Chapter Summaries

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.

Ye Qing asked Mew to find a safe habitat for the five Genesect, but Mew dragged him into the sky to demand the promised game console, prompting the Genesect to attack in his defense. After Ye Qing stopped the fight and delivered the console, Mew agreed to take the Genesect to a place where only Pokémon could enter, leaving Ye Qing unable to visit them for now.

• Ye Qing explained the Genesect's situation to Mew and asked it to find them a place humans would not disturb.
• Mew woke Ye Qing by dropping him from ten thousand meters, and the Genesect flew up to rescue him and attacked Mew.
• Director Wang saw Ye Qing in the battle footage and told the Alto Mare City Public Security Bureau to monitor the fight rather than sound the alarm.
• Ye Qing showed Mew his phone and stopped the fighting by explaining that the game console had arrived.
• Ye Qing told the Genesect they would stay with Mew, and Mew promised to find them a suitable habitat that Ye Qing could not enter.

Ye Qing prepared to travel to a tropical rainforest to train Gabite, while deciding that Absol should remain in Alto Mare and work toward changing how people viewed its species. After arranging a publicity campaign with Mayor Wei, Ye Qing asked Mew for a ride on his journey.

• Ye Qing told his mother he planned to leave for a tropical rainforest and began preparing for the trip.
• Ye Qing decided Absol should stay in Alto Mare, where it could help people accept its species, and asked his mother to take it out among the public.
• Ye Qing asked Mayor Wei to arrange publicity for Absol, including videos of it helping with disaster relief, and Wei agreed.
• Mew returned with Latias and hurried to play its new game console.
• Ye Qing asked Mew for a ride to his destination, and Mew decided to help so Ye Qing would leave it alone to game.

Ye Qing traveled with Mew to a dangerous tropical rainforest to help Gabite evolve and give Diancie experience while searching for Xerneas. After Tangrowth ambushed the group, Gabite fought back, but a much larger vine seized him and dragged him away.

• Mew teleported Ye Qing and his Pokémon to a vast rainforest, then left to play video games.
• Gardevoir sensed powerful enemies nearby, and Ye Qing's group saw wild Pokémon hunting one another in the jungle.
• Unknown vines dragged Gabite into the undergrowth, and Ye Qing followed with Diancie and Gardevoir.
• Gardevoir shielded the group from the vines and Stun Spore while Infernape and Diancie burned and cleared the surrounding plants.
• Ye Qing sent Gabite to battle a group of Tangrowth, and Gabite struck several of them with Dragon Claw and Dragon Rush.
• A thick vine knocked Gabite down, bound him, and dragged him away as Ye Qing ordered the others to follow.

Ye Qing and his Pokémon followed the vine that had taken Gabite into a haunted forest, where a Totem Tangrowth and a group of Trevenant attacked them. The battle left Gengar in Tangrowth’s grasp and Ye Qing’s group surrounded as Gabite struggled to break free.

• Ye Qing followed the vine into an eerie forest with Infernape, Gardevoir, and Diancie, where the plants parted to let them pass.
• Ye Qing found Gabite among the drained corpses hanging from a giant tree, and Tangrowth’s vines attacked the group.
• Gengar tried to rescue Gabite but was seized by vines that began draining his energy, while Infernape charged at the tree.
• Trevenant emerged from the surrounding trees and their cries briefly stunned Ye Qing and Gardevoir, but Diancie protected them with Light Screens.
• Ye Qing identified the attacker as a level 65 Totem Tangrowth, while Gabite cut through his bindings and Infernape was struck away.

Ye Qing’s Pokémon battled Tangrowth and Trevenant, and Gabite broke through to level 44 under pressure before the team defeated them. Elsewhere, Granny Minghua learned that Ye Qing had received her family’s Key Stone and Lucario’s Mega Stone, and sent Zhao Ling to retrieve them.

• Ye Qing let Gabite face the much stronger Tangrowth while Infernape and Gengar fought nearby Trevenant, then ordered Infernape to rescue Gabite when Tangrowth’s vines overwhelmed him.
• Infernape was caught and struck by Tangrowth’s vines while saving Gabite, and Gabite broke through to level 44 before retaliating with a powerful attack.
• Ye Qing ordered his Pokémon to attack at full strength, and they defeated Tangrowth and the Trevenant; afterward, Aggron dug a pit for the corpses hanging in the trees.
• Granny Minghua learned that the Key Stone and Lucario’s Mega Stone had been handed to Ye Qing, and summoned Zhao Ling to retrieve them.
• Granny Minghua asked Zhao Ling, who was close to Ye Qing, to get her family’s Mega Stone and Key Stone back.

Zhao Ling refused Granny Minghua’s demand to oppose Ye Qing, while Giovanni dismissed her request for Team R to intercept him. As Ye Qing’s group traveled through the forest toward a river, a venomous snake ambushed them, lunging at Ye Qing.

• Zhao Ling told Granny Minghua that he would neither go after Ye Qing nor oppose him, then left despite her anger.
• Granny Minghua ordered her confidant to contact Team R or the Star Team and to intensify the search for Ye Qing’s group.
• Giovanni rejected the Ghost-type Elite Four member’s request to intercept Ye Qing, wary of the powerful Pokémon supporting him.
• Ye Qing’s Pokémon rested by a stream, where Gabite failed to catch fish and repeatedly ended up in the water.
• Ye Qing released Milotic to find a river, and the group traveled through the forest while Gardevoir teleported them past wild Pokémon.
• After a faint groan that sounded like a Bulbasaur came from the grass, a venomous python struck Milotic and lunged at Ye Qing.

Ye Qing rescued a young Bulbasaur from Seviper and continued through the forest with his Pokémon toward a river. He reached a Y-shaped stretch of river near Wang Yao’s marked location and began making camp.

• Gabite fought Seviper while Gardevoir and Milotic rescued and treated the Bulbasaur Seviper had swallowed.
• Ye Qing let the battered Seviper go, but Seviper spat gastric juice at him before slithering away.
• Ye Qing carried the recovering Bulbasaur onward, while three Liepard followed the group and then gave up on attacking.
• Ye Qing reached the river, checked the map, and sent Gardevoir to scout the area from the air.
• Ye Qing let the rest of his Pokémon out and gave hungry Diancie Fairy-type Pokéblocks.

Ye Qing and his Pokémon were attacked by a Feraligatr at their riverside campsite, then followed a lost Bulbasaur to his group. The group barred outsiders because it planned to hold an Evolution Ceremony, leaving Ye Qing waiting outside their territory.

• Feraligatr attacked Gabite in the river, but Milotic drove it away and Gabite escaped to shore.
• Ye Qing learned that Bulbasaur had been separated from his parents and decided to help him find his group.
• Bulbasaur led Ye Qing, Gardevoir, Infernape, and Gabite through the forest to a guarded gorge.
• Two Ivysaur stopped the group and sent one of their number to report Bulbasaur's return.
• Diancie translated Bulbasaur's explanation that his group would hold an Evolution Ceremony soon and would not admit outsiders.

Ye Qing entered the Venusaur clan’s valley and learned that its aging leader needed help defending the berry trees from enemies during the coming evolution ritual. He agreed to protect the clan, asking only to record the ritual, and left the coming battle unresolved.

• Ivysaur returned and led Ye Qing and his Pokémon into the valley after the clan leader agreed to receive them.
• Ye Qing saw the valley’s Pokémon and berry trees, then identified their elderly leader as a level 80 Totem Venusaur.
• Venusaur thanked Ye Qing for rescuing Bulbasaur and explained that enemies threatened the clan during the approaching evolution ritual.
• Venusaur and his companions offered Ye Qing a Grass Gem and Power Herb to defend the valley.
• Ye Qing declined the payment and agreed to help, asking to record the evolution ritual.

Ye Qing prepared to defend the Venusaur tribe while its leader held an Evolution Ceremony, and three allied armies attacked the canyon. The battle began with Venusaur's forces pushed back, and Ye Qing sent Aggron, Milotic, and Gabite to reinforce them as the ceremony continued.

• Ye Qing discovered the remaining fruit trees produced Poké Ball and Pokéblock ingredients, then prepared his Pokémon and shared Pokéblocks with the Venusaur tribe.
• The Venusaur leader gathered eight Ivysaur and several Bulbasaur for a ceremony that used his life force to bless and help them evolve.
• Gyarados led Water-type Pokémon toward the canyon, backed by Rillaboom's monkey clan and Electivire's lightning clan, planning to attack during the ceremony.
• Venusaur began the ceremony as two elder Venusaur and the canyon's Pokémon prepared to defend the entrance, while Ye Qing guarded the fruit trees with his Pokémon.
• Gyarados's Hyper Beam and the elders' Petal Dance opened the battle, and the arriving monkeys tipped the fight against Venusaur's defenders.
• Ye Qing sent Aggron, Milotic, and Gabite to reinforce the defenders as the attackers threatened to overrun them.

Ye Qing and his Pokémon fought Gyarados’s forces while the Venusaur tribe’s evolution ritual neared completion. The battle remained unresolved when a Simisage riding a Fearow flew toward the six fruit trees.

• Gabite froze when he saw Simisage, while Rillaboom led a group of monkeys into the fight and forced Ye Qing to send Slaking against him with Huge Power.
• Diancie joined the battle against Gyarados, and Gardevoir rescued Bulbasaur as Venusaur was knocked down.
• A level 75 overlord Electivire arrived, and Ye Qing sent Infernape to fight him while keeping Gengar hidden.
• The Venusaur leader’s ritual advanced as Bulbasaur evolved and three Ivysaur approached their critical stage.
• A Simisage riding a Fearow swept over the battlefield toward the six fruit trees.

Ye Qing and his Pokémon fought off Fearow and Simisage as they tried to steal the Berries, while Ye Qing pushed Gabite to overcome his fear. Gabite regained his fighting spirit and battled Simisage, ending the chapter by bursting from underground to ram him.

• Fearow and Pansage arrived to steal the fruit trees, but Ye Qing ordered Gengar and Gardevoir to stop Fearow while Simisage attacked him with Bullet Seed.
• Venusaur completed the Evolution Ceremony and sent Vine Whips to help protect Ye Qing, while Ye Qing called on Gabite to face Simisage.
• Seeing Ye Qing in danger, Gabite overcame his fear, charged through Bullet Seed, and clashed with Simisage, who knocked him from the canopy.
• Other forest overlords joined the battle, and the Venusaur leader entered the fight as his newly evolved Pokémon helped turn the situation around.
• Ye Qing ordered Gabite to use Draco Meteor, then Dig; Simisage avoided the attack and charged at Ye Qing, but Gabite burst from the ground and rammed him between the legs.

Gabite defeated Simisage and evolved into Garchomp, then carried Ye Qing into the battle near Infernape. Garchomp’s Dragon Rush blasted away the Pokémon around them, leaving the fight underway.

• Gabite used Draco Meteor and repeated Dragon Claws to overwhelm Simisage after Fearow fled.
• Gabite pinned Simisage and defeated him with point-blank Dragon Breath despite being struck by Iron Tail.
• Gabite evolved into a level 47 Garchomp as Ye Qing, Gardevoir, and the others watched.
• Ye Qing climbed onto Garchomp, who flew toward the battlefield near Infernape with Gardevoir and Gengar escorting them.
• Garchomp struck the ground with Dragon Rush, blasting away the nearby Pokémon and clearing a large area.

Ye Qing and his Pokémon defeated the invading forces, but the Venusaur leader was near death after exhausting himself in battle. As Ye Qing took charge of the valley Pokémon, Venusaur insisted on honoring his promise to give him the Power Herb and Grass Gem.

• Ye Qing and his Pokémon routed the three allied forces, and Gyarados and the other leaders fled.
• Ye Qing treated his injured Pokémon while Venusaur used his remaining strength to heal the wounded.
• Venusaur collapsed, so Ye Qing organized the valley Pokémon and had the dead buried.
• Ye Qing checked his Pokémon's progress: Garchomp had gained the most, Aggron and Milotic reached level 53, and Slaking reached level 52.
• Diancie translated Venusaur's thanks and his offer of the Power Herb and Grass Gem, but Venusaur insisted on keeping his promise when Ye Qing refused.

Ye Qing and his Pokémon reached a peaceful part of the rainforest while following Diancie’s guidance toward Xerneas. Elsewhere, Mu Linsen began retrieving Yveltal’s Cocoon of Destruction, and the chapter ended with Ye Qing finding Xerneas asleep in the form of a bare tree.

• Ye Qing kept the Power Herb after Venusaur agreed to give him one item, and Venusaur showed him Xerneas’s location on a map traced in the grass.
• Ye Qing set out with his Pokémon, promised Garchomp a treasure, and traveled for a week through the rainforest to avoid territorial overlord Pokémon.
• Diancie sensed Xerneas across the X-shaped river, where Ye Qing found Pokémon living peacefully amid a strong aura of life.
• Mu Linsen sent three team members down into a pit to retrieve Yveltal’s Cocoon of Destruction as a backup plan after losing access to the Genesect Army.
• Diancie guided Ye Qing through an increasingly dense, empty forest until Garchomp cleared vines and revealed Xerneas resting as a lifeless-looking tree.