"Dad, the creature down there has an incredibly strong Aura. I could barely see where it ended."
It took Zhao Shiyu a while to recover. She looked at Zhao Xuan, her expression grave.
Zhao Xuan nodded and turned to the long-bearded elder beside him.
His name was Zhao Geyuan. He was the oldest member of the Zhao Family and an avid reader of ancient texts.
If anyone knew the most about the Family Secret Realm, it was Zhao Geyuan, who had read nearly every book in the family archives.
"Clan leader, the Aura young Mu and Shiyu saw may belong to an extraordinarily powerful Pokémon, one close to a god. Or it may be a Legendary Pokémon," Zhao Geyuan said.
"A Near-God Pokémon? A Legendary Pokémon?"
Lü Shouchun, Zhao Shiyu, and the others exchanged looks.
They had never witnessed a Legendary Pokémon's power, but judging by the outline of the Aura they had just seen, it probably could overturn rivers and seas and split mountains like stone.
Unperturbed by their alarm, Zhao Geyuan continued slowly. "According to The Biography of Zhao Ming, written by our forebear in 1705, the Secret Realm had just appeared. After months of exploration, they found nothing but a small stretch of sea with a single island shrouded in mist. They named it Cloud Mist Island. Breathing in the drifting mist on the island made martial arts training ten times as effective, while Fighting-type Pokémon that trained there long-term grew three times as fast."
"Yet The Biography of Zhao Su, written in 1809, recorded that the mist had lost thirty to forty percent of its effect. Its benefit to martial arts training was only five or six times the norm, and Pokémon grew just twice as fast."
"By 1916, The Biography of Zhao Hua recorded that