Recaps

Mayor Luca oversaw construction at the Breeding Center and saw Jubilife Pokémon Park as a final major project that could strengthen the city. Meanwhile, Li Wei prepared for his first classes at Celadon University, checked his teaching slides, and set out for class with Lucario and Diancie.

• Mayor Luca toured the Breeding Center construction site and watched NBJ Architectural Design Company's presentation, then decided Jubilife Pokémon Park could boost the city's image and tourism.
• Mayor Luca resolved to seize the opportunity to make Jubilife City a showcase, hoping to finish his local political career with the project before moving to Lily of the Valley Island.
• Li Wei reviewed the demanding Master Breeder exam requirements and learned that the last person to pass had done so four years earlier.
• Erika told the group chat that Li Wei had become a guest lecturer at Celadon University, prompting Red and Akin to consider what they could teach.
• Li Wei checked his teaching slides and left for class with Lucario and Diancie.

Li Wei began his seven-day guest lecture at Celadon University, where a packed hall of students and Bill gathered to hear him teach Pokémon breeding. He introduced Lucario, Diancie, and Pokédex Rotom as his teaching partners and began his presentation.

• Li Wei arrived at the crowded lecture hall with Lucario and Diancie and saw Bill sitting in the front row.
• The students welcomed Li Wei, whose fame had grown after he made Moltress-tier Pokémon Curry and shared its recipe and preparation video.
• Li Wei introduced himself and modestly described the personal insights he would share during his seven days at Celadon University.
• Li Wei introduced Lucario, Diancie, and Pokédex Rotom as his teaching partners, and the students applauded them.
• Pokédex Rotom opened Li Wei's presentation while Bill began recording the lecture on his phone.

Li Wei taught his first lesson at Celadon University, explaining that Pokémon care depended on their happiness, health, and emotional bonds with people. The lesson ended after he demonstrated how to recognize and respond to Pokémon’s feelings.

• Li Wei introduced Lucario, Diancie, and Rotom to the students and asked what raising Pokémon meant.
• Li Wei showed examples of Pokémon interacting comfortably with people and explained that their happiness, health, and bonds mattered most.
• Lucario sensed a nervous student’s emotions and used aura to reassure her.
• Li Wei described signs of Diancie’s comfort and explained how Pokémon’s behavior and expressions revealed their feelings.
• Li Wei told the class about a Pikachu who had run away after feeling neglected, then reassured a student that the Pikachu and its trainer had reconciled.
• Li Wei concluded his first lesson on feelings and emotions.

Li Wei’s first lessons at Celadon University taught students about Pokémon emotions, nutrition, Pokéblocks, and habitats, drawing increasingly large crowds. On his fifth day, Yuto Sento asked how a captured Diancie could be given a city habitat like a mine, having grown interested in catching one herself.

• Li Wei finished his first class on reading Pokémon emotions, then discussed it with Red, Yellow, Lorelei, and the others in their chat group.
• Li Wei taught a lesson on nutrition and Pokéblocks, comparing Lucario’s and Diancie’s needs before demonstrating how to make perfect Pokéblocks.
• Li Wei’s classes continued to attract more students and visitors, including Principal Shoshi, Bill, Satake, and Professor Shuri.
• During a lesson on Pokémon habitats, Yuto Sento asked how trainers could recreate a mine-like environment for a captured Diancie.
• Yuto Sento’s question came from her new interest in Diancie and her hope of visiting the Kalos Region to catch one.

Li Wei concluded his lectures at Celadon University by teaching students to respect each Pokémon’s individual needs and treat breeding as a responsibility. After his final class, students applauded and gathered to ask him questions, bringing his lecturer journey to a close.

• Li Wei answered Yuto Sento’s question about Diancie’s changed habitat, describing plans for a mineral-filled mine at the Jubilife Breeding Center and emphasizing that caregivers should provide the best conditions they can.
• Yuto Sento and Diancie approved of Li Wei’s explanation that a bond between humans and Pokémon depended on mutual choice and respect.
• In his sixth lesson, Li Wei discussed potential and responsibility, using Lucario’s Egg Moves to explain ethical breeding and Metagross to stress that Shiny Pokémon deserved no special or lesser respect.
• On his final day, Li Wei urged future Pokémon Breeders to observe Pokémon carefully, respect their individuality, and understand their needs and emotions.
• After the bell rang, the students applauded and approached Li Wei with questions while Lucario stood beside him, Diancie kept its distance, and the Rotom Pokédex answered basic questions.
• Li Wei patiently answered the students, and his journey as a Celadon University lecturer ended.

Li Wei left Celadon University to meet Ash and Brock in Vermilion City for Professor Oak’s unexplained request. Ash and Brock arrived first, and the chapter ended with Li Wei still traveling to meet them.

• Li Wei promised Principal Shoshi and the others that he would return to Celadon University in November, then set off for Vermilion City.
• Li Wei discussed ancient languages and ruins with Professor Satake and Professor Shuri, and mentioned the upcoming Research Forum Summit in Eterna City.
• Ash and Brock flew to Vermilion City, where Ash eagerly anticipated meeting Li Wei and trying his food.
• Ash and Brock headed to the Vermilion City Pokémon Center after Ash messaged Li Wei, who said he was still about thirty minutes away.

Li Wei arrived in Vermilion City and met Ash and Brock at the Pokémon Center, where he learned they were delivering a document for Professor Oak to Rota Street. The group went inside to call Professor Oak for more details, leaving their plans for the journey ahead unresolved.

• Li Wei contacted Lt. Surge and learned he was captaining the S.S. Aqua to Olivine City, so Li Wei gave up on borrowing the Vermilion Gym kitchen.
• Li Wei reached the Vermilion City Pokémon Center, where Ash and Brock welcomed him at the entrance.
• Li Wei gave Pikachu two Pokéblocks and introduced Ash to Lucario, Diancie, and Shaymin.
• Brock told Li Wei that he and Ash were delivering a document for Professor Oak to Rota Street, north of Pewter City, where a Battle Festival was taking place.
• Li Wei and Ash went into the Pokémon Center and used its video phone to call Professor Oak's Laboratory for more information.

Li Wei visited the Pewter Science Museum with Diancie, Lucario, and his other Pokémon while Ash and Brock headed to the Pewter Gym. The chapter left Diancie studying fossils and sensing the ancient life within them.

• Li Wei traveled to Pewter City by train with Ash and Brock, reassured that Steven would meet them there.
• Brock went home, while Ash chose to head to the Pewter Gym and challenge it.
• Li Wei took Diancie, Lucario, Metagross, Arcanine, and the others to the free Pewter Science Museum.
• A museum staff member recognized Li Wei, asked for a photo and autograph, and Pokédex Rotom took their picture.
• Diancie became fascinated by the fossil exhibits and sensed the life force slumbering within them.

Li Wei and his Pokémon enjoyed a peaceful hour exploring Pewter City’s Fossil Science Museum, where Diancie marveled at spaceflight displays and Metagross collected data. They then headed to Pewter Gym, where Ash’s Pikachu defeated Brock’s Onix.

• Li Wei toured the museum’s spaceflight exhibits with Diancie, Shaymin, Metagross, Lucario, and the others.
• Diancie said it loved the visit, while Metagross reported that it had recorded data and left Li Wei wondering what it planned to do with it.
• Li Wei left the museum with his Pokémon and headed for Pewter Gym to meet Brock, Ash, and the others.
• At Pewter Gym, Ash directed Pikachu to dodge Onix’s Rock Slide, climb onto its head, and counter Slam with Iron Tail.
• Onix fell, and the Gym referee declared Pikachu the winner.

Li Wei, Brock, and Ash traveled to Rota City to visit Cameran Palace, where an annual festival honored the Aura Guardian. Li Wei feared the trip would draw them into the events of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, and the chapter ended with Ash preparing to deliver Professor Oak’s documents to Professor Lorenz Behemos.

• Li Wei boarded the Maglev Train with Brock and Ash, planning to gather information at Cameran Palace and hoping to find Steven.
• The group reached Rota City and learned that festival participants wore old-fashioned clothes, exciting Ash, Pikachu, and Diancie.
• A Cameran Palace guard recognized Li Wei as a fan and let the group enter the city.
• Ash set out to deliver Professor Oak’s handwritten archaeological materials to Professor Lorenz Behemos, while Li Wei asked Rotom to look the professor up.

Li Wei, Ash, and Brock visited Dr. Lorenz Behemos at Professor Oak’s request, where Li Wei was asked to translate records of ancient warfare. Ash and Brock left to attend the Aura Guardian Battle Festival, while Li Wei stayed behind to work with Dr. Lorenz.

• Li Wei used his Pokédex Rotom to learn about Dr. Lorenz Behemos as the group headed to his institute.
• Li Wei, Ash, and Brock delivered Professor Oak’s research materials and met Dr. Lorenz in his cluttered study.
• Dr. Lorenz asked Li Wei to translate ancient warfare records from the delivered case and offered him compensation.
• Ash left for the Battle Festival, and Brock went with him after Lucario and the others declined to join.
• Li Wei stayed at the institute and planned to attend the evening banquet after the festival crowned its winner.

At Cameran Palace’s Aura Guardian Battle Festival, Ash and Pikachu dominated the competition while Mew secretly approached Arianna’s Mime Jr. Li Wei and Professor Lorenzo discussed records of Pokémon warfare as Steven arrived, and Ash won the title of this year’s Aura Guardian.

• Arianna opened the Aura Guardian Battle Festival in honor of Sir Aaron, and Ash entered the competition with Pikachu.
• Jessie, James, and Meowth plotted to capture Pokémon, then imagined Giovanni promoting them to executives for catching Pikachu.
• Mew watched Pikachu battle, transformed into Aipom, and headed across the rooftops toward Arianna’s Mime Jr.
• Li Wei and Professor Lorenzo read records of brutal wars between kingdoms and agreed that people must protect the peace; Steven arrived at the laboratory.
• Ash and Pikachu defeated Weavile, and the referee declared Ash from Pallet Town this year’s Aura Guardian.

Li Wei helped Professor Lorenzo translate and received an unidentified Mega Stone that he recognized as Latias’s. At the Battle Festival, Ash defeated Kidd’s Weavile and became the Hero of Aura, while Mew celebrated with Pikachu.

• Steven visited Professor Lorenzo’s laboratory to see Diancie, while Li Wei learned that a rare Pokémon, likely Mew, was somewhere in Cameran Palace.
• Professor Lorenzo explained to Li Wei, Steven, and the others that Sir Aaron’s sacrifice had not ended the war, though he had stopped a battle that could have destroyed the world.
• After Li Wei finished translating, Professor Lorenzo gave him a Mega Stone he had found during an archaeological excavation.
• Li Wei recognized the stone as Latias’s Mega Stone and accepted it with thanks.
• Ash defeated Kidd’s Weavile at the Battle Festival and became this year’s Hero of Aura, while Mew, disguised as an Aipom, celebrated with Pikachu.
• Brock used Teleport to appear beside Kidd after she removed her helmet.

Li Wei left Professor Lorenzo’s institute with the Latias Evolution Stone and met Steven, while Ash celebrated winning the Aura Guardian Festival. The group received Queen Arianna’s invitations to the evening banquet, and Steven planned to buy suitable outfits.

• Professor Lorenzo let Li Wei keep the unverified Evolution Stone as payment, and Li Wei realized the Treasure Finder stopped vibrating once he had it.
• Li Wei and Steven agreed to meet Ash and Brock after Ash announced in the Chat Group that he had won the Aura Guardian Festival.
• Blue praised Ash and saw his steady improvement as reminiscent of Red, while Lt. Surge questioned whether Ash could have won such a competitive event.
• Li Wei and Steven arrived at Cameran Palace, where an attendant gave them Queen Arianna’s invitations to the banquet and coronation ceremony.
• Steven said they would attend the banquet and raised his Black Card to pay for proper outfits.

Li Wei, Steven, and their Pokémon attended the Cameran Palace banquet, where they sampled specialty desserts and met a hungry Aipom. As the ceremony honoring Ash was about to begin, Aipom stayed close to Li Wei, eager for more sweets.

• Li Wei and Steven arrived at the banquet in period-style outfits, with Diancie, Sirfetch'd, Shaymin, and Lucario accompanying them.
• Ash entered the banquet hall as the Hero of Aura and was set to receive a staff from Queen Arianna.
• Li Wei, Steven, and Brock sampled soy milk and white sesame panna cotta and molten Basque cheesecake, which Li Wei resolved to learn how to make.
• Aipom joined Li Wei's group, devoured cheesecake, and persuaded Li Wei to give it his banoffee pie.
• At seven o'clock, the banquet's ceremony was about to begin.

At Cameran Palace, Ash received the Aura Guardian’s Staff and heard the voice of the Lucario sleeping inside it. The ball ended as adventurer Kidd began her move, while the disguised Team Rocket Trio and the elusive Aipom remained in the palace.

• Li Wei watched the disguised Team Rocket Trio slip through the guests as the ceremony began, and the Aipom on his shoulder vanished.
• Queen Arianna presented Ash with the Aura Guardian’s Staff, whose crystal held an aura that Lucario recognized as similar to its own.
• Ash heard a mysterious male voice ask, “Why?!” but could not find its source.
• Li Wei realized the voice came from Sir Aaron’s Lucario, who had awakened after sensing Ash’s similar Aura.
• Arianna announced the start of the celebratory ball; Li Wei declined to dance, while Steven danced with a young woman.
• The Aipom reappeared and touched tails with Pikachu, and after the ball ended, adventurer Kidd made her move.

At the banquet’s closing ceremony, Ash awakened the Lucario sealed inside the Crystal Scepter, and it mistook him for Sir Aaron before rushing from the castle. Ash and Li Wei’s Lucario followed it into a world changed beyond recognition after a thousand years.

• Diancie, Shaymin, Sirfetch'd, and Pikachu followed Aipom to play hide-and-seek while Kidd began her operation outside the castle.
• Ash, bored with his role as hero, raised the Crystal Scepter during the banquet’s final ceremony and awakened the Lucario inside it.
• The newly awakened Lucario sensed Ash and angrily accused him of abandoning the kingdom, mistaking him for Sir Aaron.
• Li Wei told his Lucario to intervene, and it urged the awakened Lucario to open its eyes and see who Ash really was.
• The awakened Lucario realized Ash was not Sir Aaron but remained convinced that war was near, so it leaped out of the banquet hall.
• Outside, Lucario saw fireworks and a prosperous landscape, realized the world had changed, and Ash and Li Wei’s Lucario ran after it.

Lucario awoke a thousand years after Sir Aaron sealed it away and struggled to reconcile its memories with the museum that had replaced its home. After recounting the past to Queen Arianna, it began to accept her offer to stay at Cameran Palace, just as faint tremors and sounds of battle came from below.

• Lucario emerged from the Crystal Scepter and found its old room had become a museum, then met Queen Arianna, a descendant of Lady Lin.
• Lucario learned that a thousand years had passed and told Arianna and the others how it had scouted for the armies threatening Cameran Palace.
• Ash and Arianna repeated the legend that Sir Aaron had saved the castle, while Lucario's memories made him seem to have abandoned it.
• Li Wei suggested Sir Aaron had sealed Lucario away to keep it from following him, and Arianna invited Lucario to remain at the palace until it felt settled.
• Lucario studied the mural of Sir Aaron and greeted Li Wei's Lucario as Ash asked whether his Hero's Outfit had caused the confusion.
• Tremors and sounds of battle began beneath the group.

Mew spirited Pikachu, Shaymin, Diancie, and Sirfetch'd away to the Tree of Beginning after mistaking a fight for play. Li Wei and the others identified Mew as the likely culprit and prepared to search for them the next morning.

• Mew teleported Diancie and the others out of Cameran Palace, leaving Sirfetch'd confused about why they had fled.
• Li Wei and the others examined the attic and found traces of Ice Beam and Ghost-type moves, while Lucario could not locate the missing Pokémon by Aura.
• Arcanine tracked the group’s scent to the spot where they had vanished, and Arianna and Housekeeper Granny suggested Mew was responsible.
• Li Wei concluded that the Aipom they had seen earlier was Mew in disguise, and Arianna revealed that Mew lived at the Tree of Beginning.
• Arianna proposed that Li Wei and both Lucario search the vast mountain for Mew, and the group prepared to leave early the next morning.

Li Wei, Ash, Steven, and Brock traveled through the misty mountains toward the Tree of Creation, learning about Aura and discovering a Time Flower. They continued toward their destination until evening, when Li Wei's Scan alerted him to four discoveries.

• Steven drove Li Wei, Ash, and Brock through the fog while Lucario, Arcanine, and Dragapult guided and accompanied the vehicle toward the Tree of Creation.
• Li Wei explained Aura to Ash, and Brock realized that Ash might be able to use it like Sir Aaron.
• The group stopped to eat, and Li Wei shared food and Pokéblocks with the Pokémon before Steven estimated they still had half a day of travel ahead.
• Ash found a Time Flower on a cliff, and it projected an image of him eating a sandwich earlier that day when he picked it up.
• The group continued traveling, and Li Wei received four Scan alerts by evening.

Ash and Lucario fought over whether humans could be trusted, while Li Wei and Steven reflected on the lengths they would go for their Pokémon. At the Tree of Creation, Mew’s friends began longing to return, and Li Wei’s group drew closer as the ground started trembling.

• Lucario accused Ash of eventually abandoning Pikachu, and Ash tackled Lucario into a river, where they continued fighting as Li Wei recorded and commentated.
• Steven realized he would risk his life for his Pokémon, and Li Wei recognized that he felt the same after his Pokémon looked toward him.
• Li Wei, Steven, and the others camped for the night beneath the Tree of Creation and agreed to take turns keeping watch, with Ash included.
• Mew’s friends, including Shaymin and Diancie, wanted to return to Li Wei, while Pikachu wanted to return to Ash; Meowth reassured them that their Trainers would search for them.
• Li Wei fired a signal flare, which caught the attention of Pikachu, Shaymin, Diancie, and Meowth at the Tree of Creation.
• Li Wei’s group reached the place where Sir Aaron had sealed Lucario, saw the war from a thousand years ago through a Time Flower, and then felt the ground tremble as both Lucario’s aura sensors rose.

Li Wei and Steven battled Regirock while Ash’s group entered a cave leading into the Tree of Creation. Regirock’s power came from the Tree, and it wanted the intruders to leave as Ash’s group continued deeper inside.

• Regirock emerged from the ground and attacked Ash, but Lucario pushed him out of danger.
• Li Wei and Steven sent Ash’s group into a cave with Sir Aaron’s Lucario and Arcanine, then fought Regirock with Lucario, Metagross, and Aggron.
• Regirock endured repeated attacks because the Tree of Creation replenished its power, but it stopped attacking and demanded that Li Wei and Steven leave.
• Ash’s group wondered why Regirock had attacked them, and Sir Aaron’s Lucario suggested it was defending the Tree of Creation.
• The passage opened before Ash’s group as they continued through the cave.

Ash, Brock, and Lucario raced through the Tree of Creation in search of Pikachu, encountering ancient Pokémon and fighting past Regice. Pikachu heard Ash nearby as Team Rocket fled from Registeel, while Li Wei and Steven caught up on Corviknight.

• Ash, Brock, and Lucario emerged into a cavern where peaceful ancient Pokémon, including Omanyte, Omastar, and Aerodactyl, lived.
• Kidd secretly investigated the Tree of Creation, but an unknown force destroyed all her survey modules at once.
• Ash and Lucario climbed to another tier, where Pikachu heard Ash calling and ran toward him with Shaymin, Diancie, Sirfetch'd, Mew, and Meowth following.
• Regice attacked Ash and Brock, but Lucario struck it with an Aura Sphere, and the group escaped through a tunnel.
• Jessie and James ran into Ash and Brock while fleeing Registeel, and Li Wei and Steven pursued them on Corviknight.
• Jessie and James became separated from Ash's group at a tunnel fork as Jessie dismissed the danger and James warned her to look behind.

Li Wei and Steven reached Mew and the Pokémon it had brought to the World Tree, while Jessie and James were swallowed by the tree’s human-targeting defenses. After learning Mew had kept the group there because it was lonely, Li Wei and Steven agreed to play with it as Ash called for Pikachu nearby.

• A lava-like Cradily swallowed Jessie, while an Omastar swallowed James after he released Chimecho to escape.
• Li Wei and Steven flew into the World Tree and reached Pikachu, Meowth, Shaymin, Diancie, Sirfetch'd, and Mew on a high platform.
• Li Wei reassured Pikachu that Ash would arrive soon, and Meowth explained that Mew had brought everyone there to play and they could not leave.
• Mew showed Li Wei and Steven its worn toys, and they realized it had been lonely for thousands of years.
• Li Wei suggested playing with Mew, Steven agreed, and Ash's shout for Pikachu made Pikachu perk up.

Ash reunited with Pikachu inside the Tree of Creation, where Mew stopped the Tree’s immune mechanism from attacking the group. But the Tree’s condition soon deteriorated, leaving Mew feverish and the surrounding crystals crumbling as the group followed her toward a way out.

• Ash reunited with Pikachu and introduced him to Lucario as the magma-like apparitions pursued them.
• Li Wei recognized the apparitions as the Tree of Creation’s immune cells and led the group in a run for safety.
• Mew contacted the Tree of Creation, causing the apparitions to vanish and bringing Kidd, Jessie, and James to the crystal cave.
• The crystals turned red and began crumbling as Mew developed a fever, and Kidd learned that the Tree’s vital signs and energy transmission were failing.
• Li Wei carried Mew and led the group onward as she tried to guide them out of the Tree of Creation.