Chapter Summaries

Fang Yuan and Gluttony Ghost visited Rotom’s lab to choose a Legendary Resource, where Fang Yuan discovered a shattered Platinum Orb fragment that could strengthen Ghost-type Pokémon’s spatial moves. The fragment had been chosen as the prize for the upcoming Pokémon Expo, and Fang Yuan resolved to win it.

• Fang Yuan found that Rotom had designed Ditto’s robot form as a mishmash of Rotom’s appliance forms, and Rotom enthusiastically described its imagined abilities.
• Fang Yuan asked Rotom to access the League’s Legendary Resource repository so Gluttony Ghost could find a suitable resource, and Antonio granted permission.
• Fang Yuan noticed a newly acquired resource resembling Giratina’s Platinum Orb and learned it had been recovered after the Global Spirit Realm Incident.
• Antonio explained that the shattered orb fragment contained Space Power, aided Ghost-type Pokémon in training spatial moves, and could not be preserved for long.
• Antonio revealed that the fragment would be the final prize at China’s upcoming Pokémon Expo, and Fang Yuan said he would win it with his research results.

Fang Yuan chose the Rainbow Wing and Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice, then turned his research team toward Pokémon Transfer Technology so he could compete for the Platinum Orb Fragment. Two days later, Old Master Kong Hai and War God Fu Hei arrived at the Sun and Moon Forest with the resources.

• Fang Yuan selected Ho-Oh’s Rainbow Wing and the Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice, which he planned to repay to Manaphy.
• Fang Yuan worried that he would not develop a strong enough Research Result before the Pokémon Expo and needed the Platinum Orb Fragment for Gluttony Ghost.
• Fang Yuan told Rotom and Porygon to stop researching Rotom Robots and focus on Pokémon Transfer Technology.
• Old Master Kong Hai and War God Fu Hei delivered the Rainbow Wing and the sealed Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice to the Sun and Moon Forest.

Fang Yuan welcomed Master Kong Hai and Fu Hei, revealed that he was researching special Poké Balls, and received the Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice and Rainbow Wing. He sent Dragonite to deliver the ice to Milotic and train beside it, while Kong Hai and Fu Hei stayed for lunch.

• Rotom brought Master Kong Hai and Fu Hei to the research institute, where Fang Yuan emerged from his workshop covered in dirt and cleaned himself with Eevee's Refresh.
• Fang Yuan explained that he was developing personalized Poké Balls, including Heavy Balls and Heal Balls, for the Pokémon Expo, though the idea was still in its early stages.
• Fu Hei gave Fang Yuan the Rainbow Wing, and Fang Yuan examined it alongside the Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice that Kong Hai had brought.
• Fang Yuan invited Kong Hai and Fu Hei to lunch, then called Dragonite over to carry the ice to Milotic and train beside it.
• Dragonite flew off with the ice, believing Fang Yuan was helping it spend time with Milotic, while Kong Hai and Fu Hei called it dramatic and Fang Yuan told them they did not understand love.

Fang Yuan prepared to officially tame Darkrai in a one-on-one battle, with Master Kong Hai and Fu Hei watching. He sent out Armored Magnezone, whose combined form and Guardian God-level power stunned the spectators as the battle began.

• Rotom served Kong Hai and Fu Hei an elaborate meal, and Fu Hei asked Fang Yuan to battle him.
• Fang Yuan declined Fu Hei’s challenge because he had arranged a taming battle with Darkrai, then revealed it would be one-on-one.
• Kong Hai and Fu Hei abandoned their sightseeing plans to watch Fang Yuan face Darkrai at the Fossil Protected Area.
• Fang Yuan sent out Armored Magnezone, and its electromagnetic domain collided with Darkrai’s Nightmare Domain.
• Rotom explained that Magnezone and the two evolved Klinks had jointly formed Armored Magnezone, leaving Kong Hai and Fu Hei bewildered.

Fang Yuan used Armored Magnezone and its exclusive Z-Move to defeat Darkrai in a fierce battle. He caught Darkrai, while Mew secretly protected the spectators and Victini revived Fang Yuan afterward.

• Kong Hai and Fu Hei watched Armored Magnezone clash evenly with Darkrai and realized both Pokémon approached High-Level Guardian God strength.
• After five minutes of fighting, Darkrai's Nightmare Pulse began wearing down Armored Magnezone, so Fang Yuan unleashed its exclusive Z-Move, Planetary Devastation.
• Armored Magnezone sealed Darkrai inside a massive magnetic stone sphere and exploded it, while Mew secretly diverted the destructive debris and shockwaves.
• The Z-Move defeated the exhausted Darkrai, and Fang Yuan caught it in a Poké Ball.
• Fang Yuan congratulated Armored Magnezone, then called on Victini to revive him after he collapsed from exhaustion.

After catching Darkrai, Fang Yuan assessed its abilities and planned ways to develop its spatial and temporal talents, especially by adding time control to its Nightmare Domain. Kong Hai and Fu Hei left before dinner, while Fang Yuan looked forward to testing his training plans.

• Kong Hai and Fu Hei watched Fang Yuan with envy as he confirmed Darkrai would compete in the next tournament.
• Fang Yuan reviewed Darkrai’s moves and judged Nightmare Power to be its strongest current ability.
• Fang Yuan planned to train Darkrai to use Phantom Force and blend spatial ability with its shadow techniques.
• Fang Yuan’s main plan was to use the World Tree’s Time Flower to help Darkrai bring time control into its Nightmare Domain.
• Kong Hai and Fu Hei refused Fang Yuan’s dinner invitation and left, unsettled by his eagerness to release Darkrai.

After welcoming Darkrai to the team, Fang Yuan laid out its training plan and helped Eevee rethink how its Substitute Evolution idea could make it stronger. The chapter left Eevee considering a method to return the evolved power of its Substitutes to its main body, while Luo Ke overheard and named the idea “All powers return to me.”

• Fang Yuan and the Pokémon celebrated Darkrai joining the team, then Fang Yuan escorted Darkrai to the Fossil Protected Area and explained its training schedule.
• Fang Yuan returned to the institute and discovered Eevee repeatedly creating and erasing Substitutes as it worked on Substitute Evolution.
• Fang Yuan guessed Eevee wanted its Substitutes to evolve into different forms and suggested that Eevee develop a way to return their evolved power to its main body.
• Fang Yuan called the proposed method the Origin Return Cultivation Method, or Return 6.0, and Eevee grew excited about its potential.
• Luo Ke appeared and remarked that the method sounded like “All powers return to me.”

Fang Yuan visited Manaphy to return the Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice and ask for help reaching Deep Sea Island to find water for Poké Ball forging. He left Manaphy dazzled by his growing connections and power, while Manaphy eagerly sought a chance to meet Mew.

• Fang Yuan prepared to leave for the Sea God Temple after Milotic and Dragonite benefited from the Billion-Year Never-Melt Ice.
• Fang Yuan arrived at the Sea God Temple and split open the box, revealing the Never-Melt Ice as a Legendary Resource for Manaphy.
• Fang Yuan told Manaphy about becoming a celebrated Elf Doctor, gaining Victini and Darkrai as allies, befriending the Island Guardian Gods, and becoming the World Tree Guardian.
• Manaphy begged Fang Yuan to connect it with Mew, but Fang Yuan calmed it down and asked it to take him to Deep Sea Island to collect special water sources.

Fang Yuan collected fifteen unusual water sources from Deep Sea Island and discovered that water created by Slowpoke’s Yawn-induced Rain Dance could help him craft a Special Poké Ball. About a month later, he completed a Heavy Ball and prepared to test it, but Lycanroc’s furious mentor Luo Ke chased it into the workshop.

• Fang Yuan returned to Deep Sea Island with Manaphy, found Sage Slowking still pondering the Ziyuan Prophecy, and gathered fifteen special water sources.
• Fang Yuan recalled the legend that a Slowpoke’s Rain Dance had created Slowpoke Well and suspected its unusual water could help manufacture Special Poké Balls.
• Fang Yuan’s first tests failed, but he modified the Slowpoke rainwater with a missing component and successfully quenched Apricorns for a Special Poké Ball.
• About a month after returning, Fang Yuan finished a Heavy Ball from a Black Apricorn and decided to test it on a heavy Pokémon such as Onix or Golem.
• Lycanroc dashed past Fang Yuan while fleeing Luo Ke, who chased her in a fury, leaving Fang Yuan wondering what Lycanroc had done.

Fang Yuan discovered that Lycanroc’s training had turned it into a Pokémon that delighted in taking attacks and reflecting them with Double Team. After testing Lycanroc against a Snorlax, Fang Yuan successfully captured the sleeping Pokémon with his experimental Heavy Ball and planned further Poké Ball tests.

• Luo Ke confronted Fang Yuan about Lycanroc’s strange masochistic battle style, which it had developed after the World Tree repeatedly beat it.
• Fang Yuan persuaded Luo Ke to let Lycanroc accompany him into the Sun and Moon Forest to help capture a Pokémon and test its training.
• Fang Yuan found a sleeping Snorlax in the thorns and ordered Lycanroc to wake it with Stone Edge.
• Snorlax attacked Lycanroc with Mega Punch, and Lycanroc eagerly reflected the blow at double strength, sending Snorlax rolling away.
• Fang Yuan caught the dazed Snorlax in a Heavy Ball and planned to compare it with other Poké Balls for his experiment.

After testing a Heavy Ball on Snorlax, Fang Yuan learned that it restrained heavy Pokémon more effectively and gave them a more comfortable space than a Standard Poké Ball. Back at his workshop, he prepared to study more Apricorns and advised Lycanroc to change its battle image, leaving Lycanroc eager to train its acting with Eevee.

• Fang Yuan fed the unhappy Snorlax Energy Cubes and tested how it felt inside a Heavy Ball compared with a Standard Poké Ball.
• Snorlax told Fang Yuan that the Heavy Ball made it feel heavier and was more comfortable to stay in, and Fang Yuan decided to run further tests with other heavy Pokémon.
• Snorlax pursued Fang Yuan after he refused to take it along, so Fang Yuan urged it to get stronger by challenging the Fossil Pokémon Habitat for Energy Cubes.
• Fang Yuan returned to his workshop and laid out Apricorns to research different kinds of Special Poké Balls.
• Fang Yuan told Lycanroc to use Double Team without its strange expression and to cultivate a more imposing image by learning acting from Eevee.
• Lycanroc resolved to find Eevee for acting lessons, but Fang Yuan stopped it because he had not finished advising it.

Fang Yuan taught Lycanroc how to concentrate Double Team on the spot an attack would hit so it could return stronger blows, then continued developing Special Poké Balls and Pokémon Transfer Technology. The transfer project moved into preparations for a local network, with Fang Yuan hoping to unveil both technologies at the Pokémon Expo in two months.

• Fang Yuan advised Lycanroc to use its Aura perception and coordination to concentrate Double Team where an attack would land, while warning it not to counter attacks that were too powerful.
• Lycanroc excitedly went to train the technique, while Fang Yuan withheld an even riskier Double Team maneuver until it had mastered the basics.
• Fang Yuan developed a Moon Ball and a Heal Ball within a month, adding to his Special Poké Ball designs.
• Fang Yuan, Rotom, and Ditto created a device that could simulate Porygon's ability to convert itself into electronic signals for use inside Poké Balls.
• Fang Yuan planned to spend the next two months building a small local transfer network and connecting it to the transfer device, with Rotom writing the program and Porygon assisting experiments.
• Fang Yuan hoped the Poké Ball and transfer technologies would both be ready for the Pokémon Expo, where he expected to win the Platinum Orb Fragment.

Fang Yuan successfully tested a Poké Ball that automatically transferred a caught Pokémon to a designated device, then told the Twelve Earthly Branches that he expected to win the Pokémon Expo with an even more influential technology. He revealed that he wanted the Expo’s Platinum Orb Fragment to feed his Gengar, leaving the Association stunned.

• Fang Yuan and Rotom tested an automatic-transfer Poké Ball by catching Omastar, which successfully appeared at Fang Yuan Research Institute beside Eevee.
• Fang Yuan and Rotom discussed expanding their transfer network across China before the Pokémon Expo, while Fang Yuan regretted not applying for research funding.
• President Wen and the Twelve Earthly Branches discussed securing the Expo’s Platinum Orb Fragment, and Jiang Kui proposed trading Mega Evolution items for it.
• Fang Yuan told the meeting that his research was nearly complete and that he expected his results to outclass the other Expo entries.
• Fang Yuan revealed that the new technology was more influential than Mega Evolution, then clarified that he wanted the Platinum Orb Fragment so his Gengar could eat it.

Fang Yuan helped Porygon awaken its independent consciousness, and Porygon evolved into Porygon2 Form. The newly evolved Pokémon recognized Fang Yuan and Rotom and answered that it would save them both.

• Fang Yuan promised President Wen and the Twelve Earthly Branches that Pokémon Transfer Technology would bring major changes within a month.
• Rotom told Fang Yuan that Porygon had absorbed its upgrade data and AI and was on the verge of awakening and evolving.
• Fang Yuan used Aura and Telepathy to guide Porygon through memories of its experiences and asked whether it would save him or Rotom from drowning.
• Porygon evolved into Porygon2 Form, gaining a sharper gaze and the ability to think independently.
• Porygon said it would save both Fang Yuan and Rotom, while privately considering that it could teach Fang Yuan to fly so he would not fall into the water.

Fang Yuan prepared to unveil major new research at the Magic City World Expo and told Antonio that the results could earn him several Legendary Resources. He opened the Expo as China’s first contestant, leaving the judges and audience eager to see what he would present.

• Fang Yuan organized Porygon-Duck and other Porygon to build and maintain Magic City’s transfer network.
• Fang Yuan told Antonio that his upcoming research could rival the invention of the Poké Ball and asked the Alliance for three Legendary Resources, including the Spirit Realm Legend Resource.
• Antonio worried that Fang Yuan might take six Legendary Resources from the Alliance before the Guardian God War.
• The Magic City World Expo opened on August 7 with Antonio, Lu Qi, Qi Zao, and other prominent figures serving as judges.
• Fang Yuan took the stage as China’s first contestant, and the audience and judges wondered what research he would reveal.

Fang Yuan introduced the Heal Ball at the World Expo, demonstrating that it could cure Pokémon’s injuries and abnormal states. After explaining its potential to protect Trainers and Pokémon, he revealed that it was only one of several Special Poké Balls and began presenting more.

• Fang Yuan announced that he had developed a new method of making Poké Balls that could enhance their fundamental functions.
• Fang Yuan poisoned and injured two Caterpie with Peach Berry leaves and had them captured in Heal Balls.
• Fang Yuan released the Caterpie, demonstrating that the Heal Balls had completely cured their injuries and poisoning.
• Fang Yuan explained how Heal Balls could protect Pokémon during exploration, battles, and training, and confirmed that they would be sold.
• Fang Yuan revealed a row of seven Special Poké Balls and began naming them, including the Heavy Ball, Heal Ball, Lure Ball, Moon Ball, and Diving Ball.

Fang Yuan presented Special Poké Ball Technology at the Pokémon Expo, impressing Trainers and judges while explaining its manufacturing limits. He then revealed that he would demonstrate an even more groundbreaking project: Pokémon Transfer Technology.

• Fang Yuan introduced various Special Poké Balls, and Trainers and judges marveled at their effects and potential value.
• Fang Yuan told Antonio that Special Poké Balls required extensive manual work and were unlikely to replace standard Poké Balls soon.
• Fang Yuan said he preferred pioneering new fields over continuing established research, prompting the judges to praise his record and anticipate his next discovery.
• Fang Yuan returned to the stage with a cylindrical machine and announced that he would demonstrate Pokémon Transfer Technology.

At the Magic City World Expo, Fang Yuan demonstrated Pokémon Transfer Technology by sending five judges’ Pokémon from Magic City to the Imperial Capital in seconds, then proved the system worked across multiple Chinese cities. The audience recognized the technology’s enormous practical and strategic value, while other contestants were left wondering whether there was any point in continuing the conference.

• Fang Yuan invited five judges, including President Antonio, Doctor Qi Zao, and Doctor Lu Qi, to replace their Pokémon’s Poké Balls with ordinary Red and White Balls.
• Fang Yuan showed footage of a matching transfer device at Didu University and explained that Pokémon Transfer Technology could move Pokémon between distant locations.
• Fang Yuan activated the device, sending the five judges’ Poké Balls from Magic City to the Imperial Capital in two or three seconds, where staff released Alakazam, Jolteon, Metagross, Avalugg, and Corviknight.
• Fang Yuan invited audience members to test transfers to other Chinese cities, and repeated experiments convinced the crowd that the technology worked.
• Doctor Lu Qi and Doctor Qi Zao considered how the technology could aid disaster response and Pokémon training, while President Antonio acknowledged its groundbreaking importance.
• The conference audience and rival contestants were left stunned after Fang Yuan unveiled a second major research field and demonstrated its potential.

After Fang Yuan’s technologies drove many World Expo contestants to withdraw, he ignored his growing fame and focused on claiming Legendary Resources and hoping others would improve his inventions. The chapter ended when Rotom reported that one of Fang Yuan’s Doomsday Bug Fossils had finally reacted at the Fossil Revival Institute.

• More than one-fifth of the World Expo contestants withdrew within two hours of Fang Yuan leaving the stage.
• China’s Twelve Earthly Branches felt frustrated that Fang Yuan’s fame made their own achievements seem unimpressive, while President Wen considered whether Fang Yuan might succeed him as China Association President.
• Fang Yuan planned to claim Legendary Resources after the Expo and hoped other researchers would develop better Poké Balls and Fossil Revival methods.
• Fang Yuan recalled that he had given the Fossil Revival Institute more than a dozen Doomsday Bug Fossils, but had received no results after two years.
• Rotom rushed to Fang Yuan and announced that one of the Doomsday Bug Fossils had finally shown a reaction.

After researchers detected a faint trace of Soul Power in a Doomsday Bug Fossil, Fang Yuan proposed strengthening it with a Legendary Resource to revive the fossil. He decided to seek Soul Dew and enlist Mew and Tapu Fini to help, leaving the experiment as a promising new direction.

• Researchers at the Fossil Revival Institute detected faint Soul Power in one Doomsday Bug Fossil and contacted Fang Yuan.
• Fang Yuan concluded that advanced applications of Soul Power might revive fossils, but first the fossil's Soul Power needed to be strengthened.
• Fang Yuan decided to request Soul Dew as a Legendary Resource, recalling that it had revived Fossil Pokémon in a movie.
• Fang Yuan considered asking Mew and Tapu Fini to help research Soul Power and revive the Doomsday Bug Fossil.