Chapter 289: New Member Joins: Hatenna
A beautiful singing voice rang out, and the Nidoking that was originally preparing to dodge instantly forgot the impending threat. Even the Bidoof trailing behind the Tropius forgot to attack.
Not only the Pokémon, but even the three trainers were hard-controlled by this singing voice for two seconds.
In the ever-changing battle, one or two seconds of mistake is already enough to be fatal.
Lu Li quickly activated the Golden Needle Talisman in his hand and shot it toward the eyes of the two Bidoof.
These three trainers were already Elite Level Trainers, which also meant that the opponents already had Bond Guardian. If their Pokémon were not dealt with, it would be hard to harm them personally, so Lu Li’s attack was very clear: their Pokémon.
The two Bidoof in a dazed state failed to dodge those few Golden Needles.
“Bidoo~”
A sharp and piercing cry rang out, and the eyes of the two Bidoof were instantly ruined. The Tropius’s Body Slam also heavily landed on Nidoking’s body.
“Boom rumble!!”
Just like a meteor crashing into the ground, Lu Li felt the earth beneath his feet trembling.
Nidoking was embedded in the soil, gasping for breath. Although the Tropius’s Body Slam had great power, Nidoking did not directly lose its combat ability but fell into a critical point of gasping for breath.
What Lu Li was best at was beating a drowning dog. Seeing this scene, Lu Li quickly commanded: “Tropius! Razor Leaf!”
The Nidoking trainer, finally coming back to his senses, changed his facial expression and then hurriedly released the other two Pokémon from the Poké Ball.
One Elite Early Stage Nidoqueen, one Mid-Elite Level Golbat.
The two Bidoof with their eyes stabbed blind flailed wildly in the air. The Bidoof trainer could only loudly comfort on its back: “Bidoof! Calm down, don’t fly around randomly!”
“Two wastes!” The Nidoking trainer cursed under his breath, then directed the Nidoqueen and Golbat to attack the Tropius.
Lu Li also quickly reacted: “Milotic, Hydro Pump the Golbat back.”
“Tropius, Leech Seed the field!”
The chaotic battle did not last long. When the three attackers ignored the Tropius’s Leech Seed, the outcome was already doomed.
Nidoking trainer: “What do you mean ignored? We had no choice, okay!”
Star Absorbing Technique activated!
Strange twisted vines instantly took root and sprouted, submerging all the Pokémon in them.
After the green tide receded, the attackers who had lost all their Pokémon looked in horror at the Tropius like a magic dragon.
Looking at the three people tied up by the vines, Lu Li asked coldly: “Divine Cult’s?”
“I advise you to let me go quickly, or the Divine Cult won’t let you go.” The Nidoking trainer threatened ignorantly.
The Bidoof trainer also chimed in: “That’s right! The power of the Divine Cult is beyond your imagination. I advise you to let us go.”
“It’s really strange. Why would the Divine Cult send you cannon fodder? Do they look down on me?” Lu Li looked at the three in confusion.
He didn’t believe the Divine Cult didn’t know his information, but these three clowns seemed to tell him that the Divine Cult didn’t take him seriously.
“Forget it. With your status, you probably can’t ask anything out of you.” Lu Li waved his hand somewhat disdainfully.
The vines controlled by the Tropius instantly tightened. Realizing that Lu Li really dared to kill, the Nidoking trainer pleaded: “Please let me go.”
Lu Li: “You shouldn’t have come to provoke me. Be more careful in your next life.”
Crack~
The sound of the throat bone shattering rang out, and the three corpses fell limply to the ground.
“My good mood is instantly gone. Tropius, let’s go home.” Lu Li jumped onto the Tropius’s back.
Even if it was just a small interlude on the way home.
Merely three Elite Level Trainers, and it was a wild battle. Such a battle posed no pressure at all for Lu Li.
After returning to the villa, Lu Li briefly told Yao Yifei about the incident he encountered on the road.
“Ekaterina just left, and they couldn’t wait to make a move. It seems we’ll have trouble next.” Yao Yifei said somewhat helplessly.
“You just protect Bao Bao and the others. If the Divine Cult is really courting death.” A cold glint flashed in Lu Li’s eyes.
The Divine Cult was indeed a colossal entity. He didn’t want to confront such a force, but if they had to clash, then don’t blame him for shaking things up.
Although troubling Gimmighoul over this minor matter might cost some “credibility points” with Gimmighoul.
Milotic suddenly emerged from the Poké Ball.
“Milo~”
（Lu Li, I think I’m about to break through.）
“What?” Lu Li looked at Milotic with ecstatic joy and urged excitedly: “Then what are you waiting for? Break through quickly.”
“About to reach Gym Level.” Yao Yifei also looked at Milotic with relief.
For these two months, she had been the one teaching Milotic. Now that Milotic was about to break through to Gym Level, Yao Yifei felt a great sense of achievement.
After arriving at the pond, Milotic eagerly released the suppressed breakthrough sensation.
Milotic’s breakthrough seemed natural and smooth, without any earth-shattering commotion. The aura on Milotic suddenly surged, and then it logically became a Gym Level Pokémon.
Lu Li gently stroked Milotic’s body and congratulated: “Congratulations, Xiao Mei.”
The Charmander nearby saw this and wanted to go up and rub against it, but it was sent flying by a tail swipe from Milotic.
“Char~”
（Big Sister, why can’t I?）
Charmander looked at Milotic pitifully.
Clearly, the trainer could touch freely, so why couldn’t it even rub a little?
“Milo~”
（The trainer is different.）
This blatant double standard made Charmander even more aggrieved.
“Char~”
（Your Spirit Beauty Pill, now it’s me refining them for you.）
Charmander called out aggrievedly.
“Milo~”
（Still not allowed.）
Lu Li nearby quickly comforted: “The weak don’t deserve to have Milotic. You should work harder to get stronger.”
“Besides… Charmander, you’re a dragon, not a Two-faced Turtle.” Lu Li added.
“Char~”
（Are you talking about Squirtle?）
Lu Li: “…”
Considering that Squirtle seemed to be one of Milotic’s lapdogs too, Lu Li didn’t refute.
“Go play on the side. I still have things to ask Milotic.” Lu Li shooed away Charmander, then continued: “Milotic, share your breakthrough experience.”
Milotic was the first in the team to break through to Gym Level. Her experience was still very important.
Milotic didn’t hide anything and shared her experience and state as detailed as possible, because it knew Tropius was about to break through too, and its experience was very important for this little brother Tropius.
Yao Yifei watched this scene with arms crossed and a smiling face, without interrupting them.
After Milotic finished sharing her experience, she returned to the bottom of the pond to consolidate her realm. Lu Li, who had gained nicely, also turned and went back to the basement.
With Milotic’s strength breakthrough, Spirit Beauty Pill 2.0 also needed to continue upgrading, and the other Pokémon’s pills needed to be updated to the second generation too.
With more and more nurturing knowledge obtained, Lu Li became more and more skilled in pill making. Previously, he had no clue about optimizing the pills, but now he could start researching.
Another half month passed.
For this half month, Lu Li had been researching pills. After obtaining quite a bit of forbidden knowledge from Gimmighoul, Lu Li finally figured out the essence of so-called attribute energy.
Unlike the spiritual roots in the cultivation world, the attributes in this world were more influenced by one’s own genes.
A simple example: in the cultivation world, if a person has a spiritual root, they have it; there are no such things as hidden spiritual roots or dominant spiritual roots.
But the attributes in this world are different, because this world really has something called hidden attributes.
In theory, every Pokémon has a hidden “attribute” that can be detected through special methods.
When discovering this, Lu Li instantly thought of the signature feature of Generation 9—Terastallization.
When a Pokémon activates “Terastallization” in battle, its attribute completely changes to the Terastal attribute and may override the original attributes. For example, Charizard’s normal attributes are “Fire + Flying,” but if its Terastal attribute is “Dragon.”
This is one of the differences between Pokémon attributes and spiritual roots.
This was Lu Li’s biggest discovery in the half month. With this discovery, Lu Li finally researched a particularly commoner pill.
That is the Energy Conversion Pill.
However, this pill currently still lacks a key medicinal primer and has not been truly refined successfully.
In theory, the Energy Conversion Pill is the Terastal Orb in pill form, but unfortunately, he hadn’t found Terastal Shards.
Without Terastal Shards, the hidden Terastal attribute in the Pokémon’s Spirit Body cannot be activated.
Lu Li thought of that secret realm in the Qingyun Mountain Range.
Although only three months had passed, if adding Yao Yifei, they might be able to go in and explore.
In theory, with various talismans for life protection, they shouldn’t encounter any life-threatening dangers.
But before that, he had to find a way to deal with the Divine Cult first.
As early as a month ago, Lu Li had told Qu Suxin about the Divine Cult, but the other party didn’t have a very good solution either, because she was still far away in the Unova Region and had no time to attend to matters in Jiuzhou.
Qu Suxin ultimately gave a very helpless suggestion: move to the Qu Family.
Lu Li naturally couldn’t agree, so the matter was dropped.
Besides the pills, another happy thing was that the family was about to have a new member.
Lu Li looked at the Pokémon Egg in the incubator with a fatherly smile.
Hatenna was finally about to hatch.
To welcome the arrival of a new life, Lu Li specially did nothing in the basement today, just waiting for Hatenna to hatch.
As the incubator’s numbers reached zero, Lu Li eagerly opened the hatch.
A radiance whiter than white shone in the basement. As the light dissipated, a small, super cute Pokémon jumped out of the incubator.
The freshly hatched Hatenna appeared very energetic. It was worth mentioning that Lu Li’s Hatenna seemed a bit larger than a normal Hatenna.
Hatenna has a petite and cute spherical body, with light pink skin, a small mouth, and small feet. The light blue hair has inward-curled bangs, and long sideburns extend from both sides of the body to the ground.
Hatenna used its sideburns like human hands to pick up the egg shards in the incubator, then stuffed them into its mouth as if gnawing on cookies.
Hatenna’s prominent feature is its upright tail, with a light blue tip matching its hair color. This tail structure looks like a hat worn on the head from the front, with patterns resembling a children’s nightcap.
Lu Li smiled as he watched Hatenna stuffing egg shards into its mouth.
“Hatenna, welcome to this world.” Lu Li said softly, trying to make his voice as gentle as possible.
“Hate~”
（I hate you!）
After calling out, Hatenna turned its head and ignored Lu Li.
Lu Li: “???”
Lu Li looked at Hatenna in full fright, with a particularly hurt expression.
Damn! A major crisis has occurred.
The panicked Lu Li looked at Hatenna somewhat at a loss for what to do.
Lu Li didn’t understand why the just-hatched Hatenna hated him.
Lu Li asked weakly: “Why?”
“Hate~”
（You deliberately kept Hatenna in the egg. You don’t like Hatenna.）
Lu Li only felt very wronged.
At this time, the honest Beldum floated over and retorted: “No, that’s not it! You stayed in the egg so long because you were sick, it has nothing to do with the trainer.”
“Hate?”
Hatenna looked at Beldum somewhat puzzled.
It had stayed in the egg for a long time and had always been kept in the basement by Lu Li, while Beldum spent most of its time in the basement too. Plus, both being Psychic Type Pokémon.
Hatenna and Beldum were actually the most familiar. Sometimes the two little ones even briefly communicated—well, just releasing goodwill to each other.
“Hate?”
（Really?）
The naive Hatenna glanced at Lu Li somewhat embarrassedly. The little one felt it might have wronged Lu Li.
“Of course it’s true.” Beldum nodded affirmatively.
“Hate~”
（Then I won’t hate you.）
Hatenna announced confidently, even if its reasoning wasn’t straight.
A child’s dislike comes fast and goes fast too. Seeing this, Lu Li breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
If because Hatenna disliked him, he missed the chance to capture Hatenna, that would be a huge amusement.
After all, Hatenna had the potential to become a god.
Lu Li took the opportunity to ask: “Then, are you willing to become my companion?”
Hatenna nodded, then proved its willingness with action.
Hatenna directly jumped into Lu Li’s arms. Even before hatching, it had already coveted this exclusive throne.
“Hahahaha…” The delighted Lu Li held up Hatenna in his arms high and shouted: “I’ve captured Hatenna!”
Hatenna pretended to struggle disdainfully a couple of times, then let Lu Li manipulate it.
After the excitement, Lu Li put down Hatenna and solemnly announced: “From today on, you’ll be called Xiao Mao, the Mao from hat.”
Lu Li originally wanted to name Hatenna Little Red Hat, but since Xiao Hong was already taken, Lu Li settled for the next best and named Hatenna Xiao Mao.
Having gotten its own exclusive name, Hatenna also smiled happily.
“By the way, little one, are you hungry?” Lu Li asked with concern.
When Charmander and the others hatched, they all drank Moo Moo Milk. Normally, Hatenna should be hungry at this time too—after all, just eating egg shards doesn’t fill the stomach.
Hatenna shook its head, indicating it wasn’t hungry.
“Stomach not hungry?” Lu Li looked puzzled at the Hatenna in front of him.
“Wait here.” Lu Li said as he picked up the phone and contacted Bao Bao, asking Bao Bao to call Wobbuffet to the basement.
After Wobbuffet arrived in the basement, it carefully checked Hatenna.
Finally, it concluded that Hatenna was very normal, and its vitality was unusually vigorous.
