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

Anyway, human lifespan is much shorter than his own. Even if he doesn't have the strength to defeat him before he dies, he just needs to wait a little while.

As for running away, Articuno disdains doing such a thing. It wants to defeat Ye Feng head-on, making him submit and respectfully send it away.

So he nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Articuno had agreed, Ye Feng breathed a slight sigh of relief and began to carefully treat Articuno's wounds with the medicine.

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After treating Articuno's wounds, Ye Feng estimated the time; the association's people should be arriving soon. So he said to Zhang Qiang, "Should we hurry up and loot a bit?"

Before the association officially takes over and explores the secret realm, all resources discovered within it belong to the trainers who explored it before that.

Ye Feng thought that since there were legendary elves here, there might be some rare treasures.

Zhang Qiang thought about it and agreed with Ye Feng's opinion.

Because they might not have enough time, the two decided to go directly to Articuno's nest to look for something. If they didn't find anything good, they would just leave it at that, as the association members should have already arrived by then.

Articuno has indeed collected quite a lot of things.

They were all gems of various attributes, but I didn't see any ice or flight attributes. Articuno probably used them up itself.

Zhang Qiang was somewhat disappointed. Although these gems were of good quality, they weren't very useful to him. He casually picked out a few to take back to his elf.

Ye Feng unexpectedly discovered a few ice stones, just as Ning Xian needed a few more for her experiments.

Before Glaceon was officially announced, no one would know about the existence of the Ice Stone. Some people may have discovered it, but because there are very few Pokémon that can use it, no one could be sure that it was also an evolution stone.

As far as Ye Feng knew, there were only three types of spirits that could be used.

Glaceon, Alolan Sandslash, and Alolan Ninetales.

Eevee is easy to deal with, as they are almost everywhere; however, Alolan Pangolier and Alolan Vulpix are a bit more difficult to handle, and Ye Feng has not heard any news about these two Pokémon.

Both of these Pokémon are Ice-type, unlike any we've found before. Could they be in the North or South Poles, or in some kind of secret realm like the Frost Realm or the Articuno Realm?

Ye Feng was getting restless. If he could find Alola Ninetales, Pangolin, or their corresponding evolutions here, that would be quite an achievement.

"What are you thinking?"

After Zhang Qiang finished taking what he needed, he noticed Ye Feng staring blankly at several blue and white stones. He glanced at them but didn't see anything special about them, except that they were pretty. He couldn't help but ask in confusion—Ye Feng didn't know about the existence of the Ice Stone.

"It's nothing." Ye Feng came back to his senses and shook his head.

Forget it, searching for two specific types of spirits in such a secret realm is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Why bother? He has more important things to do.

And there's no need to keep everything to yourself; let others discover it for themselves.

"Have you finished looting?" Ye Feng asked.

"Well, there's nothing I can use, I just grabbed a few things." Zhang Qiang shrugged.

"Alright, let's go then." Ye Feng put the Ice Stone into his pocket.

The key is usefulness, not quantity. The two of them weren't lacking in resources; they were just searching because they figured they might as well take what they could get.

The two left the Articuno's nest and headed towards the entrance to the secret realm.

When Ye Feng entered the secret realm, the entrance had stabilized and would not disappear again, so they prepared to leave from there.

They also encountered an exploration team sent by the association on the way.

They were very happy to see that Zhang Qiang was alright; China would not lose a young, high-level trainer.

"What are your plans next?" Zhang Qiang asked, riding on the back of the fire-breathing dragon.

"Yes, I'm planning to go back to the capital." Ye Feng thought for a moment and said.

He planned to go to Gu Yangzhou to inquire about the recent unusual small-scale elf sieges in various places, as he felt that this matter was somewhat related to the shadow elves.

Hopefully, he's overthinking it.

"Alright then, I need to go home first. My parents are probably still looking for me," Zhang Qiang said.

"OK!" Ye Feng made a gesture, then suddenly remembered something and asked, "Do you have any plans for the summer vacation?"

Zhang Qiang paused for a moment, thought for a while, and shook his head: "No, there haven't been any competitions lately, otherwise I wouldn't have gone to the association to take on commissions to pass the time."

"Then take care of what you're doing and come find me in the capital," Ye Feng said.

"Something wrong?" Zhang Qiang asked suspiciously. This guy not only didn't go home for summer vacation, but also made me travel so far to find him.

"Hmm, I need to collect detailed data on Charizard's Mega Evolution. The theoretical part of the paper on Mega Evolution is complete, and now only the data part is missing."

"Unfortunately, the sample size is too small, so progress is slow," Ye Feng sighed.

During his return to the capital, he also planned to ask several master trainers to spare some time for him to collect data, and if necessary, to have Gu Yangzhou step in—after all, he had urged him to write the paper several times.

How can he publish without data? He's a certified senior researcher now, not the rookie who published his Flame Body paper without any research data.

“No problem.” Zhang Qiang agreed almost without hesitation.

Mega Evolution is such a powerful trump card; if Ye Feng were to give it away for free, Zhang Qiang wouldn't be able to accept it with a clear conscience.

It was just collecting some data, so Zhang Qiang naturally had no reason to refuse.

"Then it's settled!"

The two waved goodbye.

Chapter 326 The Jar of Punishment

Ye Feng had just gotten off the plane when he received a call from Gu Yangzhou.

"Xiao Feng, where are you now?" Gu Yangzhou asked over the phone.

"Uh, I'm at Beijing Airport, just got off the plane." Ye Feng scratched his cheek.

"Perfect timing! Come find me right away. The thing you asked me to help translate last time is already out."

"Really? I'm coming right away!" Ye Feng exclaimed with delight.

Ye Feng once obtained a piece of paper in Hoopa's sealed land, which likely contained the method for making the Punishment Jar, but unfortunately he couldn't understand it.

Ye Feng then asked Gu Yangzhou to find someone to translate.

After learning that it might be related to Hupa, Gu Yangzhou immediately made arrangements, and after so much time, the results finally came out.

Ye Feng quickly arrived at the association headquarters and met Gu Yangzhou, who was looking at a stack of documents.

"You're here? Take a look." Gu Yangzhou handed the documents to Ye Feng.

Ye Feng took the documents and began to read them carefully.

The preceding content mostly records some of Hupa's deeds.

Similar to her experience in the theatrical version, when Hoopa first appeared before the world, she was a fairly kind elf, just a bit mischievous and playful.

After demonstrating his unique fishing skills, he quickly became one of the local people.

Subsequent developments were similar; under the instigation of some malicious individuals, Hoopa began summoning various powerful Pokémon through the Raiding Rings for battle, ranging from ordinary Pokémon to pseudo-legendary Pokémon, and then to legendary Pokémon...

Hoopa became arrogant and complacent after victory. Eventually, even ordinary legendary Pokémon could no longer satisfy it, and it began to try to summon legendary beasts that wielded various powers.

But mythical beasts are not like legendary spirits; how could they obediently let Hoopa do as it pleases?

Although the legendary Pokémon could not refuse to be summoned due to the unique nature of Hoopa's abilities and its immense power at the time, they fought back fiercely and Hoopa was unable to control them, so the two sides started fighting directly.

The battle raged fiercely, and countless elves and humans perished; the situation spiraled out of control.

In the end, it was Dream who went to Arceus, and Arceus personally intervened to suppress Hoopa.

However, Hoopa's power actually increased significantly due to its rampage, and Arceus could only suppress it, not destroy it.

So it taught humans how to make the Punishment Jar and lent them three stone tablets with the attributes of water, fire, and earth.

Unlike the movie, with Arceus present, Hoopa's power is sealed away, and he himself is also sealed away.

The events that followed were not recorded in detail on the paper, but Ye Feng already knew about them from Little Huba.

After the seal was sealed, there was peace for many years until the Shadow Elf appeared unexpectedly, broke the seal, and possessed Hoopa, taking away the evil power he had gained.

When Ye Feng read to the end, the last content on the paper was the detailed method for making the Jar of Punishment, which Arceus had taught him.

"The purest water, fire, and earth-elemental energies, originating from the three stone tablets of Arceus, combined with a ring made of special metals obtained from the universe, can create the Punishment Jar to seal the super demon god Hoopa when the three forces reach absolute balance."

"After Arceus retrieved the stone tablet, he left behind three other gems containing pure energy of the three elements, which can be used to repair the Jar of Punishment if it is accidentally damaged."

The three gems are still there; Ye Feng left them in the World Tree.

Repairing it? What's the point of repairing it? The Jar of Punishment only has a few rings left; it needs to be reforged!

"No way, do I really need stone tablets with all three attributes?" Ye Feng was extremely disappointed. He had gone through so much trouble to find two stone tablets, but they were probably useless.

"Not necessarily," Gu Yangzhou said. "According to the records above, Arceus randomly took three stone tablets..."

"Does the Grand Master mean that as long as the stone slab provides the three pure energies, it's possible to create the Punishment Jar?" Ye Feng's eyes lit up.

"I can't guarantee that, but based on the contents, that's the general idea..."

However, it could also be due to translation issues. After all, this is a very ancient script, and the translation is already quite good; no one can guarantee 100% accuracy.

Moreover, language habits are quite different now than in the past.

Gu Yangzhou poured cold water on the idea, lest the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.