901: The Powerful Strength of the tree of prosperity, the Great Green Leaf Dragon Finch Phalanx!
A fireball shot out from the three small and one large wings behind Locke, descending from the sky like a wave of destruction, heading straight toward the ground.
At this moment, the wilderness of the Meili Ruins appeared deserted.
However, after the fireball landed, a fiery crater was immediately blasted into the wilderness, with chunks of earth and rocks shattering and fragments flying up, revealing a giant Earthworm hidden beneath the ground.
This Earthworm had multiple organs resembling snake heads and tails, with a completely dark body and star-like patterns on its surface. When it curled up, it could trap enemies and mislead them into thinking they were in darkness, mistaking the star-like patterns on its body for starlight.
Now, this massive Earthworm slowly moved through the ground under the scorching flames, its exposed skin charred and split open by the special dragon's breath fire.
It was trying to retreat back into the wilderness soil.
Locke was momentarily stunned by this Earthworm-like creature, noticing a golden line running from head to tail within its dark body.
That was the symbol of Gold Magic.
At this moment, it was exchanging Gold Magic from the air through its pores.
Around it, the Hui Ming Borderland seemed to display its most glorious state as the ancestral home of Gold Magic, a time when all things breathed Gold Magic into the air.
The Golden Earthworm seemed to use some kind of earth magic, causing rocks to float up from the ground, as large as small hills, and crash toward itself in the sky.
At this moment, the special Imaginary Roots on Locke's head, acting as dragon horns, drew spirituality from the local Imaginary Sea, gathering special Spirit Breath, then ignited with fire magic inside the Great Mingli Dragon Sparrow.
The next moment, the dragon fire behind Locke surged violently, propelling him forward like a rocket, while the three large and one small banana leaf-like wings stretched out as if dissipating heat to release the excessive temperature.
Amidst the barrage of hill-sized rock spheres, Locke maneuvered the Great Mingli Dragon Sparrow, performing millimeter-precise rapid propulsion through these obstacles.
He weaved through the rock clusters, heading toward the Golden Earthworm beneath the ground, which was trying to retreat.
At this moment, many wizards in the Meili Ruins noticed this scene.
Among them were contestants.
Contestants from subordinate Wizard Lands near the Hui Ming Borderland and influenced by it—such as the Spiral Basin, Black Iron Mountain Wilderness, Fission Wasteland, Mamluk Grand Canyon, Tianjiang Riverbank, Ancient Vine Village, and Qionghua Enclave—all watched in shock.
These people instantly realized that the flying magic plant in the sky, which they had never seen before, was likely an entry in this competition.
A Second Ring Wizard from the Black Iron Mountain Wilderness, sitting in a steel magic carriage, wiped sweat from his forehead.
"Could that flying magic plant also be a competition entry? Then why am I even here?"
"It's just a waste of my travel expenses."
In another area of the Meili Ruins, a wizard from the Mamluk Grand Canyon looked up at the flying magic plant in the sky and sighed.
"It seems I have no hope of winning this time."
Wizards from the Ancient Vine Village saw the flying magic plant and immediately knew the gap between their entry and it was too large.
Even if they competed, it would be difficult to achieve the results they wanted.
A wizard from the Ancient Vine Village sighed softly, "Ancient Vine Village has the reputation of producing Magic Plants, but we can't turn that fame into real strength or gain the status we deserve. If the Hui Ming Borderland hadn't declined, with its magical elevation, our status would be much higher than it is now."
"Our ancestors made the wrong alliances, and we, their descendants, bear the consequences. How bitter."
All the contestants compared their entries to the Magic Plant in the sky, and their confidence was shaken, making them doubt their own submissions.
A wizard also from the Yunze Wetland, but from the Rose Council, stood on the western side of the Meili Ruins, in the ancient ruins city market, looking up and frowning.
"What's going on with that Magic Plant?"
"This time, I brought a crystallized flying magic plant; I must win, not lose. But that Magic Plant... even an enhanced crystallized flying magic plant couldn't win against it."
Sensing a vague feeling of being watched, he quickly put on a wizard robe that could block observation and left.
In the wilderness of the Meili Ruins, Locke weaved through the attacks of rock spheres.
A three-legged golden bird appeared on his shoulder.
The golden bird spoke beside Locke, "Hello, respected Second Ring Great Wizard of Golden Crown Mountain in the Yunze Wetland. I am the city guardian of the Meili Ruins; you can call me Samuel Dawson."
"I am a city guardian who has survived from ancient times to the present."
"I will assist you in killing that Earthworm that suddenly approached our city and evaded my detection. But please, Great Wizard, be careful not to damage our city or the city's surface."
Locke said, "Didn't you see the extent of the damage that magical beast caused to the surface?"
The three-legged golden bird seemed to agree with Locke.
"That magical creature is a member of the Golden Swarm. After the ancient Hui Ming Borderland declined, the Golden Swarm, having lost its queen, appeared in the wilderness of the Hui Ming Borderland, randomly attacking passersby. But usually, they don't approach cities."
"The only explanation is that someone among the trapped wizards below is carrying food that attracts the Golden Swarm, likely the golden apple, which Earthworms love most."
"Only the golden apple would make the Earthworm risk its life to approach our city. Since Earthworms travel through ley lines, it evaded my detection. Earthworms share the Golden Swarm's trait of Gold Magic-enhanced vitality, making them hard to kill and highly defensive."
"Also, it has no body part that can be called a head; in other words, as long as a small part of its massive body survives, it can regenerate fully after receiving nutritional supplements."
Locke was speechless.
A decentralized, immortal pest of immense size.
No wonder the Hui Ming Borderland hasn't been able to eradicate the Golden Swarm all these years.
The three-legged golden bird stood on Locke's shoulder and said, "The Earthworm can use various Life School earth magic Spell Model abilities. You..."
Locke used the mobility of the Great Mingli Dragon Sparrow to instantly propel fire forward while moving his body backward, dodging a rock sphere attacking him.
The three-legged golden bird said, 'The Earthworm's only weakness is its Golden Vein. The Golden Vein is the part of its body that operates Gold Magic; if destroyed, its body loses Gold Magic maintenance and will be instantly destroyed. In ancient times, it was only used by the Golden Swarm as a digging tool.'
'They were once a free swarm in a Colonial World. Wizard Civilization recruited and modified them to research ways to counter the Void Swarm—the Leviathan Great Swarm. Later, as the Hui Ming Borderland weakened, this swarm escaped the laboratory and has been causing harm ever since.'
Locke said, "I understand. Thank you, city guardian of the Meili Ruins."
The three-legged golden bird said, "No need to thank me. I should apologize to you. I sense a high-purity golden bloodline in you. Welcome home, Golden People."
The Great Mingli Dragon Sparrow behind Locke made a loud bang, then he transformed into a pillar of fire descending from high altitude, charging into the golden line on the Earthworm's surface.
The next moment, nothing happened.
All was silent.
But soon after, the Earthworm began to shake violently. This earth magical beast, with a magic pressure of only eleven thousand but a massive total magic pressure, started to thrash, causing earth-shaking phenomena, landslides, shattered slopes, and rolling boulders crashing onto it.
The next moment, a line of fire threatened to pierce through the Earthworm from head to tail.
At the same time, Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs flew out like bluebirds.
False root dragon tails wrapped around the magical creature's body; ten Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs tried to lift it, but under the creature's struggle, they rose halfway and then began to descend.
But at that instant, three Four-Winged Great Green Leaf Dragon Sparrows flew out, using their dragon tails to wrap around the magical creature's body and forcibly pull it from the ground.
This demonstrated the carrying and lifting capacity of the Great Green Leaf Dragon Finch Magic Plant.
An entire Earthworm was thus suspended in mid-air by thirteen Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs, with at least half its body in the air.
As the Earthworm continued to resist, a Great Mingli Dragon Sparrow opened a hole in its back, flew out with an explosion of fire, and grabbed its midsection with its dragon tail.
Then, a golden tree appeared behind the Earthworm. After appearing, it quickly solidified from illusion to reality, supported by the abundant Gold Magic of the Hui Ming Borderland, becoming a tree connecting heaven and earth.
Leaves of the tree of prosperity fell, bringing countless golden light shadows—those were spirit macros.
Based on the prosperous scene of 'No gods in the world, everyone can become a god' from the Three Caves World, a miracle fruit appeared on the tree of prosperity, and then Locke activated Spring Prosperity.
Before the tree of prosperity was fully constructed, he could only temporarily replicate a second ring magic plant with a half-formed tree of prosperity.
But now, after multiple constructions, the tree of prosperity was quite complete.
That was a different concept altogether.
At this moment, the thirteen Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs in the sky were bestowed with Spring Miracle, and then... the thirteen Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs divided into a second Magic Plant in an extremely short time.
Thus, twenty-six Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs, plus one Great Mingli Dragon Sparrow replicated by Locke, completely lifted the Earthworm from the ground and suspended this magical creature, whose power was rooted in the earth, in mid-air.
The Demon Hunter Troops of the Meili Ruins had just arrived, ready to join the battle, only to find Locke had moved the battlefield from the ground to the sky.
Wizard Barrett stood on the ground, panting, only now realizing they had been transferred to the ground by the Earthworm, and the so-called darkness was just the Earthworm's body, with the stars in the darkness being the patterns on its surface.
And the so-called snake tails and heads were actually mimicry of the multi-headed Earthworm.
In other words, they had all been deceived by the Earthworm.
Wizard Barrett looked up at Locke, "Team Leader."
He weakly knelt on one knee, gasping for breath.
The other two wizards from the Spiral Basin also looked up at the sky in terror, still shaken.
A Crystallized Wizard holding the magic box given to him by Yennefer exclaimed, "Such a powerful and terrifying magical beast is now so helplessly suspended in mid-air. What are those flying magic plants... I've never seen them before."
"I wish I could have one too."
Wizard Barrett sat on the ground and said, "Those are Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs, a type of flying magic plant developed by my team leader. I have one in this magic box."
The two wizards from the Spiral Basin looked at him in astonishment.
At this moment, in the sky of the Meili Ruins, the Earthworm let out a painful roar, and then Locke emerged from one of its heads.
He directly controlled the Great Mingli Dragon Sparrow to transform into a dragon-bird and burrowed into the magical beast, destroying its Golden Vein.
The Demon Hunter Troops of the Meili Ruins delivered the final blow.
Golden spikes pierced through it from head to tail.
The massive Earthworm, whose Gold Magic flow had been disrupted by Locke, instantly collapsed, turning into countless small Earthworms falling to the ground, unable to recover.
Locke stood at the center of the twenty-six Great Green Leaf Dragon Finchs circling around, reached out his hand, and grabbed a Golden Heart—something that fell out after the Earthworm's Gold Magic exploded.
A Second Ring Wizard among the Demon Hunter Troops wanted to speak up and ask Locke for it.
"Wizard, thank you for your assistance, but Gold Magic belongs only to the Golden People..."
"Ahem..."
A Star Ring demon hunter beside him stopped him.
The Second Ring Wizard said, "Captain..."
The Star Ring Wizard captain said, "No need."
"This wizard is a Golden Person. The skeleton of his Ultimate Magic is forged with Gold Magic. I haven't seen such advanced Gold Magic on an outsider in a long time. He has a high-level golden bloodline."
The Second Ring Wizard was stunned.
"So that's why he's such an excellent Breeder."
"If he's a Golden Person, then it's no surprise."
"After all, we were once the world's finest wizards. We are all descendants of the best wizards. Don't you agree, Captain?"