Liuli City Battle Plaza.
While waiting for Lila, Fang Yuan, with nothing better to do, started training his Pokemon along with Eevee.
The intensive training tasks for the other Pokemon were all old news.
Main forces like Eevee and Monferno, with their Legendary potential, just needed to exercise their existing abilities, and it wasn't necessary to venture into new domains and waste energy.
However, within Fang Yuan's Team, there were more than just these Pokemon, and some needed to constantly try out new intensive training.
One such example was Ditto.
This guy, having received the Dream gene, had already reached top strength, transforming into one of Fang Yuan's main forces. With Master Monferno's Thunder Flame Mode, it was almost an invincible presence below King Level.
Theoretically, it was even stronger than Monferno from the same period.
Monferno, though it could initiate Thunder Flame Mode, would suffer injuries.
But Ditto, ah, after transforming into Monferno for a fight, could then turn into Milotic to heal itself, which was quite an unsolvable dilemma.
Moreover, when facing certain Pokemon that are tough for Monferno to deal with, it could transform into Darkrai or Eevee in response, leaving virtually no weaknesses.
Nevertheless, Fang Yuan felt that Ditto could be even stronger!
"Busy, busy... busy, busy..."
After being dragged out by Fang Yuan, Ditto showed an expression of mental exhaustion.
Opposite it, Eevee was holding Ho-Oh's "Rainbow Feather," constantly waving it in front of Ditto.
After giving it a glance, Eevee quickly tucked it back into the backpack.
Eevee: (｡◕ˇ∀ˇ◕）"Have you taken a good look?"
"If you have, then... hurry... and transform!"
"Merely transforming into Phantom Elves like Darkrai isn't enough. Only when you can transform into a Legendary Pokemon like Ho-Oh, just like Dream, will you be worthy of that Dream gene," Fang Yuan said with a friendly smile.
If it could turn into a Legendary Pokemon like Ho-Oh, it would be a breakthrough for Ditto's Transformation Technique.
After that, transforming into other things would also become much more impressive.
Even if it couldn't achieve a Perfect Transformation like Dream, it didn't matter much. Being able to transform at the basic level was fine; everything has to be taken step by step.
In fact.
In the days before Fang Yuan had returned to Earth, under the guidance of Dream, Ditto had already managed to transform into Ho-Oh.
However, since its transformation wasn't perfect yet, it could only succeed while carrying the "Rainbow Feather" item.
Without the Rainbow Feather...
Its transformation resulted in only what could be seen in front of it.
With a "boom," Ditto's entire body flashed with a white light, transforming into a strange Pokemon.
Although it tried hard to turn into Ho-Oh, the powers of its intended form were too incredible, so the transformation failed outright!
A bird about 0.3 meters tall, similar to Torchic, flapped its wings and spat out sparks in frustration.
"Keep transforming—"
Fang Yuan watched the mini-version of Ho-Oh helplessly.
This won't do.
Even if it had turned into a googly-eyed version of Ho-Oh, he could have understood, but turning into Torchic, what was that all about?
Speaking of which...
Looking at Ditto's failed transformation, Fang Yuan suddenly remembered the dark history of Ho-Oh that Dream had shared with him.
The Holy Ash Fang Yuan was concerned about was actually left behind after each of Ho-Oh's nirvana rebirths.
Each time Ho-Oh underwent nirvana rebirth, its Life Power would be strengthened, its lifespan would become even longer, and its strength would increase.
However, Dream told Fang Yuan that, in the early stages after nirvana, Ho-Oh would actually fall into a brief weakened state.
During the weakness, Ho-Oh was like a downgraded baby bird, quite small and adorable, not unlike the failed transformation of Ditto in front of him.
Moreover, until fully recovered, this version of Ho-Oh was nowhere near as mature and stable as its full form, rather like a rebellious teenage girl or a woman going through menopause with a very bad temper.
The civilization that inherited the Super Ancient cultures, the Polcrandis Empire, provoked Ho-Oh during this period and was thus eradicated.
That was still a relatively good outcome, since the Humans were the first to annoy it.
But sometimes, it was Ho-Oh that accidentally caused trouble.
For instance, Dream told Fang Yuan that there were once three Ordinary Elf that had accidentally been burned to death by indiscriminate moves Ho-Oh released while feeling upset in the sky.
The ho-oh, symbolic of "happiness," accidentally burning innocent Pokemon to death was one of its greatest dark secrets.
However, Ho-Oh was decent enough to feel guilty afterward, and it took out three portions of Holy Ash to resurrect them. It also granted them Legendary-level potential and helped them step into the Legendary Realm, becoming the Phoenix King's Guard, and thus the incident was brought to an end.
Thus, the Three Sacred Beasts came into being.
Beyond that, Ho-Oh had many dark histories caused by its unstable emotions after rebirth, all of which Dream knew and shared with Fang Yuan.
"Although these dark histories are thrilling,"
"if I mentioned these secrets in front of Ho-Oh, not only can I forget about blackmailing for Holy Ash, it feels like it would kill me to silence me..." Fang Yuan sighed.
No, the content was too explosive, even involving love stories... These things must be kept to himself.
A friendly strategy must be used after all.
With a "boom," Ditto transformed again.
This time it took three minutes to prepare, yet the transformation still failed.
It wasn't the "Torchic" from before, but it was still far from Ho-Oh.
Fang Yuan silently observed Ditto's transformed figure.
"Is this... a Shining Pidgey?"