Pokémon: Master System.

Finally, Xia Yu also mentioned Zhao Ruohan's father's serious illness, stating that this academically gifted girl was worthy of the Xia family's investment. The Xia family could pay for Zhao's father's surgery and do their best to treat him. They could also sponsor Zhao Ruohan's university education and even provide a stable job for her brother, Zhao Ruoxuan. The Grass Insect Secret Realm was about to be completed, which would solve a large number of employment problems. With the Xia family's strength, finding a job for Zhao Ruoxuan wouldn't be difficult. However, all of this would come at a price: Zhao Ruohan would have to sign a long-term contract with the Xia family's company. Once she completed her studies, she would have to work for the Xia family.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

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After seeing Xia Yu and Lin's mother off on the plane, Xia Luo was still pondering what Xia Yu had just said.

"A Bulbasaur with decent potential and a girl." Charlotte smiled. "Let's go see what kind of girl Xiaoyu specifically told me to be."

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Imperial capital, Lin family.

This wasn't Xia Yu's first visit to the Lin family. He would come to the Lin family every year during the Spring Festival. Grandma Qin and Grandpa Lin, who were his maternal grandparents, were both well-known Pokémon professors with their own independent laboratories. His maternal uncle, Lin Xueyun, also worked in Grandpa Lin's laboratory. Now, Grandpa Lin had almost retired to the second line, and the laboratory had been basically handed over to Lin Xueyun for management.

Xia Yu also has a younger uncle, Lin Xueyang, who is the youngest son of Elder Lin. He currently serves as the vice president of the Pokémon Association's capital branch and possesses the strength of a Champion-level trainer, specializing in Dragon-type Pokémon.

The Lin family isn't actually famous among trainers, and they only have Lin Xueyang to carry the family name. However, in terms of Pokémon research, the Lin family is definitely top-tier. The first Z-Ring in China was developed by the Lin family, which is why Lin Xueyang has a Dragon-type Z-Crystal. His strength is also top-tier among Elite Four trainers, second only to the Elite Four.

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Xia Yu followed her mother into the Lin family home. As soon as they entered, they saw Old Master Lin and Old Madam Qin sitting in the living room. Their eyes immediately fell on Xia Yu and Lin Xuemei. Xia Yu keenly observed that her mother, grandparents, and other relatives seemed somewhat nervous and uneasy.

I was the only one who remained calm.

"Xiaoyu's here, come sit down, put your luggage down first. Xuemei, you sit down too." It was Grandma Qin who broke the silence and spoke first.

Xia Yu naturally couldn't let Grandma Qin feel awkward, so he smiled and said, "Grandma, Grandpa, I missed you both. Mom, please sit down, I'll help you put your luggage away."

"Xiaoyu, you're so sensible." Grandma Qin smiled. "Grandma and Grandpa have missed you too. Old Lin, don't keep such a long face. Xuemei, please sit down too. Stay a little longer this time, Mom has missed you."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xuemei sat on the sofa, considered for a moment, and then said softly, "Mom, Dad, I only took a week off. I'll go back after I finish dealing with Xiaoyu's matter."

With that "Dad," the long-standing estrangement between father and daughter was broken. Although Old Lin still kept a straight face and pretended to be serious, his hands trembled slightly, and his heart was not calm. He forced himself to be calm and said, "Since you're here, stay a few more days and spend more time with your mother. She keeps saying she misses you."

“That’s right,” Old Mrs. Qin chimed in. “You must be hungry. Let’s go, let’s eat and chat.”

Although the Lin family was a scholarly family, they did not follow the rule of not speaking while eating or sleeping. The family valued lively meals and did whatever made them happy. Even the old man Long had a seat at the table.

"Xiao Li, get me a bottle of baijiu." Old Master Lin was clearly in a good mood today and wanted to have a few drinks, so he asked Xiao Li to get the liquor. Xiao Li was the Lin family's housekeeper, and upon hearing Old Master Lin's words, she immediately got up to get it.

"Sister Li, don't go." Lin Xuemei reached out to stop her, then looked at Old Man Lin: "Dad, you should quit drinking. You need to take care of your health."

Given Old Lin's temperament, no one could usually persuade him, but this time, facing his youngest daughter whom he hadn't seen for a long time, he waved his hand, signaling to Xiao Li to let it go. This scene was as if he had returned to decades ago, when Lin Xuemei was still a little girl.

When Mr. Lin was young, he wanted to drink, and no one could persuade him otherwise. Only his most beloved daughter dared to take his wine glass away and, with a bit of coquetry, Mr. Lin would laugh and refuse to drink.

This scene feels like a dream; more than thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Chapter 47 Dragon-Type Secret Realm

After dinner, Xia Yu lay in bed and started scrolling through her phone.

I haven't paid attention to posts about buying stones in a long time; I wonder if there are any good ones.

Looking through my recent private messages, the vast majority were about useless stones, flashy but completely useless, and the rest were scammers advertising.

After failing to find anything again, Xia Yu changed his location to Beijing, hoping that more people in the city would see the post and that he would have a better chance of finding good deals there.

After dealing with the stone, Xia Yu looked through the messages sent by others on his phone. Among them, Fatty Wu sent several messages, all of which were photos of him and the Rock Lycanroc training. Like Xia Yu, he had taken leave and gone to the Rock-type Secret Realm for special training.

To this close friend, Xia Yu only replied with two words: "Idiot," his brotherly affection evident in his words.

Jiang Qinglan also sent him a message, asking how he was doing in the capital, and mentioning that her three-month internship in the Flame Secret Realm was coming to an end, and she wondered if she could stay on, etc.

Xia Yu felt completely bewildered. Why was he being told these things? He could only reply politely, "If she can't stand it here, she can come to the Grass and Insect Secret Realm in Starlight City. Starlight City welcomes her."

There were many other messages, all from the girls he'd met at the barbecue stall last time. Most of them were things like, "Hey handsome, bro?" or "Hey bro, do you have a girlfriend?" Some were even wilder, sending Xia Yu cool photos. Xia Yu ignored all the messages, but he looked at all the photos, which made it hard for him to fall asleep. He stayed up until midnight before finally going to bed.

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At six o'clock in the morning, as always, we did our two-hour morning exercise. After the exercise, Aunt Li, the nanny, had already cooked breakfast.

The family ate breakfast while watching the news.

"The Dawn Society poached rare Pokémon, causing heavy losses to the Pokémon Association."

"Another terrifying ghost incident has occurred in the Ping'an District of the capital, suspected to be caused by a Ghost-type Pokémon. The Pokémon Association has dispatched experts in Psychic, Dark, and Ghost types to investigate the matter."

"The missing Darkrai: Experts speculate that Darkrai may have appeared in Shanghai."

"The strongest Lucario. The Pokémon Association is considering recruiting Wei Yeqin as a Special Investigator."

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While watching the news, Xia Yu packed his essential luggage and headed to the Dragon-type Secret Realm.

The Dragon Realm training camp in the capital city only has thirty spots available each year. These spots are basically not for sale and are reserved for those with connections. Those who manage to get these spots are truly powerful and influential people. Having money isn't enough to get these spots; you need connections, power, strength, and prestige.

This year's thirty spots were all claimed a month ago, so Xia Yu was naturally not qualified to participate in the Dragon-type Secret Realm Training Camp. At most, he could only spend money to train in the Dragon-type Secret Realm every day and enjoy the blessing of the Dragon-type energy in the Secret Realm. However, the highly respected Elder Lin intervened and asked Long Fan, the Dragon-type Heavenly King who was in charge of the Dragon-type Secret Realm, to make an exception and add a spot for Xia Yu.

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After arriving at the Dragon-type Secret Realm, Xia Yu first went to his dormitory for the next six months to put down his luggage and say goodbye to his family. Then, under the guidance of the staff, he hurriedly went to the training ground to participate in the training camp.

The training camp for the Dragon-type Pokémon training had started two days ago, and Xia Yu was already two days late, missing two days of training. When he arrived at the training ground, all thirty students were diligently training their Pokémon. Almost everyone had one or two Dragon-type Pokémon, which made Xia Yu sigh. The capital city was indeed different; so many people had Dragon-type Pokémon, and he even saw several pseudo-legendary ones, as if they were being sold wholesale at a vegetable market.

In a corner of the training ground, a tall and alluring young woman was leisurely leaning against the wall, glancing at Xia Yu who had just arrived.

"Instructor Long." The staff member led Xia Yu to the woman, bowed slightly, and said respectfully, "This is Xia Yu. He is the new recruit that King Long mentioned in the training camp."

"Understood." Long Yanning nodded and glanced at Xia Yu.

Long Yanning is very tall. With Xia Yu's height of 1.9 meters, Long Yanning can reach the height of his nose. At the same time, she is very slender, with fair skin and a beautiful face. Her long legs paired with small leather boots are particularly eye-catching. The only flaw is that she is plain and unremarkable.

When Long Yanning first heard about the transfer student, she was very dissatisfied with Xia Yu, whom she had never met before. Adding someone to the training class at will was breaking the rules, and Long Yanning was disgusted by this kind of rule-breaking behavior. However, when she heard that it was Old Master Lin who personally called her father, she could only suppress her dissatisfaction and agree. But she was determined to give this transfer student a hard time.

Seeing that Xia Yu was half a head taller than her and that she had to look up to talk to Xia Yu, Long Yan Ning felt even more dissatisfied. She secretly made up her mind that she would wear a pair of high heels tomorrow to deflate Xia Yu's arrogance.

"Let's register first. What Pokémon do you have?" Although Long Yanning had a sour face, she still had the basic qualities of a teacher and was quite responsible for her students.

“Buzzing bat, forest lizard, little fire dragon,” Xia Yu said.

“Your Pokémon have mixed types: Flying, Dragon, Grass, and Fire. You should go to the Flying-type Realm. You have two Flying-type Pokémon, which are more suitable for the Flying-type Realm,” Long Yanning said with a frown, advising Xia Yu to go to the Flying-type Realm.

Of the three Pokémon, only one is a Dragon-type Nombat and the other two are Flying-type Pokémon. It would be much better to train them in the Flying-type Realm, so why did they come to the Dragon-type Realm?

Xia Yu was speechless, unsure how to answer Long Yanning. He wanted to tell her, "This is a Pokémon with three dragons! Do you even know what Mega Evolution is?" But he couldn't say those words. As he was still trying to explain, he heard Long Yanning say to herself, "Never mind, since we're already here, let's leave it at that. Which is your ace Pokémon? I'll help you make a training plan."

“Forest lizard, little fire dragon,” Xia Yu said without hesitation.

These two Pokémon with near-champion potential are undoubtedly Xia Yu's future trump cards. As for Nombat from the beginning, although its Champion-level potential is strong, it seems it can only be relegated to the second tier for now. However, Xia Yu also thought of a problem: who should get the Mega Evolution slot in the future? Charizard or Sceptile? After thinking about it, he decided on Sceptile, since Charizard still has Gigantamax as a backup.

Hearing Xia Yu's answer, Long Yan Ning was even angrier. Of the three Pokémon, only one was a Dragon-type, and the other two were non-Dragon-types, which were his main force. What were you doing in the Dragon-type Secret Realm?

Xia Yu's attitude infuriated Long Yan Ning, who regarded Dragon-type Pokémon as her belief and ideal. Others went to great lengths to come to the Dragon-type Secret Realm to train their Dragon-type Pokémon. But you, you came to train a Grass-type Sceptile and a Fire/Flying-type Charizard.

Long Yanning was quite dissatisfied with Xia Yu, her student. If it weren't for her father's approval, she would never have accepted this transfer student. So she could only suppress her anger and secretly thought that she would have plenty of time to deal with Xia Yu later: "About what is the strength of the three Pokémon now?"

"Buzz Bat, it's only been a month since it was born, it has the strength of an ordinary-level creature, and it will soon reach the rare-level creature.

"The forest lizard has only just evolved and is a rare-level combatant."

"The baby dragon has only been hatched for two days."

"What???"

Long Yan Ning stared at Xia Yu in shock. Three Pokémon, two of which had been hatched less than a month ago, and the other so-called ace was only of rare-level strength. What kind of newbie was this? What kind of student did her father send in?

It's worth noting that almost every student participating in the Imperial Capital Dragon-type Training Camp has a Lord-level Pokémon, and some even possess a Totem-level Pokémon.

Isn't this baby-level trainer here to ruin her reputation? To ruin the reputation of the Dragon-type Secret Realm? Dad, what's wrong with you? How could you agree to add such a transfer student?

Chapter 48 Dragon Smoke Condensation

In fact, Long Yanning couldn't blame her father, Long Fan, because when Elder Lin was on the phone with Long Fan, he did vaguely mention that Xia Yu's strength was relatively weak. However, Long Fan's habitual thinking made him think that even if Elder Lin's grandson was weak, how weak could he be? He never expected that Xia Yu was so trash.

Looking at the frail Xia Yu, Long Yanning was on the verge of breaking down, her face dark and silent. Of course, this was understandable. It was like a student who had just started learning first-year high school material suddenly transferring into a top class with an average score of 700 in the nationally renowned high school. You can imagine whether the homeroom teacher would treat you well; it would be good enough if they didn't kick you out.

Xia Yu's arrival also attracted the attention of the students in the training class. They wanted to see what kind of strength this capable transfer student was, so many people kept their ears perked up to listen to Xia Yu and Long Yanning's conversation.

The boys, in particular, felt quite pressured by Xia Yu's height and appearance. However, when they heard about the strength of Xia Yu's three Pokémon, many students couldn't help but burst out laughing.

To be honest, Xia Yu's current skill level is not even comparable to most junior high school students in the capital.

"What are you laughing at?!" Hearing the laughter of the students around her, Long Yanning was even more furious. She yelled at her students twice, then turned to Xia Yu and said, "Go find a place to train. Now, let me see your three Pokémon."

Xia Yu remained unmoved by the laughter around him, his expression indifferent. "You all underestimate the resilience of a man whose soul is over forty years old. Let him be strong, the breeze still caresses the mountain; let him be ruthless, the bright moon still shines over the great river."

So you guys are laughing the loudest, huh? I've got it all figured out. Fortune changes every thirty years, never underestimate a young man's potential. I am Xiao Yan from the Pokémon world!

"Let's take a look at your Buzzbat first." Long Yanning and Xia Yu walked to the corner of the training field. This was the only empty spot. The two stood side by side and surprisingly, they felt a sense of harmony. However, this made Long Yanning, who was half a head shorter than Xia Yu, particularly unhappy.

Xia Yu didn't pay much attention to all that and silently took out a Poké Ball to release Nombat.

As soon as the purple buzzing bat appeared, it immediately flapped its wings. The rich dragon energy around it made it happy, and it flew up joyfully.

"It's developing quite well, and its size is decent." Long Yanning carefully observed Xia Yu's Noibat for a while. Its flapping wings were powerful, and its size was also quite good. It was a Noibat with good potential. At this moment, she took out a Poké Ball from her waist: "Let me test its ultrasonic ability. Go, Noivern."

"Roar!"

As soon as the near-Elite Four-level Noivern appeared, it let out an excited roar, then its gaze fell on the small Nombat, watching it with great interest.

The little Noibat looked at the Noisy Dragon with the same curiosity, and for the first time felt a longing, wondering if it would become so majestic in the future.