Pokémon: I just became a Gym Leader, and Cynthia proposed to me.

Chapter 711 A person must rely on themselves!

Li Meining lay on the mat with her eyes closed, her face still somewhat pale, while Lucario stood guard beside her.

The bear-themed outfit squatted beside her, holding a piece of its favorite honey egg roll in its two paws, looking at her longingly with its black eyes full of guilt.

Xiaozhi, Xiaogang, and Xiaoxia sat around the coffee table, with steaming hot black tea and several plates of delicate pastries in front of them.

Li Shuwen had just finished brewing the tea and was placing the last piece of pastry on the table.

"Here, have a taste." Li Shuwen picked up the teacup, took a small sip, and said, "This is vanilla tea I brought back from Carlos. It tastes quite good with the honey egg rolls."

Xiao Zhi grabbed a piece of egg roll, took a big bite, and his eyes lit up immediately.

"Delicious! This honey smells so good!"

Xiao Gang sipped his tea elegantly and nodded: "The aroma of the tea and the sweetness of the pastries go very well together. Brother Li has excellent taste."

Xiaoxia, holding Pikachu, ate while looking at Li Meining, who was unconscious on the mat, and asked with some concern, "Is Meining really alright? She's been unconscious for so long..."

Li Shuwen glanced at his younger sister, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"It's nothing. It's just that the waveguide was over-consumed; she'll be fine after a good night's sleep." He paused, "While she's asleep, I'll tell you something."

Ash immediately perked up his ears.

"What is it?"

Li Shuwen put down his teacup and glanced at the three people's faces.

"What you're seeing today, the form changes Minion and Lucario are doing," he said, "is called Bond Transformation."

"There's also something called super evolution."

Xiao Gang asked curiously:

What's the difference between Bond Transformation and Mega Evolution?

Li Shuwen nodded.

"Mega Evolution requires the trainer to possess a Key Stone and the Pokémon to possess the corresponding Evolution Stone. The two resonate with each other to trigger it. It is an external force that relies on items."

"The Bond Transformation is a form change triggered from within when the spiritual resonance between the trainer and the Pokémon reaches its peak."

"No props are needed, only the fusion of hearts."

Xiao Zhi seemed to be deep in thought.

"soul……"

"Yes." Li Shuwen looked at him, "Believe in the power of the trainer's and Pokémon's hearts."

Xiao Gang scribbled rapidly in his notebook, muttering to himself, "Boundary Transformation...Soul Resonance...Inner Arousal..."

Just then, Li Meining on the mat stirred slightly.

"Well……"

Wearing a bear costume, the child immediately rushed over, holding the honey egg roll high in the air, his eyes full of anticipation.

Li Meining opened her eyes, met those black eyes, and was stunned for a moment.

Then she laughed.

"Wearing a bear... and you've been watching over me the whole time?"

Wearing a bear, he nodded vigorously and handed the egg roll forward a little more.

Li Meining sat up, took the egg roll, and took a bite.

"Mmm, delicious!" She patted the head of the bear costume. "I'm fine now, don't worry."

Wearing a teddy bear, Xiong breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body went limp, and he squatted down next to her, nuzzling her shoulder with his head.

Xiao Zhi couldn't contain himself any longer and rushed over immediately.

"Minnie! Tell me quickly, how did you manage to get Lucario to transform using Bond Pact?!"

Li Meining tilted her head and thought for a moment.

"Hmm... I just felt a sudden rush of heat to my head," Li Meining gestured, "and then a power surged from my body, connecting me to Lucario. That feeling..."

Li Meining frowned in thought, "It's like... suddenly having an extra hand, an extra pair of legs, being able to sense what Lucario is thinking, and he can also sense what I'm thinking."

"Then I transformed."

Li Shuwen looked at her.

"Can it be changed again now?"

Li Meining closed her eyes and tried to mobilize the waveguide power within her body.

Lucario also closed his eyes.

A few seconds later, she opened her eyes and shook her head.

"No. It feels like something's missing... I can't seem to get it working."

Li Shuwen nodded.

"It's like this at the beginning; you need the stimulation of combat to gradually become proficient."

He took a sip of tea and continued:

"You all get some rest today. Tomorrow, Xiao Ning, you'll have a match with Shinji."

Li Meining's eyes lit up.

"good!"

Xiao Zhi was getting anxious.

"What about me? What about me? I want to fight Lucario in his Bond form too!"

Li Meining smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"Okay, I'll play against you the day after tomorrow."

Ash cheered, picked up Pikachu, and spun it around.

"Great! Pikachu, let's do our best too!"

Pikachu was spinning around so much it was dizzy, but it still happily called out, "Pika Pika!"

Xiaogang and Xiaoxia looked at each other and smiled as they watched this scene.

In the evening, they returned to Professor Oak's lab and heard about their experiences during the day.

"Shiba is in Miacha Mountain?" His eyes lit up. "That's no ordinary place."

Xiao Gang immediately went over.

"Doctor, is there anything special about Miacha Mountain?"

Professor Oak sat down on the sofa, took the tea that Li Shuwen handed him, and slowly took a sip.

"Mount Miacha... The giant rock snakes that live there are much larger than ordinary ones."

Xiao Gang's eyes lit up.

"Bigger than a regular Onix?!"

"Yes." Professor Oak nodded. "Someone has seen an Onix that's nearly twenty meters long. Its size... wow..."

Xiao Gang couldn't sit still any longer.

"I want to go see it!"

Li Shuwen raised an eyebrow.

"I was also thinking of going there to investigate why the Pokémon there grow to be so large; it's definitely worth studying."

Xiaoxia waved her hand.

"I won't go; I'll stay and train with Ash."

Ash and Pikachu were doing push-ups in the yard when they heard this. Ash looked up and said, "I'll definitely get better!"

Li Meining looked at Li Shuwen and blinked.

"Brother, aren't you going to stay and watch Shinji and me fight?"

Li Shuwen smiled slightly.

"I've already shared my experience from the daytime battles with you," he said. "The rest, you'll have to figure out for yourselves."

"A person must rely on themselves!"

Li Meining paused for a moment, then nodded vigorously.

"I see!"

The next morning, before dawn, Li Shuwen and Xiao Gang set off.

Miacha Mountain is not far from Zhenxin Town, but the mountain road is rugged. It took the two of them nearly two hours to truly enter the depths of the mountains.

Li Shuwen closed his eyes, and the power of the waveguide spread outwards like a tide.

Mountain rocks.

soil.

Water flow.

Plants and trees.

And then there are the Pokémon that live in the mountains.

Each waveguide sketched a clear picture in his mind, eventually converging into a complete three-dimensional map.

He opened his eyes.

"The rocks and soil here provide excellent waveguide properties," he said. "If you let your Onix eat these rocks regularly, it should make it stronger."

Xiao Gang nodded and took notes as he walked.

"Our Onix has always followed the 'more robust' route. In addition to eating rocks, we also add some metallic ores to its diet."

"Once Onix's digestive ability improves further, we can start feeding it metal blocks directly."

Li Shuwen seemed to be deep in thought.

"Besides getting bigger, making the body stronger is also a direction to pursue."

"I've found a nice rock mining area, let's go check it out."

The two walked along the ridge and soon came to a bare rocky mountain.

It was a grayish-brown rock wall, its surface covered with cracks, with countless small rocks scattered at the foot of the mountain.

Sunlight shines on the rock wall, refracting into dappled patterns, as if it contains some special mineral.

Xiao Gang couldn't wait to throw the Poké Ball.

"Onix, come out!"

Xiao Gang smiled and patted him.

"Go ahead, there are good rocks here, eat as much as you like!"

The giant onyx's eyes lit up, and it rammed its head into the rock wall!

Rock fragments flew everywhere as the giant rock snake opened its mouth wide and swallowed the broken rocks one by one, chewing them with a crunching sound.

Xiao Gang wasn't idle either; he squatted down, picked up a piece of gravel, and examined it carefully.

He took out a small magnifying glass from his backpack, brought it close to observe the texture of the rock, and then gently licked the cross-section with his tongue.

"Hmm..." he mused. "It has a high iron content and some rare minerals. This kind of rock is indeed a very good food source for Rock-type Pokémon."

Li Shuwen stood to the side, his waveguide power still extending outwards.

Suddenly, his brow twitched.

"A very large rock snake is approaching."

Xiao Gang raised his head.

How big?