"Dad, this place is..." Liu Qing couldn't help looking toward Bofeng Yu, who stood beside him.
"Just as you thought, this is the Namikaze Family's Alternate Dimension!" Bofeng Yu said solemnly. "Only after reaching Champion-class can the blood of a direct descendant of our family open the entrance-the slab in the Shrine outside."
"So it really is an Alternate Dimension!" Liu Qing murmured, though he still had his doubts. He asked curiously, "But aren't Alternate Dimensions spaces created by legendary Pokémon with divine duties? How does our family have one? Could our family..."
"The only legendary Pokémon in our family is your Latios!" Bofeng Yu smiled. This was what pleased him most about Liu Qing. "But although we don't have a legendary Pokémon capable of creating an Alternate Dimension, we do have something even more precious!"
"Ho-Oh's Tail Feather? No, Arceus's Flying-type Sky Plate?!" Liu Qing asked uncertainly.
"Neither answer is wrong. Now look at that Sky Plate again, and see how it differs from the slab outside!" Bofeng Yu said mysteriously.
"All right!" Liu Qing seemed to sense something. He took a deep breath and calmed himself, returning to the Champion's state of mind he maintained in battle before opening his eyes to gaze at the Plate, steeped in an ancient grandeur that seemed to stretch back to the beginning of time.
At that single glance, everything around Liu Qing seemed to fall into darkness. Only the Plate remained in his sight, shining with a dazzling, sacred radiance. An immense, overwhelming presence surged toward him, seeming to take the form of a proud, roaring Arceus before him. Sacred and majestic, Arceus became the center around which the entire world revolved, then let out a roar at him, its sound rolling forward like a tide.
"Ugh..." Crushed beneath that presence,