Lapras

It wasn't until the river water reached Liu Changsheng's legs that Liu Changsheng reacted. Looking around, he realized the island had vanished without a trace, with only the protruding Banana Tree remaining as evidence of a place that had once been there. Liu Changsheng panicked; the vast ocean filled him with dread.

"Let me out!" Liu Changsheng shouted at the sky.

A bolt of lightning struck with a 'crack,' drowning out Liu Changsheng's voice. Even the cultivators outside the Bookstore couldn't hear Liu Changsheng; they could only guess from Liu Changsheng expression that he seemed to be speaking.

"Is he asking for help?" a practitioner asked.

"The seawater has already reached above that Mad Scholar's knees, and it will probably drown him completely in a little while. He must understand his situation, so he wants to get out."

"Wasn't it said that he could only be teleported out in eight days? How can he get out like this?" The previous rules were known not only to the cultivators in the Book World, but also to the cultivators watching the projection outside the Bookstore. The system had written out all the rules in narration on the projection.

"People are about to drown, they should be able to get out," a cultivator affirmed.

"Actually, it's not a big deal if you drown in there! After all, it's Book World, not real. Maybe you'll be automatically teleported out after you drown?" one cultivator said.

"That makes sense. It's just an illusion, not real. It doesn't matter if we die in it." The group of cultivators suddenly realized. They had been too immersed in the story and mistakenly thought the world in the Pokémon book was the real world. Only now did they realize that the projection they were seeing was actually just a book.

It's all an illusion, nothing at all.

"Then why is he still making a fuss? He might as well just drown. He's already so miserable anyway," one cultivator said, looking at the projection and pursing his lips.

At this moment, Liu Changsheng in the projection had already started climbing the tree. He found the largest and highest Banana Tree and climbed it. However, due to the violent wind, the Banana Tree was blown crooked and twisted. Liu Changsheng wrapped his limbs around the Banana Tree swayed with it. Rain pattered against his face, and the Banana Tree would occasionally whip him. He was in a sorry state.

"Laozi 'll never come to this godforsaken place again!" Liu Changsheng squinted at the vast ocean around him, cursing inwardly. He had come to this world twice already, and hadn't gotten away with it either time, only to suffer setbacks each time. He had given up on the little elves and all that; he just wanted to get out of this world as soon as possible.

The Spirit Venerable's majesty was shattered in that instant.

"Ah oh oh oh!" Another loud singing voice rang out as the Lapras slowly swam towards Liu Changsheng's direction.

This time, Liu Changsheng's ears were not deaf, and he heard the singing. He turned his head and saw a strange-looking creature swimming towards him.

"Is this a Pokémon?" Liu Changsheng was somewhat surprised and quickly took out his Pokédex from his pocket. Fortunately, the Pokédex was waterproof and hadn't gotten wet despite being in the rain for so long. Liu Changsheng clamped his legs around the Banana Tree, freeing his other hand, and opened the Pokédex. According to the classification on the Pokédex, under the Water-type category, he found a Pokémon that looked exactly like the creature in front of him.

"Lapras?" Liu Changsheng frowned slightly as he looked at the information about Lapras.

This Lapras wasn't very aggressive, and being a docile little sprite, it was somewhat of a liability to a powerful being like him who had already reached the Spirit Venerable level.

That's right, our Venerable Liu Changsheng's first reaction upon seeing the Lapras was to try and subdue it.

"Sigh, never mind, let's go outside first." Liu Changsheng glanced at his surroundings, sighed, and took the Poké Ball out of his pocket.

Even if Lapras was not ideal, he had no other choice.

"Ah oh oh oh oh!" The seawater had almost reached the top of the Banana Tree, and half of Liu Changsheng's body was already in the water. Riding the Lapras, he sang loudly as he swam towards Liu Changsheng.

"Could this little sprite be going to rescue that Mad Scholar?" The cultivators outside noticed something amiss and were somewhat puzzled.

Logically speaking, aside from the master-servant relationship, spirit beasts and humans are inherently hostile towards each other. It's considered good if they don't fight each other when they meet; why would a spirit beast actively save a human?

However, it was clear that this Lapras was there to rescue Liu Changsheng, as it had already arrived at Liu Changsheng's side.

"Ooh!" Lapras called out to Liu Changsheng, and changed direction, showing his side profile to Liu Changsheng.

"You want me to go?" Liu Changsheng was somewhat surprised, and forgot to throw the Poké Ball in his hand.

"Oh," the Lapras nodded intelligently.

"This..." Liu Changsheng looked at Lapras, hesitated for a moment, and finally put away the Poké Ball. He then used his legs to push off the Banana Tree and jumped onto Lapras.

With a cry of "Ah-oh!" Lapras, carrying Liu Changsheng, continued to sing loudly as it sailed into the depths of the sea.

"His luck is about to change!" Ma Feifei exclaimed from the cloud, watching Liu Changsheng walk away.

Ma Feifei had thought Liu Changsheng was going to be eliminated, but unexpectedly, a Lapras came and saved him. Liu Changsheng himself was quite cunning; he didn't choose to capture the Lapras, but instead let it take Lapras away. Clearly, Liu Changsheng didn't want to give up this opportunity, and Liu Changsheng didn't like the Lapras. Therefore, Liu Changsheng gave up on capturing the Lapras and left the Pokémon world.

"Good luck," Ma Feifei said, then continued to scroll through the map, searching for other cultivators who had entered the Book World.

Because a thousand people entered at the same time, some people were unlucky, while others were lucky.

In a remote, unnamed wilderness, five ascetics encountered a Bulbasaur.

Among these five people are Jiang Bieli and his brother Jiang Yibei.

Jiang Bieli was the first to discover Bulbasaur, but before he could capture it, he was interrupted by three cultivators who arrived from the side. Thus, the five of them were locked in a stalemate, with Bulbasaur stuck in the middle.

"Young man, I know you. You're the first person to have a little fairy. Your name is Jiang Bieli, right?" The man who spoke was a big, burly guy. His voice was muffled and very unpleasant, with a high-pitched, thready tone.

Jiang Bieli, holding the Poké Ball, looked at the three men opposite him and said, "So what if it is? My brother and I found this Bulbasaur first, you can't just take it from us."

"Silly brother, why are you wasting your breath talking to them? Just throw the Poké Ball!" Jiang Yibei was quite relaxed, not taking the man opposite him seriously at all.

"Oh," Jiang Bieli responded, and threw the Poké Ball in her hand at Bulbasaur.

With a 'whoosh,' the Poké Ball flew directly towards Bulbasaur.

"Damn it!" The three men opposite were furious upon seeing this and strode forward, trying to stop the Poké Ball.

Several whooshing sounds rang out in succession.

Immediately following with two 'snap' sounds, the Poké Ball was knocked away by the Vine Whip shot from Bulbasaur's back.

Upon seeing this, the three were overjoyed and quickly changed direction, heading straight for Bulbasaur.

"Quick, let's grab Bulbasaur first!"