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

"System, exchange for thirty Evolution Essences!"

Points -30000!

As Mu Yun silently recited the command, thirty evolution essences quickly arrived in his account.

As a rare variant, Xiao Jin is destined to be one of the main water-type characters in the future, so Mu Yun will naturally not be stingy with points.

As for the other water-type Pokémon, Mu Yun naturally couldn't use evolution essence on them all.

Putting everything else aside, just one Magikarp costs 30,000 points, so 32 Magikarp would cost 960,000 points.

Even if you don't spend a single penny of the more than two thousand points you earn a day, it would still take a year to accumulate them.

By now, those Magikarp would have all evolved.

Therefore, aside from Xiao Jin, Mu Yun only wants to use it on the future Frog King, Frog Frog, for the time being.

Staryu is also an option, since it evolves from a Water Stone, and you can use it later if you have enough points.

The rest, thanks to their attribute bonuses, will still have considerable combat power even without additional racial stat bonuses.

This can be seen from Xiao Du's fighting strength back then.

"Xiao Jin, come here for a second."

Mu Yun bent down and waved to Xiao Jin, who was floating on the water and looking a little drowsy.

"Kalu kalu~~"

Hearing Mu Yun's call, Xiao Jin shook its head to clear its mind before flicking its tail and swimming over with the horn bone in its mouth.

"If you can't eat anymore, just leave it. Aren't you tired of carrying it around?"

Seeing Xiao Jin's actions, Mu Yun couldn't help but chuckle.

Despite his words, he actually understood.

After all, the living environment for wild elves is not good.

Especially for those with low potential, their parents are likely not very strong either, resulting in less food. Less food means they can't level up, which leads to lower strength and less food, creating a vicious cycle for their descendants.

Now that we finally have the resources to become stronger, it's normal to be reluctant to part with them.

"Don't worry, you won't go hungry anymore."

Mu Yun gently patted Xiao Jin's shimmering scales and said.

Then, with a thought, he affixed beads of evolution essence to Little Gold's fish scales.

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[Ding! Shiny Magikarp (Little Gold) is using Evolution Essence. Based on its final form's base stats, its highest stats are Attack and Special Defense. Stat boosting in progress...]

[Ding! Evolution essence fusion complete. Shiny Magikarp (Gold): Attack +150, Special Defense +150!]

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[Pokémon: Magikarp (Gold)]

[Race stats:]

HP: 20

Physical Attack: 10 + 150 = 160

Physical defense: 55

Special Attack: 15

Special defense: 20+150=170

Speed: 80

Total: 200 → 500

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"Not bad, 160 Attack and 170 Special Defense, you can be considered a top-tier Magikarp..."

Before Mu Yun could finish speaking, Xiao Jin, who had just been drowsy, suddenly became bright-eyed, as if he had taken a super tonic.

The Gyarados horn bone he was holding in his mouth was like an ice pillar suddenly transported to the hot equator, instantly shrinking and melting.

In just a dozen breaths, the remaining two-thirds of the horn bone was almost gone.

At the same time, Xiao Jin's size has grown from a little over one meter to 1.5 meters, making him no smaller than the Magikarp we saw in Songjiang.

"Is it still edible?"

Seeing this, Mu Yun didn't have time to sigh. He immediately spent another 300 points to exchange for a Gyarados Horn Bone and handed it to Xiao Jin.

Sure enough, after Xiao Jin finished absorbing the horn bone, he seemed not to be full and immediately picked up the horn bone that Mu Yun handed him.

With a slurp, it took the new horn bone into its mouth.

Before long, nearly a third of the new horn bone had disappeared.

Xiao Jin's height had reached about 1.8 meters by this time.

Only then did Xiao Jin's absorption of the horn bones slow down considerably. It stopped sucking when its size finally stopped at two meters, and its eyelids drooped again, looking just like someone who had eaten too much rice and was feeling dizzy.

"Increasing base stats can also increase the absorption limit of horn bones?"

Mu Yun was quite surprised to see that Xiao Jin, who was only one meter long a few minutes ago, was now more than two meters long.

It's worth noting that the largest known Magikarp is only about two meters in size.

Little Gold has easily surpassed the height of Gyarados after just one meal of Gyarados Horn Bone. If he were to rest and do it a few more times, he would probably easily surpass three meters.

Once it evolves into Gyarados, it's probably not impossible for it to exceed twenty meters in length.

If waterfall climbing is used, it will truly resemble a silver river falling from the heavens, a sight to behold.

Suddenly, Mu Yun thought of the joint performance of a group of fire-breathing dragons during the Spring Festival Gala.

If more than thirty large Gyarados were to combine their Waterfall Climbing abilities, they could easily create catastrophic, towering waves on some coastlines.

With this in mind, Mu Yun thought that feeding the Magikarp a little bit of evolution essence wouldn't be a bad idea.

Although the points are limited and cannot be fully fed, feeding a few less so that they can grow bigger seems like a good idea.

Of course, this is on the premise that Xiao Jin's size increase is really related to the increase in his base stats.

As for whether it is true or not, just try it with Erli and Sanli.

"Get some rest. If you need more horn bones, just tell Dadan."

Seeing that Xiao Jin's eyelids were starting to droop, Mu Yun didn't linger. After giving a brief mention, he headed towards the interior of the lake.

He said he was going, but he only took one step and instantly disappeared from the spot.

As the owner of the Elf Space, he has the highest authority and can appear in any corner of the space at will.

When he reappeared, he was in the center of a lake.

In the center of the lake, there is a reasonably sized island.

At this moment, Dadan was leading his "soldiers" in drills.

For example, a large crab practicing foaming on the shore, a goldfish practicing playing in the water on the shore, two shrimp (Lobster Soldier and Iron-Armed Pistol Shrimp) practicing water guns, and a starfish constantly spinning in the water.

These elves train very hard, but it's unclear whether it's voluntary or because they were moved by the boldness of the training.

Then, Mu Yun looked at the group of carp kings.

Magikarp has consistently ranked at the top of the list of the weakest Pokémon, not only because of its low base stats, but also because it has almost no effective offensive methods before evolving.

Examples include Wishiwashi and Feebas, which also have low base stats.

The former knows many moves, such as Water Gun, which is common among Water-type Pokémon, and Water Pulse is also among its inherited moves.

The latter can even inherit powerful dragon-type moves like Dragon Breath.

Magikarp is the only one that is completely useless before evolving. It can be easily defeated by an opponent without taking any damage, even when it encounters a Magnus (the degenerate form of Krillin).

When Mu Yun looked over, most of the Magikarp were just jumping up and down on the surface of the water, about ten or more times in a row, before stopping to rest for a while.

"Thankfully, Splash has low energy consumption; otherwise, even with the buff, Magikarp would have a hard time accumulating enough Limit Break points!"

Mu Yun couldn't help but sigh.

After sighing, he began searching for Erli and Sanli.

With just one glance, he spotted Erli.

It's not that he looks special, but that he can jump very high.

While other carp can only leap two or three meters out of the water, the second carp leaps four or five meters high, almost twice as high as the others.

Mu Yun glanced at his panel; his proficiency in Water Splash/Jump had reached the Master level.

"Is it a fish with perseverance?"

Mu Yun was slightly surprised.

These two carp really do remind me of Bofeng when he was a child.

He may lack potential, but he works hard enough.

Master-level splash jump, how many times must one practice that!

"I knew it was you, Erli!"

Mu Yun originally planned to give Erli and Sanli a few evolution essences each, but seeing Erli's enthusiasm, he couldn't help but think of his first encounter with Bofeng.

Hard work should not be let down!