Chapter Summaries

Su Hao accompanied Shen Lingyun to his family’s power plant, where Electric-type Pokémon had been absorbing electricity uncontrollably and driving out workers. Shen Meizhuang explained that Su Hao and Shen Lingyun needed to stop the Pokémon and capture them for testing.

• Su Hao agreed to help Shen Lingyun investigate a problem at his family’s power plant in exchange for a tour of Mingi City.
• Shen Lingyun introduced Su Hao to his father, Shen Zishan, and sister, Shen Meizhuang, while concealing Su Hao’s identity.
• Shen Zishan explained that Electric-type Pokémon had occupied the plant for nearly a day, driven out workers, and continued absorbing electricity without restraint.
• Su Hao asked what he and Shen Lingyun needed to do, and Shen Meizhuang said they should stop and capture the Pokémon for testing.
• Shen Lingyun realized Su Hao’s strength would make the battle easier.

Su Hao and Shen Lingyun reached a power plant equipment room, where rampaging Magnemite and Magneton were draining electricity. Su Hao’s Lucario subdued them without damaging the remaining equipment, and Su Hao noticed that a cat café’s closure coincided with the incident.

• Shen Lingyun led Su Hao to the equipment room, where Magnemite and Magneton were overloading themselves and draining the power plant.
• Shen Lingyun sent out Electivire to absorb the Pokémon’s stray electricity while Su Hao chose Lucario to attack safely.
• Lucario used Aura Bullets and Teleport to defeat the Magnemite and Magneton without damaging the equipment.
• Su Hao counted twenty-seven Magnemite and seven Magneton, and Shen Lingyun said the Pokémon would likely be handed to the Pokémon League for investigation.
• Su Hao noticed that news of the Mingi City incidents was absent online, then found a twelve-hour-old post saying the Cat Cafe had temporarily closed because its manager had an urgent matter.

Su Hao thanked Shen Meizhuang for helping him and arranged to have Shen Lingyun strengthen Electivire before a future spar. Shen Meizhuang then drove Su Hao to the scrap-metal mountain where Magnemite and Magneton lived, and he sensed the area with Aura.

• Shen Meizhuang arrived, thanked Su Hao and Shen Lingyun for saving the Pokémon, and offered to show Su Hao where Magnemite and Magneton lived.
• Shen Lingyun explained that Electivire could use its powerful lightning move again if it was strong enough to endure the backlash.
• Su Hao transferred one million yuan to Shen Lingyun for Electric-type resources so Electivire could prepare for a future spar.
• Shen Lingyun left to shop, and Shen Meizhuang drove Su Hao to a mountain of metal scrap where Magnemite and Magneton usually lived.
• Su Hao closed his eyes and spread his Aura through the area.

Su Hao found glass fragments bearing the R Institute’s symbol at Metal Mountain and learned they were linked to an imminent Ultra Wormhole opening. After discovering that nearly all the fragments had disappeared, he rushed back toward the power plant, which faced danger from the coming Ultra Beasts.

• Su Hao used his Aura Power to search Metal Mountain and found test-tube fragments, including one marked with the R Institute’s symbol.
• Su Hao sealed the fragments and left for Mingi City, determined to investigate the R Institute.
• Su Hao called Li Xiang, who was battling two Ultra Beasts and recognized the fragments as evidence of another hidden Ultra Wormhole.
• Li Xiang warned Su Hao that the opening was near and the power plant’s people were in mortal danger.
• Su Hao found only one fragment left in the bag, summoned Hisuian Braviary, and sped back toward the power plant.

After Raging Bolt drained Shen family's power plant and attacked Shen Meizhuang, Su Hao intervened and battled the Ultra Beast with his Pokémon. He captured the exhausted Raging Bolt and left the power plant behind.

• The power plant shut down after Magnemite and Magneton drained its machinery, and Shen Zishan fainted from grief.
• Shen Meizhuang spotted Raging Bolt draining the plant and fled in her jeep as it attacked her.
• Metagross struck Raging Bolt away from the cables, and Shen Meizhuang drove off while Su Hao watched from Hisuian Braviary.
• Su Hao surrounded Raging Bolt with his Pokémon and ordered them to attack it together.
• Incineroar restrained the drained Raging Bolt, and Su Hao captured it with a Red and White Ball.

Su Hao and Li Xiang uncovered how the R Institute’s agent triggered Ultra Wormholes and brought the captured Raging Bolt to the Divine Land Alliance’s secret operations team. The team learned the R Institute could deliberately open Ultra Wormholes, and Miao Yin asked Li Xiang to report the discovery to Interpol.

• Li Xiang reached the power plant and learned Su Hao had captured Raging Bolt with a Red and White Ball.
• Li Xiang invited Su Hao to accompany him to the Ultra Wormhole Special Operations Team’s secret warehouse.
• Miao Yin’s team reported that the R Institute’s agent could drive Electric-type Pokémon berserk and sometimes open Ultra Wormholes.
• Li Xiang and Su Hao arrived, and Miao Yin learned how they had handled the extra Ultra Beast encounter.
• Miao Yin explained the team’s mission and the different alliances’ approaches to Ultra Wormholes.
• Miao Yin asked Li Xiang to inform Interpol about the R Institute’s ability to open Ultra Wormholes and explore a joint operation against it and the New Star Organization.

After turning in the captured Raging Bolts, Su Hao trained with Shen Lingyun and Electivire while waiting for his Master Ball Tier promotion match in Mingi City. Electivire reached Professional Level, and Su Hao continued to suspect that something about the power plant incident was amiss.

• Su Hao and Li Xiang handed their three captured Raging Bolts to Miao Yin, and the Pokémon League paid Su Hao 500,000 for them.
• Li Xiang said he would return to Yang City and reopen his shop, while Su Hao planned to stay in Mingi City for his promotion match and asked Li Xiang to keep him updated on the New Star Organization.
• Su Hao spent three days training with Shen Lingyun and Electivire, using his healing ability and Raikou's lightning to push Electivire through repeated battles and recovery.
• Electivire reached Professional Level, while Incineroar grew tougher and advanced toward Mid Gym Level.
• Su Hao heard about Shen Lingyun's family, his father's power plant, and Shen Lingyun's encounter with Raikou when he was six.

After Incineroar completed its lightning training, Su Hao secretly returned to Metal Mountain and summoned Celebi. Celebi told him Kyurem and Calyrex were still asleep, and Su Hao asked it to take him back in time so he could identify a murderer.

• Incineroar finished three days of special lightning training, and Shen Lingyun thanked Su Hao before heading back to the power plant.
• Su Hao secretly followed the road back to Metal Mountain, where he used the Leaf of Time to summon Celebi.
• Celebi emerged from a time passage, collided with Su Hao, and playfully protested when he poked it.
• Su Hao told Celebi about returning from the past, then asked where Kyurem and Calyrex were.
• Celebi said Kyurem and Calyrex were likely still asleep, and Su Hao asked it to take him back a few days to identify a murderer.

Su Hao used Celebi’s Time Ripple to investigate the recent past, then arrived at the Shen family power plant as Shen Meizhuang was being arrested as a suspected traitor. He examined her necklace and found that its pendant was connected to Cresselia.

• Celebi refused to send Su Hao into the past but gave him a Time Ripple that could show images from within Metal Mountain across a week.
• Shen Zishan and Shen Lingyun tried to enter the power plant, where Pokémon League agents were holding Shen Meizhuang.
• Commander Miao brought out the unconscious Shen Meizhuang and told Shen Lingyun that she was suspected of treason and spying.
• Su Hao arrived and said it was still uncertain whether Shen Meizhuang and her associates had acted willingly or under outside influence.
• Su Hao examined Shen Meizhuang’s crescent-shaped pendant and concluded that it was connected to Cresselia.

Su Hao revealed that the New Moon Pendants could plant seeds of mental control and used the Super Glove to remove a newly planted seed from Miao Yin. He suspected the New Moon Cult was connected to the R Institute and asked Miao Yin to help him absorb the power in the cult’s captured pendants.

• Su Hao connected Shen Meizhuang’s New Moon Pendant to her trip to the Sakura Nation Alliance and explained that others who had visited there shared the same mental influence.
• Su Hao took Miao Yin into a vehicle, recited the pendant’s prayer, and drew the newly planted mental-control seed from Miao Yin into the Super Glove.
• Su Hao explained that the influence inside Shen Meizhuang and the others had taken root too deeply for him to remove.
• Su Hao told Miao Yin that a feather he had obtained was Cresselia’s New Moon Feather and suspected the New Moon Cult had ties to the R Institute.
• Miao Yin confirmed the New Moon Cult operated in the Sakura Nation Alliance, while Su Hao asked him to use his willpower to draw out and transfer the power from captured followers’ pendants.

Su Hao finished addressing the Mingi City case and began his Master Ball Tier promotion match against veteran Trainer Ye Tian. His Hisuian Braviary defeated Ye Tian’s Pelipper in one overwhelming Hurricane, leaving the match’s outcome poised in Su Hao’s favor.

• Su Hao examined the New Moon Feather on his Super Glove and hoped its restored energy would help him locate Cresselia.
• The League spared the mentally controlled New Moon Cult members from physical punishment, temporarily replaced Shen Meizhuang at the power plant, and arranged counseling for Shen Zishan and his son.
• Su Hao began his three-on-three promotion match against Ye Tian, with Song Jian serving as referee.
• Ye Tian sent out his Gym Level Pelipper, while Su Hao chose his lower-level Hisuian Braviary, prompting Ye Tian to suspect Su Hao was underestimating him.
• Pelipper used Tailwind and Thunder as Su Hao summoned rain, but Hisuian Braviary’s Hurricane overwhelmed Pelipper and left it badly wounded on the ground.

Su Hao defeated Ye Tian’s remaining Pokémon and advanced to Master Ball Tier, then told Miao Yin he was preparing to leave for Heihe City. He asked whether Miao Yin could introduce him to anyone there.

• Ye Tian sent out Zebstrika, but Incineroar knocked it out with a powerful Knight Kick.
• Ye Tian’s Jolteon faced Lucario and was defeated, completing Su Hao’s promotion match.
• Su Hao received notice that he had reached Master Ball Tier at Rank 10011 and teased Miao Yin by asking him to read it aloud.
• Su Hao told Miao Yin he had come to say goodbye before leaving for Heihe City and asked for an introduction to one of Miao Yin’s acquaintances there.

Su Hao tested Incineroar’s newly transformed Z-Crystal by having Incineroar use its exclusive Z-Move against Diancie. Diancie overcame the attack, and Su Hao remained in the wilderness near Heihe City before entering the city.

• Su Hao examined Articuno’s glowing tail feather in the wilderness near Heihe City and considered how far he was from her Secret Realm.
• Su Hao recalled discovering that his Z-Crystal had changed into an Incineroar Z after a failed attempt to use Fire Z against a Magnezone.
• Su Hao released Incineroar and Diancie and asked them to test Incineroar’s exclusive Z-Move, Cruel Leap Crush.
• Incineroar launched Cruel Leap Crush at Diancie, who countered with Diamond Storm.
• After a clash lasting more than thirty seconds, Diancie’s Diamond Storm swallowed Incineroar.

Su Hao taught Zeraora Plasma Fists in their dream training and encouraged her to practice toward mastering Plasma Bolt Punch. After waking, he worried that Cresselia had not reacted to Mesprit's use of her Authority.

• Su Hao checked Zeraora's data and decided she was ready to learn Plasma Bolt Punch.
• Su Hao used the system to teach Zeraora Plasma Fists as a foundation for the more advanced move.
• Zeraora tested Plasma Fists by punching the chamber wall, then eagerly began practicing after Su Hao explained how to improve it.
• Su Hao left Zeraora supplies and woke from the dream, wondering why Cresselia had not responded to Mesprit's actions.

Su Hao visited the Hunter Association in Heihe City to obtain a map for exploring the Greater Khingan Range. Ivan warned him about the wilderness’s powerful Pokémon and revealed that Elite Four Guang Lan had forbidden anyone from approaching the Odesk Snow Mountain Range.

• Su Hao followed his navigation app to the Hunter Association and met Ye Jie, who escorted him to Chairman Ivan.
• Ivan recognized Su Hao as a celebrity and confirmed that Miao Yin had introduced him.
• Su Hao asked Ivan for a map of the Greater Khingan Range, and Ivan agreed to provide one while warning him of Elite Four and Champion-level wild Pokémon.
• Ivan explained that the association’s members had stayed home because Elite Four Guang Lan had forbidden organizations from approaching the Odesk Snow Mountain Range, threatening to use every means against anyone who disobeyed.

Su Hao followed Articuno's tail feather into the Greater Khingan Range, where it led toward the sealed Odesk Snow Mountain Range and raised the possibility of encountering Elite Four Guang Lan. When an Elite Four Level Queen Bee and her Combee army blocked his route, Su Hao ordered a retreat through Dragapult's Inverse World Channel.

• Su Hao learned from Ivan that Elite Four Guang Lan's sealed-off Odesk Snow Mountain Range was deep in the Greater Khingan Range, and Ivan gave him a hand-drawn map.
• Su Hao used Articuno's tail feather to travel into the Greater Khingan Range, where its guiding lights pointed toward the Odesk Snow Mountain Range.
• Su Hao avoided powerful wild Pokémon with Aura, but three Elite Four Level auras blocked the available routes, so he chose the path straight ahead.
• Su Hao and Diancie fought an Elite Four Level Queen Bee, whose Combee army and Orders steadily wore down Diancie.
• Su Hao ordered a retreat, and Diancie used Diamond Storm before following him into Dragapult's Inverse World Channel.

Su Hao escaped Queen Bee's territory through the Reverse World and followed Articuno's tail feather to a snow mountain in the Odesk range. There, Guang Lan's group had trapped a wounded Legendary Pokémon, while Su Hao vanished after activating the feather.

• Su Hao recalled Diancie, rode Dragapult away from Queen Bee's search, and said they would return to settle the score.
• Guang Lan's assistant reported that a wounded Pokémon remained hidden on a snow mountain and showed no sign of coming down.
• Guang Lan ordered her group to keep waiting, believing the trapped Pokémon could not escape the blockade.
• The assistant recalled that Guang Lan's group had tracked the Legendary bird Articuno before finding and trapping an Ancient Sword Leopard in the Odesk Snow Mountain Range.
• Su Hao followed Latias's directions and infused Wave Power into the glowing Articuno tail feather, causing him to disappear.

Su Hao entered the Articuno clan’s Secret Realm and discovered that Articuno had arranged for him to command the clan. Skadi explained why the realm had moved, and Su Hao learned that the Articuno had no other Pokémon for company besides a game of Chinese Chess.

• Su Hao woke inside the Secret Realm, surrounded by fourteen Articuno ranging from Elite Four Level to Champion Level Late-stage.
• Skadi introduced herself as the Articuno clan’s Sage and called Su Hao the Divine Messenger chosen by the Ice God.
• Skadi told Su Hao that Articuno had moved the Secret Realm to the Greater Khingan Range and instructed the clan to obey his commands.
• Su Hao realized Articuno had used Latias’s message to overcome his procrastination and hurry him into the Secret Realm.
• Su Hao asked Skadi whether the clan had other Pokémon, and she said the Articuno lived alone there.
• Skadi showed Su Hao the Chinese Chess set Articuno had invented and invited him to play.

Su Hao escaped the Articuno Secret Realm after days of games and emerged on a frigid, shifting snow mountain. While searching for shelter, he found a hidden cave and came face to face with a small Pokémon inside.

• Skadi challenged Su Hao to chess, but he defeated it in less than three minutes.
• The Articuno flock kept challenging Su Hao to games and offering him resources or sparring, so he slipped out of the Secret Realm on the fourth day.
• Su Hao emerged in a blizzard on a perilous mountain in the Odesk Snow Mountain Range and realized the Secret Realm had shifted locations.
• Su Hao searched for shelter, fended off fifteen Weavile ambushes, and spotted a concealed cave in a crack between ice blocks.
• Su Hao looked into the cave and met the blue eyes of a Pokémon that gave a weak roar.

Su Hao encountered a badly injured Ancient Sword Leopard in an icy cave, overwhelmed it with his cat-petting technique, and healed its wounds. Once recovered, Ancient Sword Leopard silently fled, leaving Su Hao and Diancie baffled.

• Su Hao recognized the weakened, wounded Ancient Sword Leopard hiding in the cave and approached despite its threats.
• Su Hao restrained Ancient Sword Leopard with his energy and petted it while it was unable to move.
• Su Hao summoned Diancie to guard him and healed Ancient Sword Leopard's injuries, though its cracked fangs remained damaged.
• Ancient Sword Leopard stared at Su Hao, transformed into a streak of snowy-white light, and fled without looking back.