The Valley of Creation remained as tranquil and peaceful as Su Hao remembered.
The vast valley was filled with lush vegetation, and Su Hao headed straight toward the flower field in full bloom.
Although he had come here several times before, after confirming that Hoopa showed no signs of waking, he had not moved it.
Yet when Su Hao reached the edge of the flower field and looked toward its center, Hoopa's petite body had vanished without a trace.
The flower field looked as though something had pressed upon it. Petals and soft stems had sunk slightly, retaining a faint outline, while the surrounding flowers drooped a little from being bent.
Plants had strong self-repair abilities. Judging from the traces, Hoopa had been lying here not long ago.
And there were clearly no signs that the Valley of Creation had been invaded. Spiritomb was still guarding the doorway as usual.
Aside from masters who toyed with time and space, such as Giratina and the Temporal Duo, only Hoopa's Evil Thoughts and Arceus himself could likely enter here without a sound.
As for Hoopa's Evil Thoughts, it was most likely still sealed within the Prison Bottle. Otherwise, Molten Mountain would not have needed to go to such lengths and have Heatran blast open a path to awaken Nihilego.
Wouldn't it have been much easier to just pull Nihilego out of the dimensional portal?
If so, there was only one possibility for Hoopa's disappearance—
Su Hao narrowed his eyes, and an idea immediately came to him.
Rather than playing hide-and-seek with a Hoopa that could relocate through dimensional portals passing through golden rings, and whose personality was probably rather mischievous, it would be better to simply "fish" it out.
At that moment, Dragapult and the Dragapult siblings, who had taken a lap