Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan challenged Master Meng Yu and her Ursaring so Infernape could learn from a Master-level Pokémon’s ability. Their fierce battle damaged the arena, and Fang Yuan conceded before Infernape was hurt further, leaving Meng Yu wondering who he really was and planning to ask Li Shu about him.

• Meng Yu agreed to battle Fang Yuan after he introduced himself as a Modu University student and challenged her Ursaring.
• Fang Yuan had Infernape mimic Ursaring’s Guts Ability, then used Thunder Armor and Mach Punch to strike first and inflict paralysis.
• Meng Yu countered with Ursaring’s Stomping Tantrum, Scary Face, Sweet Scent, and Slash, slowing Infernape and landing heavy blows.
• Infernape and Ursaring traded attacks until their battle cracked the Battle Arena apart, shocking the Hangda students watching.
• Fang Yuan conceded to protect the badly injured Infernape, and Meng Yu resolved to ask Li Shu about him.

Fang Yuan challenged several university team mentors to battles so Infernape could gain experience and copy useful Abilities for Thunder Armor. After Infernape defeated Shen Mingyi’s Manectric, Fang Yuan left it recovering and moved on to challenge Zhuo Xian.

• Fang Yuan had Milotic heal Infernape and restored its strength with Energy Cubes before continuing their training.
• Fang Yuan challenged Shen Mingyi of Mingzhu University, and Infernape narrowly defeated Shen’s Manectric after copying its Lightning Rod Ability.
• Fang Yuan had Milotic heal Infernape again and regretted that nobody had watched its first victory.
• Fang Yuan waited for Zhuo Xian of Xiamen University and challenged him to a battle.
• Infernape defeated Zhuo Xian’s Linoone, and Fang Yuan thanked Zhuo Xian before leaving.

Fang Yuan prepared for the National Competition preliminaries and used his first match to train Dragonite with a self-imposed limit. Dragonite defeated a Dongning University trainer’s team while showcasing an unusual dance-like Dragon Dance, leaving the spectators stunned.

• After a day of battles, Fang Yuan returned to the Athlete Village and went to sleep while Eevee stayed up gaming.
• Fang Yuan skipped the opening ceremony, then arrived at the White Deer Venue for his ten o’clock preliminary match.
• Fang Yuan sent out Dragonite against a Dongning University trainer’s Charizard and restricted Dragonite to Dragon Dance, Tailwind, and physical attacks.
• Dragonite used dance-like footwork and Airflow Perception to evade Charizard’s attacks and eventually knocked it down.
• Dragonite defeated the opponent’s remaining Pokémon as Fang Yuan mostly reminded him to dodge, prompting stunned reactions from the spectators.

Fang Yuan used Milotic’s battles in the National Competition to train its enchanting technique and a healing Hydro Pump combination, then entered the next day’s match with Wang Ning. The chapter ended as Eevee began battling Wang Ning’s Weavile while Fang Yuan continued developing an airborne technique for Infernape.

• Fang Yuan challenged Master Su Jin Feng and lost to his Ampharos, but Infernape gained valuable experience from the battle.
• Milotic enchanted two of Dodrio’s heads, disrupting its coordination, then used the Blue Healing Water Gun to keep it fighting through an exhausting match.
• Milotic completed a one-versus-three in the afternoon, and Fang Yuan searched unsuccessfully for more Masters to challenge.
• Fang Yuan considered teaching Infernape a technique called Moon Step so it could fight Flying-type Pokémon.
• Wang Ning arrived for her match against Fang Yuan after her guiding teacher warned her that he was exceptionally strong.
• Fang Yuan sent out Eevee against Wang Ning’s Weavile, and Eevee began the battle by using Substitute.

Fang Yuan’s Pokémon continued improving through the National Competition and special training, while Fang Yuan and his Magic University teammates advanced to the main stage. At the opening ceremony, the Masters discovered that Fang Yuan had challenged many of them, though several who had lost to him kept quiet.

• Fang Yuan’s team won fifteen preliminary rounds, and Infernape gained experience by challenging eleven Master Level opponents.
• Magnezone, Gluttony Ghost, and Infernape trained Moon Step, and Infernape learned to rise more than twenty meters by stepping on the air.
• The National Competition’s main stage began with sixteen contestants, including five from Magic University, and Fang Yuan prepared to test his Pokémon against his teammates.
• The main competition opened before a crowd of Masters and spectators, and the host introduced the sixteen contestants.
• Master Meng Yu and Master Su Jin Feng discussed Fang Yuan’s past challenges, prompting other Masters to reveal that he had challenged them too.
• Several Masters praised Fang Yuan, while those he had defeated stayed silent to avoid admitting their losses.

Fang Yuan won the East China Division Individual Battle championship and negotiated with Teacher Tang Sheng for resources and extended Spirit World training in exchange for his National Competition results. After the regional tournaments concluded, he prepared to compete in the national main division and take the Fourth Gate of the Professional Assessment.

• Fang Yuan defeated Ji Yan to become the East China Division Individual Battle champion, with Milotic and Dragonite carrying him through the matches.
• Fang Yuan told Ji Yan to lead Magic University toward the Team Battle championship, then asked Teacher Tang Sheng to negotiate rewards with the school.
• Fang Yuan requested extended cultivation in a special Spirit World and resources to help Gluttony Ghost evolve and practice Black Flame.
• The Team Battles ended on January 31st, concluding the Regional Competitions, and Fang Yuan planned to attend the national main division on February 9th.
• Fang Yuan prepared to visit the First Police Academy and take the Fourth Gate of the Professional Assessment.

Fang Yuan arrived at the First Police Academy in Chun City for the Fourth Gate of his Professional Assessment and learned that he had to build a Team Battle System from at least three Pokémon. With three days to prepare, he considered his Rainy Day team and a teleportation-based combination, then chose to test the latter.

• Fang Yuan registered at the Trainer Association, where Instructor Xu Manjie escorted him to the First Police Academy and explained that his assessment plans were not yet fully decided.
• Instructor Xu told Fang Yuan that the assessment would test his ability to combine at least three Pokémon into a core Team Battle System, and that he had three days to prepare.
• Fang Yuan considered using Dragonite, Milotic, and Magnezone for Rainy Day tactics, then rejected a Sunny Day team as a poor fit for his Pokémon.
• Fang Yuan devised a possible Space Exchange Tactics team using Espeon, Magnezone, and Gluttony Ghost, based on their teleportation and Wonder Room abilities.
• Fang Yuan woke Eevee and prepared to take his Pokémon to a training ground to test the combination.

Fang Yuan visited the First Police Academy for his Professional Assessment and agreed to battle its top students at Instructor Wang’s suggestion. After Espeon defeated Jie Chuan’s Feraligatr and Arcanine with overwhelming power, Dean Miao changed Fang Yuan’s assessment from a battle test to an examination of his Team Battle System ideas.

• Fang Yuan ran into Instructor Wang, who invited him to battle the police academy’s students and help temper their arrogance.
• Fang Yuan met Lin Jing and agreed to face Jie Chuan, one of the academy’s strongest students, as word of the challenge spread.
• Fang Yuan sent out Espeon, which overpowered Jie Chuan’s Feraligatr with Sun Fire.
• Espeon then blasted away Jie Chuan’s Arcanine with Psychic attacks, leaving the watching students and instructors stunned.
• Dean Miao ordered Xu Manjie to replace Fang Yuan’s practical battle assessment with an examination of his Team Battle System ideas.

Fang Yuan refined the Death Triad and considered which team tactic to use for his examiner challenge before learning about a police seizure of smuggled Pokémon. At the academy, he discovered two sickly Klink that could not rotate properly or fly.

• Fang Yuan tested the Death Triad by having Espeon, Magnezone, and Gluttony Ghost defeat Infernape with layered control, then discussed a support team tactic that Infernape rejected.
• Fang Yuan reviewed his Rainy Day Tactic and Death Triad as he considered which one to use against the examiners.
• Dean Miao told Fang Yuan that police had intercepted a smuggling and poaching gang carrying a hundred rare Pokémon, which were being inspected before being released through a Pokémon League agency.
• Instructor Xu Manjie summoned Dean Miao to inspect two undersized Klink that were listless and unable to rotate efficiently or stay airborne.
• Fang Yuan looked at the two Klink and realized they were another pair of Pokémon that could not fly.

Fang Yuan took in two defective Klink and used Magnezone to help them awaken their Psychic power and recover. The Klink then formed a powerful combat combination with Magnezone, leaving Fang Yuan eager to develop the new tactic.

• The school doctor found that the two Klink were not injured but could not generate energy, and Fang Yuan diagnosed their condition as interference from dormant Psychic Awakening Power.
• Fang Yuan showed Dean Miao his Senior Elf Researcher identification and obtained permission to care for the Klink at his research institute.
• Magnezone used its magnetic field to help the Klink improve, and within a day they awakened their power, recovered, and learned to Levitate.
• The Klink bonded with Magnezone and discovered they could mesh with its screws, rotating to generate energy and charge its Electric-type moves.
• Fang Yuan recognized the combined Magnezone and Klink as a single combat unit with great potential and envisioned an Electromagnetic Armed Form.

Fang Yuan explored how Magnezone could use its Klink partners to develop powerful Blue Lightning, while imagining how a Smeargle might copy and combine special fire moves. Three days into his stay at First Police Academy, Instructor Xu came to take him to the assessment, whose method had changed without Fang Yuan realizing it.

• Fang Yuan recognized that the two Klink's Plus and Minus Abilities amplified Magnezone's power and considered how training could strengthen their battle system.
• Magnezone trained the Klink with its Electromagnetic Force, and Fang Yuan and Rotom Phone investigated whether it could produce Blue Lightning without their Charge.
• Fang Yuan imagined using a Smeargle's Sketch to collect special flames and fuse them, then speculated about the energies behind Pikachu's 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt.
• After three days at First Police Academy, Instructor Xu came to take Fang Yuan to his assessment and hesitated because Fang Yuan did not know the assessment method had changed.

Fang Yuan demonstrated his Rainy Day Team’s coordinated weather control and devastating combination attack during his Professional Trainer Assessment. The display terrified Examiner Zhou Shan, who understood why the assessment had been changed and realized Fang Yuan’s unfinished technique could be lethal.

• Fang Yuan chose Magnezone, Dragonite, and Milotic to demonstrate his Rainy Day Tactic instead of using Espeon and his other Pokémon.
• Fang Yuan explained how the three Pokémon used different methods of Rain Dance to intensify the storm, then showed Dragonite strengthening Hurricane and Magnezone empowering Thunder.
• Milotic seized control of the rain and combined Dragon Dance with the water to create a massive Water Tornado.
• Dragonite formed a powerful Hurricane while Magnezone created an Electromagnetic Storm, and the three tempests began drawing together as Fang Yuan described a planned explosive combination.
• Zhou Shan shouted for Fang Yuan to stop before the unfinished attack could kill everyone, and Fang Yuan’s Pokémon dispersed the tempests.
• Zhou Shan realized the higher-ups had canceled the battle assessment because Fang Yuan’s technique might be capable of killing a Trainer.

Fang Yuan passed his Team Battle Assessment, and Examiner Zhou Shan suggested ways to expand his Rainy Day Tactic, though Fang Yuan had little interest in doing so. He learned that his next assessment was to capture Liu Jinbiao, a poacher who had escaped into the mountains, rather than confront the whole Red Siamese Cat gang.

• Examiner Zhou Shan passed Fang Yuan after watching Magnezone, Dragonite, and Milotic coordinate their Rainy Day Tactic, then suggested adding Jynx to enable a switch to Snowy Weather tactics.
• Fang Yuan dismissed the suggestions as too troublesome and wondered when the First Police Academy would give him his next assessment.
• Instructor Xu Manjie and Zhou Shan visited Fang Yuan and explained that the fourth gate tested a Trainer's ability to confront criminals.
• Fang Yuan assumed he would face the Red Siamese Cat gang or its collaborators, but Xu Manjie clarified that most of the gang had already been arrested.
• Xu Manjie told Fang Yuan that his mission was to deal with Liu Jinbiao, the lone poacher who had escaped into the mountains.

Fang Yuan entered Da Cang Mountain to capture the escaped poacher Liu Jinbiao as part of an assessment, with Xu Manjie and Zhou Shan giving him three hours. As Fang Yuan’s team began searching the mountain, Liu Jinbiao hid nearby and planned to escape, unaware that Fang Yuan was closing in.

• A police captain reported that Liu Jinbiao had gone deep into Da Cang Mountain, and Xu Manjie told Fang Yuan he had three hours to capture him before she and Zhou Shan intervened.
• Fang Yuan flew into the mountains on Dragonite, reassuring the officers that he would try to finish the mission within an hour.
• Fang Yuan sent out Espeon, Gluttony Ghost, Magnezone, and two Klink, then used Tailwind and Eevee’s Illusion Beam to conceal their flight.
• Fang Yuan assigned Espeon and Magnezone to search the mountain using their psychic abilities and Electromagnetic Radar.
• Liu Jinbiao hid in the forest with Venomoth, Dustox, Crobat, and Toxicroak, credited Fang Yuan’s research with helping him develop Toxicroak’s abilities, and fantasized about stealing Fang Yuan’s Eevee.

Fang Yuan tracked down and captured Liu Jinbiao, a poacher, using Magnezone, Eevee, and Gluttony Ghost. After the police arrived, Liu Jinbiao recognized Fang Yuan as the high school student he remembered.

• Liu Jinbiao used Crobat’s Supersonic to detect his pursuers and prepared his sniper rifle when the signal disappeared.
• Fang Yuan blocked Crobat’s waves with Eevee and ordered Magnezone to use Gravity, exposing Liu Jinbiao and pinning him and his Pokémon down.
• Eevee restrained Liu Jinbiao with Confusion while Gluttony Ghost and Eevee disabled his four Pokémon.
• Fang Yuan joked about his identity, then reported that he had completed the assessment and handed Liu Jinbiao over to the police.
• The police thanked Fang Yuan, and Liu Jinbiao realized that he was the high school student Fang Yuan he remembered.

Fang Yuan passed the Fourth Gate assessment after arresting Liu Jinbiao and declined an offer to study at First Police Academy. He set off for Flat City on Dragonite, wondering where the Fifth Gate assessment would take place and hoping to explore a resource-rich Secret Realm.

• Fang Yuan returned after handing Liu Jinbiao over to the police, and Xu Manjie confirmed that he had passed the Fourth Gate assessment.
• Zhou Shan invited Fang Yuan to study at First Police Academy, but Fang Yuan declined because he did not want to become a police officer.
• Fang Yuan learned that the Fifth Gate assessment would be arranged by the Trainer Association Headquarters and prepared to return to Flat City.
• Fang Yuan chose to fly back on Dragonite and obtained a Flight Permit after passing the required checks in Chun City.
• During the flight, Fang Yuan considered how the Fifth Gate would test independent Secret Realm exploration and hoped to be assigned to a realm rich in rare resources.

Fang Yuan returned to Flat City for Spring Festival, where his parents urged him to find a girlfriend before the television news turned his attention to preparations for the upcoming World Pokémon League Conference. The chapter ended with Fang Yuan telling Eevee to prepare for the Second Fang Yuan Tournament, where it could compete only in its Eevee form.

• Fang Yuan returned to his family's old home in Flat City and decided that buying a villa was too expensive.
• Fang Yuan's family welcomed him home, but his parents later urged him to find a girlfriend and suggested Officer Lin's Daughter.
• Fang Yuan watched a report that China was preparing Joint Dojos to host foreign Trainers ahead of the World Pokémon League Conference.
• Fang Yuan considered training abroad, worried about language barriers, and discussed a possible trip to Hawaii with Eevee.
• Fang Yuan told Eevee to prepare for the Second Fang Yuan Tournament and said it could compete only in its Eevee form.

Fang Yuan held the Second Fang Yuan Tournament and introduced balance updates, new contestants, and battle restrictions. He returned the Pokémon's items and helped Dragonite test a Sharp Beak that could shape different attacks into wind blades.

• Fang Yuan gathered his Pokémon at Nanwu Town Back Mountain and announced the Second Fang Yuan Tournament’s version update, with Rotom Phone as referee and commentator.
• Fang Yuan added Dragonite and the two Klink as contestants, restricted Eevee to its Eevee form, and gave Magnezone a partner system with the Klink.
• Rotom Phone announced that Infernape could not combine Rage Fire and Thunder Armor, Gluttony Ghost could not use Black Flame, and Dragonite could not use Rest or Sleep Talk; the tournament had no item restrictions.
• Fang Yuan gave Dragonite a King's Rock and an improved Sharp Beak, and Dragonite used the hilt to create Flying-type, icy, fiery, and sand-filled wind blades.

Fang Yuan handed out training items to his Pokémon and held the Second Fang Yuan Tournament, where Magnezone took first place. After the tournament, Fang Yuan and his team prepared to travel to the Imperial Capital for the National Competition.

• Fang Yuan gave Milotic a scented spray that helped it learn Scald, dressed Gluttony Ghost in a modified Focus Band, and gave Infernape a Focus Flamethrower Gun for training.
• Fang Yuan equipped Magnezone with nine modified Metal Film balls, while Eevee received no new gifts and decided to keep its money quiet.
• Fang Yuan's team held the Second Fang Yuan Tournament, and the final rankings were Magnezone, Eevee, Infernape, Gluttony Ghost, Milotic, and Dragonite.
• Magnezone defeated Eevee, while Milotic's Attract left Dragonite infatuated and vulnerable to its Ice Beams.
• Infernape defeated Gluttony Ghost, whose Shadow Disable and Will-O-Wisp proved ineffective against Infernape's Thunder Armor and Fire typing.
• Fang Yuan and his team finished preparations and set off for the Imperial Capital to begin the National Competition.

At the National Competition’s Athlete Village, Fang Yuan decided to change Eevee’s training so it could learn Partner Moves through Mimic Move. He promised Eevee the champion’s Evolution Stone set if it mastered Mimic within a month.

• Fang Yuan and Eevee discussed what to do with the Evolution Stones awarded to the Individual Battle Champion, and Eevee proposed claiming them for itself.
• Fang Yuan took Eevee and his other Pokémon to a public training ground and assigned each of them training tasks.
• Fang Yuan worried that Eevee’s growing strength and progress with One Mind Three Uses had not brought it any closer to learning Partner Moves.
• Fang Yuan explained that Eevee could imitate related moves with Mimic to build the muscle memory needed to awaken Partner Moves such as Zippy Zap and Bouncy Bubble.
• Fang Yuan promised Eevee the Evolution Stone set if it learned Mimic within a month, and Eevee eagerly accepted the challenge.