Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mu Yun spends 22 Limit-Breaking Points to raise Patrick the Starmie’s potential from Elite Level to Elite Four Level, advancing him three stages.
• During the breakthrough, Patrick gains several moves:
  • Psychic Type: Trick Room, Wonder Room, Reflect
  • Water Type: Brine, Hydro Pump, Waterfall
• Patrick’s proficiency with these six moves reaches Limit-Breaking +2, and his level rises from 40 to 43.
• Mu Yun gives Patrick a Moonlight Essence Dew, which is absorbed through the gem on Patrick’s chest. The Dew also melts and consumes part of Patrick’s Top-Level Pearl of the Sea, causing a dramatic increase in strength.
• Patrick’s level climbs from 43 to 50, and he learns Cosmic Power, whose proficiency immediately reaches Limit-Breaking +2.
• Cosmic Power allows Pokémon to absorb cosmic energy and strengthen one of several attributes, but prolonged use can cause dangerous mutations. Patrick’s enhanced radiation resistance and increased chance of beneficial mutation make him unusually suited to the move, although Mu Yun decides not to risk using it casually.
• Patrick reaches Totem Level, fulfilling Mu Yun’s expectations, though his ability to significantly alter his physical form remains incomplete. He estimates that two more improvements will be needed.
• Mu Yun uses another Water Type secret treasure, traded for additional Moonlight Essence Dew, to raise Patrick from Level 50 to Level 53, placing him in the middle stage of Totem Level.
• Mu Yun and Patrick examine the loot taken from Sea Siren:
  • An Advanced Water Type secret treasure
  • A short bronze sword
  • An unfamiliar blue, oval object
• The Data Eye identifies the sword as the Qin Lu Sword, an ancient bronze blade containing the dragon fortune of a prosperous dynasty and possessing some ability to suppress fortune.
• Patrick recognizes it as likely being the Qin Family of Qinhuangdao’s clan treasure, suggesting Qin Shuo had recklessly given away an important family relic.
• The blue object is identified as the Seaheart Letter, a special item issued by Sea City. It can reveal Sea City’s exact location when nearby and increase a Water Type Pokémon’s swimming speed in the ocean.

Character Developments

• Patrick/Starmie undergoes a major transformation, advancing from Elite Level to Elite Four potential and then to Totem-level strength.
• His growing understanding of Psychic and Water energy greatly expands his move set and increases the quality and power of his elemental attacks.
• Patrick also demonstrates increased independence and awareness by discussing his form-changing limitations and identifying the Qin Lu Sword.
• His Super Brain ability, improved energy control, and Cosmic Power make him increasingly versatile, though Mu Yun remains cautious about the risks of cosmic radiation and mutation.
• Mu Yun continues acting as Patrick’s mentor and protector. He invests valuable resources in Patrick’s growth while carefully evaluating the dangers of his new abilities.
• Mu Yun also shows a practical attitude toward mysterious treasures, preferring to store the Qin Lu Sword until its purpose becomes clearer rather than overestimating its power.

Significant Themes

• Power through potential and resources: Patrick’s advancement demonstrates how Limit-Breaking Points, secret treasures, and rare evolution materials can produce explosive growth.
• Strength versus danger: Cosmic Power offers exceptional benefits but carries serious mutation risks, emphasizing that greater power often requires restraint.
• Discovery and mystery: The Qin Lu Sword and Seaheart Letter introduce connections to ancient dynasties, clan heritage, and Sea City.
• Inheritance and symbolism: The Qin Lu Sword may have limited direct combat power, but it represents family history, fortune, and cultural legitimacy.
• Preparation for future exploration: The Seaheart Letter gives Mu Yun a possible means of locating Sea City, hinting at future travel and new conflicts.

Character Interactions

• Mu Yun directly supports Patrick’s breakthroughs by supplying Moonlight Essence Dew and secret treasures.
• Patrick responds familiarly, calling Mu Yun “Big Bro,” while Mu Yun treats him as both a companion and a powerful Pokémon whose safety must be considered.
• Mu Yun questions Patrick about his ability to change form, and Patrick honestly explains that his current improvement is insufficient for major transformations.
• While investigating the loot, Mu Yun relies on Patrick and the Know-It-All for interpretation, though the Data Eye ultimately reveals the true nature of the mysterious items.
• Their discussion of the Qin Lu Sword also exposes the recklessness of Qin Shuo, who apparently gave away his family’s clan treasure and suffered disastrous consequences.

Chapter Summary: “Treasure Map? Ten Million! Gym Challenge!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mu Yun examines the Seaheart Letter, which points toward the legendary sunken city of Atlantis and its supposed treasure. Since Atlantis is located deep in the Atlantic Ocean and the journey would be extremely dangerous, especially because of powerful sea Pokémon, Mu Yun stores the letter away for future use.
• The next day, Mu Yun arrives at Qinhuang Gym to challenge Gym Leader Qin.
• He notices more than thirty fashionably dressed women gathered at the Gym and learns that Qin Yi is holding a blind-dating event for his son.
• Qin Yi’s son is apparently mentally impaired and unlikely to recover, so Qin Yi is desperately seeking a woman who can give birth to a healthy grandson. He is reportedly offering ten million to a woman who has a child within two years, even if she later divorces.
• Mu Yun enters the battle arena and prepares for the Gym challenge. Qin Yi chooses a powerful level 68 Druddigon, while Mu Yun sends out his trusted level 57 Beedrill, Xiao Du.
• Although greatly outleveled, Xiao Du immediately uses Focus Energy and Swords Dance, then attacks with a critical-hit Double X-Scissor.
• Xiao Du dodges Druddigon’s Dragon Claw and defeats it in a single devastating strike, sending it crashing into the arena railing.
• The system rewards Mu Yun with points for defeating a higher-level opponent and gives him additional points because Qin Yi qualifies as a target for the Badge Collector mission.
• Qin Yi is left stunned that his powerful Dragon-type Pokémon was instantly defeated by an ordinary-looking Beedrill.

Character Developments

• Mu Yun remains cautious and practical. He recognizes that Atlantis is too dangerous to investigate now and decides to postpone the treasure hunt until he is much stronger.
• He also shows skepticism and humor when he sees the unusual matchmaking gathering, initially wondering whether the Gym has become involved in questionable business.
• Xiao Du/Beedrill demonstrates enormous combat strength, discipline, and battle experience. Despite being ten levels below Druddigon, it acts independently, executes its opening strategy perfectly, evades attacks, and delivers a decisive critical hit.
• Qin Yi is revealed to be under significant family pressure. His desperation to continue the Qin family line has led him to arrange an extravagant and transactional blind date for his son.
• Qin Yi’s confidence in his Druddigon is shattered after its immediate defeat.

Significant Themes

• Power versus appearance: Beedrill is widely considered weak and is rarely used in serious battles, yet Xiao Du’s training, abilities, and battle experience allow it to defeat a much stronger Dragon-type Pokémon.
• Preparation and restraint: Mu Yun understands that some opportunities, such as exploring Atlantis, must wait until he has reached a higher level of strength.
• Family legacy and desperation: Qin Yi’s matchmaking scheme reflects the pressure to preserve the family line, even at the cost of dignity and genuine relationships.
• Unexpected strength and underestimation: Both Qin Yi and the referee underestimate Beedrill because of its species and size, only to be shocked by its overwhelming attack.

Character Interactions

• Mu Yun and the Gym staff member discuss the strange gathering of women and the reason behind Qin Yi’s matchmaking efforts.
• The staff member shares hospital-related gossip about Qin Yi’s son, providing Mu Yun with the background behind the event.
• Qin Yi briefly acknowledges Mu Yun before the battle but does not initially appear concerned about the challenger.
• During the battle, Xiao Du and Druddigon exchange attacks, with Xiao Du’s superior agility and offensive power overcoming Druddigon’s size and level advantage.
• The chapter ends with Qin Yi reacting in disbelief to Druddigon’s defeat, setting up his likely reassessment of Mu Yun and Beedrill.

Plot points and events

• Mu Yun defeats Qin Yi, the Qinhuang Gym Leader, earning his eighth Level-Three Badge and completing his registration requirements for the Silver Conference. The system rewards him with an expanded storage space, a Dark-type Intermediate Energy Cube recipe, and a move-learning memory.
• He continues to Jiakou City to collect a Beldum Egg in six days. He plans to use his Psychic Seed when he receives it, hoping the Egg benefits from his awakening.
• Mu Yun also intends to enter the national Martial Arts Tournament, whose champion receives a Fighting-type Egg with Elite Four-level potential. He hopes to win a Riolu, though he currently lacks a Fighting-type Pokémon.
• The chapter introduces the Xu Family’s rise: its patriarch, Xu Dian, built the family’s influence after discovering a Secret Realm inhabited by Beldum. His Shiny Metagross, “Silver Meteor,” is renowned.
• Xu Hui, a powerful Xu Family businessman, secretly arranges for Mu Yun to be attacked and the Egg taken. He hires a Hunter’s Guild operative but insists that the family’s involvement—and his own—remain concealed. A mysterious red flash departs to follow Mu Yun.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu Yun remains focused and strategic: he saves the move-learning memory for a future Pokémon and plans carefully around the Egg, his Psychic powers, and upcoming competitions.
• Qin Yi is humiliated by his loss, adding it to recent troubles involving a stolen heirloom and his son. He bitterly compares himself with Mu Yun, then resolves to focus on finding a suitable daughter-in-law and having more children.
• Xu Hui is revealed as calculating and ruthless. He uses his butler to arrange the theft while distancing himself from both the Xu Family and the crime.
• The butler is visibly intimidated and repeatedly assures Xu Hui of his obedience.

Significant themes

• Ambition and status: Badges, tournament victories, and powerful Pokémon determine a Trainer’s standing; the Xu Family’s fortunes likewise rest on controlling a rare Pokémon lineage.
• Power and danger: Mu Yun’s success brings valuable rewards, but the Champion-potential Egg makes him a target.
• Deception and divided loyalty: Xu Hui exploits his position while denying responsibility, and his insistence on leaving no witnesses foreshadows betrayal and escalating danger.

Plot points and events

• Mu Yun travels with Pokémon League notary Ning Zhu to the Xu Family’s Silversteel Secret Realm to collect his Champion-potential Beldum Egg.
• In the Secret Realm, Mu Yun meets Xu Kaijun, a confident Xu Family member accompanied by a powerful Shiny Metagross.
• The family first shows Mu Yun an ordinary Beldum Egg with Champion-Level Potential. Kaijun then leads him to a hidden inner room, where a rare Shiny Beldum Egg is stored.
• The Shiny Beldum also has Champion-Level Potential, but its parent was only Elite Four-level. Mu Yun realizes the Xu Family has apparently substituted this Egg for the stronger ordinary one he was meant to receive.
• Though furious, Mu Yun conceals his reaction. Ning Zhu and her Chimecho inspect and certify the paperwork; Mu Yun and Kaijun complete the transfer.
• Mu Yun leaves with the Egg, smiling and saying he will return—hinting that he intends to confront the Xu Family under different circumstances.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu Yun shows restraint and tactical patience: he recognizes the deception but keeps his composure rather than exposing his suspicions. His fondness for Silver Metagross makes the Shiny Beldum personally appealing, even as the substitution angers him.
• Xu Kaijun presents himself as courteous and welcoming, but privately believes his carefully arranged switch cannot be detected. Mu Yun’s calm reaction briefly makes him uneasy.
• Ning Zhu performs her notarial role, using her Chimecho to check the Egg’s records and validate the transaction.
• The exchange between Mu Yun and Kaijun remains outwardly friendly, masking their sharply different understandings of what has happened.

Significant themes

• Deception and appearance: A formal, certified transaction hides a deliberate act of fraud.
• Self-control and strategy: Mu Yun chooses to conceal his anger, preserving the possibility of acting later.
• Potential versus beginnings: Beldum is weak and limited as an Egg, but its long-term promise matters more than its current abilities.
• Power and privilege: The Xu Family’s control over rare Pokémon and its belief that outsiders cannot challenge its decisions underpin the conflict.

Chapter Summary: “Tracking? Gym Challenge! Six-on-Six!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After leaving the Silversteel Secret Realm, Ning Zhu and the others part ways with Mu Yun and return to the city.
• Mu Yun realizes that the Pokémon Egg he received was switched by the Xu Family. Although the notary office may have been complicit or merely negligent, he decides not to report the swap because doing so could alert the enemy or create complications.
• Mu Yun detects an ordinary-looking middle-aged man secretly following him. Using his Elite Four-level senses and Aura, he confirms that the Xu Family is monitoring him.
• Angered by the Xu Family’s arrogance, Mu Yun decides that merely making them lose money is no longer enough. He plans to deal with them later, “in the dark.”
• He deliberately leads the follower to Jiakou Gym, where he intends to continue challenging Gyms.
• At the Gym, Mu Yun calmly registers for a challenge despite already possessing eight badges. The staff member is surprised by his record but processes the request.
• The Gym Leader, Xu Jianli—one of Xu Dian’s sons—reacts resentfully to Mu Yun. He is jealous that an outsider received a valuable Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon Egg with Champion-level potential, something even he does not possess.
• Because Mu Yun has eight badges, the battle is adjusted to a six-on-six format. Xu Jianli and the referee appear to assume that Mu Yun may not have six capable Pokémon.
• Mu Yun notices that the Gym’s recording equipment has not been activated, suggesting that Xu Jianli does not intend to follow the official rules or preserve a record of the battle.
• Xu Jianli attempts to provoke Mu Yun by questioning whether he has enough Pokémon. Mu Yun retaliates by mocking Xu Jianli’s sparse, carefully groomed hair, immediately upsetting him.
• Xu Jianli sends out a level 69 Excadrill, a Peak Gym Leader-level Pokémon with Sand Force, a Yellow Sand Gravel held item, enhanced steel blades, and an awakened Ground-type power.
• Mu Yun judges that Excadrill is only at Peak Gym Leader level and recognizes that its held item indicates Xu Jianli is not fighting fairly.
• Mu Yun releases Xiao Du and gives it permission to fight without restrictions. The chapter ends as the six-on-six Gym battle begins.

Character Developments

• Mu Yun: Becomes more distrustful and hostile toward the Xu Family after discovering both the Egg switch and the surveillance. He remains composed and polite toward uninvolved people, but internally decides to retaliate against those who violate his principles. His confidence is reinforced by his Elite Four-level senses and powerful Pokémon.
• Xu Jianli: Is revealed to be petty, jealous, and insecure. Though he holds the position of Gym Leader, he feels inferior within the Xu Family and resents Mu Yun for receiving a superior Pokémon Egg. His temper is especially fragile when Mu Yun mocks his hair.
• The Xu Family: Their influence is shown to extend into Gym operations and surveillance. They are portrayed as powerful but arrogant, willing to manipulate events rather than deal openly.
• Xiao Du: Is entrusted with a full-power battle, suggesting Mu Yun is confident in its strength and ready to reveal more of its abilities.

Significant Themes

• Power and arrogance: The Xu Family abuses its status and influence, assuming Mu Yun can be intimidated or defeated.
• Justice and retaliation: Mu Yun distinguishes between innocent workers, whom he treats fairly, and enemies who cross his boundaries, whom he believes deserve punishment.
• Hidden conflict: The switched Egg, secret surveillance, inactive recording equipment, and concealed held item all emphasize the battle taking place within a larger scheme of manipulation.
• Confidence versus underestimation: Xu Jianli underestimates Mu Yun because of his age, while Mu Yun quietly recognizes the gap between them.
• Rules versus practical strength: Although the Gym challenge has official procedures, the Xu side attempts to bend or ignore them, while Mu Yun relies on his own ability rather than institutional protection.

Important Character Interactions

• Mu Yun and the notary office: Mu Yun chooses not to expose the Egg switch, believing the office may either be involved or too incompetent to help.
• Mu Yun and the stalker: Mu Yun notices the follower immediately but deliberately ignores him, using the trip to Jiakou Gym as part of his own response.
• Mu Yun and the Gym staff: He remains courteous and does not blame the staff member for the Xu Family’s behavior.
• Mu Yun and Xu Jianli: Their interaction quickly becomes antagonistic. Xu Jianli tries to belittle Mu Yun, while Mu Yun responds with calm sarcasm that strikes at Xu Jianli’s insecurity.
• Mu Yun and Xiao Du: Through Aura, Mu Yun communicates directly with Xiao Du and authorizes it to fight at full strength, setting the stage for the battle.

Key plot points and events

• Gym Leader Xu Jianli dismisses Mu Yun’s Beedrill, Xiao Du, as weak and orders his Excadrill to attack.
• Xiao Du strikes first and defeats the much higher-level Excadrill in a single poisoned attack. The System rewards Mu Yun for beating a stronger opponent and for completing a Collector quest; Xiao Du advances to level 60.
• Xu erupts in grief and anger, threatens Mu Yun, then releases all his Pokémon despite the referee’s warning that this is a Gym Challenge.
• Mu Yun orders Xiao Du to leave none of them standing. Xiao Du clashes with Xu’s level-72 Kingambit, an Elite Four-level Pokémon, and withstands its Night Slash without yielding.
• Xu realizes Xiao Du may himself be Elite Four-level. He regrets provoking Mu Yun, but the fight is already close to ending.

Character developments

• Mu Yun remains composed and unapologetic after defeating Excadrill. He confidently orders Xiao Du to face Xu’s entire team, trusting his Pokémon’s exceptional abilities.
• Xiao Du reveals the extent of his strength: his speed, durability, and amplified poison let him defeat a much stronger opponent and stand up to Kingambit.
• Xu Jianli shifts from contempt to shock, rage, and finally fear and regret as he recognizes the danger he has brought upon himself.
• The referee tries to contain the situation, mainly out of fear of legal consequences and personal repercussions.

Significant themes

• Arrogance and consequences: Xu’s mockery and abuse of his authority turn a routine challenge into a crisis.
• Hidden strength and reversal: The supposedly weak Beedrill overwhelms a powerful opponent, overturning Xu’s assumptions.
• Power and intimidation: Xu believes family influence can excuse violence, but Xiao Du’s strength makes him reconsider.
• Loyalty and protection: Mu Yun’s confidence in Xiao Du contrasts with Xu’s willingness to use Pokémon as instruments of retaliation.

Character interactions

• Xu belittles Mu Yun and Xiao Du, then becomes enraged when Xiao Du kills Excadrill.
• Mu Yun responds with a sarcastic apology before openly challenging Xu’s full team.
• The referee pleads with Xu to remember the rules and warns him against escalating matters.
• Xiao Du and Kingambit exchange a direct clash, revealing that Xiao Du can withstand an Elite Four-level opponent.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Xiao Du, Mu Yun’s Beedrill, quickly realizes that Xu Jianli’s Kingambit is far weaker and slower than expected, despite being Elite Four-level and enhanced by a special ability.
• Xiao Du uses Focus Energy and Swords Dance repeatedly, dramatically increasing his speed and power. He overwhelms Kingambit and repeatedly pierces it with venomous Bee Needles.
• Kingambit’s poison resistance fails under the relentless assault. Its assisting Pokémon are defeated, while Kingambit becomes riddled with corrosive wounds and increasingly desperate.
• In a final attempt to win, Kingambit uses Guillotine, a suicidal attack that concentrates all its energy into an instant-kill blow. Xiao Du barely blocks the strike.
• The attack fails completely because Xiao Du’s Divine Baptism Trait grants immunity to negative effects below Divine Power, apparently protecting him even from Guillotine’s instant-death effect.
• Kingambit collapses from exhaustion and poison. The system announces Xiao Du’s victory over the higher-level opponent, awarding Mu Yun points and raising Beedrill from Level 60 to Level 61.
• Xu Jianli panics after seeing his Pokémon defeated. He intends to report Mu Yun for maliciously killing Pokémon during an official match, but discovers that both the referee’s recording and the arena’s surveillance footage were deliberately disabled.
• The security guard admits he blacked out the surveillance at Xu Jianli’s request. Xu Jianli angrily attacks him.
• Mu Yun leaves, regarding Xu Jianli as only a minor obstacle. His main concern remains the mysterious person who has been following him. He next plans to test the effects of his newly acquired Level 5 Psychic ability, particularly on his Silver Beldum.

Character Developments

• Xiao Du/Beedrill: Displays overwhelming combat ability, tactical awareness, and confidence. His success against an Elite Four-level Kingambit confirms that his buffs and Divine Baptism make him exceptionally powerful. He also levels up to 61.
• Mu Yun: Becomes more ruthless and pragmatic. He deliberately allows the fight to continue rather than leaving Kingambit alive, believing Xu Jianli would remain a threat. He also grows increasingly curious about Divine Power and his own Psychic abilities.
• Kingambit: Shifts from confident attacker to desperate survivor. Despite his severe injuries, he shows determination by risking everything with Guillotine.
• Xu Jianli: Suffers a major psychological and practical defeat. He loses his strongest Pokémon, becomes enraged and fearful of legal consequences, and is exposed as someone who ordered the destruction of the match’s evidence.
• The referee and security guard: Their cooperation with Xu Jianli reveals corruption and negligence within the Gym’s official battle system.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and hidden potential: Xiao Du’s Divine Baptism demonstrates the enormous influence of Legendary or Divine Power, even when only a remnant remains.
• Ruthlessness and survival: Both Mu Yun and Kingambit operate according to the principle that mercy can create future threats, while desperate opponents may stake everything on one final attack.
• Institutional corruption: The Gym’s records and surveillance are intentionally disabled, showing how official systems can be manipulated to protect wrongdoing.
• Power beyond human understanding: Mu Yun wonders how humans established the Pokémon League if Legendary Pokémon were once so powerful, suggesting a deeper mystery about their disappearance and the world’s history.
• Progress through battle: Victory provides not only immediate success but also system rewards, points, and growth, reinforcing combat as the main path to advancement.

Character Interactions

• Xiao Du and Kingambit engage in a one-sided but escalating battle, with Kingambit eventually resorting to Guillotine after its support Pokémon are eliminated.
• Mu Yun observes the fight from the command platform and chooses not to intervene, prioritizing long-term security over mercy.
• Xu Jianli confronts the referee over the missing recording, then rushes to the surveillance room seeking evidence.
• The security guard inadvertently reveals that Xu Jianli ordered the surveillance blackout, prompting Xu Jianli to attack him.
• Mu Yun remains detached from the aftermath and leaves to focus on the more serious threat following him and on developing his Psychic abilities.

Chapter Summary: “Psychic Seed! Hatching!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After leaving the Gym, Mu Yun notices that a hunter is following him but deliberately ignores the threat, prioritizing the hatching of the Psychic Seed.
• He returns to his hotel, confirms the stalker’s Aura traits, inspects the room for danger, and orders Xiao Du to protect it against intruders.
• Inside his Pokémon Space, Mu Yun prepares an experiment to determine whether the Psychic Seed’s effects influence already-hatched Pokémon as well as Pokémon still developing inside eggs.
• He brings Patrick and Xiao Wen to observe the Beldum Pokémon Egg. Patrick sets up multiple recording devices and calculates positions that will minimize distance-related variables.
• When the Psychic Seed blossoms into a Psychic Fruit, Mu Yun absorbs it by pressing it to his forehead.
• The resulting mental wave affects Patrick, Xiao Wen, and the Beldum Egg. Patrick temporarily loses focus, Xiao Wen freezes, and the egg begins to crack and stir, suggesting that Psychic energy influences both living Pokémon and the developing Pokémon inside the egg.
• Mu Yun gains Psychic perception, allowing him to sense his surroundings with exceptional detail, including colors, smells, temperature, and texture.
• He compares Psychic with Aura: Aura has a much greater range but provides an abstract view focused mainly on Aura traits, while Psychic has a shorter range—roughly 500 meters under current conditions—but offers far more vivid and precise information.

Character Developments

• Mu Yun demonstrates patience, caution, and strategic thinking by refusing to confront the stalker immediately and instead securing his room and focusing on the Psychic experiment.
• His understanding of his abilities expands as he discovers Psychic perception’s strengths and limitations compared with Aura.
• Patrick continues to act as Mu Yun’s analytical assistant, recording the experiment and helping design a controlled testing arrangement.
• Xiao Wen, despite her usual playful behavior, shows obedience and awareness of Mu Yun’s seriousness by remaining still during the experiment.
• The stalker is revealed to be arrogant and opportunistic. He assumes Mu Yun is vulnerable and fantasizes about profiting from the assignment, underestimating Mu Yun’s capabilities.

Significant Themes

• Scientific experimentation and controlled observation: Mu Yun carefully structures the test, uses multiple observers, and attempts to eliminate distance as a variable.
• The contrast between different powers: Aura emphasizes range and identification, whereas Psychic provides depth, sensory richness, and detailed environmental awareness.
• Preparation versus recklessness: Mu Yun’s calm refusal to rush into conflict contrasts with the stalker’s careless confidence.
• Growth through discovery: The Psychic Fruit grants Mu Yun not merely more power, but a new way of perceiving the world.

Character Interactions

• Mu Yun instructs Xiao Du to guard the hotel room.
• He asks Patrick to observe and document the Psychic Fruit’s effects, relying on Patrick’s analytical perspective.
• He positions Xiao Wen as part of the experiment and reassures her to remain still.
• The Psychic wave temporarily disrupts both Patrick and Xiao Wen, while also causing the Beldum Egg to react, creating evidence that the new power affects nearby Pokémon.

Key plot points and events

• Mu Yun reviews the six abilities of his newly awakened LV5 Psychic power: Psychic Sense, Psychokinesis, Psychic Interference, Teleport, and two abilities not yet unlocked. He is especially excited about Teleport but decides to keep his Psychic abilities secret for now.
• Hearing an egg crack, he uses Psychokinesis to open the incubator and carefully lifts out his Beldum.
• The newly hatched Beldum is unusually calm and slow to react. Mu Yun welcomes him and wonders if he is simply dim-witted.
• Mu Yun checks Beldum’s status. Beldum is a shiny, level-five Steel/Psychic Pokémon with Champion-level potential, Clear Body, and the move Tackle.
• His sluggishness has a specific cause: Overload. Beldum absorbed too much pure mental energy before hatching, leaving his thoughts slow and preventing him from using Psychic moves until he evolves. After evolution, this will become Overdrive, which boosts all moves by 200% and lets him learn any move matching his types.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu Yun adapts quickly to his new Psychic powers, testing Psychokinesis and thinking strategically about how Teleport could help him travel and escape.
• Beldum enters the world with a blank, camera-like calm, then slowly recognizes Mu Yun as his Trainer and greets him with a soft “Bel.”
• Mu Yun is briefly disappointed by Beldum’s apparent slowness, but the status panel reveals that it stems from excessive power rather than lack of ability. His concern turns into excitement over Beldum’s potential.
• Bold jokingly interprets Mu Yun’s thought that a dim Pokémon could rely on brute strength as a compliment.

Significant themes

• Power carries complications: Beldum’s extraordinary mental energy temporarily impairs him, though it promises far greater strength later.
• Potential over appearances: His slow reactions initially suggest weakness, but the truth reveals immense future promise.
• Concealment and strategy: Mu Yun recognizes that his new Psychic abilities could be useful but chooses not to reveal them casually.
• Speculation about limitless growth: Overdrive’s ability to learn moves matching Beldum’s types leads Mu Yun to imagine an unusually broad and powerful future moveset.

Chapter Summary: “Size Alteration! A Handy Matter!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mu Yun evaluates the results of feeding psychic power to his Pokémon. Xiao Wen reaches Level 19 and gains Psychic Amplification, increasing the power of her Psychic-type moves by 50%, but becomes exhausted and must rest.
• Patrick’s gem continues flashing, but he initially shows no obvious level increase or new bonus. He then reveals that he successfully breached the first layer of his core’s information storage.
• Patrick unlocks Size Alteration, allowing him to shrink to palm size or grow to approximately thirteen meters.
• His size affects his

Brain Control Wave

• In his smallest form, his control becomes much more precise and dramatically faster.
• In his largest form, the attack becomes far more powerful but less precise, potentially destroying a target’s brain and causing its internal energy to run wild.
• Patrick discovers that his core contains multiple deeper layers. By exploring further, he may eventually acquire abilities similar to Deoxys, including the ability to redistribute his Base Stats.
• Patrick also solves the issue of connecting with electronic hardware. In his smaller form, he can manipulate computers at a fundamental system level rather than merely imitating physical input.
• Impressed by Patrick’s new capabilities, Mu Yun decides that his planned operation against the Xu Family is now more likely to succeed.
• He returns to the hotel, sets up several high-end computers, and orders Patrick to investigate the Xu Family, especially its Elite Four-level Trainers.
• Using Aura and Psychic vision, Mu Yun identifies the person secretly following him. Patrick determines that the man is Meng Beilü, chairman of Radiant Light Group and butler to Xu Hui, a member of the Xu Family’s third generation.
• Mu Yun realizes that multiple Xu Family members may be monitoring him, though he is unsure whether they are cooperating. He remains unconcerned, viewing the situation as a convenient opportunity.

Character Developments

• Xiao Wen: Gains a useful offensive bonus but demonstrates her physical limits after absorbing psychic power, requiring rest.
• Patrick: Experiences the chapter’s major breakthrough. He becomes capable of changing size, greatly improving either his precision or destructive power depending on his form. His growing access to the hidden layers of his core suggests that even more powerful abilities may emerge.
• Mu Yun: Shows increasing confidence in his Pokémon’s development and maintains his cautious, strategic approach. He combines Aura vision, Psychic vision, and Patrick’s technological abilities to gather intelligence before acting.
• Meng Beilü: Is revealed as an important member of the opposition, secretly tracking Mu Yun on behalf of Xu Hui or another Xu Family faction.

Significant Themes

• Growth through experimentation: Mu Yun tests his Pokémon’s ability to absorb psychic power, producing different results for Xiao Wen and Patrick.
• Hidden potential and evolution: Patrick’s layered core suggests that his current abilities are only the beginning of his development.
• Adaptability and specialization: Patrick’s size-changing ability allows him to switch between precision and overwhelming force depending on the situation.
• Preparation before confrontation: Mu Yun emphasizes intelligence gathering and understanding his enemies before launching an attack.
• Technology and psychic power: Patrick’s ability to directly manipulate computer systems merges supernatural abilities with advanced technology.

Character Interactions

• Mu Yun comforts and cares for the exhausted Xiao Wen, feeding her an Energy Cube and putting her to bed.
• Patrick excitedly reports his breakthrough to Mu Yun and demonstrates Size Alteration directly by shrinking in front of him.
• Mu Yun praises and pats Patrick, while Patrick humorously flatters Mu Yun by calling him discerning.
• Mu Yun assigns Patrick to investigate the Xu Family through the computers, while Xiao Du continues guarding the room.
• After discovering Meng Beilü’s identity, Mu Yun reflects on the number of Xu Family members watching him and prepares to use their surveillance against them.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Meng Beilü secretly tails Mu Yun from the hotel, intending to find a way to lure him outside.
• Mu Yun approaches him in a new disguise: a massive, muscular man wearing a black-and-white faceless mask. He uses Psychic Interference to overwhelm Meng Beilü’s mind and render him helpless.
• With Patrick’s assistance, Mu Yun searches Meng Beilü, destroys his surveillance equipment, and removes him to the Pokémon Space, where Meng Beilü’s body and Pokémon are dealt with.
• Mu Yun opens Meng Beilü’s Poké Balls and has Patrick harvest the Pokémon. His Starmie defeats several stronger opponents, including Banette, Krookodile, and Liepard, raising Starmie from Level 53 to Level 56 and earning a large number of points.
• Patrick transmits key fragments of Meng Beilü’s memories. Mu Yun discovers that the Elite Four-level Banette belongs to Xu Hui, confirming that Xu Hui had sent Meng Beilü to monitor him because of the valuable Pseudo-Legendary Pokémon egg.
• Patrick reports that the Xu Family’s Silversteel Secret Realm is extremely well-defended, with advanced surveillance and an Elite Four-level Metagross guarding the teleportation gate.
• Patrick proposes infiltrating the Secret Realm if Mu Yun can temporarily raise his Psychic ability to Elite Four level. Mu Yun agrees and converts a Domain Core into one million Energy Points.
• Instead of directly upgrading Psychic, Mu Yun invests the energy into Pioneering Power. It advances from Level 5 to Level 6, improving its ability to harvest powers from the recently deceased and reducing the time needed to develop Ability Seeds.
• As a result, Spirit Channeling Power, Martial Arts Heart, and Psychic all increase in level.

Character Developments

• Mu Yun becomes increasingly cautious and strategic. He creates a new disguise to avoid linking his actions to the “Abyss” identity and eliminates surveillance evidence before acting.
• He also demonstrates greater confidence in dealing with powerful opponents, using Psychic and Patrick’s abilities to neutralize Meng Beilü efficiently.
• Patrick shows major growth in usefulness and independence. His tenfold precision allows him to control targets remotely, destroy hidden equipment, transmit memories, and assess the possibility of infiltrating the Xu Family’s defenses.
• Meng Beilü is revealed to be an agent or subordinate involved in monitoring Mu Yun, but he is quickly overwhelmed and removed from the story.
• Xu Hui is established as distrustful and deeply concerned about the Pseudo-Legendary egg, prompting him to place Mu Yun under surveillance.

Significant Themes

• Caution and concealment: Mu Yun takes extensive measures to hide his identity and prevent enemies from connecting him to previous incidents.
• Power growth through preparation: Rather than relying only on direct combat, Mu Yun strengthens his abilities and gathers intelligence before attempting to infiltrate the Xu Family’s territory.
• Technological and supernatural surveillance: The chapter contrasts advanced security systems with Psychic abilities and stealth, emphasizing the escalating conflict between infiltration and defense.
• Strategic use of resources: The Domain Core is converted into Energy Points and used to upgrade Pioneering Power, showing Mu Yun’s willingness to sacrifice rare treasures for long-term advancement.
• Uncertainty and hidden alliances: The discovery that Xu Hui sent Banette suggests that seemingly neutral relationships may conceal suspicion and potential conflict.

Important Character Interactions

• Mu Yun confronts Meng Beilü while disguised, using Psychic Interference to incapacitate him.
• Mu Yun communicates telepathically with Patrick, who investigates Meng Beilü, destroys his equipment, processes the captured Pokémon, and transmits memories.
• Mu Yun and Patrick discuss the defenses of the Silversteel Secret Realm and devise a possible infiltration plan.
• Mu Yun ultimately supports Patrick’s proposal by boosting his own abilities through the Level 6 upgrade of Pioneering Power, setting up the next stage of their operation against the Xu Family.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Mu Yun unlocks three new LV6 abilities:
  • Soul Travel through the Netherworld, granting immunity to Netherworld corruption and allowing his soul to briefly enter the Netherworld.
  • Embrace All Rivers, enabling him to combine Pokémon moves, special abilities, and martial arts principles into unique techniques.
  • Space Anchor, allowing him to reinforce spatial nodes into long-lasting teleportation markers capable of overcoming stronger spatial barriers.
• The three level-ups trigger powerful manifestations: a chilling Netherworld aura, a thunderous heartbeat, and a psychic storm.
• Mu Yun’s attributes improve significantly:
  • Constitution rises from 70 to 73.
  • Psychic Power rises from 60 to 70.
  • Charm reaches 9, the human maximum.
• His increased Charm creates an unconscious, beacon-like attraction in others. Patrick notices this change in Mu Yun’s “magnetic field,” though the effect disappears when Mu Yun suppresses it with Aura or Psychic power.
• Mu Yun tests his enhancement abilities on Patrick, raising Starmie from level 56 to level 71 through Psychic power.
• After shrinking to thirteen centimeters, Patrick also receives Aura enhancement and reaches level 75, approaching the late Elite Four stage.
• Patrick estimates that continuing to break through the second arena’s core information would take roughly 520 hours, so Mu Yun postpones the attempt.
• Mu Yun evaluates his new abilities, especially Space Anchor, and begins testing whether he can teleport to an anchor while inside Pokémon Space.

Character Developments

• Mu Yun becomes substantially stronger, reaching mid-Elite Four physical strength and initial Elite Four psychic power.
• His Charm reaches its maximum human value, giving him a powerful, involuntary influence over others.
• He gains new strategic options: Netherworld exploration, custom martial-arts creation, and highly flexible long-distance teleportation.
• Patrick advances from the Totem level to Elite Four level and then to level 75 through combined Psychic and Aura enhancement. He also appears capable of further analyzing the second arena’s information, though the time cost is excessive.
• Patrick’s reaction to Mu Yun’s Charm reveals that even a calm and powerful Pokémon can be unconsciously affected by Mu Yun’s enhanced presence.

Significant Themes

• Accumulation leading to transformation: Multiple skill breakthroughs dramatically alter Mu Yun’s physical abilities and strategic potential.
• Adaptation and synthesis: Embrace All Rivers represents Mu Yun’s growing ability to absorb and combine different systems of power rather than relying on a single tradition.
• Power versus practicality: Although Mu Yun and Patrick can achieve impressive increases, the enormous time and energy costs limit how often those abilities can be used.
• Freedom and survival: Space Anchor offers Mu Yun a reliable escape mechanism, while Soul Travel expands his ability to interact with dangerous realms.
• Influence and identity: Mu Yun’s Charm changes how others perceive him, raising questions about the difference between genuine loyalty and supernatural attraction.

Character Interactions

• Patrick notices and comments on the alteration in Mu Yun’s aura-like “magnetic field,” briefly becoming drawn to him before Mu Yun suppresses the effect.
• Mu Yun experiments with Psychic and Aura enhancement on Patrick, while Patrick cooperates and reports on the results.
• Patrick proposes continuing his investigation into the arena’s core information, but Mu Yun rejects the immediate attempt because the projected 520-hour duration is impractical.
• The chapter ends with Mu Yun and Patrick focused on testing whether Space Anchors can provide an emergency escape route from within Pokémon Space.

Chapter Summary

Plot points and events

• Mu Yun confirms that his Space Anchor remains active in the hotel, giving him confidence to take risks. He and Patrick then set out to deal with Xu Hui.
• Mu Yun ambushes Xu Hui at his villa. Xu Hui secretly has an Elite Four-level Hypno in addition to his known Magnezone, but Mu Yun catches him without his Pokémon and uses Psychic power to immobilize him. Patrick’s Brain Control Wave leaves Xu Hui brain-dead, and Mu Yun transfers him and his Pokémon into the Pokémon Space.
• Patrick defeats Xu Hui’s stronger Pokémon, advancing substantially and completing a permanent quest. Mu Yun learns from Xu Hui’s memories that he had recorded the locations of valuables belonging to family members and officials. Mu Yun takes the hidden assets, including valuables stashed at several villas.
• Later that night, Mu Yun infiltrates the heavily guarded Silversteel Secret Realm. Patrick briefly disables the cameras, while Mu Yun uses Teleport, Aura, and Psychic power to evade the guards and enter unnoticed.
• Mu Yun reaches the Pokémon Egg storage area. Alongside the Beldum eggs—including one with Champion-level potential—he finds many other Steel-type eggs, among them Elite Four-potential Duraludon and Magnemite eggs. He realizes the haul can help complete his Steel-type quests and considers searching deeper for wild Pokémon as well.

Character developments

• Mu Yun becomes increasingly confident in combining his Pokémon Space, Space Anchor, Psychic power, and Aura for high-risk operations. He acts decisively, prioritizing his plans over investigating Xu Hui’s wider network.
• Patrick (Starmie) grows rapidly by fighting stronger opponents, reaching level 59 after the battle and then Late Elite Four level when Mu Yun boosts him for the infiltration.
• Xu Hui is revealed as a calculating conspirator who has prepared multiple Pokémon and gathered information on hidden assets. His schemes end abruptly when Mu Yun captures and neutralizes him.
• Xiao Du remains behind to guard the hotel while Mu Yun and Patrick carry out the operation.

Significant themes

• Greed and corruption: Mu Yun reflects that wealth attracts danger and that greed can overcome both morals and laws. Xu Hui’s plans and the officials’ hidden assets illustrate this corruption.
• Power through preparation: Xu Hui’s secret Pokémon and Mu Yun’s layered infiltration tools show how preparation can determine the outcome—but Mu Yun’s superior abilities ultimately prevail.
• Risk and opportunity: Mu Yun’s confidence in his escape options pushes him to take greater risks, turning Xu Hui’s defeat into an opportunity to raid the Secret Realm.
• Family strength and legacy: The contrast between the Xu family’s single Champion-level combatant and the established Liu family highlights how long-standing power and resources help families withstand crises.

Character interactions

• Mu Yun gives Patrick direct instructions and relies on him first to neutralize Xu Hui and later to disrupt the Secret Realm’s cameras.
• Patrick shares Xu Hui’s memories with Mu Yun, enabling the theft of hidden valuables.
• The Secret Realm guards’ casual conversation contrasts with Mu Yun’s stealthy passage, underscoring how their overconfidence and fatigue help the infiltration succeed.

Chapter Summary: “Big Bro, I Have an Idea!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Patrick uses his Brain Control Wave to scan the Xu Family’s Pokémon Egg storage room. He discovers multiple sensors surrounding the valuable Beldum Eggs and other high-potential Eggs.
• After tracing the security network, Patrick disables all the sensors for roughly ninety minutes.
• Mu Yun removes the isolation devices and stores all the Pokémon Eggs in his Pokémon Space, successfully looting the room.
• He escapes the Xu Family compound within the Silversteel Secret Realm by avoiding patrols and surveillance cameras.
• Patrick provides Mu Yun with a map of the Secret Realm. Mu Yun learns that it contains several powerful wild Pokémon clans, including the Metagross, Magnemite, Durant, Drilbur, and Skarmory clans.
• With only about three hours before dawn, Mu Yun uses Teleport to travel rapidly to the Electromagnetic Mountains, home of the Magnemite clan.
• He discovers that the Magnemite clan is stronger than the Xu Family’s records indicated, possessing four Elite Four Level Magnezone, including one that likely advanced recently.
• Mu Yun also finds more than a dozen Magnemite Eggs reserved by the clan itself, including one with Elite Four Level potential.
• Although he considers the possibility of subduing the Magnemite clan, Mu Yun realizes that these Pokémon are loyal allies of the Xu Family and would be extremely difficult to recruit through force.
• He decides that, since he has already chosen to raid the Secret Realm, weakening the Xu Family’s allied forces is the practical course of action.
• The chapter ends when Patrick announces that he has an idea involving the Magnemite Eggs.

Character Developments

• Mu Yun demonstrates greater confidence and ruthlessness. He efficiently carries out the Egg theft and begins thinking strategically about how to damage the Xu Family beyond merely stealing resources.
• His abilities as a Psychic—especially his powerful Teleport and high-level mental strength—allow him to travel long distances quickly and operate covertly.
• Mu Yun also shows increased awareness of the social and political relationships between Secret Realm Pokémon clans and human families.
• Patrick proves highly valuable as a technological and intelligence specialist. He disables the security system, supplies a complete map of the Secret Realm, and identifies an unexpected opportunity involving the Magnemite Eggs.
• Their teamwork continues to deepen, with Patrick addressing Mu Yun as “Big Bro” and Mu Yun trusting Patrick’s judgment and abilities.

Significant Themes

• Technological skill versus physical security: The Xu Family’s extensive sensors are rendered useless by Patrick’s superior electronic control.
• Resource competition and strategic warfare: The Pokémon Eggs are treated as valuable strategic assets, while the clans themselves represent potential military forces.
• Loyalty and bloodline preservation: Wild Pokémon clans do not surrender all their offspring to human partners; they retain some Eggs to preserve their own populations and future strength.
• Pragmatism over morality: Mu Yun recognizes that allied Pokémon cannot easily be persuaded to change sides, so he prepares to weaken them rather than waste time attempting to recruit them.
• Secrecy and infiltration: The chapter emphasizes stealth, planning, intelligence gathering, and speed as Mu Yun conducts a dangerous raid under time pressure.

Character Interactions

• Mu Yun and Patrick communicate telepathically throughout the operation, coordinating the sensor shutdown, escape, map analysis, and reconnaissance.
• Mu Yun relies on Patrick’s technical expertise, while Patrick depends on Mu Yun’s Psychic abilities to execute their plans.
• Mu Yun’s observation of the Magnemite clan highlights the tension between the clan’s peaceful cooperation with the Xu Family and Mu Yun’s hostile objective.
• The chapter closes on a moment of anticipation as Patrick proposes a plan that may allow Mu Yun to exploit the Magnemite clan’s reserved Eggs.

Plot points

• Patrick proposes stealing all Pokémon Eggs and low-level Magnemite from the Magnemite clan, raising them independently and leaving the clan without its offspring.
• He expects the deprived clan to turn against the Xu Family, which would face enormous costs to appease or suppress it. Trouble from other clans, political pressure, and internal conflict could push the family toward financial ruin.
• Mu Yun accepts the plan, hoping the Xu Family will survive until he becomes a Champion. He will confront the four strongest Magnemite, while Patrick handles the rest and identifies the young Pokémon to take.
• Mu Yun attacks the clan’s territory in disguise. He quickly incapacitates several high-level Magnezone with a newly improvised, Aura-coated fiery punch.
• Patrick uses Brain Control Wave · Energy Riot to disrupt the energy of the clan’s Pokémon, leaving most of them unable to fight. The Peak Elite Four-level clan leader challenges Mu Yun, but the excerpt cuts off before their fight concludes.
• A quest notification confirms that Starmie defeated the clan leader and many other Magnezone, completing Permanent Quest 1. Starmie’s level rises from 56 to 61.

Character developments and interactions

• Patrick shows himself to be a calculating strategist, aiming to destroy the Xu Family through pressure and division rather than direct slaughter.
• Mu Yun agrees with Patrick’s approach but remains personally focused on becoming Champion. He trusts Patrick to manage the weaker Pokémon while he takes on the strongest.
• The Magnemite clan leader initially mistakes the intruder for a possible supplier, then reacts with anger and alarm as Mu Yun and Patrick overwhelm the clan. He demands to know who they are and warns Mu Yun not to push him.

Significant themes

• Indirect warfare: The plan uses the clan’s attachment to its young and the Xu Family’s obligations against both groups.
• Fragile power: Despite its wealth and influence, the Xu Family is vulnerable because it lacks deep roots and could buckle under debt, political pressure, and internal rivalry.
• The danger of unreliable allies: Mu Yun and Patrick see a potentially uncontrolled ally as a threat in its own right.
• Power and preparation: Mu Yun’s improvised technique and Patrick’s targeted ability let them neutralize a much larger force through coordination.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After defeating the Magnemite clan, Mu Yun uses Psychic to separate the twelve low-level Magnemite from the unconscious survivors.
• He stores the Magnemite, their Pokémon Eggs, and the nearby Electromagnetic Ore in Pokémon Space, leaving Bold and the others to guard them.
• The first Magnezone Mu Yun defeated later wakes up and discovers that the clan’s Pokémon, Eggs, and resources have disappeared. Furious, he blames the Xu Family and flies toward their territory.
• Mu Yun and Patrick raid the Durant clan’s underground territory. After spending most of the day defeating its members, Mu Yun concludes that the clan is weak, poor in resources, and inconveniently located in a maze of tunnels.
• During the raid, Starmie’s level rises from 61 to 63 through the mission rewards and battle experience.
• Mu Yun travels south to the Crosscut Mountain Range, whose enormous, unnaturally smooth cliffs appear to have been created by an immensely powerful Pokémon.
• He prepares to raid the outskirts of the Metagross clan’s territory, intending to leave enough time to deal with the Drilbur and Skarmory clans as well.
• Meanwhile, a badly injured and enraged Magnezone reaches the Xu Family’s stronghold and demands to see the family head.
• Xu Yuanzhuang learns that the Magnemite clan’s young clan head and other members have vanished. Before he can respond, a Xu Family member reports that all the Pokémon Eggs, Beldum, and other stored Pokémon have also disappeared.

Character Developments

• Mu Yun grows increasingly efficient and confident in raiding entire Pokémon clans. He uses Patrick, Aura, and Psychic strategically to overcome large territories and difficult terrain.
• Starmie gains significant battle experience and increases from level 61 to 63.
• The awakened Magnezone changes from a defeated clan guardian into an enraged accuser, convinced that the Xu Family has violated its agreement.
• Xu Yuanzhuang, previously in control of the Secret Realm, is suddenly confronted with a crisis that threatens the Xu Family’s arrangements and reputation.
• Xu Yuantan is shown to be a capable subordinate and younger brother, using his Metagross to restrain the visiting Magnezone and facilitate communication.

Significant Themes

• Exploitation and broken agreements: The Xu Family’s arrangement with the Pokémon clans appears to have failed catastrophically, raising questions about how the clans were treated and who is responsible for their disappearance.
• Survival and evolution: The Metagross clan’s evolutionary process emphasizes ruthless biological adaptation, including fusion, competition, and self-sacrifice.
• Power and predation: Mu Yun’s raids demonstrate the imbalance between a powerful outsider and the relatively vulnerable Pokémon clans.
• Order collapsing into chaos: The Xu Family believes its Secret Realm is secure, but Mu Yun’s actions expose how fragile its control really is.

Character Interactions

• Mu Yun coordinates closely with Patrick and gives instructions about which clans to raid and when to move on.
• The awakened Magnezone angrily confronts the Xu Family, accusing them of breaking their promise to protect the clans.
• Xu Yuantan’s Metagross translates the Magnezone’s complaints for Xu Yuanzhuang.
• Xu Yuanzhuang is forced to confront the possibility that the Pokémon under the Xu Family’s protection—and perhaps their stored Eggs and resources—have all been stolen.

Chapter Summary: “Xu Dian! Black Metagross!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The Xu Family discovers that its Pokémon Egg storage room has been infiltrated. Most of the eggs are missing, including three valuable Beldum Eggs obtained through Xu Dian’s difficult negotiations.
• Xu Yuantan detects disturbances in spatial nodes, concluding that the thief used Psychic power, likely through a Psychic-type Pokémon or a Gifted ability.
• Xu Yuanzhuang angrily blames the guards, especially his son Xu Kaijun, who was responsible for security that day. Kaijun explains that the surveillance system detected nothing and suspects the intruder used optical invisibility.
• The former clan head, Xu Dian—the renowned Title Elite Four Trainer known as the “Silver Meteor”—arrives with Kaijun. He calms the situation and orders the family to seal the Secret Realm portal, strengthen patrols, and cover all surveillance blind spots.
• Xu Dian warns Yuanzhuang that a clan head must remain composed and serve as the family’s source of courage. He also teaches Kaijun that a weak leader endangers the entire clan.
• Xu Dian summons his powerful Champion-level Shiny Metagross, Silver Meteor, and personally begins responding to the crisis.
• Elsewhere in the Silversteel Secret Realm, Mu Yun captures four Metang and four Beldum from isolated Pokémon groups in the Crosscut Mountain Range. Because the Pokémon resist capture and are too dangerous to sell, he plans to feed them to Little Silver.
• Mu Yun then heads toward the Skarmory territory. Silver Meteor independently enters the area and encounters the mountain’s enormous Black Metagross leader. After communicating, Black Metagross joins Silver Meteor, and the two travel together toward the Skarmory flock.

Character Developments

• Xu Yuanzhuang is revealed to be hot-tempered and insecure despite being clan head. His reaction to the theft shows that he lacks the calm authority Xu Dian expects from a leader.
• Xu Yuantan demonstrates intelligence and composure by analyzing the spatial disturbances. His abilities suggest that he may be more capable than his elder brother, though the family’s inheritance tradition placed Yuanzhuang in power.
• Xu Kaijun is portrayed as anxious and fearful of public humiliation because of his father’s harsh discipline. However, Xu Dian’s advice prompts him to reflect on what true leadership requires.
• Xu Dian reasserts his authority and wisdom. Though elderly, he remains decisive and powerful, immediately organizing the family’s response and revealing the might of his Champion-level Silver Metagross.
• Mu Yun continues acting pragmatically and ruthlessly. He gathers valuable Beldum and Metang for his own purposes rather than risking their sale.
• Silver Meteor is shown as an elite, experienced Pokémon capable of tracking the intruder and commanding the respect of other Metagross.
• Black Metagross is introduced as the ancient leader of the local Metagross clan. Though physically inferior to Silver Meteor, he possesses enough authority to lead his own group and chooses to cooperate with Silver Meteor.

Significant Themes

• Leadership and responsibility: Xu Dian emphasizes that a leader’s emotional weakness affects the entire family, while strength and composure inspire those under them.
• Family inheritance versus merit: The Xu Family’s eldest-son succession system placed Yuanzhuang in power despite Yuanzhuang’s weaker temperament and abilities, raising doubts about whether tradition produces the best leadership.
• Power and authority: The contrast between Xu Dian’s reputation, Silver Meteor’s strength, and Yuanzhuang’s insecurity highlights the difference between holding a title and possessing genuine authority.
• Secrecy and strategic conflict: The theft involves spatial and possibly optical abilities, suggesting an intelligent intruder and escalating the conflict beyond a simple robbery.
• Pokémon hierarchy and loyalty: Metagross and Beldum follow instinctive or clan-based relationships. Black Metagross’s decision to accompany Silver Meteor illustrates cooperation between powerful Pokémon leaders.

Character Interactions

• Xu Yuanzhuang and Xu Yuantan argue indirectly over the theft and its implications, with Yuantan providing analysis while Yuanzhuang reacts emotionally.
• Xu Yuanzhuang treats Xu Kaijun harshly and threatens punishment, while Kaijun seeks protection and guidance from his grandfather.
• Xu Dian reprimands Yuanzhuang’s lack of composure but offers both Yuanzhuang and Kaijun guidance on leadership.
• Xu Dian’s relationship with Silver Meteor is deeply familiar and trusting, reflecting their lifelong partnership.
• Silver Meteor communicates with Black Metagross and gains his cooperation, forming a powerful alliance aimed at investigating or confronting the situation near the Skarmory territory.

Plot points and events

• Mu Yun’s Starmie defeats large numbers of Skarmory, then Excadrill, gaining Points and rising from level 63 to 68. Mu Yun collects Pokémon Eggs and young Pokémon after each sweep, while Patrick handles the opponents.
• As Mu Yun finishes raiding the Excadrill colony, Patrick senses two exceptionally powerful Pokémon approaching. Mu Yun escapes just before two Shiny Metagross arrive and attack the ground, collapsing tunnels.
• The Metagross find no trace of Mu Yun or a newly triggered spatial node. Their inability to explain his disappearance unsettles them.
• The Excadrill leader wakes, sees the Metagross, and immediately suppresses his anger. Silver Metagross tells him to gather his clan and stay safe.
• Xu Dian arrives with the Xu Family and orders them to end the lockdown. He also calls for stronger guards and full compensation for the Pokémon colonies, stressing that the Silversteel Secret Realm is the family’s foundation.
• Xu Kaijun privately suspects Mu Yun may be responsible, though he doubts the young man could have evaded Champion-level Pokémon. He later asks Xu Dian to speak privately.
• The Excadrill leader reports the raid’s losses: young clan members and many Eggs, including two from Elite Four-level Excadrill. Xu Yuanzhuang reacts bitterly to the likely cost of compensation but outwardly says he understands.

Character developments and interactions

• Mu Yun remains methodical, exploiting the colonies for training and supplies, then escaping before the powerful pursuers arrive.
• Patrick/Starmie grows significantly through the battles, reaching level 68.
• The two Shiny Metagross are disciplined and analytical, but Mu Yun’s unexplained disappearance challenges their confidence and leaves them baffled.
• Xu Dian prioritizes the realm’s stability, taking responsibility for security and compensation.
• Xu Kaijun is increasingly uneasy and appears ready to confess or disclose something to his grandfather.
• Xu Yuanzhuang follows his father’s orders while privately resenting the financial burden.
• The Excadrill leader shifts instantly from rage to fear and deference when confronted by the Metagross, then presses the Xu Family for recognition of his clan’s losses.

Significant themes

• Power and vulnerability: Even a large, well-established colony can be devastated by a stronger attacker.
• Mystery and uncertainty: Mu Yun’s escape is so complete that even Champion-level pursuers cannot explain it.
• Duty versus self-interest: Xu Dian focuses on protecting the family’s long-term foundation, while Xu Yuanzhuang worries about immediate costs.
• Hierarchy and survival: The Excadrill leader’s behavior shows how quickly anger gives way to caution when facing superior power.

Chapter Summary: “This Face Can Go to Hell”

Key Plot Points and Events

• At the Xu Family Manor, Xu Kaijun reports to his grandfather, Xu Dian, about exchanging the Pokémon Egg with Mu Yun and suspects that Mu Yun may be connected to the Champion-level Pokémon attack in the Silversteel Secret Realm.
• Xu Dian criticizes Kaijun’s narrow thinking and reminds him that the Xu Family has survived through careful long-term planning, having made many enemies and faced numerous hidden threats.
• After personally reviewing Mu Yun’s background, Xu Dian concludes that Mu Yun is exceptionally talented, fortunate, and strongly supported by Black River University and the Northeastern District. He warns that Mu Yun could eventually reach the level of the powerful Mu Family.
• Xu Dian orders Kaijun to bury the matter and not discuss it with anyone, including his father. However, he also instructs him to investigate underground trading markets to determine who is distributing the large number of Pokémon Eggs.
• After Kaijun leaves, Xu Dian reflects bitterly on the consequences of the family’s past actions and realizes that his later years may be troubled.
• At a hotel, Mu Yun confirms that his escape from the Secret Realm worked. He had used Pokémon Space and a spatial anchor to return safely to his room after sensing two Champion-level Pokémon approaching him.
• Patrick explains that the Champion-level Pokémon likely detected the residual fluctuations from the spatial node rather than tracking Mu Yun directly. Mu Yun stabilizes and then disperses the anchor to prevent further detection.
• Mu Yun also visits the location where Meng Beilü is hiding, stabilizes that spatial node, checks out of the hotel, and leaves before the Xu Family arrives.
• Roughly two hours later, Xu Family members investigate the hotel. They learn that Mu Yun left at dawn, while Xu Hui and Butler Meng have disappeared. Money belonging to people associated with Xu Hui has also been stolen.
• The Xu Family begins investigating Xu Hui’s fate, determined to find him alive or recover his body.

Character Developments

• Xu Kaijun is shown to be suspicious and impulsive, focusing on his immediate concerns rather than the Xu Family’s broader interests. Xu Dian’s warning forces him to recognize his responsibility as the family’s future patriarch.
• Xu Dian demonstrates deep experience, strategic awareness, and concern for the family’s survival. Although old and physically weakened, he remains perceptive and authoritative. He recognizes Mu Yun as a potentially major future power and regrets the family’s past conduct.
• Mu Yun remains calm, practical, and highly cautious. He successfully escapes the Secret Realm, identifies the weakness in his spatial-anchor technique, and takes steps to erase evidence of his movements.
• Patrick continues to serve as a useful analytical companion, identifying how Mu Yun’s spatial technique was detected.
• Xu Hui and Meng Beilü become central sources of uncertainty, having vanished along with money connected to Xu Hui’s associates.

Significant Themes

• The consequences of past actions: Xu Dian’s reflection that “the causes of the past bear the fruits of today” suggests that the Xu Family’s current troubles are the result of its earlier ruthless expansion.
• Long-term strategy versus short-term suspicion: Xu Dian emphasizes that family leaders must think beyond immediate fears and consider the consequences of their actions.
• Power and hidden threats: The Xu Family’s influence has created enemies, while Mu Yun’s growing talent makes him a potential future rival or major force.
• Caution and adaptability: Mu Yun’s survival depends on noticing the flaw in his spatial technique and quickly correcting it.
• Decline and legacy: Xu Dian’s aging body contrasts with his former strength, highlighting his awareness that his era is ending and that the family’s future depends on the next generation.

Character Interactions

• Xu Dian and Xu Kaijun: Their conversation is a mentorship and reprimand. Xu Dian calmly educates Kaijun about responsibility, strategic thinking, and protecting the family’s future.
• Mu Yun and Patrick: Their exchange is practical and investigative. Patrick identifies the spatial fluctuations that Mu Yun overlooked, allowing Mu Yun to eliminate the danger.
• The Xu Family and the hotel staff: Xu Family investigators use their local authority to obtain information about Mu Yun’s departure and pressure the staff into silence.
• The Xu Family and Xu Hui’s associates: The family begins pursuing Xu Hui and Meng Beilü after their disappearance and the unexplained theft of money, suggesting that a larger conflict or betrayal is unfolding.

Key plot points and events

• Traveling toward Chang City, Mu Yun considers the consequences of using his newly awakened Psychic powers and Space Anchor to assassinate the Xu Family. Though possible, doing so would likely get him expelled from the Yanhuang League and endanger his friends.
• That night, Mu Yun returns to the safety of Pokémon Space instead of camping outdoors.
• He finds Little Silver watching a Pokémon Egg and wanting to eat it. Mu Yun stops him, explaining that the Pokémon inside are his future brothers.
• Mu Yun then brings Little Silver to four injured, Normal-Level Beldum held captive. He knocks them unconscious and allows Little Silver to consume them.
• Little Silver absorbs the first Beldum by drawing it onto the claw-like protrusion of his tail. During the process, he grows and absorbs the Beldum’s Aura, reaching Level 10 and awakening a second, still-unknown Ability.

Character developments

• Mu Yun remains pragmatic and powerful, but recognizes that revenge against the Xu Family would carry serious consequences for those close to him.
• Little Silver shows that he can understand and obey Mu Yun despite his slow, overloaded mind. His instinct to consume Beldum is strong, but he waits for Mu Yun’s permission before eating the captive ones.
• Little Silver’s evolution by consuming members of his own tribe reveals a new capacity: he can gain both levels and Abilities through this process.

Significant themes

• Power versus consequences: Mu Yun can use extreme methods, but understands that power does not erase the risks to himself and his friends.
• Instinct and restraint: Little Silver’s predatory drive contrasts with his trust in Mu Yun.
• Unexplored potential: Little Silver’s newly awakened Ability suggests that his species’ fusion mechanism is more complex than existing research has discovered.
• Care amid pragmatism: Mu Yun protects the unborn Beldum as family while treating the hostile captives as useful resources.

Character interactions

• Mu Yun gently redirects Little Silver away from the Pokémon Egg, establishing the unborn Beldum as his brothers.
• He reassures Little Silver that the captive Beldum cannot harm them, then gives him permission to eat.
• Little Silver looks to Mu Yun for confirmation before consuming his first captive, highlighting their trust and the trainer’s influence over his behavior.