Chapter Summaries

Su Hao examined the four captured Genesect with Mewtwo, who identified their mechanical and genetic modifications and warned that the New Star Organization might be behind the unusually frequent Ultra Wormholes. At an underwater R Institute, Mr. R discovered that Mewtwo had accessed the Genesect’s genetic lock and addressed the Mewtwo beside him.

• Mewtwo led Su Hao to the underground laboratory and showed him four modified Genesect recovered from an R Institute branch.
• Mewtwo explained that the Genesect had been powered down and that their genetic locks suppressed their emotions, willpower, and consciousness.
• Mewtwo warned Su Hao that the New Star Organization could open Ultra Wormholes using energy condensed from the Star Child and urged him to be careful.
• Mr. R noticed that the Genesect signal had gone silent and saw an alert that their genetic lock had been accessed.
• Mr. R turned to the Mewtwo covered in machinery beside him and asked how it felt about the lock being accessed.

Mr. R tasked Armored Mewtwo with capturing Milotic to open an underwater ruin while pursuing his plans to rule the world. In Yang City, Su Hao learned that the World Championship had been renamed the Legend Cup and that its age limit had been abolished.

• Mr. R inspected Genesect Unit Zero, Cocoon of Stars, and the Deoxys meteorite, then asked Armored Mewtwo about the underwater ruins.
• Armored Mewtwo said Milotic's Relic Song was needed to open the sealed ruins without destroying what lay inside, and promised to bring Milotic back.
• Mr. R gave Armored Mewtwo authority to command branch personnel and urged it to finish the research and capture mission.
• On September 5th, Su Hao watched Mewtwo assemble a research institute in a castle outside Yang City, then returned home after visiting it.
• Shen Yun told Su Hao that the World Championship had been renamed the World Championship · Legend Cup and that the age limit had been abolished.

Su Hao learned that the World Championship would become the Legend Cup, a tournament intended to demonstrate the Pokémon Leagues’ strength against Ultra Beasts and hidden threats. At a Divine Land Alliance meeting, Mu Jianguo outlined the competition and its planned participants, and Bai Du and Long Tianxing ended the chapter by warning Su Hao that Sky Tower in the Dragon Lair Secret Realm had encountered an incident.

• Shen Yun told Su Hao that the Legend Cup would help the Pokémon Leagues establish authority and warn those causing trouble in the shadows.
• Su Hao predicted that the Leagues might reveal hidden Master Level Pokémon and worshipped Legendary Pokémon, and said he feared no one in that regard.
• Mu Jianguo briefed the current and former Elite Four on the Legend Cup’s individual format and said the Divine Land Alliance would field hidden Master Level Trainers and Guardian Deities.
• Mu Jianguo explained that the Guardian Deities’ temporary Trainers would be chosen later, after preparations for the newly approved tournament advanced.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing approached Su Hao and told him that Sky Tower in the Dragon Lair Secret Realm had encountered an incident.

A mysterious Legendary Dragon-type Pokémon appeared at Sky Tower, overwhelmed the Dragon Tamer Clan, and asked Long Tianxing to bring Su Hao to it. Bai Du relayed the encounter to Su Hao, who established a phone connection with Long Tianxing and agreed to discuss what happened.

• Bai Du and Long Tianxing left the mental meeting, and Su Hao contacted Long Tianxing through their rings.
• A powerful Pokémon appeared at Sky Tower, shaking Dragon Cave and filling the area with an overwhelming pressure.
• Bai Du recognized the Pokémon's pressure as the source of the Dragon God Pressure and realized he and Long Tianxing had mistaken it for Rayquaza's.
• The Pokémon approached Long Tianxing and his Salamence, then broke through Sky Tower's doors and left as its pressure receded.
• Long Tianxing told Bai Du that the Pokémon had used Telepathy to order him to bring Su Hao to it.
• Bai Du explained the encounter to Su Hao during their phone call.

Groudon escaped into the Dragon Cave and changed its sky to provoke Rayquaza, prompting Su Hao to order a mass evacuation before a battle between Class One Legendary Pokémon. As the sky turned scarlet, Rayquaza awoke atop Sky Tower and descended toward the Dragon Cave.

• Groudon restored the Dragon Cave's sky to its ancient, sunny state and waited for Rayquaza to respond.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing reported Groudon's escape, and Su Hao prepared to face it with Reshiram.
• Su Hao ordered the Dragon Tamer Clan to evacuate Sky Tower and the Dragon Cave, warning that a battle between Class One Legendary Pokémon could destroy the continent or end the world.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing began evacuating the clansmen while Su Hao traveled through the Reverse World toward the Dragon Lair Secret Realm.
• Rayquaza awoke at the top of Sky Tower, roared, and plunged down toward the Dragon Cave.

Rayquaza arrived at Dragon Cave and began fighting Groudon, whose clash threatened to destabilize the Dragon Lair Secret Realm. Bai Du, Long Tianxing, and the others escaped through the Space Channel as the battle escalated, leaving Groudon charging through Rayquaza’s Draco Meteor barrage.

• Rayquaza descended over Dragon Cave and suppressed Groudon’s Drought with its authority over the sky.
• Rayquaza and Groudon exchanged Dragon Pulses, and Bai Du warned that their battle could force the Dragon Lair Secret Realm to descend toward Blue Star.
• The Dragon Tamer Clan members, Bai Du, and Long Tianxing fled through the Space Channel to the Delta Great Desert.
• Groudon charged Rayquaza with Dragon Claw, but Rayquaza evaded with Dragon Dance and countered with Hyper Beam.
• Rayquaza unleashed hundreds of meteors with Draco Meteor, and Groudon used Dragon Rage to smash through them and charge at Rayquaza.

Bai Du alerted the Pokémon League as Groudon and Rayquaza’s battle intensified inside the Dragon Lair Secret Realm. Groudon transformed into Miraidon, which prepared to face Rayquaza while expecting Su Hao to arrive within an hour.

• Bai Du had Long Tianxing contact the Pokémon League and put it on high alert as the Secret Realm’s energy fluctuations grew stronger.
• Groudon and Rayquaza escalated their fight, trading devastating attacks as the Secret Realm neared its descent into the main world.
• Rayquaza prepared to use Bullet Flight, the maneuver that had once defeated Groudon, but Groudon drew on its memories of the past and transformed back into Cycloze.
• Cycloze transformed into Miraidon and unleashed a vast electromagnetic storm across the Dragon Lair Secret Realm.
• Miraidon began a one-hour countdown, expecting Su Hao to reach it, and faced Rayquaza with its newly revealed power.

Miraidon caught Rayquaza off guard with Draco Meteor, but Rayquaza recovered and prepared a powerful V-create attack. Su Hao and Reshiram arrived just in time to intercept it, leaving the battle poised for their intervention.

• Rayquaza pursued Miraidon with Extreme Speed while Miraidon fled at high speed.
• Miraidon abruptly stopped and struck the braking Rayquaza with Draco Meteor, leaving it wounded.
• Rayquaza recovered and charged Miraidon with V-create as Miraidon prepared a counterattack.
• Reshiram fired a massive Flame Burst that collided with Rayquaza's V-create.
• Miraidon saw Su Hao riding Reshiram after they entered through the collapsing Space Channel.

Su Hao and Reshiram arrived to support Miraidon against Rayquaza, but Reshiram revealed an overwhelming aura and challenged the Dragon of the Sky. After the battle, the Divine Land Alliance witnessed Rayquaza defeated in the descended Dragon Lair Secret Realm, where Su Hao asked if it was convinced.

• Su Hao arrived with Reshiram and told Miraidon to support from the sidelines while Reshiram fought Rayquaza.
• Rayquaza offered to spare Su Hao and Reshiram if they moved aside, but Su Hao refused.
• Reshiram revealed its immense aura and told Rayquaza that it was the challenger.
• Bai Du calmed the frontline command camp as the Divine Land Alliance prepared for the Dragon Lair Secret Realm's descent.
• The Secret Realm descended, revealing the Sky Tower and a badly burned Rayquaza lying defeated beneath Reshiram's attacks.
• Su Hao asked Rayquaza, "So, are you convinced now?"

Su Hao and Reshiram defeated Rayquaza with Miraidon's help, then used a Master Ball to place a concealed connection on the unwilling Legendary Pokémon. Rayquaza flew back toward Sky Tower, vowing to remember the humiliation.

• Su Hao asked whether Rayquaza was convinced, while Cycloze mocked the defeated Sky God.
• Rayquaza refused to submit despite Reshiram having pinned it down, and Su Hao considered how powerful his team had become.
• Cycloze resolved to seek Terapagos and drain its Terastal Energy after comparing itself to Reshiram.
• Su Hao threw a Master Ball at Rayquaza, briefly captured it, then immediately released it to establish a concealed connection.
• Rayquaza realized Su Hao had marked it, felt humiliated, and flew unsteadily toward Sky Tower.

Su Hao ended the confrontation with Rayquaza and openly introduced Reshiram to the Divine Land Alliance as the True Dragon that had chosen him. After explaining what happened, he accepted an invitation to Longdu University to visit Li Hua.

• Su Hao stopped Reshiram and Cycloze from pursuing Rayquaza, deciding that Rayquaza should remain free to protect the planet’s skies.
• Su Hao rode Reshiram to the Pokémon League’s temporary command headquarters, where officials and onlookers gathered to see the Dragon God that had defeated Rayquaza.
• Su Hao told the confidential meeting that Reshiram was the True Dragon of truth and that he was its chosen True Brave One.
• Su Hao explained that he had first met Reshiram in the collapsed Spiral Secret Realm and answered questions about Reshiram’s truth and punishment for lies.
• Bai Du and Long Tianxing invited Su Hao to Longdu University, and he accepted so he could visit Li Hua.

Su Hao accepted Bai Du and Long Tianxing’s invitation to attend Longdu University’s anniversary, while the Dragon Cave incident’s truth remained concealed from other Pokémon Leagues. At the Mewtwo Research Institute, Mewtwo refused Su Hao’s suggestion to clone a body for Cycloze’s new consciousness.

• Su Hao accepted the invitation to Longdu University’s anniversary, surprising Bai Du and troubling Long Tianxing.
• Bai Du guessed that Su Hao accepted because Li Hua, his good friend, attended Longdu University, and anticipated a possible encounter between them.
• The Divine Land Alliance refused the White Eagle Alliance’s demands for information and kept Rayquaza’s battle and Reshiram’s contract with Su Hao secret.
• Su Hao returned to the Mewtwo Research Institute and explained Cycloze’s situation to Mewtwo.
• Mewtwo rejected Su Hao’s suggestion to clone a second body for Cycloze, saying he would never again touch anything related to cloning.

Mewtwo agreed to investigate the Genesect gene locks and the possibility of cloning a body for Shed Tail while Su Hao returned home. After waking from a three-day sleep, Rayquaza destroyed satellites around the planet, and Su Hao suspected it had mistaken them for intruders after failing to find meteorites.

• Mewtwo agreed to research a cloning apparatus for Shed Tail, then used Teleport to send Su Hao out of the castle and focused on cracking the Genesect gene locks.
• Su Hao went home to check whether Old Su had completed his training assignment.
• After sleeping for three days, Rayquaza woke and circled Blue Star at terrifying speed.
• Rayquaza destroyed satellites belonging to the White Eagle Alliance, the Sakura Nation Alliance, and other Pokémon Leagues over two days.
• Su Hao watched the classified recording and suspected Rayquaza had attacked the satellites because it mistook them for creatures stealing its meteorites.

The White Eagle Alliance learned that Milotic, the “Peace Songstress,” had been abducted by its Elite Four member David Wilson, who was working for the R Institute. Wilson fled with the petrified Milotic and Genesect, preparing to deliver her to the R Institute while the Alliance began searching for her.

• David Carlisle told the White Eagle Alliance leaders that he had failed to catch the abductors, then blamed them for overlooking David Wilson’s betrayal.
• The leaders decided to mobilize resources to find Milotic and keep her disappearance quiet until they informed the president.
• David Wilson crashed at an abandoned farm outside New York City with the petrified Milotic and Genesect.
• David Wilson recalled that a mysterious armored Pokémon had compelled him to abduct Milotic and ordered him to deliver her to the R Institute.
• David Wilson prepared to disguise himself and meet the R Institute’s people, while a tear rolled from Milotic’s eye inside the petrification device.

Su Hao prepared for Longdu University’s anniversary celebration while training Su Xu and arranging useful manuals for Li Hua. At the celebration, Li Hua and his friend headed to meet a mysterious guest, whom Li Hua suspected was the newly appointed Dragon-type Elite Four member.

• Su Hao intensified Su Xu’s training and secretly prepared dragon-taming notes and flying-type training manuals for Li Hua.
• Su Hao left home after warning Su Xu to complete his assignments under Mewtwo’s supervision.
• On September 8th, Dragon City filled with visitors attending Longdu University’s anniversary celebration.
• Li Hua’s friend woke him and dragged him toward the main auditorium, saying a mysterious heavyweight guest would meet with school team members.
• Li Hua doubted the guest would coach ordinary students, while his friend guessed the guest was the new Dragon-type Elite Four member who had come to coach Dragon Zhao.

Li Hua attended Longdu University’s anniversary celebration and learned that the mysterious guest at the school team base was Su Hao, the current Champion. Su Hao arrived to share his experience and choose several students for coaching, surprising Li Hua and drawing all attention away from Long Tianxing.

• Li Hua reflected that he needed to prove his talent to earn university resources and would rather have trained with Corviknight than attend the ceremony.
• Long Tianxing appeared as the final auditorium guest, and Li Hua questioned who the still-unrevealed mysterious guest could be.
• Li Hua went with the school team members to the base, where Bai Du and Long Tianxing waited without explaining who was coming.
• Su Hao arrived at the base, and the students erupted when Bai Du introduced him as the current Champion and youngest Champion in Divine Land Alliance history.
• Su Hao surveyed the gathered school team members, spotted Li Hua, and winked at him.

Su Hao coached Jiangcheng University's school team and used Dragon Zhao's guidance session to warn students not to underestimate Poison-type Pokémon. The chapter ended as Naganadel prepared to demonstrate its venom against Dragon Zhao's Basculegion.

• Bai Du assigned Teacher Long to draw one school team member from each year for Su Hao's coaching, while Long Tianxing realized Bai Du might be stirring up trouble and distanced himself from Teacher Long.
• Li Hua's friend worried Teacher Long would rig the selection, but Li Hua believed Su Hao had come to support him and welcomed the chance to rely on Su Hao's influence.
• Teacher Long selected Dragon Zhao, who asked Su Hao for advice on helping his Basculegion withstand Fighting- and Ground-type attacks.
• Su Hao shared a Steel-type training plan based on Daigo-san's Metagross notes, then warned Dragon Zhao that Poison-type Pokémon could threaten Basculegion, especially as Ultra Wormholes spread.
• Su Hao released Naganadel to demonstrate its venom, and Dragon Zhao confidently told it to spray Basculegion, believing it could not poison his stronger Pokémon.

Su Hao demonstrated Naganadel’s devastating poison and Milotic’s purifying power to Longdu University’s school team. After the demonstrations, he began coaching selected students, and a second-year student asked whether Garchomp could learn Dragon Dance.

• Naganadel used Venoshock on Basculegion, whose armor corroded as severe toxins overwhelmed it.
• Long Tianzhao gave Basculegion a universal antidote, but it only eased some of the symptoms.
• Su Hao sent out Champion Level Milotic, which used Aqua Ring to purify Basculegion and remove the poison.
• Teacher Long selected the mayor’s son from the third-year team for Su Hao’s Coaching, then chose a second-year girl whose partner was Garchomp.
• The girl asked Su Hao whether the Garchomp line could learn Dragon Dance.

Su Hao and Li Hua exposed Dragon City University's favoritism during a dispute over Champion guidance, while Bai Du agreed to address the campus problems. Meanwhile, David Wilson delivered the petrification device holding the Peace Songstress to Armored Mewtwo, completing the conditions to open the undersea ruins.

• Teacher Dragon named a first-year heir from a major Dragon-type family as the fourth student to receive Su Hao's guidance, prompting students to accuse him of unfairly favoring local students.
• Teacher Dragon threatened to deduct credits from protesting students, but Li Hua stepped forward and reported the university's alleged favoritism and misuse of talent subsidies to Su Hao.
• Su Hao invited Li Hua to explain the problems and publicly supported him as he laid them out, then asked vice principal Bai Du to respond.
• Bai Du said he had not known about the problems and proposed convening a campus assembly to resolve them.
• David Wilson handed the device containing the Peace Songstress, Milotic, to Armored Mewtwo, who returned to the headquarters base with the conditions for opening the undersea ruins assembled.

Su Hao used his influence to push Longdu University to adopt reforms, then supported Li Hua before leaving for Yang City. Meanwhile, Mr. R and Armored Mewtwo entered the Undersea Ruins with the petrified Milotic, where Mr. R considered how a sample from the New Star Organization might strengthen Armored Mewtwo.

• Su Hao helped Bai Du lead a smooth emergency meeting that established rectification measures for Longdu University.
• Su Hao gave Li Hua secret Pokémon-nurturing manuals, talked with him, and then left for Yang City.
• Mr. R traveled with Armored Mewtwo to the Undersea Ruins, carrying the petrified Milotic.
• Armored Mewtwo shielded them from the deep-sea pressure and transported them inside the ruins, which contained air and remained free of seawater.
• Mr. R reflected on the New Star Organization and considered using its sample to increase Armored Mewtwo's power.