Chapter Summaries

Lu Li and Qu Suxin uncovered Deoxys’s dead Energy Core, then faced North American Alliance Champion Matt and his Champion-level team. Lu Li escaped the opening clash with Teleportation Talismans and watched the battle’s devastating attacks spread across the Secret Realm, uncertain whether Qu Suxin could get away.

• Lu Li identified the purple crystal as the core of a dead Deoxys and handed it to Gardevoir to hold until they could decide how to divide it.
• Lu Li sensed an approaching threat, gave Qu Suxin Talismans, and arranged for Gardevoir to leave a Mental imprint on him.
• Matt arrived on Skarmory and challenged Qu Suxin, then sent his Champion-level Pokémon to attack as Qu Suxin Mega Evolved Gardevoir and ordered Lu Li to run.
• A clash between the teams triggered Lu Li’s Warning Talisman and sent him two kilometers away, while Qu Suxin and Gardevoir confirmed he had escaped.
• Lu Li repeatedly used Teleportation Talismans to flee the spreading effects of the battle, eventually reaching more than a hundred kilometers away.
• Lu Li watched the sky glow pink and silver-blue and wondered whether Qu Suxin could escape Matt.

Lu Li watched as Overlord Tropius ended Matt and Qu Suxin’s battle, then helped the exhausted Qu Suxin recover in Gardevoir’s Secret Space. After making new Teleportation Talismans and preparing food, Lu Li left Qu Suxin waking to the smell of his cooking.

• Lu Li sensed a powerful Pokémon overhead while Matt and Qu Suxin fought, and Overlord Tropius arrived as Qu Suxin declared that her helper had come.
• Overlord Tropius struck Matt and Qu Suxin’s Pokémon with Leaf Storm, then spared the Trainers and restored part of the damaged rainforest after warning them not to destroy it again.
• Qu Suxin and Gardevoir escaped Matt, while Matt and Metagross gave up on seizing Gardevoir’s Divine Item.
• Gardevoir found Lu Li, who had concealed himself from her Mental imprint, and brought him and Qu Suxin to a Secret Space so Qu Suxin could rest.
• Lu Li made more Teleportation Talismans, then cooked a meal as Qu Suxin woke and praised his cooking skills.

After trading the Deoxys Core for Qu Suxin’s Divine Item necklace, Lu Li and Qu Suxin chose to head east in search of Xerneas. They found an ancient ruin in a valley rich with Life Force, where Lu Li noticed that its central stone pillar resembled Xerneas in its tree form.

• Qu Suxin woke after ten hours of sleep, ate a huge meal, and explained that Champion-level battles could force Trainers to burn their Life Force.
• Gardevoir revealed that the Deoxys Core could not help her reach God-level without another Tier 1 Fairy-type Divine Item, and Qu Suxin offered her necklace’s two Divine Beast scales in exchange; Lu Li accepted a temporary trade.
• Lu Li’s divination showed great fortune to the south and Nothingness to the east, which suggested a Divine Beast might be there, so Qu Suxin chose to head east in hopes of finding Xerneas.
• Gardevoir teleported the group to a valley with dense Life Force, where Qu Suxin discovered artificial engravings and an ancient stone circle surrounding a carved pillar.
• Lu Li scanned the ruins and realized that the pillar looked like Xerneas after it transformed into a tree.

Lu Li and Qu Suxin deciphered a mural about the Star Harmony Tribe and its worship of Xerneas, then used Lu Li’s divination to locate the deity. They reached a cave where Xerneas’s Legendary Aura blocked Gardevoir’s powers, while Lu Li somehow entered directly.

• Qu Suxin translated the mural, revealing that the Star Harmony Tribe had once thrived under Xerneas’s protection and possessed thirty Master-level Pokémon before civil strife scattered its followers.
• Lu Li used Aura Sight to guide the group toward promising traces, but Gardevoir refused to enter an area guarded by two Champion-level Pokémon.
• Terapagos used the power of Fate to help Lu Li locate Xerneas, and the divination pointed to an underground site.
• Gardevoir teleported Qu Suxin and herself to the cave entrance, but Xerneas’s Legendary Aura prevented them from using their powers inside.
• Qu Suxin and Gardevoir realized Lu Li had gone into the cave alone, possibly because of his Power of Ideals.

Lu Li was brought into a hidden Fairy-type Secret Realm, where an old man called him the Destined One and led him toward Xerneas’s incarnation. Qu Suxin and Gardevoir became trapped in a looping corridor, while Lu Li reached a grove of transparent coffins around the Sky-Piercing Tree.

• Lu Li found himself separated from Qu Suxin and Gardevoir in a strange realm, where an elderly man identified it as the God Realm and called him the Destined One.
• Lu Li followed the old man through a forest rich with Revival Herb and rare Berry Trees, where powerful Fairy-type Pokémon lived.
• A Tier 2 Deity Brimm Win sensed one of her kind in Lu Li’s Pokémon Egg, took it to care for until his mission was complete, and let him continue.
• Qu Suxin and Gardevoir realized they were trapped in an endlessly looping corridor within a Legendary Domain and turned back, hoping Lu Li could create a miracle.
• The old man led Lu Li to Xerneas’s Sky-Piercing Tree, where Lu Li discovered transparent coffins containing people surrounding the sacred tree.

Lu Li reached the Sky-Piercing Tree and touched Xerneas, awakening its consciousness and drawing Terapagos and Zygarde into a discussion about the danger posed by Yveltal. They decided Xerneas would awaken and Zygarde would notify Yveltal, while Terapagos promised to protect Blue Star as it recovered.

• The High Priest told Lu Li that the people in the coffins were sleeping while they waited for Xerneas to awaken, and warned that Lu Li could not leave the Secret Realm before then.
• The High Priest instructed Lu Li to touch the Sky-Piercing Tree, and Lu Li placed his hand on Xerneas, freezing the world around him.
• Terapagos met Xerneas in its Mind World and warned that Yveltal was nearby, prompting Xerneas to consider awakening.
• Zygarde joined the discussion and explained that Yveltal needed to awaken because Blue Star could not risk shattering while Arceus was missing and Terapagos was weakened.
• Xerneas agreed to awaken and awaken Yveltal, Zygarde volunteered to notify Yveltal, and Terapagos promised to keep Blue Star from breaking apart.

Lu Li witnessed Xerneas awaken and gain a vast following, while Yveltal learned that it had believers too. Yveltal began to awaken as the Cocoon of Destruction stirred, sending St. Gonne City into a panicked flight.

• Zygarde left the Mind World, and Terapagos told Xerneas to reward Lu Li with a horn fragment rather than immortality.
• Xerneas awakened before Lu Li, who gained insights into life through his Mystic Eye but was denied a reward for looking directly at Xerneas.
• Helga and the Champions refused to hand the Cocoon of Destruction to the Kyushu Region, believing it would help America grow stronger.
• Zygarde told Yveltal that it had gained believers and urged it to awaken, but Yveltal agreed only after learning Blue Star was at risk.
• The Cocoon of Destruction began to awaken at Y Evolution Base, and a Master Ball failed to contain it because Yveltal had awakened.
• Helga and the other Champions fled St. Gonne City, warning people that Yveltal was about to awaken.

Yveltal awakened in the America Region and unleashed a spreading Death Tide, forcing humanity to flee into Secret Realms. Lu Li awakened Xerneas but did not gain eternal life; after escaping the collapsing Secret Realm, he discovered Xerneas' Horn and lent it to Qu Suxin in exchange for the Deoxys Core.

• Yveltal's Legendary Aura turned St. Gonne City into a dead zone and began spreading, prompting Plant to issue the Apocalypse Alert and evacuate the American League into Secret Realms.
• Matt learned that Plant had hidden Yveltal's existence and suspected the disaster would devastate the Emerging Zaibatsu more than the Old Aristocracy.
• The Kyushu League President issued an evacuation alert, while Xerneas left the Secret Realm to restore the balance of life and death in the Real World.
• Lu Li learned that the other believers had gained eternal lifespans but he had not, and the God Cult elder refused to give him the collapsing Secret Realm.
• Brimm Win returned Mibrim's Pokémon Egg to Lu Li, and the elder gave him his Master-level Training Notes before Brimm Win teleported him out.
• Lu Li found a fragment of Xerneas' Horn in his Space Ring and lent it to Qu Suxin in exchange for the Deoxys Core.

Yveltal’s Death Tide devastated a city and headed north while Xerneas’s Life Tide restored the surrounding land and living things. Lu Li and Qu Suxin escaped the Secret Realm, saw the destruction, and learned that Kyushu had avoided the crisis, though Lu Li still could not reach home because North American signal towers had been damaged.

• Yveltal flew toward a Super Large Secret Realm as Zygarde explained that Terapagos had created a god with Authority over time, space, and Fate, along with a batch of New Deities.
• Plant asked the five Master-level Trainers to stop Yveltal, but they declared it too powerful and replaced Plant with Matt as leader of the America Alliance.
• Xerneas arrived in the Real World and used the Life Tide to restore intact lives, while Yveltal continued north and Xerneas chose to head east.
• Qu Suxin and Lu Li left the Secret Realm and found the Rainforest drained of life, then returned inside when the Life Tide approached.
• Qu Suxin and Lu Li emerged three minutes later to find the Rainforest restored, and Qu Suxin told Lu Li that Kyushu had escaped the Death Tide and his calls failed because North American signal towers were damaged.

Lu Li and Qu Suxin raided a Houston Pokémon Center, copying the North American Alliance’s breeding and other research data before fleeing as global forces descended on America. Back in the Kyushu Region, Qu Suxin prepared to enter seclusion and offered Lu Li a Porygon and help obtaining materials.

• Qu Suxin reassured Lu Li that his loved ones in the Kyushu Region were safe and invited him to loot Houston with her.
• Gardevoir teleported Lu Li and Qu Suxin to the Houston Pokémon Center, where they found the treasury empty but mature Starter Pokémon and breeding data still available.
• Qu Suxin gave Lu Li a Porygon, which copied the center’s Starter Pokémon breeding data and other files onto his drive.
• Gardevoir returned Lu Li and Qu Suxin to the Kyushu Region after Qu Suxin learned that the Death Tide had disappeared and top trainers were heading to North America.
• Qu Suxin predicted the North American Alliance would soon collapse as foreign and local forces exploited its lack of defenses, and she told Lu Li to stay safe while she entered seclusion.
• Qu Suxin promised to send Lu Li a Porygon and collect a list of materials he needed.

Lu Li returned safely from the Death Tide crisis, reunited with Yao Yifei and the others, and began cultivating a Revival Herb from the God Realm. He decided to delay enrolling at Kyushu University for two days, and Yao Yifei said she would take him there.

• Qu Suxin drove Lu Li back to Jinji Village, where he found the villa empty and learned Yao Yifei had taken everyone into a Secret Realm.
• Lu Li reunited with his Pokémon, welcomed calls from Yu Lili and Ekaterina, and was greeted by Baobao and Yao Yifei after they returned from hiding.
• Lu Li told Yao Yifei about his gains from the Green Heart Secret Realm, and she explained that she had taken Wei and the others to Qingyun City's Secret Realm during the crisis.
• Lu Li read reports about the Death Tide in the North American Alliance, then decided to stay home for two days before enrolling at Kyushu University.
• Lu Li transplanted a Revival Herb into his medicinal field and used Life Without End to nourish it, drawing on his research into Life Energy.
• Yao Yifei discussed the Revival Herb's effects with Lu Li and offered to take him to Kyushu University, while he admitted he was relieved she would continue living with him.

Lu Li entrusted Yao Yifei with the Deoxys Core and Landorus's Divine Item before studying Xerneas's life knowledge. At the Kyushu League, leaders discussed the American League's losses from the Death Tide and assigned Qu Suxin to a mission that would delay her breakthrough, while Lance and the League President recognized that Lu Li had exposed a dangerous plot involving Master Ball Technology.

• Lu Li gave Yao Yifei the Deoxys Core and asked her to safeguard it and Landorus's Divine Item alongside her other responsibilities.
• Qu Suxin told Lu Li that the American League's surviving leaders had crushed those exploiting the chaos, and Gardevoir collected Lu Li's list and invited him to observe her future ascension to godhood.
• Lu Li secluded himself to study the life knowledge he had received from Xerneas.
• The Kyushu League's leaders reviewed the Death Tide's devastation, including more than a million trainer deaths and the destruction of St. Gonne City.
• The League President ordered Qu Suxin to lead a mission to the Non-Aligned League, and Qu Suxin realized the assignment would delay her breakthrough and help preserve the Dragon Taming Family's position.
• Lance and the League President concluded that Lu Li had awakened Xerneas and that Master Ball Technology could transport Divine Beasts, potentially exposing Kyushu to a catastrophe.

The League President arranged hidden rewards for Lu Li while the American League planned how to recover from catastrophic losses. After awakening, Lu Li developed new life-enhancing cultivation techniques and elixirs, then traveled to Kyushu University to register.

• The League President told Lance to arrange a Dragon Island slot and a Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon Egg for Lu Li without revealing his identity as the Rainbow Hero.
• Matt and the American League's leaders agreed to dissolve the North American Alliance, rebuild Flying-type and Dark-type forces with Yveltal's help, and investigate the Earth Demon God's suspected location in the Mount Fuji Secret Realm.
• After two days of enlightenment, Lu Li refined Grass Spirit Pill 2.0 and a Life-Saving Talisman, and developed the Spirit Farmer Art, which strengthened Life Sources and could multiply a Trainer's lifespan tenfold.
• Lu Li decided to teach Wei and Yao Yifei the cultivation techniques after confirming the Spirit Farmer Art worked, then agreed to go register at Kyushu University.
• Yao Yifei helped Lu Li prepare his ID and Tropius, and Espeon teleported them to Origin City, where Lu Li examined Kyushu University's entrance and heard an old man explain the Power of Ideals in its inscription.

Lu Li met Kyushu University Headmaster Wen Gongmao, who gifted him a Champion-aptitude Gible egg and told him about the freshman tournament’s Dragon Island Secret Realm prize. Wen Gongmao agreed that Lu Li could skip classes and use the university library, and Lu Li returned home planning to study there by day while pursuing his own work at night.

• Wen Gongmao took Lu Li to his office and explained that the League and school were giving him an additional enrollment reward.
• Wen Gongmao gave Lu Li a Gible egg with Champion-level aptitude, and Lu Li eagerly accepted it as family.
• Wen Gongmao told Lu Li that first place in next month’s freshman tournament would earn entry to the Dragon Island Secret Realm.
• Lu Li asked to skip classes and attend Kyushu University mainly to use its library, and Wen Gongmao agreed to speak with his teachers.
• Lu Li returned home and showed Yao Yifei the Gible egg; she was shocked by its species and aptitude.
• Lu Li told Yao Yifei that he planned to read at school during the day and return home to work on his own projects at night, leaving Espeon weary.

Lu Li chose to hatch Mibrim first, while powerful families began plotting to draw the supposed Rainbow Hero into their ranks. Qu Suxin delivered a Porygon and introduced her secretary before warning Lu Li that League leaders believed he was the Rainbow Hero, leaving him worried about the danger of the mistaken identity.

• Lu Li decided to incubate Mibrim's Egg first because he could not yet afford the resources Gible would need.
• Long Yuzuo urged Long Ying to approach Lu Li, while the Ji Family decided to contact An Feng and try to bring the Rainbow Hero into their family.
• Lu Li placed Mibrim's Egg in the Incubator and worked on upgrading his elixirs until Qu Suxin called him.
• Qu Suxin gave Lu Li a Champion-potential Porygon, introduced her secretary Qu Tongtong, and explained that an Alliance assignment would take her to the Non-Aligned League for up to three years.
• Qu Suxin warned Lu Li that League leaders had concluded he was the Rainbow Hero, and she advised him that this identity was safer to expose than the Emissary of Ideals.

Lu Li learned how Secret Realms and Pokémon breakthroughs worked, then taught Yao Yifei, Wei, and Baobao the Spirit Farmer Art to strengthen their bodies. After the North American Alliance dissolved and Lu Li returned to school, Long Ying was astonished that Teleport caused her no discomfort.

• Qu Suxin explained that Lu Li could claim an undiscovered Secret Realm, outlined the stages of Pokémon advancement, and revealed she was leaving Kyushu for the Non-Aligned League.
• Yao Yifei reported that Baobao had become an Elite-level Trainer, while her Ralts had reached mid-stage Elite-level, and warned that Baobao's rapid growth threatened her body.
• Lu Li demonstrated the Spirit Farmer Art and arranged for Yao Yifei, Wei, and Baobao to learn the technique.
• The America Region withdrew from the North American Alliance and seized its resources, and Yao Yifei said the Asian League was also close to dissolving.
• Lu Li checked the Revival Herb, used Espeon's Teleport to reach school, and confused Long Ying by reporting that Teleport caused her no discomfort.

Lu Li explored Kyushu University's library, learned about extinct Hisuian Pokémon and unrestricted artificial Pokémon research, then planned to create a Honedge as a Natal Sword and revive a Frigibax Egg. Elsewhere, Lance negotiated with Wen Gongmao over the Forest Emissary, while the Ji Family Second Elder assessed Yao Yifei's talent.

• Long Ying offered to take Lu Li to class, but he declined and went to the library to study cultivation knowledge.
• Lance and Wen Gongmao negotiated over Dragon Island Slots and the Forest Emissary, and Lance revealed that Groudon might be in the Mount Fuji Secret Realm.
• Lu Li learned that some Hisuian Pokémon had gone extinct and that Kyushu University permitted artificial Pokémon research.
• Lu Li planned to create a Honedge by combining a refined artifact with a ghost, and decided to study artifact refining and Ghost-type knowledge.
• Lu Li identified Life-Generating Fortune Elixir as a way to restore the Frigibax Egg's missing Life Source and sent Qu Tongtong a list of ingredients.
• The Ji Family Second Elder watched Yao Yifei's Gym and regretted that her talent had not been trained by the Ji Family.

Ji Xi offered An Feng and Yao Yifei a return to the Ji Family in exchange for persuading Lu Li, the Rainbow Hero, to marry into the family, and An Feng secured resources including a Salamence. Later, Tropius showed Lu Li that the Sandscale Fruits had ripened early, with an unexpectedly large harvest of thirty-three fruits.

• Ji Xi visited An Feng and revealed that Lu Li was this generation’s Rainbow Hero, then offered family benefits if An Feng persuaded him to marry into the Ji Family.
• An Feng agreed to help and secured Pokémon breeding resources and a Salamence for Yao Yifei, while Ji Xi warned her to keep Lu Li’s identity secret.
• Tropius woke Lu Li and took him to the Orchard after the Divine Item caused the Sandscale Fruits to ripen ahead of schedule.
• Lu Li checked a Sandscale Fruit’s quality, confirmed the harvest had ripened, and learned that the tree bore thirty-three fruits.

Lu Li refined Sandscale Fruits into Spirit Leap Pills that could raise Pokémon’s speed and break species limits, then distributed pills to his family and Yao Yifei. After feeding Tropius one hundred pills, he watched it break through to the late Elite stage, leaving Milotic baffled by its sudden rise.

• Lu Li deduced the Spirit Leap Pill formula and refined 325 pills from the Sandscale Fruits, planning to use most of them on his Pokémon.
• Lu Li gave Spirit Leap Pills to Baobao, Wei, and Yao Yifei, while Yao Yifei kept the pills’ existence secret.
• Lu Li fed Tropius one hundred Spirit Leap Pills in the Orchard to improve its speed.
• Tropius broke through to the late Elite stage, astonishing Yao Yifei and leaving Milotic suspicious that Lu Li had given it special treatment.

Lu Li used Spirit Leap Pills to boost Tropius, Milotic, and Charmander, while warning Charmander to save its evolution for a breakthrough; he lamented how slowly his own cultivation progressed. Meanwhile, Yao Yifei received a surprising offer of a Salamence Egg, and Ekaterina planned to invite Lu Li to the Polar Ice Empire through an exchange-student slot in the Cambrian Secret Realm.

• Tropius's speed increased dramatically after consuming Spirit Leap Pills, and Milotic reached the peak of the late Elite-level stage but said it needed about a month or longer to break through.
• Charmander and Beldum showed Lu Li the elixirs they had refined, and Lu Li praised them before feeding Charmander Spirit Leap Pills that raised it to the late Experienced-level stage.
• Lu Li gave Charmander an Everstone and ordered Beldum to watch it, warning Charmander to evolve only as it broke through.
• Yao Yifei's mother urged her to pursue Lu Li and offered her a Salamence Pokémon Egg, which Yao Yifei decided to keep for now.
• Ekaterina complained about her duties, and Froslass suggested inviting Lu Li to the Polar Ice Empire as an exchange student with a Cambrian Secret Realm slot.
• Ekaterina decided to seek her grandmother's approval for the invitation, while Froslass admitted the plan was for the family's sake.