Pokémon: World of Wonder

As dawn approached, Jiang Ye finally opened his eyes, still half-asleep.

Then he looked around and realized that he had been moved to a similar beach. Jiang Ye was about to get up.

But the body seemed to be out of control, as if every muscle and even cell in the body had its own consciousness, constantly trembling and writhing slightly.

It's like a person who is still in shock after experiencing a series of terrifying events.

Several hours later, as the sun rose above the seabed, Jiang Ye felt his body recover and began to be under his control.

About half an hour later, Jiang Ye slowly stood up.

The surroundings looked much like the beach Jiang Ye had first seen. After looking around, he successfully spotted Huang Qiren, who was half asleep, propping his head up on a similar half-fallen coconut tree.

"Old man! What's this again? Where are my Pokémon?"

As if he had heard Jiang Ye's call, Huang Qiren slowly stood up.

"Where is this? This is the second trial, of course. As for your Pokémon, they're getting beaten up right now."

As Huang Qiren spoke, he casually pointed to the side. Jiang Ye looked in the direction of his thumb and saw layer upon layer of ancient, dense forest. However, this time the forest was not red, but a light blue color.

The trees no longer resembled trees; each one was crystal clear, like some kind of ice or glass. From the trunks and branches of these trees, one could see some kind of deep blue liquid flowing inside.

Hearing Huang Qiren say this, Jiang Ye frowned. Although he was not very clear about the situation of his Pokémon, he could still hear the battle sounds from the other side of the Infernape with his keen ears.

"I'll let it go like this, but can't they rest for a bit?" Jiang Ye said, shaking his still numb arm.

Upon hearing Jiang Ye's words, Huang Qiren couldn't help but glance at Jiang Ye: "Hehe, this old man is undoubtedly the top-tier martial artist. Do you need to worry about their condition?"

As he spoke, Huang Qiren slowly took a sip of wine, and it was unclear what he was talking about that he was using a gourd to pour into his mouth after finishing the wine.

He smacked his lips: "Alright, now that you're awake, go in and get a beating. I won't count today as part of the trial time; I'll give you some time to adjust."

"Hehe, this place is much harder than the monkeys' place. If you can't get through this, you'll have to go salvage marine debris. You'd better work hard, otherwise, when your Pokémon are reborn, you'll still be stuck in the same place, and you won't be worthy of them."

While stretching his body and marveling at how much he had recovered, Jiang Ye replied, "You don't need to worry about that. Since you're so confident in this trial, you should also be confident in me after I complete all the trials."

"Humph!"

Huang Qiren curled his lips in disdain, then turned his back to Jiang Ye and leaned against the coconut tree, ignoring Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye didn't want to make a fool of himself by going over to talk to her, so he turned around and walked into the woods.

As soon as Jiang Ye entered the woods, he understood what Huang Qiren meant by "getting used to it."

A strong chill lingered in the air, like a gaseous creature hovering in the forest. The high humidity allowed one to see a white fluid through the light mist in the woods.

The fluid flowed ceaselessly like a river in the air, making Jiang Ye's hair stand on end.

Tiny water droplets clung to his clothes and skin in the mist, and then a gust of cold air swept through, and a faint light blue outline appeared on Jiang Ye's body.

Jiang Ye silently took out a raincoat and rain boots from his spatial storage and put them on, while his mind was still replaying the previous trials.

He just got away with getting beaten up so easily?

He didn't believe it, but no matter how carefully he recalled it, the whole process consisted of going to work, eating, and finally getting a beating. When he woke up, he was on the second island.

If there's any difference between the trial process and the outside world, it's those bright red fruits and those fiery monkeys.

The fruit was most likely the reason he passed the trial, because he ate a lot of it?

As for those monkeys, that's really strange. Have you ever seen a group of Fire-type Pokémon build a stream or ditch specifically for bathing after work?

The only place Jiang Ye could remember was Charizard Valley in Kanto, where Charizards liked to soak in hot springs.

Even Charizard, which loves hot springs, wouldn't let its tail soak in them, but the monkeys here bathe their entire bodies in the water, playing as they do so, completely defying the common knowledge that Fire-type Pokémon dislike water.

As Pokémon chosen as guardians of the tombs by the oldest dynasty, even the seemingly ordinary Infernape must possess extraordinary abilities, let alone these ancient Infernapes.

However, without sufficient verification, these are just Jiang Ye's wild thoughts. He should think about things related to the island.

From the historical perspective learned in schools, the first dynasty revered fire as the core of its culture and civilization, and the use of Pokémon was mainly based on fire-type Pokémon. The second dynasty used water-type and ice-type Pokémon.

Next in order are Steel, Rock and Ground, Grass, and finally, the last of the modern types.

Lost in thought, Jiang Ye slipped and fell. Coming back to his senses, he somersaulted to his feet and looked down. Beneath the seemingly tangled layers of tree roots and moss lay a smooth, pale blue layer.

what?

Jiang Ye squatted down and carefully touched it. A bone-chilling coldness stimulated Jiang Ye's palm. Jiang Ye immediately realized that there was no soil under these trees and moss, but a layer of ice!

Is it just a layer of ice?

Jiang Ye was greatly shocked. He tore open the moss covering the ice. The moss looked like some kind of mushroom mycelium, with roots sticking into the ice as if there were some necessary nutrients in the ice.

Jiang Ye mustered his strength, and a feeling of effortless ease surged from his body to his brain. He didn't even feel the effort he had put in; it was as if the ice had been struck by an icebreaker with a loud bang.

The entire ice surface suddenly shattered into many large pieces. Jiang Ye was surprised by the increase in his strength. He lifted up these ice pieces, and underneath were still layers of light blue ice!

These ice blocks appear as if they are a single entity, with many azure tree roots intertwined within them. Looking down to the bottom, only layers upon layers of tree trunks completely conceal the deepest part of the ice blocks.