Chapter 357: The Final Kick, Here I Come Ugly Fish_1

After leaving their legend at the Muhai Mountain Range Training Base, Fang Yuan and his group took the school bus back to Magic University.

Upon returning, Fang Yuan immediately went to see Teacher Zhou Youyou, but was heartlessly rejected. With the end of term approaching, she told him to come back next semester.

The perilous training was followed by the final exam week—during this tough week, Fang Yuan remained completely composed.

Even though he had hardly attended classes in the first half of the semester, he wasn't panicked. Following Director Mu's advice earnestly, he went to the teachers of various subjects for tutoring.

During his tutoring sessions, Fang Yuan was especially serious... because according to experience, most of what they were teaching him was likely to be on the finals.

As a Magic University elite on the verge of becoming an advanced researcher, and a public face of the Research Series, it would be a disgrace to the department if he failed.

So, no matter what, they had to make sure Fang Yuan was clear on everything.

While reviewing, Fang Yuan also kept an eye on the series of papers he had published.

Apart from Eevee's Dangerous Premonition trait, which made his first paper difficult to publish, Fang Yuan no longer found writing to be a difficult task after gaining some fame and becoming skilled at it.

Sometimes, Fang Yuan wondered if he truly had a gift for research.

"To become an advanced researcher, one must apply oneself..."

"Each year, applications are concentrated in September, with October, November and December spent verifying application materials and organizing an expert panel review; the new list of advanced researchers is announced the following year."

"However, this method is targeted towards those official researchers who have published a lot of papers but lack a few with significant impact."

"For these researchers, it's difficult to become an advanced researcher based solely on quantity..."

Fang Yuan contemplated that besides this, there was another way to become an advanced researcher.

And that was to publish a paper with significant impact.

After that, one wouldn't even need to go through the approval process and would directly be granted the title of an advanced researcher.

In some ways, these researchers are more impressive than the former.

Fang Yuan also wanted to be among the latter, but it seemed that the research institutions of the Trainer Association... didn't have that in mind?

However, counting the papers published by Fang Yuan, only the ones about Eevee's evolutionary branches had significant impact.

The papers about emotions, though novel and profound, really didn't attract much attention.

This fact annoyed Fang Yuan. He emphasized the relationship between Trainers and Pokémon, yet some people online accused him of running out of ideas, only capable of fabricating meaningless maxims.

While Fang Yuan was frustrated, he also felt helpless. One of Dr. Oak's main research topics in the Pokémon World academia turned out to be trash in his hands, with no place to argue this.

"It's still a lack of notoriety," Fang Yuan shook his head. But there was nothing to be done, as everything now was paving the way for Mega Evolution; he could only take it one step at a time.

Moreover... after meeting Emuritto, Fang Yuan truly experienced the wonderful use of Emotional Energy and, now aided by Superpower, he had decided to continue down this path.

Wanting to know how far he was from the standard, Fang Yuan went to consult with Director Mu.

After consulting with Director Mu, Fang Yuan got his answer. With his qualifications, becoming an advanced researcher would require at least two more years of accumulation.

Xie Qingyi was promoted to an advanced researcher after inventing the Rotom phone and filling a gap in the Hua Nation's education system regarding the Fairy Type.

As for Fang Yuan, even though he wrote several papers on traits, Pokémon emotion, and the derived papers from Eevee's branches of evolution, the quantity was already significant. However, still limited by age and the quality of his papers, he couldn't meet the standard.

Unless Fang Yuan could publish another paper like the one about Eevee's evolutionary branches that sparked a global interest.

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But that, undoubtedly, was a pipe dream…

Director Mu of the Research Series urged Fang Yuan not to rush and to polish his skills gradually. The four years of undergraduate studies should focus primarily on laying a solid foundation, as one can't eat hot tofu in haste when it comes to research.

However… Fang Yuan didn't seem to take it in.

Because he truly had two thesis topics in his hands that could become big hits.

One was the in-depth development of the Payback Technique, involving the use of life energy from The Fourth Stage of Repaying Kindness, and it also touched on the Life Orb as well as features like Magical Defense and Forcibly. This could be considered an emotion-related thesis and could also be viewed as a derivative paper on Mega Evolution.

But truth be told, as the development of the Payback Technique advanced, the paper was already outdated in Fang Yuan's hands. After he had conceived The Fourth Stage of Repaying Kindness and paid a high price for the Life Orb, Fang Yuan felt this paper was no longer suitable for publication.

He even deleted all related materials, leaving no trace behind.

This was key for him to become a top trainer, so it was better kept secret… Today's Payback was no longer the same Payback.

It should be renamed… Calling it a cheat would be more appropriate.

The second… was the Ugly Fish thesis.

This was also content that Fang Yuan believed to be most suitable for his current research.

If he could systematically research the evolutionary conditions of Milotic, then adding his previous accumulation of work, becoming a senior researcher shouldn't be a problem…

Fang Yuan had an idea to reverse-engineer the nutritional makeup of Beauty Degree using the components of Blue Energy Blocks and record the impact of emotion changes on Beauty Degree with the capability of Psychic Emotion Sync.

If successful, Milotic's evolutionary conditions would become crystal clear.

Even how to make Ugly Fish evolve into the perfect Milotic could be figured out.

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After the final exams.

Although Fang Yuan had a few other thesis topics, he didn't want to study them any further.

Those papers with limited influence, even if he wrote several more, wouldn't be of much help for him to become a senior researcher.

Now, Fang Yuan's goal was very clear: the thesis on the evolutionary conditions of Ugly Fish evolving into Milotic!

As a researcher, Fang Yuan planned to get more Ugly Fish for research.

At that time, he would tame the one with the best potential and use the others as experimental materials. After completing the thesis, releasing them and allowing them to evolve for free wouldn't be considered unfair to them.

Thinking this way, Fang Yuan suddenly felt a bit immoral…

But this plan was indeed good, and Fang Yuan decided that his main task this summer would be to focus on this.

"Eevee, let's go." After packing up the dorm, Fang Yuan opened his backpack and Eevee hopped right in, and then Fang Yuan tossed the two cell phones on the table into it as well.

Before leaving, Fang Yuan gave one last look at Luo Kuo on the sofa, sighing.

Luo Kuo didn't go to the Muhai Mountain Range training; this time back to Pingcheng, when Fang Yuan invited Luo Kuo, she declined again, saying she wanted to return to Sun and Moon Forest Secret Territory.

The idea of exploiting Luo Kuo's labor over the summer vacation to help train Pokémon once again fell through.

This time returning to Pingcheng for the summer holiday, Fang Yuan mainly wanted to visit his hometown again. The Ugly Fish in the Muhai Mountain Range didn't meet Fang Yuan's standards, but Nanwu Town, his hometown, also had some Ugly Fish, and there was a chance that a second one meeting his criteria for great beauty could appear.

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