"Did they find out that the Life Jewel was fake?"
Lihua asked Su Sheng, turning her head away from the TV.
"It was probably A-Du who saw it."
If the news hadn't mentioned the name of the Flying-type Elite Four, he would have been quite curious about how Sister Baicai and the others discovered it.
But since the name 'A-Du' appeared, everything made sense.
The sensory ability possessed by the Power of Everstone, although not as strong as the power of Aura, had no problem distinguishing that the "Life Jewel" in Xena's hand was just a broken stone.
"Are we taking the blame for this?"
Yishu blinked, "That fake was swapped out by that woman's ancestor, right? It wasn't us who did it."
Taking advantage of his free time these days, Su Sheng also told the two about the origins of the Super-ancient people and Arceus thousands of years ago.
Naturally, this included the story between Xena's ancestor and the God of Creation.
"To be precise, it was her ancestor's subordinates who did it."
Xena always thought that her ancestor betrayed Arceus, but in fact, the culprit was her ancestor's subordinates.
Although Su Sheng couldn't remember the names of those people, he still vaguely remembered the general plot.
"That's none of our business either! Damn A-Du, throwing every dirty job on our heads."
Yishu shouted excitedly.
"Then what do you want to do? Tell Officer Jenny about your grievances? Besides, we did take the Life Jewel."
Su Sheng didn't really care about this matter.
"Their clan has been guarding the Life Jewel for a thousand years, and they still haven't discovered that it's fake, which shows that they don't have the ability to guard it, so it's better to give it to someone who does."
Lihua put a cherry tomato in her mouth, somewhat disdainfully.
After a thousand years, they still haven't discovered that it's a fake. Lihua thinks the people of Xena's clan are really top-notch.
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The Elf Alliance did not announce to the public that the treasure stolen by Joker was the Life Jewel, but only vaguely said that it was a "precious cultural relic."
The intention was self-evident, which was not to let the existence of the Life Jewel be known to the world.
After all, that was a "relic" left by Arceus. Once it was made public, who knows how many demons and monsters it would attract.
Except for the residents of the Sinnoh region who occasionally shouted slogans like "Joker must be brought to justice."
Most people's reactions were as expected by the Alliance, and they didn't take it to heart.
After all, ordinary people have a lot of trivial matters about firewood, rice, oil, and salt at home. Who cares what cultural relics you lost?
But within the Alliance, they were in a state of panic about this.
Because according to Xena.
The Life Jewel is to be returned to Arceus.
After all, thousands of years ago, Arceus was deceived by his ancestor and was forced into deep sleep to heal his old wounds.
And according to the prophecy, Arceus's reawakening is also within the next ten years.
If Arceus wakes up by then, but fails to return the Life Jewel that belongs to it in the first time... what will happen is self-evident.
You know, last year's Celestic Town expansion plan caused a great chaos between wild elves and humans.
If the God of Creation gets angry... Oh my god, Damaracchi dare not even think about it!
For a time, Damaracchi secretly ordered all Alliance presidents, as well as the Elite Four and Champions of all Alliances.
Search for Joker's whereabouts with all their strength!
For a time, the top combat power of each Alliance was mobilized.
Among them, the greatest pressure was naturally on the Johto and Sinnoh regions.
The former was because Joker's previous actions were all carried out in Johto, and the latter was naturally because the Life Jewel was lost in their area.
Recently, Lance also chose to stay in Sinnoh and investigate Joker's whereabouts under the hands of Flint.
Although he also suspected that Joker had probably returned to Johto or ran away to another area.
And today, the Sinnoh Alliance headquarters on Lily of the Valley Island welcomed a special guest——
Steven Stone!
"Long time no see, everyone."
Steven, who was about the same age as Cynthia, greeted everyone present enthusiastically as soon as he arrived.
Although he was still a boy, his refreshing smile and handsome features made it hard not to have a good impression of him.
And what was even more enviable was his identity and background - the son of the president of Devon Corporation.
"Yes, long time no see, Steven."
Cynthia nodded in response.
"What are you doing here?"
Lance raised his eyebrows.
Joker has not been involved with Hoenn so far.
"Hehe~ I'm very interested in that Life Jewel. According to my old man, it's a divine stone left by the God of Creation Arceus. After I found out, I immediately chartered a plane to fly over to take a look."
Saying that, Steven approached Xena like a bootlicker, "Are you Miss Xena? Can you show it to me?"
Of course, Steven was licking the Life Jewel, not Xena.
Cynthia rolled her eyes secretly. She had naturally heard that this genius from the Hoenn region, who was as famous as herself, was a fanatical stone collector.
With a bitter face, Xena handed the "Life Jewel" to Steven.
Anyway, it's a fake. If you want it, you can have it.
After Steven took it, he played with it in his hand for a while, with a look of 'as expected', "Indeed, I don't feel any special power from it. It's just an ordinary stone."
Although he doesn't have special abilities like Lance, he still has an eye for appraisal as the number one stone maniac in the Pokémon world.
"Hmph, if you're here to look at stones, you can go back. If you like it, you can take this fake back with you."
Lance's tone was like he had eaten gunpowder.
There was no way, even as proud as he was, he knew how serious the loss of the Life Jewel was. This meant that the world was likely to suffer Arceus's wrath in the future.
But there was no clue about Joker at all, and he could only wait for him to show up himself.
But what if Joker doesn't come out until Arceus descends? What should we do?
The good-tempered Steven didn't mind Lance's tone and smiled: "Don't worry, I came prepared."
Saying that, Steven shouted at the door: "You can come in."
Everyone followed Steven's gaze and looked towards the door.
A boy with dark blue, almost black hair, and about the same age as Steven, walked into the conference room with a Lucario.
"This is..."
Cynthia asked curiously.
"He's a friend I met when I was training on Iron Island in Sinnoh some time ago, Riley."
Steven helped introduce.
"Hello everyone."
Riley nodded and greeted everyone.
"Riley, here."
Steven handed the fake Life Jewel to Riley.
After Riley took it, he closed his eyes as if he was lost in thought.
Although he didn't know what Steven was selling in his gourd, everyone still held their breath and waited for the result.
After a while, Riley opened his eyes and said: "Indeed, there is residual Aura power inside. If I'm not mistaken, it was left by Arceus."
"Aura?"
Xena, Cynthia and others who heard this word for the first time were a little confused.
"To put it simply, it's the personification of the spirit of living things."
Riley scratched his head.
Steven interjected: "Riley is the only person in the world who uses Aura power with a human body. In ancient times, people called them 'Aura Messengers' or 'Aura Heroes'."
"Messenger or hero,"
Lance folded his arms around his chest and squinted his eyes: "The key is, can he help us find Joker?"
Riley replied: "Although this Life Jewel is a fake, it also contains a little bit of energy left over from Arceus."
Steven helped explain: "Riley can sense other people's Aura. He has now remembered Arceus's Aura, and the real Life Jewel, which has a large amount of Arceus's Aura, is on Joker, so..."
Speaking of this, Sister Baicai has already reacted, "In other words, he can lock Joker's position?!"
