Chapter Summaries

Lu Li and Yao Yifei visited the Deep Blue Black Market, where Lu Li used his Spirit Vision Eye to identify a valuable Pokémon Egg. After buying a Gym Leader-level Pancham Egg, he agreed to search for high-aptitude Pokémon for Yao Yifei.

• Lu Li asked Yao Yifei about obtaining Metal Coat formulas, then prepared Teleportation, Warning, and Space-Breaking Talismans overnight.
• Lu Li and Yao Yifei traveled to Deep Blue City and entered the underground Deep Blue Black Market through the Sylveon hotel.
• Yao Yifei explained the market’s floors, trading protections, and invitation requirements for its seventh-floor auction house.
• Lu Li activated his Spirit Vision Eye in the Pokémon Egg section and searched the stalls for eggs with strong aptitude.
• Lu Li bought a 150,000 League Credit Pokémon Egg that he identified as a Gym Leader-level Pancham.
• Yao Yifei asked Lu Li to help find her a high-aptitude Eevee or Flying-type Pokémon.

Lu Li and Yao Yifei searched the Deep Blue Black Market for Pokémon Eggs, where Lu Li bought several bargains and refused to surrender a Ralts Egg to the arrogant Yao Tianxing. After learning that Yao Tianxing had secretly marked his Space Backpack and that the Yao Family coveted the market, Lu Li suspected the confrontation was a pretext for conflict with the Qu Family.

• Lu Li bought twenty-six High-potential Pokémon Eggs, while Yao Yifei chose a Hoppip Egg and defended its Champion-level potential despite its weak stats.
• Lu Li found a Storm Petrel Egg with Elite Four-level potential priced at a hundred thousand and bought it.
• Lu Li selected a Gym Leader-potential female Ralts Egg, but Yao Tianxing demanded it and tried to outbid him before the shop owner refused to break the Black Market's rules.
• Yao Tianxing identified himself as a member of the Yao Family, and Lu Li recognized that the shop belonged to the Qu Family before paying for the Egg and leaving.
• Yao Yifei told Lu Li that Espeon had detected a Mental imprint Yao Tianxing placed on his Space Backpack, and explained the Yao Family's long-running effort to take over the Deep Blue Black Market.
• Lu Li connected Yao Tianxing's provocation to the Yao-Qu rivalry and wondered whether the Yao Family was manufacturing a pretext for war.

Lu Li warned Qu Suxin that the Yao Family might use a suspicious excuse to provoke conflict with the Qu Family, then explored Deep Blue Black Market’s trading and general goods areas with Yao Yifei. After returning to the hotel, he reviewed his acquisitions and spoke with the newly crowned Empress Ekaterina, ending the chapter intrigued by a strange, exceptionally hard metal.

• Lu Li told Qu Suxin about his suspicions regarding the Yao Family, and Qu Suxin ordered information on Yao Tianxing while considering whether the League was seeking to weaken the great families.
• Lu Li and Yao Yifei registered barter requests for Mega Stones, then visited the General Goods Area, where Lu Li bought Drampa fertilizer, a resentment-wrapped Dragon-type vertebra, herbs, and other materials.
• Lu Li returned to the hotel with Yao Yifei and sorted his acquisitions, noting that he had found ingredients for Beauty Spirit Pill 3.0 and gathered the materials for Fire Spirit Pill 2.0.
• Lu Li congratulated Ekaterina on becoming Empress, declined her teasing offer to become her imperial husband, and asked whether she had received his gift.
• Lu Li examined an orange-red metal fragment he had bought for two million and detected Psychic Ability waves within its exceptionally hard surface.

Lu Li received invitations to the Deep Blue Black Market’s auction, while Yu Lili offered Li Zhi and Qu Gang a place to stay during the crowded trade fair. Qu Gang warned Qu Suxin that Li Zhi planned to visit the Black Market, leaving her worried about the trouble the Rainbow Hero might bring.

• The hotel manager delivered Lu Li two invitations to the Auction House on Qu Suxin’s orders, and Lu Li accepted them.
• Unable to find a hotel, Li Zhi and Qu Gang met Yu Lili, who offered to let them stay at her courtyard.
• Yu Lili explained that the Deep Blue Black Market’s trade fair had filled the city, and Li Zhi asked her to take him there the next day.
• Qu Gang recognized Yu Lili as Lu Li’s girlfriend and reported to Qu Suxin that she had invited Li Zhi to visit the Black Market.
• Qu Suxin ordered Qu Gang to take Li Zhi away from Deep Blue City, but Qu Gang said Li Zhi had already decided to visit the Black Market.

Lu Li and Yao Yifei found several exceptionally powerful Pokémon Eggs at the Deep Blue Black Market, including one with Master Potential for each of them. Meanwhile, Qu Suxin learned that the Divine Cult was auctioning two stable dual-type Eevee, one with Master Potential, as major families rushed to attend.

• Qu Gang warned Qu Suxin that Yu Lili might become entangled with the Rainbow Hero, and Qu Suxin ordered her secretary to monitor the Deep Blue Black Market until the convention ended.
• Lu Li bought an Elite Four-potential Meditite Egg for Baobao and discovered an unusually large Mibrim Egg with Master Potential, which he kept for himself.
• Lu Li found a Heavenly King-potential Vullaby Egg and an Elite Four-potential Braviary Egg whose final potential was Master-level; Yao Yifei chose the Braviary and kissed Lu Li in excitement.
• Lu Li and Yao Yifei found nothing on the South American and Non-Aligned League floors, then returned to the hotel with two Master-potential Eggs and one Champion-potential Egg.
• Qu Suxin learned that the Divine Cult had brought two stable dual-type Eevee to auction, including a Water-Fire Eevee with Master Potential, and that representatives from major families were already heading to the convention.

Lu Li and Yao Yifei attended the Deep Blue Black Market Auction House, where Yao bought a Dratini Egg after Lu Li used Spirit Vision Eye to identify its Elite Four-level potential. As the auction’s main event began, Lu Li spotted divine flashes from two covered cages and suspected they contained Divine Beast Cubs.

• Qu Suxin ordered stronger security for the Auction House after deciding it was too late to cancel the event.
• Lu Li and Yao Yifei explored the private-room Auction House, and Yao danced with Espeon while they waited for the bidding to begin.
• Lu Li learned that Elite Four Trainers’ notes and high-potential Pokémon Eggs fetched enormous prices, while Yao explained why wealthy families prized inherited knowledge.
• Lu Li identified the Dratini Egg as having Elite Four-level potential, and Yao successfully bid six hundred million for it.
• The auction brought out an Elite Four-potential Gible, then two covered cages whose contents Lu Li sensed might be Divine Beast Cubs.

Lu Li discovered that two special Eevee at the auction had contaminated Life Sources and would die if they grew stronger, then warned Qu Suxin and Marshadow. Ho-Oh learned that humans had tampered with Pokémon carrying the power of its Divine System and left the Sky Tower Secret Realm to respond.

• The auction host revealed a Water-Fire Eevee and a Starry Pokémon with Fairy and Psychic attributes, and bidders drove their price above three billion.
• Lu Li used Immortal Vision Eye to discover that Divine Beast cells had contaminated the Eevee's Life Sources, making their growth likely to cause genetic collapse.
• Lu Li warned Yao Yifei and called Qu Suxin, who withdrew from bidding but chose not to stop the auction or publicly explain the danger.
• Marshadow recognized the Divine Beast power in the Eevee and reported the experiment to Ho-Oh.
• Ho-Oh received Marshadow's memories, became furious about the tampering with its Divine System, and left the Sky Tower Secret Realm.

Ho-Oh descended on Deep Blue City after discovering the Divine Cult’s experiments with Eevee and the powers of Suicune and Entei. Lu Li and Yao Yifei tried to escape with Yu Lili, but Ho-Oh seized the underground Auction House and trapped everyone inside.

• The Water-Fire Eevee sold for ten billion plus eight Pokémon Secret Treasures, while Qu Suxin learned that Ho-Oh was flying toward Deep Blue City and ordered the Qu Family’s supplies moved.
• Lu Li realized the Water-Fire Eevee contained cells from Suicune and Entei, then urged Yao Yifei to leave the Auction House and warned Yu Lili to meet them at the Sylveon Hotel.
• Yu Lili warned Qu Gang and Li Zhi to leave Deep Blue City, but Li Zhi dismissed the danger and stayed.
• Ho-Oh appeared above Deep Blue City, recognized Li Zhi as the Rainbow Hero, and sensed the Divine Cult’s involvement in the Eevee experiments.
• Ho-Oh used Psychic to pull the underground Auction House from hundreds of meters below the Deep Blue Black Market, shaking the building and sealing its exits.

Ho-Oh purified the two Eevee’s Life Sources, then gave the Water-Fire Eevee to Li Zhi and the Psychic- and Dark-type Eevee to Lu Li after consulting Terapagos. Lu Li fled with Yao Yifei and Yu Lili as pursuers arrived, while Ho-Oh left intending to test him and draw attention away from Li Zhi.

• Ho-Oh split open the auction hall and used Life Dew to purify the two Eevee, while Tropius studied the power of Life and Ho-Oh discovered Terapagos was with Lu Li.
• Terapagos asked Ho-Oh for the Psychic- and Dark-type Eevee, and Ho-Oh agreed to give the two Eevee to the people their fates indicated.
• Ho-Oh placed the Water-Fire Eevee in Li Zhi’s arms and sent the other Eevee to Lu Li, then departed without harming the auction hall’s bystanders.
• Lu Li and Yao Yifei escaped with Yu Lili as Yao Yi and Cao Mengling arrived too late to find them.
• Qu Gang explained the Water-Fire Eevee’s types and talent to Li Zhi, who vowed to become a Pokémon Master with it.
• Ho-Oh decided to let Lu Li draw Li Zhi’s pursuers and treated the danger as a test for Lu Li and revenge on Terapagos.

After Ho-Oh rescued the two Eevee, Lu Li returned home with valuable gains and distributed Pokémon Eggs to his trusted companions. Meanwhile, a mysterious foreign woman arrived near his ranch, and the League elders considered how to keep the Qu Family in their planned conflict with the Yao Family.

• A Divine Cult operative reported that Ho-Oh had taken the two Eevee, so the blond young man ordered the remaining supplies moved to other regions.
• Qu Suxin learned that the Black Market had lost up to fifty billion but gained worldwide attention, then called Lu Li, who said his group had returned safely with impressive gains.
• Lu Li gave Baobao a Champion-potential Ralts Egg and Eike Sandile and Scraggy Eggs, promised Pokémon Eggs for Eike's younger siblings, and told him to recruit orphans for the ranch.
• Eike told Lu Li that a secretive foreign woman had arrived in Jinji Village searching for something, so Lu Li asked Yao Yifei to observe her without provoking her.
• Yao Yifei proposed building large training grounds, and Lu Li agreed that his powerful Pokémon needed dedicated spaces to train safely.
• The League elders discussed Ho-Oh's destruction of Deep Blue City and the Divine Cult's experiments, then proposed telling Qu Suxin about the Fairy King to keep the Qu Family in the weakening plan.

The League debated taking the Deep Blue Black Market from the Qu Family, winning over the Rainbow Hero, and dealing with the True Hero in the America Region. Meanwhile, Lu Li battled Yu Lili’s Squirtle with Onix, whose chances looked poor as Yao Yifei declared Charmander invincible below Elite.

• The League approved stripping the Deep Blue Black Market from the Qu Family because Ho-Oh’s attraction and Qu Suxin’s possible blessing would strengthen them further.
• The League confirmed Lu Li was the Rainbow Hero and chose to win him over rather than send him to another region.
• The League learned the True Hero was in the America Region and narrowly approved sending people to join the assassination effort against him.
• Yu Lili challenged Lu Li to a Pokémon battle, and Lu Li sent out Onix while she released her Late-stage Normal Squirtle.
• Squirtle used the Shui Bo Gym’s Spinning Blade Secret Technique to wound Onix’s tail, and Yao Yifei said Onix could not defeat Squirtle but Charmander was invincible below Elite.

Lu Li trained his Pokémon after Yu Lili left, while Charmander displayed its unusual comprehension and learned several Fire-type moves. An alchemy furnace explosion revealed that Charmander’s tail flame had gained a faint sacred quality after witnessing Ho-Oh’s Sacred Fire, and Lu Li recognized its potential as a special flame for pill refining.

• Squirtle struck Onix’s weak point with Water Gun, and Lu Li recalled the defeated Onix after praising its performance.
• Yu Lili gave Lu Li a necklace, then Baobao interrupted their plans to train together; Yu Lili left the villa the next morning, and Lu Li began secluded training.
• Lu Li found that Charmander had awakened and learned Inferno Abyss, Power-Up Flame Charge, and Overheat.
• Lu Li had Charmander and Beldum attempt to refine pills together, but their alchemy furnace exploded and Beldum lost its ability to battle.
• Lu Li examined Charmander’s tail flame and discovered it had gained a faint sacred quality resembling Ho-Oh’s Sacred Fire.
• Lu Li told Charmander to master its new flame before refining pills again, and Charmander playfully pounced on him after learning the change was a good thing.

Lu Li’s attempts to develop a Marrow Cleansing Pill failed, but he created the Characteristic God Pill, which gave Pokémon an additional Ability. After Espeon and Ralts successfully tested it, Lu Li shared the formula with Yao Yifei and planned to visit Onix.

• Lu Li spent a day and night attempting to develop a Marrow Cleansing Pill, but his experiments failed and left him exhausted.
• Lu Li revealed that his unexpected breakthrough was the Characteristic God Pill, which randomly granted a Pokémon another Ability from its species’ available Abilities, including a Hidden Ability.
• Espeon took a pill and awakened its Hidden Ability, while Ralts gained Trace; Lu Li used his Immortal Vision Eye to check them for abnormalities.
• Yao Yifei asked about the pill’s cost, and Lu Li explained that its materials cost around nine million and that failed experiments had cost him sixty million.
• Lu Li gave Yao Yifei the Characteristic God Pill formula, told her to gather the materials discreetly, and said he would go find Onix.

Lu Li discovered that the Elite Four Freya had come to the Qingyun Mountains with Natu to search for its missing mother. After learning Freya was Doctor Raymond’s niece, Lu Li realized the Secret Realm might be exposed and began weighing how to protect its secrets.

• Lu Li gave Onix a Characteristic God Pill, and Onix gained the Hidden Ability Shattered Armor.
• A Psychic presence watched Lu Li, so Yao Yifei investigated and found Freya and Natu; Freya apologized and explained they were searching for Natu’s missing mother.
• Yao Yifei told Freya about the Secret Realm deep in the Qingyun Mountains, and Freya decided to search there the next day.
• Yao Yifei told Lu Li that Freya was an American Elite Four whose Natu had been given to her by her uncle, Doctor Raymond.
• Lu Li realized Natu might reveal the Secret Realm entrance and feared Freya could threaten him over what he knew, but felt some relief when he learned she had only one Elite Four-level Pokémon.

Lu Li arranged for Qu Suxin to expel Freya from the Kyushu League when she left a Secret Realm, in exchange for helping Qu Suxin search a Secret Realm in three days. He welcomed the weakened Starry Pokémon onto his team, then his cultivation research was interrupted by a sudden wave of cold.

• Yao Yifei told Lu Li that Qu Suxin could force Freya to leave Kyushu, so Lu Li called Qu Suxin for help.
• Qu Suxin recognized that Ho-Oh had given Lu Li the Starry Pokémon and agreed to help him, asking him to join her in a Secret Realm in three days.
• Lu Li learned that Alliance University might soon disband and told Yao Yifei that Qu Suxin's interest in the Starry Pokémon was not a threat.
• Lu Li healed the Starry Pokémon, fed it Elixirs, recorded its Psychic and Dark attributes and late Elite strength, and let it rest while it recovered.
• Qu Suxin told Lu Li that Freya had entered the Secret Realm in the Deep Qingyun Mountains and promised to have people wait for her exit.
• Lu Li resumed his cultivation and research until a sudden wave of cold jolted him; he recalled the Pokémon beside him and hurried out of the basement.

Lu Li learned that an Ice-and-Dark Pokémon had sealed the Deep Qingyun Mountains Secret Realm in a catastrophic cold wave, and he suspected the culprit was the Calamity Beast Iron Leaves. As he began developing a Barrier to protect the Orchard and Flower Garden, Ekaterina warned him that the Pokémon was actually an Evil God with a Divine Position and Authority and urged him to leave the Southern Region.

• Yao Yifei told Lu Li that League investigators believed a Master-level Wild Pokémon had frozen the Secret Realm Entrance, and the League assigned her to investigate.
• Lu Li reassured Yu Lili, who explained that the Yu Family was shrinking its operations and selling real estate because the sealed Secret Realm had cut off vital supplies.
• Lu Li found that the cold wave’s malice threatened the Orchard’s crops, so he cast Constant Temperature Spell and decided to develop a basic Spatial Shielding Barrier.
• Ekaterina called Lu Li and revealed that she had seen the creature awaken as an Elite Four-level Evil God, warning that it might now be stronger and telling him to leave the Southern Region.

Lu Li finished securing his Orchard against the cold current and malice, then joined Gardevoir to meet Qu Suxin about a secret realm in the South American Alliance. Qu Suxin revealed that a guild had discovered traces of Xerneas in the Green Heart Secret Realm, leaving Lu Li suspicious about why the information had been made public.

• Qu Suxin researched Iron Leaves as a Calamity Beast, chose not to investigate it herself, and reported the matter to the Council of Elders.
• Lu Li completed a barrier using thirty-six Evolution Stones, cleared away the remaining Dark-type energy, and confirmed that Tropius's Orchard was safe.
• Lu Li prepared talismans and his First Echelon Pokémon for a secret-realm expedition, then Gardevoir teleported him to Qu Suxin's office.
• Qu Suxin told Lu Li that the South American Alliance had found a Super Large Secret Realm called the Green Heart Secret Realm and traces of Xerneas within it.
• Lu Li questioned why anyone would publicize evidence of Xerneas, and Qu Suxin explained that a guild, rather than an individual, had discovered the information.

Lu Li joined Qu Suxin on an expedition into the Green Heart Secret Realm to search for relics connected to the God of Life, using his Power of Ideals to guide their route. After entering the dangerous realm, Lu Li divined that they should travel south, while the League President learned that Qu Suxin had brought the Rainbow Hero with her.

• Qu Suxin asked Lu Li to help locate relics of the God of Life in Green Hell, and he agreed to accompany her and her First Echelon.
• Gardevoir teleported Lu Li and Qu Suxin to the South American Alliance, where Qu Suxin accepted one of Lu Li’s Space Rings after learning about its capacity.
• Lu Li and Qu Suxin entered the Green Heart Secret Realm together, and Qu Suxin asked Lu Li to choose their direction.
• Lu Li’s divination failed to locate Xerneas but indicated that exploring south would bring great fortune, so he directed Qu Suxin to head south and avoid powerful Pokémon.
• At Kyushu League Headquarters, the League President learned that the Fairy Elite Four had left the region with the Rainbow Hero.

The American Alliance planned to send the Cocoon of Destruction—and the sleeping Yveltal—to the Kyushu Region, hoping to trigger a catastrophe there while exploiting its power at home. Meanwhile, Lu Li and Qu Suxin investigated a meteor crater in the Green Heart Secret Realm, where an Elite Four-level Arbok ambushed them.

• The League President ordered the Secretary-General to monitor the South American Alliance and Fairy Elite Four, and to recall League personnel from Green Hell if possible.
• Plant learned that Freya was trapped in a Tier 3 Deity's Secret Realm, then revealed that America had found Yveltal and planned to move her to the Kyushu Region.
• Plant explained that the Cocoon of Destruction had strengthened American Trainers, and that the Master Ball would conceal it during transport; his secretary asked him to let her younger brother train near it.
• Lu Li asked Qu Suxin to have Gardevoir search the Green Heart Secret Realm for ruins, and Gardevoir spotted a meteor crater with no Pokémon stronger than Elite Four level.
• Gardevoir Teleported Lu Li to the crater, where an Elite Four-level Arbok ambushed them and struck Gardevoir's Protect barrier.

Lu Li and Qu Suxin explored the sinkhole, where Lu Li found valuable Nine Nether Grass and looted three Pokémon Secret Treasures from Arbok’s nest. He then had Gardevoir excavate and break apart a gigantic meteorite, leaving him eager to inspect the unusual stone revealed at its core.

• Qu Suxin sent Gardevoir to defeat the Arbok while Lu Li led the group to a patch of Nine Nether Grass and collected it.
• Gardevoir brought back the defeated Arbok, and Qu Suxin caught it for the value of its Shed Skin Ability.
• Lu Li entered Arbok’s poison-filled nest with Rapidash and collected a mound of shed skins, a Toxic Orb, and two Poison Gems.
• Gardevoir pulled a nearly two-kilometer meteorite from beneath the sinkhole and shattered it at Lu Li’s request.
• Rapidash stopped the meteorite revealed inside the larger one, and Lu Li hurried toward it, anticipating that his guess was right.