Chapter 268: The Looming Crisis
“Polite? I’m just asking if you’re polite?”
The angry Celebi puffed up and glared at Terapagos in front of it.
If not for this guy’s status being higher than its own, it would definitely unleash a set of unexplained Celebi combos on this guy today.
Celebi continued complaining, “Also, do you think anyone in the real world can hear your summons?”
Terapagos: “…”
The vast majority of powerful divine beasts are in secret realms, so it was indeed very normal for its little companion to summon Celebi.
Thinking of this, Terapagos hurriedly explained, “Let’s not talk about that first. I called you here because there’s something important.”
Celebi tsundere-ly nodded, looking like “I’m waiting for your explanation.”
Terapagos asked, “Did you know that Groudon left the Origin Land Secret Realm?”
“It doesn’t know, but I do.” Another voice suddenly rang out, and Zygarde Cell Form appeared in the mind world.
Seeing Zygarde, Terapagos wasn’t surprised, after all, its original target in finding companions was Zygarde.
Terapagos questioned, “You knew, and you didn’t handle it?”
Zygarde retorted, “How do you want me to handle it? Evolve to full strength and fight that dumbass?”
Good! It seemed to be the emotional Zygarde, which meant Red Core Zygarde.
Compared to the rational Blue Core Zygarde, Terapagos and Celebi preferred the emotional Red Core Zygarde.
“Can’t you go find Rayquaza about this?” Terapagos retorted.
Zygarde: “…”
Zygarde asked with a dark expression, “Good question. Guess why I didn’t go?”
Terapagos: “Uh… It looked at Zygarde in confusion.”
“Because you don’t want to?” Terapagos probed.
“Don’t want to my ass!” Zygarde jumped up from its spot, and a chestnut smacked hard onto Terapagos.
The broken-shielded Zygarde cursed loudly, “I’m a land dragon! Land dragon!”
In cell form, it could only leap for short-distance flight, and only after 10% could it use anti-gravity flight.
But the problem was that Rayquaza lived above the atmosphere, so it couldn’t specially recall all cells just to meet Rayquaza.
“Destiny told me that Groudon is about to awaken, and when that happens, it will definitely leave that secret realm. Now can be said to be Blue Star’s weakest moment,” Terapagos said worriedly, voicing its concern.
That dumbass Groudon didn’t know how to control its strength, and if it used a bit too much power, Earth would have to restart.
Hearing this, Zygarde also wore a face full of worry.
Zygarde suggested, “How about we exile that Fugaku Secret Realm?”
Hearing this idea, Terapagos’s eyes lit up, then it egged on, “That’s a great idea. Will you go or Celebi go?”
“Don’t count on me. Current Blue Star can only withstand 10% of my power,” Zygarde directly refused.
Celebi looked speechlessly at the two deities.
“Why are you staring at me? My authority does include space-time traversal, but exiling a super large secret realm is a bit much for a Pokémon.”
For such a thankless task, Celebi also refused.
“How about… Zygarde, you contact Shiny Noctowl?” Terapagos suggested.
Now, the only one on Blue Star capable of handling this was Ho-Oh.
Zygarde also replied, “Ho-Oh’s envoy has already set off. As for how it will handle it, I don’t know.”
Realizing it could shift the blame, Terapagos asked, “Then we won’t handle this matter?”
“No way!” Zygarde directly rejected Terapagos’s idea.
Zygarde complained, “Have you forgotten? That Shiny Noctowl’s envoy is notoriously unreliable.”
Terapagos: “…”
It remembered now. Although the Rainbow Hero could resolve crises every time, it wasn’t always perfectly, and those crises could be resolved because of their peak strength.
Now that it was unprecedentedly weak, Blue Star was like without an insurance layer. Handing this to the Rainbow Hero was indeed unreliable.
“So… how about sending your Turtle Envoy?” Celebi covered its mouth and laughed.
The matter of Terapagos having an envoy had already spread in the divine beast circle. To retaliate against Terapagos for giving it a silly nickname, Celebi decided to give Terapagos’s envoy a resounding nickname too.
Feeling insulted, Terapagos grumbled, “Screw your Turtle Envoy. My envoy is called Envoy of Destiny!”
“Alright! Then Envoy of Destiny.” Celebi nodded perfunctorily, then asked, “How about it? What do you think of my suggestion?”
Terapagos really wanted to say it wasn’t good, because it couldn’t command Lu Li either.
Unlike other divine envoys, Lu Li was special. On one hand, because it was very weak now and needed to stay by Lu Li’s side to absorb destiny power from outside the world.
In other words, from a needs perspective.
It did need Lu Li more, so to avoid being pinned down, Terapagos didn’t even dare to appear proactively.
But it certainly wouldn’t admit such an embarrassing thing.
“Ahem, it’s still early. We don’t need to rush,” Terapagos said seriously.
Terapagos said, “However… I do need Celebi’s help with something.”
“Tell me.” Celebi was still easygoing, at least not the nitpicking type of Pokémon, and didn’t refuse Terapagos because of the nickname it gave it.
“It’s like this…”
Terapagos recounted the script—no, it should be the plan.
…………
“Achoo~”
Lu Li, who was reading a book, suddenly sneezed, then muttered puzzledly to himself, “How could a cultivator like me catch a cold? Could someone be talking about me again?”
Lu Li rubbed his nose and continued flipping through the notebook in his hand.
There was so much valuable content in a Heavenly King Level Trainer’s training notes. Though the notebook wasn’t thick, it was a lifetime summary from a Heavenly King Level Trainer.
Thinking of the Champion Level Trainer he knew, Lu Li muttered to himself, “I wonder if Qu Suxin has the habit of writing notes.”
According to habits in this world, the Yekaterina Family definitely had a ice type trainer’s secret tome, which could almost be called the supreme treasure dreamed of by all ice type trainers.
Every generation of the Yekaterina Family had produced Master Level Trainers without fail, meaning each generation’s Master Level Trainer would record and integrate their notes into that secret tome.
An ice type secret tome summarized by generations of ice type masters—just thinking about it was thrilling.
Near evening, Yu Lili’s call came as scheduled.
For this period, Yu Lili called every day at this time.
If busy, Lu Li usually didn’t answer, then called back after finishing.
Yu Lili would generally use this time to share fun things she encountered in Shuibo City with him.
Today, Lu Li heard some explosive news.
That suspected Xiao Zhi counterpart, the Rainbow Hero, had actually gone to the big river region, and to the Fugaku Secret Realm at that.
Upon receiving this news, Lu Li’s first reaction was to pack up and run.
Thinking of this, after hanging up, Lu Li urgently called a family meeting.
This meeting included the sisters Wei He and Bao Bao, as well as Yao Yifei.
Lu Li announced gravely, “Everyone! Big trouble.”
“What? Again with you being sexually harassed at school?” Yao Yifei asked nervously.
Lu Li had told her about school matters, so Yao Yifei had always been concerned about it.
Bao Bao also looked at Lu Li worriedly, afraid her good older brother would be taken advantage of outside.
“Ahem, I’m talking serious business.” Lu Li gave the seductive Yao Yifei a glare.
Yao Yifei: “Alright, go ahead. What is it?”
Yao Yifei stopped fooling around and waited seriously for Lu Li’s next words.
Lu Li said extremely seriously, “My Ideal Power tells me a world-wide catastrophe might happen next.”
“Like the Death Tide?” Yao Yifei asked, narrowing her eyes.
Mentioning the Death Tide made the atmosphere in the living room even heavier.
The last Death Tide was survived by luck, but this time might not be.
Lu Li nodded.
“Have you heard of the Earth God?” Lu Li continued asking.
Bao Bao and Wei He shook their heads in unison. In the South American Alliance, the Ocean God was Lugia, and Kyogre and Groudon weren’t that famous; most ordinary people didn’t know.
Yao Yifei explained to the two sisters beside them, “Earth God Groudon, the deity said to have created the land.”
Yao Yifei also asked nervously, “So… the Earth God is reviving? In the real world?”
Lu Li nodded heavily.
Wei He and Bao Bao still hadn’t realized the severity, their faces full of confusion.
Lu Li explained to the two sisters, “Legend says Groudon will endlessly expand land, meaning if it descends in the real world, all the world’s oceans will disappear.”
“Ah! Isn’t that good?” Bao Bao said innocently, biting her finger.
In Bao Bao’s view, humans relied on land to survive, so more land was good, right?
But Yao Yifei and Wei He didn’t think so.
Yao Yifei explained, “The oceans disappearing means water ecosystems will imbalance, and the whole world will face water shortages—this is just one of the most minor problems after the oceans vanish.”
If this really happened, the whole world would fall back into disputes.
Secret realms have water, and secret realms would become more livable for humans than the real world.
This means battles between humans and secret realm Pokémon are about to begin, and that’s just human vs. secret realm Pokémon wars.
Plus wars between humans, with limited secret realms—powerful trainer families would surely seize one for their family to survive.
Then the whole world would descend into chaos, regions would cease to exist, returning to ancient family disputes.
Groudon’s appearance wouldn’t directly destroy the world, but it would absolutely shatter the hard-established order.
“That’s what worries me,” Lu Li nodded helplessly.
If oceans disappeared and the real world became more livable, Qingfeng City’s Secret Realm would become a source of chaos nearby.
Yao Yifei thought quickly, considering countermeasures if this happened.
Moments later, Yao Yifei said, “Lu Li, my Vespiquen is about to break through. Then we could still seize Qingfeng City’s Secret Realm.”
Hearing this, Lu Li pondered.
Originally, his plan was to occupy the secret realm discovered in Qingyun Mountain Range, but its level was too high, and entering with his current strength wasn’t safe.
Yao Yifei’s suggestion was pretty good. If she broke through to Heavenly King Level, even if they couldn’t fully take Qingfeng City’s Secret Realm, they could at least claim a territory inside it.
“So next, we’ll store some water resources. Later I’ll make these space equipments specifically for storing water. Then Wei He and Bao Bao, you two fill these two water storage equipments with water,” Lu Li arranged.
Wei He nodded quickly.
Lu Li continued, “Supplies too. I’ll directly contact the Qu Family and Yu Family to help gather supplies.”
“And as fast as possible, since you can’t be sure when Groudon will awaken,” Yao Yifei added beside him.
Lu Li comforted, “Awakening… that’s at least three days from now.”
Yao Yifei said, “Then set delivery within three days. Gather as much as possible. We can first collect a batch ready in three days, then continuously gather more supplies.”
Lu Li nodded to show understanding.
After the family meeting, Lu Li directly called Qu Tongtong.
“Hey~, Sister Qu, are you free now? I need your help with something.”
Qu Tongtong: “What is it? Tell me.”
“It’s like this…”
After telling Qu Tongtong his request, Lu Li called Jin Fengjiao.
Lu Li wasn’t worried Jin Fengjiao would refuse, since he was the one to be curried favor with now.
After hanging up, Lu Li thought for a moment, then hesitantly called Qu Suxin.
Honestly, Lu Li hesitated whether to make this call, but he did in the end.
After connecting, Lu Li said directly, “Sister Qu, my Ideal Power has a new warning.”
Hearing this, Qu Suxin put down her legs on the desk and sat upright, asking, “What is it?”
“My Ideal Power prophesies that the Earth God, Groudon, will soon awaken in the real world,” Lu Li said in a low voice.
Qu Suxin’s expression changed, and she asked softly, “How certain?”
“Sixty percent grasp, but I’m seventy percent sure Groudon will definitely awaken soon,” Lu Li finished, then fell silent, quietly waiting for Qu Suxin’s reaction.
If Qu Suxin doubted, he would casually brush it off.
“Sixty percent is enough. Thanks for this,” Qu Suxin said gravely, hanging up and falling into thought, her right thumb lightly tapping the desk surface.
