Recaps

Ye Qing learned from Gym Leader Morikawa how Pokémon could develop innate abilities beyond their moves, then left to train on an uninhabited island. He set Gabite’s evolution as the training goal, leaving Gabite alarmed by the team’s attention.

• Ye Qing described Fujii Gongshu’s sudden illness to Gym Leader Morikawa, who accepted his account.
• Ye Qing asked about Venusaur’s Leaf Storm, and Gym Leader Morikawa explained that some Pokémon could develop innate abilities rooted in their nature.
• Ye Qing recognized that Pokémon could grow through abilities and combinations beyond learning moves, then decided to leave for special training.
• Ye Qing rode Milotic to an uninhabited island and released his Pokémon for training.
• Ye Qing made Gabite’s finding an opportunity to evolve the team’s training goal, and Infernape and the others stared at the panicked Gabite.

Ye Qing began intensive training for his Pokémon, determined to overcome Slaking’s laziness and strengthen the team before the World Championships. Meanwhile, Luo Moyun and Wang Yao pursued separate leads involving Legendary Pokémon, with Wang Yao deciding to go to Antarctica to learn more about Xerneas.

• At a feast before training began, Ye Qing treated his Pokémon to local specialties from Japan.
• Luo Moyun asked Old Master Luo to arrange a spar with Zapdos or Entei, but learned both Legendary Pokémon were away; he was pleased that Team R’s information had been accurate.
• Li Hu told Wang Yao that his research funding was approved and he could apply to study at Team R’s Antarctic base, where records about Xerneas might be available.
• Wang Yao changed his mind about going to Antarctica after learning the base might hold classified information about Xerneas.
• Ye Qing assigned Slaking to swim three nautical miles ten times a day under Gardevoir’s supervision, with Azurill watching for slackening.
• Ye Qing gave the rest of his team specialized training tasks, including Mega Evolution practice for Infernape and Gengar and battles against stronger wild Pokémon for Gabite.

Ye Qing trained his Pokémon for the dangers of Earth's Lung, while Slaking struggled to learn swimming and Gabite was relentlessly pursued by a group of Pansage. Ye Qing improved his ability to maintain Bond Phenomenon and Mega Evolution, but the training left him physically depleted.

• Gardevoir tossed Slaking into the sea for swimming practice, discovered he could not swim, and fetched Milotic to teach him while Ye Qing continued training.
• Gabite encountered a group of Pansage led by Simisage, who tried to capture him, and fought his way through them before fleeing under continued pursuit.
• Ye Qing increased the duration of his Bond Phenomenon and Mega Evolution by ten seconds as Gardevoir checked on Gabite and Slaking.
• Gabite escaped Simisage’s grasp and used Sandstorm to attack the Pansage, but the group kept chasing him through the forest.
• Ye Qing had Infernape combine Flamethrower with Flame Wheel while Gengar attacked with Shadow Balls, then vomited from the strain after ending their evolutions.

After half a month of training, Ye Qing prepared to leave with his strengthened Pokémon, while Gabite fought Simisage’s troop alone rather than risk being captured as her bride. Gardevoir intervened at the last moment, helping Gabite defeat Simisage before he passed out.

• Ye Qing saw Milotic, Infernape, Aggron, Absol, and Slaking gain levels, while Gardevoir failed to combine Teleport with Calm Mind.
• Ye Qing agreed to buy Diancie new outfits in the next city and asked Gardevoir to call Gabite back so they could leave.
• Gabite continued battling Simisage and her troop, refusing to surrender despite being cornered and exhausted.
• Simisage and three Pansage attacked Gabite, who unleashed Outrage but was knocked down by Simisage’s Iron Tail.
• Gardevoir used Heal Pulse and Skill Swap on Gabite, enabling him to strike Simisage down with a powerful Dragon attack.
• Gabite passed out after his victory, leaving Gardevoir and Azurill bewildered by the confrontation.

Ye Qing recovered his exhausted Pokémon after their wilderness training, then traveled with Gardevoir to Mountain City. Meanwhile, the Star Team prepared five Genesect with orders to eliminate Ye Qing, and he ended the chapter choosing a restaurant for his team.

• Gardevoir returned Gabite to Ye Qing, who found that Gabite had gained three levels and learned Dragon Rush before recalling him to rest.
• Ye Qing and Gardevoir rescued Pidgeot from two Fearow, and Pidgeot agreed to carry Ye Qing after he fed him a Pokéblock.
• Researchers on an isolated island completed preparations to revive five Genesect and implanted the command to eliminate Ye Qing.
• Pidgeot flew Ye Qing and Gardevoir to Mountain City, where Ye Qing registered at the Trainer Association.
• As dusk fell, Ye Qing chose the Snorlax Seafood Buffet Restaurant from a recommendation on his phone.

Ye Qing took his Pokémon to a Snorlax-themed buffet and tried to call Dragon Tamer before his Gym challenge, but Dragon Tamer ignored the call to protect his vacation. During dinner, Gabite invented a heroic story about his training, then panicked when he remembered Gardevoir could tell he was lying.

• Ye Qing found a buffet that allowed Trainers to dine with any number of Pokémon and rented a private room for his group.
• Gardevoir checked the private room for surveillance and listening devices before Ye Qing let the Pokémon out.
• Ye Qing called Dragon Tamer to arrange a spar before the Dragon Gym challenge, but Dragon Tamer refused to answer.
• Gabite declined Infernape's beer and claimed he had rescued a Monferno from Simisage and a troop of Pansage.
• The Pokémon praised Gabite's supposed heroism, while Gardevoir silently let him realize she knew his story was false.
• Ye Qing inferred that Gabite had lied, and Diancie translated the Pokémon's conversation for him.

Wang Yao received information about Xerneas from Meng Wutong, who warned him that Luo Moyun had ties to Team R. Meanwhile, Mu Linsen’s attempt to control five Genesect faltered as they began resisting, and their cries awakened Mewtwo, who transformed into a smaller form.

• In the Qinling Mountains, Giant Alakazam, Giant Gengar, and Giant Dragonite noticed unusual changes around the Distortion World entrance, and Granny Minghua ordered the researchers to keep watching it.
• At an Antarctic base, Wang Yao and his assistants debated using drugs or machines to provoke Pokémon evolution.
• Meng Wutong gave Wang Yao documents about Xerneas and tested his loyalty by offering to help kill Luo Moyun in exchange for information on Ye Qing; Wang Yao angrily refused.
• Meng Wutong warned Wang Yao that Luo Moyun had connections in Team R and told him to advise Luo Moyun to be careful.
• When the Genesect began awakening and resisting, Mu Linsen ordered the researchers to concentrate the drugs on the Shiny Genesect, but the others cried out about wanting to go home.
• Mewtwo heard the Genesect’s pleas, opened his eyes on a grassland, and transformed into a petite form with headphone-shaped protrusions.

Five Genesect attacked Ye Qing at his hotel, forcing Gardevoir and Gengar to protect him as he fled across Mountain City. He reached Dragon Tamer’s villa and begged for help, and Dragon Tamer sent Dragonite into battle while preparing to call for backup.

• Five Genesect appeared above Ye Qing’s hotel and blasted the suite apart, but Gardevoir teleported him to safety.
• The Genesect pursued Ye Qing and Gardevoir, while Gengar helped protect him and Mountain City’s Public Security Bureau sent Braviary to intervene.
• Ye Qing wondered whether Team R had sent the Genesect, then told Gardevoir to take him to Dragon Tamer’s house.
• Ye Qing reached Dragon Tamer’s villa and shouted for the Dragon King to save him.
• Dragon Tamer sent Dragonite to attack the Genesect with Thunderbolt and began Mega Evolving Gyarados as Ye Qing asked him to hold them off while he called for backup.

Ye Qing and the Dragon Tamer fought five Genesect until Mega Mewtwo Y arrived and took on their leader. As Mewtwo pursued the other Genesect, Ye Qing left the city with the remaining Water Drive Genesect, promising to help her get home.

• Ye Qing joined the Dragon Tamer’s fight against the five Genesect after his Spoon Mark lit up, but the red Genesect overwhelmed Infernape and pressed the defenders.
• Mega Mewtwo Y appeared, blocked the red Genesect’s cannon blast, and revealed his transformed form to the stunned Dragon Tamer.
• The red Genesect ordered his group to eliminate Ye Qing, so Mega Mewtwo Y struck back and sent the five Genesect flying.
• Mega Mewtwo Y flew off with the red Genesect while the other three Genesect followed, leaving the Water Drive Genesect behind, longing to return home.
• Ye Qing left for the forest outside the city with Gardevoir and reassured the Water Drive Genesect that he could help her get home.

Ye Qing promised the Douse Drive Genesect that his friend could take her home, while the Dragon Tamer tried to keep the Pokémon League troops away. Mewtwo arrived, drove the troops off, and fought the other Genesect as one charged at Ye Qing.

• The Douse Drive Genesect carried Ye Qing to a forest, where she said she wanted to go home, and Ye Qing promised that a friend could travel through time and space to take her back.
• The Dragon Tamer learned from the Pokédex that Genesect was a powerful prehistoric Pokémon, then rode out to warn the approaching Pokémon League troops not to come closer.
• Ye Qing showed the Douse Drive Genesect the GS Ball as Mega Mewtwo Y slammed the other four Genesect into the ground.
• Mewtwo ordered the Dragon Tamer and the troops to leave, and the Dragon Tamer withdrew them from the area.
• The red Genesect ordered the others to eliminate Ye Qing, but the Douse Drive Genesect resisted and Mewtwo sealed off the area before attacking them.
• The red Genesect and two others attacked Mewtwo while the Burn Drive Genesect rushed toward Ye Qing, and Mewtwo let it approach so Ye Qing could train.

Ye Qing and his Pokémon defeated one Genesect, while Mewtwo overwhelmed the remaining Genesect and took the red one away. After Mewtwo left, Ye Qing worried about facing the four Genesect still at the scene, and Diancie noticed that Water Card Genesect was waking up.

• Ye Qing's Mega Gengar, Infernape, and Diancie worked together to trap Genesect and defeat him with a Fire Punch.
• Mega Mewtwo Y swiftly knocked out the red Genesect and blasted the other three with Aura Spheres and a Shadow Ball.
• Mewtwo destroyed the Positioning Systems on all five Genesect, then carried away the red Genesect.
• Ye Qing asked how he was supposed to defeat the four Genesect left behind.
• Diancie pointed out that Water Card Genesect was waking up, and Ye Qing had Gardevoir lift her into the air.

Ye Qing befriended Water Card Genesect and learned that their leader could forcibly control the others, while Mu Linsen ordered Cyllene to retrieve all five Genesect in Dragon Country. Water Card Genesect described a flower from her ancient homeland, leaving Ye Qing determined to find it or a way to return her home.

• Water Card Genesect accepted Aggron's Pokéblock after Ye Qing promised to help her find her way home if she kept her companions from attacking him.
• Mu Linsen learned that all five Genesect's signals had vanished and ordered Cyllene to take a team to Mountain City and bring them back.
• Ye Qing moved three injured Genesect to a nearby forest and asked Water Card Genesect whether they would attack him after he healed them.
• Water Card Genesect told Ye Qing that their leader could forcibly control their thoughts and that she did not know why he had ordered them to kill Ye Qing.
• Water Card Genesect described a special flower that bloomed in lakes, but she said the white lotus Ye Qing showed her was not the same.
• The other three Genesect woke up while Ye Qing considered asking Celebi to help find the ancient flower or return Water Card Genesect home.

Ye Qing calmed the four Genesect and brought them to Mountain City, where he asked Dragon Tamer for a Dragon Gym challenge. Dragon Tamer agreed to arrange the match after handling his work, and an elderly man arrived to escort Ye Qing to the Gym.

• Ye Qing persuaded the three hostile Genesect that their leader had been controlled and promised to help them find their homeland.
• Ye Qing convinced all four Genesect to obey him, camped with them overnight, and traveled to Mountain City with them the next morning.
• Dragon Tamer questioned Ye Qing about bringing the Genesect into the city, and Ye Qing demonstrated that they followed his commands.
• Ye Qing challenged the Dragon Gym, and Dragon Tamer offered him the Dragon Badge before Ye Qing insisted on earning it with his own Pokémon.
• Dragon Tamer asked Ye Qing to wait while he handled his work, and an elderly man on Altaria came to escort Ye Qing to the Gym.

Ye Qing waited at the Dragon Gym with the four Genesect, then followed Dragon Tamer into the clan’s vast dragon-filled valley for his challenge. After Wang Yao secretly urged him to check their childhood tree in Shanhai City, Ye Qing planned to return there once his business at the Gym was finished.

• Ye Qing shared refreshments with the four Genesect, and Water Card Genesect said the pastries did not taste like home but were delicious.
• Wang Yao called Ye Qing and cryptically told him to visit the tree they had watered as children, prompting Ye Qing to plan a return to Shanhai City.
• Dragon Tamer arrived, and Ye Qing persuaded him to let him enter the Dragon Gym for a challenge.
• Dragon Tamer led Ye Qing through a cave to a valley filled with Dragon-related Pokémon, where Ye Qing spotted a pink Dragonair and asked about it.
• Dragon Tamer refused to give Ye Qing the Dragonair, then took him toward a stone battle ring with Xiao Zhuang and the Genesect following.

Ye Qing began the Dragon-type Gym challenge, where three of his Pokémon each had to last three minutes against the Dragon Tamer. Gardevoir endured Dragonite’s attacks and tied with him until time ran out, giving Ye Qing the first match victory.

• The Dragon Tamer explained the three-minute challenge and promised not to use Mega Evolution, gems, or items.
• Ye Qing chose Gardevoir to face the Dragon Tamer’s Level 83 Dragonite.
• Gardevoir used Teleport to evade Dragonite while building her power with six Calm Minds.
• The Dragon Tamer trapped Gardevoir in a Storm, but she countered with Stored Power and fought Dragonite to a draw.
• The Dragon Tamer declared Ye Qing the winner of the first match, and Ye Qing praised and fed Gardevoir.

Ye Qing faced the Dragon Tamer’s Aerodactyl with Mega Gengar and pushed the battle to its three-minute limit, but Aerodactyl’s Hyper Beam knocked Gengar out of Mega Evolution. After recalling Gengar, Ye Qing stood one battle away from earning the Dragon Badge.

• The Dragon Tamer sent out his Level 81 Aerodactyl, and Ye Qing chose Gengar for the battle.
• Ye Qing Mega Evolved Gengar, who evaded Aerodactyl’s Sky Attack and countered with Shadow Ball, but Aerodactyl batted it back.
• Gengar used Protect against the reflected Shadow Ball, then endured Aerodactyl’s Iron Tail after his Sludge Bombs weakened the attack.
• Ye Qing had Gengar use a full-power Hyper Beam, which blasted Aerodactyl away before Aerodactyl answered with an even stronger Hyper Beam.
• Aerodactyl’s attack knocked Gengar out of Mega Evolution and shook Ye Qing, so Gardevoir calmed him before he recalled Gengar.
• Ye Qing prepared for the final battle for the Dragon Badge, while the Dragon Tamer secretly marveled at how much stronger he had become.

Ye Qing faced Dragon Tamer’s level 80 Gyarados with Infernape, then provoked the furious Pokémon by slapping him. Gyarados fired an eighty-percent-strength Hyper Beam at Infernape, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Cyllene and two companions emerged from the forest outside Mountain City and searched for Genesect’s radio signals.
• Dragon Tamer sent out his red Gyarados, and Ye Qing chose Infernape to fight him.
• Ye Qing activated the Bond Phenomenon, and Infernape struck Gyarados with a staff before dodging Aqua Tail and slapping his face.
• Gyarados flew into a rage, blasted Infernape into the air, and shattered his Protect with a powerful charge.
• Dragon Tamer ordered Gyarados to use Hyper Beam, and Gyarados fired it at the airborne Infernape with eighty percent of his strength.

Ye Qing’s Infernape defeated the Dragon Tamer’s Gyarados after enduring Hyper Beam and landing one last slap, while Mewtwo watched from above. Mewtwo then took Ye Qing and the four Genesect to a forest and began modifying the remaining Genesect so they would no longer be controlled by humans.

• Infernape survived Gyarados’s Hyper Beam and rose again with Blaze activated, while Gardevoir encouraged him to hold on until Encore ended.
• Ye Qing ordered Infernape to use Fire Punch against Gyarados’s Hyper Beam, and Infernape pushed through the attack before slapping Gyarados and collapsing.
• Mewtwo and the red Genesect watched from the sky, and Mewtwo recalled Gyarados before it could retaliate.
• The Dragon Tamer gave Ye Qing the Dragon Badge, and Mewtwo carried Ye Qing, Gardevoir, and the four Genesect away.
• In an unnamed forest, Mewtwo attached disc-shaped devices to the four Genesect to modify them.

Mewtwo freed the five Genesect from their control systems and told them to follow Ye Qing, who agreed to help them find their home. When the Star Team tried to seize control of the Genesect and kill Ye Qing over Hunter J, the freed Pokémon turned on them and carried Ye Qing away.

• Mewtwo removed the control systems from the four captured Genesect, then told them to follow Ye Qing and asked him not to interrupt his research into another direction of evolution.
• The red Genesect apologized for his earlier actions, and Ye Qing agreed to help the five Genesect return to their home three hundred million years in the past.
• A Xatu and three Star Team members, led by Cyllene, ambushed Ye Qing and blocked Gardevoir's Teleport.
• Cyllene activated a controller, but the Genesect resisted it because Mewtwo had already freed them; Ye Qing told them that the Star Team had modified them and urged them to take revenge.
• The five Genesect blasted the Star Team members, and Ye Qing left with them as they formed a flying carpet.

Ye Qing returned to Shanhai City with the Genesect and uncovered a note Wang Yao had hidden in a tree, linking Luo Moyun to Team R and pointing to a location in the Amazon Rainforest. He then took the Genesect toward the forest where he had met Celebi, intending to find out whether Celebi could send them back three hundred million years.

• Mu Linsen ordered his subordinates to recover the Genesect, but a Senior Executive warned that their forces could not defeat the Genesect army.
• Ye Qing arrived in Shanhai City and went to the abandoned snack street where he and Wang Yao had once spent time together.
• Ye Qing sent Infernape to search a Chinese parasol tree, where Infernape found a note hidden inside its bark.
• Ye Qing read Wang Yao's note, which connected Luo Moyun to Team R and gave coordinates near an X-shaped river in the Amazon Rainforest.
• Ye Qing burned the note and accepted the red Genesect's offer of help against the Star Team and other threats.
• Ye Qing took the Genesect to the forest where he had first encountered Celebi to test whether Celebi could return them to their era.

Ye Qing returned to the forest to summon Celebi, but worshippers gathered at the Ancestral Shrine thwarted his attempt to clear the area. Nearby, Wangchen and Luo Jiujiu pursued the wounded Xie Yu, Zhu Yuanhao, and Chen Siyuan; after the three brothers escaped another clash, they headed for the shrine and its crowds in hopes of losing their pursuers.

• Ye Qing brought the Genesect army back to the forest and used Milotic's Rain Dance to try to drive the worshippers away from the Ancestral Shrine.
• Two Sunny Day attacks dispersed the rain, leaving Ye Qing unable to clear the crowd.
• Wangchen and Luo Jiujiu attacked Xie Yu, Zhu Yuanhao, and the wounded Chen Siyuan while pursuing them on orders from the Pokémon League.
• Zhu Yuanhao Mega Evolved Lucario and fought Luo Jiujiu as Xie Yu and Malamar knocked Wangchen back.
• Chen Siyuan used Magnezone's Explosion to cover the brothers' escape, and Zhu Yuanhao ended Lucario's brief Mega Evolution.
• Xie Yu urged his brothers toward the Ancestral Shrine, hoping its crowds would give them a chance to evade their pursuers.

Ye Qing interrupted Wangchen and Luo Jiujiu as they pursued the injured Xie Yu, Zhu Yuanhao, and Chen Siyuan under orders from the Pokémon League. He stopped both sides from fighting and asked Xie Yu to explain what had happened.

• Chen Siyuan collapsed from a serious abdominal wound while Zhu Yuanhao and Xie Yu tried to keep him alive, and Wangchen and Luo Jiujiu pursued the brothers.
• Ye Qing investigated the sound of an explosion with Gardevoir and Genesect, whose attack stopped Wangchen from striking the fugitives.
• Genesect surrounded both the pursuers and the brothers, and Ye Qing recognized Xie Yu and Wangchen when he arrived.
• Luo Jiujiu said she and Wangchen had been ordered by the Pokémon League to arrest the three brothers, while Zhu Yuanhao protested that they had been framed.
• Ye Qing sent Gardevoir to heal Chen Siyuan and warned everyone not to fight, using Genesect to make them stand down.
• Wangchen recalled his Pokémon, and Ye Qing asked Xie Yu to explain the situation.

Ye Qing learned that Xie Yu and his brothers had been framed for stealing a Lucario Mega Stone after they took a Key Stone from Granny Minghua’s home in retaliation. With the Pokémon League still pursuing them and no clear evidence to clear their names, Xie Yu entrusted the Mega Stone to Ye Qing for safekeeping.

• Xie Yu explained that the brothers had obtained the Lucario Mega Stone before Granny Minghua hired them, then found themselves named in a League wanted notice after visiting headquarters to collect their payment.
• Xie Yu admitted that the brothers had stolen a Key Stone from Granny Minghua’s home because they believed she had framed them first.
• Ye Qing asked Wangchen and then called the Dragon Tamer, who confirmed that Granny Minghua had signed the wanted notice but said he knew of no conclusive evidence against the brothers.
• Wangchen said he still had to arrest the brothers while the notice remained active, and Xie Yu decided to entrust their Mega Stone to Ye Qing because they could not protect it themselves.
• Ye Qing agreed to keep the Mega Stone safe and had Gengar collect it.

Ye Qing protected Lucario’s Mega Stone and reconciled Xie Yu’s group with Wangchen and Luo Jiujiu, agreeing to draw the Pokémon League’s attention to himself. After everyone left, he went to the Ancestral Shrine to summon Celebi.

• Lucario reluctantly gave Ye Qing his Mega Stone, and Ye Qing promised to keep it safe from the Ghost-type Elite Four member and the Pokémon League.
• Ye Qing helped Xie Yu’s group and Wangchen make peace, while Luo Jiujiu offered to help investigate the incident from inside the Pokémon League.
• Wangchen and Luo Jiujiu agreed to report back and spread the word that Lucario’s Mega Stone was with Ye Qing.
• Ye Qing sent Xie Yu’s group to treat their Pokémon, then headed to the Ancestral Shrine with Gardevoir.
• Ye Qing placed the GS Ball before the Celebi statue.

Ye Qing failed to summon Celebi with the GS Ball, leaving the five Genesect unable to return to their era for now. He brought them home and asked Mew for help, promising to buy it a new game console if it agreed.

• Ye Qing waited through the night at the Ancestral Shrine, but Celebi never appeared and Gardevoir sensed no Mythical Pokémon energy or Spacetime Ripples.
• Ye Qing apologized to the five Genesect and took them home to find them a temporary place to stay.
• Ye Qing arrived home, greeted his family and Pokémon, and introduced the Genesect as his friends.
• Ye Qing found Latias playing video games with Mew and asked Mew for help, offering it a new-model game console in return.
• Mew put down its controller after hearing Ye Qing's offer.