Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan and Su Shu discussed a possible exchange involving Tianxing Style psychic techniques and an unknown Psychic-type Pokémon, while Su Shu prepared to ask his teacher for guidance. At Su Shu’s lecture, Fang Yuan heard that Psychic Power was shaped by a Pokémon’s heart as well as its brain, and began connecting the idea to Gardevoir.

• Su Shu considered Fang Yuan’s offer and agreed to exchange contact information, but said he needed to consult his teacher, Kong Hai, about teaching Tianxing Style meditation and telepathy.
• Su Shu called Kong Hai, who told him to decide for himself and encouraged him to battle Fang Yuan’s Espeon; Su Shu believed his own Master Domain Espeon would win.
• Fang Yuan and Lu Hai attended Su Shu’s psychic cultivation lecture, where Fang Yuan recorded material he could not yet understand.
• Su Shu explained that Psychic Power depended on both brain development and the strength of a Pokémon’s heart, describing the heart as a life, energy, and emotional field.
• Fang Yuan reflected on Su Shu’s explanation and remembered Gardevoir.

At Su Shu’s lecture, Fang Yuan connected Gardevoir’s Heart Power with his Pokémon’s Emotional Energy training and heard a question about whether Espeon could learn Cosmic Power. Su Shu then challenged Fang Yuan to an Espeon battle to demonstrate the species’ abilities, leaving Fang Yuan preparing to send out Eevee.

• Fang Yuan realized that Gardevoir’s Heart Power supported his strategy of developing his Pokémon’s Emotional Energy alongside Psychic Power.
• A Tianyi Style Trainer asked whether Espeon could learn Cosmic Power, and Su Shu and Fang Yuan both said they could not rule out the possibility but had no definite answer.
• Su Shu introduced Fang Yuan as Espeon’s discoverer and invited him to battle with Espeon as part of the lecture.
• Fang Yuan accepted Su Shu’s challenge and told Eevee to evolve inside its Poké Ball before the battle.

Fang Yuan and Su Shu held an Espeon battle before a group of psychics eager to study the Pokémon. When both Espeon appeared, Su Shu realized Fang Yuan’s Espeon had stronger Psychic Power than his own, leaving the outcome in doubt.

• Fang Yuan and Su Shu agreed to hold a battle between their Espeon, and Fang Yuan prepared to face Su Shu’s powerful Pokémon.
• The two Trainers entered the Battle Arena as the assembled psychics watched for a chance to learn about Espeon.
• Su Shu summoned his Espeon with Confusion, and it displayed formidable Psychic Power and a calm, refined presence.
• Fang Yuan’s Espeon revealed both exceptional physical fitness and immense Psychic Power as the two Pokémon’s Mental Pressures clashed.
• Su Shu recognized that Fang Yuan’s Espeon had even greater Psychic Power than his own and might rival his main Pokémon.

Fang Yuan’s Espeon and Su Shu’s Espeon began their decisive battle, matching Calm Mind, psychic amplification, and Sunny Day. The first clash escalated into a Future Sight battle that left the watching psychics astonished.

• Su Shu realized Fang Yuan’s Espeon had grown to a level that rivaled or surpassed the strongest Pokémon he knew.
• Su Shu used Calm Mind and his Psychic Power to amplify his Espeon, while Fang Yuan’s Espeon prepared Calm Mind alongside Sunny Day.
• Fang Yuan’s Espeon used Sunny Day to strengthen its Psychic Power, gaining an advantage as both Pokémon completed their preparations.
• The Espeons collided with torrents of Psychic energy, and Su Shu pushed his amplification to its full strength.
• Both Espeons sent Confusion spheres into the Different Dimension and clashed through Future Sight, with Fang Yuan’s Espeon holding the advantage in Sunny Day energy and Premonition.

Fang Yuan's Espeon defeated Su Shu's Espeon in a fierce battle, earning Su Shu's respect and shocking the watching trainers. Fang Yuan left the match believing his Eevee might now be the Number One Espeon Under Heaven.

• Su Shu's Espeon seized Sunny Day's energy with Weather Ball, but Fang Yuan's Espeon took control of the flames and turned them against it.
• Su Shu pressed the attack with Shadow Ball and Future Sight, but Fang Yuan's Espeon countered with three Spiral Psychic Balls hidden within Future Sight.
• The Spiral Psychic Balls unleashed devastating aftershocks that overwhelmed Su Shu's Espeon and decided the battle.
• Su Shu conceded defeat, praised Fang Yuan's strength, and said he looked forward to battling him again at full strength.
• The watching trainers erupted in disbelief as Fang Yuan's victory and rapid growth astonished them.

After Fang Yuan defeated Su Shu, Su Shu reflected on Fang Yuan’s rapid growth and decided to teach him the Tianxing Style Meditation Method. He gave Fang Yuan three meditation techniques and explained that Espeon would help him train, leaving Fang Yuan feeling insulted by the implication that he was weak.

• Su Shu called Kong Hai and reported that Fang Yuan’s Espeon had defeated him and was nearing the Top Level Domain.
• Su Shu told Kong Hai that Fang Yuan’s rapid progress might come from his knowledge and researcher-Trainer combination.
• Fang Yuan visited Su Shu, who agreed to teach him the Tianxing Style Meditation Method before receiving Fang Yuan’s research materials.
• Su Shu gave Fang Yuan methods for Telepathy, strengthening Psychic Power, and enhancing the Sixth Sense.
• Su Shu advised Fang Yuan to study basic Psychic Power first and said Espeon would assist his training, prompting Fang Yuan to feel offended.

Su Shu taught Espeon the three Tianxing Style Meditation Methods, which it mastered in under an hour, while Fang Yuan studied basic meditation. Su Shu explained how Terastallize Stone could measure top-level destructive power and how powerful Combination Skills marked the Top Level Domain’s Second Stage, leaving Fang Yuan ready to buy some for testing.

• Espeon listened to Su Shu explain the Tianxing Style Meditation Methods and mastered all three in less than an hour while Fang Yuan read an introductory volume.
• Su Shu praised Espeon’s learning ability and asked Fang Yuan whether he would enter the World Championship Substitute Selection, and Fang Yuan confirmed he would.
• Fang Yuan asked how close Espeon was to the Top Level Domain, and Su Shu said its abilities were strong but its experience was limited and its Future Sight was only near top-level destructive power.
• Su Shu explained that damaging Terastallize Stone could help gauge top-level strength, while speed, defense, and status moves were also important standards.
• Fang Yuan asked about the Top Level Domain’s Second Stage, and Su Shu explained that Pokémon there could skillfully use finishing moves powerful enough to shatter Terastallize Stone.
• Fang Yuan decided to order a large amount of Terastallize Stone for testing.

Fang Yuan traded valuable research information with Su Shu and then brought Milotic to Purification Lake to continue its training. After a month, Milotic emerged, and Fang Yuan waited to learn whether it had uncovered the essence of Purification Water.

• Fang Yuan told Su Shu that Manaphy sought a Psychic Trainer under twenty to serve as the Sea God Temple's guardian, leaving Su Shu wondering about Fang Yuan's connection to Legendary Pokémon.
• A week later, Fang Yuan gave Su Shu the Slowking and Politoed evolution methods in exchange for a method of cultivating Psychic Power, and he decided that private trades helped him grow stronger.
• Fang Yuan traveled to Purification Lake outside Icefield City to help Milotic continue cultivating after it had reached a bottleneck with the Sea of Origin.
• Fang Yuan and his Pokémon trained at Purification Lake for a month while Milotic explored the essence of Purification Water.
• Milotic emerged from the lake, and Fang Yuan eagerly wondered whether it had succeeded.

Milotic mastered Purification Water and developed several powerful techniques with Fang Yuan, bringing it into the Master Domain. Before leaving Icefield City to help Gluttony Ghost evolve, Fang Yuan encountered news that a foreign World Championship training team had challenged the Fighting Joint Dojo.

• Milotic spent a month exploring Purification Lake and succeeded in replicating Purification Water.
• Fang Yuan helped Milotic develop High-Temperature Steam, Creation Regeneration, and Brute Force, completing its transformation and granting it Master Level Combat Power.
• Fang Yuan noted that all six of his main Pokémon now possessed Master Level Combat Power and prepared to travel to Ghost Capital to help Gluttony Ghost evolve.
• Fang Yuan visited the Pokémon Center in Icefield City's Trainer Association to restore his Pokémon's stamina before leaving.
• Fang Yuan overheard that a foreign World Championship training team had challenged the Fighting Joint Dojo in Icefield City.

Fang Yuan went to Icefield City's Public Battle Arena after hearing that an Egyptian training team had been challenging local Trainers. He challenged the team’s captain, but when Aya Sha said the captain was absent, Fang Yuan agreed to battle her first.

• Fang Yuan met Cen Mingzhi at the Pokémon Center and learned that five Egyptian Professional Trainers had challenged the Fighting Joint Dojo and were continuing to battle local Trainers.
• Cen Mingzhi invited Fang Yuan to the Public Battle Arena, where an Egyptian Trainer’s Mandibuzz defeated the Ultramarine Dojo successor’s Sandslash.
• Fang Yuan arrived at the arena and asked to battle the Egyptian team’s captain, hoping to test Milotic against a powerful opponent.
• Aya Sha said the captain was absent and challenged Fang Yuan to a two-on-two battle instead.
• Fang Yuan accepted and prepared to send out Infernape after Eevee stayed in the stands.

Fang Yuan sent Infernape to battle Aya Sha’s Pokémon, and Infernape’s Steel Bones let it endure Mandibuzz’s Brave Bird before defeating it with one Thunder Punch. It then overwhelmed Diggersby with Rage Fire Punch, leaving the Egyptian trainers stunned and bringing Fang Yuan’s dominant challenge closer to their captain.

• Fang Yuan sent out Infernape and invited Aya Sha to attack first.
• Aya Sha ordered Mandibuzz to strike with Brave Bird, but Infernape stood firm and knocked it out with Thunder Punch.
• Fang Yuan explained that Infernape’s Steel Bones technique had made its defense comparable to Dragonite’s Multiscale.
• Aya Sha continued the battle and sent out Diggersby, which Fang Yuan’s Infernape defeated with Rage Fire Punch.
• Cen Mingzhi told the crowd who Fang Yuan was, and the trainers recognized his record as the Egyptian team’s challenge collapsed.

At Icefield Mountain, Egypt team captain Kairo defeated the Icefield Style Master before rushing to the Public Battle Arena to face Fang Yuan, whose Infernape had already defeated six opponents. Fang Yuan recalled Infernape and began a two-on-two battle with Kairo using another Pokémon, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Kairo defeated the Icefield Style Master in their second battle and said he hoped to challenge the Extreme Martial Arts Style Master next time.
• A teammate told Kairo that Aya Sha and the others had been defeated by a powerful Trainer at the Public Battle Arena, so Kairo went to meet the challenger.
• Fang Yuan's Infernape defeated Aya Sha's Mandibuzz and Diggersby, then won against four more opponents while Fang Yuan waited for Kairo.
• Kairo arrived and saw Infernape standing over a defeated Golurk, then agreed to Fang Yuan's two-on-two challenge.
• Fang Yuan recalled Infernape and sent out another Pokémon as Kairo prepared to battle, while the Egypt Training Team and spectators watched anxiously.

Fang Yuan’s Milotic overwhelmed Kairo’s Flygon with its charm and control of mist, defeating it before Kairo could respond. Kairo sent out a colossal Golurk as his next Pokémon, and Fang Yuan recognized it as unusually large.

• Kairo’s Flygon and Fang Yuan’s Milotic appeared on the field and faced off in the air.
• Milotic’s charm left Flygon entranced, allowing Milotic to engulf it in High-Temperature Steam.
• Milotic combined Icy Wind and Disarming Voice to torment Flygon with changing temperatures and renewed enchantment.
• Fang Yuan ordered Milotic to use Blizzard, which froze Flygon and knocked it unconscious.
• Kairo recalled Flygon and sent out a six-meter-tall Golurk, startling Fang Yuan with its size.

Fang Yuan’s Milotic faced Kairo’s powerful Golurk, which seemed to overpower it with its Thunder Punch. Milotic stunned the Egypt Training Team by countering with a fivefold Dragon Tail and knocking Golurk over, though Fang Yuan knew it could use the technique only twice.

• Kairo sent out Golurk, his Master Level ace, and Fang Yuan judged that Milotic faced a serious threat.
• Golurk endured Milotic’s Scald under Safeguard and blasted away the Mist with Thunder Punch.
• Kairo had Golurk strengthen its body and launch another Thunder Punch as Fang Yuan ordered Milotic to use Fivefold Dragon Tail.
• Milotic’s Creation Regeneration healed the damage caused by its overloaded attack, and Fang Yuan called it a “Violent Melee Healer.”
• Milotic’s Fivefold Dragon Tail overwhelmed Golurk’s Thunder Punch and knocked the giant Pokémon over.
• Fang Yuan noted that Milotic could use Fivefold Dragon Tail only twice and needed its next attack to decide the battle.

Fang Yuan defeated Kairo’s Golurk with Milotic, then left Icefield City for Ghost Capital while training his Psychic Power. During the flight, he condensed his first faint strand of Confusion and officially entered the beginner stage.

• Milotic defeated Kairo’s Golurk with two powerful close-range attacks, though the effort left Milotic unable to battle as well.
• Kairo congratulated Fang Yuan and said he hoped to face him again at the World Championship.
• Fang Yuan left Icefield City with Dragonite after parting ways with Cen Mingzhi and headed for Ghost Capital.
• Fang Yuan meditated during the flight and, after concentrating on the blue points of light in his mind, condensed a faint strand of Psychic Power.
• Dragonite nearly crashed while scratching at the strange sensation caused by Fang Yuan’s Confusion, which marked Fang Yuan’s entry into the beginner stage of Psychic Power training.

Fang Yuan arrived in Youdu to prepare for entering its dangerous Spirit Realm Secret Realm and met Master Zhou Danying at Ghost King Dojo. He learned that the entrance would open in four days and that a guide Pokémon would accompany him, but he remained wary of unexpected trouble and the passage between worlds.

• Fang Yuan and his companions arrived in Youdu, where he and Eevee sensed an oppressive presence from Pokémon Tower.
• Fang Yuan met Zhou Danying at Ghost King Dojo and learned that the Spirit Realm Secret Realm would open in four days and close three months later.
• Zhou Danying told Fang Yuan that many dojo field keepers would train in the Spirit Realm and that he would be accompanied by a Pokémon familiar with its dangers.
• Zhou Danying warned Fang Yuan to stay in the Safe Zone, while Fang Yuan recalled that Ghost-type power alone could open and close passages between the Spirit Realm and Earth.

Fang Yuan prepared to enter the Spirit World's core region after Master Zhou Danying gave him a protective talisman and explained the realm's dangers. Four days later, she led him through the Pokémon Tower's Ninth Floor entrance, where Dusknoir brought the group into the Spirit World.

• Master Zhou Danying gave Fang Yuan a jade talisman that protected him from the Spirit Realm Magnetic Field and served as proof of identity, but Fang Yuan declined her advice to train with other Trainers.
• Eevee arranged for Rotom to download games and shows for the Spirit World trip, and Fang Yuan ordered it to replace the horror movies.
• Fang Yuan prepared supplies and training plans, expecting Gluttony Ghost to make major progress and considering how the Spirit Realm Magnetic Field could benefit Magnezone and Plusle and Minun.
• Master Zhou Danying told Fang Yuan that the Spirit World entrance was in the Pokémon Tower and led him to a sealed room on the Ninth Floor.
• Master Zhou Danying summoned Dusknoir, and it opened a vortex that carried Fang Yuan and the others into the Spirit World.

Fang Yuan entered the Spirit World with Master Zhou Danying and met Chandelure, the entrance guardian who would guide his group. After Gluttony Ghost’s Black Flame drove away the surrounding ghosts, Fang Yuan began preparing a magnetic-field training site to help it evolve and asked Chandelure to lead them to a place with abundant spiritual power.

• Fang Yuan met Chandelure, the former Ziyuan Style Sect Leader’s partner, and learned that wild Ghost-type Pokémon had gathered around the entrance.
• When the ghosts ignored Chandelure’s warnings, Fang Yuan summoned Gluttony Ghost and ordered it to drive them away.
• Gluttony Ghost unleashed its Black Flame, terrifying the ghosts into fleeing and astonishing Master Zhou Danying with its Master-level power.
• After Master Zhou departed, Fang Yuan released his Pokémon and asked Magnezone and Rotom to help create an optimal magnetic-field site for Gluttony Ghost’s evolution.
• Fang Yuan offered Chandelure an Energy Cube and asked it to find a nearby place with especially abundant spiritual power.

Fang Yuan prepared a powerful Spirit Realm Magnetic Field to help Gluttony Ghost evolve while assigning training and research tasks to his other Pokémon. Gluttony Ghost entered the completed magnetic field and began evolving, while Magnezone and the Klink advanced through their work.

• Fang Yuan had Magnezone, Rotom, and the two Klink build a dense Spirit Realm Magnetic Field while Gluttony Ghost practiced Mirror Coat to maintain Ghost and Fire attributes.
• Fang Yuan assigned Infernape and Ditto to refine Thunder Flame Mode, set Eevee to learn more Partner Moves, and arranged training for Dragonite and Milotic.
• After two days, Magnezone compressed the magnetic field into a vortex-like zone, and Gluttony Ghost plunged inside.
• Positive Electricity Klink and Negative Electricity Klink grew stronger, learned Gear Shift, and advanced to Elite-level.
• Gluttony Ghost absorbed the magnetic field's energy, and Evolution Light appeared around its body.

Gluttony Ghost evolved into Gengar, Infernape and Ditto perfected Thunder Flame Mode, and Armored Magnezone reached the Top Level Domain. As Fang Yuan celebrated his team’s gains, Eevee and Infernape began to feel pressure ahead of the upcoming Fang Yuan Tournament.

• Gluttony Ghost absorbed the Spirit Realm Magnetic Field and evolved into a white-and-black Gengar with a large Inner Space and the Cursed Body Ability.
• Fang Yuan assessed Gengar’s new powers, while Gengar excitedly challenged Eevee and displayed its increased strength.
• Infernape and Ditto synchronized their powers to perfect Thunder Flame Mode, giving Infernape invincible Master Level strength with almost no side effects.
• Magnezone’s two Klink used Gear Shift to accelerate their charging, and Rotom determined that Armored Magnezone had entered the Top Level Domain.
• Infernape and Eevee felt the pressure of their teammates’ rapid improvements as the Fang Yuan Tournament approached, and Eevee resolved to get serious.