Rockruff Evolves?

Next, Fang Yuan and the others saw an Ice God Pillar Pokémon, Regice, its entire body made of Ice Cones and Ice Pillars.

It stood atop a relatively frigid, snow-covered rocky mountain, watching Fang Yuan and the others pass with icy eyes.

The pressure Regice brought was no less than Regirock's.

"Regice... its body is made from Never-Melt Ice formed during the Ice Age hundreds of millions of years ago. Every part of its body is Never-Melt Ice that has been frozen for over a hundred million years. Even lava cannot melt it, and ordinary flames can barely affect it. It is best not to get close when fighting this thing... The cold air wrapped around its body will turn you into an ice sculpture even if you touch just a trace of it."

This was another Guardian God whose strength did not pale beside the Rock God Pillar.

And there was one more such being, guarding the place closest to the World Tree.

It had emerged from underground. Clearly, before Fang Yuan and the others arrived, the Steel God Pillar Registeel had been training beneath the earth.

It, too, merely watched Fang Yuan and the others approach the World Tree without any other reaction.

"Scholars have discovered that when wild Onix live underground for long enough—roughly a hundred years—their bodies undergo a qualitative change due to the accumulation of iron elements swallowed along with soil, allowing them to evolve into Steelix... That is the normal method of evolution."

"Besides that, there is another shortcut for wild Onix to evolve into Steelix: tempering their bodies under the extreme pressure and heat deeper underground. If their talent is good enough and they endure it, they may evolve within a few months. It is said that afterward, their bodies become harder than