Chapter Summaries

Jing Yang and Shizuku learned that Kurapika had vanished, and Jing Yang confirmed through the Moon Mark that he was still alive. Ousu Bureike came to Heaven’s Arena and recounted how Kurapika disappeared while confronting a cult leader who wielded a deadly Nen Ability.

• Jing Yang and Shizuku found that their Moon Mark connection to Kurapika had abruptly failed, and Jing Yang suspected Nen interference or a location as distant as the Dark Continent.
• Ousu Bureike arrived at Heaven’s Arena, met Jing Yang and Shizuku, and learned that Jing Yang had confirmed Kurapika was alive.
• Ousu explained that he and Kurapika had both infiltrated a cult to pursue its leader, who possessed one of the remaining pairs of Scarlet Eyes.
• The cult leader recognized Kurapika as a Kurta survivor and used his followers as human shields before sacrificing them and himself to amplify his Nen.
• Kurapika’s Nen hurled Ousu out of the collapsing hall, while Kurapika and the cult leader vanished amid the leader’s black Nen aura.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Ousu followed a route based on faint signals from Kurapika’s Star Mark, learning that Kurapika was trapped in an alternate space. On the fourth day, Jing Yang pinpointed him in the Kamavol Mountain Range, but their airship had already flown past it.

• Ousu explained that the cult patriarch had led many organizations and massacres, and that Kurapika’s identity may have triggered his obsession with capturing him.
• Jing Yang used a map to plan a route and focused on sensing Kurapika’s Star Mark, while Shizuku and Ousu booked flights along the route.
• Jing Yang detected faint Star Mark signals every few hours and realized Kurapika was repeatedly activating its healing function to send distress signals.
• Kurapika briefly contacted Jing Yang through the Moon Mark and reported deaths, an alternate dimension, and a Nen Ability; Jing Yang told him to conserve his strength.
• On the fourth day, Jing Yang sensed Kurapika in the Kamavol Mountain Range, but the airship continued past it before they could get off.

Jing Yang and Shizuku traveled with Ousu toward the Kamavol Mountain Range while learning about magical beasts and the Black Mist Lions. When Jing Yang possessed Kurapika’s body inside a sealed space, he discovered the cult leader’s Scarlet Eyes still appeared there and heard that something was hidden in a nearby rock.

• Ousu bought an SUV and drove Jing Yang and Shizuku toward the Kamavol Mountain Range, warning them that Black Mist Lions lived there.
• During the drive, Ousu explained that magical beasts possessed innate racial talents distinct from Nen abilities and described rumors about the Black Mist Lions’ deadly black mist.
• Ousu asked Jing Yang how he planned to rescue Kurapika if the cult leader had died, and Jing Yang said they needed to reach the site first.
• Kurapika activated his Star Mark, allowing Jing Yang to take control of his weakened body inside a sealed, hemispherical space covered in Divine Characters.
• A black-fire-like aura appeared with Scarlet Eyes, and Jing Yang concluded that the cult leader might not be completely dead.
• Before Jing Yang left Kurapika’s body, Kurapika sensed someone behind the dark curtain and told him that something seemed to be hidden inside the rock behind him.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Ousu entered the Kamavol Mountain Range to find Kurapika and investigate the strange prison and its cult leader. After Black Mist Lions attacked them, Jing Yang discovered their jade Buddha pendants matched the cult leader’s and used a Manipulator ability to force one lion to cooperate.

• Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Ousu abandoned their stuck SUV and traveled on foot into the mountains, following the direction of Kurapika’s Star Mark signal.
• Black Mist Lions ambushed the three travelers, but Jing Yang and Shizuku subdued their attackers while Ousu defended himself from the others.
• The Black Mist Lions’ jade Buddha pendants resembled the cult leader’s, leading Ousu and Jing Yang to suspect the cult leader had supplied them.
• Jing Yang used his Manipulator ability to control a Black Mist Lion and ordered it to kill and capture members of its own clan.
• The Black Mist Lion cursed Jing Yang, then begged to talk as its body began obeying his command.

Jing Yang and Ousu questioned the Black Mist Lions about their teleporting pendants, then followed Ryan and Land to meet the clan’s Great Elder. The Great Elder revealed that a human from centuries ago taught him how to make the pendants and left a statue in the temple, where Jing Yang believed the cult leader and Kurapika were being held.

• Jing Yang and Shizuku interrogated Ryan and Land separately, learning that every Black Mist Lion received a pendant that could teleport them to the temple in danger.
• Ousu explained that a human cult leader wore an identical pendant and had abducted their friend, and Ryan and Land agreed to take the group to the Great Elder.
• Jing Yang’s group followed the Black Mist Lions through their settlement, where they saw that the pendants were widely distributed among the clan.
• The Great Elder said he had made the pendants from a method taught by a human who had visited the clan centuries earlier and left a statue in the temple.
• Jing Yang asked where the temple was, saying the cult leader and their abducted friend should both be there.

Jing Yang and Shizuku reached the ruined Zen Temple, where Helmando trapped the group in Black Mist and attacked them. They destroyed Helmando’s Buddha vessel and freed Kurapika, who emerged gravely emaciated.

• The Great Elder agreed to lead Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Ousu to the temple on foot after learning Tiebo and Xirunke had not returned.
• Black Mist swallowed the group near the gorge, separating them and draining their Nen as Helmando’s chants echoed through the fog.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku found each other through their marks, then Shizuku beheaded Helmando’s chanting Buddha statue with her chainsaw-like Blobfish Vacuum.
• Jing Yang removed the Scarlet Eyes from the statue and destroyed Helmando’s resentful aura, while the Black Mist Lions’ corpses revealed that Tiebo and Xirunke had died and Land had also been killed.
• A surge of black aura enveloped the Zen Temple and vanished with a mysterious figure, leaving Kurapika behind, alive but severely emaciated.

Jing Yang and his companions rescued Kurapika from the ruined temple, where he needed urgent rest after being severely weakened. They investigated the damaged Buddha statue and its failed pendants, then broke open a mysterious boulder and found rice stalks inside that began to decay immediately.

• Jing Yang reassured Kurapika that Shizuku had secured the Scarlet Eyes, and Kurapika fell unconscious from exhaustion.
• Ousu told Jing Yang that the Black Mist Lion clan’s small jade Buddha pendants had stopped working after the original statue was damaged.
• Jing Yang and Ousu concluded that the Divine Characters vanishing into smoke might have been designed to prevent anyone from restoring them.
• The Great Elder explained that the Buddha statue and other idols had been sculpted by an ancient man in his own likeness, and agreed to demonstrate how he made the pendants.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku shattered the boulder in the Buddha hall and uncovered a hidden pile of rice stalks that rapidly withered in the air.

Jing Yang recognized the rice sealed inside the boulder as likely Everlasting Rice and learned that the man who had fed it to the Black Mist Lion Great Elder centuries ago was Viggo Hui Guo Rou, the True Martial Emperor of Kakin. The Great Elder began carving Buddha pendants as Kurapika recovered, while Jing Yang was left wondering how Viggo had died despite eating the legendary rice.

• Shizuku used Blobfish to devour the rice from the shattered boulder, and Jing Yang suspected it was Everlasting Rice from the Dark Continent.
• The Great Elder returned with three stones and a carving tool to demonstrate how he made the small Buddha pendants as Kurapika continued recovering outside the Divine Script Space.
• Jing Yang asked whether the Great Elder's old human friend had fed him rice, and the Great Elder recalled sharing white rice with him centuries earlier.
• While carving, the Great Elder remembered the man's joke about his name, and Jing Yang identified him as Viggo Hui Guo Rou, the True Martial Emperor of Kakin.
• The Great Elder recalled meeting Viggo by the sea and feeding rice to a Black Mist Lion cub, leaving Jing Yang to question how Viggo had died after eating Everlasting Rice.

Jing Yang and his companions left the ruined Zen Temple with Kurapika and discussed the rice that might be Nitoromi from the Dark Continent. After they reached the city and placed Kurapika in a hospital, Shizuku revealed that she had secretly taken the cracked statue of True Martial King Viggo, and Jing Yang accepted the theft.

• The Great Elder completed three blood-marked jade Buddha pendants, but their spiritual power was gone, and Jing Yang kept them as souvenirs.
• Jing Yang, Shizuku, Ousu, and the unconscious Kurapika left the temple, while Ryan and the Great Elder reflected on how powerful the visitors seemed.
• Jing Yang took the wrong route toward the parked vehicle until Ousu redirected the group and led them through the mountains.
• On the way to the vehicle, Jing Yang began explaining the Dark Continent to Ousu and connected it to the rice they had found.
• The group returned to the city, and Ousu left after Kurapika was admitted to a hospital.
• Shizuku released the cracked black jade statue of Viggo from Blobfish, and Jing Yang realized she had taken it from the temple.

Kurapika woke in the hospital after Jing Yang and Shizuku rescued him, and learned that his Scarlet Eyes had been recovered. Jing Yang and Kurapika theorized that the decayed Nitoromi and Divine Script Space were connected to the Dark Continent, while Shizuku kept the statue of True Martial King Viggo; Kurapika rested as they planned to attend a wedding in November.

• Kurapika woke in the hospital and argued with Jing Yang about being a pretty boy before asking about business.
• Jing Yang gave Kurapika the recovered Scarlet Eyes, which Kurapika sealed in his Resurrection book.
• Jing Yang told Kurapika about the Black Mist Lions, their Great Elder, and the Nitoromi that had withered after being unsealed.
• Jing Yang and Kurapika concluded that Divine Script Space might have recreated an environment needed to preserve Nitoromi, possibly one from the Dark Continent.
• Kurapika noticed that Shizuku had taken True Martial King Viggo's cracked black jade Buddha statue and recalled a possible connection to Kakin artifacts.
• Jing Yang told Kurapika to recover before their planned wedding outing, then left with Shizuku to get him food.

Jing Yang and Shizuku investigated the damaged Divine Characters inside the black jade Buddha statue but could not restore them, so Jing Yang expected Biot to help decipher them. The next morning, Biot arrived at the hospital and warned them that the statue might be a Kakin national treasure.

• Jing Yang sent Biot a photo of the Buddha statue and teased her with a story about finding the supposed antique, prompting her to ask whether its face was modeled on True Martial King Viggo.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku joked together over the Great Elder's symbol, then Jing Yang recreated it with Nen and recognized it as a Divine Character.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku tested the symbol and the Buddha statue but found that the statue's teleportation ability no longer worked; they suspected its Divine Characters had been damaged.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku used En to examine the runes inside the statue, but the cracks and missing sections made them impossible to reconstruct, leaving Jing Yang's brain overloaded.
• Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Kurapika resumed training in the ward, and Biot arrived the next morning asking for the statue and warning them not to reveal it because it might be a Kakin national treasure.

Biot identified the cracked Buddha statue as resembling Kakin’s Twenty-Nine Divine Statues and led Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Kurapika to a secure place to examine it. Meanwhile, Jing Yang briefly possessed Purple Ape in a mafia city, learned of an upcoming meeting, and left him a warning in his diary before rejoining the others at Biot’s library.

• Biot showed Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Kurapika an image of a six-winged statue whose face matched their Buddha statue, and explained Kakin’s restrictions and the disputed number of its divine statues.
• Jing Yang suggested the statues displayed in Kakin might be copies because the Buddha statue they found had contained Nen, and Biot asked to examine it somewhere secure.
• Jing Yang left Kurapika’s hospital room with Biot and Shizuku, explained how they found the statue, and withheld details about the old lion and his own Nen abilities.
• Jing Yang possessed Purple Ape in a mafia city, read his diary, and learned that Purple Ape suspected his memory lapses and that a meeting with the Young Master was coming.
• Jing Yang wrote a warning about the meeting in Purple Ape’s diary, then returned to his own body as Biot brought the group into Eternal Library, which she owned.

Jing Yang, Shizuku, Kurapika, and Biot examined the black jade Buddha statue and found Divine Characters hidden inside its head, though they did not create the hoped-for teleportation effect. Biot revealed that Divine Characters had appeared in Nen history about four hundred years earlier, leaving the origins of the script unexplained.

• Biot authenticated the Buddha statue’s carving style and recounted how Kakin had eliminated a counterfeit ring that created a Child-Giving Guanyin Statue.
• Biot used her Nen ability to model the statue, separated its cracked fragments, and revealed Divine Characters hidden inside its head.
• Biot warned Jing Yang that the characters were unlikely to produce spatial transportation, then began reconstructing them while Jing Yang, Shizuku, and Kurapika trained.
• Biot completed the reconstruction and confirmed that the Divine Characters had no spatial transportation effect.
• Biot explained that Divine Characters had begun spreading among Nen Users about four hundred years earlier, with no earlier records or examples known.

Biot explained the history and rarity of Divine Characters before leaving Jing Yang, Kurapika, and Shizuku with the characters restored from the black jade Buddha. The three tested a theory about their purpose and triggered a vision of a world-ending catastrophe, leaving Shizuku still immersed in it.

• Biot said Divine Characters had appeared around four hundred years earlier, possibly during the True Martial King's time, and taught Jing Yang, Kurapika, and Shizuku the restored characters before warning them to protect the Buddha and their phone data.
• Jing Yang speculated that the remaining characters might relate to the cult leader's obsession with Kurapika's Scarlet Eyes, and he, Kurapika, and Shizuku went to a park to test whether the characters affected eyesight.
• Jing Yang wrote three lines of Divine Characters matching the ones from the small jade Buddha pendant, and he, Kurapika, and Shizuku stepped on them while focusing aura around their eyes.
• Jing Yang and Kurapika saw an apocalyptic vision of a shattered world and fallen gods, then returned to the peaceful park after stepping away from the characters.
• Kurapika wondered whether the vision was history or prophecy, while Jing Yang considered the possibility of a future disaster connected to the Dark Continent.
• Jing Yang noticed that Shizuku remained standing on the characters, apparently still immersed in the vision despite seeming unharmed.

Shizuku ended the apocalyptic illusion, and she knocked Kurapika unconscious when his anger over the Kurta Clan massacre made him agitated. After Kurapika recovered, Jing Yang urged him to resume training and asked for advice on a spatial Nen ability, while Jing Yang’s group infiltrated a meeting of the Ten Dons.

• Shizuku watched the illusion to its end, and Jing Yang and Kurapika failed to trigger it again with newly drawn Divine Characters.
• Shizuku knocked Kurapika out with Blobfish when he became agitated after connecting Meteor City to the message left at the Kurta Clan massacre.
• Jing Yang and Shizuku explained that Shizuku had been helping Kurapika, and Jing Yang urged him to prioritize finding Scarlet Eyes and improving his strength before seeking revenge.
• Kurapika got out of bed and listened as Jing Yang asked how to exchange positions with distant Nen.
• Jing Yang, disguised as Purple Ape, entered a Ten Dons meeting, where the tenth Don arrived and Prison Elephant eyed him warily.

Jing Yang secretly watched Claude reveal a map and a photograph of the True Martial King Treasure to the Ten Dons, while Prison Elephant sensed that someone had already used a Manipulator ability in the room. The small Shadow Beast was revealed as Machi, who killed ten people and declared that everyone except Claude could die.

• Claude told the Ten Dons that he had found Alpha Edward's map to the True Martial King Treasure and showed them a fragment of it.
• Claude projected a photograph of a King Dizang Buddha Statue, which Jing Yang recognized as one of Viggo's statues.
• Prison Elephant realized that a Manipulator ability had already been used in the room, while Jing Yang worried that his control of Purple Ape might have been discovered.
• Machi removed her disguise and revealed Nen threads wrapped around the tall, thin, balding Ten Don's heart, then killed him.
• Machi pulled her Nen threads and severed ten people's heads, sparing Claude and saying that everyone else could die.

Machi massacred the Ten Dons and fought the Shadow Beasts in their conference room while Jing Yang watched through Purple Ape’s body. As Machi pursued Claude, Purple Ape held her back, and she suddenly transformed into a huge, muscular Humanoid Gorilla.

• Machi beheaded ten people, including six of the Ten Dons and three Shadow Beasts, revealing her strength to the surviving attendees.
• Machi deflected Prison Elephant’s gunshot and used her Nen threads to turn the Shadow Beasts’ attacks against each other, killing several and forcing others to flee.
• Jing Yang, controlling Purple Ape, tried to use an Emitter attack but failed, then helped Prison Elephant and Claude escape through a hole in the wall.
• Machi noticed Claude’s treasure map and attacked Prison Elephant, but Purple Ape struck her from behind and offered to cover the escape.
• Purple Ape grabbed Machi to stop her pursuit and dodged her counterattacks before striking her with a gun; Machi’s body swelled into a massive, muscular Humanoid Gorilla.

Jing Yang fled the conference room while controlling Prison Elephant, Brat, and Claude, then faced two Phantom Troupe members and awakened Nen in Brat and Claude to help them escape. He stayed behind to fight alongside a wounded Shadow Beast as the women demanded to know how he had awakened Nen so quickly.

• Disguised as Machi, a Phantom Troupe member killed the Shadow Beast in the conference room, while Jing Yang escaped with Brat and Claude by controlling Prison Elephant.
• Jing Yang reasoned that the disguised fighter could transform into Phantom Troupe members and suspected the attacker was Number 4, Number 8, or Number 12.
• Bop ambushed Jing Yang and the two Ten Dons with an explosion, so Jing Yang awakened Nen in Brat and Claude and sent them running.
• Jing Yang confronted Bop, but she knocked Prison Elephant back with a punch.
• Machi arrived with a wounded Shadow Beast and questioned Jing Yang about awakening Nen; Jing Yang raised his middle fingers and urged the Shadow Beast to fight beside him.
• Claude and Brat ran down a highway, with Jing Yang controlling Claude as he screamed in excitement.

Jing Yang fled with Claude while Machi and Bop pursued them, and he tried to decide how to protect the treasure and himself. He left Claude under Star Mark’s control, forcing him to answer whether he carried the True Martial Ksitigarbha Buddha Statue.

• Jing Yang explained that the controlled Prison Elephant had destroyed Star Mark and died rather than risk exposing the ability to Machi and Bop.
• Machi and Bop chased Jing Yang and Claude to a gas station, but found it empty after the pair changed direction.
• Jing Yang told Claude that the mafia could not reliably defend itself against the Phantom Troupe, and Claude protested that his family could not simply accept the threat.
• Jing Yang began ordering Claude to mail the treasure map and statue, but Claude angrily slapped his hand away before Jing Yang silenced him with his ability.
• Jing Yang asked Claude to indicate whether the statue was on him, and Claude’s controlled hand slapped the left side of his face.

“Jing Brat” forced Claude to reveal that the True Martial Ksitigarbha Buddha Statue was gone but the treasure map remained, then sent him to mail it before killing himself. Lieh Ying and Bop found a dead Ten Don whose unfinished blood-written message hinted at the map, while Lieh Ying’s disguises drew a call from Machi.

• “Jing Brat” interrogated Claude with slaps and learned that Claude had found the Buddha statue and treasure map together, but the statue was now missing.
• “Jing Brat” gave Claude an address and ordered him to mail the treasure map there, then kill himself.
• Machi and Bop searched for the Martial King’s treasure, and Machi revealed that she had changed her Spider Tattoo number from 4 to 3.
• Lieh Ying and Bop found a dead Ten Don beside a blood-written message that appeared to point toward the treasure map, but Lieh Ying judged that the final stroke had not been written by a dying man.
• Lieh Ying transformed into Machi and then Chrollo, while Machi called to demand that he stop using her appearance and pay her for the transformations.