Chapter Summaries

Su Xiao killed Leech and defeated Sick Dog after the Shadow Beasts attacked him, then learned that the Ten Elders wanted Sick Dog spared. He accepted their invitation to a meeting at the Yorknew Hotel and forced Sick Dog to take him there.

• Su Xiao captured Leech, tortured him for information, and killed him when Sick Dog and armed mafia members arrived.
• Su Xiao used Boundary Severing Thread to kill the charging mafia members, then sent Bubu Wang after Sick Dog.
• Su Xiao caught Sick Dog in an alley and prepared to kill him, but answered a call from one of the Ten Elders, who offered fifty billion Jeni to spare him.
• Su Xiao told the Ten Elder he had killed Leech, and the caller invited him and Sick Dog to a banquet at the Yorknew Hotel.
• Su Xiao injected Sick Dog with an Alchemy Bomb, cut off his ear, and ordered him to take him to the hotel.

Su Xiao brought the wounded Sick Dog to Yorknew Hotel to meet the Ten Elders, while the mafia leaders weighed whether to negotiate or seek revenge. On the thirtieth floor, a Ten Elder appeared on a screen and offered Su Xiao a lavish welcome in exchange for releasing Sick Dog.

• Sick Dog changed clothes and led Su Xiao to Yorknew Hotel under threat from a metal wire around his neck.
• Porcupine and Earthworm saw Su Xiao in the elevator, then agreed that the Shadow Beasts should avoid seeking revenge for Leech's death.
• Su Xiao reached the thirtieth floor with Sick Dog and found a room filled with women and a large screen.
• A Ten Elder offered Su Xiao the women as a gift and asked him to release Sick Dog before enjoying them.

Su Xiao negotiated with the Ten Elders after killing Leech, refusing to become their subordinate and demanding rare treasures as payment. The Ten Elders agreed to hire him jointly, but negotiations stalled when he demanded ten Eternal Crystals per day.

• The Ten Elders offered Su Xiao Leech’s vacant place among the Shadow Beasts, but he threatened Sick Dog and rejected becoming their subordinate.
• Su Xiao proposed a cooperative relationship in which the Ten Elders would pay him for his services.
• After Su Xiao showed them a Soul Crystal (Medium), the Ten Elders identified it as an Eternal Crystal, and he demanded such crystals as payment.
• The Ten Elders refused Su Xiao’s price, and he started to leave, prompting them to agree to hire him together.
• Su Xiao demanded ten Eternal Crystals of that grade per day, leaving the Ten Elders stunned.

Su Xiao negotiated with the Ten Elders to protect the Auction in exchange for five Soul Crystals (Medium) each day until it ended. After receiving the first five crystals, he brought up the One-Eyed Giant’s eyeball to negotiate another payment.

• Bick persuaded the Ten Elders that hiring Su Xiao was safer than risking a confrontation, especially after he warned them that the Phantom Troupe might target the Auction.
• Su Xiao ordered Black Mary to bandage Sick Dog while the Ten Elders resumed negotiations with him.
• Su Xiao and Bick agreed that the Ten Elders would pay Su Xiao five Soul Crystals (Medium) each day until the Auction ended, after which their grievances would be wiped clean.
• Black Mary brought Su Xiao five Soul Crystals (Medium) from the vault, and he accepted them.
• Su Xiao took out the One-Eyed Giant’s eyeball and began negotiating with the Ten Elders over it.

Su Xiao traded the One-Eyed Giant’s eyeball to the Ten Elders for an Auction lot and agreed to protect them during the event in exchange for Soul Crystals (Medium). He went with Black Mary to the Auction vault and selected several crates, finding a golden broadsword that might be equipment.

• Su Xiao exchanged the One-Eyed Giant’s eyeball for one Auction lot, and the Ten Elders assigned Black Mary to assist him.
• The Ten Elders hired Su Xiao to ensure the Auction went smoothly and protect their lives, paying him five Soul Crystals (Medium) per day.
• Black Mary drove Su Xiao and Bubu Wang to the Auction venue in Yorkshin City.
• Su Xiao and Black Mary gained access to the vault on the forty-first floor after Black Mary confirmed his identity with the person in charge.
• Su Xiao selected more than a dozen crates and found a golden broadsword whose equipment status he could only confirm at Reincarnation Paradise.

Su Xiao stayed at the auction house and opened two treasure chests, finding two pages of a Talent Book. Reincarnation Paradise explained the requirements and risks of talent awakening, leaving Su Xiao to focus on the Brigade and his current mission.

• Su Xiao chose the Blood Blade at the auction house and took it despite learning it had been reserved by an unpaid customer.
• Su Xiao settled into a guest room on the auction house’s twentieth floor and considered the Brigade and contractors who might attack the auction house.
• Su Xiao opened a Purple Treasure Chest and a pale-gold Lord's Treasure Chest, gaining Paradise Coins and Talent Book pages two and three.
• Su Xiao asked Reincarnation Paradise about talent awakening and learned its requirements, dangers, and mission difficulty.
• Su Xiao put away the Talent Book pages and decided to focus on dealing with the Brigade in the Hunter World.

As the Yorknew Auction began, Su Xiao prepared to defend it against the Phantom Troupe, which secretly infiltrated the building with help from a Contractor. The Contractor revealed knowledge of their plan, drawing the Troupe’s suspicion as they headed toward the Auction.

• Su Xiao learned from Black Mary that the Auction would run nightly from September 1 to September 10, and planned to protect it so he could keep earning Soul Crystals (Medium).
• Su Xiao watched the Auction House from the roof but saw no sign of the Phantom Troupe or its approach.
• Franklin, Feitan, Shizuku, and a Contractor entered the Auction House through a hole in the basement wall.
• The Contractor urged the Troupe to wait until the Auction began before attacking, claiming that would improve their chance of obtaining the items.
• Feitan questioned how the Contractor knew they intended to attack, and Franklin eyed him suspiciously.

Feitan tortured and killed the Contractor after the man revealed too much, then the Phantom Troupe’s basement hideout was discovered by Su Xiao. Feitan stayed behind to fight Su Xiao while Franklin and Shizuku escaped, and Feitan’s first strike was stopped by Su Xiao’s Energy Shield.

• Feitan accused the Contractor of pretending to know everything, tortured him for information, and killed him when he proved useless.
• A tremor shook the basement, and Franklin kicked Shizuku out of the path of a blade that broke through the ceiling.
• Su Xiao entered the basement after Bubu Wang detected the Phantom Troupe, while mafia members and Contractors gathered above.
• Franklin and Shizuku escaped to meet Uvogin and the others, leaving Feitan to confront Su Xiao.
• Feitan attacked Su Xiao at high speed with his Nen-coated blade, but Su Xiao’s Energy Shield blocked the strike.

Su Xiao fought Feitan in the basement, using a newly developed Energy Shield technique to block his attacks and counterattack. Feitan recognized the technique as troublesome, while Su Xiao revealed its name and limitations.

• Su Xiao split a powerful Energy Shield into hexagonal barriers that surrounded him and blocked Feitan’s attacks.
• Su Xiao wounded Feitan with his blade, and Blue Steel Shadow energy damaged Feitan’s Nen.
• Franklin and Shizuku considered helping Feitan, but he told them he was only warming up, so they left.
• Su Xiao and Feitan continued exchanging attacks as Su Xiao’s shields blocked Feitan and created openings for counterattacks.
• Su Xiao explained that the linked shields had high Mana costs and lasted only ten minutes, and he named the technique Counter Shield.

Su Xiao and Feitan continued their exhausting fight in the basement, each analyzing the other's abilities and searching for a way to win. As Feitan suddenly charged despite Su Xiao’s weakening Counter Shield, Su Xiao realized the mafia members above might be his real target.

• Su Xiao conserved his Mana while he and Feitan clashed, and the injured Feitan fled from Su Xiao’s attacks.
• A mafia member fell through a hole in the ceiling and was cut apart by stray Blade Glows, prompting the other observers and Contractors to retreat.
• Su Xiao deliberately stopped himself from landing a potentially devastating kick because Feitan’s ultimate move grew stronger with serious injuries.
• Feitan deduced how Su Xiao’s Blue Steel Shadow energy and Energy Shield worked, while Su Xiao concluded he needed to kill Feitan in one strike and flee if Feitan used his ultimate move.
• Feitan charged as Su Xiao’s Counter Shield neared its limit, and Su Xiao noticed the armed mafia members watching from above.

Su Xiao kicked Feitan out of the Auction House just as Feitan unleashed his ultimate move, creating a Miniature Sun that devastated the surrounding district. Su Xiao survived by hiding in a cold-storage room, while Feitan escaped and Su Xiao assessed the Brigade’s strength.

• Feitan charged toward the gang members on the ceiling, and Su Xiao’s slashes cut them down, but they still shot Feitan and left him gravely wounded.
• Feitan activated The Unforgivable and prepared to unleash his ultimate move, so Su Xiao kicked him through the Auction House’s ceiling and outer wall.
• Feitan’s Nen formed a Miniature Sun over ten meters wide, which burned buildings, streets, gang members, and civilians around the Auction House.
• Su Xiao survived the heat on the Auction House’s -3rd floor by sheltering in a cold-storage room, while Bubu Wang stayed safely at a distance.
• After the Miniature Sun vanished, Feitan escaped, and Su Xiao emerged from the cold-storage room and sensed that Feitan was gone.

Su Xiao tracked the wounded Feitan to a residence and killed him, earning a reward and the qualification to join the Phantom Troupe. He left with Feitan’s head and number patch, deciding not to join the Brigade.

• Su Xiao used Blue Steel Shadow energy to track Feitan after Bubu Wang failed to pick up his scent.
• Feitan rested in a residence after killing a family, then realized Su Xiao had followed him.
• Su Xiao entered the residence and beheaded Feitan, who was too badly wounded to resist.
• Su Xiao received World Source, Mana, a dark purple Treasure Chest, and the qualification to join the Phantom Troupe.
• Su Xiao rejected the idea of joining the Brigade, took Feitan’s head and number patch, and left.

After the Auction House was destroyed, Sick Dog and Earthworm searched the ruins and reported the disaster to the Ten Elders. Su Xiao met Black Mary, who had inexplicably survived the Miniature Sun and discovered that her Black Rose Tattoo could reappear and lose a petal.

• Sick Dog and Earthworm found the Auction House burned to its framework and concluded that Su Xiao had fought the monster responsible for the destruction.
• Sick Dog reported the missing mafia leaders and vanished guests to the Ten Elders, while Earthworm taunted Black Mary.
• Su Xiao considered whether the Brigade would seek revenge for Feitan's death, then answered a call from Black Mary, who said she had survived without knowing how.
• Black Mary met Su Xiao, and he noticed her pupils had turned blue and her Black Rose Tattoo had disappeared.
• Black Mary made the Black Rose Tattoo reappear on her arm, and one of its petals withered and fell.

Su Xiao discovered that Black Mary’s awakened Dark Rose ability could heal severe injuries and restore lost limbs, though each use consumed petals. He kept the ability secret and traveled to the Ten Elders’ fortified hideout in Yorknew City.

• Su Xiao realized Black Mary might be a natural Nen user after her rose tattoo shed a petal, and she described being struck by his Blade Glow and later waking alive.
• Su Xiao wounded Black Mary, and her Dark Rose ability manifested as a real rose that healed her arm before returning to her skin with a petal withered.
• Su Xiao tested the ability and confirmed Black Mary could heal living people, including severe injuries and lost limbs, but could not revive the dead.
• Su Xiao ordered Black Mary to keep her ability secret, especially from Red Clown, whose severed limbs could otherwise be restored.
• Su Xiao left the car near Yorknew City’s outskirts, where Black Mary and Bubu Wang remained, and approached the brightly guarded castle that served as the Ten Elders’ hideout.

Su Xiao confronted the Ten Elders after the Auction House was destroyed and identified Feitan as one of the Phantom Troupe. He refused to fight the Troupe without payment in advance, and Bick agreed to pay thirty Eternal Crystals as a deposit.

• Su Xiao entered the Ten Elders' conference room, restrained one elder with Boundary Severing Thread, and accepted two medium Soul Crystals from Bick as compensation.
• Su Xiao revealed Feitan's head and spider emblem, then explained that Feitan had destroyed the Auction House with his Miniature Sun.
• The Ten Elders asked Su Xiao to deal with the Phantom Troupe, but he said he could not fight its remaining twelve members without payment.
• Su Xiao demanded thirty Eternal Crystals upfront and the remaining twenty on September 10, and Bick agreed to the deposit.

The Ten Elders debated whether to continue the Yorknew Auction while Su Xiao questioned their reports about the Phantom Troupe. As the elders grew suspicious of him, Bick delivered the Eternal Crystal, leaving Su Xiao to decide how much of the faction he would protect.

• Bick insisted that the auction continue so it would draw the Spider's attention away from the Ten Elders.
• Su Xiao asked about the Shadow Beasts, and the Ten Elders said their forces had killed two supposed Phantom Troupe members and surrounded others in a valley.
• The Ten Elders began doubting Su Xiao's account of the Spider's strength, and one elder left to investigate.
• Su Xiao recognized that the bodies in the photographs were likely contractors rather than Brigade members and smiled at the elders' suspicions.
• Bick told Su Xiao that the Eternal Crystal had arrived, and his secretary brought it into the meeting room.

Su Xiao collected the Soul Crystals the Ten Elders paid him and left to retrieve the Shadow Beasts’ bodies, while the Elders argued over whether to recall them. Outside Yorknew City, Uvogin slaughtered a group of mafia members as Kurapika and the Nostra Family’s guards watched, unaware of Uvogin’s identity.

• Su Xiao collected thirty medium Soul Crystals from the Ten Elders and said he was going to collect the Shadow Beasts’ bodies.
• The Ten Elders argued over whether to recall the Shadow Beasts, but they failed to reach a unified decision.
• Uvogin faced more than a hundred mafia members in a valley outside Yorknew City and crushed their leader’s bullet between his teeth.
• Uvogin ignored the gunfire and charged through the mafia members, killing them with overwhelming strength.
• Kurapika watched the battle with binoculars and warned Dalzollene that the enemy Nen users were extraordinarily powerful.
• Dalzollene realized the Nostra Family guards had narrowly avoided the Auction House disaster by arriving twenty minutes after it began.

The Shadow Beasts fought Uvogin, who brutally killed Bat and Hedgehog while overwhelming the group. Su Xiao arrived as Kurapika recognized Uvogin’s spider tattoo, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Melody sensed an ominous heartbeat as Earthworm and the other Shadow Beasts confronted Kurapika and the Nostra Family’s bodyguards.
• The five Shadow Beasts attacked Uvogin, but he overwhelmed them despite Earthworm’s underground attacks and Bat’s aerial strikes.
• Uvogin tore off Bat’s wings and head, then killed Hedgehog with fragments of Bat’s skull.
• Kurapika spotted the spider tattoo on Uvogin as Su Xiao arrived with Black Mary, and Melody warned that Su Xiao’s heartbeat signaled extreme danger.
• Su Xiao decided to use the nearly defeated Shadow Beasts to hold off a Phantom Troupe fighter while he tried to keep two or three members of the Brigade there.

Su Xiao ambushed the Phantom Troupe with the Spider Empress sniper rifle, targeting Nobunaga while Uvogin fought the Shadow Beasts. Nobunaga survived the first three shots by deflecting or dodging them, and the battle was left in progress.

• Su Xiao assessed the five Phantom Troupe members and decided to use a distant sniper attack to eliminate one of their main combatants.
• Su Xiao positioned the Spider Empress on high ground and aimed at Nobunaga as Uvogin battled the Shadow Beasts.
• Su Xiao fired, and Nobunaga deflected the first bullet with his sword, which broke apart and badly dislocated his arm.
• The first shot wounded Shizuku with a fragment of Nobunaga's broken blade, while Uvogin and the others reacted to the ambush.
• Su Xiao fired two more shots; Nobunaga dodged the second, and the third bullet pursued his predicted movement as the Troupe prepared to respond.

Su Xiao killed Nobunaga with Spider Empress and wounded Uvogin before entering the valley. Kurapika headed toward the Phantom Troupe in a rage, while Melody’s flute stopped him and gave Su Xiao a buff; Uvogin roared for Su Xiao to come down and fight.

• Su Xiao shot and killed Nobunaga, who revealed the enemy’s location before collapsing.
• Su Xiao wounded Uvogin with another shot, then put away Spider Empress as the Shadow Beasts struggled to hold him back.
• Su Xiao declined Dalzollene’s request to get involved with the Nostra Family and told him the auction would reopen the next morning.
• Kurapika ignored Dalzollene and walked toward the valley, driven by anger at the Phantom Troupe.
• Melody played her flute to stop Kurapika, and Su Xiao passed her checks and received a temporary buff.
• Uvogin roared at Su Xiao to come down and die.