Elf: Start with small diamonds, then mutate into Diancie!

The Articuno closed its eyes, as if reminiscing about the ancient past.

"Battles with Dark Pokémon are more like a pure clash of strength. The fearless and emotionless opponents trade blows with us, and the negative emotions emanating from the ubiquitous negative energy are like a bone-deep poison. If you're not careful, you can be lured into the darkness."

"In that battle, we not only had to face a fearless army, but also had to suppress our own negative emotions, carefully preventing sadness, anger, annoyance, escapism and other negative emotions from arising, lest they become omnipresent sources of negative energy."

Su Hao glanced at the negative energy phantom ice sculpture, then sat obediently waiting for Articuno to speak.

Is this thing really that powerful?

Shouldn't we just buy it the moment we see it?

"However, apart from its appearance, which you described as resembling the divine beast Reshiram, this phantom of negative energy is far too weak; it's utterly vulnerable!"

Articuno couldn't believe that it, which had once slain countless enemies, couldn't defeat this incredibly weak phantom of negative energy.

What a joke!

"Forehead......"

Su Hao hesitated. Articuno's idea made sense. Unless this negative energy phantom had other abilities, wouldn't Articuno, with its combat power, kill indiscriminately?

"Su Hao, how about letting Uncle and Aunt Articuno give it a try?" Tianxi said weakly, tugging at Su Hao's sleeve.

If Articuno can do that, that would be great; if not, we can try having her use her Radiant Power as a backup.

Although Su Hao wanted to complain that he had aroused Articuno's inexplicable competitiveness, he noticed Articuno's serious and unpretentious gaze. Articuno looked at the ice sculpture, then at Su Hao and Diancie.

"Since you all have this idea... then I naturally have no objection."

Su Hao raised both hands, reluctantly agreeing to Articuno's idea and letting it try first.

...................

A cold wind howled past, and Su Hao and Diancie cleared away some of the snow from the top of the Dragon Spiral Tower, leaving an ice sculpture in the shape of Lexiram in the center.

For safety's sake, Su Hao and Diancie stood at a distance, waiting for Articuno to make its move.

The Articuno folded its wings and stood still with its eyes closed, like an old monk in meditation. But its aura did not diminish at all; on the contrary, it rose higher and higher, and the snow on the outer edge was blown away by the sudden gust of wind.

"...Such powerful spiritual pressure!"

Su Hao provided the perfect voiceover, and the move Articuno was about to unleash... looked like Mind's Eye!

So... the next move is...!

Articuno suddenly opened its eyes, and an icy blue light rose from its body.

At the same time, Articuno's ruby-like pupils gleamed with a captivating light, its gaze piercing!

Mind's Eye: Target locked, skill hit rate greatly increased.

Immediately afterwards, the dragon-shaped ice sculpture in front of Articuno shattered.

The Void Shadow, which had been frozen but still able to sense the outside world, was about to mock Su Hao and Articuno for daring to try to eradicate it when Articuno launched its second attack without stopping.

He opened his beak, his gaze like that of an ancient iceberg, and coldly exhaled a breath of ice that could freeze time and space!

The cold current and snow converged into an extremely cold breath, and the torrent of ice and snow raged once again in the center of the tower.

Su Hao stood on the edge of the tower and couldn't help but shiver.

This low temperature... it's probably really getting very close to absolute zero, isn't it?

Because his vision was completely blocked by ice and snow, Su Hao couldn't see the situation in the central area at all.

Furthermore, Su Hao didn't dare to disperse his waveguide. He had a premonition that Articuno's absolute zero could even freeze his invisible waveguide!

This torrent of ice and snow lasted for a full three minutes. If Articuno hadn't intentionally limited the move to a single area, Su Hao felt that the aftershocks of the move alone would have sent him to heaven.

Until the ice and snow melted again, Articuno, looking incredulous, created a gust of wind to disperse the snow and ice, and the ice sculpture, which seemed no different from before, still lay in the same spot.

The sight before him filled Su Hao with dread: "Huh!?"

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Therefore, Leighton and Xiao Zhi.

Chapter 243 There's nothing to be afraid of anymore.

The scene before him filled Su Hao with dread. The power of Articuno's attack just now... even if his father went all out, he would be frozen to pieces a million times over.

But the negative energy phantom is completely unaffected. What's going on?

Articuno looked grim, completely unable to believe the conclusion it had reached.

This thing was powerless against His hand, but even if He froze it and pulverized it into ashes, or cut it into a thousand pieces with sharp winds, it would still reassemble into a dark shadow, and then transform into the shape of Reshiram.

This thing is like it possesses the highest level of immortality; even pulverizing it at the atomic level cannot stop its regeneration... Why!?

The disheartened Articuno recounted what it had witnessed in detail, saying that this negative energy phantom... in some ways, might be even more troublesome than the Dark Pokémon!

Articuno shook its head and said bitterly, "I'm afraid the purifying power will have limited effect on this guy."

Su Hao looked surprised; Articuno had given such a high evaluation.

“However,” He changed the subject, “judging from Little Diancie’s restraint against the crimson mist, this guy probably won’t be able to withstand the Fairy Light she unleashes with her Radiant Power.”

This is the only thing that convinced the defeated Articuno that perhaps this suddenly born second Diancie is the protagonist who was born to deal with the dark matter?

Articuno's expression turned serious, and it withdrew its aura as it stepped in front of Su Hao and Diancie: "Although I can't destroy it, I can still completely restrict its movements."

"Go ahead, the rest is up to you."

Su Hao was stunned for two seconds. He felt a tug on his sleeve. It was Diancie. She and Su Hao looked into each other's eyes with an unprecedented solemnity.

He smiled with relief. "That's right, Diancie is next, but Articuno just got humiliated. What am I panicking about?"

Aside from strength, compatibility is everything!

"Are you ready?"

"I'm ready!"

......................

As the frigid ice and snow melted, the energy within was drawn away by the Articuno, which was positioned nearby. The Void Shadow gradually realized that the immense power that had actually frozen its own energy body was being actively extracted.

What was that phrase that comes with the negative emotions of humanity that we've collected?

I remember now... Dogdenxi ambushed me, I was just careless and didn't dodge!

The Void Shadow opened its eyes, and before it stood the candidate true hero and its former companions, whose bodies had turned to stone and whose souls had gone to the Void World—Tianxi, a member of the mining kingdom's clan.

Meanwhile, the despicable Ice God watched it coldly from the side.

The Void Shadow instantly realized that the God of Ice couldn't do anything to it. Its expression stiffened, but its inner emotions instantly turned to pleasure.

"You... can talk, right?" Su Hao asked in a deep voice, pulling on Tianxi.

The words that Su Hao initially thought he heard were not a hallucination. Articuno realized that the negative energy phantom was intelligent when it executed it.

"Yes, but so what? Humans, the God of Ice, and the princess of the Mining Kingdom?"

The Void Shadow, disguised as Reshiram, revealed a mocking smile. Unable to contain its inner joy, it threw its head back and cackled loudly.

Su Hao frowned. How could this guy be so arrogant? Hasn't he been scared by Articuno yet?

Diancie could barely suppress her disgust for the negative energy phantoms; the light energy within her was restless and wanted to burst forth.

She could only grit her teeth and control the light energy to prevent it from leaking out... It wasn't time to kill it until Su Hao could extract useful information from it.

Su Hao said sternly, "Negative Energy Illusion, why are you here?"

If he could, he wouldn't want to talk to it; he'd just kill it.

But we don't have enough information right now, so we'll try to get as much information as we can.

"Negative Energy Illusion, are you calling me?" The Void Shadow chuckled.

So this alternate true hero and the ice god know nothing, yet dare to come and cause trouble for me?

"Hehehe, my name is Void Shadow, a vanguard under Lord Dark Matter. I have nothing more to say."

The void and shadow are highly sensitive to human emotions; the very essence of human emotions before one's eyes...

The shadowy void sniffed; was it the scent of exploration and...confidence?

"A void shadow...?"

Su Hao murmured to himself, "Why is this name different from the one on the system interface?"

"Heh heh, it's impossible to extract any information from me. Give up on that idea, human."

The Void Shadows are very confident. As the replacement for the Dark Pokémon, they are more targeted at the power of this world. As long as there is negative energy and negative emotions in the world, they are immortal.

The purifying power is no longer as effective on them as it once was. Even if they are frozen and restrained by the God of Ice, as long as the negative emotions remain, their strength will slowly recover until they break free of the ice.

It is currently in a malnourished state, black and red in color. When it turns completely back to black... its strength will return, and it will be able to transform at will into the form of a Pokémon whose soul has been taken to the void world.

In other words, the Shadow of Nothingness is now fearless and has nothing to be afraid of!

It remained stationary in a fighting stance, with an arrogant expression that said, "I'll take whatever you do."

"I see... Oh."

Su Hao and Tianxi remained silent for a moment, they could tell that the Void Shadow was truly fearless and did not intend to speak.

Since that's the case, Su Hao never expected to reform the villains with words. He shook his head and said coldly, "Since you don't intend to talk, then please die."

Defeat the Void Shadow, find Reshiram in the tower, and then prevent anyone else from entering.

"Magic Flash!"

Tianxi's gaze was cold and clear; she had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

No longer suppressing herself, her light energy recovered enough to unleash her full power twice. The pink diamond on her body instantly transformed into a source of light, and the magical shimmer, originally colorful, was imbued with the power of light—turning into a brilliant gold.

This is an extremely aggressive mode. Rays of brilliant golden light shoot out from the diamond, and tens of thousands of streams of light, like spears of light, are released toward the void and shadow!

Seeing that Diancie, whose strength was even lower than his current strength, made a move, Void Shadow was even more disdainful. Even the God of Ice couldn't do anything to me, so what could a little phantom beast like you do to me?

In the blink of an eye, countless spears of light pierced the void shadow body formed by negative energy.

Only then did it realize something was wrong—

"What...thing? It's so hot...it hurts! Ahhh, why!?"