Chapter Summaries

Jing He traveled with Wan Long to Blueberry Academy, where Alder thanked him for saving Unova and again invited him to become its Champion. As the academy prepared to begin its Intra-School Battle, Alder asked Jing He to face him in an opening Exhibition Match.

• Jing He met Wan Long at Nimbasa City Airport, where she delivered Unova's thanks and rewards and told him about her trip to Blueberry Academy.
• Jing He and Wan Long flew to Blueberry Academy, where Principal Siran welcomed them and Brea showed them around.
• Alder met Jing He at the League Club and thanked him for his actions during the Eindoak Town and Giant Chasm incidents.
• Alder again asked Jing He to stay in Unova and serve as Champion, while explaining that he had come to Blueberry Academy to support his grandson and learn about its education.
• Alder revealed that he would take part in the Intra-School Battle's opening Exhibition Match and invited Jing He to battle him.

Jing He agreed to take part in two Exhibition Matches at Blueberry Academy and visited the Terarium Dome, where he met aspiring chef Chi Song. At the tournament venue, he reunited with Lacey and met Du Ruo as the opening ceremony approached.

• Alder offered to fight two Exhibition Matches, and Brea agreed to pay Jing He a teaching fee; Jing He accepted.
• Jing He explored the Savanna Biome with his Pokémon, where Gengar frightened a Tarountula and Larvitar and Victini ate Pecha Berries.
• Chi Song confronted Jing He over the Berries, then challenged him to a cooking contest; Jing He’s mapo tofu impressed Chi Song, who asked him to teach cooking.
• Chi Song gave Jing He his grandfather’s Secret Cooking Scroll, and Jing He discovered a recipe for Spectrier Snacks before Brea called him to the arena.
• Jing He met Du Ruo at the tournament venue, where Chi Song revealed that Du Ruo had repeated a grade three times; Lacey greeted Jing He, and Gengar teased Chi Song about his feelings for her.

Jing He and Alder began their Exhibition Match, with Alder’s Volcarona taking control through powerful Fire Dance and Quiver Dance attacks. Jing He Terastallized Gengar into its Ghost type, and Gengar spread a powerful shadow across the arena as the chapter ended.

• Alder and Jing He entered the arena to loud cheers, and each sent out a Pokémon: Alder chose Volcarona while Jing He sent out Gengar.
• Alder opened with Fire Dance and then used Quiver Dance to strengthen Volcarona as Gengar vanished with Phantom Force.
• Gengar tried to use Gimme Dat through a dimensional rift, but Volcarona’s intense light dispelled the stolen shadow bats and its boosts.
• Alder used Fire Dance and Heat Wave to drive away the shadows around Gengar, leaving Jing He unable to use Phantom Force.
• Jing He used a Tera Orb to Terastallize Gengar into Tera Ghost, and Gengar spread a powerful shadow across the arena.

Jing He and Gengar battled Alder and Volcarona in an Exhibition Match, using Terastallization and powerful Shadow Ball techniques to gain a slight edge before time ran out. Alder then claimed Jing He had another level of strength he had not shown, leaving the audience wondering whether Teacher Jing He still had another trump card.

• Jing He Terastallized Gengar, which spread Haze across the field and opened a dimensional crack to swallow Volcarona's fiery moths.
• Gengar's Shadow Ball struck Volcarona with physical force, giving Jing He and Gengar a slight advantage in their exchange with Alder.
• Volcarona's rising power met Gengar's crystalline Shadow Ball in a violent collision, but the Exhibition Match ended before either side was defeated.
• Jing He and Alder praised each other's strength in the post-match interview, and Alder said Jing He had only a fifty-percent chance of beating him without going all out.
• Alder claimed Jing He could win nine or ten times out of ten at full strength, shocking the audience and prompting speculation about Jing He's hidden trump card.

Jing He reunited with Mew, who disguised itself as Eevee and agreed to join his Exhibition Match against Du Ruo. The battle began with Jing He ordering the disguised Mew to use Misty Terrain, leaving the audience stunned.

• Jing He charged his Tera Orb while wondering where Blueberry Academy got its Terastal Energy, and Mew appeared disguised as Terapagos.
• Mew revealed itself, reunited with Jing He, met Victini, and disguised itself as Eevee when Nurse Joy returned.
• Jing He invited Mew to perform in an Exhibition Match, and they came up with a plan to surprise the crowd.
• After Du Ruo defeated Alder, he chose Kingdra to face Jing He, anticipating that Jing He might use Ice Ninetales.
• Jing He sent out Mew disguised as Eevee and ordered it to use Misty Terrain, shocking Du Ruo and the audience.

Jing He’s Eevee stunned Blueberry Academy by using unusual moves and overwhelming Du Ruo’s Terastallized Kingdra, then staged a simultaneous knockout to soften the exhibition match’s result. Du Ruo left convinced that Alder’s warning about Jing He’s strength had been justified, while someone from Galar became especially excited about Eevee.

• Du Ruo sent Kingdra into the rainy, Misty Terrain-covered arena and Terastallized it into a Water type, then boosted it with Dragon Dance.
• Jing He’s Eevee dodged Hydro Pump and struck Kingdra with Thunderbolt, astonishing Du Ruo and the spectators.
• Eevee outran Kingdra’s Wave Crash and finished it with Thunder, after which it pretended to collapse so the host could announce a simultaneous knockout.
• Jing He praised Du Ruo and Blueberry Academy during the interview, and Du Ruo said the battle helped him understand Alder’s ten-to-zero odds remark.
• The spectators concluded that Eevee was only one of Jing He’s formidable advantages, while the narrator noted that someone from Galar was especially excited by it.

Leon discovered Jing He’s powerful Eevee in an exhibition-match video, while Jing He accepted a lavish set of Evolution Stones that his Pokémon quickly claimed. After returning to Hoenn with Victini, Jing He celebrated its arrival at the Coffee Shop and began considering where his Pokémon could train next.

• Leon called Mustard after seeing Jing He’s Eevee battle at Blueberry Academy, and the two marveled at its unusual abilities.
• Brea gave Jing He a complete set of ten high-quality Evolution Stones as payment for his exhibition match, and his Pokémon divided them up and ate them.
• Jing He received ten million League Credit from Team Rocket Media Entertainment for settling the remaining matters of the Tempest Plan.
• Jing He returned to Canalave City with Gengar, Larvitar, and Victini, then welcomed Victini at the Coffee Shop with the Indeedee siblings and Alcremie.
• Jing He wondered where his powerful Pokémon could train and considered getting an island, then decided to celebrate Children’s Day.

Jing He returned to Hoenn and avoided a League appointment by claiming he was keeping Mew company, while Bonnie and other League officials worried that another region would recruit him. At Canalave Pokémon Academy, he inspected a lavish new training facility, recognized his Pokémon were pushing themselves too hard, and resolved to help them grow through more deliberate training.

• Bonnie called Jing He to arrange a visit to League Headquarters, but he claimed he was busy keeping Mew company and declined; Gengar pretended to cry out like Mew to support his excuse.
• Bonnie told Sidney, Fu Rong, Winona, and Steven that Jing He had refused, and the officials discussed his reliability and their fear that Sinnoh or Unova might recruit him.
• Jing He toured Canalave Pokémon Academy’s new training facility with Director Min Jiang and learned wealthy parents of incoming students had sponsored it.
• Larvitar cracked the new training ground while stomping and began eating rubble, prompting Jing He to ask whether the paving could be repaired if Larvitar ate it.
• Jing He noticed that Victini’s Infinity Energy and his Pokémon’s ambition had driven them to train excessively, so he decided to use reasonable methods to improve their strength.
• Jing He started training Larvitar and Ninetales to combine Sandstorm and Hail, then prepared to spend his League Credits on food and supplies for his team.

Jing He spent a busy day cooking dinner with his Pokémon and welcomed Delibird, who delivered a mysterious Necrozma Crystal from Team Rocket. He froze and stored the dangerous crystal, then ended the evening gathered happily with his Pokémon.

• Jing He cooked an elaborate dinner with help from his Pokémon and confiscated Chi Song's recipe book after Gengar showed him a speculative recipe for Pecharunt's Binding Mochi.
• Delibird arrived with gifts from Jing He for Sakaki Boss, Mato, Porygon-Z, Mewtwo, and Delibird itself.
• Delibird delivered a black crystal and a report linking it to the Aether Foundation; Jing He identified it as a likely Necrozma Crystal and wondered why Sakaki Boss had sent it.
• Jing He ordered Ice Ninetales to freeze the crystal, and Gengar swallowed the resulting ice sculpture into its Dimensional Space.
• Jing He and his Pokémon shared dinner, and he later dreamed that he caught a rare Pokémon by calling out, "Arceus Cloth, I choose you!"

Jing He accepted a League request to calm an irritable Regice awakened at an island ruin south of Petalburg City. Before leaving, he discovered that his prayer to Calyrex’s sculpture had reached the sleeping Pokémon in Galar, which began to regain power.

• Botan secretly managed the Teacher Jing He Support Club while Jing He asked about her exams and classmates.
• Larvitar reported that Sonia and Botan’s Calyrex sculpture had flashed, and Jing He suspected the World Tree branch might have triggered it, though nothing happened when he tested it.
• After Jing He and the others left, the sculpture glowed again, and a tiny green shoot sprouted from the ancient tree where Calyrex slept in Galar.
• Bonnie asked Jing He to help at an island ruin south of Petalburg City, where an exploration team had awakened an irritable Regice and Norman had already gone.
• Jing He accepted the assignment, prepared to leave by helicopter, and told Botan to have Indeedee make him coffee before studying on her own.

Jing He arrived at a frozen island to deal with an enraged Regice and ordered his Pokémon to subdue it. After his team overwhelmed Regice, Jing He prepared Victini to restore the Legendary Pokémon’s condition, leaving the battle still underway.

• Jing He reached the island by helicopter, ordered the expedition team to evacuate, and sent Dragonite to attack Regice.
• Jing He and his Pokémon fought Regice, with Gengar paralyzing it, Tinkaton breaking its Ice Shards, and Ceruledge and Urshifu landing attacks.
• Larvitar stomped the ice and shook the island, prompting Jing He to remind it to control and concentrate its strength.
• Jing He told Victini to wait for his signal and prepare to restore Regice’s condition after the battle.

Jing He subdued the awakened Regice, traded it Energy Cubes for rare ice and ore, and returned to Canalave City after it went back to sleep. Two days later, Watari called to report that Regigigas had awakened.

• Jing He calmed Regice after it woke from a frightening dream, then gave it Energy Cubes in exchange for Never-Melt Ice and rare ore.
• Regice returned to its underground cave, and Jing He told Officer Jenny to keep people away from its sleeping place.
• Jing He asked Steven Stone to check for approaching meteors, but Mossdeep Space Center had detected none.
• Jing He advised Botan to train Eevee with the Alola Region's Extreme Evoboost Z-Move.
• Two days later, Watari called Jing He and told him that Regigigas had awakened.

Watari’s audit of Snowpoint Gym was interrupted when Regigigas awakened, prompting him to call Jing He for help. Jing He learned that Arceus was also nearing awakening and prepared to travel to Sinnoh, where he planned to seek the Life Orb and enlist Team Rocket’s help in Michina.

• Watari reviewed Snowpoint Gym’s records with Candice and noted that the Gym had issued relatively few badges because of the city’s remote, freezing climate.
• Regigigas awakened at Snowpoint Temple, and Watari called Jing He after seeing that the legendary Pokémon remained unusually quiet.
• Jing He learned from Giratina that Arceus was nearing awakening and reasoned that its rage could be tied to the theft of its Life Orb.
• Jing He decided to travel to Sinnoh and considered using time travel, recovering the Life Orb, or confronting Arceus to resolve the crisis.
• Jing He discovered that Team Rocket planned a team-building trip to Michina, where its members might find the scepter containing the Life Orb and help withstand Arceus’s attacks.

Jing He reached Snowpoint City and discovered Regigigas had awakened but was still recovering from Slow Start, so he began preparing it for an approaching battle. After learning that Arceus might come to punish humanity, Jing He took Cynthia and the others aboard Brandon’s Battle Pyramid and headed for Michina to prepare a surprise.

• Darkrai sensed a familiar Aura entering Sinnoh and set out, hoping to fight Dialga or Palkia rather than Arceus.
• Jing He arrived in Snowpoint City, where he used Energy Cubes and Aura to rouse the sluggish Regigigas and urged the Shrine Maiden to feed it while it recovered.
• Cynthia arrived at Snowpoint Temple, and Jing He told the group that trouble might be brewing elsewhere before deciding to head for Michina.
• Jing He borrowed Brandon’s Battle Pyramid and had Rotom take control of it as the group prepared to leave.
• Jing He explained that Arceus might awaken and attack humanity, prompting the group to prepare for its arrival.
• Jing He vowed to prepare a hundred million little surprises for Arceus.

Jing He and his companions reached Michina to prepare for the disturbances caused by Arceus’s awakening, while he hoped to find the Life Orb and avoid traveling through time. Dialga and Palkia appeared and began fighting, and Darkrai called on Jing He to subdue them as a black hole expanded above Michina.

• Jing He brought his companions to Michina and explained that Dialga and Palkia might appear there as time and space became disturbed.
• Larvitar mistook Azurill for a mischievous Floatzel and tossed it around, prompting a protective Azumarill to confront Larvitar and Gengar before Victini and Azurill calmed it down.
• Jing He cooked a meal for his companions and the local wild Pokémon, while Cynthia guessed he might travel to the past alone and insisted on going with him.
• A vortex opened above the lake near Michina Temple, and Dialga and Palkia emerged through rifts in the sky and attacked each other.
• Darkrai arrived and urged Jing He to subdue Dialga and Palkia, and Jing He began summoning chains as the black hole grew.

Jing He stopped Dialga and Palkia from fleeing, persuaded them to help, and began planning how to address Arceus's anger. The chapter ended with Cyrus learning that another time-space collision had occurred in Michina and preparing Team Galactic to act.

• Dialga and Palkia tried to escape, but Darkrai and Gengar blocked their routes, with Gengar redirecting Palkia's rift to the Destroyed World and Giratina.
• Jing He convinced Dialga and Palkia to hear him out by explaining that Arceus's awakening and fury had caused the time-space vortices, then won their cooperation with food.
• Dialga and Palkia worked together to collapse the vortex, and Dialga confirmed that there was a chance it could take Jing He and Cynthia to the past.
• Jing He planned for himself and Cynthia to travel back in time while Watari, Volkner, and Aaron searched the Michina Ruins for the missing Life Orb; Cynthia arranged to secure the Adamant Orb and Lustrous Orb.
• At Team Galactic Headquarters, Pluto reported a new time-space collision in Michina, and Cyrus prepared to make a move.

Jing He and Cynthia traveled to ancient Michina, rescued Damos, and recovered the Life Orb before Arceus arrived. After Arceus showed them evidence of Team Galactic’s threat, Jing He challenged it with his Pokémon, but Arceus sent them back to the present to confront its future self, where they prepared for a raid.

• Jing He and Cynthia entered Michina Temple with Spiky-eared Pichu’s help and freed Damos from his cell.
• Jing He’s and Cynthia’s Pokémon fought past the temple guards and defeated Kichi’s Heatran, while Gengar disarmed Kichi and Jing He recovered the Life Orb.
• Damos presented the Life Orb to Arceus during the total lunar eclipse, but Arceus recognized Jing He and Cynthia as time travelers and showed them Team Galactic pursuing Dialga and Palkia.
• Jing He challenged Arceus alongside his Pokémon, and Arceus acknowledged their bonds before sending them back to the present to prove themselves to its future self.
• Jing He and Cynthia returned beside Volkner and Watari and announced that it was time for a raid.

Arceus awakened in Michina and attacked humanity over its ancient betrayal, while Jing He and several Legendary Pokémon fought to stop it. Jing He summoned reinforcements from across the world and confronted Arceus as Regigigas struck down Team Galactic’s airship, leaving Arceus facing an overwhelming alliance and Jing He asking to talk.

• Arceus awakened during a solar eclipse, rejected Sheena’s fake Life Orb, and unleashed Judgment on Michina.
• Dialga, Palkia, Darkrai, and Giratina joined Jing He against Arceus, while Jing He coordinated attacks that managed to injure it.
• Mewtwo, Zekrom, Reshiram, and Lugia entered through Palkia’s spatial rifts to support Jing He, while their allies gathered around him.
• Arceus warned that humanity would always have traitors as Team Galactic approached with the Adamant Orb and Lustrous Orb.
• Regigigas emerged from the final rift and knocked Team Galactic’s airship aside, after which Jing He asked Arceus to talk.

Jing He and a coalition of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon battled Arceus, whose anger softened after witnessing their bonds and coordination. Arceus then tested Jing He and his team in a mental arena, where they defeated its trial and persuaded it to consider letting go of its resentment.

• Arceus challenged Jing He’s assembled Legendary and Mythical Pokémon, and they attacked together, with Zekrom, Reshiram, Mewtwo, and Regigigas putting Arceus under pressure.
• Team Rocket’s trio returned with the Life Orb, and Wobbuffet reflected a stray Judgment beam aimed at Jing He’s group.
• Arceus offered Jing He a chance to prove the bond between humans and Pokémon in a mental arena, where Jing He’s Pokémon faced its weakened trial form.
• Jing He’s team coordinated their attacks, Mega Gengar Terastallized, and Jing He used its darkness and his soothing words to help Arceus release its anger.
• Arceus acknowledged Jing He’s proof and suggested they could talk, while Jing He wondered whether he could have tried throwing a Poké Ball at it.

Jing He helped Arceus recover its Plates and regain its calm, earning its gratitude, a Thousand Arms, and a boost to his Aura. After the crisis, he and his companions dealt with Team Galactic and held a barbecue, where Mewtwo tried to relax by helping cook.

• Mega Mewtwo Y shattered Arceus's avatar, but Arceus soon returned in a gentler state and accepted Jing He as a friend.
• Jing He returned the five Plates hidden in the Life Orb, restoring Arceus and ending the turmoil affecting Dialga and Palkia; he also vouched for Giratina, freeing it from its restraints.
• Arceus gave Jing He a Thousand Arms that contained part of its power and could contact it, then strengthened Jing He's Aura and urged him to visit Kalos.
• Mewtwo declined Arceus's help with reviving Xiao Ai 2 and resolved to pursue that wish itself; Arceus shared Plate power with Larvitar, Urshifu, and Gengar before departing.
• Cynthia, Watari, Volkner, and Aaron moved to capture Team Galactic's remaining members, while the other Legendary Pokémon left or joined Jing He for dinner.
• The day after the incident, Jing He had Mewtwo help grill food at a barbecue in Celestic Town, where Mewtwo reflected that being human was not easy either.