Chapter 387

"Hey, is that Old Liao?"

High above, Bai Du rode a domineering and imposing Dragonite, leisurely dialing the phone.

On the other end of the line was Bai Du's contemporary, the current Champion of the Shenzhou League, Liao Xingchen.

"Yeah, aren't you in Chengdu? What do you need me for?"

A deep, magnetic, and pleasant male voice came through the receiver. Bai Du's face scrunched up, and he held the phone a bit further away, looking like he couldn't stand it.

A moment later, Bai Du brought the phone back closer and complained: "What I can't stand most is this voice of yours. Who knows how many girls and boys you've deceived with it."

Hearing Bai Du's complaint, Liao Xingchen seemed to shed some burden, his tone suddenly becoming casual: "After all, I was just working, and I couldn't switch out of my professional voice right away. What do you actually want? If nothing, I'm hanging up."

Bai Du made an expression of being unable to accept it and said with a bitter face: "Wow, I really don't understand why you accepted the 'perfect champion' persona. If it were me, it definitely wouldn't work; it's much easier to just act cool with a cold face."

Liao Xingchen poked at Bai Du's sore spot: "If it were you? Wait until you beat me once before you talk."

At this, Bai Du was instantly wide awake, humming with a 'just you wait' look: "Hmph, that's not necessarily true. Once I come out of seclusion later, your advantage will be gone~"

Liao Xingchen became interested and asked curiously: "Oh? Finally found them all?"

"You could say that. Collected most of them, and I even ran into a good seedling; even I accidentally flipped over." Bai Du's tone carried a hint of self-deprecation.

Liao Xingchen's eyes lit up, and he sprang up from his beanbag chair, his tone suddenly joyful: "Who is it? Since even you flipped over, I assume they already have the strength to challenge the Champion's Path and become our candidate successor?"

He knew his old rival Bai Du's strength well; he wouldn't have flipped over without even sending out his ace, which meant that person's strength hadn't fully reached him yet, which is why Bai Du said he found a good seedling.

"Champion's Path? I'm afraid that's still early, probably six or seven or eight years away."

Bai Du waved his hand and continued: "By the way, it seems the Great Britain League has made a breakthrough?"

Bai Du deliberately changed the subject; he didn't want his old rival Liao Xingchen to know he had lost to a high school student.

Hearing Bai Du's question, Liao Xingchen's expression and tone also became serious: "Yes, a breakthrough has been made. It's said that thing can even affect the strength of Pokémon, but because their security measures are very good, there are no channels to know the specific details."

"However, it should be related to those mysterious giant Pokémon, because they are currently trying to add relevant rules to the World Championships."

Bai Du joked: "Maybe by then we'll be able to see their Elite Four and Champion's Pokémon grow a few sizes larger in the arena?"

"Hard to say, but since your strength has a chance to go further, that's a great thing. The tasks you haven't finished can be shared by us, so go ahead and break through."

"Alright then, that's it, I'm hanging up~"

After chatting for so long, Liao Xingchen also roughly knew the reason Bai Du called him.

Just wanted a vacation, nothing big.

It was just turning his 24-hour work into 25 hours, no big problem.

In his heart, he was still a bit worried; his intuition told him the Great Britain League was hiding something incredible.

Now he could only try his best to improve the team's strength. The World Championships with two formats is not a world for individual heroes; the team is indispensable.

Many leagues have also shown many newcomers in recent years. Although their strength cannot yet surpass the five of them, after this year, they will be unable to participate due to age restrictions, and new participants will be needed. This rule cannot be changed.

After all, this rule also brought them many conveniences back when the Shenzhou League was not yet strong.

There is no age limit for the Elite Four and Champion positions. Until someone defeats them with hard strength, they will not choose to step down.

The reason there are so many Elite Four and Champions at the World Championships is simply because their strength is...

Once they can step onto the stage of the World Championships, the positions of Elite Four and Champion are naturally within reach.

June 3rd, 8:00 PM, a hotel room in Chengdu became a temporary meeting room.

The four semi-finalists from different groups from Yangcheng were sitting together, listening to the team leader Zhong Li's requirements to hold a pre-battle meeting.

"I won't go into unnecessary details; let me briefly talk about your opponents next."

"First is Li Hua. You kid seem to have had good luck recently. In the entire group, your group's opponents' strength isn't considered very strong. Three early Elite-level ones, and they specialize in Ground-types. If you can't take them down, you're in for a rough time!"

"Jiang Chengcheng, your opponent is a Fighting-type trainer like you. Their strength is only a bit lower than yours. We'll discuss it in detail later."

"Kong Lingwei, the opponent is a Ghost-type specialist trainer. You must be extremely careful."

"And then there's Su Hao..."

At this point, Zhong Li took off her reading glasses and rubbed her temples with a massive headache.

The daytime was simply too stimulating; it almost scared her to death.

After rubbing her temples, she rubbed her brow and continued: "Since you said your Incineroar's strength is Professional-level, then I can understand your goal a little."

"You want to send out Incineroar to show off your power, striking the opponent both physically and mentally. The strength gap and the one-hit KO can directly convey the meaning that you were holding back all along; otherwise, just sending out Incineroar would be a sweep."

Zhong Li sighed helplessly: "Since you are so confident, I won't stop you too much, but when you and your ace go out to fight, remember not to expose too much beforehand. Try to fight without revealing your trump cards."

Li Hua, Jiang Chengcheng: "Pfft..."

Forgive them, after watching today's match, they really couldn't hold it in.

Zhong Li glared at them and continued worriedly: "Because... I heard that another division also has Professional-level Pokémon participating this year."

Su Hao became interested, tilting his head curiously: "Which division has Professional-level Pokémon?"

Zhong Li closed her eyes and recalled: "Imperial Capital..."

Su Hao rested his chin on his hands, his tone meaningful: "Ho~"

"In short, the post you sent last night is very popular. It has caused such a stir that it can be said that most of the attention in the Sichuan-Chongqing division will be on your battle tomorrow, and even in other divisions as well."

"Your real stage should be the finals, not the preliminary qualifiers here. Try to fight without exposing your trump cards in advance... even if there is no three-move KO."

"After all, the winner is king. The opponent's temporary pride doesn't count for anything."

Zhong Li's biggest worry is that in order to survive Su Hao's offensive, Cang Yun will choose to defend completely.

His Ferrothorn is very outstanding in terms of durability, and under the weakening of the rain, Incineroar might not be able to kill it in one hit.

"Don't worry, Teacher Zhong, I have absolute confidence." Su Hao turned to comfort Zhong Li.

A clown is a clown after all; there's no need to worry about it.

Ever since he posted that, he hadn't paid any attention to it.