Recaps

Netero, Maha, and Zeno prepared for a dangerous mission to find Ian, while Ian and Ging traveled across the Dark Continent collecting unusual creatures. After a long journey through a vast forest, Ian and Ging spotted an enormous sinkhole.

• Maha discussed his power and Netero's past fight with Sashado, while Netero said Maha might survive an encounter with the monster.
• Netero told Maha and Zeno that the Hunter Association was still gathering people and needed one more member with a suitable ability before their mission could begin.
• Netero showed the remaining Performance-Enhancing Liquid from Ian, and Zeno and Netero reflected on Ian's abilities and his hostility toward the V5.
• Ian and Ging rode Big White through the Dark Continent's forest and collected a dozen tough creatures, including a fire-breathing snake, a two-headed lizard, and a giant bat.
• Ging used a Contract and Restriction with his Nen Ability, Game World, to create a passage for storing living creatures.
• Ian and Ging spotted an immense sinkhole in the forest from Big White's back.

Ian and Ging discovered a vast, pitch-black cavern and descended into it aboard flying saucers made with Ian’s Paper-Cutting Book. After more than an hour of flight, they were still far below the surface, and the cavern’s immense depth left them uneasy.

• Ian and Ging found a smooth-edged, seemingly bottomless pit and agreed to explore it.
• Ian told Big White to wait, then made two flying saucers with his Paper-Cutting Book.
• Ian and Ging rode the saucers down into the cavern and switched on their lights.
• After more than an hour, Ging estimated they had passed through a horizontal passage, but they remained deep inside the cavern.

Ian and Ging found a gigantic, shifting wormhole deep in the cavern, and Ian shrank and cut it free to take it with them. After they returned to the sinkhole, the White Stone Crab reacted to the miniature door with instinctive terror, leaving Ian and Ging wondering what they had brought back.

• Ian and Ging spotted a glimmer ahead and reached a vast chamber where a huge, liquid-metal-like door blocked their way.
• Ian and Ging could not identify the door, and they ate while considering what to do.
• Ian used the Shrinking Flashlight and Cutting Knife and Fork to shrink and remove the door with part of the surrounding wall.
• Ian opened an Anywhere Door and returned with Ging to the sinkhole, then called for the White Stone Crab.
• The White Stone Crab saw the miniature door and fled in terror, prompting Ian and Ging to wonder what it was.

Ian and Ging entered the liquid-metal gate and emerged in a sunlit city of enormous defensive ruins. Ging recognized the symbol of the ancient Tutantlu civilization, leaving them to investigate what its presence on the Dark Continent meant for human history.

• Ian sent a Toy Soldier through the gate, and it returned unharmed after five minutes.
• Ian and Ging entered the gate and appeared in a silent, sunlit city, where they found an identical portal behind them.
• Ian and Ging explored the immense stone walls and defensive structures, and Ging recognized a symbol of the Tutantlu civilization.
• Ging told Ian that human historical records placed Tutantlu six thousand years in the past, and Ian suggested the ruins could reveal the truth.
• Ian and Ging passed through the defensive walls and reached a raised platform, where a white stone seat stood beneath a shaft of light.

Ian and Ging investigated the stone seat in the ruins and uncovered inscriptions identifying it as Tutantlu’s Seat of Punishment. Its secrets might grant power, but the price appeared to be sacrificing the sitter’s remaining life.

• Ian and Ging found a stone seat in the hall, and Ian wondered whether it held the ancient civilization’s knowledge.
• Ging warned Ian that ancient ruins usually preserved traps and destruction, then recalled a passage about Tutantlu and the Seat of Termination.
• Ian and Ging used Translation Konjacs to read inscriptions saying Tutantlu revered only the seat and that it offered a choice between embracing its way and suffering punishment.
• At the highest platform, they read that anyone who sat on the Seat of Punishment had to offer the rest of their life as a sacrifice.
• Ian concluded that the seat might grant power at the cost of an inescapable curse, and Ging recognized the danger in his interpretation.

Ian and Ging rejected Tutantlu’s stone seat and prepared to leave, but a light ritual revealed a luminous chair that Ian chose to try. Sitting in it sent Ian visions of Tutantlu’s history, where he learned the civilization had harnessed the sun’s power through the seat.

• Ging agreed with Ian that the stone seat could bring trouble, though he regretted that Tutantlu’s history might be lost.
• Ian dismissed the stone seat as useless, and he and Ging decided to leave the ruins.
• As they stepped out of the hall, a pillar of light appeared and displayed a message offering the seat’s qualification to those free of greed.
• Ian and Ging returned to the platform and found a chair of light where the stone seat had been.
• Ian put on a Disaster-Repelling Sticker, prepared his Time Stopper and Time Cloth, and sat in the chair while Ging watched.
• Ian saw visions revealing that Tutantlu had been a kingdom of light whose people used the seat to convert light energy and wield the sun’s power.

Ian explained to Ging how the Seat of Light powered the Tutantlu Civilization and why it eventually shut down. With its energy source lost, the civilization fell to the Dark Continent’s dangers and vanished, leaving only ruins.

• Ian recovered from the Seat of Light’s memories and told Ging he was fine.
• Ian revealed that the Seat of Light was a solar energy converter that could transform sunlight into many forms of energy and create matter.
• Ian explained that the Tutantlu people once built a vast civilization around the Seat, but their rulers tried to monopolize its power.
• The Seat of Light shut down because the rulers’ greed conflicted with its operating rules, and the Tutantlu Civilization lost its protection and collapsed.
• Ging reflected on the civilization’s destruction and his earlier belief that power itself was a curse.

Ian demonstrated the Seat of Light’s benevolent powers to Ging, who then raised the possibility that an equally powerful artifact existed that could only be used for evil. Ian vowed to destroy such a creation and its maker if they existed.

• Ging reflected on Ian’s indifference to the Seat of Light, and Ian explained that he was interested in it despite its restrictions.
• Ian transformed the Seat of Light into armor and a sword, then showed that the sword dissolved harmlessly when it struck Ging.
• Ging asked who had created the Seat of Light, and Ian considered the unknown power of the ancient Tutantlu civilization.
• Ging hypothesized that an artifact with power comparable to the Seat of Light might exist that could only be used for evil.
• Ian said he would destroy the artifact and whoever made it if it existed.

Ian and Ging awakened the Tutantlu ruins with the Seat of Light and surveyed the ancient city from above. They headed toward a mysterious, damaged western district, while wondering where the teleportation had taken them and how the device had worked with the Seat of Light depleted.

• Ian and Ging used the Seat of Light to awaken the ruins, causing their walls to glow and a tiny sun to appear above the central platform.
• Ian and Ging teleported above the ruins, where Ian summoned a disc of light to carry them as they watched the city begin to move and awaken.
• Ging explained that the ruins likely contained a central core, food and defenses, and residential areas, and he questioned whether the site represented the Tutantlu civilization near its end.
• Ian and Ging surveyed the ruins' four districts and noticed that the western area was damaged and overgrown.
• Ian and Ging set off on the disc of light toward the western district, then wondered where they were and how the teleportation device had received energy.

Ian and Ging investigated ruined buildings and used the Evidence Camera to identify recent claw marks as those of a Dark Continent creature, despite the Tutantlu civilization having been destroyed thousands of years earlier. Ian set out to find the creature, while a life-form awakened in the eastern sector and began spreading black liquid that extinguished the ruins’ lights.

• Ian and Ging explored the western sector’s heavily damaged ruins and found deep claw marks in a tower.
• Ian used the Evidence Camera to date the marks to about 128 years earlier and identify their maker as an unknown native species resembling the Claw Demon Ape.
• Ging explained that Claw Demon Apes were weak Magical Beasts from Chimera Forest, so the Dark Continent creature that made the marks could be more dangerous.
• Ian decided to search the ruins for the creature and capture it for questioning, and Ging warned him to be cautious.
• As the ruins came back to life, a creature awakened in the eastern sector and black liquid poured from its wells, snuffing out nearby lights.

Ian used the Seat of Light to search the ruins with enhanced mental power, then found pitch-black creatures emerging from wells in the eastern area. He attacked them with the Invincible Turret and began channeling the Seat of Light’s energy into it as the creatures swarmed toward him and Ging.

• Ian amplified his mental scan with the Seat of Light but found no creatures in the western area.
• Ian and Ging returned east, where Ian sensed bizarre creatures waking and moving toward him.
• Ian teleported with Ging above the eastern area and saw black, mist-shrouded creatures crawling from the wells.
• Ian summoned the Invincible Turret and fired shells at the creatures as more poured out of the wells.
• Ian channeled the Seat of Light’s energy into the Invincible Turret and called for its super evolution into the Ultimate Star Destroyer Cannon.

Ian and Ging tested ways to stop the black monsters, discovering that the creatures multiplied when damaged by the turret’s beam. Ian used the Seat of Light to empower the Gravity Regulator, pinning the monsters beneath twenty times normal gravity.

• Ian fired the Planet Buster beam at the climbing monsters, destroying at least half of them.
• Ging noticed that some wounded monsters split into two, and Ian realized that attacking them could increase their numbers.
• Ian dismissed the Invincible Turret and brought the Gravity Regulator down toward the monsters.
• Ian charged the Gravity Regulator with solar energy and turned its dial, imposing twenty times normal gravity on the ruins.
• Ian used rings of light to help himself and Ging withstand the pressure, then walked among the immobilized monsters to inspect them.

Ian identified the monsters as Black Mist Parasitic Apes that multiplied by consuming light and planned to exile them in the Mirror World. Instead, his empowered Black Hole Fragment went out of control, swallowed the apes, and began expanding toward the Tutantlu Ruins.

• Ian used the Encyclopedia Camera to learn that Black Mist Parasitic Apes multiplied endlessly by absorbing light unless their Dark Core Fragments were destroyed.
• Ian proposed putting the apes in the Mirror World, but then he empowered a Black Hole Fragment with the Seat of Light.
• The fragment unleashed an increasingly powerful suction that pulled up debris and sucked the Black Mist Parasitic Apes into the air.
• Ian deactivated the Gravity Regulator and fled with Ging on a disc of light as the fragment’s pull nearly caught them.
• Ian and Ging escaped the immediate danger, but Ian spotted the black-hole barrier expanding toward the Tutantlu Ruins.

Ian used the Time Cloth to stop the Black Hole Fragment from destroying the Tutantlu Ruins, then left the Dark Continent with Ging. The Ruins remained intact and under Ian’s control, while the mysteries of the Tutantlu civilization and the Seat of Light remained unanswered.

• Ging asked Ian whether the Black Hole Fragment was causing the expanding region of annihilation, and Ian warned that the Ruins might be lost.
• Ian used the Time Cloth to reverse the damage, and the Black Hole Fragment disappeared as its energy ran out.
• Ian realized the Ruins were an independent space and decided to leave the Dark Continent with Ging.
• Ian and Ging returned through the Anywhere Door, collected the White Stone Crab, and left the Dark Continent.

Ian returned from the Dark Continent to Gugurian, made a wager with Ging about Ging’s future child, and went back to Shakur Manor. There, Aimina told him that Cat Teacher had agreed to train the others inside the Gate of Glory, including Eluna.

• Ian and Ging emerged from the Anywhere Door in Gugurian and shared breakfast at a local shop.
• Ian gave the shop’s elderly owners a piece of gold, then told Ging he would return to Ejin City and promised to inspect how the royal capital was managed.
• Ian and Ging bet on whether Ging would have a son or a daughter, with Ian offering a future request or a Dark Continent playground as the stakes.
• Ian returned to Shakur Manor with breakfast and found Aimina waiting in the courtyard.
• Ian told Aimina about his trip to the Dark Continent and showed her a magical item, then awkwardly let go of her hand.
• Aimina explained that Cat Teacher was training everyone inside the Gate of Glory, including Eluna, and invited Ian to watch.

Ian and Aimina entered the Gate of Glory and found Uvogin and the others trapped there after Uvogin bragged that he would surpass Netero. Cat Teacher criticized Uvogin’s mindset and recognized Ian as the owner of the item that had trapped him.

• Ian took Aimina through the Anywhere Door into the Gate of Glory, where Uvogin and the others greeted him after spending a long time training.
• Nobunaga explained that Uvogin’s boast had triggered the Gate of Glory’s rules, trapping the group inside until Uvogin achieved his goal.
• Feitan said they had been inside for 274 days, and Chrollo, Pakunoda, Milluki, and Eluna joined Nobunaga in criticizing Uvogin’s training and behavior.
• Cat Teacher called Uvogin his dumbest student and told him that getting stronger, not merely training hard, was the goal.
• Cat Teacher noticed Ian and asked whether he was the owner of the item that had trapped him inside the Gate of Glory.

Ian met Cat Teacher, an unusually powerful instructor inside the Gate of Glory, who recognized him as the item's owner and attacked him. After Ian's amplified Defense Shield blocked the strike, Cat Teacher revealed he had been trapped inside for twenty thousand years.

• Cat Teacher recognized Ian as the owner of the Gate of Glory and abruptly struck at him.
• Ian's Defense Shield, amplified by the Seat of Light, blocked Cat Teacher's attack and sent the cat flying backward.
• Cat Teacher observed that Ian relied on strange items, while Ian challenged him to explain the sneak attack.
• Cat Teacher said he had been trapped inside the Gate of Glory for twenty thousand years, stunning Ian and the others.
• Eluna questioned how Cat Teacher could remain clearheaded after so long alone, and Milluki pointed out that the cat walked on two legs too.

Ian discovered that Cat Teacher had been trapped in the Cultivation Space for twenty thousand years, unable to improve his strength or cultivation. He won Cat Teacher over with a giant Bluefin Tuna, leaving the once stern teacher sprawled happily across the fish.

• Cat Teacher insisted he had only been teaching Ian a lesson, but Ian questioned why he had not grown stronger after twenty thousand years.
• Cat Teacher explained that the Cultivation Space had frozen his progress and complained that he had been trapped there through no fault of his own.
• Cat Teacher accidentally revealed his love of fish when an Iron-scaled Fish appeared, then tried to hide it from Ian and the others.
• Ian produced a nearly fifteen-meter Bluefin Tuna from his Miniature World Refrigerator, and Cat Teacher immediately stopped arguing.
• Cat Teacher declared that he would forgive Ian and threw himself onto the Bluefin Tuna, shocking Nobunaga and amusing the others.
• Milluki teased Illumi about cats loving fish, and Illumi punched him.

Ian heard Cat Teacher explain how he had been trapped in the Gate of Glory for twenty thousand years, then used the Make-Lies-Come-True Eraser to remove its restrictions. He invited Cat Teacher to leave and asked him to keep training Uvogin and the others.

• Cat Teacher told Ian that he was Chehu, a royal martial arts instructor from Cat Country who had been trapped after the Cat King used forbidden magic to save the cursed Cat Princess.
• Ian questioned Cat Teacher’s account and offered to free him if he promised to continue training Uvogin and the others.
• Cat Teacher rejected Ian’s claim that he could escape and admitted he had grown used to living inside the Gate of Glory.
• Ian used the Make-Lies-Come-True Eraser to let all beings enter and leave the Gate of Glory freely.
• Ian brought out the Anywhere Door and invited Cat Teacher to leave.

Ian led Cat Teacher and the others out of the Gate of Glory after nearly a year inside and shared breakfast with them. Cat Teacher enjoyed the sunlight and food, but died moments after leaving the gate, and Ian was left blaming himself.

• Ian pushed the hesitant Cat Teacher through the doorway into the outside world.
• Ian gave breakfast to Cat Teacher, Uvogin, Nobunaga, Feitan, and the others.
• Cat Teacher ate thirty-seven steamed buns, then said the outside world was his home.
• Cat Teacher peacefully died as the power of time caught up with his twenty-thousand-year lifespan.
• Ian told Uvogin and the others that he might have been wrong and felt responsible for Cat Teacher's death.

After Cat Teacher collapsed with no vital signs, Aimina sensed that his soul remained and Ian theorized he was undergoing a breakthrough after twenty thousand years of accumulated martial insight. Ian and Nobunaga watched over him, and when Nobunaga reported that Cat Teacher's tail had moved, Ian shouted a threat in hopes of waking him.

• Eluna confirmed that Cat Teacher had no heartbeat or breathing, leaving Nobunaga, Uvogin, and Ian devastated.
• Aimina used King's Gaze, Myriad Illusions Eye to see that Cat Teacher's soul remained in his body and that his spirit was growing more active.
• Ian reasoned that Cat Teacher's martial cultivation had built up during his twenty thousand years in the Gate of Glory and that his body had entered dormancy to withstand a breakthrough.
• Ian and Nobunaga kept watch for a day, finding no signs of decay even though Cat Teacher remained cold and unresponsive.
• Nobunaga said he had seen Cat Teacher's tail move, and Ian shouted that they would charcoal-grill him if he did not wake up.

Cat Teacher resurrected and awakened Nen, unleashing a vast martial arts domain as his power surged to an unprecedented level. After waking, he returned to his lazy self, learned what had happened, and ended the tense standoff with a quarrel with Ian.

• Cat Teacher's cold body revived, his heart began beating, and his Nen awakened with immense force.
• Chrollo, Eluna, Uvogin, Feitan, Aimina, and the others gathered as Cat Teacher's Nen expanded into a domain that shook the estate and clouds above it.
• Cat Teacher opened his eyes, startled the onlookers with his pressure, and nearly provoked Aimina and Eluna into a fight before Ian intervened.
• Cat Teacher said he remembered only dreaming of the Land of Cats, then listened as Nobunaga explained the events of the past two days.
• Cat Teacher realized his twenty thousand years of cultivation had produced a real breakthrough, then argued with Ian over the buns and clung to Nobunaga as the group descended into a ruckus.

At a feast in Sharku Manor, Ian and the others celebrated Cat Teacher Chehu joining their team and learned about his past in Cat Country. Chehu explained that he had awakened to Nen and a realm beyond the Extreme Realm after leaving the Gate of Glory, and demonstrated his ability to crack space.

• Ian and Cat Teacher Chehu put their earlier clash behind them and celebrated together at Sharku Manor.
• Nobunaga served Cat Teacher grilled fish, and Ian recognized Chehu as an Earthly Immortal and a genuine Cat Sage.
• Cat Teacher described Cat Country as a kingdom of Catfolk with varied forms and abilities, where some cats practiced Cultivation while he followed martial arts.
• Eluna asked why Cat Teacher had awakened Nen and surpassed the Extreme Realm after leaving the Gate of Glory.
• Cat Teacher said he felt one with the world, then waved a paw and caused cracks to appear in the space before him.

Cat Teacher demonstrated his mastery of Flow and helped Nobunaga break through in his swordsmanship. Ian then received an urgent call that Netero had been badly injured while hunting Sashado, and he seized Cat Teacher before heading to the hospital.

• Cat Teacher tore open space and explained that his realm had brought him into harmony with the world, which Ian identified as contact with the Dao.
• Cat Teacher demonstrated Flow and guided Nobunaga, who realized how to let his sword follow the momentum of the world.
• The next morning, Nobunaga practiced his newly transformed swordsmanship while Cat Teacher praised his progress.
• Beans called Ian and said Netero had been injured hunting Sashado and might not survive.
• Ian prepared to use the Anywhere Door to reach Netero, then grabbed Cat Teacher by the scruff of his neck.

Ian arrived at the medical room where Netero was being resuscitated and learned from Zeno that Sashado had nearly killed him during a mission in the Hutalya Wetlands. As Netero’s condition worsened, Ian moved to intervene, but the doctor objected.

• Ian appeared through the Anywhere Door with Cat Teacher biting his shoulder, and Beans greeted him as Netero’s doctors continued the resuscitation.
• When Netero’s heartbeat nearly flatlined, Ian offered Cat Teacher ten fish strips to make him stop biting, then went to check on Netero.
• Ian asked Zeno what had happened, and Zeno explained that Netero had hired his group to find Sashado in the Hutalya Wetlands.
• Zeno said Sashado had infiltrated human society by parasitizing people and that one weak host had nearly torn out Netero’s internal organs during their encounter.
• Ian criticized Netero for secretly challenging Sashado again and said he would handle the situation, but the doctor warned that Netero could not be moved.