The two were having a conversation that was difficult to understand. Yao Yifei knew that they were definitely hiding something from her, but she didn't expose it. Instead, she asked curiously, "Are you so sure that the college entrance examination competition is dangerous? You have to know, that's the Asia League College Entrance Examination Competition!"
Now that the Asia League has not yet disintegrated, those who come to participate in the college entrance examination competition are not only people from the Kyushu region, but also contestants from all regions within the Asia League.
"This may be the last college entrance examination competition held by the Asia League. Some people want to give it a perfect ending, and some people want it to start a new chapter," Yekaterina said meaningfully.
The League College Entrance Examination Competition is a unique event of the Asia League. Other leagues don't have this kind of competition. This competition is led by the Kyushu region and originates from the ancient imperial examination system of the Kyushu region.
Like the European League, it is not so easy for civilians to get ahead in the European League, because other leagues implement a recommendation system.
"Now that you've decided, shall we set off now?" Yekaterina asked, looking at Lu Li, who had already packed his backpack.
Lu Li nodded, then let's set off now.
"Are we still riding the Flying Elf?" Lu Li asked.
Yekaterina suggested, "Of course, you should ride on my Dragonite with me. The Pidgeotto you borrowed is too weak and not suitable for long-distance riding."
Lu Li nodded.
After instructing the Wei sisters on some precautions, the group headed towards the ancient capital.
The ancient capital is a capital left over from the last era, located in the northern part of Kyushu. Corresponding to it is the ancient capital, which is an ancient city left over from the second era, located in the northwestern part of Kyushu.
In fact, the southern region also has its own ancient city, but it has now been turned into a forest.
The group spent nearly three hours to reach the ancient capital, mainly because some cities do not allow Flying Elves to cross borders, so they made a detour.
On Dragonite's back, Yekaterina asked, "Are we going directly to find the ruins, or should we rest here for a day first?"
"Let's go directly," Lu Li replied.
"Then let me tell you about the six secret realms in the ancient capital. First of all, there are the three secret realms that are officially controlled by the League. If we want to enter, we must apply in advance.
Secondly, there are three secret realms in the wild. Although there are official garrisons there, they are not directly managed by the officials. We can enter freely, but those three secret realms are also the most dangerous, because one of them is a large secret realm."
After thinking for a moment, Lu Li decided, "Then let's go to the large secret realm."
"You should know where the ancient ruins are in that large secret realm, right?" Lu Li asked again.
Due to the tight schedule, they didn't have time to investigate where the ruins were.
"There are many ruins in that large secret realm, so it's easy to find them, but it's not necessarily easy to find the Unknown Totem," Yekaterina reminded.
Hearing this, Lu Li smiled confidently, "It's okay, I have special treasure hunting skills."
"I advise you not to be too optimistic. The Unknown Totem's attribute is Psychic, and they are called Symbol Pokémon. They are not scary when they are alone, but once there are more than one Unknown Totem, they have incredible abilities.
The most common of these is shielding perception, which means that the mental power of Psychic-type elves cannot scan them at all. It is precisely for this reason that the whereabouts of the Unknown Totem are so difficult to find."
After listening to Yekaterina's explanation, Lu Li had a new understanding of the Unknown Totem.
No wonder the Unknown Totem in this world is so rare. Being able to shield mental power detection means that as long as the Unknown Totem is willing, they can even achieve another kind of permanent stealth.
But if mental power can't detect them, what does it have to do with divine sense?
Divine sense and mental power seem related, but they are completely different things. Divine sense involves the power of the soul, but mental power does not.
Divine sense is a more advanced ability than mental power, and this can be considered one of his most unique cheats in this world.
"I hope you can continue to be so confident," Yekaterina didn't persuade him any further.
But she still believed in Lu Li in her heart. After all, since being with Lu Li, Lu Li had been constantly refreshing her understanding.
Because the large secret realm was in the suburbs of the ancient city, the three didn't even enter the city and went straight to the large secret realm.
The name of this large secret realm is the Ancient Star Cluster Secret Realm. The reason for this name is that this secret realm is full of many cities from ancient times.
There are ruins from the First Era, the Second Era, and even more distant ancient ruins than the First Era.
The three directly swiped their faces to enter, um! They swiped Yao Yifei's face.
As a Gym Leader, Yao Yifei can freely enter and exit the non-fully managed secret realms in the Kyushu region.
The Ancient Star Cluster Secret Realm is a secret realm that is semi-managed by the League, so Yao Yifei can bring people in and out freely.
The official even thoughtfully prepared a map for Yao Yifei, a map of ancient ruins.
This large secret realm doesn't have any particularly rare elves (quasi-gods), so it's not strictly managed.
Those who enter the secret realm are generally scholars and ancient culture enthusiasts, and some people enter the Ancient Star Cluster Secret Realm to capture elves.
The Ancient Star Cluster Secret Realm has everything that other medium-sized secret realms have, but the Ancient Star Cluster Secret Realm has Champion-level elves, and Elite Four-level elves are also very common.
This greatly increases the danger of this secret realm. There is no need to come to a large secret realm to capture elves that can be captured in a medium-sized secret realm.
Yao Yifei took out her phone and opened an official League app. The name of the software is League Secret Realm.
After opening the software, Yao Yifei glanced at it and said, "There are only three hundred people in the entire secret realm now. There are no lone wolves, they are all organized research teams.
Should we join a research team directly? If we have the help of those research teams, our chances of finding the Unknown Totem should be greater."
What Yao Yifei said was actually correct. After all, none of the three of them were serious ancient culture researchers, not even enthusiasts.
It is indeed much more convenient to have professional people lead the way.
"No need, we're not here to do archaeology," Lu Li shook his head and refused.
"Check where the nearest ruins are to us, preferably the kind of ancient tombs or ancient temples," Lu Li said.
According to anime or game settings, ancient totems generally appear in those tombs or temples. Lu Li decided to start with these two types of ruins.
Yao Yifei nodded. The ancient ruins that the League has explored will be on this, and there will even be a certain introduction.
This is the benefit of relying on the League. If Yao Yifei wanted to enter the secret realm deep in the Azure Cloud Mountains to find something, as a Gym Leader, Yao Yifei wouldn't even need to buy secret realm information. The information that the League knows is definitely more than the information that those individual forces know.
"Found it!"
Holding her phone, Yao Yifei quickly locked onto the target.
"The closest to us is an ancient temple, which seems to be dedicated to the legendary God of Steel."
"God of Steel?" Lu Li looked at Yao Yifei with a confused expression.
Thinking that Lu Li didn't know this information about mythical beasts, Yao Yifei explained, "The full name of the God of Steel is Melmetal, which is a pure Steel-type mythical beast. Corresponding to it is the Steel Colossus."
Lu Li: "..."
Lu Li was speechless.
Melmetal is just a mythical Pokémon in the anime setting, but it is classified as a mythical beast in this world.
As for the other Steel Colossus, Lu Li probably guessed that it was Registeel, one of the three Regi gods.
Then let's go there and take a look first.
Lu Li was a little curious about Melmetal.
If he wasn't in a hurry to find the Unknown Totem, Lu Li would even want to explore the temple properly.
Temples in the Pokémon world are not just temples, but a huge palace, and even a bit similar to the legendary pyramids. The difference between temples and tombs is actually not that big in this world.
Yekaterina had no objection to this. The group went straight to the Steel Temple.
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The Steel Temple is deep in a forest. Lu Li, riding on Dragonite's back, closed his eyes and looked at the environment below.
The God of Steel's temple is in the forest, and the Grass-type and Ground-type energy around it are very abundant. Which big clever chose the location?
Lu Li complained about this outrageous setting in his heart.
Soon the group arrived at the Steel Temple. A huge ancient temple ruin stood in the depths of the forest. It seemed like an isolated island in the river of time, giving people a sense of loneliness just by looking at it.
Now only the broken walls and ruins of this ancient temple remain, witnessing the ruthless passage of time. It is worth mentioning that the outer walls of the temple are made of huge and rough stones, each stone engraved with the traces of time, covered with moss and vines.
"The Steel Temple doesn't show any traces of steel?" Lu Li complained.
"This ruin used to store a large number of ancient metal coats. Later, explorers discovered this place, and the metal coats in this ruin were very special, so..."
Yao Yifei didn't even need to say the rest, Lu Li guessed where those metal coats went.
"I've heard about this. At that time, the metal coats in this place were considered to be more than all the metal coats in the world combined. Using metal coats as ponds, rivers, and seas, it's hard to imagine how many metal coats there were in this place at that time," Yekaterina also echoed.
Yao Yifei denied with a blank expression, "Fake news, those are just metal liquids, not metal coats."
Yekaterina nodded and said, "That's normal. How could so many metal coats be produced with the productivity of ancient times?"
"It is said that there used to be many steel gems here," Yekaterina asked again.
"That news is true, but they have all been taken away," Yao Yifei replied.
None of the three people present mentioned picking up leaks. After all, this place had been scraped clean, and mental power could only scan for Unknown Totems, not other things.
After waves of Psychic-type trainers explored, the valuable things in this temple had long been looted.
Lu Li didn't speak, but gently stroked the thick stone wall. Some of the stone walls had collapsed, revealing the complex internal structure and the once gorgeous murals. Although the colors had faded, the pictures depicting mythological stories and sacrificial scenes could still be vaguely identified.
After entering the temple, there was a long corridor with tall metal pillars on both sides. Some of these pillars were still standing, while others were lying on the ground, as if telling stories of the past.
"There are still some things related to steel," Lu Li concluded.
Yekaterina and Yao Yifei didn't respond. Which big clever would deliberately run to the secret realm to carry away these steel pillars? Space backpacks have space limitations.
The location of the main hall was obvious. There was a huge altar there. Although it was now just a ruin, it could be seen from this altar how glorious this temple was.
"So how should we find the Unknown Totem? If there really were Unknown Totems, people would have spread the news long ago," Yao Yifei asked.
Lu didn't speak, but calmly opened his divine sense.
Divine sense continued to expand, and soon the entire temple was shrouded in divine sense.
A three-dimensional model of the temple condensed in Lu Li's mind. Lu Li quietly explored every part of the temple.
Bad news.
There was no Unknown Totem in this ruin, not even a trace of Unknown Totems ever existing.
Good news.
He found something better than the Unknown Totem.
Lu Li inconspicuously glanced at Yekaterina and Yao Yifei next to him.
"Do you know anything about this so-called God of Steel?" Lu Li asked curiously.
Yekaterina nodded: "The European League has legends about Melmetal, legends that he is tall and has unparalleled physical attack and physical defense, but most of the legends about him are relatively brutal rumors."
"Then do you know how Melmetal came to be?" Lu Li asked again.
Yekaterina asked doubtfully, "Isn't it born from the laws?"
In this world, people already have a certain understanding of the origin of mythical beasts.
They are the embodiment of the laws of the world, they never die, they only return to the laws.
The laws cannot be annihilated unless the world is destroyed, but even if the world is destroyed, as long as the base of the world is still there, the gods can still reshape the world.
Hearing this, Lu Li smiled meaningfully.
People in this world don't seem to know that Melmetal evolved from Meltan, or maybe this knowledge is hidden too deeply, the League hasn't discovered it yet, or it has been discovered, but Yekaterina and the others don't know.
But no matter which one it is, it doesn't prevent him from picking up a big leak next.
Lu Li squinted at the few secret rooms in the basement of the temple.
Most of the secret rooms in the temple have been explored, and the valuable things inside have been taken away, leaving only some metal parts.
Such as various gears, various nuts, and even various tools, such as hammers, wrenches, and the like.
The craftsmanship of these things is not very good. Those who can enter this secret realm don't like these things, so they are left in this secret realm.
