Recaps

Fang Yuan’s Grand Festival succeeded, and he began Champion Road, overcoming five gates through his Pokémon’s power and teamwork. He left the Fifth Gate with much of his team exhausted, facing a Legendary Item Trainer at the next gate.

• Fang Yuan coached the Magic University School Team and He Xiaomai, then watched her lose to Xu Lan before the visiting Didu University team arrived.
• Fang Yuan’s Mega Altaria and Milotic exhibition opened the Grand Festival, which ran for a week and ended with Xu Jing winning the Fang Yuan Cup.
• Fang Yuan prepared for Champion Road and entered with eleven Pokémon and an Egg, promising not to use Darkrai.
• Fang Yuan cleared Yun Li’s Dragon-type challenge when Milotic captivated the Dragon Legion and defeated its last survivor, Garchomp.
• Dragonite defeated Ye Hui’s Ariados after mastering its Darkness Power, though it fainted from its injuries afterward.
• Fang Yuan and Armored Magnezone cleared Tang Tianrong’s three-on-one gate, with Magnezone destroying the opponents’ Technological Armor and Fang Yuan sealing Metagross.
• Fang Yuan broke Jiang Liu’s Ghost Domain and led his team to overwhelm her six Ghost-type Pokémon, then ordered them to stop and conserve strength.
• Fang Yuan passed Master Qiao Jing’s gate when Gluttony Ghost knocked out Wobbuffet with Destiny Bond and Eevee used a Z-Move to defeat Blissey, leaving his team depleted before the next gate.

Fang Yuan cleared the Champion Road, gained Victini’s support, and became one of China’s Twelve Earthly Branches before Mew recruited him to help find Arceus’s scattered Plates. He began training in the World Tree Secret Realm, while new research plans and international cooperation on Mega Evolution took shape.

• Fang Yuan defeated Tao Xiuying’s Blaziken with Infernape, won the Life Fire, and discovered Victini had hatched and helped restore their strength.
• With Victini’s support, Fang Yuan cleared the Seventh and Eighth Gates, defeated Shen Gong’s Crystal Steelix, and accepted President Wen’s invitation to become one of China’s Twelve Earthly Branches.
• Fang Yuan returned to his institute, but Mew soon appeared and explained that Secret Realm mergers threatened spacetime and that an awakened Arceus was needed to stop the collapse.
• Fang Yuan agreed to become a World Tree Guardian and help search parallel timelines for Arceus’s Plates, while Mew helped Ditto fuse with the Mew Gene and improve its transformations.
• Mew opened a passage to the World Tree Secret Realm, where Fang Yuan’s group encountered powerful Fossil Pokémon and the Regi trio before reaching the World Tree.
• Rockruff absorbed a trace of the World Tree’s power, evolved into Lycanroc Aura Form, and chose to stay with Mew for training.
• Fang Yuan organized training in the World Tree Secret Realm, planned Awakening Fruit for Magic University’s Space Battleship Pokémon, and began considering Apricorn Ball and Pokémon Transfer research.
• Xie Qingyi and Fang Yuan completed a Mega Evolution Stone Detection Device, and the Pokémon League’s member states approved cooperation with a new Mega Evolution Research Institute headed by Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan learned Z-Moves from the Island Guardian Gods, helped establish the Island Challenge, and left Venusaur behind to train in Totem Aura. Back at his institute, he oversaw the creation of Armored Magnezone, then caught a self-aware Porygon while seeking a way to make Special Poké Balls.

• Fang Yuan learned that the four Island Guardian Gods could teach Eevee All-Type Z-Moves, then led China’s exploration team into the Island Secret Realm and asked the Guardians to train him.
• Fang Yuan and Eevee demonstrated their Z-Move power, and the Guardians trained Fang Yuan’s Pokémon, gave him Z-Crystals, and helped Eevee, Magnezone, Venusaur, and Lycanroc develop Exclusive Z-Moves.
• The Guardians chose Shang Ren, Lucilia, Mora, and Makino Ruki as Island rulers, while Fang Yuan tested them and revealed Darkrai’s overwhelming Autonomous Z-Move.
• The Island Kings demonstrated Z-Moves in battles that drew worldwide attention, and Fang Yuan published papers explaining Z-Power and how Trainers could learn to use Z-Moves.
• Venusaur chose to remain in the Secret Realm and train in Totem Aura, while Fang Yuan returned to his institute and found Lycanroc hoping to compete in the Fang Yuan Tournament.
• The two Klink evolved into Klinklang and fused their Small Gears with Magnezone, creating Armored Magnezone, which Fang Yuan entered in the Main Force Group and saw win the tournament.
• Unable to find Slowpoke Well Water for his Special Poké Ball, Fang Yuan visited National Defense University and discovered a Porygon whose data seemed to have developed self-awareness after playing Go with Eevee.
• Fang Yuan chose the unusual Porygon, received its Poké Ball and upgrade programs from Professor Zhao, and asked Rotom to install expression and language systems.

Fang Yuan captured Darkrai, developed Special Poké Balls and Pokémon Transfer Technology, and unveiled both at the World Expo. After the Expo, a Doomsday Bug Fossil showed signs of Soul Power, giving Fang Yuan a new path toward fossil revival.

• Fang Yuan caught Darkrai with Armored Magnezone after their battle, then planned to train Darkrai’s Nightmare Domain and spatial techniques.
• Fang Yuan devised Return 6.0 to help Eevee reclaim power from its evolved Substitutes, while Manaphy received the Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice.
• Fang Yuan used unusual Slowpoke rainwater to make Special Poké Balls, tested a Heavy Ball on Snorlax, and developed Moon Balls and Heal Balls.
• Fang Yuan, Rotom, and Ditto created Pokémon Transfer Technology, and Porygon evolved into Porygon2 Form after absorbing Rotom’s upgrade data.
• At the World Expo, Fang Yuan demonstrated Special Poké Balls and transferred judges’ Pokémon between Magic City and the Imperial Capital in seconds.
• After Fang Yuan’s presentation, many Expo contestants withdrew, and Rotom reported that a Doomsday Bug Fossil had begun reacting.
• Fang Yuan learned that the fossil contained faint Soul Power and decided to seek Soul Dew and ask Mew and Tapu Fini to help revive it.