Locke took out one hundred Jade Iris Lichen plants and five hundred magical vines of mixed varieties from his astral ring. He commanded the ten dwarf-shaped golems to scatter and plant these magical plants on the forest floor, once again strengthening the forest.
"Wood elent particles are a type of composite elent particle. Essentially, they require seven basic elent particles, earth, water, fire, wind, light, darkness, and aether, these seven basic elent particles mixed in certain proportions and structures to beco wood elent particles."
"Therefore, plant growth requires large amounts of the seven basic particles to grow quickly. Aside from light elent particles, plants generally don't directly absorb pure elental basic elent particles. So plant growth must absorb so composite elents."
"Light elent particles can be obtained from sunlight, water elent particles can be obtained from water, and darkness, earth, and fire elents can all be obtained from the earth. Even fire elent particles exist within heavy tal elents. Dark elents exist in the earth in the form of certain composite elent particles. High-grade nutrient soil contains this basic elent particle."
"The only things forests and plants cannot easily obtain are wind elent particles and aether elent particles."
Knowledge about ecology flashed through Locke's mind.
Therefore, forests needed symbiotic plants. They needed symbiotic plants in enormous quantities, needed massive population groups, because plant growth needed to obtain the seven basic elent particles from objects composed of different composite elent particles in order to obtain wood elent particles.
Wind elent particles generally only existed in the air. This was difficult for tree-type magical plants to obtain by themselves.
Therefore, they needed so symbiotic plants that fixed wind elent particles, such as ferns, lichens, legus, and shrub-type magical plants to help tree-type magical plants obtain them.
This was also why forests needed layers of ferns and shrub-type plants.
And this point, Locke had already discovered in his previous inspections. Jade Iris Lichen itself was an excellent wind elent particle-fixing magical plant. It would obtain wind elent particles from the air, bring them into its roots, and nourish the soil near its roots.
So he also needed a type of aether-fixing magical plant. Aether elent was extrely difficult to obtain, but every living body contained it within.
In other words, generally large amounts of corpses were needed to obtain aether elent.
This was also the secret behind why places with many corpses had lush vegetation.
That is to say, what could contribute large amounts of aether elent particles were the corpses of animals and plants, or so plant that could be produced in large quantities and die in large quantities.
Locke had originally focused his attention on Wiregrass Bull Sinew, but later found it wouldn't work. This thing was really too tenacious. Its wood elent particles ford woody fibers, making its form extrely difficult to decompose. Therefore, it wouldn't release too many aether elent particles into the soil.
Instead, it would absorb too much nutrition, causing soil degradation in an area. The losses outweighed the gains.
Therefore, Locke chose his magical vines. He wanted these magical vines to serve as green manure plants.
Of course, he could actually also put large amounts of nutrient soil mixed with humus into this land, which could also allow plants to obtain stable aether elent particles.
After doing all this, Locke noticed that the Forest Sanctuary had beco several degrees more powerful.
Moreover, it was now the second day.
At this ti, the entire forest already had taken shape. There were trees, lichens, and vines. It was becoming lush and full of spring vitality.
Locke set up so daily paraters here and configured the daily work procedures for the ten dwarf-shaped golems, so that after he left, these golems could still maintain this forest.
After finishing everything, Locke was extrely satisfied. "According to the information Wizard Lewis gave , wizards can use magic to accelerate the forest's lifespan."
"After doing all this, I'll wait one year for these magical plants to completely adapt. Then the first stage of the forest will be completely ford."
"One king of magical plants, Scorched Earth Holly, one tree-type magical plant, Two-Ball Plane Tree, plus three types of magical vines as green manure magical plants contributing aether elent, and Jade Iris Lichen as wind-fixing magical plants contributing wind elent particles. This forest ecology can already cycle on its own."
As long as the source problems of wind and aether were solved, then other elents could actually be obtained from the natural environnt.
Locke had already noticed that the current Forest Sanctuary had undergone so qualitative change. The energy cycle had been preliminarily established and was beginning to feed back to him.
This ant that three months later, he could plant new First Circle tree-type magical plants inside this forest and once again increase the external spell library positions inscribed in his permanent defensive field.
Locke thought, "But I still need to enhance my psionic energy. Otherwise, my distributed network psionic energy cannot accommodate so many magical plants."
Locke opened the second bottle of Hive Mind Potion in his hand and drank it down. His psionic pool rose with the tide and beca larger again.
"It looks like I should try to purchase more Hive Mind Potions from the market. But I haven't even gathered enough money to buy a Druid's Ring yet."
"The Forest Sanctuary magic is very good, but it's also a big money burner."
"Druid's Rings have a price but no market. Even if I wait for one, the price definitely won't be cheap."
Locke turned and left the research facility, quickly flying toward the outside of the Forbidden Forest. "It seems I need to think of other ways to obtain a Druid's Ring. Otherwise, I won't be able to gather the money to purchase a Druid's Ring in the short term."
"Moreover, I still need to carefully consider which First Circle tree-type magical plant to transplant in three months. Besides, purchasing First Circle magical plants also requires a huge sum. Money is needed everywhere. If I could use the Synthesis Cube to modify and create a tree-type magical plant most suitable for , that would naturally be best."
After leaving the Forbidden Forest and returning to the territory of Lilith's Cottage.
Locke quickly returned to his laboratory, calculating future plans in his mind.
He looked at Yuri standing at his laboratory door and was stunned for a mont. "Oh, sorry, I forgot that two weeks ago I had you co find today."
"Hmm, it's almost ten in the morning now? I just had so things to attend to, so I made you wait longer."
Yuri imdiately bowed humbly to Locke. "No, no, Senior Locke, I'm just a wizard apprentice. No matter how long I wait for you, it's reasonable."
"Senior Locke, this is the data from experints I did on myself before."
Locke took the materials she handed over and quickly flipped through a few pages, frowning. He directly skipped the experintal process written in the materials and looked at the raw materials Yuri used to place the aging curse on herself.
This part had no problems but he looked at the potion Yuri used to remove the curse from herself. It was actually Bear Spirit Bile Potion.
Locke looked at Yuri. "You bought so many Bear Spirit Bile Potions?"
Yuri nodded, "Yes, Senior Locke. I discovered that when taking Bear Spirit Bile Potion to remove the aging curse, it can slightly increase mana."
"I used this chanism to continuously curse myself, then remove the curse."
Locke nodded. "In the process of using your own magic resistance to resist curses, it indeed slightly increases mana, but this increase thod still has limits."
"Moreover, it's too dangerous. One careless move and you'll permanently damage your soul. But that's not what I'm asking you. I'm asking you how you could possibly have so much money to buy so many Bear Spirit Bile Potions listed in the materials and drink Bear Spirit Bile Potions like water?"
Under Locke's gaze, Yuri swallowed and said, "No... no."
"I didn't buy genuine Bear Spirit Bile Potions. I bought Bear Spirit Bile Potions from a shop in the Chira Market that specializes in selling gray-market items, one of Lady Irina's shops."
"Those Bear Spirit Bile Potions were all products where the quality wasn't so good during refinent, or where wizard apprentices attempting to improve the Bear Spirit Bile Potion formula added so strange but useless potion materials." Yuri said with a red face, "To save money, I could only purchase those defective Bear Spirit Bile Potions."
"But I was very lucky and didn't encounter any problems."
Locke handed the materials back to her.
Yuri asked with confusion, "Senior Locke, won't you look at it more?"
Locke shook his head slightly. "No need. I've already roughly guessed the truth of the matter."
"Do you know about the Abyss Potion Material Paradox? It's a niche hypothetical theory in Abyss potion studies. I now suspect that in a certain batch of inferior Bear Spirit Bile Potions you purchased before, there was a wizard apprentice potion master assistant who had read about this paradox and added so Abyss creature material to the potion formula."
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