Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan defeated Ba Song’s Houndoom and Delphox at the Fire God Dojo, revealing Infernape’s Top Level Combat Power and testing its ability to open the Second Gate. After Ba Song left, Fang Yuan waited to see whether Life Fire would heal Infernape and was surprised when the dojo’s field keepers asked him for autographs.

• Fang Yuan’s Infernape overwhelmed Ba Song’s Houndoom with Thunder Flame Mode and defeated it despite taking damage from Purgatory.
• Fang Yuan challenged Ba Song to send out his next Pokémon, then opened Infernape’s Rest Gate to test its final training stage.
• Ba Song sent out Delphox, which used Future Sight, but could not predict Infernape’s movements after it entered the Second Gate.
• Infernape used Thunder Punch to break Delphox’s psychic shield and knock it out, prompting a Fire God Dojo master to recognize its Top Level Combat Power.
• Fang Yuan told Ba Song that five people on the China team were stronger than him, and Ba Song left the dojo with his companion.
• Fang Yuan recalled Infernape and prepared to wait for Life Fire to heal its injuries, but Jiang Yu and other field keepers asked him for autographs.

Fang Yuan’s Infernape recovered from its injuries using Master Tao’s Life Fire, and Fang Yuan learned more about the limits of its Thunder Flame Turbine Bracer. After leaving the Fire God Dojo, he prepared for his next trip and tried to persuade Luo Ke to travel in a Poké Ball.

• Infernape’s injuries healed in ten minutes in the Life Fire, though Fang Yuan worried that using it had dimmed the flame.
• Rotom scanned the Thunder Flame Turbine Bracer and found it had 15 durability remaining after Infernape used Intertwined Power.
• Master Tao Xiuying praised Fang Yuan’s technique, warned him about the powerful United States Fire-Type Champion, and wished him luck at the World Championship.
• Fang Yuan said farewell to Master Tao, Jiang Yu, and Magmar, then left the Fire God Dojo to prepare for his trips to Japan, Nightmare Island, and Hawaii.
• Fang Yuan asked Luo Ke to enter a Poké Ball for their trip to Japan, explaining that he needed its protection while treating Dragonite’s illness, but Luo Ke remained suspicious.

Fang Yuan prepared to investigate Nightmare Island in search of Darkrai, hoping to help cure Dragonite’s Sleepwalking Combat Syndrome. He set off for Tokyo with Luo Ke agreeing to join as a bodyguard, while Eevee remained frustrated by its stalled training.

• Luo Ke agreed to enter Fang Yuan’s Poké Ball and serve as his bodyguard, but set three rules and refused to battle in competitions.
• Fang Yuan told the Magic University Old Principal he would investigate Nightmare Island to find clues about Darkrai and help Dragonite master its power.
• Fang Yuan considered Eevee’s role on the expedition and told it to protect him, leaving Eevee dismayed that it had not reached the Top Level Domain.
• Fang Yuan planned to draw out Darkrai using his Legendary Pokémon connections and other methods, then boarded a flight to Tokyo.
• Fang Yuan planned to register with the Tokyo Trainer Association and travel to the Izu Islands before heading to Nightmare Island, dismissing the idea that Mewtwo lived on New Island.

Fang Yuan visited Azure Pharmacy on Azure Island to meet Gu Yi, an expert on Nightmare Island. Gu Yi agreed to prepare a medicine that could dispel the island’s Nightmare Power, and Fang Yuan wondered whether it might also help Dragonite control its Nightmare Mode.

• Fang Yuan arrived at Azure Pharmacy and met Gu Yi and his granddaughter Gu Ran.
• Gu Yi recognized Fang Yuan as China’s Fifth Elite Four and explained that he had explored Nightmare Island five times.
• Gu Yi told Fang Yuan that a Japanese expedition had found no resources on Nightmare Island, where prolonged exposure to strange dream fluctuations caused mental instability.
• Gu Yi offered to prepare a Secret Medicine he had developed to dispel Nightmare Power.
• Fang Yuan considered whether Gu Yi’s medicine could help Dragonite control its Nightmare Mode.

While waiting for Old Sir Gu Yi to prepare the nightmare-dispelling Secret Medicine, Fang Yuan learned that Gu Ran hoped to evolve her Feebas, Chou Chou, into a Milotic. He offered her a bottle of his Pokémon Perfume, which he said could help Feebas accumulate the power needed to evolve naturally.

• Fang Yuan waited at Azure Pharmacy while Old Sir Gu Yi prepared the Secret Medicine, then helped Gu Ran tend the Herb Garden with Bulbasaur.
• Gu Ran told Fang Yuan and her grandfather that she wanted Chou Chou, the Feebas she had raised since she was nine, to evolve into a Milotic.
• Old Sir Gu Yi explained that Gu Ran would have to wait for natural evolution before she could use a Prism Scale, which could limit a Milotic's potential.
• Fang Yuan said Chou Chou had high beauty and explained that increasing a Feebas's beauty could trigger its natural evolution.
• Fang Yuan offered Gu Ran a bottle of Pokémon Perfume that could boost Feebas's beauty and help it build evolutionary power.

Fang Yuan gave Gu Ran his Beauty God Perfume, which helped her Feebas evolve into Milotic. After receiving more nightmare-dispelling medicine from Old Master Gu, Fang Yuan heard about a Pokémon product competition in Tokyo and considered entering.

• Fang Yuan showed Old Master Gu and Gu Ran his Beauty God Perfume and gave the bottle to Gu Ran.
• Gu Ran used the perfume on Chouchou, and Feebas evolved into Milotic before their eyes.
• Old Master Gu learned that Fang Yuan was a Senior Elf Researcher and realized the perfume's value.
• On Fang Yuan's third day on Azure Island, Old Master Gu finished making ten doses of nightmare-dispelling Secret Medicine, but it had no effect on Dragonite's Nightmare Mode.
• Old Master Gu told Fang Yuan about an upcoming Pokémon League Research Association competition in Tokyo, and Fang Yuan said he would look into it.

Fang Yuan traveled to Nightmare Island to search for Darkrai, preparing his Pokémon and assessing the powerful Nightmare Pulse that surrounded the island. He landed with his team and planned to try sending Darkrai a message.

• Fang Yuan set out from Azure Island with Dragonite and Rotom, then used Armored Magnezone and Milotic to navigate the Chaotic Sea Area.
• Fang Yuan and his Pokémon reached Nightmare Island and sensed the ominous Nightmare Pulse before landing.
• Fang Yuan reasoned that Darkrai might be causing the pulse defensively and could be more powerful than Granny Nai He.
• Fang Yuan summoned his main team and Luo Ke, then prepared to send a message to the island's presumed owner.

Fang Yuan spent a week on Nightmare Island studying its Nightmare Pulses and testing Dragonite's Nightmare Mode, but found no sign of Darkrai. Darkrai finally appeared from a cave and put Fang Yuan and his Pokémon to sleep with a wave of Nightmare Pulses.

• Fang Yuan searched Nightmare Island with his Pokémon and had Dragonite enter Nightmare Mode to test the effects of the island's pulses and draw out Darkrai.
• Over the next week, Dragonite's Nightmare Mode grew stronger and its physical recovery became extraordinarily fast as Fang Yuan and Rotom studied Dream Power.
• Luo Ke sensed a brief fluctuation near the island's center, and Darkrai emerged from a cave without being detected by Fang Yuan's group.
• Darkrai watched Fang Yuan and Dragonite before unleashing Nightmare Pulses that made Fang Yuan, Rotom, Dragonite, and the others fall asleep.
• Luo Ke and Eevee tried to resist the pulses but were overcome by drowsiness as well.

Darkrai trapped Fang Yuan and his Pokémon in separate nightmares where they lived without him, but Fang Yuan used Heart Power to restore their memories and awaken them. Facing Darkrai again with his reunited team, Fang Yuan had completed Telepathy and briefly touched the second stage of Heart Power.

• Fang Yuan realized he was trapped in a Dream World resembling his old life and tried to reach his Pokémon through Telepathy.
• Fang Yuan's Pokémon dreamed of lives without him, including Dragonite growing old alone, Feebas struggling in sewage, and Eevee evolving into Jolteon for another Trainer.
• Darkrai watched over the sleeping group, while Fang Yuan's growing Heart Power let him see the Pokémon's dreams and call to them.
• Fang Yuan's Heart Power awakened Eevee and the others, and their memories returned as they broke free of their nightmares.
• Fang Yuan and his six Pokémon gathered together to face Darkrai, and Fang Yuan understood that Darkrai had brought them into the Nightmare World.

Fang Yuan used his newly perfected Second Stage Heart Power to escape Darkrai’s Nightmare World and discovered that it could strengthen each Pokémon in a different way. He and his team prepared to test whether Heart Power could let Dragonite control Nightmare Mode, though Dragonite worried about exhausting him again.

• Darkrai sensed Fang Yuan’s Heart Power and vanished, while Fang Yuan collapsed from the strain and Gluttony Ghost stopped chasing it when Fang Yuan waved it off.
• Eevee used Heal Bell to wake Rotom, Klink, Ditto, and Luo Ke, and Fang Yuan explained that he had perfected his Heart Power to the Second Stage.
• Fang Yuan noticed Eevee’s Psychic Power had briefly reached the Top Level Domain, then realized his Heart Power amplified each Pokémon’s own power while consuming his strength.
• Fang Yuan confirmed the different effects on his Pokémon, including Magnezone’s stronger Awakening Power, Gluttony Ghost’s longer Perfect Mega Evolution, and Milotic’s improved use of its Ability.
• Fang Yuan proposed testing whether Heart Power could help Dragonite control Nightmare Mode, but Dragonite shook its head, worried about Fang Yuan’s exhaustion.

Fang Yuan used Heart Power to help Dragonite master Nightmare Mode, then decided to leave Darkrai undisturbed. Darkrai acknowledged Fang Yuan and invited him and his Pokémon to Nightmare Island’s True Core Area.

• Fang Yuan used Heart Power while Dragonite entered Nightmare Mode, and Dragonite stayed calm, flew into the air, and woke up on command.
• Fang Yuan collapsed from exhaustion, then reasoned that Heart Power had drained him by strengthening six Pokémon at once and that Darkrai had indirectly helped Dragonite master Nightmare Mode.
• Fang Yuan decided to leave Darkrai in peace and keep its existence secret, explaining that Darkrai’s powerful abilities might be why it lived in an uninhabited place.
• Darkrai heard Fang Yuan’s words, emerged from the shadows, and invited Fang Yuan and his Pokémon to Nightmare Island’s True Core Area.
• Fang Yuan confirmed the invitation, and he and his Pokémon followed Darkrai toward the island’s depths.

Darkrai led Fang Yuan and his Pokémon through hidden ruins beneath Nightmare Island and gave him a mysterious Pokémon Egg that had remained unhatched for decades. Darkrai then drew them into a dream showing an ancient world filled with prehistoric Pokémon.

• Darkrai guided Fang Yuan and his Pokémon through a concealed passage into ancient ruins beneath Nightmare Island.
• Fang Yuan and his Pokémon found fossils scattered throughout the ruins and reached a stone platform holding a Pokémon Egg.
• Darkrai gave Fang Yuan the egg, which had shown signs of life for decades but could not be identified by Rotom.
• Darkrai answered Fang Yuan’s question about being lonely by touching a fossil and enveloping the group in dream waves.
• Fang Yuan and his Pokémon found themselves floating in a dream of ancient times, surrounded by Aerodactyl and unfamiliar prehistoric Pokémon.

Fang Yuan learned that Darkrai could enter the dreams preserved in ancient fossils and offered to help it revive the Pokémon that had kept it company. Darkrai agreed to assist with Fang Yuan’s Fossil Revival Technology, leaving the group with Dream Energy as one major obstacle solved.

• Fang Yuan realized Darkrai’s ability let it experience the ancient scenery and Pokémon remembered in fossils, and his group returned from the dream to the ruins.
• Fang Yuan told Darkrai it was regrettable that its fossil companions existed only in dreams and asked whether it wanted to revive them.
• Fang Yuan explained that he was researching Fossil Revival Technology and invited Darkrai to help, prompting Darkrai to ask what it could do.
• Fang Yuan asked Rotom to explain Munna’s Dream Energy abilities, and Darkrai agreed it could try to imitate them.
• Fang Yuan concluded that Darkrai’s help had solved one major challenge and considered how Life Energy could complete the revival process.

Fang Yuan learned why Darkrai could not dismiss its Nightmare Domain and asked about Dragonite’s Dream Power talent. After sharing a meal, Darkrai agreed to teach Dragonite to master Dream Power with Fang Yuan’s Heart Power assisting.

• Darkrai explained that its Nightmare Ability had grown beyond its control when it reached a limit in strength, leaving it unable to dismiss the Nightmare Domain.
• Darkrai told Fang Yuan that Dragonite’s exceptional Dream Power was a talent, and it could master it through practice or indirectly through Heart Power.
• Fang Yuan shared food with Darkrai and asked whether Heart Power could help it master the Nightmare Domain, but Darkrai said his power was too weak.
• Darkrai refused Fang Yuan’s offer to help it and instead approached Dragonite to teach it to control Dream Power.
• Darkrai invited Fang Yuan to assist with the training, and Fang Yuan eagerly agreed before finishing his bite.

Fang Yuan asked Luo Ke to train Bulbasaur with illusions, while Rotom and the others attempted to revive an Omanyte Fossil using Dream Energy and Life Dew. The first revival failed, so Fang Yuan left to prepare proper equipment while Darkrai waited on Nightmare Island.

• Fang Yuan asked Luo Ke to give Bulbasaur illusion battle training after its basic training, and Bulbasaur chose Chimchar as its first opponent.
• Luo Ke made the illusionary Chimchar use Thunder Flame Mode, leaving Bulbasaur to face a much stronger opponent than it expected.
• After three days of research, Rotom led Fang Yuan and the others in a first attempt to revive an Omanyte Fossil, but the attempt failed.
• Rotom and Fang Yuan concluded that the process needed a stable materialized body core and an environment resembling a Pokémon Egg.
• Fang Yuan and the others left Li Island to prepare equipment for another attempt, while Darkrai stayed behind on Nightmare Island.

Fang Yuan returned home and told Magic University's old principal that he planned to enter the Tokyo World Pokémon Expo with his Beauty God Perfume. The principal agreed to help him secure an exhibition spot after learning the perfume could induce Feebas to evolve, while Fang Yuan's company remained an empty shell.

• Fang Yuan thanked Old Master Gu, declined to stay on Azure Island, and said he might return for the Tokyo Pokémon Expo in half a month.
• Fang Yuan returned home and planned to revisit Nightmare Island after Rotom finished perfecting the Pokémon Fossil Revival Technology.
• Fang Yuan asked Magic University's old principal to use the university's incubation facilities for an unidentified Pokémon Egg and asked about the expo's rewards.
• Fang Yuan revealed that Beauty God Perfume could make Feebas evolve, prompting the principal to realize it could be a highly profitable product.
• The principal agreed to help Fang Yuan secure an exhibition spot, then noted that Fang Yuan's company still had no staff besides him.

Fang Yuan prepared for the Tokyo Conference while correcting Luo Ke’s overly difficult illusion training for Bulbasaur. Eevee then entered the Top Level Domain in its Espeon form, and Fang Yuan discovered that his Heart Power could temporarily boost Partner Eevee into a nine-type Top Level Overlord.

• Fang Yuan postponed his Hawaii trip and declined the Magic University Old Principal’s offer to help manage his company, agreeing instead to visit Xie Qingyi’s company before the expo.
• Bulbasaur complained that Luo Ke’s illusions of Chimchar, Magnemite, Gastly, and Eevee had overwhelmed it, so Fang Yuan promised to prepare more suitable opponent templates.
• Fang Yuan arranged to visit Xie Qingyi’s company in three days and rematch her Sylveon with the same two Eevee.
• Eevee broke through in Espeon form, becoming the first Pokémon on Fang Yuan’s team to enter the Top Level Domain without external help.
• Fang Yuan tested Heart Power on Eevee and found that it could temporarily give Espeon dual Psychic and Fire top-level attributes or boost Partner Eevee across all nine of its types.
• Fang Yuan realized the enhancement drained him within half a minute and considered intensifying his physical training.

Fang Yuan met Xie Qingyi at Qing Yue Company, where she told him about losing to France’s Fairy Type Elite Four and the possibility that her opponent might bring Princess Diancie to the World Championship. Fang Yuan considered whether Eevee could use Z-Moves to challenge such a powerful Pokémon, then asked Xie Qingyi when their scheduled battle would begin.

• Xie Qingyi brought Fang Yuan to Qing Yue Company and told him that she had lost her private exchange battle in France.
• Xie Qingyi warned Fang Yuan that her opponent might catch Princess Diancie and bring her to the World Championship.
• Fang Yuan estimated Diancie’s strength and considered Z-Moves as a possible way for Eevee to defeat her.
• Xie Qingyi told Fang Yuan that Jiang Li and the other veteran trainers had experience and hidden strengths, while she and Fang Yuan still had room to grow.
• Fang Yuan asked Xie Qingyi when their battle would begin, and she looked toward Eevee as she considered the matchup.

Fang Yuan visited Qing Yue Company with Xie Qingyi, where his Espeon overwhelmed her Sylveon and revealed its Top Level Combat Power. After learning how Xie Qingyi ran her company, Fang Yuan left focused on raising his Pokémon into Legendary existences.

• Fang Yuan and Xie Qingyi met at Qing Yue Company's Battle Arena, where Eevee evolved into Espeon and battled Xie Qingyi's Sylveon.
• Espeon defeated Sylveon with a powerful Psyshock, leaving Xie Qingyi stunned by its Top Level Combat Power.
• Xie Qingyi showed Fang Yuan around the company and introduced him to the researchers and employees who would attend the Tokyo Conference.
• Xie Qingyi explained that Qing Yue Company had succeeded through capable, trustworthy staff and competitive products, while her own achievements had helped it grow.
• Fang Yuan reflected that he wanted to use the company to support his Pokémon training and dreamed of raising each of his Pokémon into a Legendary existence.

Fang Yuan prepared his Pokémon and research institute for a trip to Tokyo, planning new training paths for Eevee, the Klinks, and Gluttony Ghost while Bulbasaur advanced through illusion battles. He left Luo Ke in charge of the institute, the mysterious Pokémon Egg, and Bulbasaur’s Mental Herb cultivation.

• Eevee used its Heart Power to control three Substitutes and play games on four accounts, while Fang Yuan planned to teach it a Psychic- and Fire-type Combination Skill after Tokyo.
• Fang Yuan considered ways to strengthen the Klinks without evolution and applied to learn Extreme Martial Arts Style Fighting Skill to improve his Heart Power and stamina.
• Bulbasaur defeated Eevee’s championship-era illusion and prepared to face stronger simulated opponents as Fang Yuan continued its training.
• Fang Yuan placed Darkrai’s unidentified Pokémon Egg in the institute’s Incubation Device and left Mental Herb seeds for Bulbasaur to cultivate.
• Fang Yuan departed for Tokyo after asking Luo Ke to watch the institute, monitor the egg, and ensure Bulbasaur watered the Mental Herb.