Chapter 260: Massive Strength Boost!
“Who is really the Divine Beast here!”
Wei, who had just finished training, had already begun to doubt Kubfu’s identity.
Tropius was only three months old at most, while Kubfu was almost a year old, yet it hadn’t even reached Elite Level, but Tropius had already reached Elite Late Stage.
At this rate, Tropius might directly breakthrough to Gym Level in less than half a year.
A 17-year-old Gym Level Trainer—this was completely unscientific.
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After excitedly circling in the sky for a while, Tropius finally flew back to Lu Li’s side contentedly.
Tropius could clearly feel that its speed was more than three times faster than before.
It didn’t have a great demand for speed, after all, it followed a spell tank sustain route, but faster speed was still good, so it could carry the trainer flying in the sky in the future, Tropius thought.
“Don’t pursue speed too much, but you can work on agility, but the most important thing is still the advanced tactics of the Star Absorbing Technique.” Lu Li instructed.
Tropius’s core had never changed from the beginning, and even if there were adjustments, they were optimizations on the original Star Absorbing Technique tactics.
Tropius happily nodded.
Seeing this, Lu Li didn’t pay attention to it anymore and ordered Tropius to carry him back to the villa.
As soon as they arrived in the backyard, Milotic eagerly came over and rubbed against Lu Li in a fawning manner.
“Alright, I won’t forget you.” Lu Li amusingly patted Xiao Mei’s head.
“Come on, open your mouth!” Lu Li said.
Milotic, quick on the uptake, opened its mouth.
After swallowing a hundred Spirit Leap Pills, Milotic’s body shook, and a sharp gleam flashed in its eyes.
The Spirit Leap Pills provided better improvement for Milotic than for Tropius, but not by much, after all, Milotic’s positioning was a control-type support, and it didn’t have a great demand for speed either.
However, speed was a basic attribute, which was basically useful for all Pokémon.
The improvement in speed would bring enhancements in reaction speed, casting speed, and speed, among other aspects.
Milotic was the type that accumulated power steadily before bursting forth; after consuming the Spirit Leap Pills, its strength broke through to Elite Late Stage, or even Peak Period.
It was just one step away from Gym Level; for Pokémon, breaking through to a major level was the hardest.
Milotic was not Tropius; it hadn’t understood the origin yet, so normally, Milotic could directly breakthrough to Gym Level with this opportunity.
Unfortunately, Gym Level had a bottleneck, so Milotic got stuck here.
After Milotic familiarized itself with the power after the breakthrough, Lu Li asked expectantly, “How is it? When do you feel you can breakthrough?”
If Milotic could breakthrough to Gym Level, then he would also be a Gym Level Trainer.
What concept was this?
Kyushu University’s graduation requirement for trainers was Elite Level, and Lu Li had already reached that standard right after enrollment.
If it broke through to Gym Level again, that would make him an outstanding graduate, or even…
Lu Li had always had a dream, which was to establish a city here and claim the secret realm that might contain a paradoxical Pokémon for himself.
Milotic shook its head upon hearing this.
“Na”
（Feels like the accumulation is still not enough? Probably needs about a month’s time, or even longer.）
Lu Li wasn’t disappointed upon hearing this; after all, this improvement speed could be described as riding a rocket—being greedier would be insatiable.
“Then you go ahead first, I’ll go find Charmander.” After saying that, Lu Li left the backyard.
Arriving in the basement, Lu Li found Charmander and Beldum who were working.
Charmander had already mastered the sanctity in the Life Flame and could finally cooperate with Beldum in alchemy.
Although these two little guys couldn’t refine profound pills, the first-generation spirit pill series posed no difficulty for them.
“Fire”
（Trainer! Come see the results of my efforts again.）
Charmander proudly pointed to the several bottles of pills nearby, showing off.
Beldum also floated to Lu Li’s side, circling around him constantly.
Lu Li curiously checked the pills in the bottle—hmm, the quality was a bit low, but they were indeed qualified pills.
The main flaw in these pills was that their surface was pitted, leading to quite a bit of loss in medicinal power.
This wasn’t Charmander’s fault, but Beldum’s problem.
However, Lu Li didn’t plan to blame Beldum; after all, it was just a half-month-old child, and he couldn’t be too harsh on Beldum who had just been born not long ago.
“Very good! You’ve received my true teachings; this flame control ability could even impersonate Ho-Oh.” Lu Li blurted out.
Of course, this was to fool Charmander; to make Charmander work, he had to use flattering education, praising it highly to motivate it to work diligently.
“Beldum is also great, but you still need to work hard; your control over Psychic Power is still too rough, but I believe you’ll get stronger and stronger.” Lu Li also encouraged Beldum who was circling around him.
Beldum let out a pleasant metallic growl.
The praised Charmander put its hands on its hips, looking smug as if to say “this little lord is awesome.”
“Come on, open your mouth for a reward.” Lu Li smiled.
Hearing this, Charmander eagerly opened its mouth, even worrying that Lu Li might not fit it in and stretching its mouth wider.
Seeing this, Lu Li’s mouth twitched slightly, but he still poured the pill into Charmander’s mouth.
Charmander’s demand for speed was the highest among the three Pokémon, and many of its skills required speed support.
As a first-generation Starter Pokémon, Charmander could almost be called a perfect Pokémon; its only flaw was its relatively fragile body.
In the game, Charizard’s HP and physical defense weren’t high, but in the real world, these two weaknesses had actually been fixed.
According to this world’s Dragon Type classification, Charizard had Dragon Bloodline; as everyone knew, dragons had stronger bodies than normal Pokémon—in game terms, thicker health bars, and dragon scale defense was comparable to Steel.
After Pokémon became real, Charizard became exceptionally perfect.
Most importantly, his own Charmander’s Dragon Bloodline wasn’t low; not exaggerating, after Charmander evolved into Charizard, it would be a hexagonal warrior.
The improvement the Spirit Leap Pill brought to Charmander was undoubtedly huge, much greater than for Milotic and Tropius.
It was like consuming a Pokémon Secret Treasure; Charmander’s strength directly surged to Veteran Level Late Stage.
If there wasn’t a bottleneck, Charmander could even reach Mid Elite Level directly.
Lu Li instructed, “Next, you need to accumulate power well, strive to evolve and breakthrough at the same time, then use the Power of Evolution to improve your own qualification.”
Charmander’s personality was too impulsive, and Lu Li was afraid it would evolve directly.
Thinking of this, Lu Li took out an Everstone from the Space Ring.
“Just in case, you wear this.” Lu Li instructed uneasily.
Looking at the Everstone Lu Li handed over, Charmander nodded helplessly and put it around its neck.
Afraid this little guy would do something tricky, Lu Li scared it again: “This thing can’t be eaten; if you eat it, you’ll never be able to evolve.”
Unlike other Pokémon, Charmander was the type that would actually do it.
Although Charmander had a reassured expression, Lu Li still wasn’t entirely at ease.
“Beldum, you’re in charge of supervising it.” Lu Li entrusted this honorable mission to Beldum.
Beldum immediately betrayed the revolutionary friendship without hesitation and chose to stand on Lu Li’s side as his eyes and ears.
“No evolving! Even more no using evolution to breakthrough; instead, evolve during the breakthrough.” Lu Li warned sternly.
Charmander nodded frantically.
Charmander was still young and its personality quite impulsive; Lu Li was really afraid it would miss this opportunity.
For evolvable Pokémon, evolution was one of the greatest opportunities.
Breaking through via evolution and evolving via breakthrough were two different concepts in this world; the former would only make the Pokémon more mediocre, while the latter could transform it from mortal to divine.
After leaving the basement, Lu Li lay on the sofa and fell into contemplation.
The Pokémon’s strength improvement speed was very fast, but as a Cultivator, Lu Li only felt ashamed.
Cultivating with eighteen-series Mixed Spiritual Root was really too difficult; it took him 16 years to get started, even with the recent wave after wave of opportunities in the past few months.
But to breakthrough to Qi Refining Layer Two, it would take at least three more years.
Three years…
Lu Li stared at the ceiling, silent.
In three years, Charmander would probably be a Heavenly King, and that was just the conservative estimate.
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Yao Yifei, who suddenly received a call from her mom, was puzzled; she didn’t know what was going on, but her mom kept probing about Lu Li and even hinted for her to take action quickly.
“Could she have seen through it?” Yao Yifei thought nervously.
Yao Yifei wasn’t worried that her mom would oppose her and Lu Li; although nothing was set in stone yet, she knew her mom too well.
She was already 25 this year—hmm! Not yet 26, so 25, no problem.
In this world where the legal marriage age was 16, she was already considered an older leftover woman.
Her mom had worried herself gray-haired over this; although being with Lu Li seemed a bit like an old cow eating tender grass, she wasn’t the one being eaten.
What truly puzzled Yao Yifei was her mom’s attitude.
That attitude was too strange; it gave her the feeling that her mom wished she and Lu Li would marry on the spot immediately.
Even if she was relatively older, it shouldn’t be this urgent, right?
Even more outrageous was that her mom even hinted for her to please Lu Li.
When she heard that implication in her mom’s words, Yao Yifei almost teleported back to check if her mom had been swapped.
Her mom was someone with eyes on her head; how could she look favorably on a commoner like Lu Li?
But strangely, it had really happened.
Her mom was very satisfied with Lu Li, this future son-in-law, even more so than with her own daughter.
“Whatever, as long as mom doesn’t oppose it; as for the surprise he mentioned…” Yao Yifei’s brows furrowed deeply.
Yao Yifei didn’t know what connections her mom had pulled to get a Dragonite Pokémon Egg; you know, that was a Pseudo-Legendary, a Pokémon even she, an Alliance Gym Leader, desired.
If it were half a month ago, she would definitely need the Dragonite Pokémon Egg, but now it was different.
After picking up two high-qualification Pokémon Eggs at the black market with Lu Li, she no longer had the energy to nurture new Pokémon.
“Whatever, keeping it for now is fine.” Yao Yifei thought.
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Extreme Ice Empire Winter Palace, Empress’s residence.
“So annoying! I shouldn’t have become this Empress.” Ekaterina complained depressedly while looking at the snowy scenery outside the window.
The Froslass nearby watched this scene and covered her mouth with a light laugh; she was Ekaterina’s Guardian and had watched Ekaterina grow up.
She could tell at a glance that Ekaterina wasn’t bored, but had entered her estrus period, although Ekaterina’s estrus period was a bit late.
Froslass smiled and comforted, “Child, although those who wear the crown must bear its weight, the Empress can also have her own vacation.”
“If you wish, you could go to the Jiuzhou Region for a vacation, but Qingfeng City is definitely off-limits; the Jiuzhou Alliance already knows there’s an Ice Attribute Evil God in that secret realm.
At such a critical time, you, the Extreme Ice Empire’s Empress, are definitely feared by them.”
Hearing this, Ekaterina became even more depressed; it was precisely because she knew this that she was depressed.
“So what?” Ekaterina asked listlessly.
“At a time like this, a little willful use of power.” Froslass made a fingertip galaxy gesture.
Ekaterina looked at Froslass curiously: power’s willfulness? Could she force the Jiuzhou Alliance to send Lu Li to the Extreme Ice Empire?
If that were possible, she would have forced Lu Li to come with her back when she was in the Jiuzhou Region.
“That little guy has entered Kyushu University; we can give that little guy an exchange student spot—after all, that little guy is the Grand Festival Champion, so we have a justified cause.” Froslass said with a smile.
Hearing this, Ekaterina’s eyes lit up.
Froslass continued, “And don’t forget, the Cambrian Secret Realm will open in half a month; the Jiuzhou Alliance will definitely be happy to get a spot, even if it’s one we specify.”
Now, Ekaterina herself hesitated a bit.
The Cambrian Secret Realm was one of the family’s foundations; would those old folks in the family agree? You know, the Cambrian Secret Realm spots had always been an important tool for the Yekaterina Family to win over vassal families.
“Just one spot, and the Cambrian Secret Realm only opens every 10 years; plus, that little guy is an Ideal Messenger—this is also an opportunity for us.”
Now Ekaterina was truly tempted; at least the family side shouldn’t oppose it.
“I’ll go talk to Grandma myself.” Ekaterina stood up excitedly, threw down those words, and hurriedly ran out.
As an unstable secret realm, the Cambrian Secret Realm had an almost public secret: there was a god inside this secret realm.
Froslass, standing in place, sighed lightly: “Child, don’t blame me; everything is for the family.”
