After some thought, and after briefly consulting with Wizard Kelt and checking some information himself, Locke confirmed that what Trader Bruce had said was true. Only then did he choose to pay fifty magic crystal cards to purchase this Golden Palace Legacy Branch.

This Golden Palace Legacy Branch was extremely powerful. Locke couldn't even store it in his astral ring.

"It's time to upgrade my astral ring," Locke looked at the astral ring on his hand.

Upgrading an astral ring was actually quite simple. One just needed to take it to an alchemy workshop where different astral rings could be merged together, and the spaces of the two astral rings would fuse.

Locke's astral ring had already been merged several times. Currently, the internal space was the size of a small football field, and its magic pressure had also increased accordingly.

However, as a First Circle limit-level magical plant, the magic pressure of the Golden Palace Legacy Branch was still too immense compared to the astral ring he currently possessed, to the point that he couldn't use the astral ring to store it inside.

It was like a doorway-sized passage being unable to fit a ship into the space behind the door.

Trader Bruce immediately said to Locke, "Mr. Augustine, we can arrange personnel to deliver your Golden Palace Legacy Branch to your designated location."

Locke frowned, placed his palm on the surface of the Golden Palace Legacy Branch, forcibly suppressed it with his mana temporarily, then used his Druid’s Ring enhanced by the Four Elements Ring to open a dimensional gate and sent it inside.

Inside the Druid’s Ring were two hundred acres of Forest Sanctuary. Under the suppression of the two hundred acres of Forest Sanctuary and the Ancient Life Tree seedling, plus the blockade of his own mana, even the Golden Palace Legacy Branch could only submit.

Wizard Bruce said, "What powerful mana."

"It seems I was being overly helpful," Wizard Bruce said with a smile.

Locke looked at Wizard Bruce and said, "I still need some jujube tree magical plants. Do you have any recommendations?"

Wizard Bruce thought for a moment and said, "The peach tree magical plants in the Golden Crown Mountain area are definitely the most abundant, and they would also be the best tree magical plants for the same price range. However, for jujube tree magical plants, there are also some good magical plants in this exhibition hall."

"Please come this way."

They moved through the exhibition hall. This secret exhibition hall was itself a small ecological garden, with many precious magical plants appearing here.

Moreover, only when the Golden Peach Garden traders believed a customer was qualified to purchase would they choose to provide this purchasing option to the customer.

Locke thought this was somewhat like hunger marketing.

Wizard Bruce pointed to a jujube tree with fruit that looked like red agate and told Locke, "This is a Zanhuang Giant Jujube Tree. It's a relatively rare jujube tree magical plant."

Locke shook his head. "I don't want this kind of jujube tree with relatively large jujube fruits. I need those magical plants with smaller jujube fruits."

As a senior trader of the Golden Peach Garden, Wizard Bruce immediately understood. "Peach Bow Thorn Arrow?"

"That truly is an ancient yet vital traditional plant magic from the Cloud Marsh Wetland. I see, you're looking for matching magical plants to compose the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow."

"Now I understand. Please follow me."

Wizard Bruce led Locke to a jujube tree whose trunk was shaped like an inverted cone. The bottom of the tree's form was thick and the top was thin, looking like a wooden spike.

It was over ten meters tall. Between the branches and leaves of the jujube tree hung some small dates as tiny as rice grains, while the jujube leaves were elliptical and looked extremely plain.

Trader Bruce said, "This is the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant. We all know that jujube tree magical plants have a characteristic completely different from other fruit trees, and that lies in the jujube pendant."

Locke nodded slightly. Jujube trees possessed a unique jujube pendant system. That is, each year when bearing fruit, they would sprout flexible fruit-bearing branches from perennial tree branches, and then after finishing bearing fruit, these branches would completely fall off at a certain point in time.

Their fruiting completely depended on these disposable, shedding, current-year (annual) new branches.

Other fruit trees, for the most part, relied on perennial fruit-bearing branches, or although they bore fruit on current-year branches, some of these current-year branches would become permanent branches.

Or they relied on fruit-bearing branches formed the previous year to bear fruit.

In short, jujube trees possessed the special characteristic of giving birth to new annual branches every year.

Therefore, wizards called these annual fruit-bearing branches of jujube trees "jujube pendants."

Jujube pendants were a core important point of jujube tree magical plants.

Breeders could not only put effort into cultivating the fruit portion of jujube trees, but could also work on the annual branches, breeding a large number of jujube tree magical plants with special jujube pendant systems as their core.

And this Little Diamond Jujube Pendant before his eyes had obviously had its jujube pendant system specially improved and cultivated, so the fruits on the jujube pendants were particularly small.

Like rice grains.

Clearly, this entire magical plant was prepared for strengthening these jujube pendant branches. Because jujube magical plants naturally possessed a large number of fast-growing branches, jujube branches could use magical power to obtain more disposable branches even more quickly in an extremely short time.

Using this mechanism, one could launch many magical plant branch throws at enemies in an extremely short time.

Whereas originally, for Ancient War Trees and Ancient Life Trees, those oak-type magical plants, throwing branches once would damage their vitality. If too many were thrown in a short time, it could even endanger their lives.

But for jujube tree magical plants, throwing a large number of magical plant branches in a short time, that is, [Spear Throw], was a common phenomenon.

Trader Bruce said, "The growth environment of the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant requires the special resource Diamond Witch Stone. Diamond Witch Stone is a masterpiece of alchemists, but it requires a Second Circle level geocentric gravity transmutation array, and consumes large amounts of resources and exquisite techniques to possibly successfully refine it."

"The reputation of Diamond Witch Stone is second only to Five Elements Witch Stone, and is very rare. Therefore, wanting to grow Little Diamond Jujube Pendant to maturity is an extremely rare thing."

"Apart from needing Diamond Witch Stone, the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant doesn't care about anything else. Even in the most barren regions, the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant can grow."

"The fast-growing branches of the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant possess special power, gathering most of its magical energy. They can transform into diamond sharp swords and form groups of diamond sharp swords to launch attacks at enemies."

"What's most terrifying is that the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant possesses the Diamond Witch Stone characteristic of being difficult to destroy, difficult to block, difficult to influence, difficult to change... the unchanging diamond."

"However, controlling this magical plant requires powerful mana. If one is careless, one will suffer backlash."

Locke nodded slightly. Actually, the Golden Palace Legacy Branch from earlier was the same. It was just a matter of the degree of backlash.

Powerful magical plants like these all had magical backlash issues.

It was just that as a Nature Guardian, he also had the Ancient Life Tree seedling and Forest Sanctuary, and could transform into a forest ecology with a distributed psychic network. So when it came to magical backlash issues, he had many advantages compared to ordinary plant wizards.

Ordinary wizards indeed needed to worry about whether controlling too many powerful magical plants at the same time would result in backlash.

Locke observed the spirituality of the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant and simply determined that this magical plant was indeed suitable for the Peach Bow Thorn Arrow spell model.

Or rather, the reason Wizard Bruce dared to recommend this magical plant to him was because this magical plant was most suitable for Peach Bow Thorn Arrow.

Locke inquired, "How much does this magical plant cost?"

Wizard Bruce said, "Five hundred thousand magic stones!"

Facing Locke's surprised look, he immediately said, "Mainly because the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant and the Golden Palace Legacy Branch are magical plants of the same grade. Although it can't benefit the learning of advanced meditation methods, it possesses Second Circle characteristics. Moreover, the Little Diamond Jujube Pendant has a special ability."

"To block damage for the wizard who has established a mana grafting relationship with it."

"The Little Diamond Jujube Pendant will bear magical damage and offset the damage through the form of pendant dropping. This function might play some role at certain critical moments."

Locke nodded slightly. That would be a death substitution function then.

Locke thought carefully. Well, since he had already spent five hundred thousand to buy the Golden Palace Legacy Branch, buying another Little Diamond Jujube Pendant wasn't much.

Moreover, he had already asked Wizard Kelt, who told him that the things in this exhibition hall were indeed inaccessible to ordinary wizards.

That is to say, don't look at how expensive these magical plants were. Many wizards couldn't buy them even if they wanted to spend money. These all belonged to luxury items among magical plants.

The Golden Palace Legacy Branch and Little Diamond Jujube Pendant were both expensive and could represent status.

And Peach Bow Thorn Arrow was related to advanced meditation methods, so purchasing them wasn't a loss.

Locke then looked at some other luxury magical plants and finally decided to return to the storefront of the Golden Peach Garden.

Because his Forest Sanctuary was expected to still be able to increase its total biomass, and the main First Circle tree magical plants of his Forest Sanctuary needed to pay attention to diversification of tree species to prevent homogenization.

So Locke again purchased from Trader Bruce in the storefront 81 First Circle shrub-level magical plants, Gem Holly, at a price of 4,000 magic stones each.

Gem Holly was a shrub among holly trees, different from Scorched Earth Holly, that powerful combat magical plant.

Gem Holly was just a shrub, and moreover just a functional First Circle magical plant, considered the weakest in power among First Circle magical plants.

Almost no power at all.

Therefore, the selling price was cheap.

But Gem Holly was extremely beautiful. Its tree leaves resembled various colored gems, each plant looking like a Christmas tree.

They looked very festive.

Most importantly, Gem Holly was still like other holly trees, being the forest's steadfast silent guardians. They could actively share nutrients with trees in the forest through their roots and symbiotic magical fungi.

Moreover, Gem Holly possessed soil purification abilities and was considered a relatively commonly used First Circle magical plant that composed the shrub layer of forests.

If Locke transplanted the 81 Gem Holly shrubs and 105 Water Beech Mountain Beech trees into the Forest Sanctuary, then his Forest Sanctuary would possess three hundred and two mature First Circle magical plants.

Under the control of the Ancient Life Tree seedling and himself, it would become a powerful forest community and become an ancient forest.

As a gift, Wizard Bruce then gave Locke some quantity of green manure apprentice-level magical plants and wind element fixing apprentice-level magical plants, mainly various grasses and leguminous and vine magical plants.

These didn't cost money.

This way, in one day today, Locke had spent one million nine hundred fifty-four thousand magic stones in this store.

However, these were all worthwhile.

This way, his Forest Sanctuary would become what Dean Lewis called the so-called ancient period forest!

Advancing from the mature period to the ancient period!

Under Locke's planning, the core area would reach 500 acres, while the apprentice-level tree area might also be 500 acres, adding up to a thousand acres in total.

Becoming a thousand-acre forest.

And inside the Druid’s Ring, there were fifteen hundred acres of land.

Only this way could he fully utilize the Druid’s Ring enhanced by the Four Elements Ring, and also allow his magical power to grow to an incomparable level, strengthening his Second Circle characteristics!