Chapter Summaries

Ye Lan rejected the ancient Serperior consciousness and destroyed the diamond-shaped crystal with the help of Andrew’s bracelet. The crystal’s energy transformed Ye Lan’s ability and appearance, healed Serperior, and left Ye Lan awake in an empty space with new powers and many questions.

• A collective Serperior consciousness offered to replace Ye Lan’s Serperior, but Ye Lan refused and declared that they would become true Monarchs of Grass.
• Ye Lan’s crystal bracelet released green light that dissolved the diamond-shaped crystal, while a voice accused Andrew of plotting against it.
• An old man’s phantom praised Ye Lan as the Snake Guardian Clan’s chosen Kava, then entered the crystal as it dissolved into energy.
• The energy entered Ye Lan and changed his Grass-type Pokémon Affinity into Absolute Monarch of Grass, while Serperior’s evolution progress rose to 1%.
• Ye Lan’s appearance changed as golden markings spread across his body and his hair grew blue-green and waist-length; the same energy healed Serperior.
• Ye Lan woke, checked that Serperior was safe, suspected Andrew had used him, and lamented his new hair before admitting it suited him.

After the Snake Guardian Clan’s treasure transformed Ye Lan, he discovered he had gained the independent ability Absolute Monarch of Grass and the difficult Monarch’s Path task. He returned to the oasis with a small increase in Serperior’s evolution progress and greeted the bewildered clan members.

• Ye Lan checked his status panel and found that Grass-type Pokémon Affinity had become Absolute Monarch of Grass, along with a new exclusive task.
• Ye Lan learned that Absolute Monarch of Grass let him enter Grass Monarch form and could only grow through his own efforts by fulfilling Monarch’s Path.
• Ye Lan concluded that energy from the Snake Guardian Clan’s treasure had caused his transformation and saw Serperior’s evolution progress rise to 1%.
• Ye Lan accepted his new teal-green hair, recalled Serperior, and appeared above the oasis, where Whimsicott carried him down.
• Ye Lan greeted the confused Snake Guardian Clan members.

Ye Lan emerged with a new appearance, leaving the Snake Guardian Clan and Jero unable to recognize him until their Serperior sensed who he was. Taya revealed her part in the plan, then led the clan out of the Oasis while Mia remained bewildered by the events.

• Jero and Reg mistook Ye Lan for a stranger, but Qingqing and the other Serperior recognized his aura and bowed to him.
• Taya appeared and told the clan to address Ye Lan as Kava, then admitted Andrew had arranged the plan.
• Ye Lan questioned Taya about her awareness and involvement, and she explained that she had left a chance for him and his Serperior to succeed.
• Taya thanked Ye Lan for freeing her and led the Serperior and Snake Guardian Clan members out of the Oasis.
• Mia asked Qingqing who Taya was, and Qingqing indicated that she was an elder of the Snake Guardian Clan.

Ye Lan converted the crystal space’s solar energy into Sunshine Points and spent over a thousand of them on Lucky Wheel spins, only to realize the collapsing space had trapped him. Rillaboom found an underground river escape, and Ye Lan, Whimsicott, and Rillaboom rushed downstream on a cotton kayak.

• Ye Lan collected the diamond-shaped crystal as a gemstone and used the system to convert the crystal space’s solar energy into Sunshine Points, reaching 2,366 points.
• Ye Lan decided to spend his Sunshine Points on 78 Lucky Wheel spins.
• As the crystal space began collapsing, Ye Lan realized he did not know how to get out.
• The system provided an escape route after detecting Ye Lan’s large payment, but the route led to a spot still inside the crystal space.
• Rillaboom smashed through the softened ground and plunged into an underground river with Ye Lan and Whimsicott.
• Whimsicott formed a cotton kayak with Cotton Guard, carrying them downstream.

Ye Lan escaped the Underground River and discovered that it led into Andrew’s enormous fake Snake Guardian Village crater. After Mia reported that a mysterious group was searching for the real village, Ye Lan recognized them as Team Plasma and reflected on N, Ghetsis, and the group’s true aims.

• Ye Lan and Whimsicott rode a cotton kayak through the Underground River and emerged into a vast crater beneath the open sky.
• Ye Lan recognized the crater as the fake Snake Guardian Village Andrew had created, then sent out Rillaboom and began climbing toward the rim.
• Mia told Ye Lan that the mysterious group had not harmed Pokémon and was searching for Snake Guardian Village, while poachers followed behind them.
• Ye Lan identified the group as Team Plasma and considered how Ghetsis manipulated N and used the organization’s liberation message to pursue power.
• Ye Lan recalled that N eventually questioned Ghetsis’s beliefs and broke away from his scheme.

Ye Lan encountered N and claimed to be his brother, while Mianzhou officials worried that Ye Lan would miss the provincial tournament registration deadline. Ouyang Tian and Ouyang Sheng Tian decided to protect Ye Lan’s family to preserve their investment in him.

• Ye Lan emerged from a pit with Rillaboom and encountered masked Team Plasma members.
• N arrived, sensed that Ye Lan’s aura resembled his own, and stared at him in surprise.
• Ye Lan recognized N and called him his brother.
• Liu Qingshan told Feng Jiaqing that Ye Lan had not returned from the Unova Region and might miss the provincial tournament registration deadline.
• Feng Jiaqing scolded Liu Qingshan, who reminded him that he had said the senior staff could solve any problem together.
• Ouyang Tian and Ouyang Sheng Tian agreed not to threaten Ye Lan’s family and to protect them instead.

Ye Lan claimed to be N’s biological brother and proved he could understand Pokémon’s thoughts by guessing Whimsicott’s thoughts, though the test ended with Whimsicott tricking him at rock-paper-scissors. N was left with evidence for Ye Lan’s claim but had not yet accepted it.

• Ouyang Tian supported his son’s decision to return to Huaxia Academy, which he believed Ye Lan needed to gain knowledge and resources.
• Ye Lan was captured by Team Plasma members near Snake Guardian Village after Marshadow failed to answer him.
• Ye Lan told N that they were biological brothers and that he shared N’s ability to understand Pokémon.
• N demanded proof, so Ye Lan guessed Whimsicott’s thoughts about Telepathic Rock-Paper-Scissors.
• Whimsicott revealed that it had found a way to make the game depend on luck, and Ye Lan tickled it until it gave up its accomplice.

Ye Lan challenged N’s belief that Team Plasma was rescuing Pokémon, using evidence of Pokémon poaching and the Snake Guardian Clan’s actions to make him question his organization. He then gave N a special phone so he could see how humans and Pokémon lived together, leaving N comforted by meeting someone like himself.

• N invited Ye Lan to join Team Plasma, but Ye Lan said he would consider it only if the organization truly worked to rescue Pokémon.
• Ye Lan showed N Mia’s video of Pokémon Poachers capturing Pokémon, and N insisted the poachers were not Team Plasma members.
• Ye Lan questioned why Team Plasma had not reported the poachers and pointed out that the Snake Guardian Clan was fighting them, prompting N to struggle for an explanation.
• Ye Lan realized N needed a way to learn about the outside world and gave him Hu Bin’s signal-proof phone.
• Ye Lan helped N download Vibrato so he could watch videos of humans and Pokémon sharing their lives, and N accepted the gesture with growing comfort.

Ye Lan negotiated with N over joining Team Plasma and then traveled with Marshadow through shadow space. Marshadow delivered Ho-Oh’s news about Suicune and an oracle, leaving Ye Lan eager to learn what Ho-Oh had said.

• Ye Lan told N he would join Team Plasma if N proved it truly saved and helped Pokémon, and N agreed to prove it.
• Ye Lan introduced himself as M before Marshadow carried him away through shadow space.
• Ye Lan questioned Marshadow about its travels and whether Ho-Oh had replied about Suicune.
• Marshadow confirmed that Ho-Oh had news about Suicune and an oracle for Ye Lan.
• Ye Lan celebrated Ho-Oh’s reply, then broke down while lamenting how difficult it would be to raise a Dreepy.

Ye Lan deciphered Ho-Oh’s message and learned that Suicune was coming to meet Marshadow, while Marshadow vowed to bring Ye Lan to Ho-Oh. Elsewhere, Team Plasma captain Stet agreed to follow N’s order to target the Pokémon Poachers, though he cared little about their fate or the operation’s profits.

• Ye Lan spent Sunshine Points to translate Ho-Oh’s message, which mostly gave instructions for caring for Marshadow and said Suicune would soon arrive in Unova.
• Ye Lan told Marshadow that Ho-Oh wanted Marshadow to be safe and return home, and Marshadow vowed to bring the Rainbow Hero candidate to Ho-Oh.
• A Team Plasma subordinate reported that N had ordered Stet’s squad to surround and eliminate the Pokémon Poachers following them.
• Stet revealed that he had recruited the Poachers to exploit the forest, but decided to obey N’s order to avoid risking his own life.

Stet planned to conceal Team Plasma’s involvement with Pokémon poachers while Ye Lan and Marshadow searched through the Shadow World. They found Grandpa Mickey battling a poacher, with Ru Hua savagely overpowering his drugged Pokémon.

• Stet told his subordinate not to risk exposing Team Plasma over the poachers’ captured Pokémon and ordered a plan to disguise their people as League members.
• Stet warned that poachers who encountered the Snake Guardian Clan might not survive.
• Ye Lan questioned Marshadow’s directions through the Shadow World, while Whimsicott joked that their weight was slowing them down.
• Marshadow sensed a familiar aura and led Ye Lan out of a Big Tree’s shadow into a clearing.
• Ye Lan saw Ru Hua fighting a Jynx and Froslass while Grandpa Mickey confronted a terrified Pokémon Poacher.
• Whimsicott protested after Ye Lan covered its eyes so it would not have to watch the fight.

Ye Lan reunited with Mickey and Ru Hua after Mickey killed a Pokémon Poacher and Ru Hua defeated her opponents. Ru Hua and Mickey celebrated Ye Lan’s success and led him toward Snake Guardian Village, where the Sunflora recognized Ru Hua and feared her.

• Mickey let a buzz-cut Pokémon Poacher grab a knife, then shot and killed him when he charged.
• Ru Hua defeated Froslass and Jynx after the medicine affecting them wore off, while Marshadow led Ye Lan out of hiding.
• Mickey and Ru Hua recognized Ye Lan and excitedly celebrated his success, though Ye Lan remained unclear about what they knew.
• Mickey explained that Pokémon Poachers were rushing toward Snake Guardian Village as the Pokémon League seemed to block their escape, then led Ye Lan to the nearby gate.
• Ye Lan released the Sunflora and Sunkern he had rescued, and they reacted fearfully when they recognized Ru Hua.

Ye Lan learned the truth behind the Snake Guardian Clan’s thousand-year-old seed and Andrew’s plan to use him against it. Andrew admitted the clan had waited for an outsider with a chance to defeat the seed’s consciousness, and the chapter ended with him explaining how that threat had cursed the clan’s Serperior for generations.

• Ru Hua returned Ye Lan and Mickey to Snake Guardian Village, where Mickey gathered the clan elders while Ye Lan waited to meet the High Priest.
• Andrew met Ye Lan, recognized the crystal bracelet, and promised him compensation before leading him through a secret passage.
• Andrew confessed that he had sent Ye Lan to test the seed and never expected him to succeed, while the contingency left by his Trainer might not have worked.
• Andrew explained that the seed’s consciousness had developed its own intentions and sought a suitable body by drawing evolved Serperior toward it.
• Andrew revealed that the seed had fused with Taya, cursed the Snake Guardian Clan’s Serperior, and remained unchecked until the clan finally found Ye Lan.

Andrew explained that Ye Lan’s Kava trial had sent him to the real Snake Guardian Clan of a thousand years ago, where Celebi had helped arrange the trial. Ye Lan joined the clan and chose its monthly resources and Celebi’s keepsake, while Andrew looked ahead to the clan’s future.

• Andrew brought Ye Lan to the ancestral shrine and explained that Ye Lan had become a benefactor and member of the Snake Guardian Clan.
• Ye Lan saw a panel depicting himself in the clan’s ancient history and learned that the Kava trial had taken him to the real past.
• Andrew explained that Celebi had brought the seed into the past and that the bracelet’s contingency would destroy it if it interfered with Ye Lan’s trial.
• Andrew offered Ye Lan either the clan’s resources for the year or membership with monthly resources and Celebi’s keepsake; Ye Lan tried to claim both, but Andrew refused.
• Ye Lan chose membership and the keepsake, then left the shrine as Andrew reflected that the clan would prosper and considered traveling to Kalos with Taya.

Ye Lan learned that the provincial tournament registration was closing, but he could not leave Unova while waiting for Suicune, so he arranged for a Pokémon to register in his place. Back at his courtyard, he weighed which Pokémon could compete while Su Muqing’s research obsession kept her away from home.

• Principal Liu Qingshan called Ye Lan and told him that provincial tournament registration was about to close and the trainer had to register in person.
• Ye Lan asked whether a Pokémon could register and compete for him, and the Mianzhou Trainers Association officials were surprised by the idea.
• Leafeon woke to find Su Muqing still working in her laboratory after Ye Lan’s crystal had sparked a new research project, while Venusaur and Breloom trained nearby.
• Principal Liu told Ye Lan that a registered Pokémon could register for him if he was temporarily unable to attend, provided there was a guarantor.
• Ye Lan returned to his courtyard and considered his options, ruling out Rillaboom and hesitating to send Serperior while it trained with Aunt Hua.

Ye Lan prepared to return to the Huaxia Region and enter a major tournament with Whimsicott, while authorities investigated the poachers and Team Plasma in Aspertia City. After the Snake Guardian Clan helped defeat the poachers, Ye Lan joined the clan and cooked for the village celebration.

• Ye Lan explained the tournament format and his plans to Whimsicott, who eagerly agreed to compete and wanted a camera to record its pranks.
• Ye Lan and Whimsicott burned their lunch while imagining their future in the tournament.
• Officer Jenny reported to Cheren that most Pokémon Poachers had been arrested, but the group impersonating the Pokémon League's enforcement squad remained missing.
• Cheren learned that Team Plasma had been linked to the poachers and decided to stay alert.
• Snake Guardian Village celebrated the poachers' defeat and Ye Lan's arrival as a new clan member, while Ye Lan cooked for the gathered Pokémon.

Ye Lan joined the Snake Guardian Clan in a cheerful induction ceremony and used the auspicious moment to spend his Sunlight Points on 78 Lucky Wheel draws. He fainted after opening twenty blue rewards and finding the same enhanced milk candy in every one.

• Ye Lan discovered he could boost food by helping with some of the cooking, while Rillaboom learned to prepare ingredients and Serperior reached the peak of Advanced level.
• Mia and Qingqing summoned Ye Lan to the clan induction ceremony, where Granny Qing guided him to carve his name onto the crystal stele.
• After Ye Lan confirmed the Lucky Wheel draws, the wheel produced mostly blue and white lights, and he opened a blue reward containing Big Black Rabbit Milk Candy Pro Max Enhanced Edition.
• Ye Lan opened twenty blue rewards that all contained the same enhanced candy and fainted.
• Andrew assured the gathered clan members that Ye Lan was safe and had fainted from excitement about joining the clan.

Liu Qingshan retrieved a Pokémon from the transfer machine for the Mianzhou Trainers Association, but it turned out to be Whimsicott rather than the Serperior Feng Jiaqing expected. Ouyang Sheng Tian took Whimsicott to Green Sprout Gym, while Ye Lan assured the Association that Serperior could support it if needed.

• Liu Qingshan gave Feng Jiaqing the Poké Ball he had retrieved from the Pokémon Transfer Machine, expecting it to contain Ye Lan's Serperior.
• Whimsicott emerged from the Poké Ball and startled Feng Jiaqing and the executives, who realized they had not received Serperior.
• Vice Chairman Guo explained that Whimsicott was Ye Lan's second registered Pokémon, and Feng Jiaqing questioned whether it could compete in the provincial tournament.
• Ouyang Sheng Tian arrived to collect Whimsicott and said it would stay at Green Sprout Gym while competing as a Pokémon belonging to a Mianzhou No. 1 High School student.
• Ye Lan told Liu Qingshan that Whimsicott could handle the early matches and that Serperior could back it up if necessary.
• Ouyang Sheng Tian returned to Feng Jiaqing to ask for the Poké Ball he had forgotten to give them.

Ye Lan arranged for Serperior to join Whimsicott as a backup for Mianzhou’s provincial tournament qualifiers, then examined the rewards from 78 Lucky Wheel draws. He discovered a useful purple commemorative Poké Ball and began to suspect that the Pokémon Physique Capsule had been unusually powerful by the system’s standards.

• Ye Lan told Liu Qingshan to send Serperior to the Mianzhou Trainers Association, but to wait until Whimsicott lost before using it.
• Ye Lan transferred Serperior to the association and left the Aspertia City Pokémon Center.
• Ye Lan reviewed his 78 Lucky Wheel rewards, including heaps of Big Black Rabbit Milk Candy, a Power Bracer, a Magic Spatula, and a Lucky Wheel discount card.
• Ye Lan found the purple Ash Champion Commemorative Ball, which slowly healed hidden injuries in Pokémon Ash had caught.
• Ye Lan questioned whether the Pokémon Physique Capsule had been exceptionally powerful rather than representative of the system’s usual rewards.

Ye Lan recovered his spirits after questioning a lucky draw, while Whimsicott returned to Green Sprout Gym and used Grass-type Candy to recruit Venusaur as its personal ride. Venusaur’s treat pleased it, but Huang Yuntian and Breloom caught it at the gym entrance.

• Ye Lan stopped dwelling on his doubts and cheered up after realizing his rare purple draw might be valuable.
• Rillaboom grew happier when Ye Lan’s mood improved, though it nearly crashed into a tree.
• Ouyang Sheng Tian watched Venusaur collect Whimsicott and reflected that Ye Lan’s ties to Green Sprout Gym had made his investment worthwhile.
• Venusaur picked Whimsicott up instead of Breloom, hoping to get more Grass-type Candy.
• Whimsicott gave Venusaur a piece of Grass-type Candy 2.0 and promised more if it obeyed, then congratulated itself on recruiting a powerful ride.
• Huang Yuntian and Breloom confronted Venusaur at the gym entrance, leaving Venusaur alarmed.