Pokémon, Ash is going to become a perfect man from now on.

A crisp sound suddenly rang out from inside the dark and chaotic ruins of the capital.

That was the sound of gears turning in the chest cavity, forcefully crushing the longsword piercing the heart, and even reversing someone's death out of thin air!

puff!

A hand forcefully broke through the soil, revealing a face contorted with madness.

"Hehe~ I knew it, Your Majesty wouldn't let me die so easily... Even if the blasphemer really changed the past, I'm willing to give up everything for Your Majesty and live a completely new life!!"

...

Meanwhile, sometime more than a hundred years ago, a scantily clad young girl was carefully exploring in the snow and ice.

She came after hearing rumors of ghosts in the neighborhood, and indeed found a strange soul fire in the academy.

"Slow down, Zhubei! That should be Zoroark or Zoroark. Maybe they're trying to lure you over there!" Behind the girl, an elegant woman dressed as a sea creature anxiously tried to stop her... but it didn't have much effect.

“But there’s someone there… I feel like he’s still alive!” The girl named Zhubei quickly made a discovery. She dug out a boy and a Pikachu in the snow.

They were likely attacked by wild Pokémon; they were not only completely frozen, but also had wounds of varying sizes on their bodies, as if they had been cut by sharp objects.

"There's someone... Oh my god, where did he come from? How did things get like this?!" Another woman stepped forward to check and couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaim in surprise... She also covered her eyes.

"Miss Guana, there's no way I could know where he came from..." Zhubei shrugged helplessly. "After all, he wasn't wearing any clothes, not even a single piece!"

"Then stop looking!" Guana exclaimed in frustration, raising her other hand to block Zhubei's eyes.

Heaven knows how they finally made up their minds, but in any case, the frozen boy and Pikachu were eventually dragged away from the snowfield by them.

From then on, a new member of mysterious origin joined the nearby pearl settlement.

As for the 'troublemaking' soul fire, it remained a lonely spirit wandering in the cold wilderness...

(That's all... Ash and Pikachu are saved, that's great...)

★ Washing Emerald Scroll: With an indomitable spirit, traverse Tianguan Mountain!! ★

Chapter 1086 The History of Washing Greenery, Quite Recent

"Outsider, are you ready?"

"It's all ready, we can set off now." Hearing the urging from outside the door, Xiao Zhi quickly responded.

This is quite normal when you haven't gained anyone's trust yet... Even though Ash introduced himself and his background the moment he woke up, most people here still refer to him as an 'outsider'.

Ash certainly didn't mind; after all, they had saved his and Pikachu's lives, and he was more than grateful.

After straightening his old-fashioned clothes, Ash left the room with Pikachu.

"The pearl chief has been waiting for a long time, and several farm managers are also there. You'd better hurry over." The man urging him at the door was dressed as a villager; he was a member of this pearl settlement.

Upon spotting Pikachu perched on Ash's shoulder, he became very wary and dared not approach too closely, only urging Ash to hurry to the headquarters where Team Pearl's high-ranking members were located.

Ash can understand this; in this day and age, the relationship between humans and Pokémon is not very harmonious.

Even though Team Pearl, who rescued him from the icy wilderness, kept proclaiming that "the Verdant Lands are a habitat created by the Sinnoh Grand Master for Pokémon, and humans should be friends of Pokémon," and even the leader of Team Pearl himself had a Pokémon partner, it was still difficult for others to accept Pokémon.

After all, the older the Pokémon, the more wild they become.

You want to be friends with someone, but they might only see you as food.

Speaking of which, we can actually reveal the secret... Ash was swept away by the time-space storm to Xicui!

This was formerly the Sinnoh region, which should be very... far from the modern era where Ash originally lived.

Well, it's not actually that far away.

The name change from Shire to Sinnoh corresponds to the period when Ash's previous life in Japan changed "Ezo" to "Hokkaido". Considering the history Ash learned in the Pokémon world, we can see that this period is at most a hundred or so years earlier than the present.

It doesn't even qualify as ancient times; it can only be described as a period in modern times.

Ash is currently in the Pearl Village, located in the pure white tundra north of the Green Lake—the future Wisdom Lake region, a harsh land where wind and snow blow all year round.

According to the people who cared for Ash when he woke up, it was Team Pearl's leader, Shellder, and the field manager, Guarner, who brought him back from the nearby ice rock area.

When he was found, the only thing beside him was a frozen Pikachu.

All of his clothes and the various items in his backpack had vanished without a trace, and even the managing spirit had lost contact.

Xiao Zhi didn't know if the other party had been sucked into the lost phone or had fainted to protect his mental world... He couldn't see it or hear any response.

He was also worried about Soroya.

He was separated from the little fox. Where was the little fox now? Was it safe and sound? Whenever he thought about these things, Ash would be extremely anxious.

But he and Pikachu still needed to recover from their injuries, and being on someone else's turf, with their suspicious identities as 'outsiders with Pokémon,' Ash couldn't rashly cause a disturbance.

Moreover, a gear stuck in his chest cavity constantly warned him... that it was best not to act rashly while living in the past!

...

They arrived at the headquarters of the Pearl Team, a house in the center of the Pearl Settlement. It was usually the residence of the leader, Pearl Shell, but was used for meetings in special circumstances.

Ash was led to the hall by two guards, who remained solemn throughout. To show his sincerity, Ash held Pikachu in his arms the whole time, gently covering its electric sac with his hand.

When he arrived, several high-ranking members of the Pearl Team were already seated in the lobby.

The person in the main seat is naturally the leader of Team Pearl, who is slightly older than Ash and is a fair-skinned and beautiful girl wearing a cool outfit that is completely out of place with the temperature of the pure white tundra.

She was playing with a white jade flute in her hand, and her Pokémon partner—an equally beautiful, milky-white Ice Sprite—was perched on her lap.

A woman dressed as a sea creature, with special swimming goggles around her neck, sat next to Pearl. She was Gua Na, who had rescued Ash with Pearl, and was also the team leader of Team Pearl on the Blue Coast.

Besides them, Ash also met Kikui, the manager of Obsidian Plains... who was basically a younger version of Kikui, the boss of Unova.

There is also a very special person, Kita, the manager of the farm at the foot of Mount Coronet. He is actually one of the subway managers of the Unova region. Like Ash, he traveled from the modern era to the Greenland!

Based on the game's storyline, he is currently suffering from amnesia.

"Team Pearl Leader, and the other captains, hello." Standing in the center of the hall, Ash greeted the leaders of Team Pearl politely.

"You've made us wait so many days, your body should be almost fully recovered by now, right?" Zhubei seemed a little impatient, but Xiaozhi knew that she wasn't heartless.

Normally, someone in his situation would be subjected to a barrage of questions as soon as they woke up, but Zhubei generously allowed him and Pikachu to rest for several days before calling him over for questioning, only after confirming that he was alright.

"Thank you so much for your help," Xiao Zhi nodded gratefully.

"Ash, right? You said you're from Pallet Town in Kanto... But who exactly are you, and why are you at the Ice Rock area?" Pearl didn't hesitate and asked directly.

"I'm a Pokémon Trainer from Kanto, and I currently work as an investigator in the Johto League," Ash said, giving the answer he had been carefully considering while recovering from his injury.

"Are trainers...similar to Pokémon trainers?" the farm manager, Kikui, asked, puzzled.

"There are still differences. Trainers capture Pokémon using Poké Balls, then provide targeted training and development, and command their Pokémon in battles..."

"Poké Balls?!" Before Ash could finish explaining, Pearl interrupted him coldly, "Isn't that just like Team Galactic? Using Poké Balls to catch Pokémon and command battles... Don't you know that on this lush land, humans and Pokémon should be friends, not have a superior-subordinate relationship?!"

"But I need to explain that Pokémon trainers are very common in the vast world outside of Greenland, and my Pokémon were not caught in the Greenland region... This should not affect your principles."

"What...what did you say?!" Ash's words completely shocked Pearl.

Outside of the Pokémon washing area, is it already quite common to use Poké Balls to confine Pokémon?

"Wait a minute, you're not right," Guana retorted, frowning. "As far as we know, the Poké Ball was invented by Dr. Laben from Team Galactic..."

"He just developed a Poké Ball himself and then introduced it to the Johto region," Ash said, shaking his head. "As I just said, I'm an investigator for the Johto League... In the Johto region where I work, the history of the Poké Ball can be traced back to at least six hundred years ago!"

"Furthermore, the Johto League has begun encouraging trainers to lead their Pokémon to compete in league tournaments to determine the strongest trainer!"

"Trainers, the League Tournament... Yes! He's telling the truth!" Bei Shang, who hadn't spoken until now, suddenly clutched his forehead and exclaimed in surprise, as if he had awakened some special memories.

The speeding subway, Hinoki City hosting the league's convention...

He even had some impression of the name 'Xiao Zhi'.

Chapter 1087 Lingering Snow, Gradually Turning Red

The most powerful weapon to quickly gain someone's trust is always sincerity.

Xiao Zhi did just that; he did conceal some information, but everything he voluntarily confessed was true.

Pallet Town was renamed in honor of Professor Oak's great-great-grandfather, Professor Oak, who ranked 931st in the Trainer Ranking of 10,000... If we count five generations back from Professor Oak, and each generation is 25 years, that's more than 120 years. In addition, Professor Oak himself spanned two generations.

Therefore, by the time of the current Green Age, Pure White Town would have long been renamed True New Town, and Kanto and Johto would naturally have their own alliance, and had even held an alliance conference.

However, back then there was no such thing as a regional champion; the champion of the league tournament simply represented the winner's status.

And the Poké Ball thing wasn't something Ash made up on the spot.

Counting from the modern era, the artisans of Johto used berries to make Poké Balls, a technique that can indeed be traced back 400 to 700 years, at least 300 years earlier than the Green Age.

Furthermore, there's the example of Lokko the Nine-Tailed Fox; two hundred years ago, Johto was already using ceramic Poké Balls.

So Dr. Raben from Galar was just a developer of a certain type of Poké Ball, not the inventor of the first Poké Ball.

Moreover, the Emerald Poké Ball he developed did not become widespread very quickly... It is estimated that it will take nearly another hundred years before its general appearance is applied to modern Poké Balls.

If you don't believe me, go back and watch the Celebi movie. Professor Oak used a metal can when he was a kid. It doesn't look anything like the Green Poké Ball.

Therefore, the truths Xiaozhi speaks are all established historical facts.

He certainly wasn't afraid of the Pearl Team investigating, nor did he need to worry about triggering a time paradox.