Two days later, Citrus Island.
After observing for two days, Fang Yuan had determined that the tablets located on the three islands corresponded to Ice, Thunder, and Fire Type Tablets, respectively.
This perfectly matched the attributes of the Three Divine Birds...
It gave Fang Yuan an ominous premonition.
"Forget it, I should still prepare for the battle with Lt. Surge first."
"After this battle, I should be able to break into the top 1000, one step closer to becoming the Champion of the championship!"
Today was the day of Fang Yuan's official match with Lt. Surge.
Fang Yuan leaned against a fence by a flower field outside the Orange Sports Field, holding his phone in "meditation."
As usual, he opened the Relic Conquer Team group chat, and Fang someone just saw Insect King A Liu complaining in it.
A Liu: [Strange, I couldn't successfully enter the heritage site for the whole day yesterday, and even up to now today, there's still no response. Could there be a problem somewhere?]
Normally, everyone should be able to enter at least once a day.
One Tree: [Legendary Pokémon aren't robots, it's understandable if they need to rest for a day or two.]
Satoru: [I had already foreseen this, so I left early.]
A Liu: [Scram, scram, scram, your half-baked superpower couldn't foresee anything, you obviously just ran away.]
Currently, at the heritage site, only A Liu and One Tree were left still challenging it.
Fang Yuan came to participate in the championship, while Caitlin and Shi Lan took Nastina back to Unova, and South and the Maple Siblings also went back to work at their Gym.
So only Satoru and A Liu, the two Kings, and One Tree, the Quasi-King, could spare the time for training.
However, Satoru, in his attempts to challenge the site, constantly found that the heritage seemed to target him deliberately, with the guardians attacking him particularly hard!
While others' Pokémon could recover in a day, his needed several days. Unable to withstand such high-pressure training, Satoru decided to leave the place temporarily and rest for a few days.
Fang Yuan watched their side conversations with a smile in his heart, guessing that the heritage site probably wouldn't allow Trainers to enter in the next few days.
The Pokémon inside the heritage had all turned into Poké Balls and hung at Fang Yuan's waist.
Except for Mewtwo and Victini.
Mewtwo, Victini, and the two Celebi listened to Fang Yuan's news about the tablets and were accelerating the stabilization of the spacetime transmission channel.
After all, they couldn't abandon this task halfway through, but they should also be able to make it today.
Fang Yuan had already planned that after the battle with Lt. Surge, he would have a good talk with the Tangerine Trio Birds to get the tablets.
Although he didn't know why the tablets ended up here and were obtained by them, they should still give face to Arceus.
"Of course, I also can't exclude the possibility that they don't recognize Arceus..."
Fang Yuan muttered to himself, the Tangerine Trio Birds, though formidable and capable of defeating the Sea God Lugia when working together, are some of the strongest of the Three Divine Birds...
But since they are not particularly ancient Legendary Pokémon, anything could be possible.
Satoru: [@Fang Yuan, Mr. Fang Yuan, isn't today the date of your championship match?]
As Fang Yuan was thinking, Satoru, the group owner of the Relic Conquer Team, sent out a message.
Looking down at it, Fang Yuan quickly replied: [Yes, in an hour, it starts at ten o'clock.]
A Liu: [@Fang Yuan, it's so boring over here, is there a live broadcast?]
Fang Yuan: [There should be, right? On the official website of the World Championship, at the top of the Poké Ball division page, I remember seeing a promotion for it.]
A Liu and One Tree, who were waiting at Water Pulse City for the heritage to open, truly had nothing to do and casually looked it up together out of boredom.
Since One Tree has been busy with the King Tournament, he didn't participate in the World Championship and naturally didn't know about these things.
A Liu, on the other hand, participated in the championship but was ranked in the top 100 globally and naturally wouldn't pay attention to the Poké Ball division matches.
However, upon searching, One Tree was taken aback.
One Tree: [???]
["The Promotion Battle, Lt. Surge VS Fang Yuan"? Is this it???]
On the deck of a cruise ship in the Outer Sea Area of the Heritage, One Tree stood stunned, looking at the title, wondering if he had read it correctly.
A Liu: [That Lt. Surge sounds very familiar... Oh right, isn't he the Gym Leader of the Vermilion City Gym? When I was a Gym Leader, I met him at a Gym Leaders exchange banquet.]
One Tree: [It's not just that simple. He's not your ordinary Gym Leader. Currently, he's only second to the Four Heavenly Kings and Champion, Li Hua, and the seven of us in the Quartz Plateau-hosted King Tournament, ranking eighth, a true King Level Trainer in terms of points. His strength is very formidable. Is he also participating in this competition... But why is it only Poké Ball level???]
One Tree: [@Fang Yuan, also, how come your opponent is Lt. Surge???]
In his view, for Fang Yuan, a Trainer ranked just over 1000, to meet someone like Lt. Surge whose ranking belied his real strength, was incredibly bad luck.
Fang Yuan: [How would I know…]
One Tree's comments also drew out Satoru, South, Maple, and others, who all started to tune in on the excitement.
After all, they weren't too clear about Fang Yuan's true strength; he always avoided questions on that topic.
However, given that he was chosen by the heritage, he should not be too weak, at least on par with gym-level powerhouses like South and Maple, commanding several Quasi-King level Pokémon.
Satoru: [So the opponent is Lt. Surge? This is starting to get interesting, I wish Mr. Fang Yuan victory. @everyone, let's watch the battle.]