Chapter Summaries

Su Hao defeated Jiang Zihan’s Serperior in an exhibition battle, then revealed that he was still a high school senior when Jiang asked him to join Magic City University’s school team. After Su Hao and Zhao Xing fled the growing crowd, Jiang told Daiwu and Muxia about the battle and they recalled meeting another extraordinary high school student.

• Su Hao stopped Milotic from further injuring Serperior and had her treat Serperior after the battle.
• Su Hao bid Jiang Zihan farewell, but Jiang stopped him to ask his name and whether he would join the school team.
• Su Hao revealed that he was a high school senior, then left with Zhao Xing as students gathered around the arena.
• Jiang Zihan told Daiwu and Muxia how Su Hao’s Milotic had overwhelmed Serperior.
• Daiwu and Muxia recalled meeting an extraordinary high school student with an Incineroar and a Carbink on Ice Feather Mountain.

Cui Wenyyao, a Magic City University admissions recruiter, reviewed Su Hao’s exceptional recruitment file while reflecting on the university’s failed attempts to contact him. When the admissions director reported that Su Hao was touring campus, Cui Wenyyao was told to meet him and make a good impression.

• Cui Wenyyao finished a report on a talented Fairy-type student he had recruited and uploaded it to the university’s shared folder.
• Cui Wenyyao reviewed Su Hao’s file, which rated him Highest Priority and urged the university to offer him its best resources.
• Cui Wenyyao recalled searching for Su Hao in Shuizhou City and later trying to reach him through his father, Su Xu, without success.
• Zhang Beishan announced that Su Hao was touring the campus and ordered Cui Wenyyao to receive him.
• Cui Wenyyao confirmed he had returned to campus and agreed to meet Su Hao.

Su Hao toured Magic City University with Zhao Xing before admissions teacher Cui Wenyyao took over and showed him the campus’s Pokémon training facilities. They arrived at the Gravity Room, where Su Hao learned it could reach twenty-five times gravity.

• Su Hao asked Zhao Xing to show him Magic City University and learned that the Pokémon Daycare was too far away to visit before it closed.
• Cui Wenyyao arrived to guide Su Hao, while Zhao Xing returned to his dormitory to rest before his practical exam.
• Su Hao asked to see facilities for Pokémon training, and Cui Wenyyao took him to the Gravity Room.
• Aunt Zhao gave Cui Wenyyao a magnetic card, and he led Su Hao toward the training rooms.
• Cui Wenyyao told Su Hao that the Gravity Room could reach twenty-five times gravity, far beyond the equipment at Su Hao’s home.

Cui Wenyyao showed Su Hao Magic City University's training facilities, including its unopened Electric House, and explained how it used Electrifying Stones from the Electric Grand Canyon. Su Hao realized the electric environment could help Incineroar train, then left for his hotel while Cui Wenyyao wondered what new feat had prompted the university to discuss Su Hao's admission rewards again.

• Cui Wenyyao showed Su Hao the Gravity Room and explained its gravity controls and training functions.
• Cui Wenyyao guided Su Hao through the Weather House and Flight Simulation Room.
• Cui Wenyyao introduced the unopened Electric House and explained how Electrifying Stones from the Electric Grand Canyon generated powerful currents.
• Su Hao thought the electric conditions could help Incineroar temper its body, but realized he could not access the Electric House or the Electric Grand Canyon yet.
• Su Hao took a taxi back to his hotel after agreeing to call Cui Wenyyao before visiting the Pokémon Daycare the day after tomorrow.
• Cui Wenyyao reflected on a meeting about Su Hao's admission rewards and wondered what he had accomplished.

Su Hao calculated that Dragapult’s rising resource needs were draining his savings and considered how to earn money and find rare Gems. With the High School Cup qualifying tournament three weeks away, he planned to visit Imperial Capital University for Eevee’s treatment and to choose another Pokémon.

• Su Hao tallied the cost of supporting Dragapult and worried that his remaining three million Shenzhou Coin would last only about a month.
• Su Hao considered how scarce Dragon and Ghost Gems had become and examined the Electrifying Stone Cui Wenyyao had given him.
• Su Hao asked Incineroar to test the Electrifying Stone, but Incineroar could neither extract its energy nor find it useful.
• Su Hao reviewed his plans for the Rong City High School Cup Qualifying Tournament and the more important Seed Plan Elimination Tournament tied to Eevee’s treatment.
• Su Hao planned to visit Imperial Capital University, where Miao Yin had offered to help him choose another Pokémon, and considered the limits on his six registered Pokémon slots.

Mu Yulan reviewed the suspected cheaters and prepared the practical exam, while Su Hao arrived at the assessment site to find Energy Cube Makers waiting. Shu Hongyuan and his followers, who had expected a different test, panicked and started a confrontation by insulting Su Hao.

• Mu Yulan identified Shu Hongyuan, Zhao Zihao, Ai Luoli, and Shi Yi as suspected cheaters, but dismissed the accusation against Su Hao as Gengar's personal bias.
• Su Hao signed in as the last of thirty examinees and entered the fourth-floor assessment area, where he found Energy Cube Makers set up on the grass.
• Zhao Xing and the others welcomed Su Hao and guessed that the practical test would involve making Energy Cubes.
• Shu Hongyuan and his followers realized the test differed from the leaked question they had prepared for and admitted they did not know how to use an Energy Cube Maker.
• Shu Hongyuan and his three followers picked a fight with Su Hao's group, and Shu Hongyuan singled Su Hao out with an insulting accusation.

Su Hao and his friends faced off against Shu Hongyuan and his lackeys before the Beginner Nurturer Assessment began with four possible practical exams. Su Hao chose to make Energy Cubes, and Mu Yulan revealed that he had lost a point on the written test because he misidentified a Jigglypuff image; he then went to begin the practical exam.

• Su Hao grew angry at Shu Hongyuan and his lackeys for insulting him, but the announcement of the practical exam interrupted their confrontation.
• The examiners announced four practical options: treat an injured Pokémon, design a nurturing plan, make an ordinary-quality Energy Cube, or identify a Pokémon Egg.
• Shu Hongyuan chose Pokémon Egg identification, while Zhao Xing and He Kun chose Pokémon treatment, Li Xin and Liu Yue chose Energy Cube making, and Su Hao chose the same option but had to wait for a machine.
• Mu Yulan told Su Hao that he had missed question fifty by answering that the image showed a Jigglypuff from above instead of from below.
• After seeing a candidate fail at a smoking Energy Cube Maker, Su Hao walked to a machine to start his exam.

Su Hao drew the rare task of making a Beginner Ghost-type Energy Cube and began preparing it with the exam’s advanced machine. He used Aura to observe the ingredients inside, drawing Mu Yulan’s attention as she recognized his ability.

• Su Hao drew the assignment to create one Normal-quality Beginner Ghost-type Energy Cube.
• Su Hao examined the Berry ingredients and reviewed how Energy Cube quality depended on the ingredients and the maker’s technique.
• Su Hao selected Ghost-type Energy Cube ingredients and began operating the machine, using Aura to observe the ingredients inside.
• Gengar pointed Su Hao out to Mu Yulan as the source of the strange energy it had sensed before.
• Mu Yulan recognized that Su Hao was applying a Special Ability to Energy Cube production and found the development exciting.

Su Hao produced six Perfect-grade Beginner Ghost-type Energy Cubes during his examination, impressing Bai Jie and Branch President Mu Yulan. Mu Yulan offered him a business proposition, while the four examinees suspected of cheating were set to be handed over to the Alliance Police.

• Su Hao used Aura to adjust the Energy Cube Maker but concluded that its limits prevented him from improving the cubes further, then compressed the finished batch.
• The fragrance of Su Hao’s six light-purple Energy Cubes attracted nearby examinees, and Bai Jie inspected their exceptional quality.
• Mu Yulan stopped Bai Jie from conducting an unnecessary appraisal and instructed her to record Su Hao’s assessment as a full-score pass.
• Mu Yulan recognized the cubes as Perfect grade, and Su Hao explained to himself that Aura, his reflexes, and the larger machine had enabled him to make them.
• Su Hao asked Mu Yulan why she had approached him, and she offered him a business proposition.

Mu Yulan asked Su Hao to make Perfect Quality Beginner Ghost-type Energy Cubes, explaining how exceptional his results were. She revealed that the order was for the Mu Family’s contract with the Spirit Realm and its August 30th Birth Festival, leaving Su Hao surprised to learn the Spirit Realm existed.

• Mu Yulan invited Su Hao to her office and offered him a commission to produce Perfect Quality Beginner Ghost-type Energy Cubes.
• Mu Yulan explained that Su Hao had made six Perfect Quality Energy Cubes from materials for six, a feat even she could not reliably match.
• Su Hao questioned why Mu Yulan had chosen him, and she revealed that she trusted his abilities after his Special Ability helped him discover her Gengar.
• Gengar emerged from Mu Yulan’s shadow and begged Su Hao for one of the Ghost-type Energy Cubes.
• Mu Yulan said the order came from the Mu Family, which had a contract with the Spirit Realm, and was for its August 30th Birth Festival.
• Su Hao reacted with surprise when Mu Yulan mentioned the Spirit Realm.

Su Hao learned that the Spirit Realm was a vast Secret Realm inhabited by Ghost-type Pokémon and heard why Mu Yulan’s family held a Birth Festival there. Mu Yulan commissioned him to make Energy Cubes for the festival, which would take place in about three months.

• Su Hao asked Articuno about the Spirit Realm, and Articuno said the real Spirit Realm had been destroyed long ago.
• Mu Yulan clarified that her family had contracted with a powerful Ghost-type Pokémon clan in the Spirit Realm, which she described as a vast Secret Realm with entrances and exits appearing around the world.
• Mu Yulan commissioned Su Hao to produce six hundred and sixty-six boxes of Perfect Quality basic Ghost-type Energy Cubes by August 25.
• Su Hao asked whether Ghost-type Pokémon emerged from the Spirit Realm during the Ghost Festival, and Mu Yulan explained that they preferred the Spirit Realm, where clans gathered for the Birth Festival to welcome new Ghost-type Pokémon.

Su Hao accepted Mu Yulan’s lucrative contract to produce Ghost-type Energy Cubes after his mother had it reviewed, and the System issued a matching mission. After signing the deal, he offered one of his cubes to Mu Yulan’s starving Gengar.

• Mu Yulan offered Su Hao an order worth twelve million Shenzhou Coin, with material and processing fees paid upfront.
• Su Hao sent the contract to Su Qing, who had a lawyer check it and confirmed that its terms were sound.
• The System gave Su Hao a mission to deliver 666 boxes of Perfect Quality Beginner Ghost-type Energy Cubes before August 25, rewarding him with 550,000 System Currency that would clear his debt.
• Su Hao and Mu Yulan signed the contract and agreed to arrange delivery later.
• Su Hao asked to feed one of his Ghost-type Energy Cubes to Mu Yulan’s Gengar, and Gengar eagerly rushed to him after Mu Yulan gave permission.

Su Hao learned that four exam candidates had cheated and that he had actually ranked first, then asked Articuno whether the Spirit Realm it mentioned was connected to the Spirit Realm Secret Realm. As Articuno denied any connection, a channel opened beneath Su Hao and pulled him into the Spirit Realm.

• Gengar became excessively affectionate after Su Hao fed it an Energy Cube, and Mu Yulan eventually called it away.
• Su Hao asked Mu Yulan why randomly appearing Spirit Realm Channels did not endanger ordinary people, and she explained that they usually appeared in places associated with Ghost-type energy.
• Mu Yulan revealed that Ren Buduan, Shu Hongyuan, Shi Yi, and another candidate had bribed a staff member for leaked exam questions, so their qualifications were revoked and they faced legal charges.
• Su Hao met Zhao Xing and the other candidates for a meal, then walked toward the Evolution Research Institute and asked Articuno about the Spirit Realm it had mentioned.
• Articuno said the two Spirit Realms were unrelated, but a channel opened beneath Su Hao and dragged him into it.

Su Hao fell into a barren, ruined version of the Spirit Realm, where Articuno recognized the place and revealed that it had once been an ancient battlefield. Articuno told Su Hao that Dark Matter had used Pokémon from another world to invade theirs, and the chapter left him learning how the war escalated to include dark Legendary Pokémon.

• Su Hao landed in a desolate realm and found that his Wave Power could not leave his body.
• Articuno emerged from his Master Ball, warned Su Hao not to release Diancie, and recognized the realm as the destroyed Spirit Realm.
• Articuno explained that the Spirit Realm had once been a battlefield where Pokémon and humans fought to defend their world.
• Articuno told Su Hao that Dark Matter had devoured another world and sent dark Pokémon through a Space Channel to invade theirs.
• Articuno recounted that purification could not restore the minds devoured by Dark Matter and that the enemy eventually sent dark Legendary Pokémon into battle.

Articuno told Su Hao how Arceus sealed away Dark Matter and exiled the Spirit Realm after a devastating war. In the present, Articuno discovered Su Hao was unaffected by the realm’s corrupting energy and decided they needed to escape.

• Articuno recalled that the Ice, Fire, and Lightning Gods died fighting Dark Lugia, while Ho-Oh defeated Dark Groudon and Dark Kyogre at great cost.
• Articuno explained that Arceus sacrificed nineteen Plates to destroy the dark Pokémon, seal the passage, and exile the shattered Spirit Realm.
• Su Hao realized he could not access his system interface or inventory while trapped in the Spirit Realm.
• Articuno explained that the realm’s Alien Energy could corrupt Pokémon, but Su Hao appeared completely unaffected.
• Articuno declared that the Spirit Realm was unsafe and told Su Hao they would leave.

Su Hao and Articuno found a hidden teleportation passage in the Spirit Realm and used it to escape. They arrived in a dim Secret Realm, where Su Hao confidently declared it his battlefield, while the chapter ended with shadowy figures crossing the abandoned altar they had left behind.

• Articuno explained that a one-way passage Palkia had created could take them out of the Spirit Realm, and Su Hao agreed to follow him there on foot.
• Su Hao asked where Giratina had gone, and Articuno admitted he did not know and thought Giratina might be away for years or decades.
• Articuno led Su Hao through rocks to a concealed altar, and they activated its passage by standing on it.
• The altar's light grew into a pillar that transported Su Hao and Articuno to a dim place Articuno suspected was a Secret Realm.
• Su Hao declared the new location his battlefield, while Articuno reacted in exasperation.
• Several shadowy figures swept across the now-abandoned altar in the silent Spirit Realm.

Su Hao and Diancie explored an unfamiliar forest after a random teleport left them without phone signal or a way to identify their location. They sheltered from a violent storm in a Rock house Diancie built, where Incineroar heard someone knock at the door.

• Su Hao checked his phone, found no signal and a broken clock, and decided to investigate their surroundings.
• Diancie flew above the forest and spotted Rock mountains to the north, so Su Hao followed her in that direction.
• As a storm approached, Diancie raised a small Rock house for them to shelter in.
• Su Hao recalled Diancie, released Incineroar to keep watch, and went to sleep while the rain and thunder intensified.
• Incineroar heard footsteps approaching through puddles and then a rhythmic knock at the door.

Su Hao woke after Incineroar heard knocking at Diancie's stone house, while Ophelia and Smith encountered a strange rainbow-colored dome in the forest on their way to Electric Grand Canyon. After the dome vanished, a huge black shadow dropped from the sky toward them.

• Incineroar woke Su Hao because persistent knocking outside the stone house frightened him, and Su Hao prepared for a possible Pokémon prank before opening the door.
• Ophelia cursed the unexpected rain and blamed Director Elus for a faulty weather forecast as she and Smith continued toward Electric Grand Canyon.
• Ophelia spotted a rainbow-colored dome crackling with electricity and insisted on approaching it despite Smith's warning.
• Smith sent his two Electabuzz ahead, but the dome vanished and left the nearby trees sliced apart.
• A huge black shadow suddenly descended toward Ophelia and Smith.

Smith and Ophelia were attacked by a giant bird Pokémon while traveling through the rain, and Su Hao let them shelter in his stone house. He discovered that he had emerged in the Beautiful Country Alliance, in America.

• Smith knocked Ophelia into a puddle and ordered the two Electabuzz to strike the giant bird with Thunderbolt.
• The injured bird flew away, and Smith treated the claw wounds he had taken while protecting Ophelia.
• Ophelia found Su Hao's stone house and asked him to shelter her and the injured Smith.
• Su Hao welcomed them inside after sensing their sincerity and learned that they had two Gym Level Electabuzz guarding them.
• Su Hao asked whether they were in the Beautiful Country Alliance, and Ophelia and Smith confirmed they were in America.

Su Hao found himself stranded in the Beautiful Country Alliance and arranged to borrow Smith’s phone so he could contact Su Qing. While Milotic treated Smith’s wound, Ophelia described the enormous, four-eyed bird Pokémon that had attacked them, leaving Su Hao wondering what it was.

• Su Hao realized he was in the Beautiful Country Alliance and considered how he could return to the Divine Land Alliance.
• Su Hao offered to heal Smith’s wound in exchange for borrowing his phone, and Smith lent it to him.
• Su Hao released Milotic, who began treating Smith’s back with Aqua Ring.
• Su Hao asked Ophelia how Smith had been injured, and she described a huge black bird Pokémon with mismatched eyes that had attacked them near a rainbow-colored barrier.
• Su Hao wondered whether the strange bird Pokémon was a new species.