Elf: Starts with small diamonds, then mutates into Diancie.

If I can capture them all, I can claim credit with my master.

The dog took a step forward, its large hand immediately reaching out to grab the evil spirit.

At that moment, Metagross unleashed its fully charged cannon beam, and in the dazzling white light, even Grimm had to close its eyes for a moment.

As the turbulent energy dissipated, Gouzan Dog opened its eyes and found that the humans and the little green dwarf in front of it had disappeared. Sensing the rapidly receding aura above, Gouzan Dog stomped its foot angrily, looking quite frustrated as if it had crashed while having a wild time.

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High in the sky, the Metagross's head was only so big that it was already the limit for Su Hao to sit on it alone. Evil Pine could only shrink in Su Hao's arms, its bright yellow starry eyes shining as it experienced the feeling of flying for the first time.

Seemingly because the experience was so novel, Ergui Pong kept making excited noises like "Boni~" "Boni~!" as if he were a child.

As the Motolizard was running away, Su Hao retrieved it from its Luxury Ball. The main reason was that the gap created by Metagross was not enough to switch to the Emerald Warrior Eagle, so Su Hao could only fly away on the somewhat uncomfortable Metagross.

Before the excited Egui Peng could fully appreciate the view of the sky, Su Hao suddenly picked him up and brought them face to face.

Su Hao carefully examined the appearance of the Egui Pong and found that it was almost exactly as he remembered it. It looked to be about 1.2 meters tall, just like a child.

Even so, Ergui Pong is still nearly 50 centimeters taller than Diancie (sadly).

Looking directly at Ergui Peng, Su Hao asked, "Where are we going?"

"Bonnie~ Bonnie!"

It seemed that Ergui Peng hadn't interacted with anyone for a long time. A hint of expectant excitement lingered on his face as he pointed his little finger towards the distant mountain peak, the place that emitted a wondrous colorful light.

That place is a safe zone, shrouded in strange energy, and those bad guys can't get close!

Su Hao frowned slightly. He remembered that the color of that light should be... Taijing energy, right?

The safe zone referred to by the "E'gui Peng" is a region with abundant Taijing energy.

Since he had already chosen to go with the Evil Creeper, perhaps he could find out what was going on with the decaying village below from it. Su Hao patted the Metagross's body, signaling it to fly towards the mountaintop.

At the same time, three more figures arrived in the village where Gouzan Gou was staying. After exchanging words with Gouzan Gou for a while, they unanimously decided to take the skeletons of the humans controlled by the poisonous chains and head towards the mountaintop.

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With the combined power of magnetism and mental energy, Metagross's flight speed was not slow either. After flying upwards for about ten minutes, the view from the mountaintop came into view.

Perhaps because the Egui Pon has always lived here, there is quite a lot of vegetation on the mountaintop.

But that's not the point. In the center of the mountaintop, a pool of water, shimmering with crystal light, sits quietly.

Unlike the faint crystal energy within the crystals that Lizard had knocked down from the crystal-transformed Pokémon, the pool water emitted high-purity, high-concentration crystal energy. This energy enveloped the entire mountaintop area, resembling a sacred realm.

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The Megalodon landed on the grass, and the Evil Pine jumped off Su Hao's arms, a smile unconsciously appearing on its little face, as if the environment here made it feel very safe.

"This is... the Crystal Pool?"

Su Hao frowned slightly and walked to the pool to look into the water. It seemed that many Tai Crystal crystals had formed under the clear pool, and the Tai Crystal energy that enveloped this place was emanating from there.

Su Hao released the Motor Lizard again. As soon as it left the luxury sphere, the Motor Lizard sensed the omnipresent Taijing power around it, and its calm expression immediately turned into surprise.

"Can you absorb this crystalline energy?"

The Motor Lizard shook its head; it couldn't absorb this dissipated energy and could only absorb it by consuming Taijing crystals.

"All right....."

Su Hao felt a little regretful. If the Motor Lizard could absorb all these abundant Taijing Energy, its power would probably experience a terrifying surge.

"Bonnie~"

Suddenly, Ergui Peng tugged at Su Hao's sleeve, his tone pleading and urgent.

Su Hao could understand what it meant. Egui Peng seemed to be very eager to take back the well mask from his hands, as if it had grasped the only straw to save it.

After a moment's hesitation, Su Hao did not immediately agree to Ergui Peng's request. Instead, he sat down cross-legged, beckoned the Megalodon and the Motor Lizard to his side, and looked at Ergui Peng with a serious gaze.

“I can return the mask to you; it was originally yours. But before that, I want to ask you about the situation in the villages below, what you went through, and why you are trapped here?”

Su Hao was very concerned about the humanoid skeletons with poisonous chains around their necks, and wanted to find out what had happened here from Egui Peng.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ergui Peng was taken aback, and its waveguide appeared filled with sadness in Su Hao's eyes.

“Boni........”

Then, the Egui Peng began to tell the sad story in its memory, and a faint white mist began to rise around the Crystal Pool.

The village below was once renowned for its exceptional mask-making skills and was known as the Village of Masks. The four masks of the Egui Pong were treasures crafted by the villagers through the combined efforts of the entire village.

When he first received the gift, Erguipeng was like a child who had received candy, happily playing around the village with the mask in hand.

Such a wonderful time passed in the blink of an eye. News of the four masks that could emit a dazzling light spread, attracting the attention of Tao Dailang, who controlled the poison chains, and his three followers.

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Chapter 786 The Secret Realm of Beixiang, Part Seven

In reality, the power of Momo and his three followers was inferior to that of the masked Evil Phantom.

But the problem is that these guys initially pretended to be friendly, which made the kind villagers who had taken in the evil spirits that were once called ghosts accept them as well.

Then one night, Momota gave food laced with his poison as a gift to each villager, and all the villagers who ate the food without any suspicion were controlled.

At this moment, Tao Dailang and his companions revealed their hidden greed and began to snatch the four unique masks that Erguipeng possessed, capable of shining with light.

Unable to attack the villagers who were under the control of the villagers, Erguipeng did consider bypassing the villagers and attacking Taodailang and his group, but these despicable creatures used the villagers as shields and threatened Erguipeng with the lives of the villagers to hand over the masks.

Left with no other choice, Egui Peng had to hand over the four masks. Just as Tao Dailang was about to control Egui Peng as well, a strong surge of Taijing energy erupted from the mountaintop, where Su Hao was now, and the violent wind pressure seemed to blow everything away.

At the same time, the mysterious gray-black force field that had been isolating the inside and outside suddenly appeared out of thin air, falling directly down and isolating the village and the mountain from the outside world.

Tao Dailang and his three followers were blown away by the wind pressure and crashed hard into the force field. The four masks that had just slipped from their hands fell directly out of the force field.

Meanwhile, the Egui Peng was blown towards the mountainside. After some time of exploration, it discovered a crystal pool that had suddenly appeared on the originally barren mountaintop, and the fact that the Taijing energy seemed to be excluding Tao Dailang and the others.

Using the mountaintop as a safe haven, Egui Peng, who had lost his mask, tried many ways to rescue the villagers, but was almost captured by Tao Dailang and his three followers several times.

Nevertheless, Egui Pon kept trying to rescue the villagers, and Tao Dailang and the others seemed to realize that they were trapped by the force field. Tao Dailang clearly remembered the scene when the mask fell out of the force field and began to drive the villagers to make masks in order to escape the cage.

And so, the torrent of time continued to move forward. After countless years, the villagers' bodies were controlled to continuously make masks, even as their flesh and blood fell away and turned into bones, they did not stop.

Egui Peng's wish also changed from rescuing the villagers to burying them and letting their souls rest in peace.

The story ends here.

Egui Peng thus exposed his past wounds, and after telling the story, he was sobbing uncontrollably, curling up like a child and sobbing.

It regrets every single day that it hadn't. If it had been a little more capable, a little more reliable, a little more intelligent, would it have been able to discover Tao Dailang and his gang's conspiracy?

An atmosphere of sadness spreads.

"........."

Su Hao, Metagross, Motorola, and even Reshiram, who was watching the outside world, all fell silent.

They did not know how Egui Peng had endured the long night alone, bearing the loneliness and sorrow in his heart, and staying in this dark and sunless force field for countless years.

Metagross felt its fists harden; those four beasts were unworthy to be called Pokémon alongside it, and it now wished it could smash them to pieces with a single punch.

The Motor Lizard frowned slightly. It might have once thought that weakness was the original sin, and that the Egui Pong had encountered these things simply because it was too weak.

But after personally experiencing what it felt like to be born weak, the Motor Lizard's mindset changed.

If... if I were still in my prime, I would definitely teach those guys who resort to underhanded tactics a lesson in what it means to have a fist that can shatter the earth.

The fog grew even thicker.

Su Hao looked at E Guipeng with pity, bent down and gently stroked E Guipeng's head, and said softly, "If you want to cry, then cry."

Releasing these emotions that have been building up for who knows how many years will at least make me feel a little better.

Su Hao's words seemed to have triggered something, and tears streamed down her face. Like a child, E Guipeng threw herself into Su Hao's arms, pouring out her regrets, sadness, and loneliness over the years through her sobs.

For a time, the eerie cries echoed continuously over the entire mountaintop.

After nearly an hour of loud crying, Erguipeng seemed to have cried itself out. Its small body trembled with each breath, and its reddened eyes made it look...

She comes across as fragile, like a delicate porcelain doll.

Following the way Su Qing used to comfort him when they were children, Su Hao slowly and gently patted E Guipeng's back, lowered his eyes and asked softly, "Are you feeling any better?"

"Bo...ni...Bo...ni..."

Ergui nodded slightly.

"Here, this is your mask." Su Hao took the well mask that the Motor Lizard had been holding and handed it to Egui Peng.

Seeing that Egui Peng had taken the well mask with his small hands, Su Hao smiled and said, "Since the mask was made like this, it must mean that the villagers have incorporated their wish that you would not be sad, but that the mask would take your place in your sadness."

So, don't cry.

Egui Peng's rapid breathing, which had been suppressed by crying, calmed down a bit. It stared wide-eyed with its adorable starry eyes, as if it were processing Su Hao's words.

“Those are all in the past. Now, isn’t your wish to let the villagers’ remains be laid to rest?”

"Don't worry, leave everything to me. I'll make those guys regret their evil deeds, and then we'll find a beautiful place for the villagers to rest in peace."

Su Hao didn't know why the Tao Dailang here was so much worse than the Tao Dailang in the game, but what he needed to do was clear.

Use absolute power to make those guys repent for their evil deeds, and let them feel the pain of the villagers of the Masked Village and the Evil Phantom.