So what if they knew he had come to the Spirit Primal Forest?
Wasn't changing clothes perfectly normal?
He only put his mask and voice changer back on while he was in the forest.
Once he was done with them, he simply burned them to ashes.
Wasn't that perfectly ordinary behavior for a university student at Jingtian Academy?
Everything made perfect sense.
The Wind King appeared. The moment it sensed Groudon's presence, it rushed out.
But Groudon was still faster. After firing off a Solar Beam that swept across the whole area, Groudon was immediately recalled into the Master Ball by Su Yi.
Su Yi quickly left the scene, too.
When the Wind King arrived, all it saw was a mess of flames beginning to spread.
"Rrreee..."
The Wind King opened its mouth and gave a gentle blow. The flames in the forest immediately went out, like obedient children.
It stared in the direction Groudon had gone for a while, puzzled.
Why had Groudon headed that way?
Unable to figure it out, the Wind King eventually spread its wings and flew back toward the core area.
As for Su Yi, he had only just left the Spirit Primal Forest.
His phone rang.
It was Gu Yuanfang.
"Holy crap! Su Yi, you're not still in the Spirit Primal Forest, are you? Get out of there right now! Something huge seems to have happened. A Peak Trainer from the International Pokémon League headquarters is already on the way to investigate, and my old man's going too. If you're okay, get back to the academy and stay put!"
Gu Yuanfang sounded utterly shocked.
How fast!
Su Yi thought to himself. He had acted quickly enough, but the Pokémon League had moved even faster.
Still, this had nothing to do with him. He had only come to the Spirit Primal Forest to see if he could find a suitable Pokémon to catch.
Yeah. That was it.
"I know. I just got out. I'm heading back to the academy now."
As he replied to Gu Yuanfang, Su Yi began tidying himself up, trying to remember if he had missed anything.
Once he was sure everything was in order, Su Yi headed toward Jingtian Academy.
After returning to the academy, Gu Yuanfang didn't come looking for him. Who knew what that guy was busy with?
Su Yi was happy to enjoy the peace and quiet.
He went straight back to his dorm and took the Pokémon Egg Hatching Accelerator out of Spatial Storage.
There was a progress bar in the incubator.
It had already reached fifty percent.
Su Yi planned to spend the whole afternoon here, keeping the two Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon Eggs that were hatching company.
Meanwhile, at the International Pokémon League headquarters, a Peak Trainer had been asked to investigate the damage in the northern Spirit Primal Forest.
At the site of the destruction Groudon had caused,
a man riding an Armored Bird frowned as he surveyed the scene from the sky.
"Caw!"
The Armored Bird cried out toward a certain direction.
"I see. No wonder another powerful aura still lingers here. The Wind King."
The man looked deeper into the Spirit Primal Forest.
A massive footprint lay here.
Groudon had left it.
It had formed a huge pit, sinking more than ten meters into the ground.
"Why would Groudon show up here? From the looks of it, it deliberately tried to crush the Zhang Family members..."
The man was around forty. Like Heavenly King Moss, who often represented the International Pokémon League headquarters at various events, this Peak Trainer also regularly investigated all sorts of strange incidents for the headquarters.
"Strange. Far too strange."
Shaking his head, the man lightly pressed his foot down. The Armored Bird understood and descended.
The man spent nearly two hours investigating the area.
The Armored Bird let out a cry now and then, keeping Wild Pokémon from approaching.
"Come out, Arcanine."
"Ruff!"
"Luxray!"
"Rrowr!"
The man called out two more of his Pokémon partners.
Arcanine and Luxray were both special Pokémon.
Arcanine's nose and Luxray's eyes could pick up things that ordinary senses couldn't detect.
If Su Yi had seen these two Pokémon, he would have been glad he'd changed clothes and used herbs from the forest to get rid of his body odor, wiping away every trace he might have left behind.
Arcanine suddenly barked.
After communicating something to Luxray, it and Luxray ran off in different directions.
"Did you find something?"
The man's gaze sharpened.
He stayed where he was.
Before long, Arcanine and Luxray returned, each carrying something in their mouths.
"As expected, this was done by a person. But who could control Groudon? I've never heard of anyone..."
The man's initial guess was suddenly overturned.
Or had the God of the Earth, Groudon, joined forces with another Trainer?
"Regardless, this person must have a grudge against the Zhang Family."
That much was certain.
After searching around some more, he still couldn't find the slightest clue.
"Impressive. Even I can't find anything. Return, Arcanine and Luxray. Thanks for all your effort."
A few minutes later, the man left on the Armored Bird.
He compiled his findings into a report and sent it to the other departments.
What happened next was no longer his concern.
That evening,
every TV station was frantically broadcasting the same news.
Shangjing City Television:
"Today, a horrifying and mysterious incident occurred in the northern Spirit Primal Forest. The Zhang Family of Shangjing City, including Zhang Zhen, Zhang Mu, and the family's only direct descendant, Zhang Kuang, as well as more than half of the Zhang Family's Ace Trainers, inexplicably appeared together in the middle region of the northern Spirit Primal Forest this afternoon. They met with disaster..."
Safety Knowledge Television:
"Never underestimate Pokémon. According to our reporter, a mysterious, gigantic footprint has appeared in the middle region of the northern Spirit Primal Forest. The Pokémon responsible has not yet been identified. A friendly reminder to all Trainers: Please avoid the middle region of the northern Spirit Primal Forest for the time being. A well-known expert has suggested that a footprint this enormous may mean an unknown Pokémon has appeared!"
News alerts were everywhere.
Many local TV stations had even been forced to switch over to reporting on the incident.
The Zhang Family had members serving at the International Pokémon League headquarters, after all.
News alerts also appeared on everyone's phones.
Clickbait headlines.
<Shocking! One of Shangjing City's Top Families, the Zhang Family, Vanishes Overnight!>
<A Mysterious Force Wipes Out a Family in One Day—Is It the Collapse of Humanity, or the Loss of Morality...>
<You Reap What You Sow! The Arrogant, Overbearing Top Family Finally Gets What It Deserves...>
<One Hundred Secrets You Never Knew About the Zhang Family of Shangjing City and a Powerful Trainer...>
It was evening.
Students had finished classes.
Office workers had finished their shifts.
People were taking their Pokémon for walks, heading home, and grabbing dinner.
"Holy crap! Emm... That lousy Zhang Family got what was coming to them! Hahaha!"
"My god, a top family must have at least one Heavenly King backing it, right? And they were wiped out just like that? Did whoever did it disregard the rules of the International Pokémon League headquarters?"
"Rules are made for most people. Once you have strength that towers over everyone else, rules are nothing but empty words. Look at it that way."
"The Zhang Family got what they deserved. A Zhang Family guy once bullied me. If some other Trainer hadn't happened to stop him, I don't even want to imagine what would've happened next. Everyone else looked the other way and was too afraid to intervene. I don't know who that big shot was, but they did something that really warms my heart!"
"..."
In his dorm, Su Yi scrolled through his phone, looking at one sensational headline after another.
"I didn't leave a single trace. There's no way they'll find out it was me. I'm still not strong enough."
Su Yi fell silent.
He turned to look at the two Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon Eggs in the incubator.
Their hatching progress was at eighty percent.
Almost there. They should hatch tonight.
He put the accelerator away in Spatial Storage and headed out.
Newborn Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon generally needed more nourishment than ordinary Pokémon.
Su Yi didn't even know which two Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon were inside the eggs. He was going to the academy's Pokémon shop to stock up on Energy Cubes, along with some other daily necessities.
"Su Yi, long time no see."
He had just arrived at the Pokémon shop when a gentle voice spoke up beside him.
Yan Yuzhu was born into the Yan Family.
The Yan Family was a scholarly household.
The current head of the Yan Family was an exceptionally upright Peak Ace Trainer.
He had been strict with Yan Yuzhu from a young age.
Yan Yuzhu's mother also came from a family with a Peak Ace Trainer.
Before you continue