Chapter Summaries

Jing Yang taught Caitlyn, Jayce, Wai, Bao Bao, Milo, and Klaeg the basics of Nen and tested their types with Water Divination. He left with Shizuku and Wai’s group for the Lower City, while Caitlyn stayed behind, reflecting on her newfound power and their promise to meet again tomorrow.

• Jing Yang guided Caitlyn through Ten, Zetsu, Ren, and Hatsu, then used Water Divination to identify her as an Emitter midway between Emitter and Enhancer.
• Jing Yang tested Jayce, Wai, Bao Bao, Milo, and Klaeg, revealing Jayce as an Enhancer, Wai as a Transmuter midway between Transmuter and Enhancer, Bao Bao as a Specialist, Milo as a Manipulator leaning toward Emitter, and Klaeg as an Emitter leaning toward Enhancer.
• Bao Bao’s Water Divination made the cup explode into red-and-blue mist, and Wai beat Milo after he mocked Bao Bao.
• Jayce asked Jing Yang about the magic in the air, but Jing Yang told him to ask a mage and invited Wai’s group to show him the Lower City.
• The Golden Cloud rejected Jayce, so Jing Yang carried him across the river with wind while flying away with Shizuku and Wai’s group.
• Caitlyn remained on Jayce’s balcony, considered her Nen abilities, and remembered Jing Yang’s promise to meet again the next day.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, and their companions descended into Black Alley, where Jayce hoped to continue his Hextech experiments. The hostile crowd recognized Wai and her sister, and Wai hurried toward Fuggen Tavern after hearing that Vander had gone to meet Silco.

• Golden Cloud brought Jing Yang, Shizuku, Wai, and the others to the Lower City, where Jayce survived a hard landing without injury.
• Wai led the group down the elevator into Black Alley, while Jing Yang and Shizuku discussed Shizuku's past homes in Meteor City.
• Passersby recognized Jayce and Wai's group, and Wai shielded Bao Bao when a bald man threw a burning bottle at them.
• Wai challenged the crowd and defended Bao Bao after they blamed Jinx for a past attack.
• After hearing that Vander had gone to find Silco, Wai hurried toward Fuggen Tavern.

Jing Yang and Shizuku helped the Lower City group reunite with an injured Vander, whom Jing Yang healed. They then arranged for Jayce to test his Hextech theory, while Jing Yang secretly sent a man to seek out a place connected to Janna.

• Wai and the others found Vander injured in the darkened Fuggen Tavern after he had tried to prevent a clash between Silco's people and the Upper City enforcers.
• Vander explained that he had fought both sides to stop them from going to war, and that they had reached a temporary truce.
• Jing Yang healed Vander's shoulder and arm with his Nine Yang True Aura.
• Jayce set up the Hextech Crystal and experimental equipment in the tavern to test his theory that magic could be placed in mortal hands.
• Jing Yang quietly told a dreadlocked Lower City man to find a place connected to Janna and cut his arm open there.

Jing Yang and Shizuku studied Jayce’s magical teleportation array, then taught Nen basics to Vander and the others. Later, Jing Yang confronted Janna about the relationship between mortal faith and the spiritual realm, and she appeared to answer him.

• Jayce’s teleportation array formed, and Jing Yang and Shizuku compared its magic with Nen and wondered whether magic itself was alive.
• After Jayce removed the Hextech Crystal, Vander sent the onlookers away, and Jing Yang opened Vander’s Aura Nodes as payment for their stay.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku taught Nen basics to Vander, Jayce, Milo, Klaeg, Wai, and Bao Bao, who considered how they might develop their abilities.
• Caitlyn watched the moon and caught a ball of light in her palm while people across both cities discussed Wai and Bao Bao.
• Jing Yang possessed a dreadlocked man’s body and questioned the Janna mural about mortal faith, and Janna manifested before him and drew out the outline of his true body.

Jing Yang asked Janna how a mortal could become a Nature Spirit, and she shared how faith and the spirit realm shaped her own existence without offering a way to transform. At the Fuggen Tavern, Vander and the children practiced Nen, and Bao Bao emerged from the basement having mastered the Four Great Principles and changed in appearance.

• Janna explained that sailors’ prayers for safe voyages gave rise to her consciousness as a guardian of the winds, and that she later grew powerful beyond the need for human faith.
• Janna described the spirit realm as interwoven with the material world and all life, then told Jing Yang to visit her in person next time.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku slept in the tavern while Jayce stayed up studying Hextech; Shizuku noticed Vander rapidly learning Nen, and Jing Yang sensed Wai was already contemplating Hatsu.
• The next morning, Milo was astonished that Bao Bao had mastered the Four Great Principles, while Wai noticed Bao Bao looked taller and had longer hair.

Jing Yang revealed his wind power in Black Alley and sent its toxic air toward Piltover’s Council Building, where it spread across the Upper City. The chapter ended with Caitlyn reaching Jayce’s apartment amid the resulting chaos.

• Shizuku provided breakfast and toiletries, and Bao Bao demonstrated her Nen skills after seemingly mastering them overnight; Jing Yang suspected her intense desire to grow up had unconsciously created a Specialist ability that cost her a month of life.
• Jayce reminded the group of their appointment, and Jing Yang decided to lead everyone toward the Upper City despite Vander’s concerns.
• Jing Yang announced that he liked the name Wind Messenger and rose into the air as powerful green winds swept the toxic air from Black Alley.
• Jing Yang asked the gathered residents whether he should send Black Alley’s toxic air into the Upper City, and they enthusiastically agreed.
• Jing Yang fired a giant arrow of toxic air at the Council Building, spreading green smoke through the Upper City and sending its residents coughing into the streets.
• Caitlyn witnessed the attack, then made her way to Jayce’s apartment.

Jing Yang’s group watched the light screen reveal the years after Vander’s death, including Jinx’s violent Shimmer raid and Caitlyn’s investigation into the sisters’ separation. Caitlyn urged everyone to change the future, while Wai held Bao Bao close as the screen showed Jinx’s trauma and Bao Bao wondered why she felt little connection to her.

• Jing Yang and Shizuku brought the group to Jayce’s apartment, where Caitlyn joined them and invited Bao Bao to visit her family’s shooting range.
• The light screen showed Jayce’s future success with the Hextech Gate and Caitlyn’s frustration that her mother had confined her to routine Enforcer work.
• The group watched Jinx attack the Wildfire Gang during a Shimmer shipment, and Milo noticed that Bao Bao had smiled at the gunfire.
• Caitlyn argued that Silco had projected his own betrayal onto Jinx and that Wai had never truly abandoned Bao Bao, then urged the group to change what happened in the future.
• The light screen showed Jinx’s trap injuring Caitlyn’s Enforcer colleagues, Wai imprisoned at Stillwater, and Jinx fleeing after a Hextech experiment triggered her trauma.
• Wai hugged Bao Bao as she watched, while Bao Bao wondered whether she felt detached from Jinx because she believed she would not become like her.

The light screen followed Wai’s return to the Lower City as she searched for her sister, while her growing closeness with Caitlyn drew teasing from the onlookers. Wai finally reunited with Jinx after answering her signal flare, and Jinx feared her sister would reject the person she had become.

• Wai and Caitlyn parkoured across the Lower City rooftops, then Wai brought Caitlyn to a brothel to gather information about Jinx.
• Jinx revisited her childhood hideout and tried to beat Wai’s old Boxing Arcade Machine record, but her score stopped at second place.
• Wai fought Silco’s second-in-command, who told her that Bao Bao had become Jinx; Caitlyn rescued Wai after the revelation left her distracted and wounded.
• Silco subjected Jinx to a toxic-river baptism, and Jinx later learned from Sevika that Wai had returned and was accompanied by an Upper City woman.
• Caitlyn sold her Folding Rifle to buy medicine for Wai, and the two hid together in Wai and Bao Bao’s old home until Silco found them.
• Jinx raised the signal flare Wai had left her, and Wai reached her in time for the sisters to embrace and explain what had happened after they were separated.

Jing Yang visited Camille Ferros to learn about her Hextech heart and whether she could use Nen, then brought materials for Jayce to build a Hextech Gate. Back in the Lower City, Bao Bao vanished during Nen practice and reappeared as the grown-up Jinx when her timer doll finished counting.

• After the light screen showed Jinx misunderstanding Wai's reunion and the Wildfire Gang's attack as a trap, Jing Yang left to gather materials for a Hextech Gate.
• Jing Yang confronted Camille Ferros at her estate, tested her bladed leg, and asked about her Hextech heart and whether she could learn Nen Abilities.
• Camille gave Jing Yang the materials Jayce needed, including twenty Hextech Crystals, and Jayce began examining them at the Fuggen Tavern.
• Young Ekko learned that the light screen had shown his future role in events that tore apart his friends, and Jing Yang encouraged him to speak with Wai and Bao Bao.
• Wai and the others discovered Bao Bao had disappeared, leaving behind a conjured Monkey Doll with a timer.
• When the timer reached ten minutes, the doll vanished and a ball of light emerged, revealing the grown-up Jinx.

Bao Bao revealed a Nen Ability that let her spend years training in a compressed pocket of time at the cost of her lifespan, while Jayce’s Hextech Gate unexpectedly transported Jing Yang and Shizuku to a mural in the Lower City. Jing Yang then wondered whether his gathered Natural Aura could become a power source like Hextech Crystals, and asked Janna how he differed from Shizuku.

• Bao Bao emerged from her timer monkey as an adult, and Wai learned that Bao Bao had spent ten years of her lifespan to grow stronger.
• Bao Bao explained that her Specialist ability, Bao Bao's Wonderful Land (Get Jinxed), compressed time for focused training, and she promised Wai not to use it again.
• Vander tested Bao Bao’s new strength, and she stopped his iron fist with one finger.
• Jayce completed a small Hextech Gate, which teleported Jing Yang and Shizuku to an old mural in the Lower City.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku discussed adapting Nen Abilities into Hextech devices and identified a suitable energy source as the main obstacle.
• Jing Yang formed a crystal-like shape from Natural Aura and asked Janna what made him different from Shizuku.

Jing Yang and Shizuku discussed immortality while watching the light screen reveal Jinx and Ekko’s tragic confrontation on the bridge. The chapter left Ekko wondering why Bao Bao had become Jinx and fought against him, while Bao Bao called him an idiot.

• Janna appeared before Jing Yang and Shizuku, and Shizuku transformed into a fox-like form as Janna discussed transcending mortal limits.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku returned to Fuggen Tavern, where the crowd watched the light screen reveal that grown-up Ekko led the Wildfire Gang.
• Sevika watched Jinx suffer and recognized her as a tormented girl rather than the unstable threat she had expected.
• The screen showed Jinx misinterpreting Wai, Caitlyn, and Ekko’s actions, attacking the bridge checkpoint, and opening fire on them.
• Ekko fought Jinx on the bridge, hesitated when he recognized their childhood bond, and Jinx detonated her grenade, leaving both of them missing or severely wounded.
• Ekko wondered why Bao Bao had not stayed his friend and built the Wildfire Gang with him, while the crowd argued over Jinx’s loyalty and Bao Bao called Ekko an idiot.

The screen showed Jinx’s transformation, her fatal confrontation with Silco and Wai, and her rocket attack on the Upper City Council Building before vanishing. Jing Yang and Shizuku returned to Kakin with proof that the Runeterra world was real, and Xiao Fen gained an ability that could take them back there.

• On the screen, Jinx survived the explosion, underwent Shimmer surgery, and became convinced that Wai’s love could be proven by making Wai kill Caitlyn.
• Jinx forced Wai to choose between killing Caitlyn and bringing Bao Bao back, then killed Silco while protecting Wai and accepted her identity as Jinx.
• Jinx fired a Hextech rocket at the Council Building, and the screen disappeared before showing what happened to the missile or the Councillors.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku returned to Mishu Summer Resort with a mouse from the Lower City, confirming that living creatures could travel between worlds.
• Xiao Fen manifested a Hextech Gate ability that could return them to Runeterra, giving Jing Yang a world they could revisit.

Halkenburg vowed to avenge his elder brothers, while Kurapika trained Pyro and hunted Chimera Ants for King Camilla. After Kurapika used a Natural Aura Nen Doll to capture an ant, Pyro noticed Kurapika’s face and hair had briefly changed, leaving Kurapika puzzled as he answered Camilla’s call.

• Halkenburg received an email from Sachou Kobayakawa and told the First Consort he would come before vowing to avenge Benjamin and Tserriednich.
• Kurapika told Pyro that Jing Yang had helped him recover the Kurta Clan’s eyes and achieve Resurrection, then began teaching Pyro Nen.
• Kurapika continued taking Camilla’s commissions to capture Chimera Ants while bringing Pyro along and training him.
• Kurapika used Apocalypse to locate a lizard Chimera Ant and a Natural Aura Nen Doll with chains to trap it until Kakin soldiers arrived to take it away.
• Pyro noticed Kurapika’s face and hair briefly change, and Kurapika wondered why he was experiencing bodily mutation before answering King Camilla’s call.

Camilla used her evolved Reincarnation Cat on a captured Chimera Ant while the Second Royal Dowager urged her to bring her father out of seclusion. Meanwhile, Netero confronted Beyond about the Chimera Ants and received a business card that might help locate the Ant King.

• Camilla and Kurapika discussed Kakin's response to the Chimera Ant incident, and Kakin's special operations teams delivered captured Brigade Leaders to the capital.
• Camilla demonstrated that her Reincarnation Cat could extract a target's life force and replenish her in real time.
• The Second Royal Dowager told Camilla that only she might persuade her father to leave his room, and Camilla went to see him.
• Netero questioned Beyond about his vow, the Chimera Ants, and the Ant King, while Beyond denied responsibility for the invasion.
• Beyond gave Netero a business card that might help him find the Ant King.

Galu tested venom on Chimera Ants and contacted Cheadle for her research on the Zobae Undying Disease, linking her work to Jing Yang. Meanwhile, Camilla confronted Nasubi over the destruction of the Succession War tradition and ordered him to prepare for a trip to the cemetery, as Youpi appeared in the royal capital.

• Galu ran experiments on Chimera Ants using simulated and prepared venom, then called Cheadle to request her research materials on the Zobae Undying Disease.
• Galu demonstrated her transforming Nen ability to Cheadle and said Jing Yang’s commission was behind her investigation; Cheadle agreed to come meet her.
• Camilla visited Nasubi and ordered him to go with her to the cemetery, while Nasubi warned that destroying the Succession War tradition endangered Kakin’s future.
• Camilla insisted that she only needed to become immortal, and Nasubi asked what made her different from past rulers.
• Youpi’s butterfly-like fragments gathered on a rooftop in Kakin’s royal capital and formed his body.

Pouf connected Chiri’s self-chosen name and familiarity with humans to a possible hidden identity as the news reported Prince Benjamin and Prince Tserriednich’s deaths. At the mausoleum, Camilla revealed a Nen ability that let Nasubi see her Reincarnation Cat, while Halkenburg resolved to act against her; Netero then spoke with Galu and Cheadle as a Chimera Ant in a medical pod awoke.

• Pouf watched news of Benjamin and Tserriednich’s deaths and wondered whether Chiri had already possessed a name and knowledge of the human world.
• Tsubeppa paid respects at Tserriednich’s tomb while the Royal Family gathered at the mausoleum.
• Halkenburg challenged Camilla and Nasubi over the Princes’ deaths and the abandonment of the succession war.
• Camilla’s touch awakened Nasubi’s vision of Nen, revealing the Reincarnation Cat draining Halkenburg’s life force.
• Halkenburg felt a soul return to his current body and decided to act against Camilla.
• Netero told Galu and Cheadle he could not locate Jing Yang, then a Chimera Ant in a medical pod asked what they needed him for.

Jing Yang tested the Enchantment Technique through a possessed Chimera Ant while Cheadle and Galu observed, then continued developing his Natural Aura conversion at Mount Misu. He demonstrated a Natural Aura Hundred-Type Guanyin and stopped absorbing when the process began destroying the surrounding environment, remaining at 49 percent conversion.

• Jing Yang possessed a rhinoceros-gene Chimera Ant and explained to Cheadle, Galu, and Netero that he was developing the Enchantment Technique.
• Netero challenged Jing Yang’s confidence and struck him into a laboratory wall with an invisible hand from the Hundred-Type Guanyin.
• At Mount Misu, Jing Yang awoke with 230,000 total Nen quantity and told Shizuku that his Natural Aura conversion had reached 49 percent.
• Jing Yang formed a Natural Aura Hundred-Type Guanyin and unleashed its Zero Hand into the sky.
• Jing Yang absorbed Natural Aura in a three-headed, six-armed form, but stopped when the nearby pond, flowers, and trees began to wither.
• Jing Yang returned to Shizuku and said he felt that reaching the next stage would bring a fundamental change.

Camilla named Kurapika the leader of Family A and declared that orphan sacrifices would end, while Halkenburg tried to seize control of her with his soul-arrow ability. Jing Yang’s Star Mark repelled him, leaving Halkenburg unconscious as Jing Yang and Camilla faced questions about Kakin’s dark secrets.

• Camilla ordered Spinić-Saleh to yield Family A’s authority to Kurapika and said orphan sacrifices would no longer exist.
• Halkenburg hid in a secret passage at the Mishu Summer Resort and prepared to attack Camilla with his soul-arrow ability.
• Halkenburg fired his Nen arrow at Camilla, but Jing Yang’s Star Mark appeared in her soul and shattered the arrow.
• Royal guards dragged Halkenburg out, and he accused Jing Yang of helping Camilla take the country before collapsing unconscious.
• Camilla identified the private soldier as Halkenburg, while Jing Yang answered Biscuit’s impatient phone call.

Jing Yang and Shizuku traveled by airship to Wotel City, where Biscuit sensed Jing Yang’s increased strength and watched him demonstrate several Nen transformations. Elsewhere, Meruem surveyed a human city with his aura and began reading its electromagnetic signals as an expanding information network.

• Jing Yang and Shizuku left Kakin by private airship, while Xiao Fen and Xiao Zi stayed behind to watch Camilla.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku crossed the ocean to Wotel City, discussing the second season of War of the Two Cities on the way.
• Biscuit met them in a park, sensed that Jing Yang had grown stronger, and watched him switch Nen aura among several properties.
• Meruem released points of aura across a city and absorbed information about hundreds of thousands of people.
• Meruem listened to a voice carried by electromagnetic waves and perceived the city’s signals interweaving into a vast information network.

Killua secured permission to travel with Alluka and Nanika, but Silva required one of them to remain at home as the original body. Killua left with Alluka and searched for the friend Jing Yang had mentioned, ending up at a restaurant called Whale Island as Nanika took her turn.

• Killua freed Alluka and Nanika from the maze, but Silva announced that one of them had to stay home as the original body.
• Killua accepted the family rule and chose Alluka to travel with him, while he and Nanika agreed to switch consciousness every three hours.
• Killua and Alluka searched through places named Whale Island and Shark Island, hoping to find the friend Jing Yang had mentioned.
• Killua brought Alluka into a restaurant called Whale Island, where Alluka insisted that Nanika's turn begin on time.
• Alluka's appearance changed as Nanika took control, frightening the waiter pushing the food cart.