Chapter Summaries

Ian used the Big Light to transform the White Stone Crab into a gigantic Heaven and Earth Law-Body, allowing it to break free from the underground monster’s binding threads. The crab tore open the ground and exposed the monster’s main body, leaving its identity unrevealed.

• Ian explained that Floating Clouds were magical items that could be torn apart and expanded by blowing on them, then made three clouds into a staircase for himself and Ging.
• The White Stone Crab fought through the underground monster’s vines, but its fine white threads wrapped around him and immobilized him.
• Ian shone the Big Light on the White Stone Crab, transforming him into a vastly larger Heaven and Earth Law-Body.
• The transformed crab snapped the binding threads, then tore up the rocky ground and forest as he pursued the retreating vines.
• The White Stone Crab ripped away the final slab of rock, exposing the monster’s main body to sunlight.

Ian and Ging uncovered the true body of the forest’s enormous fungal monster, a mushroom nearly a thousand meters across. The White Stone Crab pulled it from underground and subdued it, while Ian saved a piece of its flesh for later.

• Ian and Ging saw that the monster beneath the forest was a gigantic grayish-white mushroom.
• Ian ordered the White Stone Crab to pull the fungal monster out of the ground.
• The White Stone Crab pinched a large chunk from the mushroom, and Ian told it to save the piece.
• The White Stone Crab cut through the mushroom’s vines, tore off another chunk, and dragged its body out of the pit.
• The mushroom stopped resisting and lay subdued beside the White Stone Crab.

Ian and Ging explored the Dark Continent, where Ian captured a giant mushroom creature to raise for its nourishing flesh. On Kukuroo Mountain, Netero visited the Zoldycks and asked whether they knew about Performance-Enhancing Liquid.

• Ian and Ging descended from [A Floating Cloud] to examine the Giant Mushroom after the White Stone Crab defeated it.
• Ian shrank a piece of mushroom flesh and stored it, then decided to spare the creature and keep it in the [Miniature World Refrigerator].
• Ging admired Ian's gadgets, and Ian joked that he would charge him for borrowing them before they continued their journey on the White Stone Crab.
• On Kukuroo Mountain, Zeno told Netero that the Zoldyck Family only killed humans and would not target the monster Sashado.
• Netero warned that Sashado might threaten humanity someday, then asked Zeno whether he knew about the Performance-Enhancing Liquid.

Netero revealed that Ian’s Performance-Enhancing Liquid could temporarily increase physical ability tenfold, hoping to persuade Zeno and Maha to help confront Sashado. Zeno and Maha were astonished by the claim, leaving them poised to consider the liquid’s power.

• Zeno told Netero that the Zoldycks would not risk their lives for V5 against Sashado, and asked what V5 planned to do to Ian.
• Netero said the Performance-Enhancing Liquid came from Ian, drawing Zeno’s interest in the item.
• Netero explained that pouring the liquid over the body boosted physical condition tenfold for ten minutes.
• Zeno reacted with astonishment, and Maha released dark Nen and asked Netero whether the tenfold effect was real.

Maha tested Ian’s Performance-Enhancing Liquid and gained nearly ten times his power, then asked Netero how the monster he wanted to deal with compared to him. The chapter left Netero facing Maha’s question after witnessing his newly awakened strength.

• Maha agreed to test the liquid before deciding whether to support Netero’s request.
• Zeno warned Netero that he would hold him responsible if the liquid harmed Maha, while Netero confirmed he had used three bottles himself.
• Maha applied half a bottle of the liquid, and his heart began beating strongly again after years of slowing it to extend his life.
• Maha’s body grew fuller as a torrent of ominous black Nen erupted from him, and he gained nearly ten times his power.
• Maha blasted the waterfall with a casual punch, then asked Netero whether his target could match Maha’s new strength.

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.