A ruin suddenly appears deep in the vast snowy wilderness at the far northeastern edge of the Tianyuan Continent.
The three major sects in the area immediately suppress the news and send their disciples and elders to explore it.
Bai Yang is an inner disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, one of the three major sects, and has taken the sect's Grand Elder as his master.
This exploration is the Grand Elder's test for Bai Yang. If he passes, the Grand Elder will take him in as a personal disciple, making him one of the Beast Taming Sect's direct disciples. He'll receive the sect's full support, including a wealth of cultivation techniques and resources.
Unfortunately, just as Bai Yang completes the test set by the Grand Elder, successfully contracts a Golden Core stage demon beast, and happily races toward the ruin's exit, the ruin suddenly begins to collapse.
The space inside the ruin shatters in an instant. Before Bai Yang and the many cultivators who haven't yet escaped can even react, they're swallowed by spatial rifts and vanish.
The beginning was great; it's one of the better Pokémon fanfics I've read. The theme is novel, with two time-travel scenarios, a fusion of modern and ancient cultivation with Pokémon, and the main character and his cousin's personalities and appearances are well-written. However, it changed from the later monster-fighting and level-up parts.
Nice!!!
Cultivation of immortality, Pokémon humanoid transformation, harem (mostly Pokémon-related). Giving it five stars for now (novel theme).