# Chapter 269: A Chill Spreads
Mewtwo turned its head to look to the side. It turned out that Vaporeon, leading the Gyarados and Clawitzer, had collectively used the Rain Dance move, helping it suppress Delphox's flames.
Seeing this, Delphox used Sunny Day, wanting to dispel the clouds and rain to remove the suppression the rain had on Fire-type moves. However, it was already distracted, simultaneously controlling Heat Wave and Fire Pledge. Now, having to compete for weather control with a large group of Water-type Pokémon, it was truly feeling overwhelmed.
Seeing so many companions helping it, Mewtwo was a little moved. It let out a roar, and a layer of deep purple radiance suddenly appeared on its body. Immediately after, a Psychic Power storm emerged. Wherever the storm swept, the flames there would be extinguished.
It turned out that Mewtwo had also been quietly using strengthening moves before, but it was using the Calm Mind move. Calm Mind is not as effective as Nasty Plot in boosting Special Attack, and coupled with Mewtwo's move mastery not being as high as Zhi Huo's, it took a bit more time.
After finishing its strengthening, Mewtwo used its signature move, Psystrike.
With a crisp sound, the Trick Room created by Delphox was actually torn apart by Mewtwo using Psychic Power.
Freed from the constraints of the Trick Room, Mewtwo soared into the Sky, the radiance on its body flickering rapidly. The injuries caused by the flames earlier instantly recovered.
Seeing this scene, Delphox's expression changed. It knew very well that once Mewtwo escaped from the Trick Room, it would not be easy to catch it again.
Delphox was just about to try using Trick Room one more time to see if it would succeed, but how could Mewtwo let it have its way? Mewtwo cast a contemptuous gaze at it and mockingly raised its middle finger.
The move Taunt makes the opponent angry, causing them to lose their mental state, so that for a period of time, the opponent can only use attack-type moves.
As expected, as Mewtwo finished its actions, Delphox's heart was instantly filled with rage, and its attempt to use Trick Room failed.
Unable to use status moves and having to purely compete in attack, could Delphox still have a chance of winning? A chill spread through its heart for a moment.
On the other side, the battle between Bai Ye and Golurk also entered a heated phase.
The two Pokémon were flying at high speed in the Sky, already having flown an unknown distance. Bai Ye flew in front, and Golurk chased behind. Both of them had accumulated quite a few injuries from the back-and-forth battle.
Although Golurk could fly, its speed was not fast. It would be at a disadvantage when engaged in a chase battle with Bai Ye in the air. Therefore, even though Bai Ye's strength was not as high as its own, it did not fall into too much disadvantage in the battle.
Golurk was AZ's strongest Pokémon and the one that had been by his side the longest. It was not easy for Bai Ye to defeat it.
As Bai Ye was flying, it suddenly stopped in Mid-air. Seeing this scene, Golurk's heart rejoiced, and it immediately raised its Shadow Punch and rushed forward.
However, as it flew, a bottomless black vortex suddenly appeared before it, emitting a terrifying suction force. If it hadn't braked in time, it would have likely been sucked in.
At this moment, Bai Ye used Teleport, suddenly appearing behind the black hole, its entire body emitting seven-colored radiance as it crashed towards Golurk.
Golurk had just escaped the black hole's suction force with lingering fear and was completely unable to spare attention for Bai Ye, getting hit squarely by Bai Ye's Dazzling Gleam.
But Bai Ye's attack happened to land precisely on Golurk's chest. With a 'crack' sound, the seal on its chest shattered.
Golurk's chest had a golden crack that extended from its shoulder down to its lower abdomen, with a seal diagonally affixed to the crack. Legend has it that once this seal is opened, Golurk will go berserk.
"Golurk~"
Indeed, as the seal shattered, Golurk let out a roar. Streaks of black radiance burst forth from the crack on its chest, emitting terrifying energy fluctuations.
At the same time, Golurk's aura also began to climb steadily, but that aura was extremely violent.
Golurk's shoulders and the backs of its hands had golden spiral patterns, and its eyes were also golden. But as the seal shattered, both the spiral patterns and its eyes were dyed pitch black.
Golurk had lost its mind!
"Golurk~"
Golurk accelerated, instantly arriving beside Bai Ye, raising its fist and smashing it down fiercely using Shadow Punch.
Golurk's ability is Iron Fist, which boosts the power of punch-based moves. Coupled with Ghost-type moves countering Bai Ye, once hit by its fist, the outcome was predictable.
Seeing this, Bai Ye quickly used Reflect for defense.
With a clang, Golurk's fist struck the Reflect, and was defended against by the Reflect.
One punch wasn't enough, so it threw another. At this point, Golurk had fallen into a frenzy due to the shattering of the seal. Only the urge to attack remained in its mind. Its eyes flickered with cold radiance as it pounded the Reflect again and again.
Finally, with a series of crisp sounds, cracks appeared on the Reflect, and it looked like it was about to shatter.
Bai Ye's eyes flickered with purple radiance, and Psychic Power poured out wildly, acting on Golurk's body. Although cracks had appeared on Golurk's body due to the Psychic Power's pressure, it seemed to feel no pain, only knowing to continuously pound the Reflect.
At this moment, Bai Ye suddenly freed up a hand and created a black hole beside Golurk. The suction force generated by the black hole absorbed the black radiance emanating from Golurk's chest, strand by strand.
Golurk ignored the black hole and continued to relentlessly pound Bai Ye's Reflect.
As time passed, the black radiance overflowing from Golurk's chest became less and less, and its movements also became increasingly sluggish.
When the radiance completely disappeared, Golurk suddenly stopped moving, and its body plummeted straight downwards, as if it were a machine that had suddenly shut down.
A "boom" sound came from below, and the Ground was smashed into a large pit by the heavy Golurk.
Bai Ye thought for a moment and flew downwards.
Now, let's look at Lopunny and Sigilyph.
Sigilyph flapped its wings, chasing behind Lopunny. Purple radiance continuously shot out from the single eye on its head; this was formed by Psybeam.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
However, Lopunny was too agile. With a slight exertion of force from its two long legs, it could easily jump from one tree to another, leaving only large pits blasted out by Sigilyph in the Original spot.
Lopunny used the Agility move, continuously circling around Sigilyph. Taking advantage of Sigilyph's inattention, it leaped behind it and used Ice Punch to smash its back.
But Sigilyph seemed to have eyes on its back. The moment Lopunny got close, it suddenly turned around, emitting an intensely strong radiance that was hard to ignore.
Suddenly, an invisible pressure appeared, instantly pressing Lopunny to the Ground. The overwhelming pressure made it almost unable to breathe.
Sigilyph was using the Gravity move.
"Milu!!!"
Lopunny propped itself up on the Ground with its two long legs, and its long, powerful rabbit ears also propped against the Ground. The great force caused cracks to appear in the Ground beneath it.
Amidst a roar, streaks of golden lightning shot out from Lopunny's body, hitting Sigilyph unexpectedly.
This was Thunderbolt, which it had learned from its husband, Heliolisk.
Although Lopunny is not skilled at Special Attack moves, Sigilyph is a Flying-type Pokémon after all, and is countered by Electric-type moves. Therefore, the moment a tingling sensation came from its body, it instinctively relaxed its control over the Gravity move.
Seizing this opportunity, Lopunny leaped up. Because it used too much force, the Ground was directly stomped into a large pit by it.
Sigilyph had no time to react and was struck on the back by Lopunny, who descended from the Sky. With a scream, ice began to form on Sigilyph's body.
Lopunny had just used Ice Punch.
Seeing this, Lopunny was about to press the advantage, when suddenly a flash of radiance appeared on Sigilyph's body, and the ice on its body disappeared. However, half of the running Lopunny's body was suddenly frozen, causing it to freeze stiff in the Original spot.
It turned out that Sigilyph had just used Psycho Shift, transferring its own status condition to Lopunny.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Sigilyph used the Roost move. White radiance appeared on its body, and immediately after, all the injuries on its body began to disappear.
It's no wonder Psychic-type Pokémon are difficult to deal with. They are good at various status moves, and their endless tactics always catch their opponents off guard.
Watching Sigilyph recover from its injuries, streaks of Air Cutter appeared around its body. Under its control, these Air Cutter attacks all shot towards Lopunny.
Lopunny wanted to dodge, but its frozen half body hindered its movement.
Boom!!!
With a blast, Lopunny was engulfed by the scattered flying dust and smoke, while Sigilyph quietly gazed forward.
Just as Sigilyph thought it was about to win, a white light pillar suddenly shot out from the dust and smoke, instantly hitting it.
This was Mirror Coat, which can return the Special Attack damage received by itself to the opponent at double the power!
As Sigilyph's scream rang out, it slowly fell from the air.
When the dust and smoke dispersed, Lopunny was covered in injuries, panting heavily as it knelt on the Ground. However, the ice on its body had disappeared.
Fortunately, it was wrapped in that layer of ice; otherwise, it might not have been able to withstand Sigilyph's full power attack, and certainly wouldn't have had the opportunity to counterattack with Mirror Coat.
After catching its breath slightly, Lopunny stood up and walked towards Sigilyph step by step.
Finally, there was the battle between Senior Ninetales and Torkoal. The battle between the two Fire-type Pokémon was the most spectacular. The surrounding Mountains and forests had turned into a Sea of Fire under their influence.
Senior Ninetales's ability is Flash Fire. Fire-type moves have no effect on it, so Torkoal had to find another way.
From the holes in the shell on its back, a large amount of black smoke continuously billowed out. This smoke was not ordinary smoke; it was all laced with toxic. Under the scorching of the fire waves, the toxicity quickly spread everywhere, swarming towards Senior Ninetales.
A green energy barrier surrounded Senior Ninetales's body, blocking all the poison gas outside.
This green light shield was formed by the Safeguard move, which protects the user from being affected by status conditions. Poisoned is naturally also a status condition.
It's only polite to reciprocate. Radiance flickered in Senior Ninetales's eyes, and then a beam shot out from between its eyebrows. This was the Psychic-type move Extrasensory.
Although Senior Ninetales is a pure Fire-type Pokémon, it is also very skilled at using Psychic-type moves.
Seeing this, Torkoal suddenly retracted its head and limbs into its shell, spraying out a large amount of flames from its entire body. Propelled by the flames, its body began to rapid spin at high speed. The flames formed a shield while spinning, deflecting Senior Ninetales's attack.
It cleverly used Flame Wheel, which is originally supposed to be an attack move, successfully defending against Senior Ninetales's attack.
When the spinning stopped, Torkoal condensed a huge golden ball of light in its mouth. The next second, the golden ball of light turned into a light pillar and shot towards Senior Ninetales. The golden light pillar even dyed half the Sky golden.
This was the powerful Grass-type move, Solar Beam. Because Senior Ninetales had already used Sunny Day before, sunlight shone everywhere at this moment, allowing Solar Beam, which originally needed to charge up to activate, to now be instantaneous.
Seeing this, Senior Ninetales opened its mouth and spat out a Flamethrower. Sunny Day can boost the Grass-type Solar Beam, and naturally, it can also boost the Fire-type Flamethrower!
The red Flamethrower and the golden light pillar collided violently in the air, causing a fierce explosion. Red sparks and golden specks of light scattered and flew everywhere, instantly igniting countless trees.
The impact of high-level Pokémon battles was truly too great. If the nearby Mountains didn't all belong to Bai Feng, who knows what kind of commotion would have been caused otherwise!
Although Solar Beam's power is great, Torkoal is not a Grass-type Pokémon after all, nor is it an offensive type Pokémon itself, so it couldn't exert its maximum power. Furthermore, Senior Ninetales's strength was slightly higher than Torkoal's, so in the end, Senior Ninetales's Flamethrower was still superior!
As Solar Beam was repelled, Senior Ninetales's flames engulfed Torkoal.
Unfortunately, being the same Fire-type Pokémon, Torkoal had resistance to Fire-type moves. Plus, it had used Amnesia multiple times before, increasing its Special Defense. Therefore, the damage caused by Senior Ninetales's attack was limited.
After the exchange of attacks ended, Senior Ninetales suddenly used Psych Up. This move can make its own ability changes the same as the opponent's.
Torkoal's Special Defense had been greatly increased by using Amnesia, and Senior Ninetales was the same at this moment.
Torkoal hadn't realized yet that a scheme had already formed in Senior Ninetales's mind. It continued to prepare its attack, and the golden light pillar formed by Solar Beam attacked again.
With a surprised gaze from Torkoal, Senior Ninetales stood in the Original spot and didn't move, allowing the light pillar to engulf itself.
Waiting until the light pillar dispersed, Senior Ninetales squatted there, covered in injuries, still keeping its eyes closed. Torkoal was unconvinced and activated Solar Beam again.
After this attack ended and the dust and smoke dispersed, Torkoal discovered that Ninetales's figure was gone. Before it could find Ninetales, a Dark Pulse suddenly appeared from behind it.
Boom!!!
The Dark Pulse hit a vital point, and Torkoal instantly fell to the Ground, unable to get up.
It turned out that at first, Senior Ninetales taking that hit head-on was to use Nasty Plot to strengthen itself so that it could achieve a one-hit KO against Torkoal, whose Special Defense had been strengthened.
And later, what Torkoal attacked was actually Ninetales's Substitute.
Substitute is a move where the user loses a portion of their HP to create a substitute identical to itself, which can withstand the damage the original body would receive.
As for the real Senior Ninetales, it had already used the Dig move long ago, silently sneaking to Torkoal's behind Underground.
Looking at the unconscious Torkoal, Senior Ninetales smiled smugly. Trying to fight your Senior Ninetales grandpa? You're still a bit too green!
It's just that when it used the Dig move and snuck Underground just now, why did it feel a bit cramped? Even though its figure is so slender and graceful.
(End of this chapter)