Pokémon: The Journey Begins with a Cowherd

The next morning, the weather was overcast. Qingyuan carried his pre-packed spatial backpack and left the farm where he had lived for five years.

Standing at the farm gate, Qingyuan looked at the familiar farm gate and a flood of memories came to mind.

The initial ambition upon learning about this world, the numbness after being brutally beaten by society, and the resentment in the heart of a transmigrator.

All sorts of past events flashed before his eyes like a slideshow.

Now, after fifteen years, he can finally embark on the path of a trainer.

"Pokémon Master, here I come!"

After letting out a dramatic shout at the gate in front of him, Qingyuan turned around and embarked on his journey.

His first stop on his trip was Viridian City, where he was going to register for the Quartz Convention in March of the following year.

As the Kanto region's league conference, the Indigo League is held every two years. However, most of the participants in the Indigo League are trainers who have only started traveling in the last two years.

Therefore, the Indigo League is jokingly referred to as the Baby Cup by older trainers.

For Qingyuan, who is only now embarking on his journey, the Quartz Conference is undoubtedly an excellent debut platform.

Although Qingyuan really wants to win the Quartz Tournament, he is currently aiming for a top-four finish and striving for first place because he doesn't have any special advantages.

They must at least reach the semifinals of the Quartz Conference.

As Qingyuan walked and pondered, he soon arrived at the entrance of Fuchun Town.

Walk along the road from the village entrance until you reach the main road, then follow the road cleared by the Alliance to reach Viridian City.

Qingyuan used to ride his Tauros on this road often, so he was very familiar with it.

This road has a great advantage: it is very safe because the Alliance frequently raids it.

At least there won't be any incidents of Abominable snakes ambushing people.

It's important to know that, as wild predators, many trainers are ambushed by Arbok every year, resulting in injuries or even death.

This is a real world; ordinary people can indeed be killed by elves.

However, although this road is safe, Pokémon are scarce. Unless you have incredible luck, it's unlikely you'll catch a Pokémon with excellent aptitude from the roadside.

Therefore, in order to implement his elite strategy, Qingyuan released Scorpio and resolutely headed towards the main road and the side road.

There was nothing that could be done, even though Scorpio had reached level 16 after a month and had mastered several new skills.

However, a single level 16 Scorpion is insufficient to protect Qingyuan as he safely advances through the Alliance's unexploded forest.

For his own safety, Qingyuan had no choice but to choose the side road opened up by the alliance.

Although the side paths don't have the same regular sweeps by League Trainers as the main paths, they are still safer than going directly into the forest because they are located around the main paths.

Furthermore, because sweeping is not frequent, the chances of catching a high-potential Pokémon are greater in side paths.

"Let's go, Scorpio! Let's challenge our formidable opponents and march towards the world championship throne!"

Qingyuan pointed ahead and shouted loudly at Scorpio from the entrance of the side path.

"Clatter!"

Scorpio responded enthusiastically to his trainer, his eyes filled with fighting spirit.

During this month, Scorpio listened to the stories Qingyuan told it and developed an almost fanatical longing for battle.

It is precisely for this reason that Scorpio persevered through those tedious and painful training sessions in order to become stronger and defeat countless powerful enemies in the future.

Qingyuan was wearing a combat suit sold by Silver Company, which was said to be able to block attacks from Pokémon below level 30.

With his companion Scorpio slung over his right shoulder, he strode into the side passage.

It's no wonder that this area is surrounded by Viridian Forest; it only took Aohara two minutes to walk into the side path.

He then found a green caterpillar in the grass beside the road.

Looking at the green caterpillar diligently munching on the leaves in front of him, Qingyuan revealed an evil smile.

"Go to Scorpion, use Quick Attack, let's secure our first win!"

"Clatter!"

Scorpion jumped from Qingyuan's shoulder to the ground and unleashed a lightning bolt directly at the caterpillar in the grass.

The green caterpillar was knocked three or four meters away, its eyes turned into circles, and it lost consciousness.

"Well done, Scorpio!"

Seeing this, Qingyuan praised the Scorpion and fed it some spirit food.

Scorpio happily ate them. Although it ate them at every meal, for some reason, it felt that these few were especially delicious this time.

Qingyuan walked up to Caterpie, took out his Pokédex, and scanned Caterpie.

Caterpie is a Pokémon that resembles a caterpillar, with a green back and a white abdomen. It has Y-shaped red antennae on its head and a yellow, spindle-shaped tail. It has two pairs of abdominal legs with suckers on them, and yellow ring-shaped markings on its sides. (This information is not included in the word count of the main text.)

A mechanical voice came from the Pokémon Encyclopedia.

Seeing this, Qingyuan sighed.

"If you really want to know the specific information about a Pokémon, you still have to put it in a Poké Ball."

After saying that, Qingyuan took out a red and white ball and threw it at the green caterpillar.

Just like when Gliscor was caught, the Poké Ball didn't even shake before Caterpie was caught.

Seeing this, Qingyuan picked up Caterpie's Poké Ball, shrunk it, and placed it in the small slot of the Pokédex.

Soon, detailed information about Caterpie appeared on the Pokédex screen.

As expected of a Pokémon you can easily encounter on the roadside, it only knows one move, String Shot, making its development level poor. (Development level is categorized as poor, average, good, and excellent.)

"What a pity, I thought I'd get a newbie protection period!"

Qingyuan sighed and released the green caterpillar, which had no potential for development, back into the wild.

Place the Caterpie in the grass to hide it, and also put a few general-purpose Pokémon food next to it.

Qingyuan continued carrying the scorpion forward.

……

"Scorpion uses the Cross-shaped Poison Blade!"

"Clatter!"

Scorpion's pincers formed a cross, and poisonous energy gathered on them to form a sharp blade. Then it swung it at Popo in front of it.

"Boom!"

Pod, struck by the cross-shaped poison blade, only had time to scream before being sent flying and crashing heavily to the ground, leaving him with round eyes.

"Go away!"

Seeing this, Qingyuan threw out a Poké Ball and captured Pidgey.

Then came the shrinking process and the testing, all done in one go.

Level 6, average development, inherited skill: Air Blade.

"Yes, I've got 100,000 Alliance Coins!"

After reading Bobo's message, Qingyuan shouted excitedly.

After defeating the Caterpie, Qingyuan had a sudden inspiration and accepted the quest to capture a Pidgey with excellent aptitude.

However, to his surprise, the Pokémon on this path were all of very poor quality. Along the way, he and Scorpius had already caught six Pidgeys.

It wasn't until this seventh one that he finally caught one that barely met the mission requirements.

Just as Qingyuan was getting excited about the 100,000 Alliance Coins he was about to receive.

"Boom!"

A loud clap of thunder sounded, and a light rain began to fall.

Just then, a bright flash of lightning illuminated everything around, unlike thunder that fell from the sky.

It's more like a skill released by that electric-type Pokémon.