Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan’s Espeon overwhelmed Zhao Yansong’s Typhlosion, revealing professional-level strength and stunning the audience. After winning, Fang Yuan challenged the black-framed-glasses trainer among Didu University’s school team.

• Zhao Yansong ordered Typhlosion to unleash Purgatory, engulfing Espeon in a vast blaze.
• Espeon used flames infused with Sun Energy to scatter Typhlosion’s fire and break free of Purgatory.
• Espeon struck Typhlosion with Psychic and smashed it into the arena wall, cracking the wall and securing the victory.
• The arena erupted in shock as Zhao Yansong and the spectators realized Espeon had demonstrated professional-level strength.
• Fang Yuan declared that he wanted to continue and looked toward the black-framed-glasses trainer, while Bai Qi recalled his earlier defeat by Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan defeated Didu University School Team member Zhao Yansong, then accepted a challenge from Vice-Captain Dong Fanghua. Dong Fanghua sent out Greninja and overwhelmed Espeon with a barrage of Water Shuriken, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Fang Yuan's victory over Zhao Yansong stunned Modu University and unsettled Didu University, while Yan Xiaoyun warned Du Yishan that they needed to work harder.
• Dong Fanghua told the furious Didu University School Team members to stay back and personally challenged Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan accepted Dong Fanghua's challenge and learned that he was the Didu University School Team's Vice-Captain.
• Dong Fanghua sent out Greninja, which dispersed Espeon's Psychic attack with its Dark-type energy.
• Dong Fanghua ordered Greninja to use Double Team and Water Shuriken, filling the field with illusions and a storm of attacks as Fang Yuan challenged him to show more.

Fang Yuan’s Espeon evaded Dong Fanghua’s Water Shuriken barrage, then exploited Greninja’s Protean with a Substitute-assisted counterattack. As Greninja charged again, Fang Yuan unveiled Espeon’s Substitute Combined Attack Technique and blinded it with Sunny Day and Magic Bounce.

• Espeon calmly avoided the real Water Shurikens while letting the phantom ones pass through it, leaving Dong Fanghua and the spectators astonished.
• Dong Fanghua sent Greninja in with Quick Attack and Darkest Lariat, and Greninja destroyed Espeon’s Shadow Ball with a slash.
• Fang Yuan used a Substitute Espeon and Psychic to combine with Shadow Ball, blasting Greninja back and recognizing its Protean ability.
• Dong Fanghua ordered Greninja to attack again with Darkest Lariat, while Fang Yuan prepared a new combined technique.
• Fang Yuan’s two Espeons used Sunny Day and Magic Bounce together, flooding the arena with light and temporarily blinding Greninja.

Fang Yuan defeated Didu University vice-captain Dong Fanghua with Espeon's blinding light and a trap combining Future Sight with Spiral Shadow Ball. With Dong Fanghua beaten and Didu University's captain absent, Fang Yuan had swept the university; a notice then arrived seeking Professional Trainers to explore the dangerous Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm.

• Fang Yuan used Sunny Day and Magic Bounce to blind Dong Fanghua and Greninja, while Espeon followed his commands without needing him to call out each move.
• Dong Fanghua had Greninja use Smokescreen to hide its position and counter the blinding light.
• Fang Yuan revealed Espeon's enormous Spiral Shadow Ball, while Dong Fanghua ordered Greninja to use Quick Attack and escape.
• A delayed Future Sight struck Greninja as it tried to flee, leaving it trapped between the attack and the Spiral Shadow Ball.
• The combined attacks devastated the arena and knocked Greninja out, giving Fang Yuan a victory over Dong Fanghua and completing his sweep of Didu University.
• Tang Sheng received a Modu Trainer Association notice recruiting Professional Trainers to explore the high-danger Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm.

After Fang Yuan’s victory over Dong Fanghua, he endured his teammates’ complaints and learned that a newly arrived Secret Realm in Modu might hold rare resources. Teacher Tang Sheng told Fang Yuan that the school was too busy with the incident to reward him yet, but the Secret Realm could offer him an opportunity.

• Lin Sen, Lü Liang, Qi Yue, and the other exchange students blamed Fang Yuan for the backlash they faced at Didu University, and Fang Yuan showed them insulting messages from his friend requests.
• Tang Sheng learned that Professional Trainers had discovered the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm, where Solrock and Lunatone guarded valuable resources and a powerful Pokémon lurked in the darkness.
• Tang Sheng concluded that the Secret Realm incident could give Fang Yuan a chance to obtain some resources, even though no Legendary Pokémon had appeared.
• Tang Sheng visited Fang Yuan and explained that the school leaders had no time to commend him because of the situation in Modu.

Tang Sheng explained that the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm was ruled by a powerful Pokémon that had lived for two thousand years, and that the Trainer Association had negotiated peaceful, limited resource access. He told Fang Yuan that Magic University could arrange for him to train Espeon in an exceptionally effective Sunny Day practice area, but Fang Yuan was not being offered a chance to raise the ruler’s offspring.

• Tang Sheng told Fang Yuan that the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm had appeared near Magic City and was home to a millennial Pokémon that had defeated the Tianxin Style Sect Leader.
• Tang Sheng described the realm’s Solrock and Lunatone leaders, united Pokémon, and abundant resources, explaining why the Trainer Association was proceeding cautiously.
• Tang Sheng explained that a senior Trainer from the Twelve Earthly Branches had negotiated an agreement allowing moderate resource extraction in exchange for respecting the realm’s ecology.
• Tang Sheng revealed that the millennial Pokémon would entrust an offspring to a young Trainer who passed its trials, but he dismissed Fang Yuan’s hopes of being chosen.
• Tang Sheng told Fang Yuan that Magic University could arrange his entry to a powerful Sunny Day training area so Espeon could improve the move.

After the university exchange event, Fang Yuan waited for approval to enter the Sun and Moon Forest and prepared for a Doubles Match with Liu Le. A document from Xia Xinyan arrived, giving Fang Yuan a promising lead for making Life Energy-related Energy Cubes.

• Fang Yuan accepted Tang Sheng’s offer to help him train Sunny Day and enter the Sun and Moon Forest, but learned that his approval would take several days.
• Fang Yuan competed in the remaining exchange battles, leaving Monferno to fight the freshmen while news spread that he had defeated Dong Fanghua.
• Tang Sheng asked Fang Yuan to return to Magic City, but Fang Yuan stayed in Didu to participate in a Doubles Match with Liu Le.
• Fang Yuan moved into Liu Le’s hotel and passed the time gaming with Eevee while Shuckle prepared fruit juice for it.
• Xia Xinyan sent Fang Yuan a document listing nutritional formulas, and he realized it might let him make Energy Cubes related to Life Energy.

Fang Yuan arranged for Xia Xinyan to analyze Vitality Liquid and entered the Golden Doubles Star tournament while waiting for approval to enter the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm. After the tournament, he joined a Modu University Research Team heading into the Secret Realm, where his official task was to study how its unusual Sunny Day affected Espeon.

• Fang Yuan paid Xia Xinyan to analyze Vitality Liquid, and she identified extracts from eight Berries among its ingredients.
• Fang Yuan and Liu Le competed in the Golden Doubles Star tournament, where Espeon and Shuckle overwhelmed their opponents.
• Tang Sheng told Fang Yuan that his Secret Realm entry had been approved and instructed him to visit after returning to Magic City.
• Kong Hai rejected the Modu Trainer Association's requests to change the Secret Realm Master's trial, insisting that it follow the agreement with the Ghost-type Pokémon.
• After the tournament, Fang Yuan returned to Magic City and joined Tang Sheng's Research Team to study Espeon in the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm.

Fang Yuan joined a Modu University research team studying Pokémon-influenced weather in the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm, where he was expected to learn Sunny Day training from Captain Miao. At camp near a Solrock territory, the team discussed an unclaimed high-potential Ghost-type Pokémon, and Fang Yuan wondered whether the Pokémon Teacher Tang Sheng had mentioned was still available.

• Fang Yuan entered the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm with Doctor Qin Huan, researchers Han Xue and Zhang Yulin, Captain Miao Guang, and two other Professional Trainers.
• Miao Guang explained that the team would regulate the heat with Ice-type Pokémon after reaching the Sunny Day region, while Han Xue and Zhang Yulin offered to help Fang Yuan with the research.
• The team traveled safely through the forest, avoiding territorial Pokémon, and reached a mountain near a mineral vein and a group of Solrock.
• While setting up camp, a Trainer remarked that no one had earned the high-potential Ghost-type Pokémon's recognition in five days.
• Han Xue asked what kind of Pokémon the Secret Realm Master was, and Fang Yuan wondered whether its offspring was still uncaptured.

Fang Yuan learned that the Sun and Moon Forest’s Secret Realm Master was a Ghost-type Pokémon whose trials included solving its costly Life Energy diet, and he wondered whether his Energy Cubes could feed it. As he trained Espeon and sought a way to reach the Pokémon, a blue-haired, nine-tailed Pokémon watched him unseen.

• Miao Guang explained that the Secret Realm Master appeared as an old woman in purple robes and that its descendants manifested as purple Will-O-Wisps, likely from the Gastly or Litwick line.
• Fang Yuan asked to take the Secret Realm Master’s trial, but Miao Guang said he would need to wait and warned that the Pokémon’s Life Energy diet made it difficult and expensive to raise.
• Fang Yuan realized that his Energy Cubes, including a recipe designed around Life Energy, might satisfy the Pokémon’s appetite.
• For the next two days, Fang Yuan followed the Research Team’s mineral-vein studies and trained Espeon in Sunny Day while searching for a way to contact the Secret Realm Master.
• A blue-haired, red-eyed Pokémon with nine pale yellow tails watched Fang Yuan and Espeon from atop a boulder without being noticed.

Fang Yuan trained his Pokémon in the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm while the research team investigated its unusual Sunny Day. That night, a Drought Ninetales entered the tent and peered into Monferno’s dream before turning to Magneton’s, where she froze in surprise.

• Doctor Qin Huan and Researcher Han Xue speculated that Solrock and a special stone vein had created the Secret Realm’s unusual Sunny Day.
• Fang Yuan assigned Espeon, Magneton, and Monferno training tasks as the team approached the core of the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm.
• Fang Yuan and his Pokémon trained in the dense Fire-type energy and Sun Energy, then went to sleep in their tent.
• A Drought Ninetales entered the tent unseen and used Hypnosis on Espeon and Magneton.
• Ninetales peered into Monferno’s dream, saw it imagining itself as a champion who had defeated Fighting-type Pokémon, and moved on to Magneton’s dream.
• Ninetales entered Magneton’s dream and suddenly froze.

Ninetales Beauty explored the dreams of Fang Yuan and his Pokémon, then appeared before them and asked Espeon to stay in Sun and Moon Forest. Fang Yuan refused and asked her for a chance to take away the Shiny Gastly, which she called a strangely colored Gluttony Ghost.

• Ninetales Beauty saw Magnezone dream of flying through outer space and Fang Yuan dream of Ho-Oh battling a Caterpie that evolved into a flying dragon.
• Ninetales Beauty entered Espeon's dream, and Espeon woke abruptly and alerted Fang Yuan, Magneton, and Monferno.
• Fang Yuan recognized Ninetales Beauty as a Pokémon and asked what she wanted.
• Ninetales Beauty asked Espeon to stay in Sun and Moon Forest, but Fang Yuan and Espeon refused.
• Fang Yuan asked Ninetales Beauty for a chance to undergo the test and take away the Shiny Gastly.

Fang Yuan persuaded Ninetales Beauty to take him to meet the Pokémon guarding a Shiny Gastly, agreeing to bring her books and Hanfu in return. He reached Nai He’s cave and was given a chance to attempt the trial, which began with a test of his abilities.

• Fang Yuan asked Ninetales Beauty to let him try to take the Shiny Gastly, and she agreed on the condition that he bring her books about clothing and actual Hanfu.
• Ninetales Beauty led Fang Yuan and his Pokémon through a dark cave to meet Nai He, a mysterious Pokémon disguised as an old woman.
• Nai He learned that Fang Yuan wanted to take away her descendant, Gluttony Ghost, and granted him one chance to attempt the trial without lowering its standards.
• Nai He introduced herself by her chosen human name and announced that the first trial was for Fang Yuan to display his abilities.

Fang Yuan faced Lord Nai He's test of whether Gastly would grow better with him than in the Secret Realm. He revealed his unusual approach to Pokémon development and left Lord Nai He stunned by suggesting that Gengar could evolve further.

• Lord Nai He asked Fang Yuan to prove his training and nurturing ability before it would let Gastly leave the Secret Realm with him.
• Fang Yuan introduced himself as a Pokémon researcher and had Espeon demonstrate a powerful Spiral Shadow Ball.
• Fang Yuan argued that move techniques could improve combat ability but could not help Pokémon overcome their limits or raise their level of life.
• Fang Yuan suggested that Gengar might evolve beyond its current form, leaving Lord Nai He shocked.

Fang Yuan convinced Nai He that his Life Energy research could help Gastly surpass its racial limit, winning the Gengar’s interest but not yet its trust. Nai He set one final trial: Fang Yuan had to find food that could satisfy Gastly, and Fang Yuan offered the Energy Cubes he had brought.

• Fang Yuan claimed he could help Gastly control Life Energy and eventually surpass its racial limit.
• Fang Yuan demonstrated Espeon’s ability to sense and stimulate its Life Energy, persuading Nai He that his research was credible.
• Nai He decided Fang Yuan was worthy of training its descendant but required him to pass one final trial.
• Nai He challenged Fang Yuan to satisfy Gastly’s appetite without feeding it Life Energy.
• Fang Yuan claimed his Breeder expertise could solve the food problem and took Energy Cubes from his backpack.

Fang Yuan offered Naihe’s Gastly and Ninetales Beauty Energy Cubes, revealing that Gastly had become Fire-Type through Mirror Coat. The discovery left Fang Yuan realizing that this unusual Shiny Gastly might be unique in the world.

• Fang Yuan explained that his Energy Cubes were pure nutritional crystals and offered Naihe a blue Psychic Power cube.
• Naihe summoned Gluttony Ghost, and Gastly appeared after eating a blue Energy Cube, which it greatly enjoyed.
• Ninetales Beauty tasted a red Fire-type Energy Cube and loved its fiery flavor.
• Gastly eagerly ate a red Energy Cube too, surprising Fang Yuan with its preference for Fire-type energy.
• Ninetales Beauty explained that Gluttony Ghost had become Fire-Type, and Fang Yuan realized Gastly had used Mirror Coat.

Fang Yuan persuaded Gluttony Ghost to become his Pokémon by promising to make it custom Energy Cubes. Before they left, Naihe offered him one treasure from the Secret Realm, and Fang Yuan spotted what might be Gengar's Mega Stone.

• Gastly hesitated to follow Fang Yuan because becoming his Pokémon would mean giving up Life Energy.
• Fang Yuan said he could make custom Energy Cubes for Gastly, and Gastly agreed to go with him while warning that it would run away if they were not delicious enough.
• Naihe brought out the Secret Realm's treasures and let Fang Yuan choose one to take with him.
• Fang Yuan recognized a red-and-black stone among the treasures and suspected it was Gengar's Mega Stone.

Fang Yuan returned to camp with the Shiny Gastly entrusted to him by the Millennium Gengar, alarming the research team and drawing the attention of Magic City's Trainer circles. He then began bonding with Gastly while continuing his training plans in the Secret Realm.

• Miao Guang discovered Fang Yuan and his Pokémon missing, but Fang Yuan returned to camp with Espeon and Magneton before the team could read his note.
• Gastly emerged from the ground beside Fang Yuan, and he explained how he had brought back the rare descendant of the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm's ruler.
• Fang Yuan learned that Gastly possessed a Gengar Mega Stone and recognized how powerful the Pokémon was, though Espeon could still suppress it.
• The Modu Trainer Association's vice president learned of Fang Yuan's connection to Millennium Gengar, and news of the capture spread through Magic City's Trainer circles.
• Fang Yuan sent Espeon, Magneton, and Monferno to train, then began bonding with Gastly and learning its many moves and fondness for playing with fire.

Fang Yuan trained Gluttony Ghost to use Mirror Coat to copy Snorunt’s Ice type, then returned from the Sun and Moon Forest Secret Realm after an urgent recall. Teacher Tang Sheng warned him that others would seek his influence in negotiations over the Secret Realm’s resources, but Fang Yuan planned to leave Magic City rather than get involved.

• Fang Yuan had Gluttony Ghost use Mirror Coat to copy Snorunt’s Ice type and chill Berries, though Gluttony Ghost disliked their taste.
• Monferno strengthened its control over flames, Magneton digested the Space Magnetic Field’s power, and Espeon extended Sunny Day to over two minutes.
• Doctor Qin noticed that the special Sunny Day in the Secret Realm was rapidly losing energy as the spaces merged.
• The Modu Trainer Association urgently recalled Fang Yuan, who suspected the order was connected to Gluttony Ghost.
• Teacher Tang Sheng gave Fang Yuan a Scorching Rock and warned that people would seek his help in renegotiating the Sun and Moon Forest’s resource agreement.
• Fang Yuan decided he wanted no part in the negotiations and planned to leave Magic City as soon as possible.

Fang Yuan returned to Flat City to spend time with his family and make Life Energy Cubes, then visited Peaceful City First High School and watched two students battle. After recognizing Teacher Bai Ning, he asked to join in, leaving the school team members and teacher surprised.

• Fang Yuan returned home, greeted his parents’ Sudowoodo and Farfetch'd, and spent the day with his family.
• Fang Yuan planned to make Life Energy Cubes and headed out to buy Berries, while Eevee stayed home watching its phone.
• Fang Yuan stopped at Peaceful City First High School and showed the elderly guard a photo to prove he was a former student.
• Fang Yuan wandered the renovated campus and watched a Rookie battle between Bayleef and Aipom, which Aipom won.
• Fang Yuan approached Teacher Bai Ning and the two students and asked whether he could join the battles.