Inside the demiplane of the Druid's Ring, because the four great elemental rings now stabilized this plane, Locke even dared to directly use magic within this plane.

He first chanted an incantation, and Oak Armor descended upon him. Then a circlet of Oak Crown appeared on his head. The Oak Crown's appearance consisted of three interwoven oak branches woven into a ring shape, with seven green oak leaves extending from both sides, and a blank brow guard in the middle portion of the Oak Crown.

If the Oak Crown spell was used alone, one could obtain the ability to share life force, that is, to share one's own life force with one's defensive magical plants, indirectly enhancing defensive capabilities through this method.

But honestly, the reason this sharing ability wasn't ranked T0 in Lilith's Cottage's defensive magic classifications, or even couldn't reach T3, was very simple.

It could be seen at a glance.

Wizards needed permanent defensive fields to strengthen themselves, yet the Oak Crown magic actually shared one's own life force outward, using this method to strengthen one's own defensive magical plants.

This was already putting the cart before the horse.

If not for this magic's relationship with the legend of Lady Myst, it would probably be difficult for this defensive magic to even be passed down.

Seeing that he had summoned the Oak Crown but the Oak Armor showed no change, Locke chanted again. At the same time, the Five-Headed Hydra magical plant wrapped around his left hand and hidden beneath his wizard robe became active.

Then, he summoned the Oak Belt, and a belt appeared around his waist.

It was a white wooden belt.

When the Oak Belt was used alone, its effect was to convert magical power into magic resistance. It was a powerful magic that could counter curse-type magic or divination-type magic. But because its usage was particularly targeted, botany wizards generally wouldn't choose it as their permanent defensive field, but rather as an auxiliary choice after becoming formal wizards.

At this moment, the white Oak Belt appeared at his waist.

Just as it was summoned, the Oak Belt and Oak Crown seemed to be original accessories of the Oak Armor, deeply combining together. The three magical plant armors he had summoned combined with each other, nested within each other, fused with each other, and each underwent changes in form.

Finally, a completely new magic armor appeared on Locke's body.

This new magic armor was composed of white and green. The entire body was the sacred white of oak, but several key areas were green, filled with the solemnity of life.

This magic armor looked like a set of oak plate armor worn by a king. The center of the belt was a moon, and the top of the crown was also a full moon.

"I see." Locke thought, "The Oak Crown and Oak Belt are actually just components of the Oak Armor. Oak Crown is sharing, Oak Belt is conversion, Oak Armor is absorption."

"Sharing, conversion, absorption, this is another manifestation of the power of natural cycles. Harvest Force Field, Withering Force Field, Life Force Field constitute the cyclical power of the Nature Force Field, which is the power of the four seasons' rotation. While sharing, conversion, absorption constitute a new natural cyclical power."

"It's the power of life's flourishing and withering."

At this moment, Locke, wearing the Life Heavy Armor, crouched down. His palm, covered by the Life Heavy Armor, pressed on a blade of grass on the ground. Then he shared his life force. Soon, that apprentice-level plant became lush and verdant, growing rapidly. After the plant grew vigorously, it quickly matured, bloomed flowers, bore fruit. Then the seeds scattered with the wind, its main body rapidly withered, while the seeds, after dispersing, sprouted and grew in other places.

Then, Locke began to recover the power that the plant returned to him.

First was the original portion of power he had lent out. But the miraculous thing about nature was that through natural cycles, it could make originally turbid power become pure, and make originally scarce power increase.

Therefore, the power Locke had originally lent out, after going through a round of natural cycles, doubled out of thin air when it returned.

This was the principle of life's flourishing and withering in Life Heavy Armor.

Life Heavy Armor was different from Myst's Power. It wasn't a special power formed by stacking three great force fields together, but rather two types of magic loaded onto the Oak Armor, activating its function, awakening a special power formed through exquisite coordination.

Using nature's existing mechanisms, one could increase the shared life force, which then returned. So as long as one wore the Life Heavy Armor and was within nature, one could continuously share power to make one's own power endless.

Reaching a state of... continuous magical power.

Of course, this wasn't truly infinite magical power, just exploiting a bug. This state was very similar to Locke's special state in the Emerald Dream.

It was just that at that time, he had received the blessing of the Emerald Dream's world power, possessing the Nature Avatar.

This state was also likely similar to the Nature Avatar that Edgar used at the Cloud Marsh Cup. At that time, he also possessed endless magical power.

It was just that Edgar borrowed the special power of the Ancient Life Tree Treant.

The Ancient Life Tree Treant was the strongest treant at the First Circle level, with enormous growth potential.

And now, through analyzing Lady Myst's ancient power, he had recreated the effect that could only be achieved through using Ancient Life Tree Treants or the blessing of the Emerald Dream's world power.

Locke marveled in his heart at what kind of person the ancient Lady Myst had been.

Locke maintained the Life Heavy Armor state, analyzing the advantages and limitations of his current state.

"First, in this state, I indeed possess infinite magical power in a certain sense, invincible in wars of attrition."

"Moreover..."

Locke removed the Life Heavy Armor from his arm and used a small knife to cut open his arm. He saw his arm rapidly self-healing.

"As expected, in the Life Heavy Armor state, I share my life force with nature, and nature also shares its life force with me. We are in a cycle of life force flourishing and withering, so we will only prosper. Therefore, I possess the special effect of an indestructible body. This point, even Edgar's Nature Avatar and the special avatar on the Emerald Dream's conscription battlefield couldn't achieve."

Locke said, "Life Heavy Armor is undoubtedly the second path Lady Myst found to try to break through to the Second Circle, because this magic also has Second Circle characteristics."

"Why did Lady Myst seek so many non-mainstream paths to try to break through to the Second Circle back then?"

"Was it because during her time, wizards were all seeking roads to stably break through to the Second Circle? Or did Lady Myst have other purposes?"

Locke detected that Life Heavy Armor was again similar to Myst's Power, an attempt to construct magic resembling Grand Magic.

Of course, neither Myst's Power nor Life Heavy Armor were true Grand Magic, and were naturally far from being as exquisite as Grand Magic.

These two magics, if his guess was correct, should both be Lady Myst's unfinished magic prototypes.

However, for his current use, they were sufficient.

Moreover, he could use these two magics, along with the Forest Sanctuary which also possessed Second Circle characteristics, to draw inferences by analogy and better understand Grand Magic, in order to construct Grand Magic unique to himself in the future.

"Of course, there are also limitations." Locke said, "My infinite magical power and super self-healing ability are, after all, based on an exquisite balance of natural life force. If someone detects the underlying mechanism, with the capabilities of today's wizards, disrupting it wouldn't be too big a problem."

"Against true experts, it might not work. But it's also enough to catch people off guard."

"Moreover, with such powerful high recovery ability, I can attempt to use this as a core to assemble a special magic combination unique to myself in this state."

Locke left the Druid's Ring.

He left his dormitory and, after reporting to the public breeder laboratory, went to the Dragon Blood Market again, to another magical plant shop besides Golden Peach Garden, Silver Plum Garden.

Locke walked inside. After thinking it over, he still decided to first spend three hundred thousand magic stones of his savings to purchase a batch of Water Green Beech trees, about 45 Water Green Beech trees, gradually transplanting them into his Forest Sanctuary to strengthen it.

After Locke paid the deposit, he completed the contract with the trader and prepared to wait for the forty-five Water Green Beech trees to arrive, then settle the full payment.

A large transaction of forty-five Water Green Beech trees would have attracted special attention elsewhere, but in Cloud Marsh Wetland, after all, it was just a transaction of forty-five ordinary magical plants, so it hardly caused any ripples.

After completing the transaction, Locke originally planned to return to the laboratory to continue working, but unexpectedly, he suddenly felt the Wish Lingzhi vibrate.

Locke took out the Lingzhi magical plant and saw a video call request from Witch Yekaterina appear. Locke quickly walked into the quiet room of Silver Plum Garden and chose to accept the video call.

Witch Yekaterina's phantom appeared before Locke. As soon as Witch Yekaterina saw Locke, she asked, "Have you recently had your student Williams join the school team for the Potion Relay Race?"

Locke looked at Witch Yekaterina with confusion and said, "Yes, teacher. That student submitted an application to me, so I helped her submit it. Teacher, is there a problem with this?"

Locke was completely confused. Logically speaking, such a small matter as an apprentice joining a school team shouldn't possibly reach a Third Circle Throne Wizard.

Yet now, Witch Yekaterina knew about it, which was clearly abnormal.

Although he now knew that Witch Yekaterina liked to secretly observe various wizards in his research group, given how busy she was, she could probably only focus on one key point.

If she really cared about everything, she couldn't manage it all and wouldn't have time for research either.

So, since Witch Yekaterina suddenly asked him about this matter now, someone must have gone to complain to her.

Witch Yekaterina sat on her sofa. "Well, don't worry. Just as you guessed, someone complained to me. It was a Second Circle wizard. You don't need to know who, because I've already warned him."

"He's a Second Circle wizard from the Council of Elders of the Breeder Academy. Your two students recently participated in the breeder competition, squeezing out his student's spot. Your student Williams joined the Potion Relay Race school team, again squeezing out the same student's spot."

"So, his student is currently extremely psychologically unbalanced. However, the most psychologically unbalanced one is actually himself. He went over your head and came directly to me to complain..."

"That Second Circle wizard believes you've broken the rules. Your student Williams wants everything, while his student has been squeezed out again and again. He wants you to either have Williams withdraw from the school team or have Gregor withdraw from the breeder competition."

Locke frowned. "Teacher, I've caused you trouble. If you find it troublesome..."

Witch Yekaterina waved her hand. "No, not troublesome at all. In fact, you did very well. I've been unhappy with those people in the Council of Elders for a long time."

"That Second Circle wizard has already been severely reprimanded by me. In fact, I most detest this kind of benefit allocation based on personal connections."

Witch Yekaterina said, "One is one, two is two. No matter how much one talks about personal connections, performance won't increase by even a bit. Your two students were able to surpass his student, that's what he should reflect on, not secretly come to me to complain. In fact, he angered me."

"Coming to bother a Third Circle Throne Wizard over such a small matter... He's somewhat looking for..." A flash of violence passed through Witch Yekaterina's eyes, that was the fury belonging to the Red Dragon Queen. The next moment, Witch Yekaterina realized what happened.

She realized she had lost her composure and frowned, looking at Locke.

'It's the bloodline aura on Locke that triggered the true dragon bloodline within me.' Witch Yekaterina thought, 'Good. What I need to do isn't resist, but merge with my bloodline. Through contact with Locke, it seems I can accelerate this process.'

'This bloodline isn't my enemy, but a part of me. Perhaps accepting the emotions this bloodline gives me, rather than choosing to resist, is what will resolve this conflict.'

Half a minute later, Witch Yekaterina said, "In any case, do whatever you want to do. As long as it's reasonable and proper, you don't need to care about others' threats."

"You have me behind you."

Locke said to Witch Yekaterina, "Thank you, teacher."

Witch Yekaterina said, "Besides that, go learn a magic... Peach Bow Thorn Arrow."

"This is the book list. Take a look, a total of three books. Learn this magic as soon as possible. Before you choose your advanced meditation method, you must first learn this magic."

Locke looked at Witch Yekaterina with confusion.

Witch Yekaterina said, "Advanced meditation methods have a certain degree of danger. And the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow magic is the most excellent First Circle magic in Cloud Marsh Wetland in the last ten years. By learning this spell model, you can establish certain cognition in advance, which will increase safety when learning the advanced meditation method."

"Many wizards have accidents when learning advanced meditation methods. This isn't because advanced meditation methods are truly dangerous, but because these wizards can't access the normal learning sequence, which is why problems occur."

"Their mentors themselves don't understand, or don't want to interfere with this matter."

"If you follow the learning sequence I've established for you, you'll have absolutely no danger."

Witch Yekaterina said in a low voice, "But according to my observations, many Second Circle wizards truly don't understand this content. They were able to learn advanced meditation methods entirely through their own talent."

"This causes them to not know this content when teaching students, unable to help their students."