Monferno couldn't recover in such a short period, so Fang Yuan had no choice but to withdraw from the competition.
However, Fang Yuan kept a close eye on the Fighting Tournament.
In the subsequent matches, Senior Feng Yin was defeated by Wang Xuanliang and stopped at the top four, failing to earn the title of Fighting Master this year as well.
The trainer with the Kommo-o managed to advance to the finals to face Wang Xuanliang, who had eliminated Senior Feng Yin.
In the end, it was a final showdown between Kommo-o and Machamp, and just as the head of the ShinGen Ryudojo had predicted, it was Wang Xuanliang and his Machamp who were one step ahead, claiming the title of the Fighting Master of this tournament.
"Wu ah—" On the hospital bed, Monferno, who had watched all the subsequent matches of the Fighting Tournament in one breath, pounded the pillow.
After evolving, although it hadn't experienced real combat yet, Monferno could feel that its power was much stronger than when it was a Fierce Fire Monkey.
Even without using Rage or Lightning Armor, it could now break even with that Blaze Chicken it encountered earlier.
With them, a fight against the Kommo-o might not have a certain outcome, except for the Machamp with its superior fighting techniques, which made Monferno uncertain of victory.
"Stop bragging, watching a video and you already place yourself at the runner-up level?" Fang Yuan said, covering his forehead when he saw Monferno expressing its opinion.
Now, Monferno seemed a bit inflated again, acting quite courteous towards Fang Yuan, but not so friendly towards other Pokemon.
"Wu..." Monferno closed its eyes and chose not to argue, starting to meditate.
This was a new move it mastered after evolving, meditation.
Ever since its Chimchar days, it had been learning Tianxin Stream Meditation Techniques. Due to its species, it could only use it as a technique for focusing, unable to achieve true meditation.
After this evolution, Monferno, with its talent for meditation, finally mastered this skill.
The Tianxin Stream Meditation Techniques could enhance Sixth Sense and Predictive Ability, reflected in its response time.
Besides, Monferno had also mastered the Wind Fist Flow Energy Gathering Technique, which was a skill to increase the speed of move gathering, attack, and release.
With meditation and energy gathering combined, Monferno's Qi Gathering Technique should be considered fully refined.
It's just that Monferno couldn't move at the moment, otherwise, Fang Yuan would have been very interested to see how strong its evolved Sonic Fist and Qi Fist really were!
"Stop meditating for now, read this when you've got time." Fang Yuan took out a book, the Bodybuilding Technique Secret Manual.
This was a reward for making it to the top 16 in the Fighting Tournament. In addition to this, there was also a piece of Unmelting Ice about 200 years old. That was all the reward.
The Bodybuilding Technique Secret Manual was given to Monferno by Fang Yuan to read first. If there were things it didn't understand, it could ask Eevee. As for the Unmelting Ice, Fang Yuan planned to use it for Milotic.
As compensation, later on, Fang Yuan would convert the value of the Unmelting Ice into Renminbi and set up a small treasury specifically for Monferno— it could buy whatever it wanted with it.
However, Fang Yuan guessed that Monferno's money would likely be coaxed away by Eevee with a few pictures.
But that was no longer his concern.
In addition to arranging a small treasury for Monferno, Fang Yuan was also planning to take out a sum of money to host a Fang Yuan Tournament.
The participating Pokemon would be Eevee, Self-detonating Magnetic Monster, Glutton, Monferno, and Milotic.
They would compete through a point-based battle system and rank themselves by fighting each other, with a million in prize money to be split among them based on their rankings. Whatever the winners wanted to buy with their prize money was up to them.
This was also a method Fang Yuan employed to motivate his Pokemon to improve their strength. When the time came, it would be clear who ranked last.
Of course, this competition would definitely have to wait until Monferno had recovered.
…
For a week, it wasn't until a week after withdrawing from the competition that Monferno finally recovered, breaking free from the chaotic energy state.
Now that Monferno had fully recovered, Fang Yuan, who had stayed in Ice Plain City for so long, also planned to leave this place.
School was starting soon, so he needed to go home to summarize his gains from this period and replenish his Energy Blocks.
However, Fang Yuan did not rush to leave. Instead, he took his five Pokemon to the ice field where they had trained the previous week.
The Lake of Purification would have been a better choice, but there were too many people there, and entry and exit were a bit of a hassle, so Fang Yuan settled for the ice fields.
He wanted to check Monferno's strength after its evolution and also have the five Pokemon share the results of their recent training.
By the riverside, Fang Yuan first bound two Mysterious Droplets and a piece of round Unmelting Ice onto a custom three-ring accessory and placed it on Milotic's tail.
Into the river, Milotic swished its tail, splashing water around and feeling that the accessory was just right, it nodded in satisfaction.
"Bwoo!!" "Blub blub blub~~" "Uh-heh-heh-heh~~" "Woah~~" "Fuuwuu～~~"
Fang Yuan looked at the five Pokemon and said, "Next up, we're going to head back soon. Once we're home, I plan to hold a special event called..."
Fang Yuan shared his idea with the five Pokemon, and although only Eevee seemed the most excited, the others also expressed their willingness to participate.
Monferno in particular, upon hearing about the "Fang Yuan Conference," glanced unnoticeably towards Milotic and Glutton.
"But we won't be heading home immediately. Along the way, we'll still come to places like this ice field for brief training sessions. The Fang Yuan Conference is about friendship first and competition second, so in order to give you a rough idea of each other's strengths and set clear goals for yourselves, I want each of you to show off what you've learned in your recent training," Fang Yuan said cheerfully.
The five Pokemon didn't always train together, so they were definitely not clear about their respective strengths.
Fang Yuan planned to give the other four Pokemon a bit of a jolt with Cloth God!!
"Eevee, you go first," Fang Yuan called Eevee out.
Eevee walked out calmly, confident of winning the prize money and not afraid to show its full strength. It didn't even evolve in front of the other four Pokemon.
After quickly creating a Substitute,
a dark purple Spiral Shadow Ball condensed on one Eevee's tail, completing in a very short time. Previously, a Spiral Shadow Ball needed a Substitute + Helping Hand + dual focus to be performed, but now, with Gratitude 3.5, Eevee could perform it with just one body.
The other body of Eevee concentrated a terrifyingly bright and hot orange-red orb on its tail.
This orb was also spinning crazily, like a miniature sun hurricane.
The original Awakened Sun Fire had a burst nature at its maximum, but the Skill Master Eevee took the original Move and improved it with Gratitude 3.5, giving it the same spinning quality as the Spiral Shadow Ball, and furthermore, the energy inside had been compressed to the limit by Eevee.
This miniature fiery orb was even more powerful than the Spiral Shadow Ball and was named by Fang Yuan "Ultimate Spiral Burst Sun Fire, Awakened Version". He hadn't yet thought of a catchy abbreviation and planned to come up with one in a few days.
"Bwoo!!" Once the concentration was complete, Eevee, as usual, casually flung it out.
Boom!!
The Spiral Shadow Ball and the Ultimate Spiral Burst Sun Fire, Awakened Version were flung into the sky one after the other, and finally... the two collided with each other!!
The entire process was like a black hole devouring the sun, but the sun suddenly expanded, bursting forth with unparalleled brightness, covering the black hole.
A terrifying Energy Hurricane pierced a huge hole through the cloud layer.
The scene was akin to the process of a star's demise in the universe.
Seeing this, Self-detonating Magnetic Monster, Glutton, Monferno, and Milotic went silent for a moment. They realized they were outmatched; it would be better to forfeit upon facing Eevee in the future.