Chapter Summaries

Lu Li met Yao Yifei’s mother, An Feng, who brought him a crafted Poison Sting and a Salamence Egg that he and Yao Yifei decided to keep for whoever could raise it. After dinner, Lu Li inspected his gifts and explored the God of Masks Secret Realm, where he found that its strongest Pokémon was only early Gym Leader-level, making it suitable for his Ecological Park.

• Lu Li greeted An Feng, who gave him a special Poison Sting crafted by Madame Viper and revealed that she would stay for two days.
• An Feng presented Yao Yifei with a Salamence Egg, but Yao Yifei and Lu Li agreed to save it until one of them had time to raise it.
• Lu Li cooked dinner for An Feng, Yao Yifei, Wei, and Baobao, and An Feng praised his cooking.
• After dinner, Lu Li examined the Poison Sting and considered using cultivation-world poisons to develop his Way of Poison.
• Lu Li entered the God of Masks Secret Realm and discovered it was a broad forest space inside a tree, then borrowed Espeon to assess its strongest Pokémon.
• Espeon reported that the strongest Pokémon was only early Gym Leader-level, so Lu Li decided the Secret Realm could host his Ecological Park.

After learning from Ogerpon that Pokémon from Secret Realms suffered an Era Curse when they returned to the Real World, Lu Li studied new Talismans and received a Fire Z-Crystal from Wen Gongmao. He then battled Long Ying at school, where Charmander defeated Deino and left Lu Li the winner.

• Lu Li learned that long-term residents of Secret Realms carried a curse that limited their strength and luck in the Real World, and he began researching new Talismans, including a World-Breaking Talisman.
• Wen Gongmao thanked Lu Li for helping stop the destruction of the world, registered him for the Freshman Competition, and gave him a Fire Z-Crystal obtained from Kenlin.
• Long Ying challenged Lu Li to a Trainer battle after they collided in the school corridor, and they went to the Arena.
• Long Ying sent out her Experienced-level Late Stage Deino, while Lu Li released Charmander, which had also reached that level.
• Charmander dodged Deino's Evil Dragon Breath, obscured the field with Smokescreen, and defeated Deino with Flare Blitz followed by Fire Spin.

After defeating Long Ying, Lu Li agreed to raise one of her Pokémon in exchange for resources and a chance to visit the real Dragon Island. Long Ying and two other women each believed they had gained an advantage in pursuing Lu Li, while Ekaterina was also sent to investigate whether he was a Divine Trainer.

• Long Ying invited Lu Li to her villa, where she served him body-strengthening tea and asked him to raise Pokémon for her.
• Long Ying offered access to the real Dragon Island and a Z-Ring, and Lu Li agreed to raise one Pokémon for a month with her family covering its cultivation resources.
• Long Ying signed the contract with Lu Li and gave him a Jangmo-o to raise; she later called Lance to claim her promised reward.
• Lance cautioned Long Ying not to let Lu Li slip away as a marriage prospect, and she confidently insisted she was ahead of her rivals.
• Yao Yifei reassured her mother that she was ahead of the other women pursuing Lu Li.
• In the Polar Ice Empire, Ekaterina told her grandmother she was ahead of the latecomers, while Yefna instructed her to find out whether Lu Li was the Divine Trainer who had commanded a Deity.

Lu Li reviewed the political fallout from the Asian League's collapse and planned training for Beldum and Charmander, exploring ways to develop Little Silver's abilities and strengthen Charmander's flames. He then went to check on Milotic's progress with the Gorgeous Path.

• Yao Yifei told Lu Li that the Asian League had fallen apart after several members withdrew, and that five Master-level Trainers had been sent to reshape the New Continent.
• Lu Li discussed Ekaterina's expected visit with Yao Yifei, who wanted to send her mother back to the Gym to avoid a clash.
• Lu Li inspected the Orchard and Flower Garden, then wrote lists of supplies for the Qu Family, Long Ying, and his Pokémon.
• Lu Li set Little Silver's training direction around Psychic Headbutt and energy cultivation, while considering how its metal body could host Formations and Prohibitions.
• Lu Li confirmed that Ho-Oh's Sacred Fire had influenced Charmander's Life Flame and gave it Groudon's scale to study for a month.
• Lu Li went to the backyard pond to check Milotic's progress in the Gorgeous Path.

Lu Li welcomed Ekaterina to the Villa and explained that he had refused her exchange-student invitation because his ability warned him that Kyurem might kill him in the Cambrian Secret Realm. After dinner, Ekaterina asked about Lu Li’s recent trip to the Yamato Region, and his remark about his extraordinary gains left her visibly unsettled.

• Lu Li praised Milotic’s Gorgeous moves, then told her to spend half her training time improving her energy control and strength.
• Lu Li met Ekaterina at Qingyun Airport, and she admitted she was relieved he had avoided the Cambrian Secret Realm after realizing Kyurem might awaken and kill him.
• Ekaterina returned with Lu Li to the Villa, where she met Yao Yifei and An Feng; the household’s tension faded once Lu Li served dinner.
• Ekaterina asked about the Combee Honey, and Yao Yifei revealed that the recent batch had been used in soup.
• Ekaterina asked whether Lu Li had visited the Yamato Region, and his claim that he had gained more than she could imagine left her expression complicated.

Lu Li learned that Ogerpon might be the first true Deity a human could command, then received a warning that the Divine Cult had targeted him and the Starry Pokémon. As the Divine Cult began a plan to collect genes for its God Creation Plan, Lu Li entered the Top Ten competition and faced Li Ning, a girl from an ancient family seeking the Rainbow Hero.

• Lu Li showed Ekaterina Ogerpon’s Wellspring Mask and explained that Ogerpon was a newly born Deity with a Divine Position, prompting Ekaterina to stress how unprecedented it was for a human to command such a being.
• Lu Li skipped the Freshman Competition preliminaries and spent two days studying in the library before receiving an anonymous warning from Lian Sheyi that the Divine Cult had set its sights on him.
• Lu Li told Yao Yifei and Ekaterina about the threat, and Ekaterina suspected the Divine Cult wanted the Starry Pokémon while reassuring him that she would protect him and those close to him.
• Lian Sheyi discovered that the Divine Cult’s God Creation Plan had entered its second phase and saw Lu Li listed among more than a hundred people whose genes the cult wanted collected.
• Lu Li began the Top Ten competition against Li Ning, whose Experienced-level Chimchar surprised him, while Long Ying identified her as a member of the ancient imperial Li Family seeking the Rainbow Hero.

Lu Li defeated Li Ning’s Chimchar and learned that she belonged to the ancient Li Family, possessed Aura, and had investigated whether he was the Rainbow Hero. Peng Kaka warned him that the Divine Cult wanted his DNA, while Long Ying challenged him to a future battle and revealed that her first Pokémon was already Elite-level.

• Lu Li used Charmander and the Rock Field terrain to defeat Li Ning’s Chimchar, and Li Ning told him through Aura that he was not a true hero before leaving.
• Li Ning consulted a Champion-level Ceruledge and concluded that Lu Li was not the Rainbow Hero, though a deity stood behind him, then arranged to withdraw from the competition.
• Long Ying and Peng Kaka explained Li Ning’s ties to the ancient Li Family and the Secret Realm Remnants, including that Emperor Taizong of Li Tang had been the last Rainbow Hero.
• Peng Kaka warned Lu Li that the Divine Cult planned to obtain his DNA for its effort to create a human deity, and Lu Li decided to keep his hair from them.
• Long Ying asked Lu Li to battle her with Tropius in the finals, and Lu Li suggested they use Pokémon they had raised in advance.
• Long Ying revealed that she had begun raising her first Pokémon at twelve and that it had reached the Elite-level.

Lu Li won the Freshman Competition final against Long Ying with a tactical reversal, then learned he would have to wait six months to use his Dragon Island slot. A month later, after Ekaterina left, Lu Li was ambushed while flying home and fought back as the attackers surrounded Tropius.

• Long Ying's Dragonair used the Long Family's triple-layered Weather Secret Technique to overwhelm Tropius, but Lu Li's hidden Leech Seeds drained Dragonair's energy and secured his championship victory.
• Wen Gongmao told Lu Li that Dragon Island opened only every six months, so he would have to wait half a year to use his reward slot.
• Lu Li trained Starry Pokémon and Milotic at the Villa over the following month while Ekaterina cultivated in the Qingyun Mountains.
• After seeing Ekaterina off at the airport, Lu Li was ambushed in the air by two Bisharp Trainers and a Nidoking Trainer.
• Lu Li ordered Tropius to attack the Nidoking, used a Teleportation Talisman to get off its back, and sent out Milotic to use Disarming Voice.

Lu Li defeated three Divine Cult Trainers, welcomed Milotic’s breakthrough to Gym Leader-level, and spent weeks studying hidden Pokémon attributes and Elixirs. Mibrim hatched, briefly blamed Lu Li for its long stay in the egg, then accepted him as its partner and received the name Xiao Mao.

• Lu Li’s Tropius and Milotic defeated three Divine Cult Trainers, and Lu Li killed them after they threatened him.
• Milotic broke through to Gym Leader-level, shared its breakthrough experience with Lu Li, and returned to the pond to consolidate its strength.
• Lu Li discovered that Pokémon could possess hidden attributes and began developing an Energy Conversion Pill, though he still lacked Terastal Shards.
• Mibrim hatched and accused Lu Li of keeping it in the egg, but Beldum explained that Mibrim had been sick.
• Mibrim forgave Lu Li, agreed to become his partner, and received the name Xiao Mao.
• Audino examined Xiao Mao and found it healthy, with exceptionally vigorous Life Force.

Lu Li welcomed Mibrim, recorded her unusual abilities, and began expanding an orchard in the Thousand-Faced God Secret Realm. Charmander’s long-awaited evolution began amid the orchard work, and Ogerpon boosted it with a Fire Law Crystal before telling Lu Li that collecting materials for masks was going slowly.

• Mibrim demonstrated several moves, including G-Max Judgement Bolt, and Lu Li recorded her as a naturally Dynamax-capable Pokémon with exceptional potential.
• Lu Li welcomed Mibrim into the household, then planted ten more Treasured Flower seeds and took his Pokémon to clear land for an orchard.
• Onix turned over the land and Charmander burned the fallen trees, then announced that he could no longer hold back his evolution.
• Lu Li removed Charmander’s Everstone, and Charmander entered the flames as a towering pillar of fire formed around him.
• Ogerpon arrived and threw a Fire Law Crystal into Charmander’s fire, then explained that Mew had gone off to play and left her collecting Law Crystals alone.

Charmander absorbed a Law Crystal and evolved directly into a Gym Leader-level Charizard, which challenged Lu Li’s authority but was defeated by Milotic. After Charizard promised to protect the Home and Tropius’s Orchard, Ogerpon offered to help Lu Li develop the bare land into an Orchard.

• Ogerpon explained that gathering Law Crystals was tedious and said Lu Li could help by making Masks once she collected the materials.
• Charmander emerged from its breakthrough as a shiny Charizard, having skipped Charmeleon and reached Gym Leader-level after comprehending the Fire Law.
• Charizard declared that it would take charge of the Home, but Lu Li challenged it to defeat Milotic before claiming authority.
• Milotic exploited Charizard’s weakness to charm, defeated it with Hyper Beam, and ended its rebellion.
• Lu Li forgave Charizard, which promised to protect the Home and Tropius’s Orchard, while Ogerpon offered to help Lu Li create an Orchard.

After Ogerpon helped Tropius grow and Lu Li returned home, he found his estate destroyed and Baobao abducted. He pursued the attackers into the Qingyun Mountains, joined Yao Yifei in battle, and cornered the enemy with his newly empowered Charizard as it unleashed Inferno Abyss.

• Ogerpon used Special Growth on the Orchard, helping Tropius break through to Gym Leader-level before returning to the World Tree.
• Lu Li returned to find his Villa in ruins and Wei badly injured; Chimchar explained that attackers had abducted Baobao and that Yao Yifei was pursuing them into the Qingyun Mountains.
• Lu Li rode Tropius after the attackers, empowered Tropius and Charizard to Heavenly King-level, and caught up with Yao Yifei.
• Charizard ambushed and destroyed a Sceptile, then Lu Li learned that the group had targeted him and captured Baobao after failing to find him.
• Lu Li ordered Charizard to trap the attackers in Fire Spin, and Charizard unleashed its new move, Inferno Abyss.

Lu Li and Yao Yifei defeated the Divine Cult members who had stayed behind, but learned through divination that Baobao had already been taken to the Golden Triangle Region. At the Divine Cult headquarters, Doctor Fuji discovered Baobao’s exceptional Psychic Ability, while Terapagos sensed that a human Deity was about to be born.

• 101 tried to escape with Sing, but Lu Li’s Tropius and Charizard defeated his Pokémon, and Lu Li killed him after he surrendered.
• Lu Li used divination to locate Baobao and learned that she had left the Kyushu Region, though she was not in immediate danger and might gain strength from her capture.
• Poison Dart Frog delivered Rainbow Hero DNA to Doctor Fuji and traded Baobao to him for the Ultra Beast Naganadel.
• Doctor Fuji scanned Baobao and discovered that her Psychic Ability was close to the late Elite level, then decided to keep her in the Laboratory for the Divine Cult’s Psychic-type Divine Beast project.
• Terapagos told Groudon that a Deity belonging to humanity was about to be born.

After Lu Li learned that Eike had vanished from the world but remained alive, the chapter followed Eike’s three years in a Pokémon anime parallel universe and his return to his original world. Eike gained a mysterious power and set out to reunite with Lu Li and the others.

• Terapagos told Groudon that the being created by humans had instead chosen to be born into human hands, while Groudon questioned whether Lu Li’s power could benefit gods.
• Lu Li reassured Wei that Baobao would be safe and return within half a year, then learned that Eike had disappeared after defending the Villa.
• Lu Li used divination to confirm that Eike was alive but no longer in this world, and he and Wei could only hope Eike would return safely.
• In a Pokémon anime parallel universe, Eike rejected an idealized life without his companions and chose to return to his crueler home world so he could build his ideals with them.
• Eike returned to a mysterious chamber, where a Black Stone marked his hand and gave him the power to rewind time by one minute and retry events.
• Eike resolved to leave the chamber and reunite with Lu Li, promising his Pokémon that they would soon meet his family.

After Wei sought a way to help Kubfu evolve, Lu Li devised a plan to create a martial-arts scroll by combining a grandmaster’s fighting spirit with Water Law. His first attempt produced an unexpected fighting style, leaving him needing Ogerpon’s help, while the Meltan in his basement continued developing into Divine Beasts.

• Lu Li arranged to rebuild his destroyed Villa as a manor with eight Ecological Training Grounds and an Ecological Park, then moved into the new home a week later.
• Troubled by Baobao’s abduction and Kubfu’s weakness, Wei asked Lu Li how Kubfu could evolve, and he told her that it needed to master martial arts to at least the Grandmaster level.
• Lu Li recalled his old fist-technique training and planned to create a Water Scroll by painting the True Meaning of martial arts and adding Water Law with Ogerpon’s help.
• Lu Li made a Divinity Mask and, while portraying Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, painted a martial-art technique that unexpectedly resembled Water Stream Rock Smashing Fist.
• Lu Li decided he would need Ogerpon to infuse the painting with Law, but waited rather than call her back and instead examined the Meltan, whose Nuts had begun to glow and develop faint life origins.

Jin Fengjiao and Liu Li learned that Aggron had been executed and Qingyun City was under wartime alert, putting the Yu Family’s Gym at risk, while Lu Li invited Liu Li to inspect his new ecological park. Liu Li found the park well built and learned Lu Li had obtained Starter Pokémon through the Qu Family, leaving her puzzled by how openly he relied on their support.

• Jin Fengjiao told Liu Li that Aggron had been executed and warned that the Yu Family might lose Qingyun City Gym to a new Gym Leader.
• Liu Li accepted Lu Li’s invitation to inspect his Small Ecological Park, while Jin Fengjiao told her to take three of Zhonggang’s Pokémon for protection.
• Yao Yifei informed Lu Li that Kyushu had entered a level-one state of alert and that the Yu Family’s Gym could be replaced during wartime.
• Liu Li arrived at Lu Li’s manor, heard that the Divine Cult had attacked him, and learned he was not worried because the problem had been resolved.
• Liu Li inspected Lu Li’s ecological park and explained that it needed Fire-, Water-, and Grass-type Pokémon to keep its attribute energy balanced.
• Lu Li said the Qu Family had provided his Starter Pokémon, and Liu Li privately wondered whether Gym Leader Yao knew he was relying so heavily on the Qu Family.

Liu Li confirmed that Lu Li was a Divine Emissary, while Lu Li revealed his Gym Leader-level Pokémon to Principal Wen Gongmao and sought to become a Pioneer Gym Leader. Wen Gongmao agreed to help him establish a new city on the outskirts of the Qingyun Mountains, though the League could offer little support amid the growing turmoil.

• Liu Li saw how much Lu Li’s Pokémon had grown and, after learning he was a Divine Emissary, left reassured that the Divine Cult would not target him again.
• Yao Yifei told Lu Li that the Lei Family had executed Aggron, and Lu Li later borrowed Espeon before going to Kyushu University.
• Lu Li showed Wen Gongmao his three Gym Leader-level Pokémon and asked about the requirements to become a Gym Leader.
• Lu Li told Wen Gongmao he wanted to become a Pioneer Gym Leader and establish a city in the Deep Qingyun Mountains.
• Wen Gongmao advised Lu Li to build on the outskirts instead and agreed to help him secure the position, despite the League’s limited ability to support him.

After breaking through to the third layer of Qi Refining, Lu Li chose Ogerpon as his first Natal Spirit Beast and learned that Qingyun City's new Gym Leader was threatening Liu Li and Yu Lili. He summoned Ogerpon to begin connecting the Water Scroll to the Water Law and World Rules, intending to resolve several problems within three days.

• Lu Li spent a week cultivating in seclusion and broke through to the third layer of Qi Refining.
• Lu Li decided to contract Ogerpon rather than risk choosing the mysterious Terapagos, and Yao Yifei embraced him after his week-long seclusion.
• Jin Fengjiao told Lu Li that Gym Leader Du had occupied the Gym, sought to take Liu Li's Ecological Park, and wanted his son to marry Yu Lili.
• Lu Li learned that Gym Leader Du was from the Du Family and was Ducat's father, then decided to visit him and summon allies to deal with several matters.
• Lu Li summoned Ogerpon with the Wellspring Mask and asked her to connect the Water Scroll to the Water Law and World Rules and infuse the Law into it.

Lu Li and Ogerpon turned the Water Scroll into a Rule Divine Object, which could awaken a specific Pokémon’s power, and Lu Li identified Kubfu as its intended user. When Gym Leader Du Lei arrived seeking a Legendary Pokémon, he discovered Ogerpon and immediately knelt after his Slowking sensed her immense power; more Trainers approached as Lu Li’s plan to make an example of Du Lei fell through.

• Inside the Mind World, Terapagos told Groudon that a Deity was being born from human martial arts and that a Rule Divine Object was forming outside.
• Ogerpon infused the Water Scroll with Law Source Power, completing it as a Rule Divine Object, and explained that it would only work on a particular Pokémon.
• Lu Li identified Kubfu as the Pokémon suited to the Water Scroll and considered seeking it in the South American Region.
• Du Lei followed Toxapex’s warning about the Water Energy eruption and arrived at Lu Li’s estate, where Lu Li revealed Ogerpon.
• Slowking sensed Ogerpon’s overwhelming power and knelt, prompting Du Lei to apologize and recognize Lu Li as a Rainbow Hero.
• Lu Li gave up on using Du Lei to make an example of others as more Trainers approached.

Lu Li drove Du Lei away with a warning to leave Liu Li and Yu Lili alone, then agreed to help Natu rescue Freya from a secret realm. He and Ogerpon entered the frozen realm to confront Iron Leaves, finding it transformed into a desolate world of ice and snow.

• Lu Li used Ogerpon's Divine Aura to drive off approaching Trainers and warned Du Lei not to target Liu Li or Yu Lili again.
• Natu asked Lu Li to rescue Freya, a descendant of its former Trainer, from a secret realm, and Lu Li agreed.
• Lu Li sent Yao Yifei and the Wildfire Gang children into the God of Masks Secret Realm and gave Wei the Water Scroll for Kubfu.
• Lu Li contacted Wen Gongmao about a possible Divine War, then traveled with Ogerpon to the secret realm entrance in the Qingyun Mountains.
• Ogerpon blasted through Iron Leaves's extreme ice with Solar Beam, allowing Lu Li and Ogerpon to enter the secret realm.
• Lu Li and Ogerpon found the realm covered in ice and snow, with its sun gone and signs that countless lives had perished.