What Makes a Heavenly Pride? Think About Whether You've Worked Hard All These Years

Seeing the familiar sash on Mimikyu's head, Qian Daoliu suddenly had an ominous feeling.

Don't tell him that thing capable of keeping someone alive could be replenished infinitely?

To deal with that monster, did he have to attack nonstop and deny it any chance to recover?

But it was one against three. Even the slightest interference from the Pokemon beside it made attacking difficult.

Wasn't this cheating? Who fought like this?

In the Distortion World, Lu Feng could roughly guess what Qian Daoliu was thinking from his dumbfounded expression.

How was letting Pokemon carry a few extra items considered cheating? This was the Heavenly Pride Ranking, after all.

What was a heavenly pride? The combination of talent and opportunity.

If a heavenly pride wanted to fight across realms, aside from their own strength and foundation, the rest depended on equipment.

As long as it wasn't excessively overpowered equipment capable of killing in one blow, it could basically be brought in.

Don't ask how Lu Feng knew. He had tried stuffing in some overpowered equipment before, but none of it could be brought in.

Likewise, the God Realm could not provide Super Divine Artifacts or similar equipment to cheat with. When it came to foundations beneath the God Rank, Lu Feng had never feared anyone.

Spirit Masters could equip so many Spirit Bones. It was perfectly reasonable for his Pokemon to carry a few more items.

"If you're unhappy about it, then Spirit Masters should think about whether they've worked hard all these years."

"Have you fully equipped your Spirit Bones? How many Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones do you have? If you don't even have a full set of Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, you deserve to be killed by heavenly prides fighting above their level and used as a stepping stone."

The Arena Tournament continued.

Mimikyu waved its little hands repeatedly.

Reflect! A translucent wall of light rose along one side of the arena, greatly weakening physical attacks coming from Qian Daoliu's direction.

Light Screen! Chansey on the other side likewise cast Light Screen, weakening special attacks.

After doing that, it provocatively crooked its little finger at Qian Daoliu and used Follow Me again!

Safeguard! A faint white membrane enveloped the three allies, resisting Qian Daoliu's domain suppression.

After healing its teammates, Chansey began another round of Swords Dance enhancements. Its shrunken body darted nimbly behind Reflect and Light Screen.

Its tiny eyes glared fiercely at Qian Daoliu. With Trick Room's aid, it vanished from the spot again.

It descended from above with a Mega Kick, brutally kicking Qian Daoliu to the ground and nearly knocking the breath out of him.

Spiritomb began launching Shadow Balls from afar to harass him. The purple-black energy spheres followed tricky trajectories, occasionally mixed with drowsy Hypnosis waves. Though the level gap made them difficult to directly affect him, they greatly disrupted Qian Daoliu's rhythm and judgment.

The battle that followed completely became Qian Daoliu's time in prison.

He possessed the strength and speed of the Half-God Realm, yet under Trick Room's rules, his turn order was forcibly delayed.

Whenever he wanted to attack a target with full force, Mimikyu's Follow Me would always forcibly draw him over, making him strike a Mimikyu weakened by Reflect and Light Screen, protected by either a Focus Sash or its Disguise Ability, and unable to inflict decisive damage.

And whenever he revealed even the slightest opening or pause between attacks, Chansey would unleash Mega Punch under Trick Room's effects, making his blood and qi churn and forcing him to defend.

Spiritomb's Shadow Balls and Hypnosis followed him like shadows, insidiously draining his Divine Power and mental focus.

He tried to force a breakthrough by using a wide-area Divine Storm to attack all three at once, but Mimikyu and Chansey's Protect barriers alternated into existence, always barely blocking the most critical attacks.

Time passed bit by bit in Qian Daoliu's unbearably frustrating stalemate. Angel's Breath had astonishing recovery effects, but against the enemy's Soft-Boiled, Recover, Protect, Light Screen/Reflect, Minimize evasion, and Destiny Bond threat—

This utterly disgusting "stall" combination consumed his Divine Power far faster than he could recover it.

Meanwhile, the enemy's condition remained remarkably good. Mimikyu in particular, with its bizarre spatial abilities and timely healing, was practically an indestructible cockroach.

This battle was no longer a contest of strength, but a complete crushing in tactics, rules, endurance, and mentality.

At last, Qian Daoliu caught an opening.

He endured Chansey's cleverly angled Mega Kick head-on. Even with his domain's support and the Holy Light Armor's protection, his chest still felt tight.

The little angel phantom formed by Angel's Breath vanished with a soft pop as he poured most of his remaining Divine Power and fury into the Angel Holy Sword!

"Angel—Judgment!!!"

He roared. He and the massive angel phantom behind him merged once more, slashing out a sword strike even more concentrated and blazing than the first, as though it would sever fate itself!

Dazzling holy light transformed into a pure white blade only a hundred zhang long, yet condensed to the extreme. It tore through space and shot straight toward the root of all evil that kept taunting him, putting up barriers, and locking its health.

Mimikyu! This time, he had even predicted the timing of Protect. The light blade was unimaginably fast!

The light blade arrived in an instant! The Protect barrier before Mimikyu had only just appeared when it was forcibly shattered by this strike containing Qian Daoliu's fury and most of his Divine Power!

Just as the light blade was about to completely swallow Mimikyu—

"Keh!!"

Spiritomb released a shriek sharp enough to pierce the soul!

Its Special Attack boost reached the limit. Purple-black mist surged wildly around it, and Ghost Type energy nearly condensed into physical form.

A dark red chain representing Destiny Bond instantly struck Qian Daoliu.

At the same time, a ghostly glint flashed in Mimikyu's eyes.

Ally Switch!

Its body instantly traded places with Spiritomb some distance away!

Qian Daoliu's certain killing strike landed solidly on Spiritomb's completely defenseless Odd Keystone, which had just been switched into place!

"Crack!!!"

A teeth-grating shattering sound echoed throughout the arena!

A horrifying massive crack split all the way through Spiritomb's Odd Keystone!

Purple-black mist burst out wildly like air escaping from a punctured balloon. The eyes and mouths within the mist let out cries of unbearable agony, its aura instantly plummeted to the bottom, and the Odd Keystone's glow rapidly dimmed as it teetered on the verge of collapse!

Yet at the exact instant Spiritomb suffered its fatal blow and stood on the brink of completely shattering—

The dark red Destiny Bond Chain wrapped around Qian Daoliu's soul flared with blood-red light, then suddenly contracted and tightened!

An irresistible, indefensible force of "ending" and "sharing," originating from the most fundamental level of rules, acted upon both Spiritomb and Qian Daoliu at once!

The purple-black mist around Spiritomb completely dispersed. Its Odd Keystone fell to the ground with a clatter, its light utterly gone, and it moved no more.

At the same time, Qian Daoliu felt as if an icy giant hand had forcibly torn his soul from his body, and the Divine Power surging within him instantly fell silent!

The little angel phantoms formed by Angel's Breath shattered one after another. The Holy Light Armor cracked apart inch by inch, while the massive angel phantom behind him let out an unwilling roar before collapsing with a boom!

Extreme weakness, emptiness, and the sensation of "ending" flooded over him like a tidal wave. His vision went black, and he could no longer maintain flight. He dropped heavily to one knee, his Sacred Sword slipping from his grip with a clang. The holy flames around him flickered like a candle in the wind before finally going out completely.

Mutual destruction! Both sides lost their ability to fight.

The Pokemon World won again.

And it had won in such a... disgusting, shameless, utterly subversive way.

The entire Douluo Continent sank into an absolute silence more prolonged, more profound, and more suffocating than ever before.

If the previous battles had been crushing displays of strength, strangeness, and bloodshed, then this one was a complete and utter display of despair-inducing "stall" tactics and rule manipulation.

The three of them were clearly lower in level than Qian Daoliu, who was empowered by Divine Power, and not one of them was a top-tier powerhouse in the traditional sense.

Yet through an interlocking combination of taunts, protection, recovery, field rules, speed reversal, and Destiny Bond—

They had forcibly dragged a peak God-Chosen with the power of a Demigod into the mire. In the end, they used a one-for-one "draw" to drive him into a corner and bring him down.

Meanwhile, the other side still had a healing unit and a support unit that were basically unscathed!