Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 363 Seven Months in the Blink of an Eye, the Competition is About to Begin

With the crisis in the desert city resolved.

The mythical beasts also returned to their world through Hoopa's halo.

Before leaving, Su Yu handed the Courage Chicken Leg to Suijun, intending to pass it on to Marshadow through him.

After that, Su Yu looked at Bazar and said:

"The Jar of Punishment... I'll leave it with you for now. That way, it'll be safer."

After all, these two siblings don't seem that reliable in the movie. Who knows, they might accidentally unleash the evil shadow again someday.

After that, Su Yu returned to the ranch.

……

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

After visiting Unova, Ash went to Kalos.

After arriving in Unova, Mewtwo had a long talk with N, and they felt like they had known each other for ages. In the end, Mewtwo even brought the Pokémon from its own island to Unova.

And during these three months...

The Dragonite's aerial cities expanded further, adding facilities such as markets, farmland, and reservoirs. Crucially, all of these were built on the Sky Tree.

With the help of the ram mount and the Crowned King, the World Tree quickly grew to a thousand meters tall, its branches and leaves spreading out to an enormous size.

It's worth noting that Mount Tai, known as the "Head of the Five Sacred Mountains," once had a main peak height of 1545 meters!

At this height, the ranch has now been placed in another dimension. If it were placed in the outside world, it would surely attract a large number of tourists.

In fact, the leaves of the Sky Tree can cover most of the pastoral area.

The Tropical Dragon people, Deddle's wild Pokémon friends, and other Pokémon have all moved to live in this tree.

Today, this place is bustling with activity, and the ecological prototype of the World Tree is beginning to take shape.

That was the day.

Having somehow heard about Su Yu's birthday, on August 14th, the Pokémon suddenly gathered at the villa to celebrate Su Yu's birthday.

This touched Su Yu deeply. For so long, no one had celebrated his birthday. He had even stopped caring about the exact date of his birthday.

On the contrary, the Alcremie family took it very seriously, preparing everything from cake and birthday hats to candles. They even brought out a small stool and personally put it on him.

On this day, Jirachi asked Su Yu what his wish was, and if possible, he wanted to help Su Yu fulfill it.

To this, Su Yu chuckled and said:

"Then I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you."

"Because my wish actually came true a long time ago!"

There are so many adorable Pokémon, Caterpie, Alcremie, Arcanine, and others, each one unique to him. And he shares an unforgettable memory with them.

And memory is the vessel of emotion. Su Yu believes that even decades later, he will still remember his first encounter with the Pokémon on this ranch.

"I really hope that these days can last forever..." Su Yu sighed.

And just a few days after her birthday.

Xin Dong and the others, who had gone to explore the Ultimate Cave, suddenly returned from the cave covered in injuries.

They stated that in the other world, the exploration team encountered a Pokémon that was entirely black and inherently ferocious. The Pokémon attacked them upon first sight, causing heavy losses to the team.

Su Yu naturally knew that it was Necrozma.

At this time, Necrozma was extremely weak, its strength not even reaching Reshiram's level. However, if Nebula were to evolve now, it might attract Necrozma's covetousness.

Necrozma, having lost its light and turned completely black, desperately yearns for light. Solgaleo, in Alola's legends, is a legendary Pokémon that brings light.

In this situation, Su Yu told Cong Youbing about the threat Little Nebula was facing. He also said that only Cong Youbing himself had the ability to save Little Nebula.

The only way is to use the Serpent's sword to defeat Necrozma.

"Huh?!" Really?

Upon hearing this news, Congyoubing was extremely flustered. After all, it had been taking care of Little Nebula for several months, and such a long experience of raising a child had made Little Nebula like a son to it.

Therefore, it began to practice even harder, repeating its swordsmanship day after day.

In this situation, three months passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Necrozma completely evolved, transforming into the form of Solgaleo. Drawn by Solgaleo's aura, Necrozma went mad.

He came from the ultimate world to the mortal realm, desperately wanting to obtain the light of the little nebula.

However, the Onion Soldier was well-prepared for this. Informed by Su Yu, it had been preparing its swordsmanship for the enemy for a long time.

At Su Yu's behest, it had long ago begun accumulating energy for this sword strike. And after Necrozma arrived, it unleashed this attack.

However, the expected scenario of piercing through the opponent's defenses with a single strike did not occur. Instead, Necrozma sensed an extremely pure light within that strike.

Just as the Alolans were able to help Necrozma regain her power by contributing their own light, Su Yu had anticipated this.

Su Yu had already conceived of this idea back when Zacian said that the power of the Spirit Warrior was light. Now, he was simply putting his idea into practice.

Upon learning that what he thought was a sword technique to kill the enemy was actually his opponent's power bank, Congyoubing burst into tears.

But for the sake of the little nebula, it still has to keep swinging its sword to recharge the Radiant God.

This charge lasted for a whole month.

The Radiant God was completely satisfied, as if He had just had a great massage. By exploiting the Great Green Duck, He had restored most of His power. As for the remaining loss, He could recover it on His own.

He returned to the other world and, incidentally, closed all the portals to the Ultimate World for Donghuang. Perhaps the only way to find that world again is to reopen the Ultimate Cave through the Little Nebula.

And it was on this very day...

With his main force in tow, Ash returned to the ranch. A year had passed since he last left.

Ash's team at this moment is quite impressive. After leaving Kalos, he spent three months learning Z-Moves in Alola. And by chance, he also caught a Farfetch'd in Galar.

At this time, the World Championships had only just begun accepting registrations for the preliminary rounds. The next six months would be dedicated to the preliminary rounds. He had six months to make final preparations for the main tournament.

"Alright! Pikachu, Charizard, Sceptile, Infernape, Krookodile, Greninja, this time, we'd better give it our all!"

"Pikachu~!" Upon hearing this, Pikachu on the shoulder was the first to raise its hand in response.

Other Pokémon, whether aloof or lively, also expressed their support.

On the contrary, because Farfetch'd had just joined the team, he was ignored and ran to the side in a somewhat withdrawn manner.

Seeing this, Congyoubing went up and patted it on the shoulder, comforting it:

"Gah~!" There's no need to be sad about this. Your trainer probably just didn't know you wanted to train, which is why they didn't call you.

If all else fails, you can practice with me too (』』)シ~

(End of this chapter)