Chapter Summaries

Lu Li visited the Polar Ice Empire, where Ekaterina welcomed him and learned about Eternatus’s imminent awakening. After the Empire began preparing for the crisis, a banquet ended with Ekaterina getting Lu Li alone and demanding a kiss.

• Yao Yifei cautioned Lu Li before he left for the Polar Ice Empire, where Ekaterina greeted him with the Empire’s elite.
• Ekaterina introduced Lu Li to her family and officials, then learned from him that Eternatus would soon awaken and drain the world’s energy.
• Ekaterina convened an imperial meeting, and the Empire’s leaders agreed to prepare to move people into Secret Realms while avoiding Super Large Secret Realms.
• Natasha showed Lu Li around the palace, and the royal family later held a banquet where Lu Li drank heavily and Ekaterina clung to him.
• Lu Li carried Ekaterina from the banquet, and she revealed she had been pretending to be drunk before pulling him close and asking him to kiss her.

Lu Li entered the unconnected Hero's Secret Realm with Merlin to search for a Deity, after King Arthur chose not to risk Great Britain's stability for the chance of divine favor. As they explored, Lu Li asked Merlin about Great Britain’s history and its restoration.

• Lu Li left the Polar Ice Empire, unaware that Ekaterina had used her family's secret medicine in hopes of having his child.
• King Arthur learned that Lu Li had entered Great Britain seeking a Secret Realm and, despite Merlin's warning about disaster born of greed, decided not to pursue the Deity's favor.
• Merlin met Lu Li at the Secret Realm Entrance, and Lu Li agreed to let him join the search in exchange for a favor from Great Britain.
• Dragon Soul Sword carried Lu Li and Merlin through the world barrier into Hero's Secret Realm, which had not yet connected to the Real World.
• Lu Li asked Merlin about Great Britain's restoration and its God-forsaken status as they began exploring the Secret Realm.

Lu Li learned that Zacian had once tasked the first King Arthur with forging the Sword of Courage, but the king died before completing it, and the Deity never returned to Britain. With Eternatus threatening the world and both Zacian and Zacian still asleep, Lu Li faced the urgent task of waking them and finding a way to forge the sword in time.

• Merlin told Lu Li that the first King Arthur received Zacian’s guidance to forge the Sword of Courage through a hundred consecutive victories, but died before his hundredth battle and left Britain without divine favor.
• Lu Li revealed that Zacian was the Deity who had favored the first King Arthur, then warned Merlin that Zacian might not favor him unless the Sword of Courage was forged.
• Groudon, Terapagos, and Regidrago realized Zacian had never completed the sword and might have slept through many eras, while Lu Li worried that Eternatus could awaken within half a year.
• Lu Li asked Evil Hoopa whether Zacian was still asleep, and Evil Hoopa confirmed that Zacian and Zacian were both sleeping.
• Evil Hoopa showed Lu Li a plaza in a Secret Realm with statues of Zacian and Zacian, and warned him that the two might be angry when awakened.

Lu Li and Merlin awakened Zacian and Zacian, then brought them into the Mind World, where Terapagos warned them that Eternatus would awaken within half a year and the Hundred Battles Brave Sword had not been forged. Terapagos revealed that Lu Li’s Aegislash might help, leaving the siblings stunned by the possibility that their legendary sword had become a Pokémon.

• Lu Li used Eternatus’s scale to awaken Zacian and Zacian, then greeted them before they were drawn into the Mind World.
• Terapagos told Zacian and Zacian that Eternatus would awaken within half a year, far earlier than expected, and Groudon confirmed the danger.
• Zacian and Zacian explained that the Hundred Battles Brave Sword remained unmade because the first King Arthur had died before completing his task.
• Terapagos rejected borrowing a sword from another world or changing the past as solutions, then directed the siblings to examine Lu Li’s Aegislash.
• Zacian and Zacian sensed the Aegislash and wondered whether the Hundred Battles Brave Sword had become a Pokémon, but Terapagos clarified that it was his Envoy of Fate’s Pokémon.

Zacian and his sister weighed Terapagos’s proposal to share their Authority with the Dragon Soul Sword so it could become a Hundred Battles Brave Sword and help them face Eternatus. After discovering Lu Li carried a Legendary Plate, Zacian agreed and asked Terapagos to help the siblings improve too.

• Terapagos proposed that Zacian and his sister share their Authority with the Dragon Soul Sword, but Zacian feared they would suffer Calyrex’s fate.
• Terapagos denied plotting the events around King Arthur and Wu La, while Groudon and Zacian questioned his role in their misfortunes.
• Zacian said the siblings had little choice but to accept the proposal because they could not stop Eternatus without a sword or shield.
• Zacian confronted Terapagos about Lu Li benefiting from repeated crises, and Terapagos explained that many gods shared Lu Li as their Divine Emissary.
• Zacian examined Lu Li through the World Origin, learned he carried a Legendary Plate, and agreed to Terapagos’s proposal.
• Zacian asked Terapagos to take the siblings with him so they could improve too.

Zacian and Zamazenta agreed to share their Authority with Lu Li’s Dragon Soul Sword so it could become a Deity and help fight Eternatus. The attempt left the sword and shield on the verge of shattering, while Lu Li’s Legendary Plate suppressed the Authority in his Dantian and caused the two Deities to lose a third of their power.

• Zacian advised Zacian and Zamazenta to ask Lu Li before sharing their Authority, and Zacian then approached him in the Real World.
• Zacian forgave Merlin for humanity’s failure to forge the Hundred Battles Brave’s Sword, and Zamazenta removed Merlin so the Deities could speak privately with Lu Li.
• Lu Li insisted that the Dragon Soul Sword must remain with him, and Zacian agreed to share Authority if he could make the sword and shield strong enough to bear it.
• Lu Li split the Dragon Soul Sword into the Dragon Soul Sword and Dragon Soul Shield, and Zacian and Zamazenta began granting them Rule Power and Authority.
• The Dragon Soul Sword and Shield began to shatter, so Lu Li drew on his sword-nurturing technique and used the Legendary Plate to suppress the Authority in his Dantian.
• Zacian and Zamazenta told Lu Li that they had suddenly lost a third of their Authority and Rule Power.

Lu Li remained in Zacian’s Secret Realm to help the Dragon Soul Sword recover while the Void Organization raced to free Eternatus. As Lian Sheyi sought a way to escape, Ekaterina and Yao Yifei prepared their people for the impending crisis.

• Lu Li persuaded Zacian and Zacian to let him stay in the Secret Realm for about seven hundred days while the Dragon Soul Sword recovered, and they agreed to keep him there until the Authority returned.
• At the Void Organization’s excavation site on Kora Island, Lian Sheyi learned from Nothingness that the passage would reach the planet’s core within five days and planned to flee.
• Lian Sheyi used a visit to his grandfather as an excuse to leave, and Nothingness arranged for a Psychic-type executive to send him back to the Kyushu League.
• Ekaterina learned that Eternatus might emerge in the Polar Ice Empire, agreed to relocate to a Secret Realm, and told her secretary to warn Yao Yifei.
• Yao Yifei prepared to move her household into the Secret Realm, sent away the Holy Daughter of the Moon, and reminded Baobao to bring game discs instead of a television.

Lian Sheyi returned to Lu Family Manor and warned Yao Yifei that the Void Organization planned to release Eternatus early from an island in the Polar Ice Empire. Yao Yifei sent Wei and Deoxys to stop them, and after meeting Ekaterina, they prepared to search for the organization.

• Lian Sheyi left the taxi and was teleported to Lu Family Manor, where he told Yao Yifei that the Void Organization was digging toward the earth's core to release Eternatus in about three days.
• Yao Yifei brought Deoxys from the Secret Realm and arranged for Wei to lead it and Urshifu to destroy the Void Organization.
• Wei and her Pokémon teleported to the Polar Ice Empire, where Jynx recognized her as an ally and brought her to meet Ekaterina.
• Wei explained the Void Organization's plan to Ekaterina, who agreed to accompany her and bring her Guardian Spirit.
• Ekaterina asked Deoxys whether it had found the Void Organization, and Deoxys looked thoughtfully at her lower abdomen.

Ekaterina and Wei arrived at Kora Island, where Nothingness triggered Weezing’s Explosion and broke Eternatus’s seal. As Eternatus battled Zygarde and Blue Star fell into chaos, the other Deities prepared to preserve the world, while Lu Li continued cultivating for the fight ahead.

• Deoxys and Urshifu defeated Nothingness’s Pokémon, but Nothingness ordered Weezing to use Explosion deep in the Earth’s core to break Eternatus’s seal.
• Deoxys killed Nothingness, and Ekaterina discovered a Divine Item embedded in his head that had likely driven him mad.
• Weezing’s Explosion caused devastation across Blue Star and freed Eternatus, while Zygarde descended into the core and tried to restrain it.
• Urshifu took Wei and Ekaterina to the Thousand-Faced God Secret Realm and warned that Zygarde might not hold Eternatus for long.
• Zacian and Lu Li waited in the Hundred Battles Brave Secret Realm while Groudon stayed behind with Terapagos to help reshape the world later.
• Zacian explained to Lu Li that Eternatus had assimilated with Blue Star and regained its Rules and Authority, making it impossible to seal again.

As Eternatus consumed Blue Star and Zygarde was swallowed after sacrificing its rational core, Lu Li and the two Zacian raced to finish the Hundred Battles Brave Sword. With the world’s leaders scrambling to secure Lu Li’s help and Yao Yifei collecting supplies from the desperate Secret Realm Remnants, the Dragon Soul Sword completed its transformation on the final day.

• Eternatus broke free from Zygarde, swallowed the weakened God of Order, and began growing as it drained Blue Star’s energy.
• The League President and other leaders fled into Secret Realms or sought Lu Li’s help, learning that he was away and had not named a price.
• Zygarde’s emotional core landed in the Hundred Battles Brave Secret Realm, where it discovered the Zacian had only begun making the Hundred Battles Brave Sword six days earlier.
• Terapagos told Zygarde that Lu Li was the world’s hope, while Lu Li raced to complete the weapon before Eternatus devoured the world.
• Yao Yifei told the League representative that Lu Li expected the goods first, prompting desperate Secret Realm Remnants to gather supplies despite their complaints.
• On the final day, the Dragon Soul Sword completed its transformation and finally became Him.

Lu Li forged the Fairy King’s Sword and shield, enabling Zacian and Zacian to become King of Sword and King of Shield. Meanwhile, Ho-Oh lost its battle against Eternatus but held its energy back to buy time for the Sword of Destiny, as Lu Li prepared to join the fight.

• The Dragon Soul Sword and Shield transformed into the Fairy King’s Sword and shield, and Zacian and Zacian fused with them to become King of Sword and King of Shield.
• Ho-Oh arrived to face Eternatus while survivors hoped the Legendary Pokémon could save the world.
• Eternatus devoured Ho-Oh’s attacks and shattered its Protect with Eternabeam, knocking Ho-Oh from the sky.
• Ho-Oh sent Li Zhi back to the Secret Realm with Marshadow and continued resisting Eternatus’s energy drain to buy time for the Sword of Destiny.
• Lu Li mounted Zacian and set out with King of Sword and King of Shield to confront Eternatus.

Zacian and Zacian fought Eternatus while Ho-Oh and the Space-Time Duo kept the world sealed, and Lu Li empowered Zacian with Fae Connection. Zacian shattered Eternatus's core and the world barrier, leaving Eternatus weakened as its absorbed energy returned to the world.

• Eternatus tried to negotiate and escape, but Ho-Oh and Zacian refused to let it leave, and it discovered the world barrier was sealed.
• Eternatus attacked Zacian and Zacian, but the siblings coordinated their strikes and damaged its body and core.
• Lu Li poured his Spiritual Power into Zacian, triggering a temporary Fae Connection that strengthened her.
• Zacian's Fae Behemoth Blade split the world barrier, and Zacian followed with Behemoth Round to stop Eternatus from escaping.
• Eternatus's core shattered, its energy returned to the world, and it regressed from Gigantamax to its weakened normal state.

After the world advanced, Eternatus became its planetary core while the gods and Lu Li’s powerful allies withdrew to the World Origin to digest their gains. With the gods asleep and the Real World transformed, Lu Li decided the Lu Family needed to establish territory and prepare for a struggle among mortals.

• Ho-Oh, Dialga, and Palkia stopped Zacian from killing Eternatus and made it serve as the planetary core, while the deities rebuilt the world around it.
• Lu Li sensed that the expanded Real World had far more abundant energy, and Zacian explained that Eternatus’s reserves from ten worlds had fueled the advancement.
• Zacian and the Dragon Soul Sword departed to digest their gains, and Ogerpon, Miraidon, Meloetta, and Terapagos returned to the World Origin, leaving Lu Li worried about the gods’ absence.
• Lu Li told Yao Yifei and the others that the Lu Family needed territory in the Real World, and Freya noted that the Eighteen Great Attribute Families faced particular danger without Divine Beasts.
• Lu Li put the Real World’s affairs in his companions’ hands and turned to more important matters involving the Sun and Moon Duo.

Cosmoem evolved into Solgaleo and Lunala, who returned as the Sun and Moon Duo and blessed Lu Li before retreating to the Law Source. After the world’s expansion, Lu Li’s family discussed the changed Real World and began planning to find people and establish settlements, while Lu Li realized Evil Hoopa had not gone into slumber.

• Lu Li brought two Cosmog into the Real World, where the Cosmoem among them ascended and the sun and moon returned to the sky as Solgaleo and Lunala.
• Solgaleo and Lunala marked and blessed Lu Li, then returned to the Law Source to slumber; the Sun High Priest and Moon High Priest arrived afterward and decided the Sun Moon Clan needed territory in the Real World.
• Lu Li returned to the Secret Realm and considered how the deities’ gains would accelerate his cultivation while he blocked out the Forbidden Knowledge affecting him.
• At the Lu Family meeting, Yao Yifei and Freya reported that civilization and communications had collapsed, the world had expanded, and forces would need people and new settlements.
• Lu Li learned that Jin Fengjiao and the Yu Family were in different Secret Realms, then realized Evil Hoopa might still be awake.
• After the meeting, Lu Li asked Hoopa whether it was asleep, and Evil Hoopa said it did not need to slumber while its other half did.

Lu Li found Yu Lili in Milotic Secret Realm and went to bring her away, where he clashed with Hai Qingbo and Shui Laqing. The Shui Bo Gym Leader recognized Lu Li as the world’s strongest God Trainer and forced his family to apologize, leaving Lu Li free to take Yu Lili with him.

• Lu Li used Evil Hoopa to locate inhabited Secret Realms and Yu Lili, then led the First Echelon into Milotic Secret Realm.
• Lu Li reunited with Yu Lili at the aquarium, and she embraced him before Hai Qingbo interrupted them.
• Hai Qingbo and Shui Laqing tried to prevent Yu Lili from leaving with Lu Li, but the Shui Bo Gym Leader arrived and recognized Lu Li.
• Hai Dongpo slapped Shui Laqing and made her and Hai Qingbo kneel and apologize to Lu Li.

Lu Li learned that millions of refugees in the Milotic Secret Realm faced starvation because ordinary crops could no longer grow and industry could not be rebuilt soon. He accepted Hai Dongpo’s pledge and began preparing to spread high-grade crop farming, leaving the three young Farm managers to consider helping establish new Farms.

• Hai Dongpo asked Lu Li to save the refugees, explaining that their stored food would last only half a month and that ordinary rice and wheat seeds could not grow in the changed world.
• Hai Dongpo pledged himself and the Milotic Secret Realm to Lu Li, who accepted Hai Dongpo for now and left with Yu Lili.
• Yu Lili worried about the refugees, and Lu Li reassured her before returning to the Thousand-Faced God Secret Realm.
• Lu Li asked Xiao Li about Farm workers trained in Special Growth and Special Tilling, then summoned Xiao Tu and A Lu to inspect their Pokémon.
• Lu Li offered the three children the chance to manage Farms elsewhere, teach Pokémon Special Techniques, and eventually earn twenty percent of each Farm’s profits.

Lu Li discovered that most ordinary crops could not grow in the Real World and learned from Evil Hoopa that Loford had allied himself with Dark Lugia, an Other God. Three days earlier, Loford had opened Dark Lugia’s seal and planned to capture the weakened entity, while the young Lugia fled.

• Xiao Li volunteered to train, and Lu Li promised her an Elite Four-level Trainer’s notes; he then tasked her and her brothers with preparing Farm Trainers in exchange for contribution points and resources.
• Lu Li tested rice and other seeds in the Real World, found that heavily modified crops could not sprout in its high-energy soil, and concluded that some vegetables could grow there.
• Evil Hoopa revealed that Loford had survived the destruction of his body, found a new backer, and was connected to Dark Lugia, a sealed Other God stirring during the gods’ retreat.
• Three days earlier, Loford used the Silver Feather to locate Dark Lugia’s seal in an ocean Secret Realm and fought the young Lugia guarding it.
• As Loford’s Pokémon wore Lugia down, he placed the Silver Feather on the sealed door; Lugia fled, and Loford prepared to capture Dark Lugia as It emerged weakened.

Loford attacked the newly arrived Dark Lugia, while As tricked Phione into a black Master Ball. Lu Li organized aid and settlements for nearby Secret Realms, then reached the peak of the Golden Core stage and began a dangerous breakthrough before abruptly rushing into a Secret Realm.

• Loford injected himself with a stimulant and sent Mega Sharpedo and Gigantamax Inteleon to attack Dark Lugia, which had descended at the strength of a Tier 2 Divine Beast.
• As persuaded Phione to leave the Sea Palace, captured it in a black Master Ball, and fled with Milotic.
• Lu Li met Tan Di in the Grotle Secret Realm and arranged for its surplus food to support the Milotic Secret Realm, using his Starry Pokémon to handle transportation.
• Lu Li left his Starry Pokémon with Yao Yifei, entered seclusion, and cultivated until he reached the peak of the Golden Core stage.
• Lu Li began attempting to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage, then suddenly rushed out of the basement and into a Secret Realm entrance.

Lu Li broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage and discovered that his Nascent Soul resembled Arceus and could create worlds, prompting him to plan a new world staffed by foreign gods and demigods. After learning that Dark Lugia was hunting Little Lugia, he set out to intervene, while Little Lugia found itself trapped inside a sealed Secret Realm.

• Lu Li left Blue Star, broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage, and discovered that his Nascent Soul looked like Arceus.
• Lu Li learned that he could create dimensions and worlds, then considered recruiting foreign gods and demigods to help his new world grow.
• Evil Hoopa told Lu Li that Dark Lugia and Loford were hunting Little Lugia, so Lu Li gathered the First Echelon and Deoxys and went to find it.
• Little Lugia hid in a Secret Realm and cursed Dark Lugia for seeking to take its future Authority.
• Little Lugia sensed Dark Lugia nearby and tried to escape, but Dark Lugia's Law Power had sealed the Secret Realm.

Little Lugia lost to Dark Lugia in the Secret Realm, but Lu Li arrived with Deoxys before Dark Lugia could take its power. Lu Li and Loford’s forces began battling Dark Lugia and its allies, and the fights remained unresolved.

• Dark Lugia defeated Little Lugia and prepared to seize the Rule Power within it.
• Lu Li entered the sealed Secret Realm with Deoxys, and Little Lugia recognized him as the legendary savior.
• Lu Li activated Deoxys’s Celestial Transformation, while Loford sent Mega Sharpedo and Gigantamax Inteleon to fight alongside Dark Lugia.
• Lu Li sent Tropius and his other First Echelon Pokémon against Loford’s Pokémon as Deoxys faced Dark Lugia.
• Deoxys and Dark Lugia traded attacks in a stalemate, while Loford struggled against Tropius’s resilience and its opponents’ distractions.