Bottom-tier trainers in the Pokémon world

Ok?

Surprisingly...

It tastes pretty good.

Seemingly possessed, the unicorn ignoring its pain, buried its head and began biting the pure gold feather repeatedly.

One gap after another appeared.

Soon, the enormous pure gold feather was simply destroyed by it.

Without the crucial item, the pure gold feather, the surrounding dense lightning seemed to have weakened in frequency.

Violence!

Zapdos in the sky let out a long cry and saw Weedle, who had just eaten the pure gold feather, was charred all over, and was letting out a burp. A hint of kindness appeared in its solemn and dignified eyes.

Xia Yan strode forward and hugged the unicorn beetle.

Looking at the unicorn beetle, its body charred black and crackling with electricity, he was filled with worry.

But because of Zapdos's long cry, I couldn't help but look up at the sky.

Noticing Zapdos's kind gaze, before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he saw...

Zapdos was brimming with bright lightning, with arcs of electricity leaping up and down, completely ignoring Tom Rukki's Pokémon.

Xia Yan's body trembled involuntarily.

Instinctively, he sensed that Zapdos seemed to have locked onto him this time.

Or rather, did he lock onto the unicorn in his arms?

So, because of goodwill, I have to chop you up?

Good logic!

Xia Yan reacted almost instinctively, picking up the unicorn beetle and running towards the edge of the junkyard without a second thought.

Get hit by Zapdos.

Will I die?

He ran frantically, but Zapdos stayed right above him, its lightning already condensed to a terrifying degree, yet it hesitated to strike.

Suddenly.

After running for an unknown amount of time, Xia Yan heard the sound of flowing water.

Feng Luochuan!

It's a river again!

But it might be the only chance!

However, Zapdos, having accumulated so much energy, didn't give him any more time to run.

boom!!

A massive bolt of lightning, like a sudden clap of thunder in spring, struck him directly, bathing him in a dense mass of lightning energy.

"Xia Yan!!" Du, who had followed, exclaimed in surprise.

Following closely behind them, Tom Ruchi smiled and fiddled with his hair, whispering in a voice only he could hear, "That way, all the preparations will have come in handy."

Chapter Seventy-Four: So Heavy

"Well......"

Xia Yan slowly woke up, and memories came flooding back like a tide.

It slowly came to mind that it seemed that he and Weedle had been struck by Zapdos?

Oh, right, where's the unicorn?!

Xia Yan was startled and hurriedly looked around, only to find himself in a shallow stream. It seemed that he had fallen into the Maple River at the same time as being struck by Zapdos.

Then, in a daze, I drifted along the river for who knows how long.

Fortunately, the Weedle was still there, and the Pokémon egg in the backpack was undamaged. Xia Yan searched through his clothes and found the charred Weedle.

With eyes closed and a relaxed expression.

He appeared very peaceful.

"Unicorn Bug," Xia Yan called out nervously.

He didn't know why he was still alive after being struck by Zapdos, but he remembered that Weedle had been baptized by electric energy when it passed through the electric energy wrapped in pure gold feathers in order to destroy Tom Ruchi's device.

Judging from the injuries on his body, he may die if he does not receive timely treatment.

Even Xia Yan, who usually tries to remain calm, couldn't help but feel nervous at this moment.

"Waaah..."

Seemingly having heard Xia Yan's voice, the unicorn slowly opened its eyes, looking somewhat confused.

"Waaah!"

She quickly realized what was happening and gently twisted her body.

Seeing that Unicorn Beetle had woken up, Xia Yan breathed a slight sigh of relief, but then quickly asked, "Are you alright?"

But the unicorn seemed to sense something; its expression suddenly froze, and then its body began to tremble irregularly, as if it were convulsing.

Under Xia Yan's unexpected gaze, the unicorn beetle's body began to break apart, and fine cracks appeared. Then, layers of charred carapace began to slowly peel off, like a withered tree struck by spring thunder, gradually sprouting new buds in the gentle breeze.

Gradually, its brand-new, crystalline, earthy-yellow shell was revealed.

There seemed to be faint flashes of electricity.

again.......

It's shed its shell?

Was Zapdos's final lightning strike not an attack?

After the unicorn beetle had completely shed the pieces of its shell that had been restricting its movement, it stretched comfortably, accompanied by a groan and a series of soft crackling sounds coming from its body.

"Huh?"

After doing all that, it realized what was happening.

It seems like I've shed my skin again?

Doesn't that mean the evolutionary process will be delayed again?

The thought that the evolution he had been longing for would be delayed again made Unicorn feel a little disappointed, but he quickly accepted the fact that he and Xia Yan were both alright.

But before it could accept this fact, its body suddenly shone with a white light.

Xia Yan was still pondering what could have caused Weedle to undergo another metamorphosis. Could it be the pure gold feather that Weedle had eaten? Or Zapdos's final lightning strike?

"Ok?"

"Huh?"

Xia Yan and Unicorn Bug stared at each other for a few seconds before they came to their senses.

"Is it about to evolve?"

It seems that this final molting did not interrupt the evolution of the unicorn. The unicorn, which had already reached the critical point of evolution, officially entered the process of evolution after escaping danger and completing its final molting.

"Woo!" The unicorn beetle exclaimed with delight.

Is it about to evolve?

It has been longing for evolution for a very long time.

This was also Xia Yan's first time witnessing a Pokémon evolve, and it seemed to be much slower than he had imagined.

He quickly took out an iron box from his backpack, which was full of high-level energy cubes, the ones that the unicorn beetle had left over from this period of time.

"Quick, eat them! Eat as many as you can!"

Xia Yan conducted in-depth research on the evolution of unicorns.

Weedle's evolved form is Kakuna, a type of pupa Pokémon. These Pokémon have a characteristic: the evolved pupa usually stores up energy for future evolution and cannot eat or move much.

The more energy accumulated, the stronger the resulting evolution will be.

Therefore, wild unicorns, during their evolution, will choose a secluded and safe place, hang in the dense forest, remain motionless, and silently wait for the metamorphosis to be completed.

Undoubtedly, if one can absorb a large amount of energy and reduce consumption before evolution, one will definitely become stronger after evolution.

Therefore, Xia Yan is now making the Unicorn Beetle eat more energy cubes before it evolves, even if it's just to keep going, as this will definitely be a huge benefit to it after it evolves.

The unicorn beetle didn't think as much as Xia Yan did. Its favorite high-level energy cubes were right in front of it, and it could eat as much as it wanted. What could make it happier than that?

He immediately shoved his head into the box and began to feast.

But surprisingly, the unicorn beetle, which usually doesn't eat much and can only consume a few high-level energy cubes per meal, finished all thirty-odd high-level energy cubes remaining in the box in no time.

They still looked like they wanted more.

Xia Yan was stunned.

The amount of food the unicorn ate during its evolution was indeed somewhat beyond his expectations.

"Fortunately, I prepared some intermediate energy cubes beforehand. Although they are not as useful as advanced energy cubes, for the unicorn beetle, which only needs to accumulate power right now, quantity is the most important thing. Quality can be built up by quantity."

He then took out a full box of intermediate energy cubes, with over a hundred left.

Xia Yan sat on the ground silently watching the unicorn beetles devour one after another, as if they had become a bottomless pit.

It's hard to imagine how it managed to fit so many energy cubes into such a small body.

After the unicorn beetle finished eating the last intermediate energy cube, it licked its lips contentedly and let out a satisfied burp.

I'm finally full.

Xia Yan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that it had eaten its fill.

Thankfully, the unicorn was almost delayed due to insufficient preparation.

After it finished burping, the white light emanating from the unicorn suddenly became very intense, and a milky white halo enveloped it, obscuring the changes inside.