Recaps

Ye Yinchuan discovered a hidden sound-pattern realm, helped Pokémon harmed by pollution, and became entangled in Team Grass’s scheme. After witnessing Ho-Oh’s intervention in Shira’s tragedy, he received a rainbow gift that helped Dartrix evolve into Decidueye, while Incineroar prepared to follow.

• Ye Yinchuan followed Exploud and Noivern into a hidden realm, where Milotic taught his Pokémon sound-based moves and asked him to recover Ancient Song.
• Ye Yinchuan helped a polluted Torterra and lake, then defeated Team Grass’s attempt to seize Miraidon with help from the local Pokémon.
• Celebi healed the forest and lake, while Kumu revealed his reasons for joining Team Grass and Ye Yinchuan helped investigators learn about the seized Pokémon.
• Ye Yinchuan identified a Zelda-gas-afflicted Chatot named Shira and helped Dr. Jinggeng understand that it was trying to purify the gas that had killed Mami.
• Ho-Oh revived Shira, but Shira chose to purify the Zelda Gas, and Ho-Oh reunited it and Dr. Jinggeng with Mami, leaving behind an Egg and a blue gemstone.
• Ho-Oh sent Ye Yinchuan the Sheila Rainbow Stone and a Seven-Colored Feather, and the stone gave Dartrix a new Trait and Hyper Beam.
• Ye Yinchuan helped Dartrix use Leaf Stones to evolve into Decidueye, then recognized Incineroar’s desire to grow stronger and prepared for its evolution.

Ye Yinchuan built Snorlax Paradise while capturing and helping Pokémon across several expeditions. In Crystal Light Forest, he uncovered a hidden Zorua and Zoroark clan and promised to arrange protection before choosing a Zorua to join him.

• Ye Yinchuan evolved Incineroar, then captured two Helioptiles, Solrock, Zweilous, and Goomy while exploring Dragonveil Forest.
• Ye Yinchuan helped Yang Yang Aquarium reunite Octillery with Remoraid and demonstrate Remoraid’s evolution, then established plans for Snorlax Paradise with Hong Yang.
• Ye Yinchuan inspected the trial area of Snorlax Paradise in Crystal Tide City, released his Pokémon into Pokémon Paradise, and explored nearby Crystal Light Forest.
• Ye Yinchuan took in an abandoned Rockruff, helped Xiao Mian obtain Black Augurite from an evolved Wyrdeer, and traded amber for the stone.
• Ye Yinchuan stopped Feraligatr from attacking Petilil, helped Cottonee evolve into Whimsicott, and welcomed Petilil into his group.
• Ye Yinchuan rescued Nosepass from Metagross, followed it into a hidden part of Crystal Forest, and watched it evolve into Probopass.
• Ye Yinchuan uncovered Zoroark’s illusions and learned that Lin Na had helped its clan escape human experiments about thirty years earlier.
• Ye Yinchuan promised to report the Zorua and Zoroark clan’s location for protection, and Zoroark allowed him to choose a willing Zorua to join his team.

Ye Yinchuan recruited unusual Pokémon, encountered Ogerpon and learned about Terastallization, then used his livestream to investigate rare Pokémon and help their Trainers. The arc ended with him agreeing to foster a cancer-stricken Growlithe and identifying a strange Pokémon shown by Popeye.

• Ye Yinchuan recruited Little Drunkard and Little Psychic from the Zoroark clan, then watched Probopass fight Metagross and help injured Crystal Light Buds in the cave.
• Glimmora led Ye Yinchuan to a Terastallized Sandshrew and a deposit of Tera Ore, where Lairon gained a Dragon-type Tera Jewel and a Shiny Crystal Light Bud hatched.
• Ye Yinchuan met Ogerpon, helped her fight Gigalith, and promised to help her find her missing masks and the man who had fought beside her.
• Ye Yinchuan returned to the Tourism Garden, where Petilil evolved into Leafeon Miss and Helioptile evolved into Heliolisk, before a viewer showed footage of a black Ho-Oh.
• Ye Yinchuan appraised Wang Duoyu’s Pokémon, helped him capture a Shiny Feebas, and then challenged Ye Ye to an Exeggutor knowledge contest that revealed Alolan Exeggutor’s Dragon-type form.
• Ye Yinchuan recognized a deliveryman’s cancer-stricken Growlithe as having the Plague-Shielding Flame Trait and agreed to foster it so it could receive enough energy and nutrition.
• Popeye showed Ye Yinchuan a giant Pokémon from the sea, which he identified as Veluza.

Ye Yinchuan opened Snorlax Paradise, helped rare Pokémon evolve and revealed new traits, then resumed livestreaming at Tidal Offshore, where he caught Pokémon and confronted an abusive Trainer. The stretch ended with Milotic struggling to control Surf while Big Banana addressed readers’ criticism and promised to complete the novel.

• Ye Yinchuan and the Line Connector followed Veluza and three Tatsugiri as they hunted, escaped a powerful Wishiwashi school, and resumed hunting together.
• Ye Yinchuan opened Snorlax Paradise to crowds, then helped Xiao Xiu’s Paras evolve into Phage Parasect and introduced Stufful and several unusual Terastallizations.
• Ye Yinchuan appraised Trainers’ Pokémon, including Rillaboom with Grassy Surge, a Dewott with Bone Proliferation, and a temple Rillaboom with Psychic abilities.
• Hong Xing told Hong Yang that he wanted to become a Trainer and reconnect with Pokémon, while Ye Yinchuan later resumed outdoor livestreaming at Tidal Offshore.
• Ye Yinchuan caught a Shiny Krabby and confronted a Trainer who abused Sobble, forcing him to surrender and report himself to the Dream Protection Bureau.
• Ye Yinchuan healed and caught Sobble, then caught a mutated Finneon and discovered that polluted Muddy Water had poisoned Lumineon and other Pokémon.
• Set apologized for sending a dangerous Surf wave at Ye Yinchuan and helped Milotic learn Surf, but Milotic struggled to control its first enormous wave.
• Big Banana acknowledged readers’ criticisms of the novel’s focus, pacing, and unresolved threads, and promised to continue the story through a proper ending.