Chapter Summaries

Killua and Nanika encountered Chimera Ants while wandering through town, and Killua killed a frog-headed attacker. A vulture Chimera Ant pursued them from the sky until Kite intervened, though he warned that it had escaped.

• Killua carried Nanika through a town square where a frog-headed Chimera Ant attacked passersby, then pulled out its heart and killed it.
• Killua sensed someone following him and dodged a feather attack from a Chimera Ant high in the sky.
• The vulture Chimera Ant pursued Killua and Nanika, mocking them and dodging Killua’s attempt to strike it with an electrified pebble.
• The impact of the vulture’s next attack caused Nanika to switch bodies with Alluka.
• Kite shot the vulture Chimera Ant with a hunting shotgun, but warned Killua and Alluka that it had flown away in time.

Killua, Alluka, and Kite fought off an Ironwire Vulture Chimera Ant before entering a nearby city. There, Kite recognized Youpi, while Meruem confronted Netero on a rooftop.

• Kite explained that the Ironwire Vulture was tracking them, and Killua dodged its Nen Feathers while Kite defended against them with Crazy Slots weapons.
• Kite kicked Killua away to draw the vulture into attacking Killua and Alluka, then blasted it with a heavy cannon and collected its corpse.
• Kite and Killua continued into the city, where Kite spotted Youpi standing unnoticed among the pedestrians.
• Meruem stood atop a building with Netero and told Youpi he had no interest in the approaching Hunters.

Pe urged Meruem to abandon his body and become a digital life-form, but he cut off their connection and left. Netero attacked Meruem and then fought to shield himself from Nefipito, while Youpi pursued Meruem and Kite was thrown aside.

• Pe told Meruem he could escape the fate of the Ant King by becoming a digital life-form, but he severed the connection without answering.
• Meruem used his scattered photons to gather information about Netero, Kite, and other people in the city.
• Netero attacked Meruem with the Hundred-Type Guanyin, but Meruem evaded him on stairs made of light and rode away on a light shuttle.
• Kite attacked Youpi with Crazy Slots, but Youpi blocked the scythe and flung Kite away before chasing Meruem.
• Netero intercepted Youpi, then used the Hundred-Type Guanyin to protect himself from Nefipito's assassination strike and crashed into the street.

Netero and Kite fought Nefipito while Killua fled with Alluka, but Nanika intervened to save him. Nanika brought Killua to a forest where Jing Yang was gathering natural energy.

• Netero and Kite confronted Nefipito as the panicked crowd fled, and Netero warned the bystanders to evacuate.
• Nefipito attacked Kite and Killua, but Netero used the Hundred-Type Guanyin to strike her and cover Killua's escape.
• Nefipito activated Black Wisp, increased her speed, and caught up to Killua before Nanika's presence made her recoil in fear.
• Alluka switched places with Nanika early, and Nanika teleported herself and Killua away from Nefipito.
• Nanika took Killua to a forest where Jing Yang was gathering natural energy.

Biscuit surpassed 40% in Natural Type cultivation and became interested in visiting the Dark Continent to advance further. Killua and Nanika arrived in the forest, and the chapter ended with Biscuit receiving a call from Chairman Netero asking where Jing Yang was.

• Biscuit reached about 41% Natural Type progress, while Jing Yang remained stuck at 49%.
• Biscuit projected a giant Natural Aura hand to seize Killua and Nanika, who had been sneaking nearby.
• Killua said he had been looking for Whale Island, and Jing Yang helped him locate it online.
• Biscuit and Shizuku noticed Nanika naturally absorbing Natural Aura, while Killua shielded him from their scrutiny.
• Biscuit demonstrated an imperfect imitation of Killua's electric Nen, then received a call from Chairman Netero asking for Jing Yang.
• Killua wondered whether Netero had already won the battle.

Jing Yang summoned Netero with Nanika’s help and demonstrated the Natural Type’s power through Biscuit and Shizuku. He taught Netero the art, and after reaching nearly 50% Natural Aura, Netero questioned whether consciousness and matter could truly be separated.

• Jing Yang paid Nanika with Natural Aura to teleport Netero to the group.
• Shizuku and Biscuit attacked Netero with Natural Aura techniques, and Biscuit stopped the spar before he lost his temper.
• Netero told Killua that he had lost to the Chimera Ant but promised Kite would survive while he lived.
• Jing Yang enlightened Netero, who entered a meditative state and raised his Natural Aura proportion to nearly 50%.
• Netero said he would not increase the proportion further, then asked Jing Yang whether matter and consciousness could be separated.

Jing Yang discussed Natural Aura and the limits of human identity with Biscuit and Netero, who suggested his unusual self-awareness might be nonhuman. The conversation left Jing Yang determined to advance Natural Type progress to 100% and discover what lay beyond.

• Biscuit explained how changes to the brain could alter a person's emotions and introduced the idea of cultivating a True Self beyond the body's limits.
• Netero and Biscuit explained that Natural Aura's imbalance was dangerous for humans, while Jing Yang's success suggested his spirit was fundamentally different.
• Netero recognized Nanika as a special gaseous lifeform from the Dark Continent and wondered whether Jing Yang shared his kind's nature.
• Biscuit proposed that Jing Yang's Immortal Art had temporarily given Shizuku, Biscuit, and Netero a True Self, and Shizuku asked whether passing 50% Natural Type progress would make it permanent.
• Netero said he did not want to exceed 50% because he did not want to stop being human, while Biscuit warned that leaving the body might freeze one's spiritual state.
• Jing Yang decided he would push Natural Type progress to 100% regardless.

Meruem returned to the abandoned nest and discovered Chiri had taken the Ant Queen, while Pitou was dying from a genetic weapon. He transferred Pitou’s consciousness into the electromagnetic waves, then confronted Netero and offered to fight him in exchange for help finding the Ant Queen.

• Meruem returned to the abandoned building district and found the Ant Queen and Chiri gone.
• Pouf explained that Chiri was likely the reincarnated soul of Tserriednich, and Meruem questioned whether Pouf would ever doubt his king.
• Meruem found Youpi carrying a poisoned, gravely wounded Pitou, who warned him to stay away from her.
• Meruem used his Aura to upload Pitou’s consciousness into the electromagnetic waves, where Pe encountered Pitou’s new digital presence.
• Meruem teleported to Netero and learned Pitou had been poisoned by a genetic weapon targeting Chimera Ants.
• Meruem agreed to fight Netero if Netero helped him find the Ant Queen.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Biscuit reached Meteor City and found its entrance sealed by Machi’s Nen threads. They learned that a Chimera Ant calling himself the Ant King had invaded and transformed half the city, while Nobunaga stood among the dead ants.

• Jing Yang recalled Netero and Biscuit’s comments about his abnormal spirit as he traveled toward Meteor City with Shizuku and Biscuit.
• Biscuit admitted she had been teleported to a dangerous place in Meteor City, where a strange creature had severed her arm, but she could not explain exactly what had happened.
• The group found no garbage collectors on their way into Meteor City and discovered Machi using Nen threads to block the residential district; Menchi explained she had accompanied Machi home to study cooking.
• Jing Yang sensed Death Qi and flew toward its source, while Menchi told Biscuit that only half of Meteor City remained after the Ant King’s invasion.
• Jing Yang found a ruined half of the city and landed near a pile of Chimera Ant corpses, where Nobunaga sat with his katana before drawing it and slashing at him.

Jing Yang and his companions traveled through Meteor City to find the person who had stopped the Chimera Ant invasion, while Jing Yang healed the wounded residents. They reached Mist Forest Valley and found a startled little girl outside a small house beneath ancient trees.

• Jing Yang overpowered Nobunaga, then entered Meteor City without attacking him.
• Menchi explained that a girl called the Ant King had occupied half of Meteor City before someone stopped her, and she directed Jing Yang’s group to a church.
• Jing Yang healed the wounded residents in the church with his shooting stars, then left with Biscuit and Shizuku.
• The group took a bus to Mist Forest Valley, where the driver told them to look for Renko.
• Jing Yang, Biscuit, and Shizuku found a wide clearing and a little girl staring at them from outside a small house.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Biscuit found Renko in a hidden space near the ancient tree, where she offered Biscuit her preserved severed arm and began explaining Meteor City's forgotten past. Renko revealed that modern humans descended from refugees who fled the Dark Continent, leaving their origins to be explored.

• Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Biscuit realized the forest around them was not Mist Forest Valley but a hidden space near an ancient tree.
• Renji introduced herself as Renko's disciple, and Renko emerged through a purple rift to meet them.
• Renko showed Biscuit her perfectly preserved severed arm, but Biscuit demanded to know who had taken it.
• Shizuku used her vacuum cleaner to take the arm, and Renko invited the group to hear the history behind Meteor City.
• Renko began her tale by revealing that modern humans were descendants of refugees who had fled the Dark Continent in ancient times.

Renko explained humanity’s flight from the Dark Continent and revealed that she had split into two halves, with one remaining beside the ancient tree. Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Biscuit entered the tree to discover what lay within.

• Renko recounted how humanity’s ancestors crossed Lake Möbius, leaving sinister entities and some mutants buried at the heart of the new world.
• Renko explained that Meteor City’s people might carry Magical Beast blood and that she had split into two halves, one of which stayed with the ancient tree.
• Renko suggested the tree and buried entities had created the strange region and the Lingering Ghost that she became, then invited the group to enter the tree.
• Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Biscuit decided to investigate, and Jing Yang prepared to escape through a gate if danger arose.
• Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Biscuit touched the tree and were swallowed by swirling bark.

Jing Yang, Biscuit, and Shizuku were dragged into a tree’s pocket dimension, where a colossal hand of ancient corpses overwhelmed them with sinister Natural Aura. As Jing Yang’s Natural Type reached 99.9%, Star Marks helped restore his identity, while Queen Camilla unleashed Star Marks across the Kakin Empire.

• Jing Yang and Biscuit fought monsters in the dark wasteland as its pull dragged them toward a colossal hand, while Shizuku followed behind them.
• Jing Yang saw that the hand was made of mutated ancient humans’ remains and that the monsters had formed from their lingering resentment.
• The hand swept Jing Yang, Biscuit, and Shizuku into its palm, where sinister Natural Aura plunged them into a deathlike sleep and drove Jing Yang’s Natural Type to 99.9%.
• Jing Yang recognized Shizuku’s Star Mark and the other Star Marks he had placed, using them as anchors to recover his identity.
• Queen Camilla sent Star Mark-bearing Natural Aura fireworks across the Kakin Royal Palace, and the marks spread through the capital and the empire.

Meruem found Chiri tormenting the dying Ant Queen and killed her before comforting his mother, whom he named Latearga. After turning the Ant Queen and thirty-two developing special soldiers into digital lives, Meruem used his remaining life force to restore his strength and prepared to fight Netero.

• Chiri forced the dying Ant Queen to produce special soldiers and attacked her when she could no longer do so.
• Meruem entered the birthing chamber, identified Chiri as Tserriednich, and killed her by ripping out her heart.
• Meruem apologized to the Ant Queen, named her Latearga, and transformed her ruined body into a digital life for Pitou, Pouf, and Youpi to care for.
• Meruem transformed the thirty-two special soldier eggs into digital lives and sent them to the Ant Queen and Pitou.
• Meruem spent his remaining life force healing himself, then faced Netero as Netero summoned his three-thousand-armed Buddha.

Jing Yang returned transformed, freed Renko and Renji from their bond to the great tree, and shared his Death Aura panel with Shizuku and Biscuit. After Netero and Meruem both died from their battle, Jing Yang combined their spirits and energy to create a new life-form.

• Jing Yang tore Renko and Renji free from the great tree, stabilized their spirit bodies with Natural Aura, and left them with Renji wearing a conjured pointed hat.
• Biscuit and Shizuku reflected on Jing Yang's transformation, and Shizuku examined the Death Aura panel he had shared with them.
• The battle between Netero and Meruem devastated the occupied half of Meteor City, and both fighters died from their injuries and the genetic weapon's effects.
• Jing Yang arrived too late to save Netero, restored his soul from its fragments, and learned that Meruem had wanted to reunite with Chimera Ants who had become digital life.
• Jing Yang combined Netero's spirit with Meruem's energy and Natural Aura, creating a new life-form with one eye reflecting each of them.

Jing Yang survived his battle with the fused Netero and Meruem, reunited with Biscuit and Shizuku, and began assembling Akatsuki for a Dark Continent expedition. On Whale Island, he recruited Ging and planned to train Gon and Killua, leaving the group’s journey and the boys’ graduation tests ahead.

• Jing Yang battled the fused Netero and Meruem, who named himself Rulai and escaped as electromagnetic waves before Jing Yang trapped and struck him.
• Biscuit and Shizuku found the Chimera Ant nest reduced to ruins, and Jing Yang re-formed his body from light and returned to them.
• Jing Yang explained that Netero and the Ant King had gone off to fight each other, then asked Rulai to help fill Akatsuki’s remaining positions.
• On Whale Island, Killua caught a giant fish, revived Gon by offering to teach him Nen Abilities, and joined Gon and Alluka for a meal.
• Jing Yang recruited Ging as Akatsuki’s Geng and proposed training Gon and Killua for the Dark Continent expedition.
• Jing Yang suggested that Gon and Killua’s graduation test should be to challenge each other’s teacher, and Ging objected.