After soaking in the hot springs, Lu Ze took another two days to rest with his Pokémon, allowing both himself and them to fully relax before setting off again.
After bidding Steven Stone farewell, Lu Ze prepared to head to the Sinnoh region to find Cynthia, just as they had arranged.
Back in the Kanto region, he had needed to personally seek out the Elite Four and challenge them.
In Hoenn, Steven Stone had accompanied him and contacted the Elite Four for his challenges.
The latter was undoubtedly much faster.
So when he had battled Cynthia before, he had already mentioned it to her.
Once he arrived in the Sinnoh region, he would go find Cynthia.
Cynthia would take him to challenge the Elite Four.
Everything had already been arranged. He only needed to head over now.
After Crawdaunt successfully broke through to Master level, Lu Ze was no longer in such a rush for Sirfetch'd to break through.
Just as Wallace had told him while they were soaking in the hot springs.
If one worked hard enough, then when the opportunity came, a Pokémon would naturally break through.
Forcing a Pokémon to break through to Master level through all kinds of battles like he did—
Strictly speaking, that was very difficult.
As he spoke, Wallace gave several examples.
Such as himself, his teacher Adam, Steven Stone, and others.
Their breakthroughs had all happened by chance, and several of them had not broken through in battle like Lu Ze's Pokémon had.
Compared with Lu Ze's Pokémon breaking through to Master level, their Pokémon had broken through in all sorts of strange ways.
Take Steven Stone's Aggron, for example. He had broken through while mining ore with Steven Stone.
He had been the one using Dig.
Later, Steven Stone dug up