Chapter 73 Ice Spirit_1

As dusk approached,

the sun drew back its rays.

At seven o'clock, the first day of the new semester ended.

After both the morning and afternoon training classes, the senior students no longer harbored any illusions of outdoor classes being remotely pleasant.

Many students who didn't usually exercise much simply couldn't handle the amount of physical activity, and they collapsed in exhaustion as soon as they returned to the classroom.

"Fang Yuan."

After class, just as Fang Yuan was about to pack up his books and head home, Teacher Bai Ning suddenly appeared at the classroom door and called out to him.

"Come with me for a moment."

With that said,

all the boys in the class looked at Fang Yuan with envy. In the basic skills training of the training course, Fang Yuan had performed the best, and being called out now, could it be that he was going to receive special coaching?

Although Teacher Bai Ning's training was a bit strict, there wasn't a single boy who didn't enjoy her classes. At this age, students don't care what you teach; as long as the teacher is likable enough, her class will be a hit.

Meanwhile,

Fang Yuan followed her out, filled with curiosity.

In a corner of the hallway, Teacher Bai Ning stood straight and when her gaze fell on Fang Yuan, he actually felt a bit of pressure.

"Your Beginner Elf is an Eevee... When you get home, you might want to pay attention to the recent news from Antarctica."

"This news will definitely gain some popularity; keeping an eye on it won't do you any harm."

News?!

Fang Yuan was startled.

What could possibly be newsworthy happening in Antarctica?

And the fact that following it would benefit him stirred his curiosity even more.

…

"What on Earth could it be?"

After leaving the school, the moment he stepped out of the gate, Fang Yuan took out his hidden mobile phone.

He searched for the keyword: Antarctica.

The next moment, Fang Yuan's eyes widened.

Just by glancing at the title, Fang Yuan realized,

In addition to the Fire, Thunder, Water, and Leaf evolutionary forms, was an Ice Spirit also about to debut?

Rushing home, Fang Yuan dropped his backpack and Eevee's Poké Ball onto the couch in haste.

The Eevee that appeared from the Poké Ball didn't even pay attention to Fang Yuan and mechanically began searching for its all-important trio of items.

As for Fang Yuan…

After entering the bedroom, he opened his computer without a word and began looking up the more detailed news.

The news was released today, but the discovery of the new type of rock didn't happen today.

A week ago, a new secret location emerged in Antarctica, and the Trainer Associations around the world dispatched Professional Trainers stationed locally to explore it.

The biggest discovery was the finding of a very special Frozen Rock, which differs from an Ice Stone but also contains magical energy. After brief research, it was confirmed to have a similar wavelength to the Mossy Rocks.

The so-called Mossy Rocks are magical stones that can cause an Eevee to evolve into a Leaf Spirit.

After experimentation, the Frozen Rock successfully made an Eevee evolve into an Ice Spirit.

Thus, Eevee's new evolution form, Ice Spirit, was recorded in the Pokedex.

"Due to the special nature of the secret realms, the environment inside the Exotic Space won't be much different from the Earth space it's fused with, which is also why the Moss Stone for the Leaf Spirit was discovered before the Frozen Rock for the Ice Spirit,"

Fang Yuan mumbled to himself as he looked at the screen:

"Now that even the Frozen Rocks in such a harsh environment have been found, it shouldn't be so difficult to discover the Solar Spirit and Moon Spirit."

Fang Yuan looked at the comments, and sure enough, due to the news of the Ice Spirit, the wide community of netizens had started discussing the other possible evolution branches of Eevee again.

Additionally, many new research analysis articles about Eevee had emerged.

These must be what Bai Ning suggested that Fang Yuan should look at.

In fact, as the Pokemon with the most evolution branches currently, Eevee has always been one of the major research topics in the Spirit Academic World.

It's just that so far, no significant research outcomes had been produced.

Besides the Solar Spirit and the Moon Spirit, the Fairy-type Fairy Spirit had not been discovered either.

However, Fang Yuan somewhat understood why the Fairy Spirit hadn't been discovered.

To this day, the Fairy type and its moves have not been fully studied, with only some fragmented knowledge made public and yet to be systematically compiled into textbooks.

It could be said that Fairy is the least understood type on Earth, even more obscure than Ghost, Superpower, and Dragon types.

No Professional Trainer specializing in the Fairy type had ever appeared, and teaching methods for Fairy-type Moves were even rarer. There was no way for an Eevee to learn Fairy-type Moves without any leads.

"Say, hasn't any scholar ever devoted themselves to meticulously raising an Eevee for the sake of researching its evolution branches?"

"With such a large population base on Earth, stumbling upon one by chance shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Fang Yuan asked himself, but soon after, he developed a new doubt.

Fang Yuan felt that he had lacked consideration when he was selecting his beginner Pokemon.

"All other Eevee evolution branches are stimulated by external energy to evolve. For the Solar Spirit and Moon Spirit, in addition to the intimacy condition, the day and night environments are also the specific conditions for their evolution in different directions."

Fang Yuan had started to suspect that the special energy required for the Solar Spirit and Moon Spirit's evolution may not be as simple as ordinary sunlight and moonlight.

Or rather, the energy purity of the Earth's sunlight and moonlight might not suffice.

After all, there's a big difference between reality and games, like the Evolutionary Stones. Those stones mined from the veins of the secret realm are not completely identical.

Some Evolutionary Stones contain energy of higher purity, and some have lower purity. So, what kind of purity do the sunlight and moonlight require for the evolution of the Solar Spirit and Moon Spirit?

The original Pokedex described the Moon Spirit as follows: after an Eevee is bathed in enough moonlight, it will evolve into a Moon Spirit. This "enough", a word Fang Yuan overlooked, now seems to carry significant meaning.

Fang Yuan felt a headache coming on, suddenly realizing that none of Eevee's evolution forms were so simple to achieve.

"The Solar Spirit, Moon Spirit, Fairy Spirit remain my top choices, but if it's not easy to evolve into one of these three branches, the Thunder Elf is also a good option,"

"Still, I hope it will be one of the former three…" Fang Yuan thought to himself.

Currently, on the international academic forum of The Pokémon Alliance, the reward for unraveling the mystery of Eevee's evolution forms remains extremely high.

If Eevee could successfully evolve into one of the three, then Fang Yuan would have enough evidence to support his views and publish a paper, and that substantial prize money would have a chance of winding up in Fang Yuan's pocket.