Chapter 340 Strengthening the Forest Sanctuary for the First Time
Locke used archaeological spell models, ancient pointers, and the properties of rust particles to once again find the research institute hidden by the magic lock of the illusion school, and opened the magic lock to enter.
Locke entered the institute, regardless of whether there was anyone or not. He first used [Summon Tomb Spirit] to scan the negative energy particle field inside the entire institute to ensure that no one entered the institute or was close to it during this period.
After everything was confirmed, Locke came to the constant-temperature planting room in the core area of the institute. At this time, the six red ground hollies felt the return of their forest master, and their branches and leaves suddenly swayed, like gentle dancers, greeting Locke.
Locke checked and found that the major circulation systems in the constant-temperature planting room were still running well, so there was no need to worry because the circulation system had not been established, causing damage to the prototype of the forest.
Lock stroked the bark of one of the red holly trees and had a unique feeling. He seemed to be looking at himself from a third-party perspective.
This forest is me because of the permanent defense field, but the problem is that I touch myself at this moment. The permanent defense field serves as a connection point to connect this forest with my soul.
In a sense, my soul at this moment is the soul of this forest.
Hence, when Locke closed his eyes, he could indeed look down on the entire forest.
Therefore, Locke had a strange feeling of being in his own body and touching himself at this moment. "According to Dean Levi, the forest is also a kind of living organism, another kind of organism with a complex structure. Therefore, if I want to continue to strengthen my permanent defense field, I can achieve it by increasing the total biological mass of this forest."
"Whether a forest is strong depends on its total biomass."
"The higher the total biomass, the stronger the forest."
Locke has learned a lot of botany knowledge at the first level during this time. He can use his contribution points to exchange for a lot of knowledge related to botany at the first level in the library, so his knowledge is growing rapidly.
In the first-ring stage of botany, there is a very important term - [total biomass].
An ecology, the larger the total biomass, the higher its power and integrity.
Similarly, the upper limit of the power of the botany spell model is also limited to a large extent by the total amount of creatures.
Take Haijinsha as an example. As the king of magic plants, Haijinsha’s total biomass can be compared to many acres of ordinary forest.
The golden spore powder it secretes every moment ensures the minimum power of its botanical spells.
The increase in the total biomass of the forest is usually related to the age of the forest. Therefore, Dean Levi boldly divided the life cycle of the dragon into the life cycle of the forest.
Essentially, Dean Levi has elevated the forest to the level of a dragon.
Locke took out a hundred double-ball sycamore trees from the astral ring. The roots of these double-ball sycamore trees were all covered with earth balls. The root cutting process had been carried out one month in advance, and they had been completely adjusted to a state suitable for transplantation.
The plant itself is not easy to move, even if the magic plant is stronger, so transplanting the double-ball plane tree needs to be done one month in advance.
Locke relied on Harlan Vera's network and the huge manpower he brought to have already ordered these things a month in advance.
Lock ordered the ten dwarf-type golems that were still running in the thermostatic chamber to use shovels to dig a hundred pits on the ground. Locke had already calculated the diameters of these pits.
The size of the soil pit and soil ball will affect the survival rate after transplantation.
"Six trees are definitely not enough to form a forest. For a woodland to become a community, there must be at least thirty trees, and the species cannot be single. A single tree species will attract diseases." Locke recalled the ecological knowledge he had learned during this period.
"So, I want to increase the number of trees to 106. Let this magical forest live up to its name. Unfortunately, I have not obtained the Druid's Ring yet, otherwise I can seriously plan and enhance this forest and conduct ecological experiments."
Tong Locke ordered the golems to plant the sycamore trees one by one. At the same time, he felt that the roots of the trees under the red ground holly had begun to connect with the roots of a hundred sycamore trees.
The roots of Holly holly are parasitized by many fungi, one of which is called [Holly arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus], which is a magical fungus that can extend outward from the roots of Holly holly to form a magical mycorrhiza.
That is to say, it belongs to the accompanying mycorrhizae of the roots of Ilex redland.
These mycorrhizae will connect with the roots of other plants under the soil within a radius of several kilometers.
In this way, a [bacterial network] can be formed.
This is a special ecology that all plants have. It is a type of distributed intelligent evolution. It belongs to the same direction of intelligent evolution as the insect swarm I saw in the illusion.
However, the associated fungus of Ilex alba [Hollywood arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi] will strengthen this [bacterial network] to the extreme.
Handberry holly can share its nutrition, magic power, and some natural magic power structural components, and even some information, with other plants connected to the [Bacteria Network]. It can also obtain magic power, nutrients, and natural magic power structural components from other plants in the [Bacteria Network].
Locke saw that one hundred double-balled sycamore trees were now shrouded in a layer of green light. This was the red ground holly sharing its magic power, giving these sycamore trees vitality, helping them get through the weak period during transplantation as quickly as possible, and immediately join the forest family.
【Bacteria Network】is the real brain of the forest. The real brain of the forest is located in the soil layer of underground tree roots.
In the [Bacterial Network], all plants can carry out simple communication based on instinct.
As Chidi Dongqing used [Bacteria Network] to incorporate a hundred sycamore trees, the neural virtual tentacles of the distributed psychic network also appeared behind Locke. These tentacles connected those sycamore trees one by one, completely incorporating them into their own forest.
Your own forest is currently maintained by three things. The first is the [bacterial network] that is naturally present in every forest.
The second one is to form a mana grafting relationship between these magic plants and yourself.
The third one is to incorporate them into their own distributed psychic network.
That is to say, the three methods of forest, insect swarm and botanical wizard are used to unite the entire forest together, forming the possibility of a forest sanctuary.
Five hundred years ago, the Levi's wizard was stuck at this step because of the lack of a distributed psychic network. It was unable to create a closer connection between the wizard and the magic plant. Naturally, it was impossible to complete the magic of the forest sanctuary.
As the forest turned into 106 tree-like magic plants, the magic of the forest sanctuary was strengthened by three points out of thin air, making Locke realize that his permanent defense field had been strengthened out of thin air.
Although a hundred sycamore trees are nothing, insignificant compared to a ring of magic plants, their existence just fills in the gaps of the forest's shortcomings, making the forest truly become a forest.
Hence, the magic of the forest sanctuary was strengthened out of thin air.
As the kings of magic plants, the six red-ground hollies can subdue these double-ball sycamore trees.
Locke suddenly thought, if it continues to be strengthened like this, two situations will happen.
First, can I use two permanent defensive force fields at the same time during battle?
Second, your own permanent defensive force field will have an external source of magic pressure because the magic pressure of the forest exceeds your own.
In other words, by virtue of the forest sanctuary, like the energy of the abyss, you can obtain magic pressure that far exceeds your own magic pressure?
Locke quickly calculated and found that this was originally the planned development and change of the forest sanctuary.
As long as you make some fine adjustments to the spell model of the Forest Sanctuary, you can do it.
You don’t even need to make fine adjustments in your own soul, you can make fine adjustments on the six red ground hollies.
Only need to strengthen some forest ecology itself in order to achieve this.
Locke looked thoughtful. "The Forest Sanctuary is not an ordinary permanent defensive force field, but the product of Wizard Levi's attempt to break through the second-ring wizard. In other words, the forest sanctuary is hidden inside. The key to breaking through the second-ring wizard is just that I haven't realized it yet." , this is already a veritable forest. "
"Then, we have to enter the real forest cultivation stage and plant the symbiotic magic plants of the forest! "
Trees are indeed the core of the forest, but there will be other types of magic plants inside the forest, and those are all symbiotic magic plants of the trees.
The existence of symbiotic magic plants is to make the forest stronger and form a stable cycle.
In the newly born forest, there is no need to plant a bunch of messy plants. For example, if you want to plant the Amorphophallus king in the forest, you can already produce it.
If you plant the Amorphophallus King inside, you can completely strengthen your own forest.
But this thing is a luxury product in the ecosystem. Its existence consumes ecosystem resources, and the symbiotic magic plant is to maintain the circulation of resources in the ecosystem.
Hence, Locke is only going to plant emerald iris lichen and three kinds of magic vines he cultivated inside.