After taking back the dragon, Xiaozhi and Pikachu continued to step onto the cave floor and walked forward slowly.
As for why there is no rush at all...
"Well, the blue cotton bird is completely invisible."
Xiaozhi scratched his head. When he first entered the waterfall, he could still vaguely see a group of marshmallows, but after flying all the way to the position in front of him, he completely lost sight of it.
There's no point in being anxious.
Not to mention that he and Dr. Solans just met by chance... and the meteorite looked more like something of little use, so he was not too anxious.
At this moment, in front of Xiaozhi, there were several branching caves, large and small, with no end in sight, and each seemed to be connected to a different end point.
"What do you mean, Pikachu? Can your nose smell the direction?"
Xiaozhi looked at Pikachu on his shoulder.
And the latter just gave him a helpless expression.
It didn't even touch the meteorite skin, and even Emperor Yan's nose couldn't smell any trace of it.
Xiaozhi frowned secretly. There were five forked caves in front of him. If he chose one at random... At this moment, the Shining Talisman was lent to Xiaolan to ward off evil spirits. He was a little unsure of his luck.
Buzz...!!
At this time, the dragon scale fragment trembled again.
Xiaozhi subconsciously grabbed it in his hand. The latter seemed to be trembling with a tendency to move. Xiaozhi thought of something and quickly spread it flat in his palm.
Buzz...!
As the dragon scale fragments trembled, the tip of the fragment at the front slowly pointed in the direction of one of the bifurcated caves.
"It seems that this scale is really related to this cave...?"
Xiaozhi's eyes lit up, and he immediately continued to move forward under the guidance of the dragon scale fragments.
Five forks in the road...and five more forks in the road.
After walking for more than ten minutes in a row, Xiaozhi could no longer remember how many caves he had walked through. They were all intricately composed.
However, the inside of the cave path is still quite bright, so Pikachu does not need to use "Flash" to open the path.
And this dragon scale fragment will always be like a compass, pointing firmly in one direction...
...
Da da...!
At this time, Xiaozhi suddenly heard footsteps other than his own.
"Pica...!"
Pikachu also pricked up his ears and became alert.
And when Xiaozhi reached the end of this forked path, a white-haired boy also appeared in front of him.
It looked like it was coming from another fork in the road.
"Yuki?!"
"Ash?!"
The two blurted out at the same time, both recognizing each other.
The young man in front of him wearing a white hat with short hair was none other than Yushu whom he had met several times before.
At the latter's feet, there was also a colorful brown rat... It was Yushu's full-level straight-up bear.
Not only that, the two of them soon discovered a dragon scale fragment held in each other's hands.
"Why do you have this thing?!"
The two couldn't help but said in unison.
Xiaozhi naturally obtained this one from Heavenly King Genji. As for Yushu's one...
"Oh, I went to challenge the Chenghua Gym in Chenghua City before, and Mr. Qianli gave it to me as a bonus."
Yushu explained with a smile.
His journey does not have so many side missions and is simple and violent, so the progress is much faster than that of Ash.
Not only that, Yushu knew much more information than the simple "trial token" from King Genji.
Seeing that Xiaozhi was confused, the two of them happened to be tired from walking, so they temporarily sat on a rock platform to rest and communicate.
The token scales were sent out by a dedicated person from inside Meteor Falls... and they had been sent out for a long time.
Tennou Genji, who received the token at that time, didn't take the Meteor Falls token trial very seriously, and he had long forgotten about the information that was sent along with the token.
So when it was finally handed over to Xiaozhi, there was only a simple "trial token".
But Qianli, the owner of Chenghua Gym, is a very strict man.
Although he didn't take this kind of thing seriously, it seemed to be a trial exclusively for trainers with dragon attributes, and it conflicted with his normal attributes.
But Qianli instinctively wrote down the information about the person who delivered it that day.
"The location of the trial is within the meteor, and it probably started in the past few days..."
Seeing that there were only a few days left, Qianli had just returned from vacation and had no time to go to Meteor Falls again.
Just when Yuuki called, his daughter had just been taken care of by Dr. Odamaki, so Chisato simply gave the dragon scale fragment to Yuuki as a return gift.
Hearing this, Xiaozhi was slightly stunned. Heavenly King Yuanji didn't tell him the time of the trial. He came in completely at random.
Could this also hit the right time?
"I'm still the protagonist after all...!"
Thinking of this, Xiaozhi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
Youshu: "?"
However, he quickly regained his composure and continued:
"That Meteor Lane is probably at the end of these forked roads... As for the specific content of the trial, I don't know."
Meteor Falls has more than one entrance, and he did not enter from the position of Xiaozhi and Xiaogang.
Yushu has a strong sense of comparison with Xiaozhi, who is the same age as him but has become the trainer of the King.
Of course, the same is true for Xiaozhi.
He has already guessed that the latter is also an existence like him... He even traveled and adventured more than a year before him, and he had no reason to lose to the latter.
It's just that the two of them have not had any serious battles so far.
However, the two people who are also on the road to challenge the gym know that in the next Caiyou Alliance, they will inevitably have a real battle...
"In that case, let's use today's trial to test it first!"
“That’s really what I meant!!”
Xiaozhi and Yushu stood up at the same time, looking at each other with fiery eyes.
Without further delay, they held the compass and dragon scale fragment in their hands and continued towards the end of the forked path...
...
...
After walking for another ten minutes, the numerous forked roads finally came to an end.
Without the guidance of the dragon scale fragments, it is estimated that someone who has lived here for decades can rely on memory to enter and exit correctly.
The path suddenly became wider.
"This is...?!" "Hiss...?!"
But what made Xiaozhi and Xiaozhi widen their eyes and gasp was that there was a huge village in front of them.
This is a village of wooden houses surrounded by rock walls. The architectural style seems to be quite ancient, as if they are densely arranged together.
And this cave...can't even be called a cave anymore, it's just a world, extremely empty.
At least there is no end of the rock wall in sight.
High in the sky, there are several sharp rock ceilings that converge towards the middle, but leave gaps, revealing the normal sky sun above.
"Is it still open-air?"
Xiaozhi touched his head, full of surprise.
In other words, you can fly out of Meteor Falls from here?
At this time, a young man wearing linen robes, who looked about the same age as the two of them, slowly walked up to them and said politely: "Welcome to our Meteor House."
