Elf: How do you cultivate immortality in the elf world?

Chapter 412 The Consequences of Taking Shortcuts: Severed Meridians!
Yao Yifei's guess was soon confirmed.

"Freya, you can pick one," Lu Li said.

bang bang bang...

Freya, her heart pounding, was afraid she had misheard.

"Can I really do it?" Freya asked, her voice trembling.

Yao Yifei, who was standing next to him, chimed in, "Of course, after all, you're one of us."

Freya didn't realize that this person was different from the normal people around her, and deeply moved, Freya quickly shook her head.

Freya said timidly, "Why don't you guys choose first, and I'll choose last?"

“It’s alright, all the cores of this generation of Oqisis have the same aptitude, you choose first,” Lu Li urged.

"Then I'll choose this one." Freya decisively picked up the Deoxys Core on the left.

Lu Li nodded, then looked at Bao Bao.

"Baobao, you should choose one too."

"Ah! Me too?" Bao Bao pointed at herself in surprise.

Lu Li chuckled and rubbed the little chubby head, teasing, "You're a Psychic-type trainer too, who else would you choose?"

Bao Bao nodded, seemingly understanding, but he thought his brother's words made a lot of sense.

Boom didn't stand on ceremony and directly picked up the Deoxys core on the right.

"I'll choose this one," Bao Bao decided.

Lu Li nodded and put away the remaining Deoxys Cores.

"Give me that Deoxys core artifact from before. I'd like to see if I can let these three Deoxys cores absorb the energy inside," Lu Li said to Freya.

The core artifact of Deoxys, which was obtained in the secret realm, was entrusted to Freya by Yao Yifei for safekeeping.

Freya: "Okay."

Since there's already a Deoxys Core, the lifeless Deoxys Core isn't as appealing.

"Lu Li, someone is approaching again." The Great Natural Bird suddenly appeared.

It had been watching from the sidelines and was deeply moved.

As a natural bird raised in the capitalist world, it had never seen anything like this before.

Lu Li actually gave Freya a divine beast, and it was even a level one divine beast.

This generosity elevates the level of human generosity towards our fellow human beings to an immeasurable degree.

Even between biological father and daughter, it's impossible to be this generous, right?
This is what the Great Natural Bird just thought.

Long Ying, who was standing next to him, had the same idea. If she had approached Lu Li before, it was because of Lu Li's identity and strength.

Now, Long Ying is truly captivated by Lu Li.

There are mythical beasts involved, and they really give them away!

Putting myself in her shoes, if there really were a level one divine beast in the family, and there were only three spots available, even if the attributes matched, it would be impossible for her, as the daughter, to get it.

Thinking of this, Long Ying felt even more attached to the Lu family. As long as Lu Li treated everyone equally, she was willing to go all the way with him.

Yao Yifei: I've never seen anyone eat and take things like this before.

"Someone else is approaching? Could it be one of those amateur trainers?" Lu Li thought to himself, speechless.

Those powerful and influential families certainly wouldn't dare to provoke him now, but those ignorant people might not.

After all, ignorance is bliss.

"Let's go, let's go meet them." Lu Li stood up and said helplessly.

“I’ll go with you.” Freya quickly stood up.

"No need, they're probably just some nobody who doesn't know anything." Lu Li shook his head and refused Freya's suggestion.

Activate teleportation.

Lu Li squinted at the Pelipper trainer in front of him.

The trainer riding on the back of the Pelipper is only at the Elite Four level.

But since he's an Elite Four trainer, he should know about him.

Just as Lu Li was about to ask what the other party was doing there, the trainer on Pelipper's back jumped down and respectfully handed Lu Li an invitation.

"My lord, this is an invitation from Atlantis. Our High Priest wishes to invite you to Atlantis for a talk."

"The High Priest of Atlantis?" Lu Li looked thoughtfully at the invitation in his hand.

He was no longer the novice he was six months ago. Having studied in the secret realm of the Tang Empire and had several encounters with the Star Wish Clan, Lu Li had already figured out the affairs of the secret realm's remnants.

Atlantis is among the top of all the clans in the secret realms.

Atlantis is not human. Just as elves have special forms in special places, the humans in this world are essentially a kind of elf.

Correspondingly, in certain specific places, humans also exhibit some unique forms.

Take Atlantis, for example.

The humans of Atlantis can be considered aquatic beings, known as the underwater people. They possess lungs that allow them to draw oxygen from the water and live in the deep sea year-round.

The physical abilities of underwater people far surpass those of land people, and their lifespan is also far greater.

However, correspondingly, the reproductive and nursing cycles of the underwater people are longer, especially the reproductive cycle.

It takes at least ten years for a normal underwater human to grow from an embryo to birth.

Despite their long reproductive cycle, the long lifespan of underwater people makes up for it, so the population size of land people and underwater people is actually not that different.

Many secret realms contain traces of underwater people, and Atlantis lives in the Atlantis Secret Realm.

"What does your high priest want with me?" Lu Li asked.

The Pelipper trainer quickly explained, "The High Priest wants to discuss a deal with you on behalf of the Mystic Legion Alliance, a deal concerning Wishing Beads."

Lu Li nodded, then opened the invitation.

The content was very simple: he was invited to Atlantis two days later.

Having learned from the Du family's experience, Lu Li always felt that the High Priest of Atlantis was not a good person either.

Lu Li wasn't worried that Atlantis would end up like the Du family. The Du family's madness was due to the gods.

But Atlantis is different. Lu Li doesn't believe that Atlantis would fight him to the death over the Wishing Star Bead.

However, Lu Li was worried about something else.

"Kyogre shouldn't be in the Atlantis Secret Realm, right?" Lu Li asked, squinting his eyes.

"No, the one who resides in our Atlantis Secret Realm is the deep-sea god Manaphy," the Pelipper trainer answered honestly.

Upon hearing this, Lu Li nodded and accepted the invitation.

He has Groudon's mark on him, and given Kyogre's volatile temper, he might attack him at any moment.

Facing the sea god Kyogre head-on, Lu Li didn't consider himself brave enough to do so.

He really didn't dare to dart around in front of Gyoukar.

Despite having a future god protecting him, the problem is that Milnerton is currently injured. If it were in the ocean, Georka, with home advantage, would absolutely crush Milnerton.

He believed that Atlantis wouldn't dare to fight him to the death, but he was even more certain that Kyogre wouldn't care about the lives of his followers.

When Kyogre gets angry, he'll start with a Root Surge. Who will he be able to reason with then?

Groudon's identity as a messenger was not something he actively sought.

After receiving the reply, the Pelipper Trainer prepared to leave. Before leaving, the Pelipper Trainer reminded him, "By the way, sir, when I came from over there, I saw a lot of people approaching this way."

"Yes, thank you for reminding me." Lu Li nodded; the child was quite polite.

As for the trainers who are gathering here, Lu Li already has a plan.

After returning to the villa, Lu Li specially summoned Yao Yifei.

"You should make a good plan and see if you can lure the trainers who have been attracted by Jirachi to Pallet Town."

"You can spread rumors that there might be Wishing Star Beads around Zhenxin Town. Oh, and spread the word about Wishing Star Beads as well," Lu Li added as a final instruction.

Although he didn't quite understand Lu Li's actions, Yao Yifei nodded to indicate that he would do as he was told.

Next, Lu Li locked himself in the basement.

Refining 17 attribute stone tablets might not take two days.

Lu Li decided to deal with another matter first.

That is to recharge the cores of Deoxys.

The previous Deoxys core artifact contained extremely powerful energy. Apart from lacking life force, this Deoxys core has at least the energy of a level two legendary beast.

What Lu Li needs to do now is to draw out this energy and then infuse it into the core of Deoxys.

Deoxys' core is the Cosmic Virus Pokémon. This Pokémon is extremely special. First of all, Deoxys is somewhat similar to Metagross.

They reproduce by division, and apart from their different life origins, the energy sources of the Deoxys can even be interconnected.

This means that Deoxys can perfectly inherit the energy of other Deoxys.

Just like the Mind in StarCraft.

The sacred Kara connects us.

Deoxys is the sacred cosmic energy that connects us.

Imbuing it with energy isn't difficult; the challenge lies in guiding the energy from the core of Deoxys.

The methods used in the Pokémon world are definitely not feasible, and even if they existed, they wouldn't be something he could accomplish.

Therefore, at this point, we can only use the methods of the cultivation world.

In the world of cultivation, for cultivators, extracting energy from spirit stones is as simple as breathing, it can even be described as instinct.

So now the question is how to transform Deoxys into a "cultivator".

Teaching cultivation techniques is definitely out of the question; he doesn't have the ability to modify cultivation techniques so that even elves can practice them.

After all, he is still practicing with that basic Qi cultivation manual.

Modifying an elf's cultivation technique to allow them to cultivate immortality is an extremely long process, and he only has two days left, so it's definitely too late.

After thinking for most of the day, Lu Li came up with a solution that was hardly a solution.

That means he himself will act as the intermediary.

He was able to forcibly extract the enormous energy from the core artifact of Deoxys.

But now we face two problems.

The first is physical strength.

The energy within Deoxys' core was far too immense for his current body to handle.

Lu Li gritted his teeth and decided to show off his skills.

Without further hesitation, Lu Li took out the magical stone tablet from his spatial ring.

Lu Li roughly calculated that it would take about half a day to refine a stone slab into a foundation material.

That's enough time.

Half a day later.

As the magical stone tablet entered his dantian, Lu Li's aptitude underwent another astonishing transformation, coupled with his previous contract with Jirachi.

Lu Li roughly estimated that his current aptitude for cultivating superpower attributes should have already surpassed that of Bao Bao.

In the world of cultivation, his current super-powerful spiritual root would be a special spiritual body above the Heavenly Spiritual Root.

After successfully refining the magical stone tablet, Lu Li sat cross-legged, with the projections of the two stone tablets behind him appearing and disappearing.

Lu Li held the Deoxys Core artifact in one hand and gently grasped the Deoxys Core with the other. The magical stone slab above his head slowly solidified from a projection.

After circulating the Qi Refining Technique, Lu Li continuously absorbed energy from the core divine object of Deoxys. He dared not refine this energy, even though with the energy within the divine object, he could even break through to the Golden Core stage.

But putting aside whether the dantian can withstand it, the meridians alone are an insurmountable hurdle.

Therefore, Lu Li could only use his own meridians as channels to transmit the absorbed energy into the core of Deoxys.

Even so, Lu Li still had a feeling that he was expanding and was about to explode.

Lu Li dared not use his dantian as a transit point, firstly because he was worried about contamination, and secondly because he was worried about his dantian exploding. Compared to damage to the meridians, an explosion of the dantian was far more serious.

If this were a cultivation world, Lu Li definitely wouldn't dare to do this.

Damage to the meridians directly affects training and may even prevent cultivation.

But this is the world of elves. No matter how severely his meridians are damaged, gods like Meloetta and Jirachi, who are more support-oriented, can easily heal him with healing skills.

Lu Li wasn't sure if the healing skills in this world could heal the damage to his dantian, but he couldn't very well try it.

After all, sometimes trying can easily lead to death.

It lasted a full day and a half.

Lu Li, whose meridians were severed, slowly floated down from mid-air.

"Pfft~"

He spat a mouthful of blood directly onto the core of Deoxys.

With his meridians severed, he can no longer use any magic or even circulate his Qi cultivation technique.

In a cultivation world, a spiritual healer would likely say that this person is beyond saving and should just wait to die.

But this is the world of elves.

“Meloeta,” Lu Li called out weakly.

Meloeta, who was listening to music at a concert, frowned.

She heard Lu Li's whisper.

In the world of elves, especially in the world of gods, the names of gods possess magic.

Almost every time someone calls upon a deity, the deity can sense it. However, because it is too annoying, most deities choose to block these voices.

Meloeta was much the same, but she didn't block specific people, such as Lu Li.

Meloeta, who had instantly arrived in the basement, looked at the extremely weak Lu Li in astonishment.

"You got beaten up in your own home?" Meloeta asked curiously.

"No, I was experimenting with some kind of ability, and then it accidentally went berserk," Lu Li said with a wry smile.

The pain of his meridians being severed was far more agonizing than he had imagined. He regretted not getting so agitated and instead opting for a quicker method.

“Alright, you need to be healed now.” Meloetta didn’t investigate why Lu Li was injured, but gently placed her hand on Lu Li.

Healing wave activated.

Lu Li could clearly feel that the broken meridians were constantly recovering, and even becoming more resilient than before.

(End of this chapter)