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

"Do you have a solution?" Ye Feng asked worriedly.

"I can try purifying it with holy fire, but I can't guarantee it will be successful," said Phoenix King.

"Then I'll have to trouble you," Ye Feng said.

Turning her head, she noticed that Marcia wasn't there: "Where's Marcia?"

"It's training... Marshado has good talent, and its strength is improving rapidly," said Phoenix King.

"I see..." Since Marcia is training, Ye Feng decided not to disturb her.

"Let's go." After leaving the secret realm, Little Huba threw out the scooping ring again.

"This is... Hoopa's ability? What's your relationship with Hoopa?" Ho-Oh stared at the Rai-Rai Ring, utterly shocked.

“Hoopa is just Hoopa!” Little Hoopa looked at Ho-Oh with a puzzled expression.

"You're Hoopa?" Ho-Oh was taken aback. It had seen this Pokémon before, but it never imagined that it was Hoopa. "How did you become like this?"

"Huh?" Hoopa didn't understand what Ho-Oh meant. What did it mean that she had become like this? Hoopa had always looked like this.

“It’s like this, Phoenix King, come closer to my ear…” Ye Feng beckoned, and Phoenix King lowered its head.

After a few words, Ye Feng told Feng Wang about Little Huba.

“I see…” Phoenix King nodded knowingly, looking at Little Huba with a strange expression.

Little Huba looked completely bewildered.

Upon arriving at Minakami Village again, Ho-Oh immediately spotted the enormous block of ice.

“That’s…a strange energy frozen inside…” Phoenix King frowned slightly.

Ye Feng then spoke about the black giant.

"A collection of resentment from the dead?" Phoenix King murmured. Ye Feng seemed to hear a "serves him right" in response.

Descending to the location of the stone slab, Phoenix King frowned as he looked at the slab shrouded in black mist: "I can only give it a try. I can't guarantee whether it will succeed. I've never encountered this situation before."

"I'll try my best," Ye Feng said, since he couldn't think of any other solutions.

In other alternate worlds, there might be ways to purify it, such as finding a priest or saint to cast a spell. But in the world of elves...

Chapter 318 The Stone Slab Exploded

Phoenix flapped its wings, and blazing holy fire surged onto the stone slab, fiercely scorching it.

The black mist swirling around the stone slab seemed to be stimulated by something, and suddenly erupted, extinguishing the sacred fire in an instant.

"I'll burn it! It's done!" Ye Feng shouted.

"I saw it," Phoenix King said irritably.

"No, isn't your holy fire known as the inextinguishable flame?"

"Who told you that?" Phoenix King looked puzzled. Although the Sacred Flame was powerful, to say that it was inextinguishable was a bit of an exaggeration. Who spread such a ridiculous rumor?

"Oh... I misremembered, sorry." Ye Feng recalled that in the animated version, the inextinguishable sacred flame seemed to be the flame of the firebird.

Some netizens even joked that if Ho-Oh hadn't appeared so late, Moltres wouldn't have had a chance to use its flames...

Phoenix King gave Ye Feng a strange look, but knew he came from another world, probably because he had confused him with some legend from that world.

Ho-Oh unleashed its divine fire once more, this time with greater power, causing the temperature in the entire underground space to rise significantly in an instant.

The stone slab, scorched by the sacred fire, once again erupted with bursts of black smoke, attempting to extinguish the sacred fire.

However, this time it was clearly not so easy; the two sides were evenly matched and a stalemate ensued.

"It works! It works! Ho-Oh, keep it up!"

Phoenix King silently fanned out another ball of sacred fire.

The black energy was suppressed for a moment, but it immediately erupted again, almost extinguishing the sacred fire once more.

"We're going to wipe them out! We're going to wipe them out!" Ye Feng shouted.

"Shut up!" Phoenix King couldn't help but hiss. I'm not your spirit. You can watch the show, but what's with all the pointing and gesturing?

It's human instinct, I couldn't help it for a moment. Ye Feng quickly made a zipping motion and shut his mouth.

"I was originally thinking of making this guy the Rainbow Hero, but it seems he's not suitable; he's too unreliable," Ho-Oh thought to himself.

If Ye Feng knew that he had missed out on the Rainbow Warrior because of his loose tongue, he would regret it terribly.

Phoenix King became serious, flapping its wings and taking flight. With a long cry, it unleashed powerful energy, and a holy fire, much hotter than before, lifted the stone slab into the air, fiercely scorching it.

The black energy struggled violently, and large plumes of black energy billowed out from the stone slab, making Ye Feng's heart tremble with fear.

How many lives must have been sacrificed to generate so much resentment!

The black mist and the holy fire intertwined, and Phoenix King snorted coldly, increasing the output of the flames once again.

This continued for a while. The sacred fire was constantly replenished by Ho-Oh, but the black aura was not, and it was quickly suppressed and eventually disappeared.

"Success!" Ye Feng clenched his fist. "The black aura is gone."

"Wait a moment, let me purify it completely." Phoenix King did not stop the flames.

Ye Feng looked at the stone slab that was starting to turn red and couldn't help but worry. Would it burn? It looked like it was overcooked.

After a while, the stone slab had turned completely red, and no more black smoke was seen emerging. The Phoenix King breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew its sacred fire.

"Is it burned?" Ye Feng asked worriedly, looking at the reddish stone slab.

"How is this possible? How could the stone slab..." "Crack!" "Was it burned?" "Crack! Boom!"

As soon as Feng Wang finished speaking, the stone slab made a cracking sound and then exploded, turning into pebbles that fell to the ground.

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"It's broken! Oh my god! It's really broken! Phoenix King, you broke the stone slab!" Ye Feng shouted in terror, his face contorted in fear.

What's wrong with this stone slab? How come it shattered after just one heat? Arceus, you're so incompetent!

"I..." Phoenix King was also stunned.

"Impossible, this is impossible..." Phoenix King murmured, walking incredulously to the spot where the rubble was.

It looked at the rubble scattered on the ground and fell into deep thought.

"What should we do?" Ye Feng cautiously peeked out from behind the Phoenix King, looking at the rubble on the ground with trepidation.

The stone slab is broken. Will Arceus come after me? No, it was Ho-Oh that broke it. I should be looking for Ho-Oh!

"Something's not right!" Ho-Oh noticed something was amiss. "This stone slab is just a special kind of stone; it's not Arceus's stone slab."

"Are you sure? You're not trying to shift the blame, are you?" Ye Feng didn't believe it; Tokiss could sense the waveguide of the stone slab.

"I am sure."

"What about the stone slab? Tokiss can sense the waveguide of the stone slab," Ye Feng said.

“A real stone slab…” Phoenix King said, using its wings to pick up a piece of gravel and hand it to Ye Feng.

Ye Feng looked closely and saw that on the gravel that the Phoenix King had handed him, there was a purple stone slab the size of a book.

"This is... the stone slab has shrunk?" Ye Feng scratched his head.

“That’s right. Although I don’t know why it’s shrunk, it is definitely a stone slab.” Ho-Oh nodded. “Judging from the energy emanating from it, it’s a ghost-attribute youkai stone slab.”

Ye Feng pondered for a moment, then suddenly understood. He looked at the rubble on the ground and recalled the size of the stone slab, which confirmed his suspicions even more.

His previous ritual to shrink the stone slab was not a failure; it was a success.

The reason Ye Feng thought he had failed was because Arceus's stone slab was covered with a thick layer of stone, and Ye Feng did not notice the abnormality in the size of the stone slab at the time.

The ceremony was successful; the stone slab shrank, but the surrounding stones did not, creating the illusion that the ceremony had failed.

Even if the outer stone is made of special materials, it cannot withstand the prolonged exposure to the sacred fire and will eventually crack.

"That scared me to death." Ye Feng took the stone slab and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Alright, now that the stone slab has been recycled, let's leave this place."

Ye Feng and Ho-Oh left the underground and found Gengar and the others.

After the black mist was purified by the holy fire, the black giant outside also disappeared.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Ye Feng said.

Gengar, Gardevoir, and Aggron shook their heads and looked at Kingdra.

In fact, after discovering that the Freeze Ray could freeze the Black Giants, they had nothing to do and relied on King Thorn Dragon to maintain the ice seal the entire time.

"Thank you for your hard work, Thorn Dragon King." Ye Feng looked at Thorn Dragon King.

"Thor!" Thorn Dragon King proudly puffed out his chest.

Ye Feng smiled, recalled the Pokémon, then told Hoopa to take Ho-Oh back to the Secret Realm before returning to Yggdrasil.