Due to the immense strength of each Heavenly King, almost all of them are assigned their own tasks—whether it’s guarding the borders or suppressing top-tier forbidden zones. Pulling a Heavenly King away from their duties is no small matter.

  What kind of value does this secret realm hold that it warrants the Alliance Center to dispatch a Heavenly King?

  Though I’m not sure which Heavenly King will come, my father should be able to meet them.

  Wang Xuan finalized the lunch menu and noticed Su Wen absentmindedly stirring the porridge in his bowl. She chuckled, "Hurry up and eat. If you keep stirring, the porridge will get cold."

  Only then did Su Wen realize that even Charmander had finished eating and was now waving its cws around, seemingly trying to execute a Dragon Cw move.

  Su Wen quickly slurped down the porridge, accompanied by some pickled radish, and then led Charmander to the backyard.

  After a night’s rest, Su Wen found that his Aura could once again merge with Charmander’s.

  He first turned on the only detector at home and said to Charmander, "Charmander, it’s time to start training. Let’s try absorbing the Fire-type energy in the air first."

  During yesterday’s Aura fusion, Su Wen had already gotten a basic grasp of Charmander’s subconscious energy absorption speed.

  Once Charmander understood Su Wen’s intention, it began actively gathering the surrounding Fire-type energy.

  Thanks to the Charizardite X, the concentration of Fire-type energy around Charmander was almost comparable to that of the Charicific Valley.

  Under such energy density, Charmander’s active absorption speed was about six to seven times faster than its passive absorption. However, after less than five minutes of absorption, Charmander rexed its focus and started scking off.

  Su Wen took a deep breath, suppressing his frustration. He had known that Charmander was spoiled, but this was just ridiculous. After all, his father’s Pokémon trained for hours at a time.

  Watching Charmander sprawled on the ground, pretending to be dead, Su Wen rolled his eyes. He concentrated the Aura flowing through Charmander’s body, guiding the surrounding Fire-type energy to gather into Charmander.

  ？？

  Charmander’s eyes widened in confusion as it felt the energy within its body rapidly expanding, filling every corner of its being. The extreme discomfort forced Charmander to work hard to absorb and contain this energy.

  Su Wen stroked his chin, a hint of amusement in his eyes. While he could use his Aura to channel Fire-type energy into Charmander’s body, he couldn’t help it absorb the energy. Now, this little guy had no choice but to stop scking off.

  To avoid harming Charmander’s body, Su Wen adjusted the energy infusion speed to a level Charmander could handle after a few tests.

  Based on Charmander’s energy absorption rate, Su Wen roughly calcuted that if Charmander’s passive absorption speed was 1, its active absorption speed during training was about 5, and with his Aura guidance, it reached around 10.

  After half an hour of training, Su Wen looked at Charmander, which was now rolling its eyes, clearly signaling that it would rather explode from energy overload than continue training. Su Wen scratched his head. Since his Aura was also reaching its limit, he disconnected and took out an energy cube.

  He brought the energy cube to Charmander’s mouth, and Charmander eagerly chomped down on it, wagging its tail contentedly. The way it sprawled on the ground, wagging its tail, resembled a Slowpoke.

  The energy cube didn’t contain much energy, but its taste was exceptional, like candy used to soothe a crying child.

  Leaving Charmander to bask in the sun in the backyard, Su Wen returned to his room to retrieve the resources he had obtained from Zhu Tianxing the previous month.

  "Let’s start with the Fire Stone," Su Wen muttered, holding the Fire Stone up to the sunlight. The stone glowed with a warm yellow-red hue, its center seemingly flowing with fmes, making it a beautiful sight.

  Although Su Wen wasn’t sure about the exact purity of this Fire Stone, according to online sources, such a pristine stone must be of high quality.

  Returning to the backyard, Su Wen found Charmander chasing after a Butterfree, scaring it so much that the Butterfree folded its wings and trembled on a tree branch.

  "Charmander," Su Wen called, beckoning Charmander over. He then pressed the Fire Stone against Charmander’s body.

  "Try absorbing the energy from this," Su Wen said, releasing his Aura but not guiding the energy from the Fire Stone, instead letting Charmander absorb it on its own.

  Charmander initially resisted, but after Su Wen promised an unlimited supply of energy cubes once today’s training was over, it reluctantly closed its eyes.

  The energy within the Fire Stone was incredibly dense, which was why it could trigger the evolution of certain Pokémon.

  However, absorbing this energy wasn’t easy for Charmander. It was like trying to suck water through yers of sponge, as evident from Charmander’s strained expression.

  After less than two minutes, Charmander colpsed, exhausted, while the Fire Stone’s color remained unchanged.

  Still, the energy absorption efficiency was much higher than absorbing Fire-type energy from the air, likely because the energy within the Fire Stone was far more concentrated.

  After letting Charmander rest for a while, Su Wen used his Aura to help Charmander absorb the energy from the Fire Stone.

  With Su Wen’s assistance, the difficulty of absorbing energy went from sucking water through a sponge to drinking through a straw. Charmander’s entire body rexed.

  Su Wen, however, was shocked by the terrifying speed. The efficiency of absorbing energy from the Fire Stone was more than three times faster than guiding Charmander to absorb energy from the air.

  And this was under the condition that Charmander’s surroundings were already saturated with Fire-type energy due to the Charizardite X.

  In other words, if Fire Stones could be supplied consistently, Charmander’s one hour of training could surpass dozens of hours of training for other Pokémon.

  Is this the power of spending money?

  With this kind of training speed, even if Charmander wasn’t particurly fond of training, Su Wen could still surpass other trainers.

  However, using Aura to absorb energy from the Fire Stone was also extremely taxing on Su Wen’s stamina and focus. This time, it was Su Wen who couldn’t keep up.

  Seeing Su Wen lying on the ground, gasping for breath, Charmander looked at the energy cube in its hand and, after some consideration, offered it to Su Wen.

  "Char~" (｀?w?′)

  Seeing Charmander’s concerned expression, Su Wen sat up cross-legged, smiling as he rubbed Charmander’s cheeks. "You eat it. I have plenty more."

  Once Su Wen declined, Charmander happily popped the energy cube into its mouth ヽ(￣▽￣)? and, with Su Wen’s permission, went back to tormenting the other Pokémon in the backyard.

  Leaning against a rge transpnted Sitrus tree, with sunlight filtering through the lush leaves and dappling his body, Su Wen recorded the data from the tests in his notebook while pondering some questions.

  "Charmander’s upper limit hasn’t been determined yet, but it definitely exists. Once my Aura recovers, we’ll continue training. Today, I must figure out Charmander’s daily absorption limit."

  "As for whether my Aura has this special effect only on my Pokémon or if Charmander is the unique one, I’ll have to wait until I capture a second Pokémon to find out."

  "Skill training... Forget it. Don’t rush things. Let’s not start that on the first day."

  Just as Su Wen was wondering if he had missed anything, his phone rang.

  The screen dispyed the name "Chen You" in bold letters.

  Su Wen raised an eyebrow. This guy hadn’t replied to messages or answered calls, and now he finally shows up?

  As soon as Su Wen answered the call, Chen You blurted out in a frantic rush, "Su Wen, Long Xu has come to Cloud City!"