Recaps

Locke’s research and intervention helped free the Sky-Filling Battle Tree from White Cardamom Farm, drawing him into a new role under Witch Catherine. As the Heaven River Coast conflict and competition escalated, Locke fought undead forces, escaped the region, and was assigned to investigate the Despair Valley Laboratory accident.

• Locke studied Wetland Corn, won academy funding, and began teaching apprentices about Wetland Magic Plants while Appian sought commercial cooperation and exchanged plant research with him.
• Locke’s Iron Tree linked with Planknia and Moromota Wizard as the Sky-Filling Battle Tree threatened to destroy White Cardamom Farm, and Locke fought Guboding and Maklas before the tree broke free and settled in the Sky Garden.
• Witch Catherine made the Sky Garden the new Key Laboratory, while Locke brought Planknia and Moromota to Group 2 and received help from the Blue and Green Dragon Thrones to develop his bloodline and new spells.
• Locke used his new magic and plants against undead and White Ice Tower forces, developed stronger Soybean Strongmen, and killed the Withered Vine Ancestor after surviving his illusion.
• At March Palace, the March Council extended the competition to three years and established a demon-hunting trial, while Locke learned that Catherine was the Red Dragon Grand Duke and was warned to leave the Heaven River Coast.
• Locke found Hassan under the Night Hunter Clan’s enchantment, traded supplies and knowledge with him, and escaped the forest with the Dark Great Evil King’s help as Hassan stayed behind to face his pursuers.
• On the airship, Locke met Albin Sia and learned of the Cold Sky River’s ecological danger, then accepted Catherine’s appointment as her assistant and investigator for the Despair Valley Laboratory accident.
• Locke examined Witch Sophia’s mysterious chart and exchanged Water-Guiding Spiritual Breath and a Great Radiant Dragon Sparrow with Albin Sia for records related to Azure Bamboo research.

Locke expanded his magic-plant research and secured a major order before leading Golden Crown Mountain’s investigation into the Despair Valley Laboratory. Inside the valley, he uncovered Probus’s living hybridization world, while the investigation remained unresolved and Locke pursued new leads about Probus’s past.

• Locke developed Black Tortoise Square Bamboo, defeated five Dark Monarchs with it, and drew the attention of the wizards who saw its potential in the Heaven River Coast conflict.
• At the Dragonblood Auction, Locke won the Green Dragon Vine, then used it to defeat a Balor Flame Demon and secure Quinn Joel’s large breeding order.
• Gustin gave Locke Wizard Probus’s letter, which showed that Probus had also explored using a goal to direct Great Magic, but Locke concluded this was still part of Void Forging rather than the key to Pseudo Forging.
• Locke refined the Nether God Potion and restored Dante, then accepted Witch Catherine’s assignment to investigate the Despair Valley Laboratory despite the Throne of Good and Evil’s wager and warning.
• After reaching Rain-Marsh, Locke bred new flying and weapon-type Magic Plants, stopped Grant Richard’s rampage, and confronted Fang of Terror’s Goma at the laboratory entrance before a Maupassant Wizard ordered cooperation.
• Inside Despair Valley, Locke rescued Aike and three apprentices, discovered that Probus’s magic bees sustained a vast hybridization system, and witnessed Probus break free from wizards trying to capture his Echo Body.
• Probus fought Hanser Ke and the other intruders as Locke returned to camp, gathered information, and followed Akes’s lead to Serenity Garden to advance his Spiritual Breath research.
• Locke created the Flower-King Bottle and gave Sea Golden Sand the Excellent-level Heavenly Fragrance Blessing, while Elk uncovered evidence that Probus had refined Spirit Macro and fallen out with his former mentor, whom Locke sought to contact.

Locke uncovered the truth about Probus while turning the Despair Valley investigation into a contest over Cloud Rice and magical research. After winning, he began organizing a larger competition as threats from the Death God Elective Society and the White Frost Witch remained unresolved.

• Locke questioned Martin Ed, who admitted Probus had rejected coerced data and quota-driven research, then entered the Despair Valley Laboratory and completed the Heart-Piercing Lotus sequencing.
• Locke developed Hadron Bottles and powerful magic plants, helping the Tidal Grand Wizard Tower resist the White Ice Tower and provoking Rain-Marsh breeders to challenge him.
• Locke fought Mountain-River Wanderer in the Sea King World, learned Gang Dingdi had become its Ancestral God, and escaped with Mountain-River Wanderer after receiving the world’s rules of heaven and earth.
• Locke entered the Probus Truth-Revelation Contest with Belinda and found Abyss Stream Yellow Grass, while Kent’s Cloud Rice experiment created a Spiritual Breath Black Hole that Locke stopped.
• Locke defeated the young King of Titans, took its Divine Flame, and completed the Afterimage Potion before inventing the Potions Reverse Refinement Method and making the Bronze Cauldron his own.
• Locke won the contest against Patrick by showing that Patrick’s Divine Clan power had distorted his Cloud Rice research, then accused Probus of deep wickedness before Probus expelled them from the Memory World.
• Locke formed a Competition Committee and faced Kilian Barnes’s accusations, while Hassan, Appian, and Edgar arrived and Edgar persuaded Locke to delay the competition for a month.
• Locke hired Mormodis to develop complementary magical plants, asked Lion and Elk to investigate Probus and the White Frost Witch, and found water spelling Rose’s name on his laboratory floor.

Locke investigated Wizard Probus’s past while building the competition into a public test of new magic systems. The final challenge became a struggle among Locke, Witch Macedon, and Edgar, and Locke used its ritual force to bring Probus’s essence into a newborn elf.

• Locke stopped the White Frost Witch from killing Wizard Probus, then clashed with her alongside Witch Macedon and other wizards as she escaped.
• Locke uncovered the White Frost Witch’s role in Probus’s downfall and entered Probus’s deepest memories, where Probus revealed his plan to join the Abyss and pursue revenge.
• Locke rejected Probus’s Infinite Evil Path, launched the competition, and demonstrated how the Five Kings Bottle could grow a Jungle from two Magic Plants.
• Locke set the Genesis Blue Lotus Problem as the finals challenge, sending contestants into its failing world to establish power systems and confront the Void Swarm.
• Edgar expanded his Tree of All Things by absorbing the Swarm and rival contestants’ Great Magics, while Witch Macedon created a Rain Realm and Locke prepared his Forest Rangers to attempt Pseudo Forging.
• Edgar’s empire fought the Swarm and Macedon, but his Great Magic began stealing his form and trapping him beneath the Tree of Perfection.
• Locke let his incarnation die at age thirty-three and transferred his form into a newborn elf named Probus, then used the Dao Strife’s ritual force to bring Wizard Probus’s essence into the child.