Chapter Summaries

Mark sent Lan Run and the others to Ideal Land, then tested whether Hoopa's combined rings could connect the Rainbow R Organization Headquarters with Clear Stream Gym despite the time-space interference. The rings worked as a transfer route, and Mark began using them to return to Clear Stream Village.

• Mark sent Lan Run, Mi Yang, and the others to Ideal Land and asked Doctor Jialan to test Mi Yang and his Shiny Celebi with the prototype Mind Fluctuation Device.
• Mark warned Lan Run to keep Doctor Hosen from seeing Xerneas until Mark returned, and the group left on Articuno.
• Mew discovered how to use short-range Teleport under the interference, while Jirachi failed to master it and Hoopa Confined demonstrated its ring technique.
• Mark and the Pokemon tested Hoopa's combined rings, traveling between the headquarters and Clear Stream Gym with no harmful side effects despite occasional delays.
• Mark explained that combining Hoopa's Other-Dimensional Space and Other-Dimensional Shuttle let it connect the headquarters' time-space with Clear Stream Gym, then used the rings to return to Clear Stream Village.

Mark and Hoopa tested a dangerous ring combination that repeatedly damaged objects until Hoopa compressed an Oran Berry into a two-dimensional form. Mewtwo recognized that the berry existed in another dimension, and Hoopa celebrated Mark’s praise by starting to sign autographs again.

• Mark and Hoopa tested two white rings surrounding a black ring, but dozens of objects emerged damaged or transformed unpredictably.
• Hoopa sensed that an Oran Berry was still inside the rings and would emerge in a different way, though it could not explain how.
• Mark caught the berry as it emerged flattened into a two-dimensional form that still retained its weight, scent, and texture.
• Mewtwo examined the berry and told Mark that it seemed not to exist in this world, and Mark explained that it had been compressed into a two-dimensional world.
• Mark called Hoopa’s achievement extremely powerful, and Hoopa happily began signing autographs again.

Mark investigated Hoopa Confined's dimensional compression and learned that a two-dimensional Oran Berry could repair itself after being damaged. Back at Ideal Land headquarters, he heard that the Rainbow Guard had tried to seize the results of the Xerneas research, and Noah asked whether Mark had heard of transmigrators.

• Mark and Mewtwo tested the compressed Oran Berry, finding it resistant to ordinary damage and able to repair itself after Mewtwo cut it with an Aura Flame blade.
• Hoopa Confined repeatedly attempted to compress objects and eventually turned a bottle of Memory Potion into a two-dimensional card.
• Mark left the Frozen Tundra and returned to Ideal Land headquarters, where Noah and Doctor Jialan told him that the Life Reagent had briefly awakened a life-force response in Xerneas but had not revived it.
• Mark explained that the reagent contained Active Substance extracted from the battlefield between Xerneas and Yveltal, and said Doctor Hosen's arrival could improve their chances of reviving Xerneas.
• Noah and Doctor Jialan told Mark that the black-clad visitors belonged to the Rainbow Guard, which had tried to take their research results.
• Noah quietly asked Mark whether he had heard of transmigrators.

Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan told Mark about the transmigrators in the Rainbow Guard and warned that they might target him over his Xerneas research. Mark accepted their offer of an Emergency Escape Device but refused a bodyguard, though they arranged one anyway.

• Doctor Jialan and Doctor Noah explained that transmigrators came from another world and could strengthen Pokemon through a special blessing.
• Doctor Noah described how the Rainbow Guard ignored his training advice, stalled in their progress, and later resumed using his plans.
• Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan warned Mark that the Rainbow Guard might seize him once they learned he had researched Xerneas.
• Doctor Noah offered to find Mark a bodyguard, while Doctor Jialan suggested an Emergency Escape Device that could enable spatial travel.
• Mark said he could protect himself but agreed that he wanted the escape device, and Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan arranged a bodyguard with at least a Mature Stage Mythical Beast as its main Pokemon.

Mark led Ideal Land’s researchers in cultivating Xerneas and explored why cloned Legendary and Mythical Pokemon could not awaken. Doctor Hosen’s sudden drawing appeared to give Xerneas spirituality, and Mark recognized that same principle as key to his Immortal Path cultivation.

• Mark took command of Ideal Land’s researchers and coordinated the project to create Xerneas’s body.
• Mark explained his theory that cloned Legendary and Mythical Pokemon needed spirituality to awaken and connect with their authorities.
• While examining Xerneas’s Cultivation Container, Doctor Hosen became agitated, demanded paper and a pen, and drew a fantastical treant.
• Mark recognized that Xerneas’s spirituality had been born and understood its importance to his Immortal Path cultivation.
• Xerneas opened its eyes inside the Cultivation Container.

Xerneas emerged from its Cultivation Container and immediately went berserk, transforming Ideal Land’s headquarters into a vast sea of flowers while Mark evacuated and treated injured researchers. Lan Run became separated from Articuno in the strange rainforest-like environment and rode Suicune to search for it, remembering that Red Fire had gone mad after awakening.

• Xerneas shattered its Cultivation Container, and Mark realized its emotions were unstable as vines began trapping researchers.
• Mark used Golisopod and Zapdos to evacuate the injured to Experiment Base Number 4, where Mi Yang and Shiny Celebi treated them.
• Xerneas’s cry spread a strange fragrance and covered Ideal Land’s headquarters in flowers and vegetation.
• Lan Run ordered Articuno to use Absolute Zero, but the main experimental hall transformed into a rainforest and Articuno disappeared.
• Lan Run summoned Suicune to look for Articuno and remembered that Red Fire had attacked him after awakening.

Lan Run freed Red Fire, who appeared to remember a different Combat Training and displayed a new Bond Evolution technique. They followed the sounds of battle into the jungle, where the Gym Leader had subdued Xerneas with what Red Fire identified as Kakuna.

• Lan Run summoned Articuno to freeze a path and reach Red Fire, who emerged unharmed and confused about why Combat Training had started.
• Red Fire explained that he could transform his arm into a flaming Dragon Claw through Bond Evolution, then gave Lan Run a healing potion after an explosion injured him.
• Red Fire released Charizard and Registeel and headed into the jungle after another blast revealed writhing flesh and Caterpie-like heads.
• Lan Run followed Red Fire to find a white-coated young man punching Xerneas while dark red flesh pinned it down.
• The young man knocked Xerneas unconscious, and the flesh and heads contracted into a small Kakuna as Red Fire insisted he had been right.

Mark subdued the newly born Xerneas by beating it and then calming it, while the researchers discovered its life-giving power and volatile temperament. After apologizing for the damage and explaining that ordinary Trainers could not safely bond with it, Mark was asked why Xerneas seemed so close to him.

• Xerneas woke from its injuries and began to rage, but it calmed when Mark held his fist above its head and stared at it.
• Lan Run watched in disbelief as Mark's rough training method appeared to make Xerneas obedient.
• Doctor Noah, Doctor Jialan, and the other researchers arrived and observed Xerneas's recovery and the life-giving effects of its power.
• Xerneas became agitated when Doctor Jialan approached, and Mark warned the researchers that only he could safely get close to it.
• Mark apologized for failing to prepare for Xerneas's rampage and explained that its violent nature made Ideal Land's bonding technology difficult to use.
• Old Noah asked why Xerneas was close to Mark, and Mark blinked in surprise.

Mark agreed to become Xerneas’s Trainer after Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan explained that he could help with its training and protect himself from future threats. He captured Xerneas with an ordinary Pokeball after calming its power, then prepared to leave Ideal Land briefly.

• Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan urged Mark to become Xerneas’s partner, citing his expertise and the need to protect him.
• Doctor Noah introduced Lan Run and assigned him to help Mark with Pokemon training.
• Mark threw an ordinary Pokeball at Xerneas, but it exploded when Xerneas broke free.
• Mark calmed Xerneas and told it to control its power before throwing the Pokeball again.
• Mark successfully captured Xerneas and said he would keep it with him while he left Ideal Land for around half a day.

Mark told Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan he would briefly leave to reflect on insights he gained from Xerneas’s birth, then demonstrated martial arts that evoked Xerneas. Doctor Noah recognized the movements as Qian Cheng’s style, revealing that Qian Cheng belonged to the Natural Equilibrium Society and suggesting Mark meet him.

• Doctor Noah and Doctor Jialan offered to help Mark leave safely, and Mark assured them he expected to return within half a day.
• Lan Run saw Red Fire remember his year of uninterrupted Combat Training, then drink a Memory Potion and return to his muddleheaded state.
• Mark described his cultivation insights and demonstrated martial arts that made the researchers imagine Xerneas moving among them.
• Doctor Noah recognized Mark’s movements as similar to Qian Cheng’s martial arts and explained that Qian Cheng was part of the Natural Equilibrium Society.
• Doctor Noah suggested that Mark exchange pointers with Qian Cheng, whom he had once befriended before a fishing bet soured their relationship.

Mark arranged to meet Qian Cheng and recruited Lan Run as his assistant before beginning a journey through time to witness Mewtwo’s consciousness being born. Lan Run was swept through Hoopa’s Other-Dimensional Space and several shifts in time and space, apparently arriving in the past.

• Old Noah gave Mark the coordinates CU665 and told him about another Mark in the Natural Equilibrium Society who had been raised by a Zarude.
• Mark asked Old Noah to arrange a meeting with Qian Cheng, and Old Noah assigned Lan Run to accompany him.
• Mark required Lan Run to sincerely join the Clear Stream Gym, then invited him to serve as his assistant on a time-traveling journey.
• Mark explained that they would travel to witness the birth of Mewtwo’s consciousness, then took Lan Run through a ring into Hoopa’s Other-Dimensional Space.
• Jirachi, Mew, Hoopa, Victini, and other Pokémon accompanied Mark and Lan Run as they shifted through several places and times, leaving Lan Run believing they had reached the past.

Mark explained why he had chosen Lan Run as his Gym Leader Assistant and revealed that Celebi had brought them to the past near the time Mewtwo would develop consciousness. They entered Dr. Philin's research institute under invisibility, where Mark found Mewtwo's embryo and saw Dr. Philin acting crazed.

• Lan Run realized Mark was accompanied by several Mythical Pokemon, and Mark explained that they were his Pokemon.
• Mark explained how he had become Clear Stream Gym's Gym Leader and why he had selected Lan Run as his assistant.
• Mark told Lan Run that Celebi's improved time-space abilities had brought them to Mr. Mime Valley in the past, near the birth of Mewtwo's consciousness.
• Mark used Victini and Shaymin's invisibility powers to enter Dr. Philin's Mime Wall Research Institute with Lan Run and assigned him to patrol.
• Mark reached the institute's secret Experiment Base, found Mewtwo's embryo, and saw Dr. Philin looking crazed.

Mark observed Mewtwo’s consciousness emerge and refined his understanding of spirituality, authority, and his own power. After repeatedly revisiting the experiment, he returned to the Ideal Land with Lan Run and left Lan Run to train with Flaming, George, and the others.

• Mark and Lan Run witnessed Dr. Philin’s obsession with creating Mewtwo and learned that his wife argued with him because he prioritized the clone over resurrecting their daughter.
• Mark concluded that human emotions and the creators’ unstable minds had shaped Mewtwo’s and Xerneas’s spirituality, helping explain their violent behavior.
• After five days, Mewtwo’s consciousness formed, and Mark gained deeper insight into spirituality and the difference between secondary and personal authority.
• Mark realized Kakuna had begun transforming and had advanced further than he had, though its evolution remained incomplete.
• Mark and Lan Run repeatedly traveled back to observe Mewtwo’s embryo until Mark brought Lan Run to the Ideal Land and introduced him to Flaming, George, and the others for Combat Training.

Lan Run endured Combat Training in the Dream Cultivation World while Mark focused on finding a true method to become an Earthly Immortal. Mark realized that replacing his body through surgery would not be enough: he needed to awaken pure spirituality and merge it with his body, spirit, will, and power.

• Lan Run understood why Red Fire had warned him about Mark and given him Memory Potion, after enduring the year-long Combat Training in the Dream Cultivation World.
• Porygon AI estimated that Lan Run would reach rock bottom and condense his Heart of Strength in roughly thirty to sixty days.
• Mark planned to replace his flesh and bones while preserving his Aura Core and Aura Network, using Aura Power and Porygon AI to guide the surgery.
• After studying the births of Xerneas and Mewtwo, Mark realized that manufacturing an immortal body through surgery could not make him a true immortal.
• Mark concluded that he needed to produce pure spirituality, tune its resonance to his body, and merge it with his essence, energy, and spirit to transform into an Earthly Immortal.

Mark completed his preparations and successfully became an immortal by guiding spirituality into his body, power, and will. He learned that the transformation had killed him briefly, but he returned and reunited with the Pokémon waiting anxiously nearby.

• In the Dream Cultivation World, Mark finalized his method for ascending and synchronized the spiritual frequencies of his body, power, and will.
• Mark returned to Ideal Land with Red Fire and Lan Run, checked on Xerneas, and then went back to the OTZ404 Parallel Timeline.
• At Clear Stream Lake, Mark resonated with heaven and earth and began guiding spirituality into himself.
• Mark underwent a transformation in which his body, will, and power died before he emerged as an immortal with three flowers above his head.
• Mark remembered his brief death, dispelled the barrier around himself, and let Jirachi, Mew, Hoopa, and the others rush to him.

After Mark returned from death, his Pokémon gathered around him and learned that he had successfully become an immortal. Mark shed layers of his old body and demonstrated his new abilities by transforming the lakeshore and making Clear Stream Lake disappear into his sleeve.

• Jirachi and Mew begged Mark not to become an immortal, while Hoopa Confined argued that he should continue.
• Mark's Pokémon gathered around him after he revived, and Victini noticed that his skin was cracking and peeling away.
• Mark explained that the falling fragments were the cast-off shell from his ascension, and the Pokémon asked whether he had succeeded.
• Mark revealed his immortal abilities by filling the lakeshore with lotuses, creating a spring, and renewing the land.
• Mark flicked his sleeve and made Clear Stream Lake disappear, prompting Jirachi and Mew to search inside it.

Mark discovered that becoming an immortal had given him powerful Pokemon abilities, including the power to restore Clear Stream Lake and its inhabitants. After he stroked the little ones and the Magikarp, the little ones felt smarter and the Magikarp began evolving into Gyarados.

• The little ones searched Mark and his white coat but found nothing unusual.
• Mark shook out his coat, restoring Clear Stream Lake, its Pokemon, and its lotuses.
• Mark examined his new Pokemon-form panel and considered his immense potential, abilities, special powers, and moves.
• Mark used Universe in the Sleeve to return the lake, then stroked the little ones and made them feel smarter.
• Mark stroked the Magikarp at the shore, and they evolved into Gyarados.

Mark used his new enlightenment power to awaken and evolve the Magikarp in Clear Stream Lake into obedient Dragon-type Gyarados, while giving Jirachi, Mew, and the others mathematical knowledge. He discovered that enlightenment could not further raise the intelligence or power of already awakened Mythical Pokemon, though he suspected it might still work on Pokemon such as Leafeon.

• Mark's enlightenment turned the Magikarp in Clear Stream Lake into gentle, true Dragon-type Gyarados, which flew through the clouds before settling back into the lake.
• Hoopa Confined called to two Gyarados, and they swam over obediently; Mark explained that he had guided their evolution and improved their violent genes.
• Jirachi, Mew, and Hoopa announced that they had gained mathematical knowledge, and Mark wondered why Jirachi had cried out in alarm at becoming smarter.
• Mark gave the three a multiplication problem, and Mew, Jirachi, and Hoopa solved it while Victini began working on it too.
• Mark realized his enlightenment could only impart basic knowledge to Pokemon such as Jirachi and Mew, whose spiritual intelligence was already awakened and who had grasped authority, but it might still affect Pokemon like Leafeon.

After becoming an immortal, Mark granted Leafeon Fighting and Fairy forms, then enlightened several Pokémon and transformed or healed them. He continued imparting knowledge to the Pokémon, with Rayquaza receiving lessons on Nuclear Fusion.

• Mark offered Leafeon a Fighting or Fairy form, then realized he could grant both after Jirachi and Hoopa suggested it.
• Mark transformed Leafeon into Fighting Eevee and Sylveon, whose new forms displayed powerful martial arts and caused flowers and Goldeen to appear.
• Mark enlightened the two Cosmog inside Nihilego, causing them to evolve into Cosmoem, but decided the time was not right to enlighten the Zygarde Core.
• Mark resolved to take Kakuna to the Chaos Space in the Azure Plains, then enlightened several Pokémon, transforming Venusaur, Golisopod, Zapdos, and Vikavolt and healing Xerneas.
• Mewtwo declined Mark's enlightenment, but Mark held down Rayquaza's head and imparted knowledge about Nuclear Fusion.

After Mark taught Rayquaza about nuclear fusion, Rayquaza became eager to observe atoms through an electron microscope. Mark and Mewtwo demonstrated the microscope at the Experiment Base on Fallen Sky Mountain, but Mark decided that viewing through a screen was not enough.

• Mark infused Rayquaza with knowledge about nuclear fusion, mass-energy equivalence, and atoms, helping it understand concepts it had previously only memorized.
• Rayquaza rushed to Mark and urged him to take it to the Experiment Base on Fallen Sky Mountain to see the electron microscope.
• Mark invited the nearby Pokémon to come along, and Mewtwo joined him and Rayquaza.
• Mark, Mewtwo, and Rayquaza traveled to the Experiment Base, where Mark and Mewtwo activated and adjusted the electron microscope.
• Mark showed Rayquaza images of hydrogen atoms and other substances, but Rayquaza remained unsatisfied, and Mark concluded that seeing them through a screen was inadequate.