I haven't decided on a name for my Pokémon trainer yet.

No rush, let's wait a bit longer.

Another hour passed until the spinning fruit puree stopped changing and clearly separated into two parts, one pure and the other mixed.

"Ralts, after I turn off the power, you need to use your psychic powers to wrap around the transparent layer on top and separate them," Ye Feng instructed.

Ralts nodded vigorously, his eyes wide as he stared intently at the feed cylinder.

"Prepare···"

"It's now!"

Ye Feng abruptly turned off the power, then pressed the button, and the lid of the material cylinder instantly popped open.

At the same time, Ralts released its psychic power, enveloping the top layer of transparent fruit puree, neatly compressing and shaping it, and then throwing it into the cooling machine. Over the past two weeks, it had become thoroughly familiar with this process.

Ye Feng was a little excited, staring at the cooling machine without blinking. Whether it would be successful depended on this.

As the cooler beeped, Ye Feng opened the lid, his eyes lighting up with excitement.

"Success!"

On the cooling plate, several crystal-clear green cubes lay quietly.

Ye Feng picked up a piece and smelled it. The strange smell from before was gone, and it had a faint fragrance, somewhat like the scent of several kinds of fruit mixed together.

"Try it." Ye Feng handed the cube to Ralts.

Ralts twitched its little nose, sniffed, and then licked it.

"Ra!" Ralts cried out joyfully, swallowing the block whole.

"How is it?" Ye Feng asked nervously, but judging from Ralts' reaction, the taste should be fine.

"Ra~ru! Ra!"

Ralts waved its little hand, then used its psychic powers to wrap the remaining cubes, eating them one by one in a few bites.

"Great!"

Ye Feng happily patted Ralts's little head. After spending so much time and effort, he had finally succeeded. In this way, Ralts, and all his future Pokémon, could eat the best nutritional supplements, giving them a significant head start over others.

But what is the effect of the green energy cube?

Since it was just an experiment, Ye Feng simply placed the tree fruits randomly without paying special attention to which types he used.

No problem, now that the energy block has been successfully researched, the recipe is no longer an issue. All that's left is to spend a lot of time experimenting with different combinations.

Chapter 17 Summer Vacation in Progress

As time goes by, Jinghai City enters August, the hottest time of the year in the area.

It was as if a fire-type spirit was unleashing explosive flames everywhere; the air was filled with heatwaves, making it impossible to walk on concrete—it was scalding hot. Going out to run errands meant you couldn't even sweat; it all evaporated.

Ye Feng lay in the spacious living room. The air conditioner was already set to the lowest setting, but the heat seemed to penetrate the glass and kept surging into the room, so Ye Feng had no choice but to draw the curtains as well.

Fortunately, he changed his accommodation; otherwise, Ye Feng even suspected that the old air conditioner in the previous apartment would have exploded in a few days in this weather.

"Why is summer so hot in this world? Heavy industry isn't very developed, so the greenhouse effect shouldn't be that serious, right?"

Ye Feng rolled over, thinking dejectedly.

It's so hot that we can't even go outside. Ye Feng had originally planned a training program for Ralts, but now that we can't go outside, it's completely impossible to implement.

Let alone going out for exercise, Ye Feng didn't even have the courage to step out of the house when he looked at the sun outside. Even if Liang Jingru came, it wouldn't make a difference.

Unlike Ye Feng, who was lying dead, Ralts was playing around with a gravity ball, pushing it with his psychic powers.

Ye Feng bought this gravity ball specifically. It has a certain resistance to psychic powers, and can be used to play with it while also training the mental strength of psychic-type Pokémon. It can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

We need to come up with a new training plan for Ralts.

The previous plan is no longer usable, so we need to quickly develop a new one. We spent a lot of time researching energy cubes and didn't have time to train, so we need to make good use of the remaining time.

Ye Feng pondered.

Ralts is a Psychic-type Pokémon, so its training should focus on developing mental strength. Basic training can be achieved with a Gravity Ball.

At first, Ralts couldn't even push a gravity ball, but now he can push it and run around, and his mental strength is visibly increasing.

The simplest way to improve one's strength is to learn new moves through the TM. Although Ralts's mental strength is growing rapidly, it currently only knows Psychic, Instant Transmission, and Aegis, which it recently learned.

Ye Feng discovered Ralts's ability to act cute quite by accident.

One day, Ye Feng spent the whole day tinkering with energy cubes and didn't have time to play with Ralts. As a result, when Ye Feng was moving things that evening, Ralts started begging for a hug. Ye Feng was shocked to find that his strength had suddenly decreased, and the things he was holding ended up falling on his feet, something that had never happened before.

Ignoring the pain, I quickly grabbed Ralts and tested it, and even found a few other Pokémon to use it. It turned out that it was indeed the Charm move.

Ye Feng suspected that Ralts learned this skill because it often snuggled into his arms and acted cute when he was training his mental strength, taking the opportunity to slack off. Over time, it became self-taught.

Getting back to the main point, Ye Feng doesn't plan to use a TM to teach Ralts any moves right now; he'll wait until it evolves into Kirlia.

Because this kind of learning is something that cannot be cultivated or comprehended by the Pokémon itself, or something that is beyond its ability to learn in advance, it means that the Pokémon needs to use energy in an unfamiliar way. This is actually a considerable burden for the Pokémon and is not very efficient. For example, if it could originally exert 100% of its power, it can now only exert 70-80% of its power, and it also has to consume an extra 10% of its stamina.

However, the evolution of a Pokémon can greatly improve its various qualities, and this burden will also be reduced. But Ralts has not been out of its infancy for long, and Ye Feng does not intend to use this kind of forced growth method to improve its strength.

A tall building starts from the ground up; only by laying a solid foundation can one reach greater heights in the future.

Since Ye Feng doesn't plan to use the move learning machine now, he must already have his own ideas.

Superpowers are a way of using Pokémon energy, which is called mental energy. The conscious use of this energy is the origin of superpowers, and Psychic-type Pokémon have a unique talent in this regard.

Most psychic moves are essentially based on the fundamental technique of telekinesis, with different enhancements or variations; the rest involve using mental power to interfere with or suppress the target's mental power, such as hypnosis.

This is the origin of various psychic-type moves.

So, is there a way to defend or attack using psychic powers without relying on psychic moves?

"Ralts, come here for a second." Ye Feng sat up and beckoned to Ralts.

Ralts dropped the Gravity Ball, teleported to Ye Feng's lap, and affectionately nuzzled the back of its head against Ye Feng's chest.

"..." Ye Feng gently stroked Ralts's little head, then lifted its soft body and placed it opposite him.

"Ralts, let's do a few experiments next," Ye Feng said, holding up one finger.

Ralts obediently nodded in agreement.

"Try releasing your mental energy and then wrap it around yourself within a half-meter radius, without interrupting it," Ye Feng said.

Ralts nodded, raised his two small hands, and quickly released his psychic power, enveloping the half-meter space around him.

Ye Feng stood up and circled around Ralts.

Although he couldn't see the Nen, he could sense the presence of Nen in the air to some extent through his connection with Ralts.

"Close your eyes and carefully sense the fluctuations of Nen." Although Ye Feng had never seen Ralts' eyes and suspected they were covered by its bowl-shaped hair, he still gave the command to close them.

Ralts nodded.

Ye Feng reached out and poked the air half a meter in front of Ralts: "Can you feel it?"

"Ra~" Ralts responded.

Ye Feng nodded, then circled Ralts once, stopping behind Ralts' side, and poked it.

"how about this?"

Ralts responded and turned to face the direction where Ye Feng was standing.

Ye Feng was overjoyed. He conducted several more tests, and Ralts accurately sensed the correct direction each time.

It seems that Ralts can sense objects using psychic powers, and the energy consumption is not high; if so, then Ye Feng's idea can proceed.

Currently, Ralts is limited by its growth and cannot yet learn powerful offensive Psychic-type moves. Therefore, the training needed is to further improve its reaction speed and reaction time.

Ye Feng found the sandbags they had used before—they had previously used the game of dodging sandbags to train Ralts' reaction speed, and now it was time for advanced training or the development of new abilities.

"Ralts, don't use your eyes. Rely on your external psychic powers to sense the sandbags and then dodge them," Ye Feng explained.

Ralts stood against the wall and nodded to indicate that he understood.

Ye Feng tossed the sandbag in his hand and threw it toward Ralts' head.

Just as the sandbag approached Ralts by half a meter, Ralts sensed the direction from which it was coming and tried to dodge, but it was too late; its little head took a solid hit.

"Roo~" Ralts clutched his head and crouched down, it seemed he had been hit pretty hard.

Ye Feng also realized that Ralts had sensed the sandbag, but its reaction wasn't fast enough to dodge, and it ended up being hit on the head. The process of sensing the sandbag with its telekinesis, judging its direction, and commanding its body to dodge was too long, leading to the failed dodge.

It requires constant practice to shorten this process until it becomes an instinctive reaction.

"Stand up, let's continue," Ye Feng commanded, suppressing his heartache.

"Ra!" Ralts responded, stood up, and got into position to receive the punching bag.

"Whoosh!"

"Snapped!"

The sandbag flew out again and hit its target.

This time, however, Ralts gritted his teeth and didn't crouch down while covering his head.

Ye Feng nodded. Although he loved Ralts, he didn't want his Pokémon to be too delicate, otherwise how could they reach the top together in the future?

In the days that followed, the two of them, one human and one elf, engaged in repetitive and tedious training to dodge sandbags.