After the school celebration, Fang Yuan immediately took out his prepared suitcase when he returned home.
For the summer vacation trip, he mainly focused on training Eevee, Fierce Fire Monkey, and Ugly Fish.
As for Self-detonating Magnetic Monster and Glutton, the former had just comprehended Electromagnetic Storm and didn't need to learn anything new, only needed to consolidate and strengthen.
And as for Glutton, there wasn't any particularly special training task at present, rather than training, what Glutton needed now was Fang Yuan's strategies and planning.
Now that Glutton's Ghost Fire possessed the effect of burning the soul, Fang Yuan was wondering if it was possible to make Glutton, like Chandelure, able to enhance the flame's power by burning the soul.
Enhancing the flame's power by burning the soul, prolonging the burning duration of the flame by burning life, if combined, those should be the ultimate form of Ghost Fire.
Life Energy could be replenished with Energy Blocks, but as for the soul, Fang Yuan had never heard of any company on the market selling soul nutritional products.
Even if he wanted to repeat his old trick and use the components of nutritional products to make Energy Blocks related to soul energy, he was out of options now.
Could he make Ghostss burn the souls of elves?
If he did that...Fang Yuan would indeed feel a psychological burden.
He wouldn't possibly do such things as wantonly killing weak Wild elf or disturbing the sleeping souls in the elf cemetery, unless, just like in the Tianming Mountain Spirit World Mystery, an elf intended to kill them, initiating an attack, in which case Fang Yuan wouldn't feel any pressure even if he killed the attacker in self-defense.
However, such situations were after all rare, trying to accumulate a large amount of soul energy as he did Life Energy, it was definitely not a sustainable method by such means.
"Let's take it one step at a time," Fang Yuan shook his head and continued to check the suitcase.
Now, the hierarchy of his elves' strengths should be Eevee > Self-detonating Magnetic Monster > Ghostss > Fierce Fire Monkey > Ugly Fish.
This ranking of Ghostss's strength is based on the premise that it doesn't use Black Flame; if Ghostss were to use Black Flame, even a slight bit of carelessness would mean that even if Eevee and Self-detonating Magnetic Monster could defeat it, they would be severely injured in the process.
Fang Yuan had to admit, the Millennial Old Gengar and Luo Kuo had laid a solid foundation for Glutton. Before Fang Yuan captured it, Glutton was just a fun-loving and gluttonous brat, but after a short period of training, its strength had rapidly reached a level capable of contending with Professional Trainers' main elves without using Black Flame, which was fierce indeed.
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The next day.
Fang Yuan set off alone, only bringing his elves, without calling any classmates or friends.
His destination was the north, the Imperial Capital, Moon Mountain.
Moon Mountain used to be a Secret Location, but after merging with Earth, it didn't turn into a dangerous place but instead became a scenic area.
The reason is simple; only one kind of elf lives here, Pippi, known for its mild temperament.
The Pippi community of Moon Mountain is very smart, with a sense of society and religion among the groups, one of the few elf communities with this consciousness in Hua Nation.
Outside of Hua Nation, the most famous has to be the elf kingdom of Diamond Mine Nation formed by Di Anxi and Little Diamond.
To coexist harmoniously with humans, the Pippis also didn't reject humans visiting Moon Mountain, as long as the normal life of the residents wasn't disturbed.
As omnivorous elves, Pippis were also happy to accept various foods brought by tourists.
Fang Yuan's reason for going to Moon Mountain was very simple of course, definitely not for the local specialty Moonstone, if he needed Moonstone, he could just go back to Magic City.
In the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Territory, there were numerous top-quality Moonstones within the Moonstone Vein.
Regrettably, despite the abundance of Moonstones in the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Territory, the only Pokemon living there were Moonstones, and there were no Pippi.
Fang Yuan was seeking a Pokemon with the "Magical Defense" feature, and locations like Moon Mountain, where large numbers of Pippi gathered and could move freely, naturally became the preferred choice.
After benefiting from Emuritto, Eevee had become more skilled at controlling Emotional Energy. Consequently, its mastery over Life Energy through Emotional Energy had also improved. Following that, after several months of effort, it had now reached a bottleneck.
The Everstone and the Life Orb were items it had damaged in this state.
Both the Everstone and the Life Orb were prepared to perfect Eevee's "Return favor: Stage 4."
The Everstone's role was to suppress Eevee's training by controlling Life Energy,
While the Life Orb's function was to enrich the ways Eevee could utilize Life Energy.
Upon obtaining the Life Orb at first, Eevee merely used its spiritual power and Emotional Energy to slowly study the structure of the Life Orb because it feared being drained of Life Energy, and did not dare to take the risk with its body, resulting in inefficient research and hardly finding any clues.
However, once Fang Yuan figured out how to supplement Life Energy with Gold Energy Blocks, Eevee became bolder. It let the Life Orb absorb its Life Energy and used it to amplify the power of its moves. During this process, Eevee's research on the Life Orb deepened.
And then there was the present after making contact with Emuritto.
Because the control over Emotional Energy and Life Energy had become more proficient.
The Everstone was now covered in fine cracks and was liable to shatter any day.
And the Life Orb had almost been thoroughly researched by Eevee, leading it to a conclusion that indeed Emotional Energy combined with Life Energy could replicate the operating mode of the Life Orb.
Next, in order to replicate the operating mode of the Life Orb, it did not spare any Emotional Energy in its misuse of the Life Orb.
The Life Orb… also since that time… started to act like it had a network lag, becoming less and less effective.
But this was still not enough, for Eevee still could not use Emotional Energy to control Life Energy to amplify the power of moves like the Life Orb did, and Fang Yuan did not know why.
Therefore, in order to fully perfect Return favor: Stage 4, Fang Yuan chose to come to Moon Mountain to search for Pippi with the Magical Defense feature.
If Eevee could obtain the Magical Defense feature through Role Play, a special ability that could counteract the Life Orb, would it then be able to gain a deeper understanding of this method of utilizing Life Energy during the process?
If Eevee could discard the Life Orb and control Life Energy to enhance the power of moves on its own, then Return favor: Stage 4 would be half complete.
In that case, this investment of 18 million wouldn't be in vain.
Besides, some Pippi in Moon Mountain also possessed the Attractive body feature and were skilled at using enchanting techniques, making them suitable partners for Ugly Fish to communicate with.
This location was a choice Fang Yuan made after deep consideration. Perhaps it could even allow Glutton to devour Picoxi, evolving into Gengar…
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That day, Fang Yuan arrived at the Imperial Capital, Moon Mountain Scenic Area.
After purchasing tickets for himself and many Pokemon, he entered the area.