Chapter 106

【Ai Lan: Overhelped, Bai Ash's Charizard suffered severe injury already as a Charmander, and when facing Aerodactyl later it was so angry it evolved directly.】

Although it evolved into a Charizard, its size is smaller than that of a typical Charizard, and its strength is also somewhat lacking.】

【Xia Bo: Is that so? I feel Ash's Charizard is pretty strong; my old buddies have all been defeated by it!】

【Duoluoba: Xia Bo Gym Leader, maybe your old buddies are old, their combat power isn't great; actually you can tell Charizard's combat power from its size, Ash's Charizard really isn't strong.】

【Ji Ke: That's only temporary; Ash's Charizard, when it first entered Charizard Valley, was basically at the bottom, but now it's the strongest Charizard in Charizard Valley, basically never lost, and often goes back to help Ash win many battles.】

【Ailis: Ash's Charizard is very strong; when it fought my Dragonite, it felt effortless.】

【Misty: Also, Ash's Charizard defeated Mr. Shindou's Articuno; it's very strong!】

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Articuno?

Everyone at first glance thought they were mistaken, but after many people on the bulletin board repeatedly confirmed, Charizard really did defeat Articuno!

Although the opponent might not have been a divine Articuno, the Articuno species is much stronger than ordinary Poké Ball, so being able to defeat an Articuno is already impressive.

It's hard to imagine that the once despised, weak, helpless Charmander could become this strong, defeating Articuno!!

【Shindou: It's all true, Ash's Charizard really defeated Articuno; I'm also surprised, his Charizard is very strong!】

【Ash: Charizard was really impressive back then; it trained hard every day in Charizard Valley, all to become the world's strongest Charizard!】

【Dan Di: Coincidentally, my Charizard has the same idea; it also wants to become the world's strongest Charizard. If possible, we could let our Charizards battle; after all, fighting strong Poké Ball might make my Charizard stronger.】

【Ash: Great, I'm also really looking forward to battling Mr. Dan Di!】

【Qibana: Ash, if you battle him, you'll probably lose!】

【Xiaomao: We're still competing; what's there to lose!】

Now Xiaomao is very protective of Ash, after all only he can criticize Ash; others can't.

"Today's youth are fearless!"

Qibana laughed, Dan Di is the Champion of the Galar region, and furthermore he has never lost in an official Poké Ball battle.

【Qibana: Since entering Gym battles, he's basically never lost!】

【Ash: Then I will become the first Trainer to defeat Mr. Dan Di!】

【Dan Di: Good, I'll be waiting for you!】

「Thief, this guy stole my little fire dragon! 」

Dayou, who was shedding tears behind iron bars, saw Ash say that he had trained his little fire dragon very well, helped Ash win many battles, and crucially helped Ash defeat the quick-freeze bird, which made him feel a surge of jealousy and hatred.

That little fire dragon I abandoned actually became this strong.

It's all those people's fault; if they hadn't meddled, that little fire dragon might have wobbled back, and I could have had such a powerful fire-spitting dragon!

His hatred toward Ash grew again.

Bai Shijie—

Ash and his party finally arrived at Lime Island in the Orange Archipelago, preparing for the fourth Gym, the Lime Gym.

Ash and his party had just arrived here when they immediately saw Team Rocket causing trouble; surprisingly, they were watching a drill‑horn rhino machine destroying the city, yet they were still defeated by the Gym Leader Liuli, whom they had just met, teaming up with Ash.

Who would have thought their luck would be so good that they ran into Gym Leader Liuli so quickly, and Ash immediately challenged her.

Gym Leader Liuli then took Ash and his party to a restaurant; she runs a large restaurant on Lime Island, and the battle venue is set up there.

Moreover, the battle rules here are also different; they are quite novel, unlike the Gyms they had encountered before that required testing specific moves. The Lime Gym uses a double battle format, with each side needing to send out two pocket monsters, winning through seamless coordination and tactical layout. If any pocket monster loses its battle capability, that side loses.

Ash sent out Pikachu and Fire-spitting Dragon, while Liuli sent out Mud Ground and Clatter-Clatter.

At the start of the battle, Pikachu and Fire-spitting Dragon disagreed.

Fire-spitting Dragon confidently believed its own strength was enough to defeat Liuli's two pocket monsters, so it refused to cooperate with Pikachu; thus their teamwork broke down from the outset, the two pocket monsters fought separately on the battlefield, and at one point they even accidentally hurt their allies.

Later, when Fire-spitting Dragon was being relentlessly attacked by Mud Ground and Clatter-Clatter, Pikachu came to its aid, and Fire-spitting Dragon also became willing to cooperate with Pikachu.

Pikachu and Fire-spitting Dragon then demonstrated their mutual understanding, and with Ash's tactics they quickly defeated Mud Ground and Clatter-Clatter.

After conquering the Lime Gym, Ash and his party came to Sweet Lime Island, which is an uninhabited island located to the northeast of the Orange Archipelago and also home to a great number of carp kings.

Xiao Jian met a fellow pocket monster observer named Lu He, and together they observed the migrating carp kings, even witnessing the phenomenon of mass evolution of the carp kings; they both recorded their observations of the carp kings.

After collecting the four Badges of the Orange Archipelago, Ash suddenly had an accident: he and Xiao Jian were paralyzed by the overlord flower, and then they came down with a fever!

Moreover, there was no pocket monster center nearby; only near the habitat of the mosquito tadpoles could one find the herb that alleviates such symptoms.

Team Rocket's meow and Xiaocilang also came out looking for the herb, and they happened to see a mosquito tadpole carrying the herb, but they couldn't catch the mosquito tadpole.

During its escape, the mosquito tadpole met Ash, who was looking for the herb; with Misty's help, Team Rocket was defeated, and the mosquito tadpole helped Misty obtain a lot of the herb.

Team Rocket, for Wuzang's sake, pulled out all stops—setting traps, luring with things girls like, even feigning pity—but all ended in failure; yet they still managed to obtain the herb.

That was because Misty felt that although Team Rocket were their opponents, they nevertheless needed the herb, so giving them some was no problem.

Team Rocket's meow and Xiaocilang were deeply moved.

Everyone on both sides also got better!

However, Wuzang wanted to take the opportunity to capture Pikachu, but Xiaocilang and meow, having received Misty's help, felt embarrassed to act, so they let Wuzang fight Ash alone; the result was the same—he still got beaten badly.

【Xiba: I always feel Team Rocket is weird, and they can't beat Ash and Pikachu, so why do they keep bringing humiliation upon themselves? Could it be that if they don't get shocked for a day, they feel awful all over?】