Chapter 218: Yao Yifei Officially Joins
The Wobbuffet dressed in a nurse outfit and carrying a medical kit hurriedly ran in.
The busiest one in the manor is Wobbuffet. The Bidoof tribe in Bidoof Forest is sick and needs Wobbuffet to take a look.
Ai Ke’s siblings’ Pokémon have problems and also need Wobbuffet to check them. The Combee tribe is sick and also needs Wobbuffet.
Plus, Wobbuffet is kind by nature and occasionally treats wild Pokémon too, making Wobbuffet even busier.
It’s worth mentioning that Wobbuffet has been self-studying medicine and housekeeping, and has learned it quite well.
Not sure if it’s because of the pills, but Wobbuffet is much smarter than when he first came back.
The nervous Wobbuffet carefully gave Lu Li a full body checkup, and only after confirming Lu Li had no issues did he satisfactorily announce the diagnosis.
“Wobbuffet says big brother’s body is very healthy, so healthy it’s not like a normal trainer’s. His physical fitness is better than most Pokémon of the same level,” Bao Bao translated beside him as the little interpreter.
“Physical fitness this good? He hasn’t rested for two days already.” Yao Yifei still couldn’t quite believe it.
If Wobbuffet said Lu Li was a bit low on energy, she would believe the diagnosis, but what the heck is “very healthy”?
“I’ve told you, I’m fine. Why won’t you believe me?” Lu Li speechlessly rolled his eyes at Yao Yifei, then continued explaining, “I have a very unique Psychic Power. You should know about that, right?”
Bao Bao and Wei He nodded.
They were the first to know Lu Li had Psychic Power. At first, they even suspected Lu Li’s Psychic Power was the normal kind like Bao Bao’s.
But after spending time together, they realized Lu Li’s Psychic Power and Bao Bao’s were completely different.
“My Psychic Power is very special. It gives me energy and stamina beyond normal people, plus all the abilities of normal Psychic Power, and even some that match other special abilities,” Lu Li explained.
After hearing Lu Li’s explanation, Yao Yifei frowned and asked, “What ability is this? Aura? That doesn’t fit either. Dragon control? That doesn’t match… Or maybe Tokiwa Power?”
Lu Li explained, “To be precise, my ability is more like a combination of these. I’ve named it Spiritual Energy.”
“Stamina is very good?”
Yao Yifei thoughtfully glanced at Lu Li’s lower body.
Could Ekaterina have seen this?
Overbearing CEO falls for little wolf dog?
After confirming Lu Li was fine, Yao Yifei couldn’t help but overthink.
“So your body really has no issues?” Yao Yifei confirmed again.
Lu Li continued explaining, “Normally, I could go seven days without eating, drinking, or sleeping and be fine.”
Hearing this, Wei He, with his shady background, sincerely remarked, “Born workhorse saint body, huh.”
Lu Li: “…”
Yao Yifei: “…”
Yao Yifei, with twitching lips, complained, “Your special ability is indeed kinda interesting.”
Seven days without eating, drinking, or sleeping—what concept is that? Isn’t this like a natural hardcore grinder? No wonder this guy can grind so much.
“Good that you’re fine. This counts as your specialty. No wonder you’ve achieved so much in so many fields,” Yao Yifei said in realization.
There’s no such thing as absolute prodigies in the world; it’s purely from effort.
Yao Yifei had already started imagining: a youth from a poor background studies for days and nights without sleep, eventually rising through hard work, winning the favor of a top noble family’s princess, and reaching the peak of life.
“Right, let me introduce.”
Lu Li suddenly remembered that a new member was joining today.
Lu Li released the Beldum from the Poké Ball.
“Let me introduce everyone to my new companion, Beldum,” Lu Li said as he held up the Beldum.
“Beldum?”
“Shiny!”
Wei He and Bao Bao both looked in surprise at the Beldum before them. Even Yao Yifei was a bit excited.
Yao Yifei eagerly asked, “What’s Beldum’s qualification?”
For trainers like them, a Pokémon’s qualification is the most important, as it represents the Pokémon’s upper limit.
Most normal trainers don’t care much about Pokémon qualifications, because even if they devote their whole lives, they might not nurture the Pokémon to the peak of its qualification.
But the people present are different. With a freak like Lu Li here, they are confident they can nurture Pokémon to the peak of their own potential.
“Champion Level.” Lu Li said proudly.
Yes! Champion.
What concept is this?
Beldum can evolve twice, and with Lu Li’s nurturing level, each evolution will definitely break through its original qualification.
In other words, Beldum might reach Tier 2 God qualification.
This can’t even be described as outrageous. Normally, the endpoint for ordinary Pokémon is entering the Divine Realm. As for Tier 2 God realm? That’s a realm only true deities can reach.
But no matter what, Beldum will definitely have qualification to break into the Divine Realm.
“By the way, what’s Beldum’s shiny talent?” Yao Yifei asked curiously.
Shiny talents can be good or bad; as they say, it’s not the one-in-a-million you fear, but the one-in-ten-thousand.
If such high qualification came with a negative Ability shiny talent, it would be torture.
“Dual Ability.” Lu Li said.
He discovered Beldum’s shiny talent while alchemying together with it.
At first, Lu Li thought Beldum’s talent was Psychic talent different from normal Beldum.
Later he learned Beldum’s real talent was dual Ability: besides its hidden Ability Clear Body, Beldum also has Telepathy Ability.
The effect of Telepathy Ability is simple: it can sense others’ mental information.
This effect isn’t great or bad.
For Beldum, the biggest benefit of this Ability is making its Psychic stronger; nothing else.
After learning Beldum’s shiny talent wasn’t a negative effect, Yao Yifei finally relaxed.
“As long as it’s not a negative effect, it’s fine,” Yao Yifei comforted.
Lu Li just smiled without speaking.
This Ability might be underwhelming for others, but for Lu Li, it’s perfect.
As for why?
He hasn’t fully researched it yet, so he’ll keep it for now.
Looking at the Beldum floating mid-air, circling around Lu Li, Yao Yifei praised, “What an amazing little guy. Just born, and already using Magnetism so well.”
Hearing this, Lu Li’s lips twitched slightly, and Bao Bao beside him hesitated to speak.
What good Magnetism control? This little guy is clearly using Psychic to lift itself up and float.
To avoid his own Little Silver—um, that’s the name Lu Li gave his Beldum—embarrassing himself.
To keep Little Silver from social death, Lu Li quickly changed the topic: “Right, this is for you.”
Lu Li took out several bottles of pills from the Space Ring.
“These are special Energy Cubes I made specifically for your Pokémon’s attributes. I’ve named them pills. Specific names are written on the bottles.”
Yao Yifei looked at the pills on the table, her lips curving up uncontrollably.
After these days together, she’d of course seen these special Energy Cubes, though Wei He and the others deliberately avoided using them around her.
Don’t forget she has an Espeon beside her, but at the time she didn’t call it out and pretended not to know.
Because Yao Yifei knew this was their secret. Unless close enough… no, even if close enough, she wouldn’t pry into these special Energy Cubes.
The Espeon told her that these special Energy Cubes named pills have triple the effect of top Energy Cubes, maybe even more.
Not exaggerating, these pills are close to Pokémon Item level, even approaching Pokémon Secret Treasure.
When Yao Yifei first heard this news, she nearly had dark thoughts.
If pills couldn’t be mass-produced, she wouldn’t have had those ideas, but the problem is they can be mass-produced, and raw materials aren’t expensive at all!
As a Gym Level Trainer, Yao Yifei knows too well what this means.
If the pill matter leaked, she wouldn’t speak for other noble families, but with the Yao Family’s style, Lu Li’s life would basically have two endings.
Either interrogate the pill recipe and eliminate him forever after, or enslave Lu Li and squeeze him until death.
“Tell me the effects?” Yao Yifei said, eyes full of glee.
“I’ll do it.”
Bao Bao raised her little hand high, then excitedly introduced the uses of these pills to Yao Yifei.
After hearing the pill effects, Yao Yifei looked at Lu Li with flickering eyes.
Yao Yifei knew that from this moment, Lu Li had truly accepted her.
“I won’t betray your trust,” Yao Yifei guaranteed solemnly.
Lu Li smiled and nodded: “I believe you.”
Lu Li’s four short words deeply touched Yao Yifei’s heart.
Who was the last to believe her unconditionally like this?
Probably her mother?
Yao Yifei’s face was full of reminiscence.
Her origin wasn’t great. Her mother was just a normal Coordinator, whose qualification never even entered Gym realm, always lingering at Elite Level.
Her father was from the Yao Family collateral branch, but a family-first man. After they divorced, she chose to live with her mother.
Her mother knew this was a trainer-supreme world; even Coordinators need strength.
So from childhood, her mother unconditionally supported all her hobbies. She liked Eevee, so her mother painstakingly found her a high-qualification Eevee.
Due to her father’s influence, Yao Yifei later had to walk the Fairy Type path, but the Yao Family gave minimal help because she dreamed of being an excellent Coordinator.
In the end, she switched from Fairy Type Trainer to Coordinator, and after reaching the top of the Path of Coordination, the now-adult Yao Yifei began pursuing strength.
But Fairy Type was a dead end, so Yao Yifei gritted her teeth and apprenticed under the Flying Type Heavenly King, restarting as a Flying Type Trainer.
No matter how willful she was, her mother always believed in her unconditionally and silently supported her from behind.
Her fellow apprentice Ling Kong was already Flying Type Heavenly King, even starting to challenge for Champion, but she was still lingering at Gym level.
Her trainer talent wasn’t inferior to Ling Kong’s at all, but she hard-played herself to death.
Even so, her mother never blamed her.
In her mother’s words, pursuing strength is important, but most important is living life well.
“What’s up? Why suddenly zoning out?”
Lu Li puzzledly waved his hand in front of Yao Yifei.
Coming back to herself, Yao Yifei smiled gently and softly said, “Nothing, just thinking about the past.”
“By the way, don’t you have your own dedicated Breeder?” Lu Li asked puzzledly.
“Uh…”
“You might not believe it, but I do have a dedicated Breeder, but…”
“But what?”
Lu Li was quite curious about Yao Yifei’s Breeder.
Yao Yifei said, “My dedicated Breeder is just an Intermediate Breeder, and one biased toward the Path of Coordination.”
“Intermediate Breeder? And biased toward nurturing Pokémon beauty?” Lu Li nodded thoughtfully.
Lu Li guessed, “Your dedicated Breeder isn’t your mom, is she?”
Yao Yifei nodded.
Lu Li: “…”
“You… you mother-daughter duo really know how to play.” Lu Li could only comment thus in the end.
Lu Li continued asking, “Then after you became Gym Leader, didn’t the Alliance assign you a Breeder?”
Gym Leaders can apply for many benefits, including dedicated Breeders.
Of course, the Alliance’s assigned dedicated Breeder isn’t one-on-one nurturing.
After all, not everyone has Yu Zhonggang’s luck.
If talking about eating soft rice, Yu Zhonggang is the true strongest king.
Has a wife from a wealthy family, even willing to use family resources to support him.
Has a childhood sweetheart Advanced Breeder, even willing to be his lover.
“There was an arrangement at first, but later I found him too annoying and kicked him out.” When mentioning this Breeder, Yao Yifei’s tone even cooled a bit.
From her tone, it’s clear there’s conflict between Yao Yifei and the Alliance-assigned dedicated Breeder.
But Lu Li didn’t pry into the matter.
Lu Li said, “From now on, leave all your Pokémon’s Energy Cubes to me. As for nurturing direction, you’ll have to figure that out yourself.”
Yao Yifei nodded.
Though Lu Li doesn’t even have Junior Breeder qualification yet, Yao Yifei knows his skills.
With this pill skill alone, Lu Li fully qualifies to call himself an Advanced Breeder; after all, specialized Breeders are still Breeders.
Yao Yifei curiously poured out a Super Spiritual Pill.
The round pill had a unique medicinal fragrance and was crystal clear, looking like a glass bead.
“This Energy Cube is really pretty,” Yao Yifei sincerely praised.
The Espeon impatiently jumped out of the Poké Ball, then looked eagerly at Yao Yifei—or precisely, the pill in her hand.
“Here, little glutton.”
Yao Yifei amusedly tapped the Espeon’s forehead lightly, then put the pill in its mouth.
“Two per Pokémon per day is enough. Too many will cause overnutrition,” Lu Li reminded.
Lu Li had always been considering whether to make the pills taste worse.
