Pokémon: I picked up a reborn Eevee at the start of the game.

Xia Chen wanted to earn a few small goals before going to university.

In the future, with market saturation and the emergence of competitors, it won't be so easy to make money like it is now.

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Just as the news finished airing, Xia Chen and the elves had finished their breakfast.

Kirlia used her telekinesis to transport the plates to the kitchen, then handed them to Milotic to wash with hot water.

While it may seem strange to use water from Milotic's mouth for this purpose, the water, which is converted from energy, is actually much cleaner than ordinary water.

If it weren't for psychological barriers, drinking directly from the mouth wouldn't be a problem.

After finishing the chores after breakfast, Xia Chen took the Pokémon to the Pokémon Training Center not far from his home for their daily training.

The reason for training at the gym instead of just in the yard wasn't just because of the rain.

As the Pokémon grew stronger, Xia Chen noticed several times that they were using moves to destroy the base, especially Milotic and Sylveon.

However, he felt that asking the elves to pay attention would restrict their performance, so for the past month since returning to Donghuang, Xia Chen has been training in the training hall.

Xia Chen had considered moving to a large house with a garden, training hall, and battlefield.

But after some consideration, I decided against it.

On the one hand, I still lack economic strength. Although I have earned quite a lot during this period, most of it is used for Pokémon breeding resources. I definitely don't have enough cash to buy the house I dream of.

The Beauty Energy Cube has only just been launched, and the money earned will probably be used to expand the factory, so there is unlikely to be any spare money for the time being.

Of course, if Xia Chen wanted to buy, he could definitely get a new home by taking out a loan, but after thinking about it, he felt it was unnecessary.

I'll be studying at a university in another city for the next few years and probably won't be going home much. When I graduate and come back, I'll just build a dojo. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Xia Chen's confidence in opening a dojo after graduation is not without reason.

Besides needing to reach Gym Leader level in terms of strength, the most important requirement for opening a Gym is reputation. Otherwise, with so many trainers in a region reaching Gym Leader level, why are there so few who can become Gym Leaders?

Xia Chen's current situation is that his reputation is barely enough, but his strength is still far from sufficient.

However, Xia Chen is fully confident that he can reach the dojo level within four years.

Moreover, among the seventeen gyms in Donghuang, there is none that are newly introduced Fairy-type gyms.

It's perfectly reasonable for someone like me, who discovered Eevee's Fairy-type evolution, to become the Fairy Gym Leader, right?

In short, whether it's striving to become a gym leader or, in the longer term, protecting yourself and those you care about, strength is indispensable.

Improving our capabilities remains the top priority.

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Spirit world.

The gray sky remained dark and gloomy, but compared to the barren environment when Zorua first entered the Spirit Realm, where almost nothing grew, the ground now had mountains and rivers, things that only existed in the outside world.

Soraya had lost track of how long she had been in the spirit world. After a long period of adjustment and adaptation, she found that spending four hours a day in the spirit world was the most suitable.

If it goes on for too long, my current physical condition may not be able to handle it.

Based on four hours a day, that would be over six hundred hours, right?

During this long period of time, Zoroya had left the original "starter village" and entered the true spirit world.

Just like the outside world, this place has flowers, trees, mountains, and rivers. However, what supports the growth of these lives is the wisp of soul energy that permeates the air.

As the exploration deepened, Zoroah gradually encountered other beings that constituted this world.

Besides the souls that can now be physically exorcised by themselves, there are even higher life forms in the spirit world, including elves.

Zorua had once seen a Gastly feeding on souls from afar, and while she was observing it, the Gastly also keenly noticed her.

The malevolent look in her eyes sent a chill down Zoroia's spine, and she turned and disappeared from Gastly's sight without looking back.

From then on, Zorua understood the cruel survival rules of the spirit world. She tried to avoid those spirits with command abilities and instead hunted the souls that had power but no brains.

Currently, Zorua is engaged in a fierce battle with the spirit of a Psychic-type Pokémon whose strength was nearly equivalent to that of a Gym Leader in its lifetime.

Although their strengths differed greatly, Zoroah had the advantage of being able to travel back and forth between the Spirit World and the outside world to replenish his energy, while his clumsy opponent could only gradually lose his soul power as he slowly depleted it.

After nearly forty hours, this unintelligent behemoth was finally nearing the end of its life.

Alertly leaping up to dodge the powerful mental energy released by the soul entity, Zoroya retaliated by unleashing a Shadow Ball.

The relentless erosion by the ghostly energy, filled with resentment, caused the nearly transparent soul to writhe in agony.

A few seconds later, the soul finally dissipated completely, and what appeared in its place was a fragment of the soul emitting a fluorescent glow.

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In an unknown space shrouded in gray fog.

Perhaps nourished by the continuous fragments of soul, the sapling, like Zoroya, grew slowly but steadily.

Over several months, Zorua poured thousands of soul fragments into the tree, mostly to exchange for tickets to the Spirit Realm, but she also frequently put them into the [Dark Harvest] branch.

Move Fruits aren't the only thing that can be obtained from Dark Harvest. Strictly speaking, only Pokémon that were powerful enough in their lifetime can produce this precious item from their soul fragments.

Anyway, since the [Energy Charge Flame Berry] that Zoroah obtained from the last Elite-level Houndoom, he hasn't gotten any other TM berries.

But that doesn't mean you can't get good things in return. Special attack fruit, defense fruit, speed fruit, and all sorts of fruits that boost basic abilities can also help Zoroa grow rapidly.

However, this reduces the number of available soul fragments for exchanging for tickets to the Spirit Realm.

This time, Zoroya spent a full forty hours trying to defeat that powerful soul entity, without producing a single soul fragment.

The reserve of time in the spirit world is almost depleted.

Even so, Zorua did not hesitate to place the soul fragment, which had taken forty hours to create, into the branch representing [Dark Harvest].

Flowering, fruiting, ripening—a familiar process—and a heavy, pinkish-purple fruit appears on the branch.

Soroya took a deep breath, nervously and expectantly extracting information from the fruit.

[Meditation Fruit: Consuming this fruit grants the user the ability to meditate.]

It worked! It really is a Technique Fruit!

And it's the meditation technique!

Soroya felt a surge of joy.

In reality, Zoroia is capable of learning the meditation technique, so she is not happy for herself; her goal has never been to exchange techniques for herself.

Zoroya spared no effort to kill that psychic-type soul entity, all to obtain a psychic-type technique fruit for Xia Chen!

And now, we finally got it!

Soroya clutched the fruit tightly, a strange light gleaming in his eyes.

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Back in the real world, Soraya realized a serious problem.

How can we get Xia Chen to consume this technique fruit?

Squeeze tree juice into him and trick him into drinking it?

But what if doing this renders it ineffective?

Similarly, cutting it into pieces and mixing it into the fruit bowl seems to follow the same principle.

After much thought, the only way to get Xia Chen to accept this fruit that doesn't exist in this world is through his trust in me.

Thinking this, Zoroya walked over to Xia Chen, who was playing a two-player game with Senbu on the computer.

"Buyi—(Watch your positioning, don't keep getting sucked into this washing machine!)"

"Buyi! (How can your hands be so clumsy? I'm better at playing with silk than you are!)"

Xia Chen, who was thoroughly humiliated by Sylvanas, caught a glimpse of Zoroa looking for him out of the corner of his eye and casually tossed the controller aside.

"Wait a minute before playing, Zorua needs to talk to me."

Xianbu rolled her eyes, took the handle Xia Chen threw to her, and started playing the two-player game by herself, using both her hands and the silk.

The level that had been stuck for them for so long was cleared instantly by Xianbu alone.

Xia Chen pretended not to see it, turned his head without blushing or skipping a beat, and picked up Zorua, who was patiently waiting for him.

After sniffing the little fox's soft, fluffy body for a while, Xia Chen asked, "What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

"Yo~"

Solomon nodded, took out a pinkish-purple fruit from his pocket, and handed it to Xia Chen.

Xia Chen took it subconsciously, but suddenly realized a problem: where did this come from?

Zorua didn't take anything when he first arrived.

And why have I never seen this kind of fruit before?

Because of his research on energy cubes, Xia Chen had a very deep understanding of tree fruits, but he had never seen this particular tree fruit before.

Undoubtedly, these doubts can only be explained by one reason: the secrets hidden by their own elves!

And today, will we finally know what's hidden behind the veil of mystery?

Calming his somewhat excited emotions, Xia Chen asked, "So, this fruit is for me to eat?"

"Yo~"

Soroya nodded somewhat nervously.

Will Xia Chen believe in himself?

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Chapter 173 Xianbu: It's our turn to train you!

Xia Chen discovered early on that each of his Pokémon possessed unique skills.

Exceptionally precocious, like an omnipotent Eevee.

Milotic, with its earth-shattering water cannon and butterfly dance, is a creature that can also unleash devastating water attacks.

Kirlia grows extremely fast and can always learn moves on its own.