Playing Pokémon Battles on Douluo Continent

Heaven Dou Grand Hotel.

Xue Qinghe's lips twitched as he looked at the stack of dinner plates already as tall as a person.

Wait... is that a normal amount to eat? Are you sure she isn't a Soul Beast who recultivated into a human?

"Sister Stelle, don't you have an appetite? Why are you eating so little?"

Xue Qinghe: "!!!"

What is she talking about? That counts as not having an appetite? What would she be like when she does have one?

After finishing her last plate of meat, Stelle leaned back in her chair in satisfaction and patted her little belly with her right hand. It hadn't bulged out at all.

"That'll tide me over. We can eat again later. I've been craving the boiled black-back perch at Wanmin Restaurant."

Wei Xi looked as though she completely agreed, as if all that food really had been just enough to tide them over.

"By the way, when I was wandering around the Sunset Forest, I stumbled into a medicinal garden by accident. How about we go have a look?"

"A medicinal garden?"

Wei Xi blinked. At the mention of a medicinal garden, wasn't that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, a must-eat on the Douluo I list?

"A medicinal garden? There's one in the Sunset Forest?"

Xue Qinghe didn't doubt what Stelle had said, but... what kind of medicinal garden could catch their eye?

Just among the Titled Douluo they had openly revealed, there were a full five, and every one of them had surpassed the usual Soul Ring Configuration.

"If we take it back, the apothecaries at the Alchemy Commission should be interested. Failing that, we could send it to the Hundred Flowers Palace."

The speaker meant nothing by it, but the listener took it to heart.

Those two names were etched into Xue Qinghe's mind.

At the same time, though, she began to wonder.

Are there really so many hidden clans in this world?

Why does it feel like your world and mine are so different?

Wei Xi thought for a moment and ultimately decided to go move the medicinal garden.

The reason was simple: she had nothing to do anyway, so she might as well go out for a stroll. She might even stumble across an unexpected reward.

"It's settled, then! To the medicinal garden! Go, go, go! Let's set off!"

Wei Xi acted on whatever idea popped into her head.

She casually tossed out a red-and-white ball, and a horse wreathed in flames appeared before her.

"A ten-thousand-year Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse?"

Xue Qinghe cried out in surprise. Leaving aside what that spherical thing was, the horse before him was no ordinary creature.

Blazing Fire Heavenly Horses ranked near the top among Soul Beasts. They had no wings, yet they could fly.

They were the Soul Beasts many fire- and flight-type Soul Masters dreamed of, but they were so rare that even a year might pass without more than a few sightings.

"Brother Qinghe, isn't my mount cool?"

Wei Xi planted her hands on her hips.

"When I passed through the Star Dou Great Forest, I took a fancy to this horse, so I had Brother Mo pack up her whole clan and take them away!"

The Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse rubbed her little face against Wei Xi's ingratiatingly. She couldn't help it—this was her God of Wealth.

When she was first captured, she had wanted to fight to the death, but one pill had made her understand something.

Following the right person was the fastest shortcut in a beast's life.

And so, she had packed up her entire clan and brought them over herself.

In just three days, her cultivation had shot up from twelve thousand years to eighty thousand. If her body hadn't been unable to keep up, she could have undergone her hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation on the spot.

Orcs would never be slaves, unless room and board were included.

Her clanmates were now eating and drinking like royalty in Tianshu's pastures. Those with exceptional talent even had a chance to join the army and secure an iron rice bowl.

Wow! What a bitter life I used to lead!

In the end, the Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse had come to understand one thing: going all in was an art.

"Hmph, the one I actually wanted was the Soul Beast in her herd who was almost a hundred thousand years old, but my brother wouldn't give her to me."

With that, she shot Mo Xuan a fierce glare, as if to say, If you hadn't ruined it for me, I would have kept that one long ago.

"A hundred thousand years..."

Xue Qinghe's head felt muddled. Since when had Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts become so worthless?

"Sister Stelle, are you coming too?"

Stelle planted her hands on her hips. It was time for her to show off.

"It's just a mount. I have one too. I choose you! Rift-Sky Azure Eagle!"

A giant eagle three meters long appeared before them. The immense fluctuations of Soul Power put Snake Lance and Pufferfish, who were hidden in the shadows, on high alert.

If Mo Xuan's gaze hadn't still been fixed on them,

They would already have charged over with her.

"Master, please command me as you wish."

The Rift-Sky Azure Eagle spoke in a voice with a hint of mature allure.

She had thought Stelle wanted eggs again, and she had even been ready to lay one on the spot.

She couldn't help it. Stelle had given her far too much. In just half a month, her cultivation had already reached a hundred and eighty thousand years. She had also evolved from a Blazing Fire Goshawk into a Rift-Sky Azure Eagle. Not only had her attribute reached Ultimate Fire, she had also gained the space attribute.

Then she turned her gaze to the Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse.

The two caught sight of each other and, in an instant, felt a little kinship.

Sure enough, she went all in too. Looks like I made the right choice.

Both felt they had struck it rich.

"A hundred-thousand-year Soul... Soul Beast..."

"Sir, it's a hundred and eighty thousand years."

The Rift-Sky Azure Eagle even took the time to correct him.

"Xixi! Did you see that? This is what I gained on this trip! She begged and pleaded to become my mount! If I hadn't found her so annoying, I wouldn't have reluctantly accepted her."

"Master's domineering presence was simply overwhelming. I truly couldn't help myself. To become Master's mount, my ancestral graves must be billowing green smoke."

As a qualified mount and pet, one had to make sure one's master could show off in front of outsiders at all times. In short: bootlicking.

Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse: "..."

Well, would you look at that. Senior, you have a full hundred and eighty thousand years of cultivation. How can you be so shameless?

"Heh heh! See that? I, Stelle, am practically a succubus! Wahahaha!"

"Master is brilliant beyond compare! Master's beauty makes fish sink and geese fall! Master puts the moon to shame and makes flowers blush..."

Xingbao was so delighted by the praise that she tossed the Rift-Sky Azure Eagle a whole bottle of Pure Fire Pills.

Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse: !!!

Damn! You can do that? That's a whole bottle of Pure Fire Pills! Just a few words got her all that?

After the Rift-Sky Azure Eagle carefully put them away, she gave the Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse a pointed look.

See that, little sister? They say bootlickers die miserable deaths, but it depends on whose boots you lick.

Don't I have everything I could want now?

Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse: Thank you for your guidance, Senior. Lesson learned, lesson learned.

At this point, someone might ask: where was their dignity as Soul Beasts?

Blazing Fire Heavenly Horse & Rift-Sky Azure Eagle: How much does dignity sell for by the pound? If we don't cash it in now, when will we?

Xue Qinghe was completely numb.

Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts... really do seem... worthless now...

Have I gone crazy, or has this world gone crazy? Are these really Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts?

"Hehe, an illusion. It must be an illusion. How could this be possible?"

"Brother Qinghe! Are you coming too?"

"!!! Yes! I'm going too!"

Xue Qinghe said she had never ridden a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and this was the time to try it.