Elf: This little Mao is very different.

"Next up is the preliminaries."

After attending the opening ceremony of the Caiyou Conference, Xiao Mao returned to the Pokémon Center with Mei and Touko.

Because the list of group matches for the next preliminary tournament will be announced in the lobby of the Elf Center.

"So Mei, do you know anything about the upcoming preliminaries?"

While waiting for the group match list, Toruko suddenly shifted her gaze to Mei and asked with a smile.

"Of course I know," Mei did not seem panicked this time about Toruko's sudden attack. Instead, she began to tell the story quite confidently.

"The 256 players who advance to the preliminary tournament from the previous preliminaries will participate in a three-round doubles match. Only those who win all the matches will advance to the next final tournament, and those who lose just one match will be kicked out."

After listening to Mei's understanding of the preliminaries, both Xiao Mao and Toruko who had just asked the question showed surprised expressions towards Mei.

"Mei, you actually know this information? Are you really the Mei I know?" Toruko looked at the somewhat unfamiliar Mei with a scrutinizing look.

"Sure, Mei!" At this time, Xiao Mao also gave Mei a thumbs up.

"Of course, after all, people grow up." After hearing the compliments from Xiao Mao and Toruko, Mei's pretty face suddenly smiled like a flower.

"Besides, I did a lot of homework beforehand."

"Well done, keep up the good work." Touzi nodded after hearing this.

"Then just wait and see." Mei also nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, the battle groups will be announced soon." Xiao Mao noticed Miss Joy who had already walked out, so he shouted to Mei and Toru who were still chatting.

"Oh well."

When Mei and Toruko heard this, they immediately shut their mouths and focused their eyes on the huge screen in the lobby of the Pokemon Center.

Afterwards, under the chairmanship of Miss Joy, the grouping for the preliminary round went smoothly. Both Xiao Mao and his three friends, as well as Xiao Zhi and his friends, found their groups.

As for the rest, all they had to do was wait quietly for their own match.

After a short day of rest, the next day soon arrived, which was the day when the preliminaries began.

Because the battles were held in different venues and the times were very close, Xiao Mao, Mei, and Toruko separated after breakfast and came to their own battle venues to prepare for their battles.

After two battles, Xiao Mao successfully defeated his opponent. Now, Xiao Mao only has the last one, who is also the most critical trainer, left. He only needs to defeat her, then Xiao Mao can successfully advance to the final tournament and enter the list of top 32.

"Dear audience, the preliminaries have finally entered the third round. The trainer who wins this battle will advance to the finals. So will this person be Xiao Mao or Rong Xiang?"

In Xiaomao's last battle, the host looked at Xiaomao and Rongxiang on the field and presided over this battle.

"Xiao Mao, Xiao Mao!" Because of his crushing victories in the previous battles, plus his handsome face, Xiao Mao has gained a lot of beautiful girl fans.

Look, these beautiful girl fans are all cheering for Xiao Mao.

"Now begins a doubles match between Rong Xiang from Green Town and Xiao Mao from Pallet Town. Each side can send out two Pokémons. When both Pokémons of one side lose their ability to fight, the match ends."

After the referee announced the battle rules, Xiao Mao threw out his Poké Ball immediately.

"Come on, Bangilas, the electric beast!"

After this battle, Xiao Mao sent out his own Banjiras and Electric Beast.

"I'm on to you, forest lizard, parasitic mushroom!"

Xiao Mao's opponent Rong Xiang sent out a forest lizard with a strength level of 42 and a parasitic mushroom with a strength level of 43.

"The game begins!" After the referee saw that Xiaomao and Rongxiang had sent out their elves, he immediately waved the flag and gave orders loudly.

"Let's go, Forest Lizard, Parasaurolophus, use Leaf Storm!"

At the beginning of the game, Rong Xiang gave an order to her forest lizard.

Then, countless leaves flashing green fluorescence, under the control of the forest lizard, turned into a green tornado and rushed towards Xiaomao.

"Banguiras, use Jet Fire!"

Bangilas obeyed Xiaomao's order and immediately took a step forward. Then, hot flames gushed out of his mouth continuously, meeting the flying leaf storm.

The flames continued to burn the incoming leaf storm. Even though it was jointly launched by the opponent's forest lizards and parasol mushrooms, it could not break through the obstacle of the jet of flames.

"Electric shock monster, lightning flash!"

The electric beast that was originally behind Bangilas also stood up at this time, used the lightning flash move, and quickly came to the forest lizard.

"Next is the Qi Fist!" Looking at the electric beast that was approaching the forest lizard, Xiao Mao immediately waved his hand and shouted at the electric beast.

In a moment, the electric monster swung its fist that flashed white light and hit the forest lizard that was unable to dodge.

The Maple Forest Lizard was knocked away on the spot by this attack, and even the attack of the Leaf Storm was interrupted.

However, due to the lack of support from the Forest Lizard's Leaf Storm and the gap in strength and hardware with the Parasol Mushroom, Bankiras's jet flames directly broke through the Leaf Storm and headed straight towards the Parasol Mushroom.

After a while, the jet of flames hit the Parasaurolophus, which was unable to dodge for a while. Because the fire element is very restrained by the Parasaurolophus with grass attributes, after receiving this attack, the Parasaurolophus directly lost its combat ability.

After seeing this, Rong Xiang on the opposite side had no choice but to take it back.

After losing the Parasol mushroom so simply, now only the injured forest lizard is left.

"Bankiras, sharp stone attack!" Xiao Mao glanced at the forest lizard that stood up again on the opposite side, and gave orders to Bankiras.

After Banguilas stepped heavily on the ground, dozens of sharp rocks appeared around him. Under Banguilas' control, these rocks smashed towards the forest lizard one after another.

"Forest lizard, lightning flashes!"

Faced with the overwhelming attack of sharp stones, the forest lizard used the Lightning Flash move and kept shuttling between the rocks at lightning speed, and took this as an opportunity to keep approaching Bangilas' position.

When they were not far from Bangilas, Rong Xiang seized the opportunity and shouted at the forest lizard.

"Now, Forest Lizard, use..."