After the old man excused himself, Ekaterina walked in as if she could foresee the future.
"Were you eavesdropping outside?" Lu Li asked, feigning surprise as he looked at Ekaterina.
Ekaterina calmly replied, "No, I just knew you were done talking."
Ekaterina's family was very famous in this world. Lu Li had previously assumed she was an Ice-type Trainer based on preconceived notions.
But Lu Li now remembered that there were also Ice-type Pokémon with Psychic typing.
"Jynx?" Lu Li asked with a strange look in his eyes.
Ekaterina retorted, "What? As a Breeder, are you also the type to look at Jynx with prejudiced eyes?"
How was he supposed to respond to that?
Lu Li could only helplessly change the subject.
After all, Jynx was currently in her Poké Ball, and he didn't want to offend a powerful Psychic-type Pokémon for no reason.
"I'll probably have to stay at the black market all day today. I'm going to attend the auction tonight," Lu Li said.
Ekaterina nodded, "It doesn't matter. I'm going to attend as well."
"Are you planning to build a ranch?" Ekaterina asked, looking at the Tauros in the iron cage.
Lu Li nodded; there was nothing to hide about this.
"There aren't many plains in the southern region of Kyushu. Even if you want to run a ranch, you can only run a small one. If you really want to run a ranch, you'd have to go to our Greater Russian region. We have vast lands and sparse populations, which are most suitable for building ranches and farms," Ekaterina took the opportunity to invite.
"No need. I don't want to leave my hometown," Lu Li directly refused.
What a joke. In the Kyushu region, he at least had some advantages as a local. Going to other leagues would be asking for trouble.
The most important thing was that the distribution of benefits in the Kyushu League was not yet saturated. Although those aristocratic families had built a wall that ordinary people couldn't see, it wasn't as if he had no chance to rise.
Although there was a place for everyone, the Sub-League was developing new cities every year, and that was the biggest opportunity.
In terms of strength, the Sub-League was almost the strongest overall among the five major leagues.
The European League didn't have an advantage in population and severely lacked talent, so the speed of developing new cities was very slow. If he ran to the European League at this time, he might be thrown into the development team as cannon fodder if he was unlucky.
Ekaterina wasn't angry at Lu Li's refusal; after all, she had expected Lu Li to refuse.
Ekaterina's eyes darted, and she looked at the Mr. Mime in the cage. An idea suddenly came to her, and she asked with a smile, "Do you want a special form Mr. Mime? If you do, beg me, and I might consider helping you think of a way."
Lu Li: "…"
Lu Li couldn't understand why she was trying so hard to please him. Even if he was very talented in breeding, it shouldn't be enough for this young lady to be so fawning, right?
If Ekaterina were the male lead in a novel, she would probably be scolded by readers by now. Isn't he just a Breeder supporting character? Why are you trying so hard to fawn over him? Even if he were the male lead, that wouldn't be right, would it?
"No need. This Mr. Mime is quite good," Lu Li shook his head, resisting the temptation.
Lu Li was actually a little tempted by a special form Mr. Mime.
After all, Ekaterina's family was originally a family of Ice-type Champions, and the special form Mr. Mime was an Ice/Psychic-type Pokémon.
Even if he didn't need the Mr. Mime from Ekaterina's family, he could give it to that girl Bao Bao.
After all, the special form Mr. Mime could evolve, and the evolved Mr. Rime was a pretty good Psychic-type Pokémon.
Its base stat total was as high as 520, which could definitely be considered a Tier 1 in Psychic-type Pokémon.
"Alright, I can see that you don't specifically want to raise Mr. Mime," Ekaterina nodded.
Lu Li asked, "Shall we continue to stroll around? Or find a place to have lunch?"
"How about going for a cup of coffee?" Ekaterina invited.
As long as Ekaterina didn't deliberately cause trouble, Lu Li was happy to cooperate with her.
After finding a relatively quiet coffee shop to sit down, Lu Li also began to probe this woman's purpose.
His intuition as a cultivator told him that this woman definitely had other secrets, and she was definitely not just here for tourism.
"Did you really come to this city just for tourism and relaxation?" Lu Li asked, pretending to be casual.
Qingyun City wasn't a very famous tourist city, and Qingyun City wasn't very attractive to Trainers either.
After all, the only small Secret Realm in Qingyun City was still under official control.
Since he wanted to get closer to each other, the best way was definitely to exchange secrets.
Ekaterina was happy to reveal some information that this commoner didn't know in order to get closer to each other.
"Have you heard of the Secret Realm legend of the Qingyun Mountains?"
Lu Li nodded.
This wasn't just a legend; he had even confirmed it.
However, Lu Li would definitely not say this.
Ekaterina said, "The legend is true. There is a medium-sized Secret Realm deep in the Qingyun Mountains. It is said that there are even traces of Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon inside."
"Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon?"
Lu Li's pupils shrank, and he looked at Ekaterina in disbelief.
Ekaterina was revealing such important information to him just like that?
"Could it be that as the only cultivator in this world, I also possess the special ability of a succubus?" Lu Li thought with a wild imagination in his heart.
The problem was that even if he really had the ability to turn women into love-struck fools, it shouldn't be exaggerated to this extent, right?
From yesterday to today, they had only met twice, and they hadn't even said more than 100 words together.
You're rushing to give it away like this. Is this really okay?
"These are rumors circulating in the elite Trainer circles. Next, I'm going to say something that is internal information to our family," Ekaterina looked at Lu Li seriously.
"Jynx, I'm counting on you," Ekaterina whispered.
An invisible Psychic power instantly enveloped the surroundings.
After confirming that the outside world couldn't eavesdrop, Ekaterina explained, "You should know our family's ace Pokémon, right?"
Lu Li nodded.
The Ekaterina family's ace Pokémon was Baxcalibur, which wasn't a secret in the entire Pokémon world.
"Our ancestor's Baxcalibur had already stepped into the realm of gods. It once sensed traces of its kind in this place in Qingyun City.
Moreover, our family's prophetic Pokémon prophesied that the Baxcalibur that stepped into the realm of gods had descendants, and it was still in the form of a Pokémon Egg.
This is the secret of my coming to Qingyun City. Normally speaking, it is difficult for Pokémon that have stepped into the realm of gods to reproduce, let alone Dragon-type Pokémon like Baxcalibur."
Lu Li nodded in understanding, but alarm bells were ringing in his heart.
The Baxcalibur that Ekaterina was talking about was the Baxcalibur he found in the underground ice world, wasn't it?
And she was also here for that Pokémon Egg.
Fortunately, even Psychic-type Pokémon that have stepped into the realm of gods cannot accurately predict another Pokémon that has stepped into the realm of gods.
So the risk of that Pokémon Egg being exposed was very small. No one would have thought that there would be a Baxcalibur that had stepped into the realm of gods in a small Secret Realm.
