One week later.

In front of the magical field in his botanical garden, Locke was transplanting a seedling bred from seeds obtained from the Large Green Owl Banana onto a branch of a parasol tree using the grafting cultivation method.

Locke used a grafting knife covered with runes, a medium-grade magical item specially used by formal breeders for grafting cultivation and cutting magical plants. He cut open one of the main trunks of this parasol tree, which had almost all its branches and leaves trimmed away, leaving only a few main trunks.

He carefully cut a V-shaped wound beneath the bark.

Then, Locke carefully inserted the Large Green Owl Banana seedling into the V-shaped cut on the parasol tree and tied it with fine thread. This was the [Bark Bud Grafting Method] in grafting cultivation.

Currently, Locke had already skillfully mastered ten common grafting methods under the major category of grafting cultivation.

These ten common grafting methods corresponded to grafting methods between different types of magical plants.

The Large Green Owl Banana was a perennial herbaceous magical plant, in other words, a type of grass. To graft grass onto a tree, one couldn't use the most common [Cut Branch Grafting Method] in grafting cultivation.

One had to use the special [Bark Bud Grafting Method].

Only in this way could the Large Green Owl Banana, as a grass, be grafted onto this parasol tree.

If an ordinary breeder didn't realize this point, the grafting would be doomed to fail from the start.

Therefore, a breeder's theoretical level also largely determined the speed and quality of their results.

Locke used a [Minor Grafting Healing Technique] and sprinkled high-grade nutrient solution, high-grade nutritive soil, and high-grade growth accelerator gel around the magical plant's roots.

The surface of the parasol tree glowed faintly and actually grew together with the Large Green Owl Banana seedling. It quickly became smooth without any scars.

The Large Green Owl Banana seedling grew rapidly on the main trunk of this tree, quickly changing from thumb-size to the size of an adult's palm.

"It actually succeeded this time."

Locke was stunned for a moment, as if he himself found it hard to believe.

Over these three months, he had synthesized countless common rootstock-type magical plants, and after synthesis, began attempting to graft Large Green Owl Banana seedlings onto these rootstock-type magical plants using the [Bark Bud Grafting Method].

The result was failure every time.

Instead, he had become increasingly proficient in using the [Bark Bud Grafting Method].

Rootstock-type magical plants that could serve as rootstocks for rare magical plants were not that easy to develop but this time, he had succeeded.

Locke looked at the parasol tree before him, and at the same time looked at the entry on the parasol tree, [Two-Ball Plane Tree, Level 7 synthetic item, synthesized using one medium-grade magical plant Two-Ball Garlic Sprout and two medium-to-high-grade magical plants Plane Tree.]

[Rootstock-type magical plant, internally possesses haploid plant essence, diploid plant essence, triploid plant essence, and tetraploid plant essence. Naturally possesses multiple sets of plant essence. After injecting the sap of a certain magical plant into it, if the magical plant doesn't show severe rejection reactions, it will develop self-adaptability internally.]

[The Two-Ball Plane Tree will internally produce various components of natural magical structure for 'Minor Grafting Healing Technique' to adapt to different magical plants grafted onto it.]

[The growth of the Two-Ball Plane Tree requires large amounts of magical tides. The richer the magical tides, the faster the growth rate.]

[Its root system is powerful, its immunity is strong. It has multiple natural magical structure components internally that can resist various diseases and pests, with extremely powerful vitality.]

[Growth also requires large amounts of space and needs specific sunstone to provide nutrition. It has low requirements for temperature and humidity. Even with low magical tides, it won't die, just grows extremely slowly.]

Locke set down the grafting knife and gently exhaled a breath of stale air, his heart filled with joy.

In any case, he had now succeeded. He had grafted the Large Green Owl Banana seedling onto the Two-Ball Plane Tree.

This meant that the Large Green Owl Banana, which originally feared a heap of insect diseases, magical fungal diseases and other ailments, required a whole bunch of conditions, and even had some requirements that couldn't be met preventing successful growth, could now be directly grafted onto the Two-Ball Plane Tree, which had powerful vitality, relatively less stringent growth conditions, and possessed multiple disease resistances.

This was equivalent to changing the difficulty of cultivating a Large Green Owl Banana into the difficulty of cultivating a Two-Ball Plane Tree.

Although the cultivation difficulty of the Two-Ball Plane Tree was still at a medium-to-high level among medium-to-high-grade magical plants.

Moreover, because it was a woody magical plant, it grew relatively slowly. But as long as it was used as a rootstock, it would truly be possible to mass-produce Large Green Owl Bananas and Large Green Leaf Bananas!

Furthermore, Locke could extract a portion of the plant essence from rare magical plants in his possession, such as the Corrupt Soil Taro King, Jade Iris Lichen, and Black Chain Sword Bamboo, and inject it into the Two-Ball Plane Tree to see if the Two-Ball Plane Tree could adapt.

As long as it could adapt, the Two-Ball Plane Tree could also be used as a rootstock to produce them.

Rootstock-type magical plants were magical plants naturally suited to being grafted.

For example, the Two-Ball Plane Tree naturally contained multiple sets of plant essence internally.

One set of plant essence contained all the genes of a magical plant. A magical plant with two sets of the same plant essence was a diploid magical plant.

A magical plant with three sets of the same magical plant essence was a triploid magical plant.

Similarly, one with four sets was a tetraploid magical plant.

Generally, animals were all diploid (possessing two sets of identical bloodline essence, so if one set was damaged, the other could still repair it), otherwise they would have no way to reproduce, or would be mutated.

But magical plants were rather special and could possess multiple ploidies, so their mutation ability was also strong.

However, even for ordinary magical plants, they were either diploid, triploid, or haploid but the Two-Ball Plane Tree was actually mixoploid, which gave it the foundation to serve as a universal rootstock magical plant in terms of plant essence.

At the same time, after adapting to the plant essence of a certain magical plant, the Two-Ball Plane Tree could secrete various types of minor grafting healing magical structure components, which would make it very easy for it to become a rootstock.

Locke was in an excellent mood. In this way, he was equivalent to providing a method for mass-producing rare magical plants.

"I can immediately begin breeding work on multiple Large Green Owl Bananas, and at the same time start trying grafting other rare magical plants in my possession." Locke said, "I want to make rare magical plants become magical plants that everyone can buy with money."

"This way I'll have massive magical resources."

"However, having found the direction, to rapidly grow and strengthen, and harvest resources, I'll need a large workforce." Locke pondered. "This will be a super project."

"At the same time, this universal super rootstock-type magical plant, its very existence means it has tremendous value!"

The gray dwarf servant entered the botanical garden and, after bowing to Locke, told him that a wizard with powerful mana had come to visit.

Locke frowned. After ordering the servant to return his grafting knife to the tool storage room, he left the botanical garden and headed to his residence.

Locke actually saw the first-class wizard apprentice Kali Ackerman in front of his residence, who was Andrew's first-class wizard apprentice assistant in Anglon Workshop, his junior.

At this moment, Kali Ackerman was still dressed beautifully. Her wizard robe had been specially modified to be graceful and fitted, conforming to her body curves.

Moreover, Kali Ackerman had painted her nails and drawn eyeliner, dressed very fashionably. Rather than looking like a wizard, she looked more like a socialite in aristocratic circles.

However, this time, after seeing him, Kali Ackerman didn't mock him with words, or pretend not to see him. Instead, she showed him a flattering smile, very ingratiating, as if she was very close to him.

"Senior Locke, hello." Kali Ackerman bowed slightly to Locke, giving him plenty of face. "Senior, you are as impressive as ever today, still as wise as before. When I was at the Treatment Center, I learned many things from you."

"Today, I came specially to invite you to a banquet."

Locke frowned slightly.

Kali Ackerman quickly said, "It's my teacher Halen Vera, along with the academy's higher-ups, Senior Advisor Francis, inviting you to eat together at the Witch Kitchen, hosted by Mentor Halen Vera."

Locke looked at Kali Ackerman strangely, not understanding why this woman's attitude toward him was like this.

Although Kali Ackerman had previously been extremely respectful toward him and didn't dare to be arrogant, it wasn't to the extent of being this flattering as she was now.

Her current attitude toward him was simply like her usual attitude toward Andrew. The way she looked at him was filled with worship and respect.

Locke's eyebrows moved. Could it be?