"Brother Liyuan! Your Agile Bug is so powerful! It can split into so many 'shadow clones', and when they throw out Water Shuriken together, it's so beautiful!" Serena said excitedly.

Sure enough... In Serena's eyes, the most "powerful" thing is the gorgeous visual effect of the shurikens in all directions.

However, Guan Liyuan didn't think that Serena's angle was wrong. "Beautiful" is indeed a kind of "powerful". In the Pokémon world, it is not the same that you have to be good at fighting to survive...

"Powerful, right? When Frogger can be bond-evolved in the future, there may be more beautiful Water Shuriken!" Guan Liyuan said.

At this time, Guan Liyuan and his two friends had just escaped from the post-match interview. Guan Liyuan also wanted to ask those reporter friends why they were doing post-match interviews when I only won the gym challenge of the first badge... It

was not until Guan Liyuan and his two friends "hid" in the Pokémon Center that they finally got rid of those reporters.

At this time, in Guan Liyuan's room, Frogger and the others were also released. Hearing Guan Liyuan's words, Frogger inexplicably felt a hint of "malice".

It sounds like words of encouragement, but why does it always feel that there is something wrong with the so-called "more beautiful" flying water shuriken?

"Bond evolution... I don't know when I can do it." Esther said, patting the head of Frog.

"As long as you train well and reach the level of mind-to-mind communication with Frog, remember what I usually teach you, I believe you will be fine."

Guan Liyuan did not encourage Esther too much. In fact, she was already very confident. He said "when can I do it", not "can I do it".

Moreover... Although Guan Liyuan's bond evolution was a trick, he reversed and mastered a lot of bond evolution theories, which he also mentioned when communicating with Esther's father Fatong.

As for whether the bond skill of Frog's final evolution "Greninja" after bond evolution is a mutated flying water shuriken, Guan Liyuan does not know...

After all, bond evolution is only useful for Pokémon with a combat power of at least 30,000. Guan Liyuan's "World's No. 1 House" is not short of Pokémon with excellent qualifications, but he has not specially trained too many powerful Pokémon.

Especially the "Big Three" in various places, the training efforts are not very great. After all, the alliances in various places have "contracted" the official training of the Big Three. With so many choices, Guan Liyuan has no need to compete with them for a job...

Therefore, in the "No. 1 House in the World", although there are some Frogs with the potential of no less than Bubble, there is no Greninja with a combat power of more than 30,000.

The so-called "more beautiful" shuriken is just what Guan Liyuan saw in the animation. Xiaozhi's Greninja can use a golden shuriken skill after the bond evolution.

However, because in the animation, Greninja originally fought back and forth with the super-evolved "Mega Charizard x", and even took the advantage, and it seemed that the championship was expected... As a result, after several direct hits with the golden shuriken, it was counterattacked by the opponent, so it was praised by the masses as "healing shuriken" and "blood recovery shuriken"!

As for whether the bond skill of Greninja in the Pokémon world is a golden shuriken, Guan Liyuan is not sure, but even if it is, it would not be so tricky to specifically restore the opponent's health... It shouldn't be possible, right?

"Is that Lightning Flying Lizard really an elite Pokémon? It was defeated by Buggy directly. It turns out that Buggy is so strong? Then why was it evenly matched when fighting with Knight Snail before?" Esther did not dwell on the bond evolution for too long. After all, Frogger is only about to evolve for the first time, and it is too early to talk about bond evolution. "

Now Buggy is indeed stronger, but the gap is not that big. The fighting style and attributes of Knight Snail still restrain Buggy... The reason why the performance is so different today is just because of the different fighting styles." Guan Liyuan said.

Buggy "easily" killed Lightning Flying Lizard, which was stronger than Rhydon, which Knight Snail "tugged for a long time" to defeat, so it proves that Buggy is at least three times stronger than Knight Snail?

In fact, it is not the case. They just chose the fighting style they are best at. If the photoelectric lizard can take the shuriken from all directions, even if the agile bug delays the knight snail for so long, the battle situation will not change significantly.

Similarly, even if the knight snail is thousands of times stronger in combat power, it is unlikely to defeat Rhydon or the photoelectric lizard instantly like the agile bug. At most, after defeating the opponent, its own consumption will be smaller.

But it is impossible to expect a defensive counterattack Pokémon to defeat the opponent at the beginning, especially this is a "true defensive counterattack" Pokémon that will hesitate when it is 90% sure.

"Now that Liyuan and I have obtained the first badge, and Serena has also obtained the certification and recommendation letter from the Tanigawa Coordinator Association, when will we set off later?" Esther asked.

"If you have nothing else to do, let's set off early tomorrow morning... The journey may be harder. The area north of Tanigawa Town is basically officially entering the northeastern mountain area, and we need to adapt to the mountain swamp environment." Guan Liyuan said.

"Then when we go to Crystal City, we will go there, right?" Esther said with shining eyes.

Guan Liyuan obviously understood where Esther was talking about, so he said, "This... In theory, you can go and have a look, but don't hold your hopes too high. With our 'one badge', we are not qualified to enter the real main area."

From the map, if Guchuan Town goes north and aims at Xiangxun Town, the next place will be "Crystal City", and Crystal City, as the name suggests, is a city rich in crystals and other gems.

The reason why there are such "rich" local specialties is naturally because there are crystal and gemstone mines not far from the city...

According to the characteristics of the Pokémon world, this kind of gemstone mine is of course also the origin of various evolution stones.

More importantly, "super stones" and wild Pokémon carrying "super stones" have appeared here!

It is a rare non-relic super stone unearthed site...

Of course, in order to protect the minerals around Crystal City from being mined and destroyed too much, the most important caves are semi-protected areas that require ten badges to enter, and each trainer has a limited time to enter each year.

There is also a part of the mining area where the gems have not been mined out. They are privately owned and trainers are not allowed to enter at will...

However, according to the information left by Dr. Fatong in Guan Liyuan's illustrations, even if you don't enter those core areas, there are actually records of super stones being found in some abandoned mines or natural caves in the periphery, and there is also a conspicuous mark next to it indicating that there are suspected undiscovered super evolution relics nearby!