The name ?Long Xu is known to everyone, even internationally.

  At the age of 26, he led his team to win the World Championship.

  At 29, he successfully challenged the previous Dragon-Type Heavenly King, becoming the only trainer in Xia Kingdom's history to achieve the title of Heavenly King before turning 30.

  By 36, he had defeated all Heavenly Kings except the Fairy-Type Heavenly King, Xia Lingdi. Even Xia Lingdi admitted that if it weren’t for Dragon-type moves being completely ineffective against Fairy-types, she would have had no chance of defeating Long Xu. Since then, Long Xu has been crowned the ?Strongest Heavenly King.

  Such a legendary figure is actually coming to Cloud City?

  "Su Wen? Su Wen? Su Huzi! Are you listening to me?" Chen You, hearing no response, couldn’t help but shout Su Wen’s childhood nickname, snapping him out of his shock.

  Annoyed, Su Wen shot back, "If you don’t know how to talk, just shut up. I’m listening!"

  Seeing Su Wen respond, Chen You quickly changed the subject. "Do you know why Long Xu is coming to Cloud City?"

  "Besides the suddenly opened secret realm, what else could attract Long Xu here?" Su Wen countered. "How did you even know Long Xu is coming to Cloud City?"

  Chen You sounded puzzled. "Secret realm? What secret realm? Long Xu’s visit to Cloud City is all over the forums. His fans are going crazy since he’s rarely seen in public."

  Su Wen noticed something was off. "You’re not in Cloud City? Where are you?"

  If Chen You were in Cloud City, he couldn’t have missed the news about the secret realm opening.

  Chen You immediately stammered, "Uh... I’ve got something to do. Gotta go!"

  Faced with Chen You’s sudden exit, Su Wen didn’t have time to figure out what he was up to. He quickly opened the Trainer Forum and, sure enough, the entire ptform was flooded with news about Long Xu.

  After scrolling for a while, Su Wen found the source. A fan of Long Xu, while riding a Corviknight, spotted Long Xu on his Dragonite. The fan abandoned their mission and chased Long Xu, eventually losing track of him but deducing he had entered Cloud City.

  When the fan posted this on the forum, Long Xu’s fan army mobilized, analyzing every detail. Finally, when a trainer at the Pokémon Center posted a sneaky photo of Long Xu, it was confirmed.

  Sigh, these fanatics are terrifying... Su Wen muttered to himself, shaking his head.

  Putting his phone away, Su Wen didn’t dwell too much on Long Xu’s arrival. His father would eventually cross paths with Long Xu, and he could ask him then. If it was something his father couldn’t share, overthinking it wouldn’t help.

  As for Chen You, he was being all mysterious now, but Su Wen thought, Let’s see where you run when school starts.

  Su Wen stretched, feeling sufficiently rested. He plucked a Sitrus Berry from the tree, wiped it on his shirt, took a bite, and called Charmander over.

  "Charmander, back to training!"

  Meanwhile, the Pokémon Center in Cloud City was in chaos. Long Xu’s fans had surrounded the building, even monitoring the airspace.

  "Hubby, I love you!"

  "Long Xu, please give me your autograph!"

  "Long Xu, my baby, mommy loves you!"

  "Wait, you’re a dude!"

  Behind the third-floor window of the Pokémon Center, a young man with a delicate appearance leaned on the railing. "Wow, Uncle Xu, you really have fans from 18 to 88, huh?"

  Long Xu, sitting on the couch with a cup of tea, choked on his drink and put the cup down, exasperated. "Long Ming, you’re getting more and more disrespectful."

  The Pokémon Center’s manager, Mr. Wang, sat across from Long Xu, pretending not to hear the exchange.

  "Manager Wang," Long Xu turned to him with a smile, "when can we enter the secret realm?"

  Mr. Wang hurriedly replied, "Everything’s ready. It’s just that, Heavenly King Long..." He gnced out the window, hinting at the crowd outside.

  Long Xu understood. These fans were the most troublesome—they wouldn’t leave, and they couldn’t be treated like criminals and forcibly removed.

  With a sigh, Long Xu asked, "Manager Wang, is there a back door here?"

  "The back door’s open!" someone suddenly shouted, and the crowd surged toward the back door.

  But they didn’t find Long Xu. Instead, a middle-aged man in a janitor’s uniform stood awkwardly, pushing a slightly dirty utility cart, surrounded by the crowd.

  "Ugh!" The crowd dispersed, scattering to various spots to stake out again.

  When the janitor turned the corner, he casually tossed the utility cart into the garbage area and left.

  The followers trailing him shook their heads, not even bothering to search the cart, and hurried back to the Pokémon Center.

  About six or seven minutes ter, two slightly disheveled figures crawled out from under the cart’s tarp.

  "Wait, why did I have to crawl through a garbage cart too?" Long Ming compined, patting his clothes in disgust.

  Long Xu, wearing a mask, scanned the area before smacking Long Ming’s head. "If it weren’t for helping you find your starter Pokémon, would I need to crawl through a garbage cart?"

  Long Ming grinned. "Yes, yes, Uncle Xu is the best. Uncle Xu, are you sure there’s a Bagon in that secret realm?"

  Bagon is the initial form of Samence, and Long Ming had his heart set on one as his starter Pokémon. He had no interest in other Pokémon, not even other pseudo-legendaries.

  When Long Xu heard about the Samence sightings and the secret realm in Cloud City, he volunteered to oversee the situation.

  Long Xu smiled. "Don’t worry. If there’s no Bagon here, I’ll post a task on the international market. I’ll definitely find you a suitable Bagon."

  The usually cold, determined, and ruthless Long Xu on the battlefield had such a gentle side, which would drive his fans even crazier if they knew.

  After walking for a while, the vehicle arranged by Mr. Wang appeared as pnned. To stay discreet, Long Xu decided against using Dragonite to transport himself and Long Ming to the secret realm.

  As Long Xu headed to the secret realm, Su Chuan and the others finally ran into trouble.

  "This Samence is even more terrifying than it was a few years ago," one of the Gym Leaders beside Su Chuan said, looking nervously at the Samence surrounded by a group of Pokémon.

  After a team spotted this Samence, the Gym Leaders quickly gathered. Its red wings were deeper in color, and its body was more robust than before. If it weren’t for the scar on its left eye, they might have thought it was a different Pokémon.

  One confident Gym Leader suggested testing its strength and sent out his Galde to engage, even attempting a preemptive strike.

  But in just one encounter, the Galde was incapacitated. If Su Chuan hadn’t intervened, sending out his Sking to hold off the Samence, the Galde might have been killed on the spot.

  "It’s the ?Intimidate ability," Su Chuan expined. The Gym Leader had underestimated the Samence and overestimated his Galde.

  The ?Intimidate ability caused surrounding Pokémon to feel a certain level of suppression, reducing their physical attack power. Combined with Galde’s inherent fragility, one hit was all it took to take it out.

  Even Sking, with the support of other Pokémon, could barely hold the Samence back.

  "Looks like we can’t handle this Samence. Even with Chansey constantly healing Sking, we can’t keep this up. Let’s retreat," one trainer suggested.

  Su Chuan frowned. "It’s not easy. This Samence is sticking too close. It’ll be hard for us to retreat unscathed."

  Just as they were at a loss, their earpieces crackled to life. "Please hold on for another half hour. Heavenly King Long Xu is on his way to the secret realm."

  Who?

  They thought they’d misheard, but when the message repeated, the trainers erupted in excitement.

  "Long Xu is coming? Hold on, hold on! In half an hour, we’ll teach this Samence a lesson!" The trainers were already imagining the Samence being ground into the dirt.

  Su Chuan exhaled softly. As the temporary leader, he’d been under immense pressure. Hearing this news was a huge relief.

  But Su Chuan still warned, "Don’t let your guard down. Stay alert in case the Samence counterattacks!"