As a transmigrator, it's normal to know a little bit of everything, right?

The driver nodded upon hearing this and didn't ask any further questions. After all, it was clear this customer didn't want to discuss the topic any further.

In fact, Lu Li wasn't entirely lying. His hometown was indeed Jinji Village, but his family had moved to Qingfeng City ten years ago after his grandfather passed away.

As for why he was alone now, that was another "incident."

After the maglev car left the city, its speed increased significantly. In less than two hours, Lu Li was delivered to Jinji Village.

As he got off the car, Lu Li said, "Driver, please leave your phone number. I'll need you to pick me up again later. It's quite difficult to catch a taxi here."

The driver nodded and asked enthusiastically, "Sure thing! The fare is 120. Cash or transfer?"

Lu Li: "Transfer."

After leaving his phone number, the driver drove away. Lu Li didn't enter Jinji Village. Instead, he took out a turtle shell from his hiking backpack.

As a high-quality transmigrator proficient in a hundred arts of cultivation, it was reasonable for him to know divination, right?

Although due to the different laws of this world, his divination could only predict luck, it should be fine for a bit of mysticism.

He prepared the divination setup and chanted the incantation.

Three ancient copper coins landed on the ground.

Looking at the coins on the ground, Lu Li was silent for a moment before picking them up. Then, he turned and plunged into the mountains.

The divination indicated that he would face danger but emerge unscathed this time, and the east was a direction of great fortune.

Since the divination was so favorable, predicting great fortune in the east, he definitely had to trust in mysticism for this endeavor.

What if the divination had shown great misfortune? Wasn't the pursuit of cultivation all about defying fate and changing destiny? Which cultivator in this day and age believed in fate?

Another reason Qingfeng City hadn't developed was that the continuous Qingfeng Mountains made its geographical location somewhat awkward.

After all, the wilderness was the domain of Pokémon. Even with humanity's current technology, they wouldn't dare to recklessly alter the environment of a specific area.

Wielding his machete and hacking through the undergrowth, Lu Li experienced the benefits of successful cultivation for the first time. He had been hacking his way through for over six hours, but his body showed no signs of fatigue.

As he ventured deeper, Lu Li encountered more and more Pokémon.

Pidgey in the sky, Rattata on the ground, and occasionally a few Weedle. He even spotted a Paras nestled in the dead leaves.

It was a shame his objective was a Pokémon Egg; otherwise, the Paras would have been quite good.

As a dual-type Bug/Grass Pokémon, Paras had a base stat total of over 400, giving it considerable combat power. More importantly, Paras was an economically viable Pokémon.

Paras could sustain itself. The mushroom on its back was a sustainable resource, and it was quite valuable.

After stopping to eat some dry rations and resting for a bit, Lu Li continued to cheat.

As a transmigrator skilled in a hundred arts of cultivation, it was normal for him to understand a bit of Spirit Sight Technique, right?

Spirit Sight Technique was a minor spell that Spirit Vein Surveyors, a profession within the hundred arts of cultivation, had to learn. Its main effect was to distinguish areas with denser spiritual energy, thereby precisely locating underground spiritual veins.

In the world of Pokémon, the effect of Spirit Sight Technique was similar, primarily distinguishing the concentration of elemental energy.

Upon activating Spirit Sight Technique, Lu Li found himself in a very strange world, a world composed of various elemental energies.

Huh?

Lu Li looked at the third mountain peak in the distance with surprise.

"Strange..."

Lu Li muttered to himself, "It's common for areas to actively gather surrounding elemental energy, but what's with one that actively emits elemental energy?"

Thinking of this, Lu Li suddenly recalled a book that introduced Secret Realms.

Besides Legendary Pokémon, only the legendary Secret Realms actively emitted energy.

In this world, Secret Realms were actually fragments of other destroyed worlds. These fragments were stabilized by Space-Time Duo using their powers and then drifted outside the world, in the void.

If two worlds were close to each other, these fragments would gradually integrate into another world that had not been destroyed. Moreover, because the destroyed world's elemental energy levels generally exceeded those of the real world, these Secret Realms would continuously spill out elemental energy. It was like a small bottle filled with water that kept leaking.

So, was this a special situation, or...

After closing Spirit Sight Technique, Lu Li forcefully suppressed his racing heart and picked up his machete, continuing his advance towards that mountain peak.

Spirit Sight Technique consumed quite a lot of energy. With his meager cultivation at the first level of Qi Refining, being able to maintain it for three minutes was already impressive.

As the saying goes, "seeing a mountain from afar makes it seem close," it looked not far away, but it actually took nearly two hours to walk there.

Reaching a large tree, Lu Li sat on the ground to cultivate and recover the energy he had consumed.

"I wonder if it's due to luck or some special reason, but I haven't been attacked by any wild Pokémon along the way. I don't know if this is good luck or bad luck," Lu Li thought with some relief.

Normally, most wild Pokémon had territorial awareness. When facing intruders in their territory, wild Pokémon would usually try to intimidate or attack them.

But his journey had been completely peaceful, which was quite strange.

After recovering sufficiently, Lu Li reactivated Spirit Sight Technique, searching for the source of the elemental energy emission.

"It's on the mountainside..."

Lu Li picked up his machete again and pushed forward.

Whoosh~

A stone imbued with Dark-type energy shot towards Lu Li's head. With the keen senses of a cultivator, Lu Li narrowly dodged the surprise attack by ducking.

Boom!

The unlucky tree behind Lu Li was instantly snapped in half by the stone.

"Hiss~"

Feeling the commotion behind him, Lu Li gasped.

"So close! Just a little bit more, and I could have transferred to the Ghost path," Lu Li thought, a wave of fear washing over him. He sharply looked in the direction the stone had come from.

Perched on a tree, staring at Lu Li with blood-red eyes, was a peculiar Pokémon. It was covered in gray-white fur, resembling a monkey but with a pig's nose.

"Annihilape???"

"Annihilape!!!"

Seeing the Pokémon's appearance, Lu Li was stunned.

He couldn't tell if his luck was good or bad.

Annihilape!

This was a Pokémon that had never appeared in the outside world before. He couldn't believe he'd encountered one.

But the problem was, a Pokémon like this would have a minimum strength of Elite level.

He, who wasn't even a beginner trainer, had run into something like this on his first outing? How was he supposed to fight it?

According to the game's settings, Annihilape evolved from Primeape after learning Rage Fist. Primeape needed to be level 35 to learn Rage Fist.

If that translated to the Pokémon world's strength, that would already be mid-Elite. In the real world, Annihilape definitely wouldn't evolve just by learning Rage Fist.

If it were that simple, the Pokémon League would have discovered this evolution for Primeape long ago. After all, Annihilape's base stat total was 535, which already surpassed that of the Starter Pokémon.