Chapter Summaries

Cheng Tian and his friends found a Shiny Pokémon egg and returned to their cave base, where they finished improving it and spent the night. After failing to find Nincada the next morning, they were rescued and returned to camp, where Xiong Weidong warned that the bottom hundred on the points leaderboard would be eliminated in a month.

• Frogadier led Cheng Tian, Bai Yun, and Shen Gun to a Shiny egg, which Cheng Tian took and considered giving to Wen Zhe or trading for resources.
• The three boys returned to their cave, where Shen Gun kept watch and Cheng Tian and Bai Yun improved the base with Floette's help.
• Shen Gun caught fish for dinner, and the three took turns keeping watch through the night.
• Cheng Tian and the others searched for Nincada the next morning but found no signs before rescue personnel ended their assignment.
• The boys returned to camp with their Pokémon leveled up and the Shiny egg, and Xiong Weidong announced that the bottom hundred trainees would be eliminated in a month.

Cheng Tian turned in the Stantler antlers and learned his team’s points could be divided among its members. He showed Long Weixi a possible Shiny Weedle egg, and Chong Wensen offered to buy it with points, which he would transfer the next day.

• Cheng Tian and his companions returned to the Training Camp, where they saw that he had earned 3,326 points from the Beedrill honey pool.
• Cheng Tian turned in the Stantler antlers to Long Weixi for 550 points and arranged to split his points among the other six team members.
• Cheng Tian showed Long Weixi the unusual egg they had found, and she took him to meet Bug-type Elite Four member Chong Wensen.
• Chong Wensen examined the egg and asked Cheng Tian to sell it to him; Cheng Tian agreed in exchange for points because he did not raise Bug-type Pokémon.
• Chong Wensen said he would transfer the points the next day, and Long Weixi learned Cheng Tian’s name and remarked on his good luck.

Cheng Tian and the other trainees shared the points from their mission and the Shiny egg, while Cheng Tian considered how to use the Metal Coats he received. During practical battle training with instructor Long Weixi, he sent Noibat to face her Tyrunt and chose to fight without switching Pokémon.

• Cheng Tian explored the Training Camp with Su Han, then returned to the dorm as Bai Yun announced that their group had earned 553 points.
• Chong Wensen paid 6,500 points for the Shiny egg, and Cheng Tian arranged with Long Weixi to hide the points before sharing them with the group.
• Chong Wensen gave Cheng Tian a box of specially formulated Metal Coats, but Cheng Tian decided they would not suit Aron and planned to ask Yang Yonggang about exchanging them.
• Long Weixi began livestreaming the trainees' practical battle session and selected Cheng Tian as her first opponent.
• Cheng Tian sent out Noibat against Long Weixi's level 26 Tyrunt and commanded Noibat to use Tailwind, Double Team, and Agility.

Cheng Tian’s Noibat fought Long Weixi’s Tyrunt, using Agility and a risky combination of Hidden Power and Outrage to overcome the sandstorm and land heavy blows. Noibat ultimately fainted to Tyrunt’s Thunder Fang, leaving Cheng Tian regretting the loss.

• Cheng Tian’s Noibat used Supersonic and Absorb against Tyrunt, but Tyrunt countered with Sandstorm, Rock Tomb, and Stone Edge.
• Long Weixi ordered Tyrunt to confine Noibat with Rock Tomb and strike with Ancient Power.
• Cheng Tian had Noibat use Electric-type Hidden Power to boost its speed, allowing it to dodge Ancient Power.
• Cheng Tian sent Noibat into a final attack with Hidden Power and Outrage, and Noibat struck Tyrunt twice.
• Tyrunt endured Noibat’s attacks, knocked it out with Thunder Fang, and roared in victory.

After losing to Long Weixi, Cheng Tian arranged to trade his Metal Coats with Coach Yang Yonggang and returned to training with Noibat. Long Weixi offered to teach him new ways to use Electric-type Hidden Power, leaving Su Han jealous as Cheng Tian hurried off with her.

• Long Weixi defeated Cheng Tian’s Noibat, then scolded Tyrunt for disobeying her orders and encouraged Cheng Tian after the battle.
• Cheng Tian asked Yang Yonggang to trade his crate of Metal Coats for Tungsten Steel Metal Coats, and Yang agreed to exchange them in batches over time.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han battled with Noibat and Sylveon while Long Weixi watched.
• Long Weixi told Cheng Tian that Electric-type Hidden Power had more uses than boosting speed and offered to teach him.
• Cheng Tian followed Long Weixi to train, while Su Han felt jealous and wished he would spend more time with her.

Long Weixi brought Cheng Tian to the Flying Pokémon Training Ground, where she raced Liang Pingfeng and his Talonflame with her Noivern. After Noivern won using Wild Charge and Snatch, Long Weixi explained how Pokémon could guide electricity through channels in their bodies, giving Cheng Tian a new idea about Noibat’s training.

• Long Weixi took Cheng Tian to the Flying Pokémon Training Ground and challenged Liang Pingfeng to an eighty-lap race.
• Long Weixi and Liang Pingfeng started the race, with their Noivern and Talonflame using Tailwind and Agility to build speed.
• Liang Pingfeng had Talonflame use Flare Blitz and pull ahead, but Long Weixi ordered Noivern to use Wild Charge to catch up.
• Long Weixi had Noivern use Snatch on the final lap, allowing him to win the race.
• Long Weixi explained that Pokémon needed to guide strong electrical currents through channels in their bodies, and Cheng Tian wondered whether Noibat’s training method was wrong.

Cheng Tian sought advice on helping Noibat master Wild Charge and was directed to Psychic-type Elite Four member Ji Huabian. He went to find him with Su Han, but discovered Wen Xu asleep beneath a desk in the otherwise empty Teachers' Office.

• Long Weixi advised Cheng Tian to buy a Wild Charge TM and seek Ji Huabian's help with Noibat's training.
• Cheng Tian found that the TM cost 2,388 Points, and Su Han offered him a third of the Points from the Shiny egg exchange.
• Cheng Tian kissed Su Han on the forehead, then Long Weixi arranged for them to visit the Teachers' Office to find Ji Huabian.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han entered the empty office and found Teacher Gengar working at a computer.
• Gengar got stuck in his rolling chair, and Cheng Tian and Su Han helped free him before he revealed Wen Xu asleep beneath the desk.

Cheng Tian and Su Han found Wen Xu asleep beneath her desk while Ji Huabian was away, but Wen Xu used Mismagius to reveal the source of Noibat’s Hidden Power. Long Weixi explained how Cheng Tian could train Noibat safely, and Wen Xu’s gift of chips left Long Weixi flustered.

• Cheng Tian and Su Han found Wen Xu asleep in her office and learned from Ji Huabian’s message that he would return the next afternoon.
• Wen Xu summoned Mismagius, which used Hypnosis on Noibat and projected a three-dimensional image showing a yellow-marked area beneath his right abdomen.
• Cheng Tian photographed the image, and he and Su Han returned to Long Weixi with it.
• Long Weixi explained that Noibat needed to control Hidden Power and channel its electric current into his wings, and advised Cheng Tian to teach him Wild Charge first.
• Cheng Tian gave Long Weixi the potato chips Wen Xu had sent, and Long Weixi insisted she would not eat them.

Two girls were terrified by eerie sounds and a vanishing figure after getting lost at night, while several Training Camp students went missing and later remembered nothing. He Xisong and Xiong Weidong suspected an abandoned girls’ restroom beneath the sports field and ordered an investigation.

• Two girls lost their way after evening study, discovered their Poké Balls were missing, and fled from eerie laughter and a figure that appeared before one of them.
• He Xisong and Xiong Weidong learned that five students who vanished overnight had been found unharmed but were unable to recall what happened.
• He Xisong ordered students not to leave during evening study until the disappearances were explained.
• A guard reported that one of the missing girls described an eerie building and a ghost, while her companion refused to talk about the night.
• Xiong Weidong identified the abandoned girls’ restroom beneath the sports field as a possible source and ordered teachers and guards to investigate it.

Cheng Tian and Bai Yun left evening study to use the restroom, then found themselves trapped in a dark, silent place where they repeatedly encountered the same rock. After Bai Yun chased a strange Lin Lin into the darkness and disappeared, Cheng Tian heard his scream and entered a suspicious teaching building with his Pokémon.

• Cheng Tian and Bai Yun went to the restroom after their stomachs began hurting, unaware that a notice forbade students from going outside that night.
• They emerged to find the lights out and wandered through the darkness, repeatedly coming across the same rock.
• Cheng Tian released Noibat, Frogadier, Floette, and Rockruff to investigate, but Noibat's Supersonic vanished into the darkness without returning an echo.
• Bai Yun spotted Lin Lin and chased her into the darkness, leaving Cheng Tian behind.
• A dark teaching building appeared before Cheng Tian, and he entered it with Aron and his other Pokémon after hearing Bai Yun scream.

Cheng Tian and his Pokémon searched an eerie, unfamiliar building for Bai Yun, where Ghost-type Pokémon used illusions and ambushes to confuse them. After Misdreavus’s disguise was exposed, a hidden leader stopped the ghosts from attacking, leaving Cheng Tian unsure how they could escape the apparent illusion.

• Cheng Tian entered the strange building with Frogadier and saw a figure resembling Su Han, but Frogadier stopped him from chasing it.
• Cheng Tian identified the supposed Bai Yun at the end of the corridor as a disguised Misdreavus and paralyzed her with Aron’s Thunder Wave.
• A hidden Pokémon attacked Misdreavus with an Energy Ball, allowing her to vanish before Cheng Tian’s team could capture her.
• Ghost-type Pokémon surrounded Cheng Tian and his team with eerie sounds and Shadow Balls, but their leader ordered them to stop attacking.
• Cheng Tian realized that he and Bai Yun might have been trapped in a large illusion created by the Ghost-type Pokémon.

Cheng Tian and his Pokémon broke free of Haunter’s illusion, but Haunter’s Ghost-type companions attacked when Cheng Tian tried to leave. Haunter’s memories briefly surfaced during the fight, and the chapter ended as Frogadier was left vulnerable to Giga Drain after Haunter used Skill Swap.

• Cheng Tian had Floette strike the nun painting, shattering the illusion and revealing a restroom surrounded by Ghost-type Pokémon.
• Haunter appeared and refused to let Cheng Tian and his companions leave, fearing they would expose the Ghost-types’ base.
• Haunter used Curse on Frogadier, then Skill Swap to take away Frogadier’s ability to fly and leave it suspended in midair.
• Cheng Tian moved unconscious Bai Yun and Monferno beside him and released Rockruff to help protect them.
• Floette’s Razor Leaf failed to break through Haunter’s Protect, and Haunter prepared to hit the helpless Frogadier with Giga Drain as a crash rang out.

Cheng Tian and the others were rescued from a group of Ghost-type Pokémon, but the cunning Haunter escaped despite Gengar’s efforts to trap it. Gengar realized Haunter had hidden in Cheng Tian’s shadow and sent a double after him while Wen Xu dragged the real Gengar away.

• Gengar burst into the restroom and struck Haunter with a Shadow Ball as teachers and medical workers rushed in to help Cheng Tian and Bai Yun.
• The teachers subdued the Ghost-type Pokémon, and a doctor said Bai Yun had been hit by Hypnosis and needed only rest.
• Gengar used Mean Look to prevent Haunter from escaping, but Haunter vanished when Gengar dispelled his Darkness Domain.
• A teacher questioned Cheng Tian for leaving class, but Wen Xu intervened, and Cheng Tian thanked her before heading back to the dorm.
• Gengar realized Haunter had slipped into Cheng Tian’s shadow, so he created a double that escaped Wen Xu and raced after Cheng Tian.

Cheng Tian returned to the dorm after encountering Ghost-type Pokémon, then Haunter secretly followed him back and fed on students’ fear by giving them nightmares. In the morning, Haunter slipped into Cheng Tian’s shadow as the boys compared their strange dreams.

• Cheng Tian told Yu Fei and Shen Gun about the Ghost-type Pokémon and accepted milk and bandages before going to sleep.
• Haunter emerged from beneath Cheng Tian’s bed and recalled how it had awakened after more than thirty years and begun leading hungry Ghost-type Pokémon around the island.
• Haunter flew to another dorm, gave four boys nightmares, and absorbed their terror before visiting more dorms to feed.
• Haunter returned to Cheng Tian’s dorm before dawn and hid in the darkness.
• The next morning, Haunter merged with Cheng Tian’s shadow, while several boys described their bizarre nightmares.

Cheng Tian received a Wild Charge Technical Machine and, with Long Weixi’s guidance, taught Noibat the move and began training it to control the current. Noibat’s speed surged during its first successful use, but it had to stop when the protective effect of the Berries wore off.

• Lin Lin learned from Cheng Tian that A-Yun had been knocked unconscious by Hypnosis and left the dining hall to visit him.
• Yang Yonggang gave Cheng Tian two cans of Metal Coat and offered to help train Aron after class.
• Su Han noticed Cheng Tian’s healing facial wound before Long Weixi called them to begin training.
• Long Weixi gave Cheng Tian a Wild Charge TM and showed him how to teach Noibat the move with the training machine.
• Long Weixi had Noibat eat a Cheri Berry and an Occa Berry, then guided it to channel Wild Charge into its wings.
• Noibat used Wild Charge to fly much faster, but stopped when the Berries’ effects faded; Long Weixi gave Cheng Tian ten Occa Berries for continued training.

Cheng Tian took Aron to Yang Yonggang for gravity training, which helped Aron absorb its Metal Coat and improve its Hidden Power. The chapter ended with Long Weixi doubling Cheng Tian’s afternoon battle requirement because he had skipped the morning matches.

• Cheng Tian asked Yang Yonggang to train Aron and watched him apply Metal Coat using a massage technique.
• Yang Yonggang tested Aron’s limits in the gravity chamber, raising the setting to level five while Aron used Fighting-type Hidden Power to keep moving.
• After about thirty minutes, Yang Yonggang stopped the training, and Cheng Tian found that Aron’s Hidden Power proficiency had reached level four.
• Yang Yonggang measured Aron’s Metal Armor and found that five percent of it had been replaced by Metal Coat.
• Cheng Tian returned to the training grounds, where Long Weixi ordered him to win seven battles that afternoon because he had not participated in the morning matches.

Bai Yun woke in the Training Camp medical building after being knocked unconscious by a Ghost-type Pokémon’s illusion, then left with Lin Lin, Cheng Tian, and Su Han to rest in a secluded pavilion. Though he joked with his friends, he remained troubled by a nightmare in which Lin Lin disappeared, while an unseen shadow’s mist had entered his body.

• Lin Lin visited the unconscious Bai Yun, but Cheng Tian and Su Han interrupted her as she leaned toward him and teased her about taking time off to see him.
• Black mist from the shadow at Cheng Tian’s feet slipped into Bai Yun, who stirred and woke in terror from a nightmare.
• Bai Yun told his friends he had dreamed that Rikka turned into Jotaro Kujo, while privately remembering a more frightening dream in which Lin Lin vanished.
• After the doctor confirmed Bai Yun was well enough to leave, the four friends went to a secluded pavilion behind the cafeteria.
• Cheng Tian rested on Su Han’s lap while Lin Lin offered Bai Yun a place to rest, but he chose to lie on a stone bench; the shadow beneath Cheng Tian’s bench stirred and settled again.

Cheng Tian faced the bucktoothed boy and his Chatot in a training battle to make progress toward his required seven fights. Noibat defeated Chatot, and Cheng Tian remained ready to continue his battles.

• Bai Yun resumed afternoon training, while Cheng Tian worried that he had completed only three of his seven required battles.
• Huang Mao and his lackeys confronted Cheng Tian and Su Han over the honey, and Cheng Tian welcomed the chance to battle them.
• Long Weixi set the condition that Cheng Tian had to win his battles in a row, then sent a trainee to referee Cheng Tian's match against the bucktoothed boy.
• The bucktoothed boy's Chatot tried to boost its strength with Chatter and Work Up, but its Hyper Voice barely affected Noibat.
• Noibat dodged Chatot's Air Slash, then used Wild Charge; Chatot copied the move, shocked itself, and was knocked out by Noibat's follow-up attack.

Cheng Tian’s Pokémon fought Yellow-Haired Guy’s subordinates in a series of matches, with Noibat and Aron winning and Floette defeating Koffing. After Aron broke Tauros’s horn to secure victory, Yellow-Haired Guy stepped forward to fight Cheng Tian himself.

• Noibat defeated Bucktooth’s Woobat after Woobat used Imprison, Heart Stamp, and Captivate.
• Cross-Eyed Guy sent out Koffing, whose Neutralizing Gas exposed Noibat to Wild Charge’s recoil, forcing Cheng Tian to switch to Floette.
• Floette overcame Koffing’s poison attacks and defeated it with Hidden Power-Ice, Fairy Wind, and Razor Leaf.
• Cheng Tian sent out Aron to face Cross-Eyed Guy’s Tauros, and Aron used Thunder Wave and Dragon Rush to bring Tauros down.
• Aron struck Tauros with Body Slam and Head Smash, snapping its horn and knocking it out.
• Yellow-Haired Guy called his subordinates useless and entered the battle himself.

Cheng Tian battled Yellow-Haired Guy, using Frogadier and Noibat to defeat Linoone before Noibat fell to Sneasel. Aron then fought Sneasel to a double knockout, leaving the match unresolved.

• Cheng Tian withdrew Aron and sent Frogadier against Yellow-Haired Guy’s Linoone, which had been prepared to counter Aron.
• Frogadier used Substitute to evade Linoone’s Thunderbolt, then poured Scald into the hole where Linoone had used Dig and Rest.
• Frogadier struck Linoone with Grass Knot and U-turn, bringing Noibat onto the field; Cheng Tian and Long Weixi ruled that U-turn did not violate the switching rules.
• Noibat defeated the weakened Linoone with Outrage, then was knocked out by Sneasel’s Ice Punch.
• Cheng Tian sent Aron against Sneasel, and their final attacks left both Pokémon unable to battle.