Chapter 608: Thatch Takes Action
Finally, with the efforts of the two flying Pokémon, Yang Ming found what he wanted.
This is a half-burnt branch. Yang Ming found it shortly after he arrived here. However, Yang Ming did not see anything strange at that time, so he threw it aside.
"What's the use of this thing?" Yin Yue asked curiously, "You don't mean to say that it is Xerneas's true body, do you?"
"I don't know," Yang Ming shook his head, "I'm just guessing."
From the moment he entered the Cave of the End, Yang Ming had been thinking about the mysteries here. It was not until he had close contact with the cells of Xerneas and Zygarde just now that he had a guess about the truth.
The three legendary Pokémon before were not actually their real bodies, but the residual energies of the three legendary Pokémon. Yang Ming had noticed this when he failed to capture Xerneas.
After all, even if the heavy ball might fail to capture the Pokémon, it would at least temporarily seal the Pokémon inside the ball instead of passing directly through Xerneas' body like before.
What really made him sure of this was that Zygarde's cells actually passed directly through his arm.
Finally, Yang Ming came to a conclusion: the battle between the three legendary Pokémon had actually ended a thousand years ago, and in the end, Zygarde exhausted his power and sealed the other two legendary Pokémon here.
After exhausting its strength, Zygarde disintegrated on his own and left the Cave of the End.
The three "legendary Pokémon" we saw before were just their residual energy that caused them to fight each other out of instinct, reenacting the entire process of the war thousands of years ago.
"Just the residual energy materialization can easily suppress the king-level trainer, it's really amazing." Yang Ming sighed in his heart.
Although the two legendary Pokémon sealed in the cave were severely damaged, their power spread throughout the cave and gradually formed this different space.
Unlike normal space, the environment here is closer to the state in the Tai Chi Bagua diagram of "heaven and earth have not been created, chaos has not yet been divided into yin and yang". The two forces of life and death are indistinguishable here, making everything in this space seem extremely chaotic.
For example, those zombie Pokémon, which were corroded by the power of Efiltal, can regenerate, which means that there is still some life force of Xerneas in their bodies. The lack of wild Pokémon in the forest where Xerneas is located is probably also due to the influence of the power of Efiltal.
As time passed, these two forces finally penetrated from this space into the entire Ultimate Cave, and eventually affected the outermost psychedelic forest, causing the environment of the End Cave and the psychedelic forest to become abnormal.
Those Pokémon that appear and disappear at any time in the Cave of the End and the Psychedelic Forest are probably the product of the interweaving of these two forces.
However, compared to the interior of the space, the external environment is relatively less affected and is also more unstable. This is why wild Pokémon appear and disappear from time to time.
Most of the things taken out of the psychedelic forest will disappear because they are almost all the products of the interweaving of two forces. Once they leave the original environment, they will naturally disappear. Only the evolution stones and feathers that will not disappear are things that originally existed in the psychedelic forest.
As their own power overflowed uncontrollably and mixed with the other's power, the two legendary Pokémon became increasingly weaker and weaker. They had to release their remaining power and transform into clones to wander around the Cave of the End, in order to find trainers who might be able to help them escape and bring them into this space.
However, because they are too weak, these two legendary Pokémon can no longer maintain their original forms and can only transform into weaker creatures and hide.
For example, the Iphilthar disguised as a little sparrow.
The reason why Yang Ming determined that this half-charred branch was the real body of Xerneas was because it had two similarities with the weak Iphiltal.
One is that they each appear within their own "territory": Ifiltal is hiding among a group of zombie Pokémon affected by its own power, while this branch appears in a lush and danger-free jungle.
Another point is that they all bear scars left by each other.
Iphilthar is known as the God of Death, but the little quill he was in disguise was very healthy, without any scars on his body; this half branch, on the contrary, was charred all over and without a trace of life, standing out in this dense forest.
The healthy God of Death and the lifeless God of Life, this is the best evidence that the two legendary Pokémon are both suffering.
Yang Ming carefully put away the half branch. This might be his biggest gain in this space, and might even be his greatest support in the future. Yang Ming no longer wanted to participate in the fight for Ifeltal. Now he just wanted to find a place to hide, and when the space collapsed, he would quickly leave the End Cave and leave the Carlos area as soon as possible.
However, at this moment, Yang Ming keenly felt that someone was watching him from behind.
"Who! Come out!" Yang Ming shouted sternly.
I saw a tall woman with a sinister temperament slowly walking out of the shadows, and beside her there was a jewel starfish standing ready for action.
"Sachi, the leader of the three beast warriors, I didn't expect her to appear here?!"
Yang Ming's face was gloomy. Ever since Thatch betrayed Team Rocket, there have been rumors that she appeared in the Sinnoh region. The organization even sent a senior official, Apollo, to Sinnoh to arrest her.
Now it seems that all this was just a trick on her part.
"Big Shark King, no, now I should call you Yang Ming, the new cadre of the Rockets." Sachi's mouth drew a wicked smile, "You can deceive so many masters, you are indeed a capable person. I have a suggestion, why don't we cooperate, what do you think?"
I didn't expect this guy to dig up my past. Yang Ming's heart sank, and he said coldly: "How do you want to cooperate?"
"It's very simple. I am interested in the burnt branch in your hand. As long as you are willing to give it to me, we can discuss cooperation slowly." Sachi said slowly.
"Are you kidding me? I've never seen a party that takes the initiative to propose cooperation ask for such a high price," Yang Ming sneered, "Since you are so insincere, there is no need for us to continue the discussion."
"Kairos, kill her! Use the cross shears!"
"You'll regret rejecting my proposal," Thatch said, suppressing his smile. "Gem Starfish, show it some color. Use camouflage!"