Chapter Summaries

Lu Li and the Old Mountain Gym Leader fought a devastating battle in Old Mountain City, where Lu Li’s Pokémon crushed the Gym Leader’s Electric-type team despite its terrain and weather advantages. Afterward, Lu Li waited for Metang to report on the underground Experimental Base and confronted the Gym Leader about its connection to the Dark Web and Kubfu.

• The Old Mountain Gym Leader used Intimidate, Electric Terrain, and Tailwind to prepare his Electric-type team, but Lu Li countered with Steelix’s Earthquake and Milotic’s Surf.
• Lu Li’s Pokémon withstood the Gym Leader’s attacks, while Mega Charizard X battled Storm Petrel and Magnezone and knocked Luxray out of the fight.
• Both teams unleashed their strongest attacks, and the resulting explosion flattened Old Mountain City and left the Old Mountain Gym Leader’s First Echelon nearly wiped out.
• The Old Mountain Gym Leader accused Lu Li of provoking the American League, but Lu Li waited for Metang’s report from the undamaged underground Experimental Base.
• Lu Li asked whether the League knew about the base, and the Old Mountain Gym Leader realized Lu Li had come for Kubfu.

Lu Li escaped the Old Mountain Gym with Kubfu, then encountered Bản Běn, leader of the Dark Web, who offered him every Kubfu in the organization and proposed an alliance. Lu Li accepted, and Bản Běn prepared to help cover up the destruction Lu Li planned to bring to the Dark Web’s headquarters.

• Lu Li used Metang’s stealth to retrieve Kubfu and escaped after warning Edier not to endanger his companions.
• Digol revealed he had watched the confrontation and refused to protect Edier at the expense of the Digol Family, then told him to report the incident to the League.
• While traveling through the South American Alliance, Lu Li was intercepted by a Sect Leader-level Beedrill and met Bản Běn, the Dark Web’s leader.
• Bản Běn gave Lu Li three Kubfu and offered the Dark Web’s sales platform and channels in exchange for friendship rather than enmity.
• Lu Li accepted Bản Běn’s offer and left to attack the Dark Web’s headquarters, asking Bản Běn to clean up afterward.
• Bản Běn reflected that Lu Li’s Master-level strength made assassination impractical and decided to help stage a battle between Master-level Trainers.

Lu Li destroyed the Dark Web headquarters, then returned home with four Kubfu and prepared for his Rare Candy auction. Qu Suxin asked him to explain how to reach the God-level realm, but Lu Li admitted he might be an atypical Master-level Trainer.

• Lu Li destroyed the Dark Web headquarters, and Bản Běn fled after fighting him.
• The Shadow Council abandoned plans to sanction Lu Li and agreed to send a representative to his Rare Candy auction in Twinleaf Town.
• Lu Li invited Bản Běn to the auction and returned home with four Kubfu, where he reunited with Qu Suxin.
• Qu Suxin questioned Lu Li about Rare Candy and the Dragon Soul Sword, and Lu Li explained that the sword was like part of his body.
• Qu Suxin asked Lu Li to teach her about reaching the God-level realm, and he wondered whether he was an atypical Master-level Trainer.

Lu Li agreed to a marriage alliance with Ekaterina and gave her ten Rare Candies before the Rare Candy Auction House opened. The auction ended with the Sun Moon Tribe winning the final group by offering a Cosmog Pokémon Egg.

• Qu Suxin thanked Lu Li for helping the Qu Family’s orphans and stayed overnight at Lu Family Manor before leaving when Ekaterina arrived.
• Ekaterina proposed marriage to Lu Li as part of an alliance between their families, and Lu Li accepted; he also gave her ten Rare Candies and their ingredient list.
• Yao Yifei auctioned special potions and Pokémon Secret Treasures before selling three groups of Rare Candies through item-for-item bids.
• The American League and European League jointly won the second group with twelve Pokémon Secret Treasures.
• The Sun Moon Tribe won the final group by offering a Cosmog Pokémon Egg, shocking the Secret Realm Remnants who recognized its potential to evolve into Solgaleo or Lunala.

Lu Li struck a deal with Yuehua of the Sun Moon Tribe to supply Rare Candies, took responsibility for raising Cosmog, and spent months training his Dragon Team before refining all eighteen Creation Plates. He broke through to Core Formation, but found that the result did not look like a Golden Core.

• Yuehua revealed that the Sun Moon Tribe wanted a long-term supply of Rare Candies for Cosmog, and Lu Li agreed to provide thirty each year in exchange for raw materials.
• After the auction, Lu Li chose to raise the Cosmog himself and considered how he might help it evolve despite the apparent limit of one Solgaleo and one Lunala per world.
• Lu Li hatched and trained the Dragon Team, spending months managing the mischievous Pokémon until they settled into serious training.
• Lu Li refined the remaining Creation Plates, reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, and fused all eighteen Type Plates despite sensing that something was missing.
• Lu Li broke through to Core Formation, then stared in shock at the strange object formed in his Dantian instead of a Golden Core.

Lu Li discovered that his Golden Core had become a Legendary Plate, granting him world-creation and type-changing abilities, while Arceus and the other Deities debated what his existence meant. As Lu Li prepared to refine his cultivation method before entering the Generation 9 Secret Realm, the world’s growth awakened Deities and stirred threats across several dimensions.

• Lu Li sensed that his Golden Core was a Legendary Plate and derived the Great Sumeru Creation Art and Myriad Energy Conversion Art from it.
• Arceus recognized Lu Li as a human inheritor from beyond the world and speculated that he was an illegitimate son returning to claim the family fortune.
• Groudon and Terapagos concluded that Lu Li was Arceus’s true inheritor, and Groudon became eager to use Lu Li’s type-changing power.
• Lu Li found that the Great Sumeru Creation Art demanded more Spiritual Power than he could provide and decided to optimize the Qi Refining Art before exploring the Generation 9 Secret Realm.
• Mew, Ogerpon, and Ho-Oh noticed that the world had grown stronger, while the sealed Devouring Dragon sensed a crack forming in its seal.
• A dark Deity entered Ultimate Space, called out to Solgaleo and Lunala, and caused devices for opening Ultra Wormholes to fail, stranding people inside and outside the Ultimate World.

Lu Li created the Creation Incantation and specialized cultivation techniques for Pokémon, opening a path that could eventually bridge the gap between mortals and gods. After emerging from seclusion, he discussed the Generation 9 Secret Realm and Rare Candy trade with Yao Yifei, then left to teach his Pokémon the new techniques while deciding against spreading cultivation throughout the world.

• Lu Li completed the Golden Core-stage Creation Incantation and wrote type-specific techniques for Pokémon, while realizing his cultivation system could let them approach the strength of gods.
• Groudon and Terapagos discussed the techniques’ potential to strengthen the world and lamented that the methods were currently too weak for deities like them.
• Lu Li emerged from seclusion, reunited with Freya, and heard Yao Yifei report that nothing major had happened while he was away.
• Lu Li agreed to visit the Generation 9 Secret Realm with Miraidon and approved trading Rare Candy to the League and nearby families for Pokémon Secret Treasures or ingredients.
• Lu Li left to share the cultivation techniques with Tropius and his other Pokémon, but decided not to spread the system throughout the world.

Lu Li gave cultivation techniques to Charizard, Metang, and the other Pokémon, then discussed Rare Candy quotas and family influence with Yao Yifei and Freya. The conversation ended with news that someone in the League wanted to move against Eike, based on intelligence from Lian Sheyi.

• Lu Li taught Charizard the Fire-Flying Incantation, then punished it for pretending it could not cultivate by assigning it two days of Elixir refining.
• Charizard and Metang exposed each other’s secret use of leftover Elixir materials, and Lu Li gave Metang the Psychic Steel Art before distributing techniques to the other Pokémon.
• Yao Yifei explained that the Ji Family wanted her help securing Rare Candy, and Lu Li suggested loosening restrictions in six months while encouraging Freya to build influence.
• Freya declined to develop her own power base, and Lu Li asked Yao Yifei to prioritize Yu Lili for Rare Candy.
• Yao Yifei reported that Baobao was causing trouble while Wei’s challenge was progressing, then told Lu Li that Lian Sheyi had warned her of a League plan against Eike.

Lu Li took Xiao Lu and his companions into the Generation 9 Secret Realm, where Xiao Lu reunited with its mother, an Elite Four-level Tropius. The reunion began at Tropius Mother’s poorly tended fruit grove, whose weaker Pokémon lived under her protection.

• Lu Li told Yao Yifei that the Dragon of Ideals was following Eike and prepared to explore the Generation 9 Secret Realm with Miraidon and his companions.
• Lu Li entered the Secret Realm with Xiao Lu and used divination to choose a route south.
• An Elite Four-level Tropius approached, and Xiao Lu recognized it as familiar before discovering it was its mother.
• Tropius Mother welcomed Xiao Lu and led it to her fruit grove, where she offered it Mystery Berries and explained that searching for her child had kept her from caring for the grove.
• Lu Li explored the grove and found that Tropius Mother sheltered several weak Pokémon.

Lu Li learned that Koraidon ruled the dangerous Giant Crater and led Tropius there to investigate, where they encountered hostile Paradox Pokémon. After Steelix found no nearby Terastal minerals, Hoopa revealed that the strange energy beneath the crater’s lava came from Terapagos’s crystallized shell.

• Tropius Mother warned Lu Li that powerful Pokémon lived in the Giant Crater, ruled by Koraidon, and explained the Secret Realm’s four regions.
• Lu Li and Xiao Lu left Tropius Mother and crossed the towering mountains into the Giant Crater, where a Scream Tail nearly attacked them.
• Lu Li searched the crater with his Divine Sense, found many Paradox Pokémon, and set up camp in the relatively safer territory of a Champion-level Pokémon.
• Steelix explored underground overnight and reported abundant minerals but no special veins, though it sensed strange energy beneath the molten lava.
• Lu Li asked Hoopa about the energy, and Evil Hoopa identified it as Terapagos’s crystallized shell.

Lu Li followed Evil Hoopa’s directions to a Terastal Gem ore vein in a poisonous swamp, where he battled and defeated the territory’s Sect Leader-level Brute Bonnet. Brute Bonnet surrendered a Water-type Terastal Shard, and Lu Li left it with its territory.

• Evil Hoopa showed Lu Li four exposed Terastal Gem ore locations, and Lu Li chose the easternmost one because it had the weakest guardian.
• Lu Li flew to the poisonous swamp, found Terastal Gem ore beneath the mud, and pulled a large chunk from the vein.
• Brute Bonnet emerged and attacked Lu Li, overpowering the Master-level Dragon Soul Sword until Lu Li used Celestial Transformation.
• Lu Li and the Dragon Soul Sword combined their strength to unleash Ultimate Sacred Sword, devastating Brute Bonnet and leaving it unable to continue fighting.
• Lu Li told Brute Bonnet he only wanted the ore, and Brute Bonnet gave him a Water-type Terastal Shard rather than surrendering its territory.

Lu Li and Miraidon fought Koraidon, and Lu Li used Celestial Transformation to let Miraidon overpower its archenemy. Koraidon left after the beating, then returned after realizing Miraidon had tricked him, and sensed something unusual about Lu Li.

• Brute Bonnet gave Lu Li a Terastal Shard, and Evil Hoopa explained that the area was one of four Terastal energy eruption points.
• Miraidon warned Lu Li that Koraidon was approaching, so Lu Li had Charizard and Tropius leave to fetch Meloetta and Eike while Miraidon prepared a battlefield.
• Koraidon attacked Miraidon, but their initial exchange caused little damage until Lu Li used Celestial Transformation to empower Miraidon.
• Miraidon beat Koraidon senseless, then stopped when Lu Li ran low on Spiritual Power and let Koraidon leave with a claim that they could fight again another time.
• Koraidon realized Miraidon had tricked him into leaving before he could use Authority, returned, and fixed his attention on Lu Li after sensing something strange about him.

Koraidon joined Lu Li’s Divine Marks after crashing into him, leaving Miraidon furious but bound by a rule against fighting in the Real World. Meanwhile, Eike’s attackers confronted Zekrom and surrendered after the Dragon of Ideals stopped their escape.

• Koraidon realized he was outmatched, then rammed into Lu Li and left a Divine Mark on him, granting him the Power of the Past.
• Miraidon raged when Koraidon appeared in Lu Li’s Divine Marks, but Terapagos established a rule that the Deities could argue without fighting in the Real World.
• Lu Li learned that the Power of the Past let him trace an object’s or living being’s history, though he could not use it on himself.
• Charizard and Tropius could not find Meloetta after leaving the Secret Realm, so Charizard decided to seek out Eike.
• Two masked Master-level Trainers attacked Eike, but Zekrom intervened and struck down their Pokémon.
• The black-masked Trainer tried to sacrifice Graveler with Explosion while the white-masked Trainer fled, but Zekrom stopped both; the white-masked Trainer surrendered and pleaded for his partners to be spared.

After Lu Li returned from the Generation 9 Secret Realm, he revealed its hidden Future Secret Realm and developed a way to make Tera Orbs. Meanwhile, Ultimate Space was cut off from the Real World, and Lome went to her aunt Luminai for help rescuing Baowen.

• Eike questioned the masked men about who had sent them, but they tried to flee, so Zekrom struck them and their Pokémon down.
• Lu Li told Yao Yifei about the Tier 1 Deity and the new Pokémon in the Generation 9 Secret Realm, then explained that it contained both Past and Future Secret Realms.
• Lu Li went into seclusion and used Terastal Gem ore to develop Tera Orbs, producing two thousand untyped Terastal Shards.
• The Progress Society learned that Ultimate Space had been severed from the Real World, and the doctor warned that the cause might threaten the world.
• Lome traveled to the Xia Weiyi Alliance and told Luminai she wanted to open an Ultra Space Wormhole to find Baowen, who was trapped in Ultimate Space.

Lome and Luminai accidentally freed Necrozma while opening an Ultra Wormhole, and Necrozma plunged the world into darkness. Lu Li sheltered his people in a Secret Realm but stayed behind, where he witnessed the Sun and Moon Duo descend to confront Necrozma.

• Luminai gave Lome two one-use wormhole bracelets and opened a portal to Ultimate Space so Lome could search for her brother.
• Necrozma emerged through the portal, and Luminai teleported herself and Lome away before warning the Aether Foundation and the Xia Weiyi Alliance.
• Necrozma drained the world's light, prompting Lu Li to move supplies and people into the Thousand-Faced God Secret Realm while he remained in the Real World.
• Terapagos and Groudon discussed Necrozma's escape, while the Sun and Moon Duo chose to return to the Law Source as their rules weakened.
• The world's light returned when Solgaleo descended near Oceania, and Groudon protected the planet as Lu Li considered watching the coming battle.

Lu Li and Miraidon watched Necrozma battle Solgaleo and Lunala, while Groudon and Zygarde worked to repair the damage. As the Sun and Moon Duo began to lose, Lu Li left for the Sun and Moon Secret Realm, intent on taking advantage of their possible defeat.

• Lu Li and Miraidon arrived at the Xia Weiyi Alliance, where Lunala interrupted Necrozma as It tried to seize Solgaleo's Authority of Light.
• Necrozma fought Solgaleo and Lunala, while Groudon and Zygarde repaired the destruction caused by their attacks.
• Miraidon offered to help the Sun and Moon Duo, but Lu Li hesitated because Celestial Transformation could not last long.
• Terapagos learned from Zygarde that Necrozma's victory would allow new Sun and Moon deities to emerge, then realized Lu Li meant to claim their power.
• Lu Li asked Hoopa to reveal the Sun and Moon Secret Realm's entrance and traveled there with Miraidon.
• Zygarde objected that Lu Li's growing influence threatened the balance of power, but Terapagos defended him as the world's heir.

Lu Li and Miraidon stole the Sun and Moon Tribe’s Divine Items and a Cosmog Egg before Necrozma absorbed Lunala and Solgaleo, reaching its Ultra form. Necrozma left the world after giving Lu Li a Divine Mark and placing the Authorities of Sun and Moon in Cosmog, while Terapagos and Groudon discussed Necrozma’s immense power.

• Lu Li hired Miraidon to steal Solgaleo and Lunala’s Divine Items and a promising Pokémon Egg from the Sun and Moon Secret Realm.
• Terapagos nudged Fate while Necrozma absorbed Lunala’s light to become Dawn Wings, then consumed Solgaleo and transformed into Ultra form.
• Necrozma entered the Mind World, questioned the Deities about Lu Li, and left a Divine Mark between his brows after Terapagos called him its Divine Emissary.
• Necrozma gave Cosmog the Authorities of Sun and Moon, then departed through a tear in space; Lu Li collected more Divine Items from the ruins.
• After Necrozma left, Zygarde struck Terapagos and withdrew from the Mind World, while Terapagos told Groudon that Necrozma might have reached the multiversal level.

After Necrozma’s theft of the Sun and Moon left Blue Star without sunlight, Lu Li raced to raise two Cosmog while the world’s leaders gathered to discuss survival and compensation. The conference’s dispute over the Xia Weiyi Alliance was halted by Tapu Koko, and Tonatiuh was introduced to present the Solar Tax agenda.

• Terapagos explained to Groudon how Necrozma strengthened its Light and Dark Rules by harvesting sun and moon rules across worlds, and reassured it that humans might find a temporary replacement for the sun.
• Lu Li placed a Cosmog egg in the Incubator, fed Rare Candy to two Cosmogs, and entered a Secret Realm to gather more candy so they could grow before the other Cosmogs.
• Three days after the sun vanished, Blue Star’s average surface temperature neared zero, and the major Leagues and Top Families assembled for a Global League Conference on the New Continent.
• Yao Yifei attended for the Lu Family with Long Yuzuo and learned that the conference’s final agenda involved a Solar Tax.
• League representatives demanded that Luminai and the Aether Foundation compensate the world by surrendering an island and its Secret Realm, but Luminai summoned Tapu Koko and forced them to drop the demand.
• Tonatiuh, a World Walker from the Aztec Secret Realm Remnants, introduced himself as the conference moved to its final agenda.

Tonatiuh secured unanimous approval for the Aztec Remnants to collect a Solar Tax as Volcarona brought sunlight back to the frozen world. While Rayquaza refrained from attacking it, Lu Li explained his own plans to Yao Yifei, and the Sun Moon Clan discovered their Cosmog Egg and Divine Items had been stolen as they prepared to enter the world and hunt for the thief.

• Tonatiuh announced that the Aztec Remnants would summon their peak Sect Leader-level Volcarona in exchange for a Solar Tax, and the Leagues unanimously approved the plan.
• Volcarona appeared in the sky and spread warmth and light across the dark, frozen world.
• Rayquaza prepared to attack Volcarona, but Zygarde pulled it into the Mind World and persuaded it to let Volcarona continue.
• Lu Li returned from seclusion, told Yao Yifei that Volcarona could not become the true Sun God, and proposed accepting large-scale Rare Candy orders in exchange for raw materials.
• The Sun Moon Clan discovered that their Deities had returned to the World Origin and that a thief had stolen a Cosmog Egg and two Divine Items.
• The Moon High Priest ordered the Sun Moon Clan to enter the world and search for the thief at any cost.

After the sun returned, Lu Li learned how divine candidates could contest a Deity’s Authority and continued building his Pokémon teams. The chapter ended with Wei and Baobao traveling to the dangerous American League, while Freya questioned whether Lu Li should have let them go.

• Lu Li raised his two Cosmog to Champion-level, gave them Necrozma’s Divine Items, and learned from Miraidon that inheriting a divine throne required eligibility, Champion-level strength, and an imperial seal or a choice by the World Origin.
• Lu Li considered finding a Divine Beast to manage his gardens, then moved the Flower Garden and Medicine Garden into the Thousand-Faced God's Secret Realm while leaving Treasured Flowers in the Real World in hopes of attracting Shaymin.
• Lu Li noted that his Second Echelon had reached the peak of Elite-level and that his Divine Beast team was nearly assembled.
• Wei and Baobao gained fame in the Kyushu League as the Flowing Empress and Psychic Goddess, then left for the American League.
• Freya warned Lu Li that the American League was more chaotic than the Kyushu League and worried it would target Baobao for her divine Psychic power.