Chapter Summaries

Jing Yang fought Netero for an hour, using a rapid barrage of Ko attacks to exploit Netero’s reluctance to injure him and sharpen his aura control. After Jing Yang collapsed from exhaustion, Netero invited the fighters to return each morning, and Wing stepped up for the next match.

• Jing Yang entered the ring and began attacking Netero with Ko, relying on Netero to avoid striking his unprotected body.
• Jing Yang repeatedly attacked while Netero blocked and threw him away, and Netero observed that Jing Yang’s Ko and aura control grew smoother.
• Jing Yang kept fighting for an hour, then used his remaining aura for one final punch before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Netero had Shizuku help Jing Yang back to the sidelines and invited everyone to gather for more matches each morning.
• Wing challenged Netero and was thrown out of the ring ten minutes later with a bruised, swollen face.

Wing and the other martial artists failed to match Jing Yang’s performance against Netero, while Jing Yang remotely guided Wu Er and made plans to draw Biscuit to Ghost Island. Back at the hotel, Biot examined Jing Yang’s heart and found tangled healing and post-mortem Nen, leaving him to reconsider how his Nen had first awakened.

• Wing sparred with Netero using Ko but lost when his slower aura shifts left an opening, and Netero announced several more days of matches.
• Other martial artists tried Jing Yang’s approach and were easily defeated, while Shizuku helped the exhausted Jing Yang leave with Biot.
• Jing Yang projected his consciousness to Wu Er, followed the tiger and Shiro through the underground passage, and instructed Wu Er to watch for Biscuit.
• Jing Yang considered using Greed Island and the Blue Planet to persuade Biscuit to help him adopt Wu Er, then drew pictures to help Wu Er recognize her.
• Biot examined Jing Yang’s heart and found chaotic Nen with healing and post-mortem qualities, and Jing Yang said the changes had begun after his mother died.
• Biot explained that ordinary people could leave post-mortem Nen and discussed self-awakening, prompting Jing Yang to wonder whether his own early Nen use counted.

Biot analyzed Jing Yang’s Death Qi, declined to scan him, and secretly investigated his possible connection to a vanished Kakin Princess Consort. Jing Yang and Shizuku agreed to visit Hunter Association headquarters for help, and the chapter ended with Netero preparing to spar with Jing Yang again.

• Biot told Jing Yang that Cheadle might diagnose the Nen lodged in his heart and refused a full-body scan unless the Association officially assigned her the work.
• Biot traced Jing Yang’s apparent Hunter License to a dead bodyguard Hunter’s assignment for a vanished Kakin Princess Consort and suspected Jing Yang was her son.
• Jing Yang considered what might have combined to create the Death Qi, then promised Shizuku they would visit Hunter Association headquarters and get Hunter Licenses early next year.
• Jing Yang found that extending his Ken training with Reflection improved his Nen growth and considered seeking someone who could replenish his aura.
• Netero arrived at the training ground and challenged Jing Yang to spar again, appearing to have no Aura on his body.

Jing Yang used his Reflection Nen beast and a second mind through Rock Sparrow to land a shallow wound on Netero during their spar. Netero began to press his palms together, preparing to unleash his Hundred-Type Guanyin as the fight escalated.

• Netero entered Zetsu before Jing Yang took the stage, but Jing Yang refused to spar in Zetsu and attacked with Ko.
• Netero defended against Jing Yang’s opening punch by gathering Aura at his chest, then struck Jing Yang while the rest of his body remained in Zetsu.
• Netero read Jing Yang’s Ko attacks by experience and countered them, while Jing Yang struggled to defend the rest of his body.
• Netero spotted Jing Yang’s healing injuries and drove back Reflection when the Nen beast began attacking.
• Jing Yang used Rock Sparrow as a second brain to gather Ko in two places at once, then coordinated his own attack with Reflection’s and cut Netero’s shoulder.
• Jing Yang jumped back after drawing Netero’s blood, but Netero began joining his palms in preparation for the Hundred-Type Guanyin.

Jing Yang impressed Netero by dodging his palm strike and testing Reflection on him, then endured a beating in their sparring match. After several days of training and recovery on Mt. Seireitou, Jing Yang’s group prepared to leave with Kurapika’s information about a Scarlet Eyes holder.

• Jing Yang’s Shooting Star Like Wind instinctively helped him evade Netero’s palm strike, astonishing the spectators and catching Netero’s interest.
• Jing Yang attached Reflection to Netero, who allowed it to drain his Nen aura before beginning a second round and swiftly beating Jing Yang.
• Jing Yang discussed the match with Wing, Hart, and Shizuku, then sparred intensely with Shizuku while Reflection remained on Rock Sparrow.
• Jing Yang trained and fought Netero each morning for the remaining days on Mt. Seireitou as Shizuku helped clean up their injuries and blood.
• The art exhibition ended, Jing Yang’s group prepared to leave, and Kurapika’s information about a Scarlet Eyes holder was ready for them.

Jing Yang and Shizuku tracked down Tute=Bin, a cram school instructor who possessed Scarlet Eyes, and confronted him in his apartment. They subdued him and prepared to interrogate him before Shizuku collected his books.

• Netero defeated Jing Yang in their final sparring match and declared the Mt. Seireitou Tournament over.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku left Mt. Seireitou, then used Jing Yang's Hunter License to find Tute=Bin's recent location in Stirdent City.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku boarded an airship to Stirdent while Kurapika declined to renew his employer's contract and continued searching for the Scarlet Eyes.
• Tute=Bin finished teaching, went home, and discovered that someone had entered his apartment and was examining a bottle containing Scarlet Eyes.
• Shizuku struck Tute=Bin down with Blobfish while Jing Yang questioned him, and they agreed to interrogate him before Shizuku took his books.

Jing Yang and Shizuku recovered a pair of Scarlet Eyes from Tute and learned that Simaco Mette had bought another pair. After a Bounty Hunter named Sikuan arrived to investigate their Hunter License signal, Jing Yang read about Komugi’s Gungi championship as Sikuan discovered his men had been defeated.

• Jing Yang and Shizuku entered Tute’s apartment, took the Scarlet Eyes, and forced him to reveal that he had sold another pair to Simaco Mette.
• Jing Yang used his Hunter License to look up Simaco Mette, while Tute realized the login signal could attract Hunters seeking licenses.
• Jing Yang spotted Sikuan approaching the apartment, and Shizuku struck him down when he entered before he identified himself as a Professional Hunter.
• Sikuan explained that hackers could detect Hunter License logins and warned Jing Yang that dangerous Bounty Hunters would come after them.
• Jing Yang read that Komugi had won her third Gungi World Championship, while Sikuan saw that his companions outside had been taken out.

Jing Yang decided to wait until the 1997 Gungi World Championship to approach Komugi, while Shizuku and Jing Yang captured criminals who targeted Sikuan. As another dangerous bounty hunter approached, Jing Yang prepared to have Shizuku take him down.

• Jing Yang researched Komugi’s championship record and decided to wait until she attended the 1997 tournament rather than search for her in East Gorteau.
• Jing Yang explained that he, Rock Sparrow, and Shizuku could share vision and communicate through their marks, so he was not worried about attackers approaching.
• Shizuku dragged the Phantom Troupe Couple into the room with their legs broken, and Sikuan identified them as wanted criminals worth at least 30 million Jenie each.
• Jing Yang asked Sikuan to help claim the criminals’ bounties, while Shizuku used Blobfish to vacuum up the blood.
• A Little Gray Bird watched the Shadow Killer approach, and Sikuan said the man was worth more than 70 million Jenie.
• Jing Yang told Shizuku to deal with the Shadow Killer, and she readied Blobfish.

Jing Yang defeated the Shadow Killer, Jack, and joined Sikuan in dealing with the captured criminals while waiting for their bounties. After buying intelligence on businessman Simaco Mette, Jing Yang headed toward Victory City, where Jack sought an urgent meeting with Mette.

• Jing Yang questioned and beat Jack, who claimed to be a Zoldyck fan, while Sikuan revealed that he was a Bounty Hunter targeting the Zoldyck Family.
• Jack escaped through a window and ran off, while Jing Yang asked Sikuan and Shizuku to help handle the unconscious criminals and collect their bounties.
• Tute fled the city and changed his name after Jing Yang and the others left the apartment.
• At an Internet Cafe, Jing Yang learned that bounty payments would take several days and bought intelligence showing that Simaco Mette was staying at a villa in Victory City.
• Jack arrived at Mette's villa and told the butler that he urgently needed to report something to Simaco Mette.

Jing Yang infiltrated Simaco's villa under the alias Rose to reach the buyer of the Scarlet Eyes, but Melody exposed his lies and Riri tried to take control of his Aura. As three intruders were detected elsewhere in the villa, Jing Yang reclaimed the Aura and faced Inverus's attack.

• Jing Yang entered Simaco's villa disguised as the painter Rose and secretly marked the guards with his Rose Gold Five-Pointed Star.
• Jing Yang met Simaco, Melody, and the bodyguards Inverus and Riri, and Riri injected her Aura into him while frisking him.
• Melody recognized that Jing Yang was lying and asked whether he knew her, prompting Jing Yang to prepare for a confrontation.
• Riri made Jing Yang's Aura spill out, but Jing Yang used Star Mark to seize it and pull it back into his body.
• Melody detected three intruders in the villa, and Inverus swung a punch at Jing Yang.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Sikuan searched Simaco=Mette’s villa for the Scarlet Eyes while Jing Jack distracted the occupants, but they were confronted by bodyguards and a Nen User named Pawa. Jing Yang began fighting Pawa as Shizuku countered an attack from another direction, leaving the villa’s conflict unresolved.

• Jing Jack used Inverus’s punch to leap toward Simaco, but Melody played her flute and calmed everyone in the room while questioning him about the intruders.
• Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Sikuan searched the villa for the Scarlet Eyes as a Star Mark caused the assistant watching the security cameras to fall asleep.
• Five bodyguards confronted Jing Yang and Shizuku, and the trio fought back, dodging or catching bullets and incapacitating four guards.
• Pawa fired powerful Nen-enhanced bullets that knocked Sikuan back and injured Jing Yang and Shizuku, but Shizuku used Blobfish to swallow a later volley.
• Jing Yang challenged Pawa and learned that his ability enhanced weapons, while Shizuku swung Blobfish at a sudden attack from her side.

Jing Yang and Shizuku fought Simaco=Mette’s bodyguards, then confronted the wealthy man about the Scarlet Eyes. Simaco revealed that he had bought the eyes as a wedding gift for a powerful figure, leaving Jing Yang with another obstacle to retrieving them.

• Shizuku severed Qian Apo’s arm with Blobfish after Qian Apo stabbed her with an invisible Aura sword, and Shizuku’s Star Mark healed her wound.
• Jing Yang outmaneuvered Pawa in close combat, while Shizuku’s Blobfish drained Qian Apo’s blood and forced her to flee.
• Qian Apo burst into Simaco=Mette’s room and pinned Rock Sparrow to the wall with an invisible dagger, triggering Reflection to drain her Nen and leave her unconscious.
• Jing Yang entered with Shizuku and Pawa, then kicked “Jing Jack” aside and took charge of the discussion with Simaco.
• Simaco explained that he had bought the Scarlet Eyes to give them to a powerful figure as a wedding gift and could not hand them over.

Jing Yang healed Qian Apo’s severed arm, negotiated with Simaco over payment and Scarlet Eyes, and left the villa with Shizuku after removing his hidden Star Marks. Outside, he encountered Sikuan and questioned why the professional Bounty Hunter had not become stronger through training.

• Qian Apo woke with her severed arm restored, and Jing Yang explained that Simaco had paid him 1.5 billion Jenie for the treatment.
• Jing Yang told Kurapika that they had found three pairs of Scarlet Eyes and agreed to collect Simaco’s pair after the November wedding, which Kurapika would attend with him.
• Melody realized that Jing Yang and Rose were the same person after hearing Rose speak the words Jing Yang mouthed, but Jing Yang did not reveal his abilities.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku left the villa after he removed the Star Marks controlling its residents, then found Sikuan waiting outside.
• Jing Yang asked Sikuan why he had not improved after passing the Hunter Exam, and Sikuan complained that training was not as easy as Jing Yang made it sound.

Jing Yang and Shizuku traveled to Mount Pinyin with Sikuan and tested the Zoldyck Family’s Trial Gate. While Sikuan ventured into the mountains alone, Jing Yang stayed behind, thinking about Alluka Zoldyck, and spotted two people riding a dragon-shaped mass of Nen aura over the estate walls.

• Jing Yang collected the bounty on Shadow Killer Jack, and Sikuan asked to accompany him and Shizuku to Mount Pinyin.
• Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Sikuan reached the Zoldyck Family estate, where Gotoh recognized Jing Yang and explained why there were no tourists.
• Sikuan pushed open three Trial Gates, Shizuku opened the fourth, and Jing Yang opened the fifth.
• Sikuan entered Mount Pinyin alone to investigate the Zoldyck Family, while Jing Yang and Shizuku stayed near the gate.
• Jing Yang considered his interest in Alluka Zoldyck and saw two figures fly over the estate on a dragon-shaped mass of Nen aura.

At Mount Pinyin, Jing Yang failed to meet the Zoldycks and left with Shizuku, still searching for a way to reach Alluka and Nanika before his heart condition worsened. He decided to focus on training and pursue a Hunter License so he could seek Netero’s help.

• Killua asked Kikyo about Zeno’s Dragon Star Cluster while he trained on the electric fence, and Kurt reflected on Illumi’s Nen Needle and the family’s decision to delay Killua’s Nen training.
• Kikyo’s surveillance alerted her to outsiders at the gates, including Jing Yang and Shizuku, but she left their handling to the servants.
• Sikuan returned badly beaten after forcing his way into Mount Pinyin, and he later left while Jing Yang and Shizuku toured the nearby town.
• Jing Yang considered how to contact Alluka and Nanika, then imagined hiring Killua to uncover Illumi’s Nen Needle and gain a way into the Zoldyck home.
• Jing Yang decided not to risk entering the Zoldyck lair with Shizuku, and planned to get a Hunter License and ask Netero for help.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku returned to Heaven’s Arena, where he contacted Kurapika through the Ring of Jia.

Jing Yang received a Floor Master challenge against Mong Linqi=Zolo, a Shadow Beast known as Purple Ape, and prepared to fight him at Heaven’s Arena. As the match began, Jing Yang recognized that his opponent looked familiar, while Purple Ape had studied recordings of Jing Yang’s Nen ability and planned to exploit its weakness.

• Jing Yang’s Nen quantity reached about 22,000 Aura, but he questioned whether ordinary Ken training could continue to improve him efficiently.
• Shizuku told Jing Yang that Heaven’s Arena had scheduled his Floor Master challenge against Mong Linqi=Zolo for October 20th on the 244th Floor.
• Mong Linqi=Zolo revealed himself as Purple Ape of the Ten Beasts and reviewed recordings of Zenyu’s match with Wing to analyze the power and limitations of Jing Yang’s Nen ball.
• Purple Ape concluded that he could use the Nen ball’s power against Jing Yang by catching it and striking him with it.
• Jing Yang waited for the challenge with Shizuku, then entered the arena and found his opponent familiar as the crowd cheered.

Jing Yang faced Floor Master Mong Linqi=Zolo, a Shadow Beast known as Purple Ape, and turned aside his complex Nen attacks with En and his Star Mark-enhanced fighting instincts. The battle continued as the ape Nen beasts vanished and two Purple Apes appeared in the arena.

• Jing Yang recognized Purple Ape as a Shadow Beast and released his powerful Aura after the match began.
• Purple Ape attacked with a transmuted ape arm and a Nen beast that swapped positions with him, but Jing Yang countered their coordinated assault.
• Purple Ape surrounded Jing Yang with real and fake monkey Nen beasts and repeatedly attacked by switching places, while Jing Yang used En to detect and intercept him.
• Jing Yang identified the small monkeys as mostly decoys and continued neutralizing Purple Ape's attacks without being caught off guard.
• Jing Yang asked why Purple Ape had stopped using his substitution technique, then watched the Nen beasts disappear as two Purple Apes stood on the arena.

Jing Yang exposed the weaknesses of Purple Ape’s Nen beast clone and steadily overwhelmed him in their Heaven’s Arena match. Purple Ape lost consciousness after Jing Yang secretly marked him and struck him as he tried to surrender.

• Purple Ape revealed a clone that matched his appearance and aura, but Jing Yang identified differences and inferred how it worked.
• Purple Ape and his clone attacked together and switched places, but Jing Yang adapted to their timing and used his Star Mark-enhanced reactions to counter them.
• Jing Yang deduced that Purple Ape and the clone shared injuries and senses, then forced Purple Ape to take hits meant for the clone.
• Jing Yang marked the clone with a Flying Star Bubble, then made Purple Ape dismiss it, sharply draining his aura and vitality.
• Purple Ape began to surrender, but the mark had transferred to his real body, and Jing Yang knocked him unconscious with a punch.

Jing Yang defeated Mong Linqi and became the Floor Master of Heaven's Arena's 244th Floor, then used his Star Mark to maintain control over the recovering Shadow Beast. After leaving the arena, he met Wing and tried to call Kurapika, but Kurapika did not answer.

• Jing Yang knocked Mong Linqi unconscious, was declared the new 244th Floor Master, and left the arena with Shizuku.
• Jing Yang moved the Star Mark on Purple Ape from his elbow to inside his mouth and instructed him to protect it.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku brushed off reporters and people offering to help him open a martial arts school.
• Jing Yang met Wing, declined to fight him again, and invited him to eat.
• Jing Yang called Kurapika several times from the restaurant, but Kurapika did not answer.

Jing Yang learned from Professional Hunter Ousu=Purek that Kurapika had been missing for ten days, then reached Kurapika through the Moon Mark. Kurapika managed to ask Jing Yang to find him before their connection cut off.

• Jing Yang completed his Heaven's Arena Floor Master paperwork and continued training with Shizuku.
• A man using Kurapika's phone introduced himself as Ousu=Purek and told Jing Yang that Kurapika had disappeared during a mission.
• Jing Yang invited Ousu=Purek to meet him at Heaven's Arena and confirmed the hunter's identity on the official website.
• Jing Yang activated the Moon Mark on Kurapika's Ring of Bing and established a weak, intermittent connection.
• Kurapika sounded exhausted, told Jing Yang to find him, and then the telepathic connection ended.