836 Thinking about the Second Ultimate Magic and the Sunny Wizard Stone
Locke brushed his hand over Jack's face, and a Primordial Fire appeared, spreading over Jack's body. Under the effect of the Reverse Refining Method, the injuries on his body vanished rapidly. Both his flesh and soul recovered to their original state after being burned by the Primordial Fire in accordance with the Reverse Refining Method.
It was just that Jack remained unconscious; clearly, the consumption from his previous all-out battle meant he had not yet recovered.
Locke guessed that it was likely an important component of his soul, specifically the Mind Abyss, that had been depleted.
Or perhaps it was an issue with a deeper internal structure of his soul.
Of course, now that he had extracted Jack's spirituality through the Reverse Refining Method and restored it all at once, then converted it back to its original state, it was equivalent to a hard reboot. Therefore, Jack was out of danger and just needed to sleep it off.
The saint incarnations of the two Black Wizards not far away had fallen into an awkward situation where they dared not attack but also did not know where to flee.
One Black Wizard's saint incarnation tried to invoke the name of the Pale Pilgrimage.
"We are wizards of the Pale Pilgrimage, you cannot..."
The next moment, the body of his saint incarnation was pierced by a large hole. A verdant fern spear, formed by second-ring sea golden sand, completely penetrated his upper body, ignoring the defense and recovery capabilities of his blood ancestor true body, and in an instant, tore him completely into fragments.
Second Ring fern spear + energy concentration of the world tree leaf!
There was a verdant ring of leaves on the body of the crystal-clear fern spear.
The last remaining Black Wizard's saint incarnation roared.
"No."
His blood ancestor true body's hands clasped together, grabbing the Second Ring fern spear that remained in a state of energy concentration, trying to stop the fern spear from approaching, but the fern spear still stabbed into his abdomen.
He was clearly the most powerful of the three Black Wizards.
At this moment, he chanted a spell, and the tainted blood from the shattered blood ancestor true bodies of the previous two Black Wizards, scattered in the air and on the ground, gathered towards him drop by drop.
Blood tentacles waved around him, grabbing his body like an octopus's tentacles. With the Sacred Blood Sacrifice Hand, he sacrificed all the bloodline power of the two blood ancestor true body saint incarnations to enhance his own saint incarnation.
During the year and two weeks of fighting in the Heidenburg Plane, he was the final winner of the internal strife. Amidst the internal strife and chain of suspicion among the three Black Wizards, he had buried the most contingencies, and after Locke defeated the other two, he had effectively seized a portion of their power to enhance himself.
It was just a pity that, before this, Locke had already worn down the majority of the three men's total magic pressure and magic pressure intensity.
So even like this, he could at most display the level of a Second Ring Wizard with a normal magic pressure of 10,000.
The face of the Black Wizard's Vampire blood ancestor true body was covered in tainted blood. He almost bit his fangs, his body arched, and even the three pairs of bat wings on his back were vibrating violently. His feet floated in mid-air, and Spell Models appeared behind his feet, trying to stop the retreat.
The Magic items on his hands and body shattered one after another.
At the top of Golden Mountain, a stone cup in the center of one of the three life-stealing celestial instruments cracked, and natural magic power leaked out from that crack.
Immediately following, with a miserable scream, the Black Wizard's stone cup shattered completely.
In an instant, his saint incarnation, along with his life-stealing celestial instrument, were all destroyed.
His saint incarnation was pierced by the Second Ring fern spear, then his pupils suddenly shrank. His body turned into a shadow in the world, a speck of dust, and with a gust of wind, it turned into fragments and dissipated into the world.
The verdant light on the surface of the Second Ring fern spear was formed by the power of the Rangers holding the leaf of power, which had transformed into a forest and superimposed onto the Second Ring fern spear.
This was actually a resource optimization.
Originally, even Locke could not efficiently utilize the power of the Forest Sanctuary, but because this group of Rangers had deepened the connection between himself, the Forest Sanctuary, and the Ultimate Magic.
This was actually an internal resource transfer of his own power.
Locke took a step forward, his saint incarnation automatically disintegrated, and then he appeared at the top of Golden Mountain, looking at the two remaining life-stealing celestial instruments.
He flicked his hand, and the Second Ring fern spear descended, turning into thunder and fire, destroying one ritual center and completely pulverizing the stone cup.
Then, he looked at the last ritual.
That ritual center had blood rolling in it, forming a human face gathered from fresh blood.
"Eye Demon Wizard, wait. If you destroy this ritual, my power of immortality will be destroyed by you."
"A trade, yes, we can make a trade. Don't you White Wizards like making trades?"
"What do you want..."
'Bang~'
The next moment, the ritual shattered abruptly.
That giant face of blood also collapsed, turning into blood rain that splashed on the ground.
The spirituality of the three Second Ring Wizards was extracted by Locke, forming a huge radiance of spirituality in the Heidenburg Plane, and then a bronze cauldron descended from the sky, containing them.
spirituality surged within the bronze cauldron, and the spirit macro on the surface of the bronze cauldron flashed. Locke spent some time creating three portions of zero potion.
In this way, he now had eight portions of zero potion.
The moment he completely killed the three Black Wizards, an inevitable drop in magic pressure occurred in the Heidenburg Plane, and the Blood River that had originally appeared at the edge of the Heidenburg Plane also began to recede.
The river channel dried up, the river water disappeared, like a withered river.
Locke swept a glance at the changes in the Heidenburg Plane.
"So that's it. The life-stealing celestial instrument can summon a Blood River for this world, with one ritual summoning one tributary of the Blood River. Therefore, this world initially agreed to let them hold the life-stealing celestial instrument here."
"Now that the ritual has disappeared, the three Blood River tributaries will also recede. However, these Blood River tributaries were originally unusable by the Heidenburg Plane."
This was a serious deception.
The Blood River entered this world, seemingly giving this world a huge river, thus attracting this world, but this world would soon discover that the Blood River had absolutely nothing to do with it, or with the living beings of this Plane.
It simply could not call upon any power within the Blood River.
"Ah~ Ah~ Ah!"
Amidst the receding Blood River water, the water flooded, and the ripples seemed to form a huge human face. It looked in the direction where Locke was.
"Locke Augustine, we meet again. Possessor of a powerful bloodline, this time without the surveillance of the Wizard World, and you are a Second Ring Wizard. I can appear before you more precisely."
"Accept the knowledge I give you. As long as you hold the ritual to summon me here, I will lend you my power. Just as I promised you before, that will be an irresistible power."
Locke looked at it expressionlessly. The world will of the Blood River Plane actually appeared at this moment when the Blood River tributary dried up.
"I have no interest."
The human face formed by ripples on the Blood River shattered instantly, and the blood waves slapped against the rocks as they receded.
"Locke Augustine, this is the second time you have rejected me. You will one day embrace the great Blood River. I am the destination of all those with powerful bloodlines. I will obtain the bloodline on your body."
Locke frowned, watching the Blood River completely disappear from this world.
'What is going on?'
'Why is the Blood River so concerned about the bloodline on my body?'
'Or is it like this for everyone who possesses a powerful bloodline?'
Locke said: "However, the world will of the Blood River Plane is a bit too anthropomorphic. The degree of anthropomorphism of this special unique Plane's world will is unique even in the Endless Void. Talking to me is just like an individual life form speaking to me."
Locke looked at the eight portions of zero potion in his hand. With these eight portions of zero potion, his Moon Essence was equivalent to being somewhat replenished.
Moreover, at this time, the Heidenburg Plane was covered in forests, which also helped this Plane recover some of the lost magic pressure, although it had not fully recovered.
His Forest Sanctuary had extended a second lower-level forest in the Heidenburg Plane.
'Using the lower-level forest can solve the problem of the demiplane having insufficient area of only 10,000 acres.'
Locke thought: 'As long as the Moon of Evolution exists, through the Ecological Corridor, which is the Forest Alliance Spell, I can create a lower-level forest of my Forest Sanctuary here.'
'In the future, my forest can be laid out to various worlds in the Endless Void.'
'This can be considered a relatively unique Ultimate Magic, right?'
Locke remained in a state of following his heart's desire without overstepping the bounds, and he suddenly realized something.
"Hmm? Does this world want to make a trade with me?"
Locke turned his head to look at Susan, and said to Susan: "Susan, my good child, take care of Jack and all the Rangers."
Susan looked up at Locke. Although this was her first time meeting Locke's true body, she could still perceive that Locke's rational and calm tone was exactly the same as that of Lord Treant.
Susan said to Locke: "Please rest assured, Lord Treant."
Locke gave a wry smile; he had already said he was not a Treant.
Meanwhile, he turned and stepped forward. In an instant, his figure disappeared from the Heidenburg Plane and entered the World Hall created by this world actively summoning him.
The World Hall was a scene like an underground forest, lush and leafy.
Locke walked here, reading the information here.
Unlike the world will of the Blood River Plane, which was like a person, the Heidenburg Plane was not large, and its world will type was not unique.
Therefore, the Heidenburg Plane did not have that human-like touch.
Locke could only read these trees in the World Hall, and through the species, shape, quantity, and distribution of these trees, read, or rather, guess the thoughts of the world will.
"A trade? The Heidenburg Plane seems very anxious about the decline in its total magic pressure and the decline in the civilization level of its living races."
Locke's expression became strange.
Because he read from this underground space forest that the Heidenburg Plane originally seemed to regard the Vampire race as a supernatural ability race and believed that their strength improvement represented the improvement of this Plane's civilization level.
Clearly, this was a serious deception.
Vampires were never a normal intelligent living race, nor could they bring a real leap to this life Plane.
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But after the disappearance of the Vampire race, the Heidenburg Plane felt that its intelligent life had undergone a serious regression. After all, without the supernatural power of the Vampire race, the civilization of the entire Plane was essentially in a feudal Iron Age.
Therefore, the Heidenburg Plane was currently very worried about Locke leaving.
After all, unlike those three Black Wizards, Locke hadn't constructed a Ultimate Magic here at all; instead, he had used a world tree leaf to construct a Ultimate Magic in the Endless Void.
In the eyes of the Heidenburg Plane, this meant that Locke could pull away and leave at any time.
Thus, this Plane attempted to make a deal with him.
"This is... a Clear Sky Wizard Stone."
Locke's face showed a look of surprise. Within the heart of the Plane, he saw a massive amount of wizard stones—it was clearly an entire wizard stone vein.
These wizard stones were Clear Sky Wizard Stones, which were useful even to a Second Ring Wizard.
The Clear Sky Wizard Stone was an ore similar in color to the sky, and could also be considered a special gemstone. Locke took one in his hand.
"Wizard stones are extremely special. Worlds of different scales may possess wizard stone veins. After all, these are materials that could have gathered during the early stages of a world's formation."
"It must be that the Heidenburg Plane, before its formation, happened to have some wizard stone veins fall into the core of the Heidenburg Plane. These Clear Sky Wizard Stones have little meaning for a world because their magic power is contained within, making it impossible to develop the power hidden inside."
"No, that's not right."
Locke was currently maintaining a state of 'following one's heart's desires without overstepping the bounds.' Consequently, by capturing the plane power of Heidenburg, he saw a scene where countless meteorites were outside the Heidenburg Plane in the Endless Void.
The Heidenburg Plane seemed to be located in a special void zone with an unusually high number of meteorites.
And some of these meteorites would crash into the Heidenburg Plane; among these meteorites, the presence of Clear Sky Wizard Stones was clearly visible.
Locke instantly sensed something strange. Matter inside the Endless Void is typically very sparse, yet a continuous stream of meteorites appeared in front of the Heidenburg Plane, and those meteorite streams even contained high-grade Clear Sky Wizard Stones.
"The source of these meteorite streams is very suspicious. This indicates that a special void astronomical phenomenon exists in the void region near the Heidenburg Plane."
"The scale of astronomical phenomena in the Endless Void is incredibly exaggerated. Although these meteorite streams appear near the Heidenburg Plane, their place of origin could be very far away in the Endless Void. Nevertheless, this special astronomical phenomenon is worth exploring."
"These are Clear Sky Wizard Stones, after all."
"It's just that the difficulty of exploration might exceed simply going through the Golden Passage and using a mature Plane exploration system to conduct Plane development."
Locke placed his palm on the Clear Sky Wizard Stone. Immediately, the magical power on the azure wizard stone gradually flowed toward his palm. Simultaneously, he chanted an incantation, and Spell Models entered the Clear Sky Wizard Stone one by one.
As his own magic power squeezed the magical energy inside the stone, the internal power was extracted. That pure 'great sky magic power,' free of any impurities, entered his magic pressure, actually slowly increasing it.
1 point, 2 points...
A full five hundred points.
But this also caused the entire vein of Clear Sky Wizard Stones within the world core to turn into white stones.
With a wave of his hand, Locke collected these white stones.
Clear Sky Wizard Stones were very unique and precious magical resources.
They contained a high-level energy called great sky magic power, which only exists during the dawn of a Plane's creation. A Second Ring Wizard could directly absorb this magic power to increase their magic pressure.
For a Second Ring Wizard, this was one of the few magical resources that could be considered a natural treasure.
As for these empty Clear Sky Wizard Stones, they were excellent alchemy materials capable of absorbing energy. Although not as expensive as intact Clear Sky Wizard Stones, they could still be taken to the market and sold to Alchemists.
He had once seen at the Dragon Blood Market on Golden Crown Mountain that the price of a single Clear Sky Wizard Stone reached ten million magic stones.
The Clear Sky Wizard Stones he had just absorbed were likely worth around fifty million.
That was why he could absorb the great sky magic power from these Clear Sky Wizard Stones and directly increase his magic pressure by five hundred.
Locke said, "This deal can be made. My Forest Sanctuary's lower-level forests and Ranger system will be maintained and even continuously improved in the Heidenburg Plane, driving the rise of civilization for the mortals here. In exchange, the Heidenburg Plane will capture Clear Sky Wizard Stones from the void for me."
"Does this count as supporting the civilized society of a medium-scale Plane?"
"Those Black Wizards were truly in a treasure trove without knowing how to use it. They had a pile of Clear Sky Wizard Stones right under their feet, yet they failed to discover them. The Heidenburg Plane must have hidden these stones from them."
"Although the effect of absorbing Clear Sky Magic Stones to increase magic pressure will decline later—it will likely lose all effect once my magic pressure reaches eighteen thousand." Locke pondered, "My current magic pressure is over sixteen thousand five hundred."
"If the Heidenburg Plane can continuously capture Clear Sky Wizard Stones from the void, I can use them to increase my magic pressure and reach eighteen thousand as quickly as possible. Then, combined with continuously grinding Second Ring-level projects at Golden Crown Mountain to obtain the tourmaline king peach from the Twelve Magic Peaches, I can... quickly increase my magic pressure to nineteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine."
At this moment, even Locke was somewhat surprised by this plan.
Because after becoming a Second Ring Wizard, increasing every single point of magic pressure required a massive amount of time. He hadn't expected to come into contact with two major resources that were dreams for every Second Ring Wizard—the tourmaline king peach and the Clear Sky Wizard Stones.
This way, he could increase his magic pressure to a level close to the Star Ring within a few years!
Furthermore, the accidental absolute breakthrough in the power system construction during this World War was enough to allow him to see the path of advancement ahead clearly.
However, he was different from others. Because of the talent of the Magic Dragon race, he essentially had to possess two Ultimate Magics to advance to the Star Ring.
Of course, his teacher said she would compensate for this defect for him.
He didn't know what her arrangements were.
But on his end, Locke actually had some ideas regarding a second Ultimate Magic.
Considering that forging a single Ultimate Magic was already extremely difficult, it wouldn't be easy to start an entirely new path for his second Ultimate Magic; that would be equivalent to wasting more resources and time for nothing.
Therefore, Locke set his sights on the most potential item in his hands—the Ancient Tree of Life, which had the potential to evolve into a Third Ring Magic Plant!
Just as Edgar had transformed the Ancient Tree of Life in his hands into a Perfect Ancient Tree Treant, he should be able to construct a Ultimate Magic on the Ancient Tree of Life and turn it into some kind of treant.
He just hadn't thought through this part yet; it required careful design.
This way, he could use the Moon of Evolution and that treant to form a mutual ecological community, just like what he and Edgar had done in the Silent Grail.
Locke turned and left the World Hall.
The World Hall didn't actually exist originally; it was only because the world will wanted to contact him, and he used the Spell Model to summon the World Hall, that it could be manifested.
In other words, a wizard who hadn't mastered the Spell Model to summon the World Hall would be helpless even if the world will wanted to contact them directly.
Unless it was a special type of Plane will like that of the Blood River Plane.
Locke turned and left the World Hall, returning to the Heidenburg Plane. He appeared in front of Susan, who was currently holding Jack and lying under a tree.
When Susan saw Locke, her eyes filled with joy. "Lord Treant."
Locke said, "Don't worry. Jack is fine now."
"He will be better after a sleep. Susan, this world no longer has Vampires, so I am going to leave this Plane."
Susan's expression changed instantly. "Lord Treant, Jack and I have fought for so long, and we have realized from the precepts given to us by the leaf of strength that there isn't just our world in this universe. The world is very large, and there are many other worlds suffering bitterly from the encroachment of those monsters."
"Very many."
"We have gradually shifted from protecting our hometown to wanting to protect more people and forests. Lord Treant, can I leave with you?"
Locke shook his head slightly.
He had already reached an agreement with the Heidenburg Plane. If he rashly took away its child of destiny, the Plane would likely turn against him in an instant.
Susan's eyes dimmed slightly.
Locke said, "Susan, your world is still covered in scars, society has collapsed, and people's hearts are filled with fear. This is precisely the time when you are needed for reconstruction."
Susan's eyes brightened slightly.
"Lord Treant, I think so too. I believe that when the enemy disappears, our mission as Rangers changes from protecting the forest and fighting enemies to guiding people on how to live in harmony with nature and planting trees."
Locke said with gratification, "Good child. Although the aptitude of you and Jack isn't high, your comprehension is quite good. From now on, you and Jack are both my students. You are the fourth and fifth students acknowledged by me."
"Don't worry, there will be opportunities to face enemies in the future."
Locke waved his hand, and a moonlight gate immediately appeared behind her.
"This is the Ecological Corridor I built. Your spirituality can traverse the Ecological Corridor, and with the support of the forest, you can join battles in distant lands through spiritual incarnation."
"Even in places you have never been."
"Our forest not only spans mountains and seas but also spans the void."
"Every tree in the forest can support each other; they do not fight alone. Goodbye, Susan. Remember, you are never alone. You are a part of the forest."
Seeing Locke's figure gradually fade, Susan said anxiously, "Great Teacher Treant, how can I meet you again and receive the enlightenment of your wisdom?"
Locke's voice was distant and ethereal.
"Susan, Jack, and all Rangers, when you meditate toward the forest, that is when you are communicating with me."