Chapter 177: Spiritual Energy? The Power Of All Things!
After one Meteor Storm, the entire world seemed to fall silent.
Yao Yifei looked down from above at the devastated land, frowning as she asked: “How is it?”
“It seems to have held up.” Espeon replied.
“Then do it again!”
Yao Yifei’s tone was ice-cold.
Chazi’s side was also struggling; although she had blocked that terrifying Meteor Storm, due to outputting energy at full power, her Pokémon had almost no energy left.
If another one came, she would have to take it with her body.
At this thought, Chazi instantly made her decision.
20 kilometers away from the Meteor Storm.
“It’s coming!”
Lu Li’s gaze turned cold.
With spiritual sense fully activated, Lu Li could keenly detect the Psychic fluctuations.
Without hesitation, Lu Li quickly released Tropius.
Considering the enemy might be a Gym Level Trainer, Lu Li did not release Milotic or Charmander.
Milotic might be able to control the opponent for a wave, but that control absolutely wouldn’t last long; Charmander was even less capable—in such a battle, Charmander didn’t even have the qualification to soy sauce.
Lu Li reminded in a low tone: “Tropius! The next battle might be a fierce one.”
“Trop~”
Tropius let out a full-throated cry.
Trainer, I will fall before you do!
Feeling Tropius’s heartfelt voice and its resolute fighting spirit, Lu Li also laughed.
Then let’s make a big scene.
Lu Li gently placed his right hand on Tropius’s thigh.
Although he was good at hugging thighs, Lu Li always knew one thing: true strength comes from oneself!
“Tropius! This is all my power.” Lu Li poured all the spiritual energy in his body into Tropius.
Ever since Tropius understood the origin, Lu Li had been researching the special energy in his body, or rather, spiritual energy.
Although progress was slow, it wasn’t without gains.
According to the attribute energy law in Pokémon bodies, Lu Li discovered that his own spiritual energy was practically universal energy.
Moreover, worth mentioning was that after Tropius understood the origin, it only lacked energy to advance, so Lu Li found a new development route.
A route referencing Natsume’s Psychic usage from the anime.
That was forcibly boosting a Pokémon’s strength, but currently this method could only target Tropius, because Tropius had already understood the origin.
If he weren’t afraid to output life energy, Lu Li could even permanently boost Tropius’s strength directly.
As all the spiritual energy in his body poured into Tropius, Tropius’s aura surged almost instantly.
Apart from its life origin not being Gym Level, Tropius could now be called a thorough Gym Level Pokémon.
Lu Li called this state Pseudo Gym Level.
However, worth noting was that Tropius’s life origin was originally much higher than its peers.
Lu Li commanded weakly: “Tropius! Stack Special Growth state.”
Knowing the opponent it would face next was extremely tricky, Tropius frantically stacked states on itself.
Brush~
Old Wu, who appeared alongside Exeggutor, glared angrily at Tropius.
As an Intermediate Breeder, Old Wu could clearly discern the strength of the Tropius before him.
“Brat! What exactly did you do to your Pokémon?” Old Wu questioned incredulously.
The Tropius, originally only Elite Early Stage, had inexplicably boosted its strength to Early Gym Level.
Mega Evolution?
Old Wu first thought of the legendary Mega Evolution, but the Tropius before him showed no external changes, and there were no traces of a Mega Stone on its body.
More importantly, Tropius couldn’t Mega Evolve at all!
Could it be…
Old Wu thought of the legendary Dragon Tamer Power; Dragon Tamer Power could temporarily boost a Pokémon’s strength, but only by a small stage, not like the Tropius before him, whose strength had boosted by a whole major stage.
Elite Early Stage and Early Gym Level! These two were completely different concepts!
“You’re a Special Ability User?” Old Wu asked in sudden realization.
“Yes, want to know what kind of Special Ability User I am?” Lu Li asked with utmost sincerity.
“You’re willing to tell me?”
Old Wu looked at Lu Li in some surprise; was this brat this honest?
Lu Li was of course happy to cooperate; his primary goal now wasn’t battling, but desperately stalling for time.
The longer time dragged on, the more advantageous it was for him.
Lu Li nodded and guaranteed: “Of course.”
“Then tell me.” Old Wu’s tone carried a bit of curiosity.
As a Master Planter, he had seen Psychics, but only Psychics.
For someone like Lu Li who was born with Psychic power, he was envious, even jealous.
“How about you guess first?” Lu Li coaxed.
“I guess…” Old Wu’s facial expression changed instantly, then he shouted sharply: “Bullet Seed!”
Exeggutor, receiving the command, launched a sneak attack; seeds with power comparable to machine gun bullets turned into a torrent shooting toward the seemingly defenseless Lu Li.
“This old man really isn’t that easy to fool.”
Lu Li sighed inwardly and transmitted via spiritual sense: “Tropius, we use Protect!”
An invisible barrier blocked in front of Lu Li, and Lu Li took the chance to jump onto Tropius’s back.
In Gym Level battles, many high-power area skills could deal fatal damage to humans; the safest place was actually beside or on a Pokémon.
Seeing the sneak attack fail, Old Wu also released his other Pokémon.
Parasect, Victreebel, Victreebel, Sceptile, Tropius, Exeggutor.
Lu Li expressionlessly looked at Old Wu’s Pokémon.
Old Wu was of Commoner Origin; it was normal for his Starter Pokémon to be Paras—after all, smart commoners knew the Starter Pokémon should best bring economic benefits, to ease resource pressure.
Tropius couldn’t help glancing at the opposing Tropius; this was the first time it had seen one of its kind in reality.
Old Wu threatened: “Brat, as long as you hand over the divine item, this old man will turn and leave.”
“Doing this, aren’t you afraid of the Alliance holding you accountable?” Lu Li questioned in an ice-cold tone.
“That’s not for you to worry about.” Old Wu sneered.
He was of course afraid, but what time was it now?
Now was the time when the Asian Alliance was on the verge of collapse; he had already contacted people from the Golden Triangle Region—as long as he was willing to join the Golden Triangle Region, they would step in to protect him.
Hearing this, Lu Li struck first: “Tropius, Leech Seed!”
“Tropius! Block it!”
“Shiftry, Sceptile, close combat, life or death irrelevant!”
Old Wu immediately responded.
Although he didn’t know how Lu Li boosted his Pokémon to Gym Level, Old Wu wasn’t worried at all about the opponent turning the tables.
“6 vs 1, the advantage is mine.” Old Wu thought confidently.
“Tropius, Fly!”
Lu Li patted Tropius’s back.
His biggest advantage now was flight advantage; after all, the opponent also only had one Tropius that could fly.
“Exeggutor! Solar Beam! Then Psychic to pull it down.”
After Tropius flew up, Lu Li continued commanding: “Continue Leech Seed!”
Old Wu sneered at this scene.
A Gym Level Pokémon repeatedly using only one skill—Pulling Up Seedlings to Help Them Grow was indeed Pulling Up Seedlings to Help Them Grow.
Just as Old Wu felt smug, his Tropius suddenly let out a mournful cry.
“Hm?”
Old Wu looked in surprise at the Tropius hit by Leech Seed.
“This Leech Seed’s power is off; could it be…”
Only then did Old Wu react, gritting his teeth: “You bastard used Growth beforehand?”
Lu Li just smiled without speaking.
Everyone knew the enemy was strong; how could he not prepare in advance?
Old Wu’s facial expression darkened as he shouted: “Abandon defense! Use every means to take out Tropius first.”
He couldn’t afford to drag this out, because he sensed dragon attribute energy condensing again in the not-too-distant sky.
That was a new Meteor Storm condensing; as a Grass-type Trainer himself, Old Wu was certain Chazi absolutely couldn’t withstand a second Meteor Storm.
Trade injury for injury—this exactly matched Lu Li’s wishes.
Leech Seed!
Leech Seed!
Still damn Leech Seed!
Under the pummeling of six Gym Level Pokémon, Tropius was covered in wounds.
From unscathed to covered in wounds, the time in between was less than two minutes.
Tropius, dripping blood all over, stood firm on the ground through sheer will.
The four large wing-like limbs on its back had three broken, and the only unbroken one had a huge hole—that was caused by Exeggutor’s Solar Beam.
The wounds on its body were even worse.
Lu Li didn’t have the luxury to use life energy to heal those terrifying wounds; every drop of life energy now was precious.
“Hahaha!”
“Kid, you can already be proud; a Pseudo Gym Level Pokémon holding out for over two minutes under the siege of six Gym Level Pokémon—your Tropius is the most outstanding Tropius I’ve ever seen.” Old Wu laughed smugly.
“Now, your Tropius doesn’t even have the strength to dodge, right?” After speaking, Old Wu commanded coldly: “Exeggutor! Final Solar Beam!”
“Despair, brat!”
Old Wu stared fixedly at Tropius.
He envied Lu Li’s luck and coveted Lu Li’s Pokémon.
As a fellow Tropius Trainer, Old Wu knew full well what qualification Lu Li’s Tropius had.
Heavenly King Level! That Tropius’s qualification was at least Heavenly King Level!
Both commoners, why was this brat’s luck so good?
The thought of destroying such an outstanding Tropius gave him an indescribable pleasant sensation of abuse.
“Is that so? Not understanding my information is the biggest mistake of your life!” Lu Li also smirked sinisterly.
“Tropius! Star Absorbing Technique!”
Old Wu: “???”
Old Wu looked confused at the desperately struggling Tropius and Lu Li.
At this point, Tropius still had stamina to use a skill? And what the hell was Star Absorbing Technique?
Soon, Old Wu learned what Star Absorbing Technique was.
The six nearly full-stamina Pokémon simultaneously let out screams, their bodies instantly covered in thorny vines.
Leech Seed + Special Growth erupted in an instant with astonishing lethality.
At the same time, Tropius let out a pleasurable cry.
In just one breath, the originally dying Tropius returned to its previous state.
Wounds gone, even the recently broken wings had regrown.
As if nothing had happened; if not for the surrounding battle traces, Old Wu would suspect he had been hit by Hypnosis.
“You… what did you do?” Old Wu’s tone carried a hint of breakdown.
“You guess?”
Lu Li just sneered, then continued commanding: “Tropius, perk up, we continue Leech Seed!”
Leech Seed?
Leech Seed!!!
A flash of insight in his mind, Old Wu realized.
“It’s Leech Seed! It’s Leech Seed, right?” Old Wu asked himself excitedly.
Then he muttered analytically: “That’s right! It’s Leech Seed; you brat used some secret technique to instantly burst the sustained damage of Leech Seed, but how is that possible…”
This concentrated burst included pulling future damage into the present.
Such a secret technique could only be described as outrageous.
Old Wu sincerely exclaimed: “Such a secret technique is practically a Grass-type divine skill; unfortunately, the strength gap isn’t something one secret technique can bridge.”
As a Grass-type Trainer, he knew how terrifying this secret technique was.
“Looks like I really can’t let you live, or else…”
A ruthless glint flashed in Old Wu’s eyes; originally planning to just grab the divine item and leave, but now he changed his mind.
Such a genius would absolutely grow in the future, and then his family would face annihilation.
Old Wu gritted his teeth and commanded: “Continue attacking! Dodge those Leech Seeds at the same time.”
Hearing this, Lu Li directly released Milotic.
“Milotic! Double Temptation.”
Lu Li quickly directed.
From the start, Lu Li never thought of defeating the opponent, only purely stalling for time.
After all, the strength gap between them was too great, too great for even his cheat to bridge.
Milotic, who had been watching the battle from the Poké Ball, was long prepared.
Before Lu Li’s words even finished falling, Milotic’s Double Temptation activated.
Disarming Voice and Dazzling Gleam launched simultaneously; at the same time, Milotic even activated her own alluring body special ability.
The Pokémon succubus Milotic practically hard-controlled the six Gym Level Pokémon in place.
Although it was just a momentary daze for those six Pokémon, that was enough, because Tropius’s Leech Seed succeeded again.
Old Wu’s facial expression darkened as he watched this.
This meant that damned Tropius could hold out another wave.
Knowing the longer it dragged, the worse for him, Old Wu grew even more anxious.
“What to do? What to do!”
Feeling the earthquake from afar, Old Wu knew time was up.
Chazi’s side might have been taken out or she might have fled, but either way, his time was short.
He had thought of attacking Lu Li the Trainer, but the problem was Lu Li’s physical skills were really too good.
He dared swear to the heavens that even the Fighting Heavenly King’s skills weren’t as good as this youth’s, plus the Pokémon and Lu Li coordinated perfectly, so attacks targeting Lu Li all landed on Tropius.
Most fatally, both Tropius and Lu Li seemed to be stamina monsters!
