Spirit there, he only needed to borrow the name of the Stone Spirit to make them obedient.
Although this meant that the Dune Plane people had changed worlds to survive, they had no idea what had happened.
Everything looked like the grace of the Stone Spirit.
They didn't even know of the existence of wizards.
Locke returned to the Research Institute and soon received a message from Witch Camilla.
At his workstation, Locke saw the message Witch Camilla sent him. 'Regarding the transaction you mentioned last time, I have thought about it for a period of time, and I think it might be doable.'
'But I have one condition. I want a dragon viewing peach from your teacher!'
Locke frowned. dragon viewing peach?
That was a special magic peach that could break the boundary between humans and animals, allowing animals to obtain human spirituality and possess human wisdom after consuming it.
This was one of the twelve peaches of Golden Crown Mountain; this was not easy to handle.
Locke did not immediately refuse but sent a message: 'Why did you suddenly change your mind?'
Witch Camilla sent a message over. 'My sister... I have found many Potion Masters to treat her, but she still remains in that demented state. Turning from human to beast. Damn Twin Demon Realm, that group of shameless thieves and robbers!'
'Locke, I need a dragon viewing peach. Magic Hub City has thought of some ways for us sisters, but in the end, they told me that Golden Crown Mountain refused to provide us with a dragon viewing peach.'
'Magic Hub City wants me to give up. But how is that possible?'
'My sister is my only relative in this world. I must save her. As long as you can get me a dragon viewing peach, I can get you as much natal witch porcelain as you want. Can you really help me get a dragon viewing peach? If you lie to me, I will fight you to the death!'