Chapter 200: Balance

Carbink's pink pupils stared straight at the dead tree.

She looked sorrowful, not understanding why it had become like this.

Before accidentally falling into the spatial rift and leaving the secret realm, she remembered that the entire protection circle was shrouded in a mysterious aura with a dreamlike color.

A large amount of vitality was constantly reviving the dead land, sky, and rivers.

Even in the end, those Pokémon that had turned into statues began to slowly revive.

Now that she brought Su Hao back, she had expected to see a life paradise full of vitality.

At worst, it should be a world where life and death were deadlocked.

What exactly happened in this one-sided situation?

Carbink had no choice, so she cast her gaze for help toward Su Hao.

Su Hao was also confused about this situation.

He held the idea that Celebi, as a deity who also held part of the life authority, should know something about this situation, and asked it: "As fellow deities, do you know anything?"

Celebi's expression was serious, and after closing its eyes and investigating carefully, it reached a conclusion.

It said helplessly: 【Its aura is weak, and the power of its authority is also much less than when I once saw it confronting Yveltal.】

Su Hao said in disbelief: "That shouldn't be! As the two pillar deities in charge of life and death, even if one side has the upper hand, it shouldn't be such a one-sided situation!"

In his impression, Xerneas and Yveltal, as cover deities of the same generation, should have equal power.

Celebi said solemnly: 【The problem lies right here; the authorities of Xerneas and Yveltal restrain each other, and as long as the balance is not broken, this confrontation is eternal.】

"If it's not broken... could it be!?"

Seeing that Su Hao had caught up with his train of thought, Celebi praised: 【Not bad, the balance was broken at a certain moment.】

Celebi guessed that it must have been something Xerneas did during the confrontation that caused it to become like this.

It cast its gaze toward the dead tree that Xerneas had turned into, then swept over Su Hao and Carbink, and finally stopped on Carbink.

A flash of inspiration, and it thought of a possibility.

Celebi flew in front of Carbink and placed its hand on Carbink's body.

It closed its eyes and said: 【Don't resist, let me see.】

Carbink nodded nervously, looking at Celebi with anticipation.

【......】

【So that's how it is.】

Celebi looked at Carbink in shock; it had thought that Carbink had accidentally obtained the mutation ability under the radiation of Xerneas's Fairy Aura.

Celebi exclaimed: 【Xerneas left a part of its authority, fragments of Fairy Aura, on Carbink, which is why it was powerless to contend with Yveltal.】

【No wonder your Carbink showed such an extraordinary side before it even mutated.】

Carbink said firmly: 【Then what should I do to help her?】

Su Hao had once explained to her that the main body of the dead tree that helped her birth was the Legendary Pokémon Xerneas.

For Carbink, she was born and grew up beside Xerneas, and Xerneas was like a mother figure in her heart.

Even if she had never communicated with Xerneas, she still wanted to help her mother.

Celebi pondered for a moment and suggested: 【You can try to use the power of Xerneas within your body to try to wake it up.】

"Do you need me to do anything?" Su Hao, who was on the side, spoke up.

【Need to use your Viridian Force and Aura to cooperate with me.】

"Okay."

Carbink leaned under the dead tree; this was what Celebi requested, that she needed to be in close contact with the dead tree so that the probability of waking up Xerneas's consciousness could be increased.

Celebi and Su Hao stood on the left and right sides of Carbink respectively; on Celebi's right hand was its Viridian Force, the purpose of which was to fuse with the Viridian Force on Su Hao's left hand—which had received the forest's gift and was of the same rank as it—to increase the power.

On Su Hao's right hand, Aura turned into blue ripples; according to Celebi, it was necessary to use Aura to establish the connection between the authority powers of Xerneas

, and only when it temporarily "took back" part of its own power could it be possible to wake up Xerneas's consciousness.

According to the practice that Celebi had led Su Hao through beforehand, two groups of Viridian Force full of vitality quickly wrapped around Carbink and the dead tree, and the Aura power linked the authority fragments hidden in the deepest part of Carbink's body to the dead tree.

When the blue Aura merged into the Viridian Force, Su Hao sensitively noticed that the nature of the energy seemed to have changed.

But there was no time to think too much; just establishing that mysterious connection had already exhausted his efforts, and although his Aura power had been naturally increasing in strength, it had not yet reached the advanced level.

"If I had known, I would have gone to finish the Fairy Gym first; if the Aura power was raised to the advanced level, I could have established a more stable channel..."

With Su Hao's current Aura power, the channel was very unstable.

After waiting for a long time, Su Hao had cold sweat dripping, and his lips trembled slightly.

Just when he was about to be unable to hold on completely, a weak, female voice full of maternal love sounded.

【How did you... come back?】

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Xerneas