Pokémon: Master System

"Lead the way, where is that mysterious underground Taijing Secret Realm?"

"Boss, come with me." Jiang Yu took the lead and said to Xia Yu with a smile, "This Taijing Secret Realm is really too well hidden. I wasn't bragging before. If it weren't for Lao Gao, I definitely wouldn't have been able to find it by myself."

As Jiang Yu walked, he smiled and told Xia Yu how they discovered the Taijing Secret Realm.

"We found a small lake here and wanted to see if there were any special Water-type Pokémon, but we found that there were very few Pokémon in the lake." Jiang Yu said seriously, "I just felt a little strange, but I didn't think much of it. It was Lao Gao who noticed that something was wrong."

"He discovered that the lake water was much warmer than normal, and then we searched the entire lake and found a very well-hidden lakeside cave."

Jiang Yu then pointed to a lakeshore not far away: "Boss, look there, the entrance to the cave is right there!"

Xia Yu looked in the direction Jiang Yu was pointing, but could only see the lake surface bubbling with steam, and could not see the entrance to the cave at all.

“The entrance is right beneath the lake surface,” Jiang Yu said with a smile. “I didn’t even notice it. Old Gao was the sharpest one. He just touched it with his hand and found that the water temperature here was higher than the water temperature in other parts of the lake. Then we sent a Water-type Pokémon to investigate and found a hidden underwater passage. Through the underwater passage, we can enter that very hidden Taijing Secret Realm.”

Xia Yu listened to Jiang Yu's story with a look of surprise on his face. He had thought the two of them were just lucky, but now it seemed that other people might not have been able to find the entrance to the Taijing Secret Realm: "Wow, you actually found such a hidden entrance."

"Boss, we need to prepare a Water-type Pokémon. Let's go in together." Jiang Yu reminded him, "This underwater tunnel should be the source of the lake's warming. The further we go in, the higher the water temperature gets."

"Okay." Xia Yu nodded, then released Greninja: "Let's go in together and find out what's going on."

Greninja, its body surging with water-based energy, used its Dive technique to create a water sphere that enveloped Xia Yu and his companions as they submerged beneath the lake's surface.

As soon as he entered the water, Xia Yu could feel the rising heat through the thin film of water. The deeper he went into the underwater tunnel, the hotter the surging lake water became, like a hot spring, bubbling away.

After a few minutes, light finally appeared on the surface of the lake overhead.

Greninja leaped from beneath the lake, carrying the three of them ashore. The water sphere enveloping them burst open, and waves of intense heat surged forth like a tidal wave.

"This is the interior of the underwater cave, boss. Look ahead!" Jiang Yu pointed ahead and said to Xia Yu, "That's the Taijing Secret Realm."

Actually, Xia Yu had already seen the Taijing Secret Realm ahead without Jiang Yu's reminder.

The dazzling orange-red light was too bright in the dark cave, illuminating the entire underwater cave. At the same time, waves of heat surged like a tide, making Xia Yu feel like he was in a sauna. After only one minute, fine beads of sweat appeared on Xia Yu's forehead.

Seeing this, Jiang Yu quickly took out the wet wipes and mineral water he had prepared beforehand: "Boss, wipe your sweat. It's really too hot in here. You need to make sure you stay hydrated, otherwise you won't be able to hold on for long."

Xia Yu smiled and accepted the water Jiang Yu handed him. Then, together with Xia Yu, they slowly walked towards the Taijing Secret Realm in front of them.

The entrance to the Taijing Secret Realm was enveloped in a transparent crystal that resembled crystal. However, unlike the Taijing Secret Realm seen before, the entrance to this Taijing Secret Realm was entirely crimson, as beautiful as a sunset.

Just by looking at its unique design, you can tell that this Taijing Secret Realm is definitely related to the fire type, and it contains extremely powerful fire-type Pokémon, which is very likely a master-level Paradox Pokémon.

Fire-type, Paradoxical Pokémon.

Two Pokémon names flashed through Xia Yu's mind: Flareon and Iron Venom.

Among them, Flamebreaker is an ancient species of divine beast. Its appearance is extremely similar to Entei, one of the three holy beasts, but it has a much larger and more ferocious head covered with golden spikes, and its attribute has also changed to fire and dragon.

This is a very powerful type combination. The Fire type can effectively resist the Fairy type, while the Dragon type can effectively resist the Water type. When combined, it not only has three types of double weakness to Electric (Dragon, Ground, and Rock), but also three types of double resistance to Steel, Bug, and Electric, as well as two types of quadruple resistance to Grass and Fire. It can be said to be a very powerful Pokémon.

The other one, Iron Venom, is the future version of Volcarona, with its type changed to Fire/Poison, which is also quite good. Its only drawback is that it is 4x weak to Ground. Iron Venom has a very strong Special Attack (140) and many powerful moves such as Dance of Fire, Sludge Wave, Dawn, Hurricane, Burnout, Bug Buzz, and Solar Beam.

Without a doubt, Tortoisemoth is among the top Paradox Pokémon. Apart from the top Future-type Pokémon, Ironbund, and the top Ancient-type Pokémon, Winged Power, which clearly surpass it, other Paradox Pokémon each have their own strengths and weaknesses compared to Tortoisemoth.

Unfortunately, the Iron Poison Moth cannot learn the Butterfly Dance skill. If it could master the Butterfly Dance skill, its strength would increase to another level.

Of course, both Flareon and Toxapex are very powerful Pokémon. It should be said that there are no weak Paradox Pokémon. Almost every Paradox Pokémon has its own unique ability, except for a very few Pokémon (I'm talking about you, you piece of trash).

Judging from the impact of the Taijing Secret Realm on the surrounding environment, Xia Yu felt that the Pokémon in the Taijing Secret Realm was probably not Ironpoo, but most likely the Ancient Legendary Pokémon Flareon.

"Let's go in and take a look. Do you want to come with me?" Xia Yu turned to the two of them and asked.

"Of course we'd like to go with you, but boss, we wouldn't want to cause you any trouble, would we?"

"Probably not, keep up."

Xia Yu and his two companions, along with Greninja, approached the entrance to the Taijing Secret Realm. The closer they got, the more intense the scorching heat became.

The raging flames scorched Xia Yu's skin, making it dry. Even Xia Yu's face was flushed with a faint red glow, and sweat was already pouring down his face, dripping continuously down his cheeks.

The sweat evaporated instantly upon hitting the ground, turning into white smoke and dissipating.

"call!"

Despite the heat, Xia Yu slowly reached out and approached the Taijing Secret Realm portal. When his fingers touched the orange-red crystal pillar, a tremendous suction force came, and the Taijing Secret Realm portal suddenly opened, rotating like a starry sky, sucking Xia Yu, Greninja, Jiang Yu, and Gao Yanxin into it.

After a dizzying sensation, they found themselves in the Taijing Secret Realm.

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