Chapter Summaries

Cycloze lost the power projected from its past self and was badly injured by Groudon, leaving Su Hao ready to intervene. As Cycloze faced death, it reconsidered Su Hao’s question about choosing the past or the future, and purple-haloed electricity began flickering across its body.

• Groudon locked down the energy Cycloze had borrowed, then blasted it into the cave wall and left it severely injured.
• Cycloze realized its borrowed power was unreliable and remembered Su Hao asking whether it would embrace the past or step toward the future.
• Su Hao prepared to have Reshiram break through the Imprison and fight Groudon, even if Rayquaza joined the battle.
• Reshiram sensed a change and stopped Su Hao when purple-haloed electricity appeared across Cycloze’s scarred body.

Cycloze used Terastal Energy to reflect its future self, and Su Hao helped the transformation by feeding it Tera Orbs while Reshiram held Groudon back. Cycloze became Miraidon, a Class One Legendary whose temporary form had fifty-nine minutes remaining.

• Cycloze gathered electricity and began a mysterious transformation as Su Hao recognized the Terastal Energy involved.
• Reshiram arrived and attacked Groudon, keeping it from interrupting Cycloze's transformation.
• Su Hao followed the Slate Spirit's reminder and fed Cycloze nineteen Tera Orbs, completing the transformation.
• Groudon broke through Reshiram's Flamethrower and lunged at Cycloze, but the newly transformed Miraidon blasted it away.
• Miraidon appeared as Cycloze's future self, a Class One Legendary Pokémon whose form could last for one hour.

Miraidon fought Groudon inside the Sealed Cavern, using its temporary power and superior tactics to wear down Groudon’s energy body. As Groudon prepared Double-Edge, Miraidon called to Su Hao, who Terastallized it for their next move.

• Miraidon activated Hadron Engine and Electric Terrain, then clashed with Groudon while Reshiram guarded the seal from the battle’s aftermath.
• Miraidon dodged and counterattacked as Groudon’s energy body steadily deteriorated.
• After nearly half an hour, Groudon panicked and began charging Double-Edge.
• Miraidon signaled Su Hao, who spent his remaining System Currency to summon a Tera Orb and Terastallized Miraidon.

Cycloze defeated Tail Spirit’s Groudon form with a Terastallized Electro Drift, then learned that its new Ability let it transform into Groudon or Miraidon for an hour each day. Cycloze chose to spare the consciousness inside its severed tail and planned to help it get a new body, while Su Hao considered seeking Mewtwo’s help.

• Cycloze Terastallized as an Electric type and defeated Groudon with Electro Drift, causing Tail Spirit’s consciousness inside the severed tail to lose control.
• Cycloze’s transformation ended, and Su Hao examined its System Panel, which revealed its incomplete Terastal Transformation Ability and the conditions needed to complete it.
• Su Hao concluded that Cycloze needed a Tera Orb blessed by Terapagos to transform freely and considered searching underground caverns for Terapagos.
• Cycloze swung its severed tail like a whip while Reshiram resealed the cavern to prevent any aura from escaping.
• Reshiram asked what Cycloze would do with Tail Spirit’s sleeping consciousness, and Cycloze decided to spare it and eventually help it obtain a new body.
• Su Hao suggested that Mewtwo might be able to create a body for Tail Spirit.

Su Hao, Reshiram, and Cycloze decided to delay breaking the seal so Cycloze could spend a month merging with its Shed Tail. They agreed that when they returned to the Dragon Lair, they would face Rayquaza, so Su Hao planned to strengthen his team during the wait.

• Su Hao set goals to find Terapagos and ask Mewtwo to create a clone for Tail Spirit.
• Cycloze explained that Tail Spirit's consciousness had extended the time needed to merge with the power in its Shed Tail.
• Su Hao's experiments failed: the Shed Tail destroyed Cycloze's Luxury Ball, and Slate Spirit refused to let him store Tail Spirit in the System Space.
• Su Hao, Reshiram, and Cycloze agreed that Cycloze would remain in the Sealed Cavern for a month while Su Hao and Reshiram left.
• The group concluded that Cycloze's fusion would remove the Dragon God Pressure from Sky Tower, draw Rayquaza's attention, and make their next visit the final battle.

Cycloze began merging with Shed Tail in the Sealed Cavern while Su Hao returned toward Sky Tower’s upper levels. As the Dragon God Pressure vanished, Bai Du and Long Tianxing investigated and heard Su Hao invite them inside.

• Su Hao left food for Cycloze, closed the ancient door, and headed back toward Sky Tower with Reshiram.
• Cycloze began merging with Shed Tail and prepared to reclaim Groudon’s identity and face Rayquaza in the coming battle.
• The Dragon Cave security team discovered that the Dragon God Pressure had disappeared and reported the change to the Dragon Tamer Clan’s leaders.
• The leaders sent Bai Du and Long Tianxing to investigate the restricted zone and whether Su Hao was involved.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing found no pressure near Sky Tower and heard Su Hao invite them inside.

Su Hao brought Bai Du and Long Tianxing into Sky Tower and showed them evidence that challenged the Dragon Tamer Clan’s beliefs about the Dragon God. He claimed the tower was built to worship Rayquaza and left the two men searching its first floor, stunned by the discovery of stairs leading up and no passage down.

• Long Tianxing tried to flee when he heard Su Hao, but Bai Du grabbed him and led him toward Sky Tower after Su Hao invited them inside.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing passed through the clouds and entered Sky Tower, where Su Hao was waiting for them.
• Su Hao gave them flashlights and directed them toward murals and inscriptions on the tower’s wall.
• Su Hao claimed that he and Cycloze had passed the Dragon God Pressure and suggested the tower was built by the Dragon Tamer Clan’s ancestors to worship Rayquaza.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing searched the first floor, found no passage underground, and discovered stairs leading to the upper levels.

Su Hao persuaded Bai Du and Long Tianxing that Sky Tower’s pressure was a trial leading to Rayquaza, while concealing Cycloze beneath the tower. After leaving Dragon Cave, he began preparing for the coming conflict as news broke that Great Britain had discovered a Carbink-filled Secret Realm ruled by Queen Diancie.

• Su Hao convinced Bai Du and Long Tianxing that Sky Tower’s upper floors held trials, resources, and a path to Rayquaza, and showed them the vast second floor.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing chose not to enter the second floor, and Su Hao left Dragon Cave.
• On July 6, Su Hao submitted an application to evacuate trainers from Viridian Forest and establish a security perimeter.
• The Great Britain Alliance announced the discovery of a Carbink-filled Secret Realm beneath the Augusto Mountains and began trying to contact Queen Diancie.

Auston investigated a rapidly merging Secret Realm beneath the Augusto Mountains and learned that Carbink were inviting the Great Britain Alliance to meet their Queen. He entered the Secret Realm and discovered that its ruler was Diancie.

• The Great Britain Alliance sealed off the Augusto Mountains and took control of the former Dominic Mining Group while investigating abnormal Secret Realm fluctuations.
• Auston learned that Carbink had emerged from the Secret Realm and invited an authorized Pokémon League representative to visit.
• Auston met A-Yi and followed the Carbink into the Secret Realm, unaware that an invisible figure was secretly following him.
• A-Yi guided Auston through the prosperous Ore Kingdom to the castle, where he was summoned to meet the Queen.
• Auston raised his head before the Queen and recognized the pink Carbink evolution as Diancie.

Queen Diancie revealed her immense power to Auston and arranged diplomatic cooperation between the Ore Kingdom and Great Britain. After the agreement drew worldwide attention to Su Hao’s Diancie, Su Hao accepted the publicity but worried that the prophesied Great Calamity was near.

• Queen Diancie Mega Evolved, exposed the disguised Inteleon in her castle, and warned Auston before discussing the Ore Kingdom’s entry into the world.
• Auston told the Queen of Great Britain that only two Diancie existed and that Su Hao commanded a Legendary Pokémon, not an ordinary evolved Carbink.
• The Queen of Great Britain chose to announce cooperation with Queen Diancie without revealing Su Hao’s secrets, expecting other nations and media to pursue the story.
• News outlets spread claims that Su Hao’s Pokémon was a Mythical Pokémon, and Su Hao dismissed calls for a public response.
• Su Hao worried that the prophesied Nihilego of the Darkest Day was approaching while the heroes’ Legendary Pokémon remained missing.

Su Hao enjoyed a peaceful afternoon at the Su family villa while his Pokémon trained and relaxed. He considered how to help Lucario grow stronger and prepared for the coming battle to conquer the Life and Death Secret Realm, with Milotic expected to return soon.

• Leafeon maintained the villa’s flowerbeds with Large Grassy Terrain while Incineroar and Hisuian Braviary competed over their muscles.
• Lucario trained with Zeraora, using their sparring to refine his Fighting-type techniques.
• Su Hao considered the Steel Plate Fragment as a potential opportunity to strengthen Lucario.
• Su Hao noted that Metagross was training in the Reverse World with Dragapult and that Milotic was returning from the Infinite Secret Realm with Latias and Latios.
• Su Hao assigned his father, Su Xu, a pile of work after the Divine Land Alliance placed him under Su Hao’s command.

Shen Yun delivered approval for the lockdown and evacuation of Viridian Forest, and Su Hao revealed that two Class One Legendary deities were inside the Secret Realm. Diancie then shared what it had learned about the First Generation Queen Diancie, Yveltal, and the balance of life and death, leaving Su Hao and Reshiram preparing for a likely battle.

• Su Hao assigned Su Xu several Ultra Beast extermination missions to strengthen him through combat and train his Charizard to use Blue Flare properly.
• Shen Yun visited Su Hao and told him that the Pokémon League had approved the Viridian Forest evacuation and lockdown application.
• Su Hao told Shen Yun that two Class One Legendary deities were inside the Secret Realm, one of them his companion and the other likely hostile.
• After Shen Yun left for Alliance Headquarters with news of Su Hao's planned intervention, Diancie summoned Reshiram and revealed what it had experienced in the Sacred Diamond inheritance.
• Reshiram explained that the Order Overseer should protect the balance between life and death and warned that the death power had overwhelmed the life power in the Secret Realm, making peaceful resolution unlikely.

Su Hao prepared for the Viridian Forest operation as Metagross reached Elite Four Level and returned stronger from its tests. With Milotic bringing Latias and Latios as additional safeguards, the evacuation was completed, leaving only wild Pokémon in the forest as the outside world suspected a major event was imminent.

• Metagross returned at Elite Four Level, while Dragapult came back from the Reverse World with denser destructive aura.
• Su Hao arranged tests that showed Mega Metagross could sustain high-intensity combat for ten minutes and had greatly increased its strength and output.
• Milotic returned with Latias and Latios, whom Su Hao planned to station outside Viridian Forest as safeguards.
• Su Hao declined the Divine Land Alliance's offer to bring in the Three Legendary Beasts, telling them to keep guarding their own regions.
• The Divine Land Alliance completed the Viridian Forest evacuation and lockdown on July 15, prompting widespread rumors that something major was about to happen.

As the world focused on Viridian Forest and other factions plotted to exploit Legendary Pokémon, Su Hao returned to the forest and spoke with its trusting will. Guided to a sacred grove, he reunited with Celebi, who offered to help him enter the sealed Secret Realm and witness the story’s ending.

• Across Madagascar, a shadowy figure mocked the Divine Land Alliance’s operation while a black figure drew nightmares from the sleeping town.
• The crew-cut man at an underwater research facility considered the Life Deity and God of Death potential energy sources as news of Viridian Forest’s lockdown spread worldwide.
• Miao Yin completed the forest’s perimeter defenses and reflected on Su Hao’s connection to Viridian Forest dating back to the New Star Organization’s invasion.
• Su Hao returned to Viridian Forest, where its will welcomed him and trusted him to limit any damage from the coming battle.
• Following the forest’s guidance, Su Hao and Latias and Latios reached a sacred grove, where Celebi offered to help him enter the sealed Secret Realm.

Su Hao, Celebi, and Diancie entered the Life and Death Secret Realm to check on Xerneas and investigate Yveltal. They found the realm’s Pokémon statues nearly lifeless, then reached Xerneas, who remained asleep in its dead-tree form.

• Celebi opened a passage to the Life and Death Secret Realm after Su Hao reminded it that he had found a Zygarde Cell despite its earlier claim that none were nearby.
• Latias and Latios sent Su Hao through the passage but stayed outside as backup for him and the Pokémon League.
• Su Hao, Celebi, and Diancie found the realm’s petrified Pokémon statues, and Celebi said their remaining life was fading beyond its ability to restore.
• Diancie led Su Hao and Celebi toward Xerneas, and they found that its patch of Life Energy had neither grown nor shrunk.
• Diancie returned to Xerneas’s dead-tree form and called it Mother, but Xerneas remained deeply asleep and could not be awakened by ordinary means.

Su Hao, Diancie, and Celebi chose to awaken Xerneas by disturbing the balance of life and death rather than risking the Secret Realm’s collapse. After tracking the strongest deathly aura through the realm, Su Hao and Diancie found Yveltal’s Cocoon of Destruction, leaving them at the source of the spreading death.

• Celebi explained the two ways to awaken Xerneas, and Su Hao and Diancie chose to restore the balance between life and death.
• Celebi refused to help, while Su Hao and Diancie said they had planned the operation without it.
• Su Hao, Diancie, and Celebi followed the deathly aura through the Secret Realm, protecting themselves as it grew stronger.
• Su Hao asked Diancie about Little Y and considered whether the first-generation Queen had known a Yveltal that did not want to destroy life.
• Su Hao and Diancie reached a massive crater and found Yveltal’s pitch-black Cocoon of Destruction.

Su Hao, Reshiram, Diancie, and Celebi confronted Yveltal in its Cocoon of Destruction, and Reshiram warned that its Blue Flare could not counter Yveltal’s pure death. Reshiram’s arrival awakened Yveltal, which emerged and targeted Diancie as she maintained her Ultimate Burst form against its Dark Aura.

• Celebi and Diancie felt the overwhelming pressure of the sleeping Yveltal, whose status showed it held Class One Legendary energy even in its cocoon.
• Su Hao asked Reshiram if it was confident, and Reshiram explained that Yveltal’s death aligned with the laws of fate, but promised to fight alongside him.
• Reshiram appeared beside Su Hao, and its presence caused the Cocoon of Destruction to crack open as Yveltal awakened.
• Diancie activated Ultimate Burst and spread its Radiant Aura to resist Yveltal’s expanding Dark Aura.
• Yveltal flew out of the crater and charged toward Diancie, while Celebi watched in alarm.

Reshiram fought Yveltal, whose Power of Death had grown to a terrifying level, while Su Hao and his allies relied on the battle’s disruption of the Dark Aura to awaken Xerneas. The chapter ended as Yveltal unleashed its signature move, Oblivion Wing, at Reshiram.

• Yveltal’s dark-red winds battered Diancie, but Reshiram used War Cry and Azure Flames to protect it.
• Reshiram engaged Yveltal in an aerial battle, dodging its claws and attacks while countering with Blue Flare, Dragon Claw, and Fusion Flare.
• Reshiram realized Yveltal’s power was approaching Mega Rayquaza’s, while Diancie and Celebi worked together to maintain and protect the Radiant Aura.
• Su Hao and Reshiram continued fighting to make the Dark Aura waver enough to awaken Xerneas and create a chance to restore Yveltal’s sanity.
• Yveltal formed a Y-shaped pose and fired its signature move, Oblivion Wing, at Reshiram.

Reshiram battled Yveltal in the Life and Death Secret Realm, creating enough turmoil to awaken Xerneas. Xerneas revived the land and reclaimed part of Yveltal’s domain, weakening the raging God of Death as Reshiram noticed the shift.

• Reshiram and Yveltal clashed overhead, while Diancie and Celebi’s barrier protected Su Hao and the others from the shockwaves.
• Reshiram kept fighting Yveltal and stirred the Secret Realm until the sleeping Xerneas awakened.
• Xerneas entered Active Mode and spread its life-filled Fairy Aura across a third of the Secret Realm, reviving the land.
• Xerneas sensed a familiar aura and headed toward the battlefield despite Yveltal’s greater power.
• Yveltal attacked with Death-wreathed Air Slashes after noticing its domain shrink, and Reshiram countered with Fusion Flare, sensing that Yveltal had weakened.

Xerneas joined Reshiram and Su Hao to suppress the mindless Yveltal, and their combined attacks drove it to the brink of its cocoon state. Before they could learn whether Yveltal’s reason had returned, a vast Dark-type aura erupted from the crater, and Xerneas and Reshiram suspected the Earth Plate had appeared.

• Xerneas arrived beneath the battlefield, reunited with Diancie, and told Su Hao that Yveltal did not want to cause the destruction.
• Su Hao agreed that Xerneas and Reshiram should weaken Yveltal to restore Little Y’s consciousness and reason.
• Xerneas entered the fight and joined Reshiram in attacking Yveltal, steadily draining its Power of Death.
• Xerneas’s Mist Burst and Reshiram’s Blue Flare struck Yveltal, sending it into a crater with its aura nearly reduced to cocoon state.
• A piercing cry shook the Life and Death Secret Realm as a dense Dark-type aura rose from the crater, and Xerneas and Reshiram wondered if the Earth Plate had appeared.