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

"Togekiss, sense it." Ye Feng released Togekiss to confirm whether it was a stone tablet or just a drawing.

Pokekis glanced at the drawing, then closed his eyes and began to sense it.

Time passed second by second, and finally, just as Ye Feng was about to fall asleep, Tokiss opened its eyes and barked excitedly at Ye Feng.

"It really is a stone slab?!" Ye Feng's mouth dropped open.

No way! He originally thought it would take a lot of effort. When he first arrived here, Pokkis even said that the waveguides in the stone slabs were everywhere, and Ye Feng still couldn't figure them out.

I didn't expect to find the first piece so easily?

However... Ye Feng looked at the stone slab drawings on the giant tree and found them strange no matter how he looked at them.

How did it grow up like this? Did it get stuck when it fell, or did the stone slab grow into a tree on its own?

"Kiss!" Pokkis suddenly called out.

"What did you say?" Ye Feng's eyes widened. "The waveguide of the stone slab is connected to this forest?"

No wonder Pokkis thought this was all waveguides made of stone slabs; it turns out they were all connected.

"But what does this mean?" Ye Feng pondered.

The waveguides of the stone slabs and the forest are connected...

"Let's give it a try first. If I'm not mistaken, things might be a bit troublesome..." Ye Feng murmured, the vague guess dampening his joy at finding the stone slab.

"Pokegis, give me some waveguide." Ye Feng reached out his hand to Pokegis.

Pokkis nodded, grasped Ye Feng's hands with both of them, closed his eyes, and began transmitting waveguides.

After a while, Ye Feng nodded, then stood up straight in front of the stone slab and took a deep breath.

"I don't know what will happen, please don't let it be like what I think..." Ye Feng said in a low voice, then raised his hands and drew a symbol in the air with both hands - the symbol of the ring on Arceus's body, then closed his eyes and prayed, muttering incantations.

This was a special ritual that Dream taught him to shrink the stone slab. However, it required the power of the waveguide, but not much, just enough to start the ritual. The rest could be continued using the power of the stone slab itself.

Ye Feng doesn't know how to use waveguides, but he can make Pokémon lose to him by a small margin. Of course, losing by a small margin won't have much of an impact on Pokémon.

As long as I don't lose everything like that waveguide messenger, it'll be fine.

"boom!"

As the ceremony proceeded, Ye Feng felt a loud bang in his head, followed by a torrent of thoughts rushing into his mind, almost making him faint.

"stop!"

"do not want!"

"No! We'll die!"

"···"

What's going on? Ye Feng looked around blankly. What was that sound just now?

To his astonishment, he discovered that a large number of elves had gathered around him, some he had seen before and some he had never seen before, all staring at him with wide eyes.

Gardevoir and the others also ran out of their Poké Balls, surrounding Ye Feng in the middle, facing the Pokémon horde as if facing a formidable enemy.

Their eyes glowed red, looking extremely angry, as if they could rush up and tear Ye Feng to pieces at any moment, but for some reason they just watched without making any other move.

"What's going on?" Ye Feng felt a little suffocated. Being stared at by so many Pokémon was no less stressful than facing Ho-Oh.

"Humans..." At this moment, a voice rang in Ye Feng's mind.

"Who?!" Ye Feng shouted.

Just then, the elves suddenly dispersed, making way for a passage.

Ye Feng looked over and was surprised to find that there were four fiery monkeys carrying a simple sedan chair slowly walking towards him.

Standing atop the sedan chair was a pink elf wearing what looked like a white crown, her hands behind her back, looking at her calmly.

“Dumb King…” Ye Feng narrowed his eyes.

There's a Slowking here?

And the fact that it could even get such a hot-tempered Incineroar to act as a palanquin bearer shows that this Slowking's strength or status here is extraordinary, almost like a leader.

"You are..." Ye Feng asked tentatively.

Slowpoke waved his hand behind his back, and the Pokémon stirred for a moment before slowly retreating.

Ye Feng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Being watched by so many elves was quite stressful.

"Mi~~~" Xie Mi, who was standing at Ye Feng's feet, suddenly called out happily and ran towards Dazed King.

Slowking used his telekinesis to lift Shaymin up and place him on the palanquin, standing next to him. Shaymin affectionately rubbed against Slowking's leg.

"As you can see, I am a Slowking," Slowking said telepathically.

However, Ye Feng felt that its tone was a little strange... Was this some kind of new kind of lame joke? Do elves tell jokes?

"I can tell. Is something the matter?"

“You cannot take this stone slab away,” said the dazed king.

"Why?" Ye Feng frowned slightly. His purpose in coming here was to find the stone slab.

“I think you also know that this is a stone tablet belonging to Arceus, a grass-type emerald stone tablet,” Slowpoke said.

"You know?" Ye Feng was a little surprised.

Dazai nodded and continued, "I'm sorry, although I don't know why you're looking for the stone tablet, I can't let you take it."

"Why?" Ye Feng asked.

"Because this stone slab is now connected to this forest. Without it, this place will soon become a dead zone; the forest will wither, the earth will decay, and everything will cease to exist..."

"What did you say?" Ye Feng's eyes widened.

Chapter 311 Emerald Slate

Long, long ago, this place, just like it is now, was once a dense forest, inhabited by countless elves.

But one day, a meteorite falls from the sky, and the world is about to be destroyed.

The mythical beasts stepped forward and did their utmost to stop the meteorites from destroying the earth. However, the number of mythical beasts was limited, and no matter how strong they were, they could not do everything in their power. Some of the meteorites still fell to the earth.

This place was also struck by a huge meteorite, which blasted a huge crater in the ground. The shockwave from the explosion affected the entire forest, burning all the trees and killing countless elves.

Just when all the elves were in despair, a stone slab suddenly fell from the sky. The oldest elf, Slowking, recognized it as the emerald slab belonging to Arceus.

With the power of the stone slab, the trees here quickly regained their vitality, and everything became no different from before, except for the dead elves who could no longer see this sight.

And so, countless years passed. With the stone slabs still there, the forest became even more lush than before, the elves multiplied again, and the deep pit transformed into a vast lake.

However, what Slowking didn't expect was that, because of the power entrusted to the stone tablet, the forest became closely related to the stone tablet. If anything went wrong with the stone tablet or it was taken away, the forest that had been revived by the stone tablet would die again.

···

Ye Feng listened quietly as Daidaiwang finished speaking, then fell into a long silence.

He never imagined that such a thing had happened here.

But is the existence of the stone slabs truly a blessing for the forest?

"I'm sorry, young man, I can't let you take the stone tablet." After some conversation, Slowking's opinion of Ye Feng changed, and he started calling him "young man" instead of "human."

Ye Feng couldn't think of a way to steal the stone slab for the time being, nor was it possible for him to do so.

Would the elves here allow him to do this?

Just from the energy fluctuations emanating from the Slowking right in front of him, Ye Feng knew clearly that it was much stronger than Gengar, and this power level was now clearly defined—quasi-legendary.

Moreover, who knows how many Pokémon, no weaker than Slowking, or even stronger than Slowking, are secretly hiding here—just as they were talking, Gardevoir reminded Ye Feng that at least three Pokémon with strength no weaker than Slowking had passed through here.

Pokémon of that strength are undoubtedly powerful rulers; would they just pass through here for no reason?

Ye Feng understood. This was something that Daidaiwang had deliberately let him know, to warn him not to try to steal the stone slab.

The primeval forest indeed possesses a foundation no less than that of the ocean, capable of nurturing an elf of such strength. Or perhaps it is due to the stone slab?

"Isn't there a solution?" Ye Feng asked.

After pondering for a while, Dazed King slowly said, "After so many years, the stone slab has become the life source of the forest, and it is difficult for anything to replace it."

"The source of life?" Ye Feng repeated softly, then suddenly realized something and said excitedly, "You mean the source of life?"

The dazed king nodded, not understanding why Ye Feng was so excited.

"If this problem is solved, then the absence of the stone slab won't affect the forest, right?" Ye Feng asked again.

"That's how it is in theory." Dazed King thought for a moment, but couldn't figure out what was wrong.

"That makes things easier." Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief. If the problem lay in the source of life, wouldn't it be easy to solve?

"Easy?" Dazed King looked puzzled.

It knew, in truth, that the forest's reliance on the stone slab was always a hidden danger. No one knew when a powerful enemy would come and steal the slab; today it might be Ye Feng, tomorrow Li Feng, the day after...

Even in the worst-case scenario, if Arceus himself comes to retrieve the stone tablets, should we stop him then? Or rather, who can stop him?

“That’s right, if it’s just the source of life…” Ye Feng smiled, “Speaking of life, Slowking, do you know Xerneas?”

Slowking paused for a moment, then nodded: "Of course I know. If it's Xerneas, he could indeed solve this problem. I've also considered asking Xerneas for help, but Pokémon of that kind are simply beyond our reach..."