Recaps

Su Hao rescued Jiang Yueluo, entered the dying Secret Realm, and helped Carbink become Diancie while Xerneas remained to contain Yveltal. Back in the human world, he revived Hydreigon’s burned forest, earned a Fairy Badge, and returned to find Yangcheng High School nearly defeated by Rongcheng First High School.

• Su Hao traced Jiang Yueluo’s kidnapping to the New Star Organization, while Nightmare used the boy to lure out Celebi and forced the controlled Pokémon to wound him and summon the Secret Realm above Viridian Forest.
• Su Hao and Articuno defeated Nightmare, then Su Hao used Tokiwa Power to call another Celebi, who healed Jiang Yueluo while the dying Celebi reincarnated as a Green Flower Flabébé egg.
• Su Hao entered the lifeless Secret Realm with Celebi and Carbink, awakened Xerneas, and learned that Carbink was Xerneas’s child and carried part of her Authority.
• Carbink absorbed the Sparkling Stone’s remaining Light and evolved into Diancie, while Su Hao’s Dreepy hatched as a shiny Pokémon and Xerneas stayed behind to suppress Yveltal.
• Su Hao learned to create Life Energy, left the Secret Realm with Dragapult, and encountered Hydreigon, whose orchard the New Star Organization had burned.
• Su Hao healed Hydreigon and used Life Energy drawn from Viridian Forest to revive the burned Berry forest, completing the System mission and earning 200,000 System Currency.
• Su Hao defeated Li Qingyi’s Togekiss with Milotic, earned the Fairy Badge, and heard Miao Yin explain the Seed Plan and its selection battles.
• Rongcheng First High School defeated most of Yangcheng High School’s defenders, and Su Hao arrived as Jiang Chengcheng prepared to take the arena, offering to face all ten challengers.

Su Hao won Yangcheng High School the Arena victory, trained his Pokémon, and traveled to Magic City for the early Seed Plan Selection Tournament and a Nurturer certificate. He helped save an experimental Eevee and began the Beginner Nurturer exam, where he noticed a hidden Gengar.

• Su Hao stopped Jiang Chengcheng from battling Rongcheng First High School and defeated Kong Mingliang, Mu Miao, Chu Yao, and Bai Ziyu with Incineroar, securing Yangcheng High School’s Arena victory.
• Su Hao returned home, arranged new beds for his Pokémon, and took Incineroar to Wang Shihua’s house to learn Thunder Punch from Pikachu and Magnezone.
• Su Hao received university invitations and entered the Seed Plan Selection Tournament after Miao Yin explained that it would be held early because a new Secret Realm was descending in international waters.
• Su Hao traveled to Magic City, registered for the Beginner Nurturer exam, and visited Su Qing at the Evolution Research Institute.
• Su Hao used Tokiwa Power, Wave Power, and Life Energy to stabilize the last surviving experimental Eevee, then trained Dragapult in a nearby forest and defeated three Arbok.
• Su Hao returned to the institute, promised to help Eevee and eventually adopt him, and introduced him to Diancie, Incineroar, Milotic, and Dragapult.
• Su Hao went to the Nurturer Association for his exam, where Mu Yulan investigated leaked questions and a candidate tried to sell Su Hao memorized answers.
• Su Hao completed the computer-based exam, noticed scarlet eyes watching from the ceiling, and identified the hidden Pokémon as a Gengar carrying a Curse Talisman.

Su Hao visited Magic City University, defeated Jiang Zihan’s Serperior, and passed the Nurturer practical while securing a lucrative Energy Cube contract. A channel then dragged him and Articuno into the destroyed Spirit Realm, where they learned its history and set out to escape.

• Gengar gave Mu Yulan photos of examinees and reported suspicious candidates, while Su Hao met Zhao Xing and his friends after the written exam.
• Su Hao used his invitation to enter Magic City University, where Jiang Zihan challenged him to a coaching match.
• Milotic defeated Jiang Zihan’s Serperior, then treated her after Su Hao redirected the finishing attack.
• Cui Wenyyao showed Su Hao the university’s training facilities, and Su Hao considered how they might help his Pokémon.
• Su Hao completed the practical exam by making Perfect Quality Ghost-type Energy Cubes, and Mu Yulan offered him a contract to make 666 boxes.
• Su Hao signed Mu Yulan’s twelve-million-Shenzhou-Coin contract, while the System assigned him a mission to deliver the cubes by August 25.
• Mu Yulan revealed that several candidates had bribed a staff member for leaked questions, and Su Hao later walked toward the Evolution Research Institute.
• A channel opened beneath Su Hao and pulled him into the destroyed Spirit Realm, where Articuno recounted its ancient war against Dark Matter and led him to leave.

Su Hao escaped the Spirit Realm, crossed the American wilderness, and trained his Pokémon in Electric Grand Canyon, where he uncovered a sealed trial tied to the Lake Guardians. Back with Latios and Latias, he helped Dreepy evolve into Dragonair, who emerged with another Dreepy beside him.

• Articuno led Su Hao through Palkia's one-way passage out of the Spirit Realm and into a dim Secret Realm.
• Su Hao met Ophelia and Smith in America, healed Smith, and set out to find the strange black bird that had attacked them.
• Su Hao captured the traumatized Hisuian Braviary and learned it was searching for the white-and-blue bird that had saved it as a Rufflet.
• Su Hao trained Incineroar in Current Body Tempering, and Incineroar broke through to the Professional Level while defeating Electivire.
• Su Hao investigated newly appeared ruins in Electric Grand Canyon and learned from the Unown that he needed the three Lake Guardians' Proofs before taking the Trial.
• Su Hao returned to Shuizhou City and told Latios and Latias about the New Star Organization, Darkrai, and his search for the Lake Guardians.
• Latios and Latias used the Heart's Drop Gem and Su Hao's Life Energy to evolve Dreepy into Dragonair, who appeared with a second Dreepy perched on his head.