Chapter 259: The Divine Pill That Changes Base Stat Total! Breakthrough!
No wonder there’s a saying in the berry world: one tree supports a family.
The market price of a Sand Scale Fruit is about 10 million, and while it fluctuates sometimes, it’s roughly the same.
If you round up, this Sand Scale Fruit Tree has brought him an income of 330 million in just about three months.
What kind of concept is this?
An entire Gym’s annual income is only this much, perhaps even less.
“The Sand Scale Fruit Tree has matured? How could it be so fast?” A voice came from behind.
Hearing the familiar voice, Lu Li casually explained, “On one hand, it’s because I have a special secret technique, and on the other, it might be due to the Land Cloud’s divine item.”
“As expected of a divine item that brings harvest to the earth, any terrifying enhancements would absolutely drive many people crazy if they got out.” Yao Yifei carefully examined the Sand Scale Fruits before her.
Even as a Gym Leader, she had never seen so many Sand Scale Fruits.
Lu Li smiled, offering no explanation.
It’s not that the Land Cloud’s divine item is powerful, but rather that the Spirit Farmer techniques from the cultivation world are like a dimensional strike in this world.
The only pity is that the seeds of these berries cannot be reused; otherwise, he would definitely replace all the fruit trees around this orchard with Sand Scale Fruit Trees.
According to the berry cultivation knowledge of this world, berries do not fruit for their own reproduction; this is due to the world’s rules.
It’s as if the reason for the fruit trees’ existence is to help Pokémon, so they have no desire to reproduce. Rare berries like Sand Scale Fruit generally take ten years to condense a single plantable Sand Scale Fruit seed.
Normal berries require one year. This seems to be a world limitation, like a natural pattern.
Lu Li tried to use the Spirit Infusion Technique to forcibly graft the Sand Scale Fruit Tree, but the skill, which should have been a dimensional strike, strangely lost its effect.
He also understood the pattern of Sand Scale Fruit.
Sand Scale Fruit only condenses a plantable Sand Scale Fruit seed after bearing fruit ten times, and only one Sand Scale Fruit Tree can survive within a certain area.
The ambition to plant Sand Scale Fruit in bulk was nipped in the bud before it even began.
Lu Li regretted it for a long time back then.
Yao Yifei eagerly asked, “Are there any particularities to harvesting Sand Scale Fruit?”
“There really are,” Lu Li gave Yao Yifei a strange look.
Did this woman also study berry cultivation?
“What are the requirements?” Yao Yifei asked.
Lu Li replied with a serious expression, “It’s best for Flying Attribute Pokémon to harvest them.”
“What’s the reason for that? Does speed represent flight?” Yao Yifei looked at Lu Li in surprise.
Lu Li shook his head. It wasn’t a strict requirement for Flying Pokémon to harvest Sand Scale Fruit; it was more of a… ritual?
Anyway, according to the research of some cultivation Masters, Sand Scale Fruits harvested by Flying Attribute Pokémon can better preserve the energy within the fruit.
There is some scientific basis for this statement, but not much.
However, he hadn’t heard of any problems with normally harvested Sand Scale Fruits.
“Leave it to me.” Yao Yifei volunteered and then released her Altaria.
“Altaria, please pick all the Sand Scale Fruits from the tree,” Yao Yifei commanded.
Altaria nodded and, turning into afterimages, swiftly harvested the Sand Scale Fruits.
“Have your Pokémon used Sand Scale Fruit before?” Lu Li asked curiously.
Yao Yifei replied, “My three Flying Type Pokémon have all used it.”
With Yao Yifei’s strength, collecting three Sand Scale Fruits would have been her limit.
Lu Li nodded and said with a smile, “I’ll give you a gift tonight. We won’t go to school today.”
“Then I’m really looking forward to it.” A bright smile appeared on Yao Yifei’s face.
After collecting 33 Sand Scale Fruits, Lu Li took the materials to the Alchemy Room in the basement.
First was researching the recipe.
This was not difficult for the current Lu Li.
In about two hours, Lu Li deduced a potion that uses Sand Scale Fruit as the main ingredient to enhance a Pokémon’s speed.
Lu Li named it the Spirit Leap Pill.
The effect of the Spirit Leap Pill is simple and direct: it enhances a Pokémon’s speed talent and ability, and it’s three times more potent than a Sand Scale Fruit.
Spirit Leap Pills can be used repeatedly, but each use halves the effect. Theoretically, Spirit Leap Pills can be consumed indefinitely, and even consuming too many Spirit Leap Pills can have a very game-breaking effect: breaking the Pokémon’s race restriction.
Such a game-breaking effect is undoubtedly terrifying, considering that a Pokémon’s base stats are fundamental. Pseudo-Legendaries are pseudo-legendaries because they have base stats close to divine beasts.
However, now, the Spirit Leap Pill can break race restrictions.
Of course, such exceptional breakthroughs that break race restrictions cannot be achieved with just one or two Spirit Leap Pills. Lu Li calculated that to break this restriction, at least 100 Spirit Leap Pills would be needed.
This translates to about 10 Sand Scale Fruits, as one Sand Scale Fruit, along with various auxiliary medicinal ingredients, can yield at most ten pills.
In other words, a Sand Scale Fruit can roughly forcibly increase a Pokémon’s base stat by one point. If you want to increase it further, it would require thousands of Spirit Leap Pills, or possibly even more.
However, Lu Li is not that greedy. Being able to break a Pokémon’s race restriction and increase its base stat by one point is already incredibly powerful.
The alchemy endeavor begins!
Lu Li ultimately broke his promise. He couldn’t finish the task by evening. It wasn’t until six in the morning the next day that Lu Li refined all the Sand Scale Fruits into pills.
Lu Li had no intention of selling the Sand Scale Fruits for money, as he was currently short on them himself.
The 33 Sand Scale Fruits ultimately yielded 325 Spirit Leap Pills. Due to insufficient spiritual energy during the refining process, there was a loss of 5 pills.
Lu Li accepted this result with a clear conscience.
With a total of 325 Spirit Leap Pills, Lu Li pondered how to allocate them.
First, he prepared 300 for himself, so that his main Pokémon, Tropius, Charmander, and Milotic, could break through their race limits. The remaining 25 would be for internal consumption.
The effect of Sand Scale Fruit is indeed incredibly potent.
In game terms, Sand Scale Fruit can increase a Pokémon’s effort values and even talent values in speed. The Spirit Leap Pill even adds base stats on top of the original.
（ For now, let’s explain it this way, so it’s easier for everyone to understand, though this is a rough explanation and not precise.）
Talent values affect qualifications. Spirit Leap Pills can even be used as breakthrough pills because some Pokémon are held back by their qualifications; they are just a tiny bit short, preventing them from improving their entire lives.
Leaving the basement, Lu Li found Bao Bao in the backyard looking dejected while practicing the Spirit Farmer Technique, with Wei supervising her.
For the sake of her sister’s health, Wei had started forcing Bao Bao to wake up early with her every morning to practice the Spirit Farmer Technique（）.
Bao Bao, who was used to oversleeping, was naturally very unwilling.
For a lazy worm, waking up early is the most painful thing in the world.
Upon seeing Lu Li, Bao Bao treated him like a savior. With a pitiful, even teary-eyed look, she said to Lu Li, “Brother! My sister has started abusing me, aren’t you going to do something?”
Lu Li looked at the wronged Bao Bao and hesitated to speak.
In this matter, he was definitely on Wei’s side, as Bao Bao’s body would truly have problems if it wasn’t strengthened.
“Bao Bao, try to get used to it slowly. Once you get used to sleeping and waking early, it won’t be painful anymore,” Lu Li comforted her, patting her little head.
Hearing this, Bao Bao felt utterly miserable.
Still have to get used to it?
Bao Bao could already imagine her miserable future life.
“You’re feeling wronged? Your sister is also doing this for your own good! As a descendant of a Fighting Heavenly King, you have a habit of oversleeping? Are you worthy of me, worthy of Dad?” Wei also lectured her with disappointment.
Bao Bao dared not say anything further, as her elder sister had even brought up their deceased father. If she continued, they would start talking about the hardships of their grandfather’s generation.
“Alright, don’t be unhappy. This is a gift I’ve brought for you all.” Lu Li took out 12 Spirit Leap Pills.
“These are special pills I refined using Sand Scale Fruits. Their effect is three times that of Sand Scale Fruit. Let’s give each Pokémon two first,” Lu Li said.
Wei said with some surprise, “Sand Scale Fruit! The Sand Scale Fruits in the orchard ripened so quickly? That’s too fast!”
She rarely went to the orchard and didn’t know the specific situation of the Sand Scale Fruits.
Bao Bao counted on her fingers and then exclaimed, “Doesn’t that mean one Spirit Leap Pill is equivalent to three Sand Scale Fruits?”
Directly increasing the value of Sand Scale Fruit threefold, pill technology is truly outrageous.
“It’s not just three times, it’s 30 times!” Lu Li thought proudly in his heart, but he didn’t explain further.
After all, releasing such figures would be too shocking, and he was afraid of upsetting the two girls so early in the morning, which would be detrimental to practicing the Spirit Farmer Technique.
Lu Li gave the little girl Bao Bao four pills, as she currently only had two Pokémon. The rest naturally went to Wei.
Although the primary attributes of Psychic-type and Fighting-type Pokémon are not speed, the rapid release of skills is also speed!
The two women naturally accepted them with both gratitude and excitement.
As for feeling embarrassed?
Non-existent.
They already belonged to Lu Li entirely, so there was no need to be polite.
Next, Lu Li gave the remaining 13 Spirit Leap Pills to Yao Yifei.
How she arranged them was her own business.
Strictly speaking, Yao Yifei was the one who needed Spirit Leap Pills the most, as speed is the primary attribute of Flying Type Pokémon.
However, Yao Yifei is different from normal Flying-type trainers, and her need for speed is not as great.
Yao Yifei currently has fourteen Pokémon, but only three are Flying Type. Well… this is an awkward number, especially for a Flying Type trainer.
Yao Yifei accepted the Spirit Leap Pills thoughtfully. Lu Li’s pill secret technique seemed even more powerful than she had imagined.
Previously, she naively thought that pills were just an enhanced version of Energy Cubes, but now it seems that pills might be an enhanced version of potions.
If this is the case, then the existence of these pills is quite terrifying.
It’s no exaggeration to say that if Lu Li’s pill secret technique were exposed, he would become an enemy of the world.
“It seems I need to warn those two little ones again,” Yao Yifei thought to herself.
She had never revealed anything about pills to anyone, not even her most trusted mother.
After giving the pills to Yao Yifei, Lu Li eagerly found Tropius in the orchard.
“Tropius, come down quickly! I have a gift for you!” Lu Li shouted to Tropius in the sky.
Tropius’s speed was originally its weakness. If this flaw could be compensated for, it would be even more perfect.
Let me tell you a joke.
The most important thing for Flying Type Pokémon is speed, yet Tropius’s worst attribute is speed.
“Roar~”
（What is it? Is something wrong with the orchard?）
Lu Li: “…”
“Don’t worry, it has nothing to do with your precious orchard,” Lu Li retorted, rolling his eyes at the Pokémon.
“Roar~”
（As if it’s not your orchard too.）
Tropius muttered quietly.
“Yoo-hoo~”
Lu Li looked at Tropius in surprise. Was its rebellious phase just late?
While he was inwardly complaining, Lu Li didn’t forget the main task.
Lu Li spoke with feigned profundity, “Open your mouth. Your great trainer is giving you a miraculous opportunity.”
Seeing Lu Li’s demeanor, Tropius knew that a real opportunity had arrived.
Having spent so long with its trainer, Tropius had developed a keen eye; as soon as Lu Li adjusted his posture, it knew what nonsense he was about to spout.
Instantly turning into a “lapdog,” Tropius eagerly opened its mouth, looking as if it were waiting to be infused.
Lu Li directly poured 100 pills into Tropius’s mouth.
Unlike the Grass Spirit Pill, there was no need to worry about overnutrition or indigestion with the Spirit Leap Pill.
The immense medicinal power instantly erupted within Tropius’s body. With a flap of its wings, Tropius shot up into the sky like an arrow loosed from a bow.
Buzz~
An invisible oppressive force spread outwards.
Lu Li watched excitedly as Tropius soared freely in the sky.
It broke through!
Perhaps because of the 100 pills, both its base stats and talent improved, Tropius’s strength reached the Elite Late Stage.
“This is outrageous!” Yao Yifei, watching from the bedroom window, sighed lightly as she looked at Tropius in the sky.
It had grown to Elite Late Stage in less than three months.
Was this something a normal Pokémon could achieve?
Even a Pokémon with Champion Level qualifications, from the Newborn Stage to Elite, would take at least two years, even if it consumed Pokémon Secret Treasures and various rare berries as meals.
If it weren’t for being from a noble family and normal cultivation methods, even a Champion Level qualified Tropius would take at least ten years, or possibly even longer.
In comparison, one could see how outrageous Lu Li’s Tropius was.
She recalled that it took her nearly four years to push her Eevee’s strength to Elite Late Stage back then.
Even that speed had caused a stir in Jiuzhou at the time.
“But if I’m considered a genius, then what is he? A monster? Or a creature?” Yao Yifei asked herself with a bitter smile.
Today, she had been struck down again.
Milotic in the backyard pond poked its head out, looking at its younger brother Tropius with confusion.
“What’s going on? How did he suddenly surpass me? Did the trainer give him special treatment again?” Milotic thought to itself, puzzled.
It simply didn’t believe that Tropius’s breakthrough to Elite Late Stage was due to its own efforts.
If the trainer hadn’t cheated for it, how could Tropius be stronger than it?
