The Evolved Pokémon

"The match is over. Jiang Yibei wins, gaining one point. Cao Shuang loses, losing one point."

The referee announced the results of the first match, and Jiang Yibei was temporarily ranked first on the scoreboard.

Meanwhile, everyone else found their opponents, and the competition officially began.

The game finally came to an end as the sun moved from east to west.

Most of the twelve players completed more than seven matches. For example, Cao Shuang completed eleven rounds. He was able to put up a fight at first, but later he lost so much that his mentality collapsed and he simply gave up.

Ma Feifei had been watching the match from the stands, or more accurately, he was watching the match between Zhou Zhuling, Liu Ying, Jiang Yibei, and Li Bieli.

Of these four, only Li Bieli hasn't played a single match yet; the others have all played eight matches.

Oh no, Li Bieli did fight one match. Cao Shuang conceded defeat, allowing Li Bieli to win.

The other three players are tied for first place with an undefeated record of eight wins.

Then the dramatic scene unfolded.

The remaining seven contestants all conceded defeat in their match against Li Bieli, resulting in a tie for first place with four players each winning eight matches.

"This time, the Li Family is going to rise to prominence!" People from various families in the audience couldn't help but sigh as they looked at Li Bieli's data on the leaderboard.

Ten years ago, the Li Family was at the bottom of the "Twelve Kings". Unexpectedly, ten years later, the Li Family has risen to prominence. Li Bieli is like a dazzling new star, winning eight games in a row without playing a single game, and is tied for first place with three other people.

Even if Li Bieli stops here, the ranking the Li Family achieved this time is enough to provide Li Family with a large amount of Spirit Crystal over the next ten years.

"It's also a boon for the Li Family. I heard that Li Bieli was originally Jiang Chengbei's son, but because his birth mother died in an accident in the Jiang Family's animal park, the child betrayed the Jiang Family, changed his surname and returned to the Li Family, which is why he was chosen to fight in this resource competition in place of the Li Family," someone familiar with the situation said.

"If it really was an accident, how could this child have betrayed the Jiang Family? I've heard that the child's birth mother wasn't well-liked by the Jiang Family's matriarch, and it's possible that she was killed by Madam Jiang," someone gossiped.

"Actually, this is normal. A large family like this would be too boring if it were too harmonious. It's better to have some ups and downs so that many unexpected things can happen, like right now? Haha..."

Just as everyone was gossiping about the Jiang Family and Li Family, the four people in the room began to move.

This time, Li Bieli was the first to move. With a leap, she arrived at another arena, where Jiang Yibei stood opposite her!

The other one was where Liu Ying jumped onto Zhou Zhuling's arena.

The contest is about to begin!

"It seems you have a deep misunderstanding about me and my mother?" Jiang Yibei said softly, looking at Li Bieli.

Li Bieli's expressionless face finally changed, and hatred flashed in her eyes as she said, "Jiang Yibei, stop pretending. The hatred for killing your mother is irreconcilable. I will make your mother pay for this in blood."

Jiang Yibei looked at Li Bieli with a serious expression and said, "Jiang Bieli, I'm warning you again, your mother accidentally fell into the animal park. It has nothing to do with my mother. Don't continue to challenge my bottom line, otherwise, even if you are my brother, I will kill you."

"Ha!" Li Bieli sneered and said, "Whether it matters or not, your mother knows the truth. Besides, my Li Bieli, and I'm not your brother."

Jiang Yibei nodded, looked at Li Bieli, and said, "In that case, there's nothing more to say. Let's settle things with our strength."

With a 'whoosh,' a red and white Poké Ball appeared out of thin air in Jiang Yibei's hand, and he threw it out.

'Bang'

A flash of light appeared, and a spirit beast the same height as an ordinary person appeared on the arena.

This was a small, upright, four-limbed sprite with a red appearance, a woodpecker-like beak, thick limbs, and sharp claws; it had a long, protruding horn on its head and a curled tail with flames on it. "What kind of spirit beast is this?" The audience members were puzzled when they saw the spirit beast that suddenly appeared on the field. Most cultivators on the Azure Dragon Continent could understand most of the spirit beasts, and there were even picture books about spirit beasts for sale in the market, but the shape of this spirit beast was very unfamiliar.

"This seems to be a spirit beast that came from the Mysterious Bookstore," someone said uncertainly.

"Brother, I can believe you if you say you can learn martial arts techniques from Bookstore, but spirit beasts? Isn't that a bit too far-fetched?" someone said with a slightly exaggerated tone. "Exactly, how could Bookstore possibly have spirit beasts?" Everyone expressed their disbelief.

The man shook his head and didn't say anything. He had only heard it from others and couldn't prove it with his actions.

"Shopkeeper, this seems to be a small fire dragon?" Zhang Yunji at the side asked doubtfully.

Ma Feifei looked at the little sprites in the scene with slight surprise, shook his head and said, "It's not Charmander, it's Charmander, the evolved form of Charmeleon!"

"An evolved form?" Zhang Yunji asked, puzzled.

Ma Feifei explained, "Didn't you say before that Li Bieli's two little sprites had evolved to the fifth tier? This Charmander is the same; it should be a fifth-tier spirit beast now."

"You mean the Pokémon will change its appearance after evolving?" Zhang Yunji asked in surprise.

Ma Feifei nodded. If he wasn't mistaken, the so-called "fourth tier, one hurdle" referred to evolution. The little sprite would improve its rank from the initial stage, and if it reached the fifth tier, it would evolve into the next form. Following this logic, the little sprite would evolve into its complete form around the eighth to ninth tier.

For example, this Charmander's ultimate form is the Charizard form.

With a whoosh, two red and white Poké Ball appeared in Li Bieli's hand, and he tossed them forward: bang bang

Two Pokémon appeared in the arena, and just as Ma Feifei had guessed, Clefairy evolved into Clefable and Bulbasaur evolved into Venusaur.

"Strange, how did they evolve their Pokémon to the fifth tier without any Advancement Pill?" Ma Feifei stroked his chin, looking at the three Pokémon that had evolved to the fifth tier on the field, completely puzzled.

Based on the system's past behavior, it's unlikely that anyone would be allowed to advance their spirit without Advancement Pill. In Ma Feifei's view, the upcoming Advancement Pill is actually just the system starting another round of Spirit Crystal collection.

It's quite Ma Feifei that such a stingy system could allow someone to exploit a loophole and advance their little sprite without any Advancement Pill.

"Bang!"

Just as Ma Feifei was deep in thought, the battle between the two had already begun.

Venusaur kicked off the stage, cracking it open. Several thick branches then rose from the ground, carrying the force of the wind as they struck Charmeleon.

"Roar~" Charmeleon screamed, its sharp claws slashing through the air and grabbing the flying branch; then it pulled hard, trying to lift Venusaur up.

"Whoosh~"

The branches behind it emerged completely from the ground and swung fiercely at Charmeleon.

"Boom!" Upon seeing this, Charmeleon opened its mouth and Spit Up out a mouthful of fire, Burn Up the branch in mid-air.

"Using Wood-type against Fire-type is a bit of a disadvantage!" Ma Feifei in the audience couldn't help but say.

Both are currently of the same rank, so their strength should be roughly the same. Therefore, the interaction of attributes becomes particularly important at this point.

Fire-type naturally super effective against Wood-type; this is an eternal and unchanging truth. Venusaur has absolutely no chance of winning if it continues to fight Charmeleon like this.

Just then, Li Bieli's other fifth-tier Pokémon Clefable, suddenly took flight, its two hands beginning to move rhythmically in mid-air.