Pokémon: Hard work pays off, moves can be upgraded infinitely.

"Dafu~~"

After the Queen of the Night flower used aromatherapy to cleanse the toxins from the surface and inside the orchid mantis flower, the orchid mantis flower finally showed signs of waking up.

"Huh?"

(Am I still alive?)

The orchid mantis slowly opened its eyes, and its unfocused gaze finally cleared.

"Dafu~~"

(Congratulations! The surgery was a success, and you're now a lovely boy!)

The Queen of the Night Flower touched the forehead of the Orchid Mantis Flower with her little hands and teased it with a smile.

"Whoa!!"

(Sister Hua, I knew you'd come to save me! Our stupid trainer is such a liar!)

The orchid mantis flower ignored the queen flower's teasing, its heart filled with the urge to retort.

Unaware of his Pokémon's comments, Zou Mingli looked away after seeing the Orchid Mantis recover.

With the Queen-level strength of the Queen Flower, clearing the poison was effortless for him, so although he was puzzled as to why the Orchid Mantis Flower was so severely poisoned, he didn't pay much attention to it.

Poison is ultimately a minor technique, only effective against Pokémon below the Elite Four level. Once a Pokémon breaks through to the Elite Four level, its constitution will increase significantly.

Whether it's poisoning, paralysis, or confusion, the probability of getting infected will be greatly reduced.

Even the Poison Master is not terrifying in one-on-one combat, but rather in its ability to easily kill multiple opponents of lower ranks.

"Instructor Zou!"

Seeing that Lan Tanghua had recovered, Mu Yun stepped forward and started talking to Zou Mingli.

Upon hearing Mu Yun's voice, Zou Mingli finally remembered the purpose of his visit.

The original intention was to secretly test Mu Yun's strength.

Now, things have gotten worse; it's all been exposed.

To be honest, it's quite embarrassing for the core members to lose to newcomers.

But now that they've shown themselves, it's not a good idea to just run away.

After a moment's hesitation, Zou Mingli adopted a relieved expression and remarked:

"Hmm, Mu Yun, right? You did a great job. It's all thanks to you that you stopped this elf who sneaked out. Otherwise, if she had encountered the other students, she would have caused a huge mess."

"To thank you for your hard work, I'm giving you a personal reward."

As he spoke, Zou Mingli reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue, teardrop-shaped crystal about the size of a thumb, which he then handed to Mu Yun.

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[Mysterious Water Drop (Beginner): A battle-enhancing treasure. The remains of a high-level Water-type Pokémon, under the influence of a special power, have formed a crystal-like polymer. The wearer can increase the power of Water-type moves by 12%.]

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Elf Treasure?

Looking at the description of the mysterious water droplet in his hand, Mu Yun was taken aback.

Is this the power of the person in charge of the secret realm? He can just throw out a magical treasure with a single move!

That's incredibly extravagant!

"Oh, right, this was my oversight after all. To avoid putting pressure on other students, please don't tell anyone about it," Zou Mingli added as if he had just thought of something.

Mu Yun immediately understood, grasped the water droplet, his expression turned serious, and said, "What is Instructor Zou saying? What spirit? I haven't encountered one on the way!"

Mu Yun said that he had only seen the garrison soldiers lying in ambush, and had never seen any elves that had run away.

Upon hearing this, Zou Mingli smiled.

This kid is quite interesting.

It was worth giving him the water-type spirit treasure he found in the secret realm some time ago.

Elf treasures are incredibly valuable, yet they're also surprisingly easy to obtain.

At least, for him, who possessed a Celestial-level Pokémon and was responsible for guarding an entire secret realm, it was nothing special.

It's hard to say about intermediate and higher-level treasures, but basic treasures will generally generate somewhere in the secret realm every one to two years.

As the highest guardian of the secret realm, he naturally has the right to handle the resources discovered within it.

It can be distributed as a reward, handed over to be exchanged for merit points, or even kept for oneself.

For someone with a Champion-level Pokémon, these are all minor matters.

"That's settled then. It's getting dark soon, so let's find an exit and head out. You'll start formal training tomorrow."

Before leaving, Zou Mingli gave a reminder.

"Yes, Instructor Zou!"

Mu Yun nodded, indicating that he understood.

In fact, if it weren't for the appearance of the orchid mantis flower, he would have already been heading towards the nearest exit.

After Zou Mingli left, Mu Yun stuffed the mysterious water droplet into his pocket, and then, with a thought, placed it into his storage space.

There's no rush to redeem the points; we can deal with it once we're out of town.

"Let's go, let's set off!"

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[Ding! Detected that the host has left the dense forest. Short-term mission 12 - Leaving the Dense Forest is in progress... Checking the order in which the host left the dense forest, check complete! The host's ranking is after 100!]

[Ding! Congratulations, host! You have gained 1000 points!]

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Just as Mu Yun stepped out of the exit and got into the multi-functional mountain road vehicle picked up by the staff, a system notification sounded in his mind.

The ranking outside the top 100 was entirely within Mu Yun's expectations.

In his pursuit of points and experience, he completely disregarded the ranking rewards.

There are over four or five hundred people in the training camp, and who knows if any lucky ones will be able to get out first.

Instead of chasing after that uncertain 10,000 points, it's better to just start playing yourself.

Not only do you gain a lot of points, but you also receive extra growth experience rewards.

The thirty-odd "roadblocks" alone contributed a full 17000 points to him.

This doesn't even include their elves.

If you include everything, plus the kind classmates you meet along the way, the total points earned could even exceed 30,000.

The rewards far exceed those for the top ten finishers in the mission.

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Points: 80479

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"I've got over 80,000 points now. Should I exchange some Elf Treasures for some energy points...?"

On the way to the training camp, Mu Yun pondered.

He has already used evolution essence on all five of his Pokémon, so there are no significant points consumed yet.

As for exchanging spirit treasures for spirits?

To be honest, the slight increase in skill power from 10,000 points is not as good as putting in more effort to improve skill proficiency.

Instead of wasting points on this, it's better to exchange them for energy points and give him some points.

Thinking about it, Mu Yun brought up the host panel and looked at his skills.

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[Host: Mu Yun]

Skills: Yanhuang Language (LV3, 4399/10000)+, ..., Cooking (LV4, 3686/100000)+, Ninth Set of National Fitness Exercises (LV4, 25314/100000)+, General Massage (LV3, 4200/10000)+, Energy Cube Making (LV4, 5630/100000)+, Wang's Cannon Fist (LV3, 1140/10000)+,

[Too many skills, some have been automatically collapsed. Click to view details]

[Special Ability: Language Master (0/10) - Hear the Voice of All Things]

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Language skills go without saying, and Mu Yun, who is currently still in China, has no intention of challenging the extremely difficult mode.

As for the other skills, cooking is sufficient for now, so there's no rush to upgrade them.

The same applies to general massage.

The Energy Cube crafting skill can be leveled up by spending some Alliance Coins and time; there's no need to spend points.

Only the two skills, aerobics and Wang's Cannon Fist, are relatively difficult to improve.

The former relied on the gravity chamber and could only gain one or two hundred experience points a day. Now that they've come to the training camp, without the help of Auntie Nuts and Dumbbells, they probably won't even get one or two hundred experience points.

The latter situation is similar.

With a gravity chamber, the harvest is quite considerable.

However, because he needed to practice gymnastics, Mu Yun's focus was not on this skill.

"It's decided! I'll level up Wang's Cannon Fist to LV4 first, and then put the rest into aerobics!"

Mu Yun quickly made a decision.

You won't use the points to create offspring; aside from keeping some for emergencies, the rest can be converted into real-time combat power.

Especially since these points are consumed through personal investment.

There are no cultivation techniques or martial arts methods in this world, and there aren't many ways to strengthen oneself.