Chapter 334 Notes and the Method of Purifying the Treasure of Disaster

The Grass Z Pure Crystal on his wrist seemed to have lost all its energy and suddenly became extremely dim.

Luo Mu knew that this was the cooling time of the Grass Z Pure Crystal. Next, the Grass Z Pure Crystal would automatically absorb the sunlight and moonlight from the sky and automatically complete the charging.

However, the prerequisite is to leave this tomb first.

With Serpentis' special attack +6 and "Colorful Flower Blossom" based on Leaf Storm, no matter how strong the clay giants are, they will be wiped out by Serpentis in one breath.

After being defeated, the huge bodies of the clay giants turned into bright purple light spots that illuminated the entire surrounding space before collapsing, and like a rushing river, they re-merged into the circular floor with mysterious patterns.

Although his expression did not change, Luo Mu, who had consumed a lot of physical energy, twitched his brows and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

This thing won’t happen again, right?
Fortunately, although the ancient people's technology could create artificial Pokémon such as Clay Titan and Magearna, they did not master any black technology that could generate energy out of thin air and complete charging in one second.

After the clay giants turned into points of light and returned to the floor, there was no sign of them reappearing.

But this phenomenon still aroused the interest of Luo Mu and Lei He.

There are also many trainers who use Clay Titan. After losing their combat ability, their Clay Titan will fall down like other Pokémon, instead of returning to a space under the floor like the Clay Titan in this tomb.

After a brief discussion, Lei He and Luo Mu reached a consensus.

Perhaps the ancient Padya Empire had some technology similar to the modern Pokeball, which could allow the clay giants bound here to return to the "Pokeball" after being defeated, and then start again after accumulating energy again.

Or perhaps the ancient Padyan Empire modified the method of making clay giants, allowing them to be deeply bound to the land they protect, so that even if they were defeated, they would have a chance to make a comeback.

But no matter what, under the swift battle of Luo Mu and the monarch snake, the four clay giants were defeated before they even had the chance to make any impact on this space.

The possibility that the aftermath of the battle, which Leihe was worried about, would destroy the structural balance of the tomb was completely blocked by Luo Mu and the Monarch Snake.

After walking through the wide space, Luo Mu and Lei He saw two passages leading to nowhere.

There was no light at all inside the dark and deep passage, as if it was the gaping mouth of a giant beast. Once you entered, you would be completely swallowed up.

Lei He's left hand stretched out like lightning and blocked Luo Mu. At the same time, she asked Luo Mu to wait for a while.

Now that Luo Mu has resolved the battle, whether it is a multiple-choice question with two choices or ensuring the safety of the tomb exploration journey, it is his job to do.

Lei He did not rashly enter either of the two passages. She just took out a bunch of gadgets from her backpack and skillfully installed them on the edges of those passages.

Leihe explained while installing it.

"This is a necessary preparation to avoid situations where the mechanism automatically triggers the blockade of the passage after we enter it, trapping us inside."

Luo Mu looked at Leihe thoughtfully. She was not only busy running around, but also released her Zoroark and Squid King to help. He understood why she reacted so strongly to these two arched passages that looked a bit like doors.

It's just like the plots that often appear in horror movies and tomb-raiding movies.

After the protagonists entered a certain passage, the door behind them suddenly closed and the lock from the outside was automatically locked, forcing them to continue exploring with no choice but to bite the bullet.

Leihe is preventing this from happening.

After a while, Lei He finished all the work. After looking at Luo Mu, she randomly chose the passage on the left and prepared to continue exploring inside.

According to Leihe herself, it doesn't matter which side you choose.

Anyway, there is a 50% chance of passing the level, or there is a possibility of reaching a dead end, but even if they reach a dead end, they still have the opportunity to return and take the right path again.

All that is wasted is the time spent on trial and error.

In the passage, the figures of the two people slowly merged into the darkness as the light of the flashlight gradually faded away.

A few moments.

"Something's wrong. Something's wrong."

It has been about ten minutes since they entered the passage. According to Leihe's understanding of the tomb, after passing the clay giant who is equivalent to the last guard, they are almost far from the real treasure point or important location in the tomb.

However, not only was this passage very long and winding, but Leihe didn't even find any trace of traps. It was completely unguarded.

This was totally different from the dangerous traps she and Luo Mu had experienced before.

In other words, we have prepared so many insidious and tricky traps, and four huge clay giant guards, so why are you pretending to be innocent now?
It was not until the flashlight illuminated the wall at the end that Leihe was sure that this passage was a dead end.

but
"what is that?"

Lei He, who had long been accustomed to the light from the flashlight, could not help but squint her eyes and look at the strange stone at the end of the passage, feeling curious.

It was a strange yellowish-brown stone with many cracks. It looked like the kind of stone commonly seen on the roadside, and it had an inconspicuous feeling.

If a stone had not suddenly appeared in this place where there was nothing but walls, floor and ceiling on all sides, Leihe would not even notice that thing.

She wanted to say something or write something, but a hand suddenly reached out and forcibly turned off the light of Leihe's flashlight. At the same time, the other hand waved in front of Leihe's mask, reminding her to be quiet.

Leihe's body was a little stiff.

Although she didn't know why Luo Mu's reaction was so big, she still kept her mouth shut and followed Luo Mu's eye hints. She didn't make any sound and slowly exited the passage on the left.

This back and forth directly wasted more than half an hour.

When they returned to the outside of the passage, they indeed found an object similar to a stone door in the gap at the edge of the passage. They wanted to break out, but it was stuck because of Leihe's preparation.

This passage was indeed the wrong one.

Facing Lei He's puzzled look, Luo Mu also explained to her directly: "The thing just now is called a keystone, and it is the carrier of a Pokémon called Flower Rock Monster."

According to legend, Lagann is a Pokémon created by 108 souls gathering together. Because there are evil souls mixed in it, Lagann always acts as an evil creature and does many evil things.

Although there are also good flower monsters, like the one in Zhulan.

But whether it was the inexplicably cold environment in the passage just now, or the ominous aura emanating from the keystone, Luo Mu could judge that this flower rock monster at the dead end of the tomb passage was probably not an easy creature to serve.

The abilities of ghost-type Pokémon are always strange and changeable. In addition, Luo Mu did not bring Mimikyu with him this time. After comprehensive judgment, he thought it would be better to pretend that he did not see the keystone and leave directly.

Fortunately, this tomb has probably never been visited by anyone, and the flower rock monster in the keystone is probably in a deep sleep. As long as no one makes a loud noise to wake it up, it will not wake up.

Upon hearing that the yellowish stone was the keystone where the Flower Rock Monster was living, Lei He was surprised but also felt more scared.

If possible, she didn't want to face those ghost-type Pokémon that were famous for their strange abilities, especially the Grunt, whose absolute notoriety frightened everyone among them, the tomb raiders.

"Let's take the right passage this time."

The two said in unison.

This time, not only was the length of the passage greatly shortened, but the main tomb chamber, which was the target of Lei He and Luo Mu, also appeared normally at the end of the passage.

When the heavy stone door was opened, the dust that had accumulated for quite a long time fell down. Fortunately, the masks of the two people could protect against this level of dust without any problem, and respiratory infections were impossible.

Walking into the interior space behind the stone gate, it is more like a large room composed of many small rooms rather than a tomb.

Lei He excitedly looked for the room where the paper documents were stored.

Luo Mu visited the tomb everywhere.

In the center of the tomb chamber is a coffin covered with gorgeous silk and jewels, indicating that the tomb owner must have put a lot of things in his bag when he was an official.

Various funerary objects are placed around the coffin, including pottery, jade, bronze, etc. These funerary objects are exquisitely crafted, representing the glory of the past Padya Empire. They are considered valuable objects worth a fortune in the outside world and are deeply loved by antique collectors.

But neither Luo Mu nor Lei He, who had retired from the underworld, had any interest in these things.

Luo Mu shone the flashlight on the walls of the surrounding space.

As expected, there were many abstract murals carved on the walls, as well as a bunch of ancient characters that Luo Mu could not understand.

But even if he couldn't understand it, Luo Mu could roughly guess what the content of the mural was.

Just as Lei He said, the romantic history of the tomb's owner, the official who served closely to the emperor of the ancient Parthenon Empire, has almost no reference value.

At this time, Lei He's excited voice sounded in the second room on Luo Mu's left.

"Sure enough, his notes recorded the situation at that time!"

"After absorbing many desires and evil thoughts, the auspicious instrument that exploded in the hands of the emperor of the Padya Empire was completely reversed and turned into the four disasters called the Treasure of Disaster."

"The crisis in the capital of the Padia Empire was finally suppressed by the Pokémon Tamers, who used eight stakes to suppress and seal them into four ancestral halls."

"The story is true. In the torrent of history, this incident really happened!"

When Luo Mu came to the room full of parchment scrolls and some old books, he just saw Lei He's eyes shining and she was "murmuring" to herself in an uncontrollable voice of surprise at the yellowed parchment scroll in her hand.

It seems that Leihe is extremely excited about the fact that the legend is real. "By the way, perhaps in the fragments of words in other notes, we can find clues about the 32 stakes and the Sealed Shrine!"

Leihe started searching the room again.

Luo Mu frowned slightly and suddenly asked, "After finding the stake and the seal shrine, what are you going to do? Unlock the seal?"

".There should be other parchment scrolls with some fragments of information."

Lei He avoided the topic and picked up another old parchment scroll and began to decipher the ancient words on it.

The whole room fell into silence for a moment until Leihe finished interpreting and read out the contents of the parchment scroll.

"That Pokémon trainer used his own life to suppress the four great treasures of disaster. Later, the owner of the tomb contacted the other party's descendants and learned some information from them."

"There is one Pokémon for each shrine. The eight stakes around the shrine are used to suppress the power of disaster."

"In other words, if you pull out all the corresponding stakes, you can free the Pokémon known as the Pokémon of Disaster."

"But if you want to pull out these stakes, you need someone with no distractions in his mind to remove their seals."

The more Lei He interpreted, the more her brows furrowed.

He regarded the Treasure of Disaster as the treasure he had always dreamed of, and wanted to prove its existence and take it for himself.

Can I really pull out those stakes as I am now?

Seeing Lei He fall silent after reading the notes, Luo Mu emphasized: "Padia is peaceful now, and everything is thriving. Once the seal is broken, the disasters distorted by the desires of selfish and greedy people will surely wreak havoc on this land again."

"You can't rashly break the seal without any preparation. If you do that, you will only act for your own selfish desires."

Lei He felt a little embarrassed by what Luo Mu said, and was completely unable to refute what Luo Mu emphasized.

Indeed, she only wanted to see the legendary existence with her own eyes, and it would be best if she could possess it, but she never considered what changes would occur after releasing the treasure of disaster.

But this was the goal that drove her to get to shore, obtain an archaeologist certificate, and even join Orange College. Now that things have come to this, how can she just give up?

Lei He knew very well that if she insisted on breaking the seal, she would definitely be subdued by Luo Mu next.

While enjoying the convenience, she could not stop the other changes caused by Luo Mu's companionship.

Isn't there a way to have the best of both worlds?

Lei He kept browsing the notes until she saw something on a parchment scroll. As if she had found new hope, Lei He shouted to Luo Mu, "Look quickly. There should be a wooden scroll with some important information somewhere in this room or tomb!"

"The content recorded there may very well be the method that can perfectly fulfill your wish!"

Luo Mu looked at Lei He deeply, without saying a word, and started looking for the wooden slips that Lei He mentioned.

Soon Luo Mu made a discovery.

Among a pile of burial objects next to the coffin, a wooden scroll full of traces of time lay there quietly.

Picking up the wooden slip, Luo Mu handed it to Lei He who came after hearing the news.

He had read the text above. It cannot be said that he could not understand it, but it can be said that he could not understand the meaning of those weird characters at all.

After a moment, Leihe, who had completed the interpretation, shared with Luo Mu with shining eyes the real purpose of the officials' contact with the trainers, as well as the second half of the work that the Pokémon trainer who suppressed the Treasure of Disaster was unable to continue.

After the destruction of the royal city of the Parthian Empire, during the reconstruction process, the emperor who caused the treasure of disaster to fully awaken fell seriously ill and passed away before the reconstruction of the royal city was completed.

The next emperor of Padya to take office was considered one of the rare wise rulers in history.

Knowing the disaster brought about by his father, the emperor, feeling guilty and wanting to make amends, sent the owner of the tomb to contact the descendants of the Pokémon tamers who suppressed the four disasters.

Because of this, the tomb owner's notes frequently mentioned that descendant.

The contents of the notes are ultimately incomplete.

The contents on the wooden slips recorded all the causes and processes.

The 32 stakes corresponding to the four shrines not only have the function of suppressing the power of disaster, their real use is to connect to the source of curses, desires and evil thoughts of the treasure of disaster through these 32 stakes, and completely purify them from the root.

After the purification is completed, the treasures of disaster will turn back into auspicious instruments that bring peace and tranquility. Then the seal can be opened, allowing the four treasures of disaster... no, the four treasures of auspiciousness to see the light of day again.

Unfortunately, such a far-sighted tamer died of exhaustion after suppressing the four disaster treasures. The second generation of tamers were far inferior to their predecessors, and the sudden death of their predecessors even led to a knowledge gap.

Even with the help of the Padya Empire, the tomb owner and the second-generation trainer traveled to many places but could not find the necessary items to purify the curse, evil thoughts and desires that contaminated the treasure.

".What is necessary is clear water that can purify all impurities. Just find it and sprinkle it evenly on the wooden stakes until thick black smoke comes out of the stakes. Then the purification of a stake is successfully completed."

"Once you have purified the corresponding eight stakes, you can go to the shrine and unlock the seal on the Pokémon that has been transformed into a treasure of good fortune."

"These are things that the previous generation of trainers mentioned, but we still have no idea what the clear water that purifies all filth is. Even if we use the empire's intelligence network, we can't get any useful clues from other empires and countries."

"We traveled thousands of miles and searched for nearly ten years, but in the end, we found nothing. The depressed emperor passed away, worried about the seal that would be left to future generations and might collapse at any time."

Lei He read out the last paragraph of the text recorded on the wooden slip, her expression slightly embarrassed.

Although she was very interested in history and legends, just like the second-generation tamer and the tomb owner, she was also completely clueless about the so-called "clear water that purifies all filth."

Different from Leihe.

At this moment, Luo Mu had an epiphany.

Perhaps it was because of her question that Leihe chose to continue searching for the complete method in the tomb. Otherwise, it would be impossible to find this wooden slip that did not exist at all in the game.

It is even more impossible to find a way to purify the desires, evil thoughts and curses that have tainted the Treasure of Disaster.

Regarding the word purification, in fact, in Luo Mu's impression, there are many Pokémon that can do this.

Just like Suicune who purifies polluted water.

However, if the condition is limited to "clear water that purifies all filth", Luo Mu's mind suddenly appeared the image of a Pokémon with a black body like a mermaid and flowing long hair.

He was a colleague and companion of Tapu Moo, who taught White Fluffy and Flower Therapy their special green grass field moves, and taught Mud Horse how to use plowing moves to create the most fertile land.

Its name is Tapu Fin-Fin, the guardian of the islands in the Alola region, a water + fairy Pokémon.

Tapu Fin-Fin is the guardian deity of Poni Island who controls water. Its habitat deep in Poni Island is covered by thick fog and is revered by people.

If some pink and black Tapu Butterfly Pokémon are Pokémon that Luo Mu tries his best not to contact because they will cause trouble for him, then Tapu Fin is in some sense even better than Tapu Butterfly.

Tapu Finfin is skilled in manipulating water and has the ability to generate thick fog.

Because he hates getting hurt in battle, Tapu Fin-Fin tends to create thick fog to interfere with his opponent's mind, confusing them and causing them to commit self-destructive actions.

But this mist has another function - it allows people or Pokémon to see their most important existence that has passed away.

Just like an episode in the Pokémon Sun and Moon animation, Mao entered the mist of Tapu Fin-Fin, where he saw his deceased mother, and then encountered the grateful Pokémon, Shaymin, who was suspected to be the reincarnation of his mother.

Xiaozhi's Tolcat saw the dead Hound in the fog and learned the Flame Fang move from the Hound.

Even though he was a little reluctant, Luo Mu had always wanted to meet Tapu Fin-Fin.

If you want to untie the knot in the heart of Dragonite's mother, Dragonite leader, besides Celebi and Dialga who can travel through time and space but whose whereabouts are uncertain, it would be easier to succeed if you go to Mist of Tapu Fin-Fin who has a fixed residence and can also see the dead.

But it just so happens that Tapu Finfin has another ability besides creating fog.

It can produce special water that purifies the body and mind and removes impurities.

This special water called the Water of Purification is exactly the same as what was written on the wooden slip: "Clear water that purifies all filth."

If Tapu Fin-Fin's Purifying Water is the "clear water that purifies all filth", it makes sense why the second generation of Pokémon Tamers and Tomb Masters have never found it.

You know, the Alola Islands at that time were still isolated from the world!

Even in the last hundred years, the Alola Islands have only begun to have frequent exchanges with the continents of other alliance regions.

It makes perfect sense logically.

And if you want to obtain this purified water, you must endure the mist created by Tapu Fin-Fin and gain its recognition.

"Isn't this too much of a coincidence?"

Luo Mu's eyes widened, as if he was shocked by this series of coincidences.

Now, should I include a trip to the Alola region again in my itinerary?
(End of this chapter)