Chapter 284: Nurturing Directions For The Little Ones
One day later.
The Asian Alliance ultimately disbanded.
This timing was a bit later than Lu Li had imagined. After all, the Asian Alliance’s disbandment was the first rumor to spread, yet it was the last to actually disband.
It was said that at the Global Alliance Conference, the other regional alliances in the Asian Alliance dragged their feet relentlessly, until the Jiuzhou Alliance could tolerate it no longer and directly announced their withdrawal from the Asian Alliance on the spot.
The Indian Alliance originally wanted to seize control of the Asian Alliance through this opportunity, but unfortunately, everyone knows the reason for the Asian Alliance’s existence?
Without the Jiuzhou Alliance, what does your Indian Alliance amount to?
The Golden Triangle Alliance also announced their withdrawal from the Asian Alliance, followed by the Thai Alliance and Korean Alliance successively announcing their exits.
In the end, the Asian Alliance existed only in name, as the only alliance that explicitly did not withdraw was the Indian Alliance—but everyone in the world knows the Indian Alliance cannot represent the Asian Alliance.
Then came the division of the New Continent.
The Jiuzhou Alliance ultimately failed to swallow 2/3 of the New Continent’s territory, securing only 1/3.
The Jiuzhou Alliance, American Alliance, Extreme Ice Empire, Great Britain Empire, and German Alliance—the five major powers—dispatched five master-level trainers to the New Continent to transform it.
After listening to Yao Yifei’s account, Lu Li sincerely remarked, “Two Water Attribute masters, one Grass Attribute master, and one Ground and Rock-type master—what a grand move.”
Master-level trainers could truly be called gods on earth.
Mobilizing five “gods on earth” at once to transform the New Continent was likely the largest human action in nearly a millennium.
Yao Yifei echoed with a sigh, “Now even the Earth Demon God is being called the Earth God—just like that, a world where only the Yamato Alliance is hurt was born.”
Hearing this, Lu Li couldn’t help but laugh.
The Yamato Alliance was a classic case of failing to steal the chicken only to lose the rice. They had originally planned to trap Master Wen Gongmao and Ken Lin, those two master-level trainers, but ended up trapping themselves instead.
The Yamato Alliance’s economic situation was no longer just set back 10 years—it was set back 40 years.
Plus the master-level trainer and champion trainer killed by the Earth God, the Yamato Alliance’s losses this time exceeded even the American Alliance’s losses in the Death Tide.
Yao Yifei continued mocking, “The funniest part is, the Yamato Alliance still wanted a share of the New Continent—after all, the Earth God entered the real world from their Yamato Region. Unfortunately, even the American Alliance didn’t support them this time.”
The Yamato Alliance’s act of “patricide” this time had thoroughly broken the American Alliance’s heart.
“This is karma,” Lu Li said with a cold laugh.
They had nearly died in the Fugaku Secret Realm. If not for the Yamato Alliance’s beasts awakening Groudon with an explosion, none of the subsequent events would have happened.
Thinking of the call Ekaterina had made to her earlier, Lu Li reminded, “By the way, Ekaterina might come to our place this afternoon.”
Hearing this, Yao Yifei’s facial expression changed, and she hurriedly said, “Then I’ll send my mom back in a bit.”
Lu Li shook his head. “No need at all. The villa is so big—it could house ten more people.”
“It’s not about whether there’s room to stay.” Yao Yifei replied with a bitter smile.
Her own mom was no pushover. If she ended up arguing with Ekaterina, there would be quite a show.
“Not about room to stay? Could it be a food issue?” Lu Li wondered to himself.
Lu Li continued persuading, “I think you should still ask Aunt An Feng’s opinion.”
To be fair, Aunt An Feng was quite pleasing to the eye, and he truly didn’t mind her staying here regularly.
Most importantly, An Feng was quite low-key. At least while living here, she hadn’t meddled in anything or deliberately probed his secrets—she was like someone here to retire.
Yao Yifei firmly retorted, “Forget it. The gym really needs my mom.”
“You should still discuss it properly with Aunt An Feng. I’m heading to the orchard.” After saying this, Lu Li left the living room.
He didn’t really want to get involved in his girlfriend’s family matters.
After arriving at the orchard, Lu Li rode on Tropius’s back to inspect the orchard and garden.
The orchard showed no changes, but the rare flowers in the garden could condense seeds again.
He had originally planned to move the orchard into the secret realm, but after learning about the issues between the secret realm and the real world, Lu Li ultimately decided against it.
First, Tropius couldn’t live long-term in the secret realm—it cared too much about its orchard, spending at least 20 hours a day around it.
If it were in the secret realm, Tropius would likely stay there permanently, which would be quite bad.
Lu Li decided to find a few reclusive youths from the Wildfire Gang. With farming techniques turned into talismans, he could fully recruit a few tool persons to open a new orchard and demonic beast garden in the secret realm.
After returning home, Lu Li immediately started writing lists—one for the Qu Family and one for Long Ying.
The former was to collect some seeds from the orchard and medicine garden for him; the latter was nurturing materials for the Pokémon.
Without exaggeration, Long Ying’s Jangmo-o would single-handedly sustain his dragon team.
Next was the training plan.
In the basement, Lu Li found Beldum, who was working with Charmander.
Since its birth, Beldum had never undergone proper training—it had always been tricked by him into alchemy with Charmander.
But it wasn’t without gains; at least Beldum’s Psychic control was quite good, nearly matching Charmander’s initial Flame Conjuring Technique ability at birth.
Pseudo-legendary Pokémon had a drawback: the battle habits formed before final evolution were almost useless later on.
Lu Li always followed the principle that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
The skills Beldum could use from early to late stages were only Psychic Fangs and Meteor Beam these two skills.
As for basic skills like Tackle, Bullet Punch was far more useful than Tackle—after all, this was reality, not a game.
Metagross was most famous for its high Attack and high Defense, though that came at the cost of low Speed, low Special Attack, and low Special Defense.
High Attack and high Defense referred to physical attack and physical defense; low Attack and low Defense referred to Special Attack and Special Defense. But awkwardly, most of Metagross’s major moves were Special Attack-based.
Normally, Metagross’s core skill was just one: Psychic Fangs.
Psychic Fangs was physical attack, but its activation method and energy consumption were Psychic Attribute. Plus, Little Silver itself had high Psychic talent.
Without exaggeration, Psychic Fangs in Little Silver’s hands was a divine skill. If it could develop a secret technique based on it, it would be perfect.
But Little Silver was still exploring this path.
This was training without cheats.
With no-cheat training methods, there were naturally cheat-assisted ones.
He had been pondering how to combine cultivation cheats with Little Silver, and finally Lu Li found a way.
In the Cultivation World, there was a very common item called a formation disk—the core treasure of formation masters.
Its effect was to engrave formations on it and release them when needed. The formation disk gave formation masters attack methods and elevated their status dramatically.
Besides that were inscriptions, or rather restrictions—the specialty of puppeteers. When puppeteers crafted puppets, they engraved various inscriptions as restrictions on the puppets, producing all sorts of effects.
Little Silver wasn’t normal life but something like a Transformer, with a body mainly composed of metal.
The biggest benefit was that Little Silver could use its body as a formation disk or even a puppet—a puppet with autonomous consciousness.
Bearing thousands of restrictions on its body, waving to unleash thousands of formations.
Just imagining the scene was thrilling.
But this had a prerequisite: Little Silver’s body strength and energy output had to keep up.
Body strength determined how many formations and restrictions Little Silver could engrave; energy output determined how many it could release.
Body strength was relatively easy to address—simply refine it like a magic treasure to boost Little Silver’s body strength.
But energy was trickier. Attribute energy relied on accumulation. The pills Little Silver ate now had some effect on boosting energy origin, but it was minimal.
Just like Tropius—Tropius lacked energy accumulation too.
Beldum needed even more; its evolution required energy accumulation, over twice that of same-level Pokémon.
“Little Silver, your future training focus will be improving Psychic Fangs proficiency. When free, follow Espeon to cultivate and accumulate energy by the divine item,” Lu Li said while recording in the notebook he bought, giving instructions.
Little Silver nodded shakily, its mechanical eyes flashing with excited light.
Its own training plan was finally ready. Once stronger…
Little Silver’s crimson gaze subtly glanced at Charmander beside it.
The little Beldum also harbored ambitions to be the boss.
Sensing malice from nowhere, Charmander looked up alertly at its surroundings.
“Fire~”
（Strange, why do I feel like someone is badmouthing me behind my back?）
Charmander called out in confusion.
“Xiao Hong!”
Hearing this familiar yet shameful name, Charmander’s expression shook.
“Fire~”
（Here, here, Trainer.）
Charmander wagged its tail incessantly, its face full of expectation as it looked at Lu Li: “Is my training plan ready too?”
“Let me see your tail?” Lu Li pocketed the notebook, squatted down, and carefully checked Charmander’s Life Flame.
The Life Flame on Charmander’s tail was very active, with faint gold deep in the flames.
“As expected… Ho-Oh’s Sacred Fire influence on you has remained,” Lu Li said delightedly.
“Fire~”
（I noticed my flames are indeed different—stronger than before, like the purifying power you mentioned?）
Lu Li nodded.
Purifying Power was merely one of Sacred Fire’s most insignificant abilities. In Cultivation World terms, Sacred Fire’s greatest power was still the Power of Creation.
The current Three Sacred Beasts were born from Sacred Fire, deeply understanding its Power of Creation.
In the Mind World.
Terapagos sincerely praised, “Unknowingly, Shiny Noctowl is getting closer to the founder.”
Even the proud Groudon grunted in response.
Among all known divine beasts, only Ho-Oh had created true subordinate gods through its own power.
Even He had relied on the world’s Law of Destiny to spawn those two Cyclizar.
The former created gods with its own power; the latter used the world’s power to birth gods—there was an essential difference.
Groudon said in a low voice, “Arceus’s Power of Creation… Ho-Oh lives up to being among the earliest ancient gods. In comprehending laws, He leads us by far.”
After sighing, Groudon added, “Your divine envoy does have something special.”
“Heh heh.” Hearing the praise, Terapagos grinned slyly.
Ignoring Terapagos’s sleazy laugh, Groudon continued, “Unfortunately, my Earth Power still struggles to nurture vitality. Perhaps my divine duty is too violent—that’s where I lag far behind.”
“But this kid’s power gives me hope—the hope of taming wild Power of Law.” At the end, Groudon’s form even carried a hint of smile and excitement.
The two conspiring gods exchanged meaningful glances—a tacit agreement between them.
Charmander’s training plan remained the same as before.
Focus fully on Flame Conjuring Technique, then consider boosting the flames’ power.
As for boosting flame power, demonic beasts in the Cultivation World had many methods.
But in the Pokémon World, Lu Li had found only one feasible path so far: analyzing divine beasts’ flames to gradually elevate Charmander’s fire quality toward that of divine beasts.
Lu Li suddenly recalled Groudon’s scales.
After Groudon’s Primal Reversion, it gained magma power, becoming dual Fire and Ground Attribute. Groudon’s earth-rock fire should have something to it.
Thinking of this, Lu Li took out the scales and handed them to Charmander: “See if you can comprehend something from these in the next few days. You have a month—if not, this treasure goes to Onix.”
Charmander puzzledly took the scales from Lu Li’s hand.
“Fire~”
（Are you sure there’s flame power inside?）
Charmander thought the trainer might have been tricked—the scales contained only Ground Attribute energy, nothing related to Fire Attribute.
“This is the Earth God’s divine item. After the Earth God Groudon undergoes Primal Reversion, its attributes become Ground and Fire,” Lu Li explained seriously.
Charmander nodded, not fully grasping but accepting.
“Fire~”
（Then I’ll give it a try.）
After saying this, Charmander hugged the scales and went aside to meditate on them independently.
Seeing this, Lu Li didn’t stop it—after all, he wasn’t sure if Charmander could comprehend anything, as he hadn’t sensed fire energy from the scales himself.
But what if?
It cost nothing to try.
After arranging training plans for the two little ones, Lu Li went to the backyard pond and found Xiao Mei.
Milotic had recently been learning Contest Style with Yao Yifei.
Yao Yifei said Milotic was progressing quickly, and Lu Li wanted to see her progress for himself.
