Chapter Summaries

Bai Yun and Lin Lin climbed Mount Wudang to begin Bai Yun’s training under Shi Shen’s old friend. They reached Tianyuan Taoist Temple, where Wuyou and Shen Gun welcomed them, and learned that Shen Gun was its chief disciple.

• Half a month earlier, Shi Shen told Bai Yun that an old friend at North Lake, Wudang, would teach him what he needed to become a Fighting-type Elite Four member.
• Bai Yun and Lin Lin climbed toward a remote building on Mount Wudang while Bai Yun’s Pokémon raced ahead.
• Wuyou and his Hariyama met Bai Yun and Lin Lin on the mountainside and guided them uphill.
• Bai Yun and Lin Lin recognized Shen Gun, who introduced himself as Changshan, chief disciple of Tianyuan Taoist Temple.
• Shen Gun and Wuyou brought Bai Yun and Lin Lin through the temple gates to meet Shen Gun’s master.

Bai Yun and Lin Lin met the old Celestial Master, who arranged for Lin Lin to leave and assigned Bai Yun to chop bamboo for firewood as training. Bai Yun began the task the next morning under the watch of the Mienshao practicing Tai Chi.

• Shen Gun led Bai Yun and Lin Lin through the monastery and introduced them to the old Celestial Master.
• The old Celestial Master recognized Lin Lin, then sent her to the guest room so he could speak with Bai Yun alone.
• The old Celestial Master told Bai Yun to chop bamboo for firewood each day, explaining that he needed to strengthen his heart first.
• Shen Gun prepared Bai Yun and Lin Lin's room and explained that the firewood task was meant to still Bai Yun's heart.
• The next morning, Bai Yun entered the bamboo grove and saw the Mienshao practicing Tai Chi nearby.

Long Lan and the leader discussed the weakening seal on Giratina and the nation’s slim chances of surviving the Great Calamity. As Giratina attacked the chains holding it back and vowed to destroy humanity, the crisis drew closer, leaving Cheng Tian’s readiness uncertain.

• Long Lan reported that signs of the weakening seal were appearing worldwide, while Nalu continued her inheritance and Cheng Tian had befriended Manaphy.
• The leader and Long Lan assessed the nation’s forces and concluded that its chances against Giratina were negligible.
• The leader ordered the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate how Huo Qian had sealed Giratina and directed the nation to search for Legendary Pokémon.
• On a polar ice sheet, Giratina attacked its chains, but the chains repelled it before the black hole began to close.
• Giratina vowed to overthrow Arceus and wipe out humanity, while its crimson eye appeared through the shrinking opening.

Three months into their search for Keldeo, Cheng Tian and Su Han reached the last island in Virizion’s marked area. Keldeo eagerly challenged Su Han to a battle after mistaking her for a powerful Aura Guardian.

• Noibat continued battling wild Pokémon and reached level 46, while Cheng Tian and Su Han searched the islands for Keldeo.
• Cheng Tian sent Greninja ahead to scout the last island, where Greninja encountered and fought Keldeo on the beach.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han arrived and recognized the small, horned Pokémon as Keldeo, Virizion’s apprentice.
• Su Han used her aura to learn that Keldeo wanted a strong battle before seeking recognition from its masters.
• Su Han told Keldeo that its master had sent them, but Keldeo mistook her for an Aura Guardian and challenged her to fight.

Cheng Tian and Su Han found Keldeo, who challenged them to battle before learning they were friends of its master, Virizion. Keldeo knew nothing about the Great Calamity but recalled a powerful bird flying east or west toward the waters, which Su Han suspected was Zapdos.

• Keldeo attacked Su Han, and Cheng Tian sent Aggron and Greninja to stop it.
• Keldeo entered its Resolute Form and used Secret Sword to pierce Greninja's Protect barrier.
• Cheng Tian overwhelmed Keldeo with nine Pokémon, then explained that Virizion had sent them to find it.
• Keldeo apologized and told Cheng Tian and Su Han it knew nothing about the Great Calamity or other legends.
• Keldeo recalled challenging a powerful, arrogant bird that had flown toward the waters to the east or west, and Su Han suspected it was Zapdos.
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Cheng Tian and Su Han headed to Japan to investigate a powerful Darkrai rumored to live near the Kuril Islands. They boarded with plans to slip past the blockade, though they worried Darkrai would put them to sleep and send them away.

• A disguised thief tried to steal Cheng Tian's phone, but Su Han and Gengar frightened him off while Cheng Tian pretended to sleep.
• Su Han and Cheng Tian recalled that Keldeo had only given them the general direction Zapdos had gone, and they decided not to pursue the potentially dangerous Pokémon.
• Su Han read about a Darkrai discovered near the Kuril Islands, whose nightmares had incapacitated investigators and driven some survivors to despair.
• Su Han and Cheng Tian chose to visit Darkrai, reasoning that Milotic and Gengar could help them evade the Japanese blockade.
• Su Han woke Cheng Tian when their flight to Japan began boarding.

Cheng Tian and Su Han encountered a furious Zapdos attacking their passenger plane, forcing the passengers to abandon the aircraft. The two held hands and jumped into the sky as the plane descended into chaos.

• Cheng Tian and Su Han discussed their Pokémon’s levels while traveling by plane.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han woke to find dark storm clouds and lightning surrounding the aircraft.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han spotted a level 61 Zapdos flying through the storm.
• Zapdos charged at the plane, and the passengers panicked and began jumping out to save themselves.
• Cheng Tian took Su Han’s hand, and they jumped from the plane together.

After Zapdos destroyed their plane, Cheng Tian and Su Han survived the fall with Milotic and changed course for the Kuril Islands. They reached an island where Darkrai had awakened, while a Japanese search team also headed there; Cheng Tian began organizing a search for it.

• Zapdos attacked and destroyed Cheng Tian and Su Han's plane, but Milotic caught them after they fell into the sea.
• Cheng Tian decided to travel to the Kuril Islands, and he and Su Han set off with Milotic and Togekiss taking turns carrying them.
• A Japanese government team searching for Darkrai learned of Zapdos's attack and continued toward its target.
• Darkrai woke in an underground mine and released energy that made every living creature on the island fall asleep.
• Cheng Tian and his Pokémon reached the island, and he warned Rotom not to wander before surveying the nearby hill.

Darkrai’s uncontrolled Bad Dreams knocked Cheng Tian and the island’s Pokémon unconscious, while Su Han resisted the effect and fought to protect him and Rotom. Darkrai explained its ability and why it had come to the island, then asked Su Han who she was and why she had come.

• Cheng Tian saw Darkrai sending people out to sea, and Darkrai’s expanding black ring knocked him and the Pokémon unconscious.
• Su Han stayed awake, caught Cheng Tian, and attacked Darkrai when it approached them.
• Darkrai dodged Su Han’s attacks and headed for Rotom, but Su Han struck it with an Aura Sphere and demanded it leave Rotom alone.
• Darkrai told Su Han that it had not intended to knock Cheng Tian out and could not control its Bad Dreams while asleep.
• Darkrai explained that Cheng Tian would wake only after defeating his nightmare, then asked Su Han who she was and why she had come.

Su Han pressed Darkrai for information about the coming Great Calamity, revealing her vow to avenge her family. Darkrai described surviving three calamities, then watched Su Han’s Pokémon awaken while Cheng Tian and two others remained trapped in nightmares.

• Su Han asked Darkrai about the Great Calamity and explained that she sought knowledge to confront the ruler who destroyed her home and killed her family.
• Darkrai warned Su Han not to provoke the powerful ruler, then revealed that it had experienced three Great Calamities and demonstrated its strength with a Shadow Ball that destroyed part of an island.
• Milotic awakened and struck Darkrai with Origin Pulse, while Su Han stopped it from continuing the attack.
• Aggron and Noibat awakened and attacked Darkrai, and Florges woke afterward as Darkrai realized they had overcome their deepest fears.
• Su Han soothed her awakened Pokémon while Darkrai observed that Gengar, Greninja, and Cheng Tian remained trapped in nightmares, with Cheng Tian’s dream seeming especially strange.

Cheng Tian, Haunter, and Greninja were trapped in separate dreamlike lives, each sensing that something important was missing. The chapter ended with all three exhausted and isolated as the nightmare continued.

• Cheng Tian woke at his old office, where his supervisor berated him, and gradually accepted that he had always worked there.
• Haunter woke as Haunter under the control of its former Trainer and resumed harsh training, though it felt it had forgotten something important.
• Greninja wandered through a blizzard, saw Articuno, and hid in a hole after Articuno attacked the tree where it had been concealed.
• Cheng Tian worked late, spoke with his senior colleague and mother, and briefly remembered someone asking him to come back early.
• Haunter endured more demanding training while Cheng Tian lay awake and Greninja huddled in its snow-covered hiding place.

Cheng Tian endured a humiliating work dinner and was cared for by his senior colleague after passing out, while Greninja discovered a dead Pokémon resembling itself and an egg that seemed connected to its origins. The chapter ended with Cheng Tian crying as he admitted he felt something important was missing.

• Cheng Tian vomited after being pressured to drink at a business dinner, and his senior colleague encouraged him to keep going.
• Haunter was reprimanded after missing a finishing attack during a fight with Ursaring.
• Greninja escaped the wreckage left by Articuno and found a dead Pokémon that looked identical to itself.
• Greninja buried the dead Pokémon, then found a blue-marked egg beneath blood in the snow and wondered if the corpse had been its mother.
• Cheng Tian's senior colleague took him home and made him porridge, and Cheng Tian began crying despite saying he was fine.
• Cheng Tian told his senior colleague that he felt he had lost something important.

Cheng Tian, Gengar, and Greninja confronted nightmares that trapped them in repeating cycles, and each remembered the bonds that gave them a reason to keep going. Cheng Tian fought to return to Xiaohan, Gengar broke through its Poké Ball, and Greninja shattered the frozen world around it.

• Cheng Tian met his senior at a Pokémon movie, turned down her confession, and was struck by a car while saving her.
• As Cheng Tian lay dying, memories of Xiaohan returned, and he used his black cross necklace to summon the strength to fight back.
• Gengar remembered its new friends and Trainer, then battered its way out of the darkness inside the Poké Ball with Shadow Balls.
• Greninja remembered that its Master and companions were waiting, regained its resolve, and punched cracks into the frozen world while Barbaracle watched over the egg.
• Cheng Tian declared that he was coming back to Xiaohan and struck his chest as Gengar and Greninja broke through their nightmares.

Cheng Tian and Su Han confronted Darkrai, who revealed that Giratina would unleash an unavoidable Great Calamity and that even Darkrai could not survive fighting it. After warning them and discussing how civilizations had been preserved through past calamities, Darkrai suffered a sudden spell of sleepiness as another ring of black ripples spread across the island.

• Cheng Tian woke from Darkrai's Nightmare, embraced Su Han, and confirmed he had broken free through his conviction.
• Cheng Tian assessed Darkrai's level and power before Darkrai refused to help prevent the Great Calamity and told them to leave.
• Darkrai confirmed that Giratina would cause the Great Calamity and said it had no chance of winning a fight against it.
• Darkrai explained that Legendary Pokémon and a few powerful Pokémon preserved civilization's remnants, and said China's Legendary Pokémon might have just over a thirty percent chance against Giratina.
• Darkrai warned that the calamity could rival the first Great Calamity, then began swaying as black ripples spread across the island and admitted it felt sleepy.

Cheng Tian offered to help Darkrai sleep safely in exchange for becoming his partner, but Darkrai instead promised to fight alongside him if he could avoid dying. After Cheng Tian and Su Han left the island, they called their families from a Pokémon Center in Japan.

• Cheng Tian asked Darkrai to become his partner if he could someday solve its sleep problem, and Darkrai promised to help him survive the Great Calamity instead.
• Darkrai explained that it could control its nightmares by obtaining a Divine Office, but its teacher currently held that power and Darkrai could not kill its teacher.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han left the island on Milotic, and Cheng Tian promised to keep looking for a treatment for Darkrai.
• At a Pokémon Center in Japan, Su Han called Su Mulin, who warmly greeted her and Cheng Tian.
• Cheng Tian called home, reunited with Ditto on the screen, and told his father that he had seen Zapdos up close near Japan.

Cheng Tian and Su Han explored Akihabara, where Cheng Tian enthusiastically shopped for anime goods before Su Han teased him about a maid café. After learning that Tokyo auctions traded rare Pokémon items and Mega Stones, they decided to visit and see whether they could find something useful.

• Cheng Tian and Su Han traveled from Yokohama to Tokyo and visited Akihabara, where Cheng Tian excitedly browsed anime shops and bought merchandise, including a game cartridge for his father.
• A cat-eared maid invited Cheng Tian into a maid café, but Su Han pulled him away; she later said she could wear a maid outfit for him herself.
• Cheng Tian and Su Han visited a camera store, where Su Han admired a camera and said it was a gift.
• While eating omurice, Su Han showed Cheng Tian that Toxic Orbs and Mega Stones appeared at a major Tokyo auction, and Cheng Tian asked whether it had a Mega Stone for Gengar.
• Su Han explained that Mega Stones were usually traded for other stones, and she and Cheng Tian decided to visit the auction venue anyway.

Cheng Tian discovered that a suspicious Archen fossil contained a Mega Stone and began bidding on it. He left the chapter trying to persuade Su Han that something unusual was hidden inside the fossil.

• Cheng Tian and Su Han attended a legal Pokémon fossil auction, where Rotom complained that the exhibits were dull.
• The auctioneer presented a well-preserved bird fossil thought to be related to Archen, and Cheng Tian's system identified that it was not actually an Archen fossil.
• Cheng Tian's system detected Mega Stone energy in a small bulge beside the fossil's mouth but could not identify the stone from a distance.
• After the bidding reached thirteen million yen, Cheng Tian raised the offer by six hundred thousand yen, surprising Su Han.
• Cheng Tian told Su Han that he did not want to raise an Archen and suspected something else was inside the fossil.

Cheng Tian and Su Han bought an Archen fossil containing a Mega Stone for 15 million yen, then learned the auction’s final exhibit contained a Genesect fossil. The bidding opened at 12.1 billion yen, leaving Cheng Tian stunned by the rare find and its enormous price.

• Cheng Tian told Su Han that Gengar had sensed something special inside the Archen fossil, and Su Han recognized it as a Mega Stone with her Aura.
• Su Han got more money from her grandfather and bid 15 million yen, securing the fossil while other buyers gave up.
• Cheng Tian considered extracting the Mega Stone himself to keep its presence from being discovered.
• The auctioneer unveiled the final exhibit and announced that its fossil contained a previously unknown Pokémon with a complete genetic sequence.
• Cheng Tian’s system identified the fossil as Genesect, and the auctioneer set its winning bid price at 12.1 billion yen.

Cheng Tian and Su Han watched wealthy bidders compete for a partial fossil until fossil scholar Sama Tetsuya won it for 45 billion yen. At the free-trading session, Cheng Tian and Su Han searched for Mega Stones and saw Sama rudely brush off fossil enthusiasts.

• Cheng Tian and Su Han watched the bidding for the partial fossil climb to 30 billion yen, while Su Han occasionally raised the price for fun.
• Sama Tetsuya bid 45 billion yen, explaining that he wanted the fossil and would pay from his personal account; Su Han recognized him as the scholar who had revived the first Aerodactyl.
• After the auction, Cheng Tian and Su Han entered the free-trading hall and looked for Mega Stones.
• Sama Tetsuya wanted to leave, but his companions persuaded him to keep looking around.
• Fossil enthusiasts approached Sama, but he impatiently rejected them while his companions apologized.

Cheng Tian recognized Sama Tetsuya’s pocket-watch photograph and asked whether he knew Nalu, whom he called Tsuyuko. Sama revealed that he and Tsuyuko had once been close, then brought Cheng Tian and Su Han to his fossil research facility and began to tell them more.

• Cheng Tian saw a photograph of a young woman inside Sama Tetsuya’s pocket watch and asked if Sama knew Nalu.
• Sama reacted strongly to the name Tsuyuko and eagerly asked Cheng Tian how she was; Cheng Tian said she was his teacher.
• Sama said he and Tsuyuko had once been very close friends and invited Cheng Tian and Su Han to talk.
• Sama brought them to the fossil research and revival facility he managed, where he said they could later see revived fossil Pokémon.
• Sama served Cheng Tian and Su Han Longjing tea in his private reception room, where Su Han noticed a photograph of Sama with a girl.