Chapter 1420 Secret Recipe: Sweetener

Xia Yu took a deep breath, a thoughtful expression on his face.

His current understanding of the secret item, Bitter Seasoning, is very limited, consisting only of the system's brief descriptions, and there are still many details he hasn't had time to learn.

For example, does the Secret: Bitter Gel only grow near the Sky Zone? Also, after becoming a Sky Master by consuming Secret: Bitter Gel, will stopping its consumption cause any side effects besides a drop in strength and aptitude? And what Xia Yu cares about most is whether consuming Secret: Bitter Gel will have any impact on the Pokémon's spirit.

The Sky Lord, Proto-Bird, seems a bit too crazy, mentally unstable, and doesn't resemble a normal Pokémon at all.

Therefore, Xia Yu would never blindly give the Sonic Dragon any of the secret ingredients, such as bitter seasoning, before he fully understood them.

Even if taking the secret recipe: bitter seasoning could allow Noivern to leap to the level of a quasi-legendary, the price would be far too high.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu's face turned ashen.

Although he didn't intend to feed the Soundwave Dragon the Secret Bitter Seasoning, Xia Yu still needed to support a new "Sky Treasure Master" so that he could continuously provide him with the Secret Bitter Seasoning.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu glanced at the heavily injured Charmeleon beside him.

This Charmeleon... is quite suitable, after all, Charmeleon evolves into Charizard, and Charizard also has the Flying attribute. In addition, this Charmeleon has the aptitude of Master, perfectly meeting the conditions to become the Lord of the Skies. However, there is a crucial problem, that is, this Charmeleon's strength is too weak.

It will take at least a few more years for it to grow to the level of a master.

Therefore, the new Sky Master can only be chosen from the Master Pokémon of the other six peaks.

Ancient Giant Dragonfly, Warrior Eagle, Vulture Na, Archaeopteryx, Sonic Dragon, Iron Neck and Roaring Moon.

Forget it, we can put the matter of the Lord of the Sky aside for now and talk about it later.

The most urgent task was to rush back to the rock wall area. Just as the battle reached its climax, Uncle Lu, Jian Yi, and Mi Ye all sent him messages that the siege of the Rock Wall Treasure Master had begun!

Just as Xia Yu was about to set off, his secret realm communicator made a "ding" sound.

"Elijah has already subdued that hairy cliff crab!" Xia Yu looked at the message on the secret realm communicator, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

He never expected that Elijah and his group would subdue the Rock Wall Treasure Master, Hairy Crab, in such a short time!

Subduing the Rock Wall Treasure Master is a minor matter; the key is the secret recipe guarded by the Rock Wall Treasure Master: the sweetener.

This is the most important thing.

"Wait for me, I'm coming right away." Xia Yu sent a message, and without even taking a break, he immediately mounted the sonic dragon and headed towards the mysterious valley.

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A dozen minutes later.

When Xia Yu hurriedly returned to the Mysterious Valley, the champions from the United States had already left, leaving only the champions from China and a pile of hairy crab corpses, a scene of utter devastation.

"Where are Elijah and the others?"

Xia Yu rode the Sonic Dragon down from the sky, landing beside Lü Tinghe and Mi Ye. Then, with a light leap, he landed steadily, looked around, and his expression was serious.

“They’re gone.” Lu Tinghe’s calm voice rang out. He looked at Xia Yu and slowly said, “Eleja and the others acted quickly, gathering nearly twenty Master-level Pokémon. They defeated Crab in just a few minutes. Even if we wanted to stop them, it was too late.”

"Furthermore, Elijah only sent one Pokémon to fight at the crucial moment, and the rest of the time he was on guard against us, which is why it was inconvenient for us to take action."

Upon hearing this, Xia Yu took a deep breath and nodded slightly. After a moment of silence, his gaze fell on the three champions, and he took the initiative to speak: "The responsibility for this matter lies with me. I misjudged the situation. I did not expect Elijah to have such a high level of influence, and to be able to gather so many champions to help in such a short period of time."

Xia Yu took the initiative to assume responsibility. As the person in charge of this operation, he bore an unshirkable responsibility for Elijah's successful subjugation of the Rock Wall Treasure Master, the Hairy Crab, and his safe escape.

Now that things have come to this, there's no point in discussing who's right and who's wrong. The most urgent thing now is to find a way to retrieve the Cliff Crab, the treasure master of the rock wall... or at the very least, find the secret recipe guarded by the Cliff Crab: the sweetener.

“Uncle-Master Lü, Champion Jian Yi, Champion Mi Ye, there’s no point in us staying here any longer. You two hurry up and continue searching the secret realm. I’ll go look on the rock wall again and see if I can find anything,” Xia Yu said.

Perhaps out of concern for the Chinese champion, Elijah and his group left in a hurry. They only took away the Rock Wall Treasure Master, the Hairy Crab, without thoroughly searching the entire steep cliff face, which gave Xia Yu an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

If Xia Yu could find even one of the secret sweeteners on the rock face, he would accept the result!

"Okay." Lü Tinghe and the others nodded slightly.

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Xia Yu rode the Sonic Dragon directly to the top of the cliff and began searching from top to bottom.

If there is any secret ingredient here, the most likely place to find it is at the top of a cliff. The further down you go, the less likely the secret ingredient is to be found.

The Sonic Dragon flapped its wings and landed at the top of the cliff, beginning a serious search. In just a moment, several pink, tender young plants appeared before Xia Yu's eyes.

“This is…” Looking at the few tender seedlings in front of him, Xia Yu’s eyes revealed a hint of joy.

【Secret Recipe: Sweetener】(S-Rank Item, Unripe): One of the secret seasonings, guarded by the Rock Wall Treasure Lord, a mysterious material containing rock-type energy, possessing powerful effects, but also possessing powerful side effects.

Effect 1: Rock-type Pokémon will experience a significant boost in potential after consuming this (a Master-level Rock-type Pokémon will break through to pseudo-legendary level potential). However, once consumed, its potential will never be able to improve further, and it will need to continuously consume the Secret Seasoning (HIP): Sweetener at regular intervals. If it fails to continuously consume HIP: Sweetener, its potential and strength will decline. (Only pseudo-legendary level Pokémon can cultivate new HIP: Sweeteners.)

Effect 2: Consumed by Guleton or Milton, their aptitude will be elevated to the quasi-god level without any side effects. Consuming five secret seasonings will elevate Guleton or Milton's aptitude to the god level.

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The effects of Secret: Sweet and Secret: Bitter are exactly the same, except one is used on Rock-type Pokémon and the other on Flying-type Pokémon.

Although these few plants of the secret recipe sweetener are just tender shoots, they have at least preserved the flame of the recipe.

In this light, although Elijah took away the Rock Wall Treasure Master, the Hairy Crab, he missed out on the real treasure!

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