Chapter Summaries

Diancie advanced to Class Two Legendary with the Tapus’ help, gaining the Radiant Authority and overwhelming power over darkness. As the Legend Cup semifinal resumed, Diancie demonstrated its new strength against Tapu Koko while Deoxys detected a faint aura beneath the moon and Giovanni prepared for Mewtwo’s fusion.

• The Sacred Diamond reacted to Diancie’s advancement, and Queen Diancie realized her younger sister had forged her own path to Class Two Legendary.
• Tapu Koko stopped pursuing Diancie and summoned Tapu Lele, Tapu Bulu, and Kapu to channel the Sun-Moon Altar’s Light Energy into her.
• Deoxys sensed a faint aura leaking from an area on the moon and flew toward it, while Giovanni suppressed the stirring Cocoon of Stars and anticipated Mewtwo’s fusion.
• Diancie completed her advancement, formed the Radiant Authority, and thanked the Tapus before returning to the semifinal battle.
• Tapu Koko tested Diancie with Thunderbolt, which she blocked with one Light Screen, then discovered her radiant field suppressed its strength by thirty percent.

Su Hao and Diancie battled Tapu Koko after Diancie’s advancement let her overpower the weakened Island Guardian. Tapu Koko prepared to unleash a signature Z-Move with the Tapunium Z, while David Carlisle mistakenly believed it had chosen him as a hero.

• Tapu Koko replenished the Electric Terrain, attacked Diancie with Thunder and Steel Wing, and clashed with her Royal Swordsmanship.
• Diancie’s Radiant Aura weakened Tapu Koko, and her Photon Geyser shattered its Nature’s Madness.
• Tapu Koko decided to gather the Power of Nature into itself and brought out the Tapunium Z.
• Su Hao explained the Tapunium Z to David Carlisle, who believed Tapu Koko had acknowledged him as a hero.
• Tapu Koko rolled its eyes at David Carlisle’s assumptions and planned to use him only to help unleash its Z-Move.

Su Hao and Diancie overwhelmed Tapu Koko’s Guardian of Alola, and Diancie’s victory confirmed its advancement to Class Two Legendary. After the semifinals, Su Hao learned that Zygarde had appeared in Viridian Forest and was already fighting someone.

• David Carlisle and Tapu Koko summoned Guardian of Alola, a colossal giant of energy, on Melemele Island.
• Su Hao activated Dawn Break, and Diancie’s Sacred Sword of Light split Guardian of Alola apart in one strike.
• Diancie’s advancement to Class Two Legendary became a major topic after Su Hao’s semifinal victory and David Carlisle’s six-to-zero elimination.
• Su Hao discussed Diancie’s new powers and said they could now purify all the negative energy inside Lugia at once.
• Su Hao told Tapu Koko he planned to stay in the Island Sanctuary so Diancie could master more laws of light.
• The Pokémon League urgently informed Su Hao that Zygarde had appeared in Viridian Forest and a battle was already underway.

Kalos and Zygarde traveled through Viridian Forest to find Xerneas, while the Divine Land Alliance mobilized in response to Li Qingyi’s urgent report. When Xerneas appeared, it recognized that Zygarde had fused with Sensibility’s core and learned that Zygarde intended to eliminate anything threatening the balance of order.

• Mu Jianguo sent Suicune, Raikou, and powerful Trainers to Viridian Forest, while Liao Xingchen went to seek Ho-Oh’s support.
• Kalos admired Viridian Forest as Zygarde explained that its excessive vitality could eventually disrupt order.
• Zygarde used its scattered cells and Order Divine Power to locate Xerneas, then guided Kalos toward it.
• Kalos asked about Zygarde’s two-colored core, and Zygarde said it was a gift from its other half that had become one with it.
• Xerneas emerged by a lake and questioned Zygarde’s fusion with Sensibility’s core.
• Zygarde explained that Sensibility had sacrificed its life to stabilize the world and declared its resolve to remove threats to the balance of order.

Zygarde confronted Xerneas and demanded that it surrender the God of Death or sacrifice itself to restore the balance of life and death, but Xerneas refused and fought back. Meanwhile, Ho-Oh agreed to join Liao Xingchen and head out to confront Zygarde, hoping to hold it off until Su Hao returned.

• Zygarde accused Xerneas of helping the God of Death disrupt the balance and demanded that it hand the God of Death over.
• Zygarde transformed into its 50% Forme and offered Xerneas the choice of surrendering its vitality or being brought near death by force.
• Xerneas refused to surrender the God of Death or sacrifice itself, and its Fairy Aura clashed with Zygarde's Aura Break.
• The battle drove the powerful Pokémon in Viridian Forest to flee, including a Hydreigon carrying a Haxorus and an unconscious black bird.
• At the Nirvana Secret Realm, Ho-Oh heard Liao Xingchen's request for help and learned that Su Hao was still fighting the White Eagle Alliance's Champion.
• Ho-Oh agreed to accompany Liao Xingchen and head out to confront Zygarde, intending to buy time for Su Hao to return.

Su Hao and Diancie rushed back to Viridian Forest after learning that Zygarde was attacking Xerneas to force a balance between life and death. Zygarde overwhelmed Xerneas and the defenders who came to help, while Ho-Oh kept fighting it and waited for Su Hao and Diancie to arrive.

• Su Hao summoned Mewtwo, explained that Zygarde was attacking Xerneas, and followed it with Diancie through a Space Channel to Viridian Forest.
• Zygarde broke through Xerneas's Fairy Aura and wounded it so badly that its healing was blocked by Order Divine Power.
• Gigantic Dragonite, Ninetales, Suicune, and Raikou joined the fight, but Zygarde defeated or drove off most of them.
• Ho-Oh arrived and challenged Zygarde, but Zygarde refused to stop its attempt to restore balance and attacked Ho-Oh.
• Ho-Oh focused on delaying Zygarde, suspecting that Su Hao and Diancie would soon arrive.

Ho-Oh stalled Zygarde while Liao Xingchen waited for Su Hao to return from the Legend Cup semifinals. Su Hao arrived through a spatial rift with Diancie, who reunited with Xerneas as the injured Pokémon finally closed her eyes.

• Ho-Oh endured Zygarde's assault while disguising the one-sided battle with flashy illusions.
• Liao Xingchen asked Marshadow to help Ho-Oh, but Marshadow struck his knee and retreated into his shadow.
• The commander told Liao Xingchen that Champion Su had defeated Tapu Koko with Diancie and advanced to the Legend Cup finals.
• A spatial rift opened near the battle, and Su Hao, Diancie, and another figure emerged from it.
• Diancie reunited with Xerneas, who praised her daughter's success before closing her eyes.

Xerneas collapsed after Zygarde’s Order Power prevented it from healing, so Diancie charged into battle while Su Hao and Mewtwo worked to stabilize Xerneas. Diancie confronted Zygarde with its Radiant Aura, which resisted Zygarde’s Aura Break.

• Xerneas lost consciousness, and Su Hao discovered that Zygarde’s Order Power blocked healing; Mewtwo suggested defeating Zygarde to remove the effect.
• Diancie vowed to defeat Zygarde and rushed into the battle, while Su Hao stayed behind to oversee the battlefield and help Xerneas.
• Mewtwo suppressed the Order Power as Su Hao and Reshiram treated Xerneas’s injuries.
• Ho-Oh taunted Zygarde about the returning allies, and Zygarde noticed Diancie had become a new god wielding the Authority of Light.
• Diancie surrounded Zygarde and Ho-Oh with Radiant Aura, and Zygarde’s Aura Break failed to destroy it.

Diancie unleashed her transformed Radiant Aura and confronted Zygarde, whose Aura Break could not penetrate it. Zygarde attacked with Land's Wrath, but Diancie effortlessly cut the assault apart, leaving Ho-Oh and Marshadow stunned by her strength.

• Zygarde increased Aura Break’s power but failed to disrupt Diancie’s Radiant Aura, and refused to assume its 100% Form.
• Diancie unleashed her Radiant Aura above Viridian Forest, suppressing nearly one-tenth of Zygarde’s power.
• Zygarde descended to the ground and attacked Diancie with Land’s Wrath, sealing off her escape routes.
• Diancie refused Ho-Oh’s offer to help and formed a massive golden diamond overhead with bands of light.
• Diancie used the Radiant Scepter to refract the diamond’s light into rainbow rays that instantly sliced Land’s Wrath apart.
• Ho-Oh and the hidden Marshadow watched in shock as Diancie demonstrated her power.

Diancie fought Zygarde alone and overwhelmed it with Radiant Aura-powered attacks, forcing the God of Order to draw on leyline power from across Blue Star. Zygarde prepared to reveal its full strength in a new form.

• Diancie told Ho-Oh to help Su Hao and Mewtwo heal Xerneas, then held off Zygarde by itself.
• Diancie unleashed Photon Geyser through a ring of refracting prisms, and Zygarde blocked the first barrage with Thousand Waves.
• Zygarde destroyed the ring with Thousand Arrows, but Diancie turned the scattered fragments into floating turrets and continued attacking.
• Diancie's Photon Geysers overwhelmed Zygarde, which decided it had to use its true strength to maintain order.
• Zygarde called on power streaming from across Blue Star and announced that Diancie would witness its full strength in Gundam form.

While Diancie suppressed Zygarde’s 50% form, Su Hao and the Legends stabilized Xerneas and waited for Zygarde to summon its cells. Zygarde gathered nearly all of them but could not transform into its 100% form, leaving it confused about the missing one percent.

• Ho-Oh told Su Hao that Zygarde’s red and blue cores had merged, and Su Hao realized it might command the entire Order Authority and summon every cell.
• Ho-Oh, Mewtwo, Reshiram, Su Hao, and Viridian Forest’s Tokiwa Power stabilized Xerneas, leaving Zygarde as the remaining threat.
• Diancie used her Radiant Authority and Authority Shell to drive Zygarde’s 50% form into a disadvantage.
• Zygarde summoned its cells from across the world, but Su Hao calmly told Ho-Oh that it could not complete its transformation.
• Zygarde found that its returned cells held only 99% of its Order Divine Power and wondered where the final one percent had gone.

Zygarde recovered 99% of its Order Divine Power but failed to transform into its 100% Form, then pressured Diancie as Su Hao gathered allies. The chapter ended with Su Hao, Ho-Oh, Reshiram, Mewtwo, and Cycloze surrounding Zygarde.

• Zygarde discovered that 1% of its Order Divine Power was missing and could not sense where it had gone.
• Zygarde strengthened its Thousand Waves, overpowering Diancie and shrinking its radiant field.
• Su Hao left the unconscious Xerneas with the Dragalge siblings and Milotic, then joined Mewtwo, Reshiram, Cycloze, and Ho-Oh.
• Zygarde demanded that Diancie stop resisting, but Diancie attacked again with a band of diamond light.
• Ho-Oh blocked Zygarde's Land's Wrath as Su Hao arrived on Reshiram with Mewtwo and Cycloze, surrounding Zygarde with four Class One Legendary Pokémon.

Zygarde confronted Su Hao and the Legendary Pokémon protecting Xerneas and Yveltal, insisting that he was undermining order. Su Hao rejected Zygarde’s moral pressure, listed the crises he had handled while Zygarde was absent, and demanded that Zygarde hand its divine position and Authority over to him.

• Zygarde counted the powerful Legendary Pokémon surrounding it and asked whether they had gathered to stop it.
• Su Hao called their confrontation a righteous five-on-one, and Zygarde politely questioned why a human chosen by a great being would obstruct its efforts to restore balance.
• Zygarde urged Su Hao and Reshiram to turn back, arguing that protecting Xerneas and Yveltal endangered world order.
• Su Hao angrily reminded Zygarde of the many crises he had handled while it remained asleep and asked where it had been when order was threatened.
• Su Hao told Zygarde to give up its divine position and Authority, overwhelming it and the watching Legendary Pokémon with his fury.

Su Hao and his allies fought Zygarde over its attempt to restore the balance between life and death, defeating its 50% Forme after nearly three hours. Su Hao returned Zygarde’s missing cell and called on an unseen being to resolve the balance problem, leaving Zygarde’s future actions uncertain.

• Zygarde acknowledged Su Hao’s past accomplishments but insisted that its duty required it to uphold the balance between life and death, making a battle unavoidable.
• Diancie, Mega Mewtwo Y, Groudon, Reshiram, and Ho-Oh fought Zygarde in Viridian Forest, and after nearly three hours Zygarde’s 50% Forme broke apart.
• Su Hao declared victory as the battered Zygarde Core accepted its defeat, while the girl Kalos pleaded with him not to hurt it.
• Su Hao revealed and returned a cell containing 1% of Zygarde’s Order Divine Power, insisting that Zygarde would not attack Xerneas and Yveltal again.
• Su Hao shouted at an unseen being to solve the balance between life and death, threatening to quit if it did not act.

Su Hao summoned Arceus to resolve the conflict between life and death, and the Creator God confirmed that the imbalance stemmed from the God of Death’s resistance to his role. Arceus could not intervene yet because his true form was suppressing the Spirit Realm.

• Su Hao’s call reached Arceus, drawing the Legendary Pokémon into a white mental space where they sensed the Creator God’s presence.
• Su Hao asked Arceus to adjust the balance between life and death, and Arceus traced the problem to the God of Death’s rejection of his duties.
• Arceus explained that he could not intervene while his true form remained occupied with suppression.
• Su Hao recognized that Arceus was suppressing the Spirit Realm, and Arceus confirmed his guess.

Arceus ended the dispute between Su Hao and Zygarde, and Zygarde agreed to stop pursuing the balance of life and death by force. The next day, Su Hao and the Legendary Pokémon rebuilt Viridian Forest, restoring it to its former appearance.

• Arceus advised Zygarde to cooperate with Su Hao and said it would handle the balance of life and death later.
• Su Hao returned to the center of Viridian Forest, where Zygarde agreed not to attack Xerneas or Yveltal again, ending the Viridian Forest God War.
• Su Hao organized the Legendary Pokémon to remove their lingering auras and rebuild the damaged land, while Zygarde reshaped the ground and Mewtwo directed its work.
• Zygarde asked Kalos why she had not questioned its decision, and Kalos said she would always support it.
• Su Hao and the others scattered seeds, then Ho-Oh revived the land with Sacred Fire and Xerneas restored its greenery with Fairy Aura.

Su Hao learned from Zygarde that Dark Matter was still invading Blue Star from the Spirit Realm, where Arceus was trapped suppressing an enemy of equal power. The chapter ended with Reshiram fearing that its own world might already have fallen to Dark Matter.

• Zygarde explained that Xerneas had avoided reverting to the Cocoon of Destruction because it had received small amounts of vitality.
• Su Hao left Diancie and Xerneas alone together while he spoke with Zygarde about the secrets of the Spirit Realm.
• Zygarde revealed that the Spirit Realm had been the starting point of Dark Matter’s invasion and that Arceus could not leave because it was suppressing a powerful invader.
• Zygarde confirmed that a Dark Matter-corrupted incarnation of Arceus had sent Su Hao to the Spirit Realm, while the former Time God had prepared a plan to help him escape.
• Reshiram worried that its world might already have fallen after learning that its Creator God had been corrupted.

Su Hao and Zygarde agreed on a plan to unseal the Valley of Creation, protect Hoopa, and search for threats and allies across Blue Star. As Zygarde worried about keeping Kalos safe while it worked, Su Hao offered to arrange a place where she could find friends her own age.

• Su Hao exchanged information with Zygarde and set priorities that included unsealing the Valley of Creation, finding the World Tree and Kyurem, and hunting New Star Organization and R Institute personnel.
• Zygarde said it knew little about the Cocoon of Stars but understood Hoopa's Evil Thoughts, and agreed that they should find and drive away the outsiders from another spacetime.
• Zygarde proposed unsealing the Valley of Creation so Super Hoopa could help locate Kyurem and the World Tree, while Zygarde guarded Hoopa from its Evil Thoughts.
• Su Hao agreed to the plan, and Zygarde explained that unsealing the Valley would require its full attention and that it wanted to keep Kalos away from the danger.
• Zygarde rejected Su Hao's suggestion that Kalos live with Xerneas because she needed friends her own age, so Su Hao offered to make arrangements through his connections.

Su Hao brought Kalos, the young spokesperson for Zygarde, to Evergreen City’s Trainer Talent Development Center and asked Li Qingyi to help enroll her. Li Qingyi hesitated over Kalos’s foreign citizenship but learned Su Hao intended to secure her legal residence in the Divine Land Alliance.

• The children at the Youth Trainer Class waited quietly for Su Hao, while Li Qingyi worried about meeting Kalos and Zygarde.
• Li Qingyi recalled Kalos’s orphaned past and her bond with the God of Order, Zygarde.
• Li Qingyi met Su Hao and Kalos in the reception room and was unsettled by Zygarde’s presence.
• Su Hao asked Li Qingyi to use his Champion privileges to enroll Kalos in the development center.
• Su Hao told Li Qingyi that Kalos could become a legal resident of the Divine Land Alliance despite being from the French Alliance.

Su Hao helped Kalos become a citizen of the Divine Land Alliance and settle into its Youth Class, while Zygarde promised to protect her future. After leaving, Zygarde resolved to remove Blue Star’s hidden dangers, and Su Hao planned to visit the Valley of Creation after handling the Viridian Forest matter.

• Su Hao and Li Qingyi completed Kalos’s paperwork and gave her identification, a student ID, and a residence in Evergreen City.
• Li Qingyi and Su Hao took Kalos to meet her future classmates, and Zygarde promised to watch over her through its nearby cells and return to see her.
• Su Hao checked on Jiang Yueluo, Flabébé, and Deino, then asked Jiang Yueluo to look after Kalos as a dependable peer.
• Kalos chose to become a Dragon- and Ground-type specialist like Zygarde, and Su Hao promised to prepare a gift for her.
• After leaving the talent cultivation center, Zygarde vowed to make Blue Star safe for Kalos, and Su Hao said he would take it to the Valley of Creation after dealing with the Viridian Forest matter.