Chapter Summaries

Chu Xin secured Wu Yong’s permission for Luo Luo to join a future Wudang Gym and Jindu Academy research collaboration, then left the gym. At the airport, Shu Le revealed that she wanted Chu Xin’s help with the Rusted Shield and Rusted Sword because her strength had reached a bottleneck.

• Wu Yong agreed to let Luo Luo join the collaborative research project once Wudang Gym and Jindu Academy finalized their agreement.
• Chu Xin declined Wu Yong’s offer to teach him longer, accepted a booklet on the Mind’s Eye Manual, and left Wudang Gym with his Pokémon while Luo Luo stayed with him for now.
• At the airport, Chu Xin found Ai Xing and Shu Le arguing about trouble they had encountered on Wudang Mountain.
• Shu Le pulled Chu Xin aside and showed him a photograph of the Rusted Shield and Rusted Sword, saying she had failed to earn their recognition.
• Ai Xing explained that Shu Le wanted to borrow Zacian and Zamazenta’s power to overcome her strength bottleneck, and Shu Le confirmed it.

Chu Xin explained that he could not help Shu Le find Zacian and Zamazenta, but offered another way to break her bottleneck by showing her Dynamax Energy. Shu Le learned that mastering it required seeking out Chen Huan at Jindu Academy.

• Shu Le asked Chu Xin for help finding Zacian and Zamazenta, but he explained that Kaka had earned their recognition by passing their trial and that he could not summon them.
• Seeing that Shu Le had reached a bottleneck, Chu Xin offered to help her try a powerful technique with some risks.
• Chu Xin used his Dynamax Band to send Dynamax Energy into Xiao Wu, who became surrounded by white energy without Dynamaxing.
• Chu Xin explained that Dynamax Energy came from Eternatus, sealed in the Uninhabited Zone, and could be a great asset once a Pokémon adapted to it.
• Chu Xin told Shu Le to go to Jindu Academy and consult Chen Huan about mastering Dynamax Energy.

Chu Xin returned to Jindu Academy with Ai Xing and Shu Le, two Elite Four experts, and brought them to Chen Huan’s laboratory to learn about his Dynamax Energy research. Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan were left stunned by the visitors and called Zhuo Xing’s grandfather.

• Bai Yuan and Zhuo Xing waited forty-five minutes for Chu Xin and grew annoyed at his lateness.
• Chu Xin arrived with Ai Xing and Shu Le, then introduced them to Bai Yuan and Zhuo Xing as Elite Four experts.
• Shocked by the introductions, Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan stayed behind to recover while Chu Xin led the visitors into the academy.
• Zhuo Xing called her grandfather to tell him that Chu Xin had brought two Elite Four experts to Jindu Academy.
• Chu Xin took Ai Xing and Shu Le to Chen Huan’s laboratory and said Chen Huan’s research into Dynamax Energy went much deeper.

Chu Xin brought Shu Le and Ai Xing to Chen Huan’s laboratory, where Chen Huan explained Dynamax Energy’s potential and dangers. The chapter ended with Chu Xin admitting that his first exposure to the energy had nearly killed him.

• Chu Xin led Shu Le and Ai Xing to Chen Huan’s research room and found him testing a Dynamaxed Vespiquen in the basement.
• Chen Huan learned that Shu Le and Ai Xing wanted to see Dynamax Energy’s power and eagerly brought them back to his laboratory.
• Chen Huan explained that Dynamax Energy could be absorbed by Pokémon of any type and gradually strengthen their bodies.
• Chen Huan showed recordings of Pokémon that went berserk and suffered serious injuries after absorbing Dynamax Energy.
• Ai Xing asked how Chu Xin had adapted to the energy, and Chu Xin said his first exposure had been an accident that nearly cost him his life.

Chen Huan explained that his Dynamax Solvent reduced the dangers of adapting to Dynamax Energy by using Xiao Wu's gentler energy to counter Eternatus's will. Shu Le and Ai Xing tested it on Darkrai and Dragonite, and both Pokémon adapted successfully.

• Ai Xing worried that Shu Le might risk her Pokémon's life to overcome her training bottleneck, but Shu Le kept her emotions in check.
• Chen Huan revealed that his Dynamax Solvent gave Pokémon an eighty-percent chance of adapting, with failed attempts causing only minor injuries.
• Chen Huan explained that ordinary Dynamax Energy contained Eternatus's will, while the solvent used Xiao Wu's gentler Dynamax Energy to help Pokémon adapt.
• Shu Le and Ai Xing asked to try Dynamax Energy, and Chen Huan took them to the underground experimental Battlefield.
• Shu Le gave the solvent to Darkrai, while Ai Xing gave it to Dragonite; both Pokémon endured the white flames without serious discomfort.
• Chen Huan announced that Darkrai and Dragonite had adapted and could now use Dynamax Energy.

Chen Huan gave Shu Le and Ai Xing Dynamax Bands that let their Pokémon use stored Dynamax Energy, then explained the power’s limits. Shu Le and Ai Xing activated their bands together, eager to see whose Pokémon could hold out longer.

• Chen Huan examined Darkrai and Dragonite and revealed that his experimental solution had helped them adapt to Dynamax Energy.
• Shu Le and Ai Xing learned their Pokémon could not Dynamax without a source of Dynamax Energy in the air.
• Chen Huan gave Shu Le and Ai Xing charged Dynamax Bands, then used Darkrai’s and Dragonite’s blood to link each band to its Pokémon.
• Chen Huan explained that Dynamaxing boosted strength but drained stamina, while each transformation improved a Pokémon’s physical condition.
• Shu Le and Ai Xing challenged each other and pressed their Dynamax Band gems at the same time.

Shu Le and Ai Xing tested Dynamax energy with Darkrai and Dragonite, discovering its strength and physical toll. When they asked how to obtain Xiao Wu’s white variant energy, Chen Huan said they first had to defeat Eternatus.

• Shu Le and Ai Xing Dynamaxed Darkrai and Dragonite while Chen Huan had Rotom analyze them.
• Darkrai exhausted his Dynamax energy first, and Ai Xing ended Dragonite’s transformation soon afterward.
• Shu Le realized Dynamax energy had slightly improved Darkrai’s physical abilities, while Ai Xing regarded it as a useful battle trump card.
• Shu Le and Ai Xing asked Chen Huan about Xiao Wu’s white Dynamax energy and how to change their own energy.
• Chen Huan explained that modifying Dynamax energy required defeating Eternatus, startling Shu Le and Ai Xing.

Chen Huan explained that mastering dynamax energy required Pokémon to overcome Eternatus’s will, and Shu Le and Ai Xing tried the method but failed. The energy took Eternatus’s form, knocked Darkrai and Dragonite unconscious, and returned to their Wristbands.

• Chen Huan explained that dynamax energy carried Eternatus’s will and that Xiao Wu had mastered it by imprinting his own will onto the energy.
• Ai Xing and Shu Le decided to try teaching Dragonite and Darkrai to replace Eternatus’s will with their own.
• Shu Le and Ai Xing used their Wristbands to dynamax Darkrai and Dragonite and instructed them to erase Eternatus’s will.
• The dynamax energy formed Eternatus, which knocked Darkrai and Dragonite unconscious before dispersing back into the Wristbands.
• Shu Le and Ai Xing realized how difficult mastering dynamax energy would be.

After Ai Xing and Shu Le failed to overcome Eternatus’s will in the Dynamax Energy, Chen Huan explained how Chu Xin had inherited blank Dynamax Energy from Dragonite Senior. Ai Xing prepared to leave Jindu Academy, while Shu Le decided to stay and study Dynamax Energy.

• Ai Xing and Shu Le failed to defeat the Eternatus formed from Dynamax Energy, and Chen Huan explained that Chu Xin had imprinted his will onto energy Dragonite Senior had cleared.
• Ai Xing and Shu Le felt frustrated by Chu Xin’s apparent good fortune, while Chu Xin reflected on the effort it had taken to earn Dragonite Senior’s approval.
• Ai Xing recalled his unconscious Dragonite and said he had to leave to write a report; Shu Le decided to remain at Jindu Academy to study Dynamax Energy and overcome her bottleneck.
• Zhuo Yuan rushed to greet Ai Xing and Shu Le as they left the Research Center, and Shu Le told him she would stay at the academy for a while.

Chu Xin brought Kaka to Chen Huan’s laboratory to examine how the Wudang Gym’s training had changed him. After Kaka evolved into Sirfetch'd by drawing on Zacian and Zamazenta’s power, Chu Xin proposed that Chen Huan study Wudang Gym’s mental energy as a Jindu Academy researcher.

• Chu Xin visited Chen Huan and recounted the Kendo Championship and Genjiro’s trouble at the Wudang Gym.
• Chu Xin released Kaka and asked Chen Huan and Luo Luo to examine him while he used Burst Aura in a testing machine.
• Chen Huan found that Kaka’s first and second Burst Aura stages had grown stronger and could be sustained longer.
• Kaka activated Burst Aura Third Stage, drew on Zacian and Zamazenta’s power, and evolved into Sirfetch'd.
• Chen Huan explained that he could not study Wudang Gym’s secret technique without permission, so Chu Xin suggested he join Jindu Academy’s delegation to study mental energy at Wudang Pass.
• Chen Huan agreed to go if the Wudang Gym approved.

After helping Chen Huan join Wudang Gym’s Mental Energy research project, Chu Xin asked about the secret manuals at Jindu Gym and discovered they were designed for Pokémon legions. He left wanting to build a legion of his own, but Chen Huan explained that China tightly regulated them and Chu Xin lacked the Pokémon and approval to do so.

• Chu Xin reflected on Kaka’s growth and the manuals he had encountered at the Wudang Gym Kendo Tournament.
• Chu Xin asked Chen Huan about Jindu Gym’s secret manuals, and Chen Huan revealed that its true manuals were for group combat, or Pokémon legions.
• Chen Huan explained that Chu Xin’s four Pokémon were too few to use legion manuals effectively, since a legion required at least ten or fifteen Pokémon of the same species.
• Chu Xin vowed to obtain the manuals and build a Pokémon legion someday, but Chen Huan explained that China required government approval and supervised legion training.
• Chen Huan offered to teach Chu Xin the manuals if he pursued a military career, while Chu Xin accepted that building his own legion was out of reach for now.

After Kaka’s mental energy examination, Chu Xin reviewed his Pokémon’s progress and decided to improve Electrike’s training. Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan confronted him over his recent disappearance, then revealed they were jealous of his closeness to Ai Xing and Shu Le.

• Chen Huan’s tests showed that Kaka’s physical measurements and energy control had improved after mastering mental energy.
• Chu Xin let his Pokémon rest and considered their training, deciding Electrike needed more development in Ball Lightning.
• Chu Xin planned to ask Shu Le for help with Electrike’s training.
• Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan barged into Chu Xin’s dorm room, pinned him down, and demanded to know where he had been.
• After seeing a news report about Chu Xin winning the Kendo Championship, Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan pressed him to explain how he had become close to Ai Xing and Shu Le.

Chu Xin brought Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan to meet Shu Le, an Elite Four member they admired, while planning to ask her for advice on training Electrike. Shu Le welcomed them into her villa, where they saw her strongest Pokémon, Darkrai.

• Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan excitedly revealed they wanted to meet Shu Le and get her autograph, so Chu Xin offered to take them along.
• Chu Xin called Shu Le to learn where she was staying, then took his friends by bus to her villa at Jindu Academy.
• Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan insisted that they bring gifts, so the three bought a fruit basket before returning to the villa.
• Shu Le welcomed Chu Xin, Zhuo Xing, and Bai Yuan inside, where Darkrai briefly opened its eyes before lying down again.
• Chu Xin told his friends that Darkrai was Shu Le's strongest Pokémon, and they admired it.

Chu Xin visited Shu Le for advice on raising Electrike, but Shu Le admitted he lacked experience with Electric-type Pokémon and gave Chu Xin a Thunder Manual instead. Back in his dorm, Chu Xin and Luo Luo analyzed the manual and found that Electrike met its strict requirements, setting the stage for Electrike to grow much stronger.

• Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan excitedly admired their autographed clothes while Chu Xin asked Shu Le for advice on raising Electrike.
• Shu Le gave Chu Xin his Thunder Manual, explaining that its training method could strengthen Electric-type moves and suited Electrike’s Lightning Rod Ability.
• Shu Le offered to ask an Electric-type Elite Four friend to help, but Chu Xin declined because he did not want to impose.
• Chu Xin left Shu Le’s villa with Zhuo Xing and Bai Yuan, then returned to his dorm and called Luo Luo to analyze the manual.
• Luo Luo determined that the manual required an Electric-type Pokémon with Lightning Rod, strong Electric-energy control, and great skill with Thunder, all of which made Electrike an ideal candidate.

Chu Xin and Luo Luo studied the Thunder manual and prepared special equipment to strengthen Electrike’s Lightning Rod. The chapter ended as Electrike entered the training platform and Chu Xin announced that training was about to begin.

• Chu Xin took Electrike to the Training Room and tested his Thunder, confirming that he was ready for further training.
• Chu Xin studied the Thunder manual and learned that Electrike needed to build up Lightning Rod’s ability to withstand Thunder’s powerful current.
• Chu Xin and Luo Luo approved the manual’s training method, which used increasingly long exposure to the strongest current Electrike could withstand.
• Chu Xin considered how the technique could benefit Pokémon with Volt Absorb or Motor Drive, then decided to focus on Electrike’s Lightning Rod.
• Luo Luo called several Rotom, who assembled a ringed mechanical platform for Electrike’s Ability training.
• Electrike entered the platform, and Chu Xin told him that training was about to begin.

Chu Xin tested Rotom-powered equipment to train Electrike's Lightning Rod Ability, pushing her to five thousand volts before the Rotom stopped him for her safety. After Electrike recovered, Chu Xin went to ask Chen Huan whether Pokémon could acquire additional Abilities.

• Chu Xin started the equipment at low voltage and had the Rotom increase it as Electrike confirmed she could endure the current.
• Electrike activated Lightning Rod as the voltage rose, and Chu Xin raised it to five thousand volts before Luo Luo stopped him at her limit.
• Electrike endured ten minutes of training, but the Rotom lowered the voltage when it began damaging her body.
• Luo Luo and the Rotom examined Electrike and reported that her physical strength had improved slightly, though the training's overall effect needed further testing.
• Chu Xin left Electrike to continue training with Luo Luo and the Rotom, then went to see Chen Huan to ask how she might gain Volt Absorb and Motor Drive.

Chu Xin asked Chen Huan how to give Electrike additional Abilities so it could use Thunder with Volt Absorb or Motor Drive, but learned that existing methods could only replace or exchange Abilities. Chen Huan gave Chu Xin a Role Play Move Manual, leaving him with a way to change a Pokémon's Ability but not add one.

• Chu Xin explained his idea to Chen Huan, who agreed that changing Electrike's Ability could work with Thunder.
• Chen Huan said researchers had developed Ability Capsules, which switched between a Pokémon's two standard Abilities but could not grant a new one.
• Chen Huan described five Ability-changing moves, and Chu Xin concluded that none could give Electrike additional Abilities.
• Chen Huan gave Chu Xin a Role Play Move Manual so his Pokémon could learn to change its Ability.

Chu Xin arranged Electrike’s training in Role Play and considered how it could learn rare Abilities, then enjoyed some free time. Aier arrived at the Research Institute with a Garchomp, reuniting with Chu Xin and leaving him to ask whether she had passed the Trial.

• Chu Xin gave Luo Luo the Role Play Move Manual and planned for Electrike to learn to switch between Abilities, though finding a Pokémon with Motor Drive would be difficult.
• Chu Xin delegated training duties to his Pokémon and relaxed in his dorm until Bai Yuan told him a girl was looking for him.
• Bai Yuan said the girl had gone to the Research Institute to see Chen Huan, so Chu Xin went there with him.
• A Garchomp burst from Chen Huan’s Laboratory and knocked Chu Xin down, then rubbed excitedly against him.
• Aier emerged from Chu Xin’s research room, and her Garchomp helped Chu Xin to his feet.
• Chu Xin greeted Aier and asked whether she had passed the Trial.

Chu Xin learned from Aier that she had cleared Dragon Valley’s fourth level, while nobody had ever passed its mysterious fifth level. After touring Jindu Academy with her, he learned that Aier planned to stay there as Chen Huan’s research assistant so she could continue protecting him.

• Chu Xin asked Aier about her Dragon Valley progress, and she said she had cleared four levels.
• Aier explained that the fifth level had one chamber with an altar and no Pokémon, but nobody had ever taken the item from it.
• Aier told Chu Xin that eight Dragon Tamer Family members had cleared the fourth level, including Ai Xing.
• Chu Xin showed Aier around Jindu Academy, and she teased him for knowing little about the school.
• Aier said she had arranged with Chen Huan to stay at Jindu Academy as his research assistant and keep protecting Chu Xin.

Chu Xin challenged Aier to test Garchomp's strength after its Dragon Valley training, while Aier agreed to battle without Mega Evolution. The match began with Xiao Wu using unusual white Dynamax Energy, and Chu Xin prepared to reveal their new Dynamax transformation.

• Aier explained that Ai Xing had let her keep Garchomp's Mega Evolution Stone after she returned from Dragon Valley.
• Chu Xin challenged Aier to a battle, and she accepted, eager to test herself against him.
• Chu Xin brought Xiao Wu to Chen Huan's underground battlefield, where Aier chose to battle with Garchomp in its normal form.
• Chen Huan started the match, and Chu Xin used his Wristband to send white Dynamax Energy into Xiao Wu.
• Garchomp's Dragon Claw struck a defensive mass of white energy, but Xiao Wu remained unharmed.
• Chu Xin ordered Xiao Wu to gather the white energy inward, and Xiao Wu began to swell into its first Dynamax transformation using that energy.