Chapter Summaries

Kevin organized an expedition to the Unmanned Stone Range and planned to trade with Tuck for more protection potions. The group then witnessed a Resentful Eater Snake become an adult and leave the Snake Nest to establish a nest of her own, while Kevin recovered a piece of her fresh bones from the lake.

• Kevin counted the fifteen Soul-Heart Unity potions and, with Melusina and Biscuit, proposed forming a ten-person expedition team while the others negotiated with Tuck for more Storage Crystals.
• Jin agreed to lead the expedition and choose its members, while Aimeimei and two others accepted that they would stay behind because they could not resist Papu.
• Melusina sensed that the largest Resentful Eater Snake was transforming, and Kevin and the others hurried to the lake to watch.
• The more than two-hundred-meter snake dissolved into motes of light and emerged as a translucent snake over five hundred meters long, entering adulthood before leaving to establish a new nest.
• After the Resentment faded and the snakes dispersed, Kevin found fresh bones in the lake and fished out a large piece.

Jin assembled a ten-person team for the second exploration, while Kevin negotiated with Tuck for a Storage Crystal and tested a soul-repair potion on Lorraine. After preparations, the team set out toward the Black Leaf Forest, where Jin proposed they explore with Kevin as their powerful backup.

• Jin selected a ten-person exploration team and arranged for them to prepare for a long journey.
• Kevin traded a promise of long-term communication with Tuck for one worn Storage Crystal, which could be used to make more potions.
• Kevin gave Lorraine a soul-repair potion; it stabilized her aura, improved her control of Nen Aura, and temporarily eased her soul's deterioration.
• Kevin made a new batch of potions while the team prepared, and Benorite built Ximo a Nen-powered trailer vehicle.
• Jin led the assembled team on their second expedition and decided they would investigate the Black Leaf Forest rather than detour around it.

Kevin and his team explored the Dark Continent, avoiding a poisonous swamp before reaching Monkey Mountain, where Kevin fought the Monkey King. After defeating him, Kevin was offered a flower-decorated litter, leaving the troop apparently ready to honor him.

• Jin observed that the Dark Continent’s creatures sensed Kevin’s danger and avoided the team as they traveled toward the Black Forest.
• Men Qi’s scouting birds were wiped out in the swamp, and Illumi warned that its poisonous trees and mosquitoes made deeper exploration too dangerous, so Kevin and the others moved on.
• Jin identified Monkey Mountain, where Tewashi recalled the monkeys’ earlier attacks; this time, the troop surrounded the team without attacking.
• The Monkey King challenged Kevin, who fought him and recognized his Xingyi Quan-inspired moves before defeating him with a powerful shove.
• The Monkey King pleaded for mercy, then had the monkeys make way and brought Kevin a flower-decorated litter, prompting Buhaci to wonder if Kevin had become their king.

After Kevin’s group spent two days among the Martial Monkeys, Jin won their admiration with his fighting technique and proposed trading fruit-tree cultivation knowledge for their produce and wine. The group left with Monkey Wine and reached the edge of the Abyss, where they faced its immense, seemingly bottomless expanse.

• Men Qi, Morel, Kevin, and the others drank Monkey Wine while watching Jin blend into the Martial Monkey troop and spar with one of its members.
• Jin defeated the monkey with refined combat techniques, earning the troop’s admiration and explaining that the monkeys lacked effective fruit-growing methods.
• Jin proposed that Kevin’s group trade cultivation techniques for the monkeys’ fruits and wine, and Kevin agreed to consider it after they secured a stable base.
• Kevin’s group stayed at Martial Monkey Terrace for two days, then departed with three gourds of Monkey Wine from the Monkey King.
• After two days of travel, Kevin’s group arrived at the edge of the Abyss and stared into its vast, seemingly bottomless depths.

Kevin and the Exploration Team investigated the Abyss, where they fought a tentacled monster and discovered a talking corpse controlled by a larger creature. After Kevin attacked the corpse and the creature drove them back, the team withdrew to find a safer place.

• Kevin threw a fireball into the Abyss, and a tentacled monster attacked him from the darkness.
• Kevin and Koala restrained the monster long enough to drag it into the sunlight, where it burned to ash and left behind an A-Rank material.
• A larger creature emerged with a corpse hanging from a tentacle and offered the team gems, a flower, and a book in exchange for prey.
• Kevin attacked the corpse, prompting the creature to send huge and smaller tentacles after the team.
• Kevin and the others used their abilities to escape the tentacles and then left the area before nightfall.

After escaping the Abyss, Jin and the others discussed the monster, a corpse, and the rare ritual book before surveying dangerous regions on their way to the Pitch Black Land. Kevin entered its Gravity Zone with Men Qi’s Hook-Tailed Dogs and found that he could endure the crushing force, while a snail creature retreated into its shell.

• Jin identified the corpse as a man from the Shitxier Empire and recognized its book as the rare Human Skin Ritual Codex.
• Kevin and the others marked the Abyss as especially dangerous and surveyed regions along their route, comparing their inhabitants and habitats.
• After nearly twenty days, the group reached the Pitch Black Land, where Jin warned that creatures farther inside could control gravity.
• Men Qi summoned Hook-Tailed Dogs to accompany Kevin as he entered the Gravity Zone alone.
• Kevin endured the crushing gravity, watched a snail-like creature hide in its shell, and then strode toward Rock.

Kevin explored a black region where Gravity Snails created dangerous zones of increased gravity and found signs of a stronger anomaly deeper within. After Buhaci tested a snail’s gravity and nearly collapsed, Kevin began training inside the zone, using his digestion potion to fuel the effort.

• Kevin approached a Gravity Snail, endured its intensified gravity, and retreated after finding he could not easily attack through its shell.
• Kevin explored farther into the black region, sensed a distortion in the air, and returned to camp after suspecting a dangerous source at its center.
• Kevin told Jin and the others what he had found, and they agreed Men Qi’s Nen Beast could investigate the deeper area the next day.
• Kevin asked Buhaci to test the Gravity Zone; Buhaci entered in his muscular state but struggled to stand, so Kevin pulled him out to recover.
• Kevin ate while his digestion potion was active, then entered the Gravity Zone to train as his body sweated and began to shrink.

Kevin trained in the Gravity Zone while Jin and the others explored the Pitch Black Land, where they found increasing gravity and an unexplored core. After more than two weeks, Kevin’s physique became strong enough to support his Nen amount surpassing one million, and the group gathered as he prepared to reach that milestone.

• Kevin trained beside the Gravity Snails as Jin led Gon and Kiy on wilderness scouting, and Kiy told Tewashi that he was close to his father despite his sarcastic remarks.
• Kevin sensed a distant clash between powerful creatures and explained that breaking through his limit had heightened his senses and let him see differences in Nen Aura types.
• Kevin said his Gravity Zone training was effective but would take time, and planned to stop once his physique could support one million Nen.
• Over the next two weeks, Jin and the others mapped the Pitch Black Land and found that its gravity increased toward a core where Men Qi’s Nen Beast could not continue its reconnaissance.
• Kevin trained for five hours at a time and, after more than two weeks, announced that his physique was finally sufficient for his Nen amount to surpass one million.

Kevin injected his prepared drug and permanently broke through one million in Nen capacity, gaining heightened abilities and a new Imagery Body. He discovered that his Alchemy Table had become his own Nen ability, Moment's Dream, and ended the chapter planning to study his new power.

• Kevin injected the drug, controlled the surge of Nen Aura, and permanently raised his capacity to 1,000,000 as Jin sensed a change.
• A Four-Armed Cauldron-Carrying Titan appeared around Kevin, startling everyone gathered at the camp before its presence faded.
• Kevin demonstrated that his Emission Type and Transmutation Type abilities had reached near-full effectiveness alongside his Enhancement Type, and he described feeling transformed beyond ordinary humanity.
• Kevin materialized a Small Tripod and explained that Moment's Dream still made potions but could now use any number of materials, with greater complexity and risk.
• Kevin revealed the Four-Armed Tripod-Carrying Giant again, and Jin compared it to Chairman Netero's Hundred-Type Guanyin before Kevin admitted he did not yet know how to use it.

After Kevin’s Nen Aura surpassed one million, he demonstrated his clearer Heart Image and its amplified attacks, then led the group toward the Unmanned Stone Range. The chapter ended when Kevin sensed a tremor and warned everyone to flee.

• Kevin completed a batch of twelve Cleanser Potions, and Jin and the others tested how the liquid film cleaned their bodies and clothes.
• Kevin revealed his Four-Armed Tripod-Carrying Giant Heart Image and demonstrated its powerful palm strike and Wind Blades, which used only twice his normal Nen Aura.
• Kevin and the group set out for the Unmanned Stone Range, while his leaking aura kept nearby predators away.
• Ximo estimated that the group would reach the Exploration Team’s landing zone the next afternoon, and Jin asked whether Papu the Nurturing Beast might parasitize Kevin.
• A faint tremor shook the ground, and Kevin listened to it before urgently telling everyone to get away.

Kevin and his companions were caught in a Pit Sand Worm’s suction and mental attacks, and the creature swallowed Jin and the others before Kevin could save them. Kevin held the worm back until Sky-Covering Bird appeared and killed it, but Kevin collapsed unconscious beside its body.

• The Pit Sand Worm erupted from the ground and sucked nearby creatures toward its mouth, while Kevin and the others clung to trees and rocks to resist it.
• Kevin blasted a giant elephant away from the group, and Men Qi confirmed that a Nen-created bird was also pulled into the worm’s mouth.
• The worm struck everyone with a mental attack, and Kevin urged the group to take Soul-Heart Unity medicine to transfer the damage to their bodies.
• A sudden attack knocked Jin and the others unconscious, and the suction pulled them into the Pit Sand Worm as Kevin flew after them and forced its mouth open.
• Kevin grabbed the worm and dragged part of its body from the ground, but Sky-Covering Bird arrived and pulled the enormous creature into the sky.
• The Pit Sand Worm’s body split open with Sky-Covering Bird’s eye patterns, and it stopped struggling; Kevin then collapsed unconscious as Phoenix guarded him.

Phoenix shielded the unconscious Kevin as the Sand Worm’s body collapsed and its scattered green motes healed creatures that then erupted into a chaotic battle. Kevin recovered and woke beside Jin and the others, but the chapter ended when Phoenix showed him a feather that made his pupils shrink.

• The Overlord of the Sky vanished after briefly looking down at Phoenix and Kevin, leaving a feather that Phoenix caught in its beak.
• The Sand Worm’s body disintegrated into green motes, healing creatures that emerged from it and then attacked one another in a panic.
• Tewashi, Jin, Koala, and the others cut their way out of the Sand Worm’s remains and were forced to fight the rampaging creatures until a stronger presence made them stop.
• Phoenix’s flames helped Kevin recover, and he woke beneath its wings while the others waited nearby.
• Jin explained how the group had escaped and said the creatures had fled when the Resentful Eater Snake emerged from the same opening.
• Phoenix presented Kevin with the feather, and Kevin reacted with visible alarm.

Kevin explained that the Sky Overlord had killed the Sand Worm after Kevin delayed it, and learned how the Sand Worm’s greed and past rivalry had endangered Jin and the others. The Resentful Eater Snake left Kevin with an S-rank Black Stone Orb, while Kevin worked out why Jin and the others had been stored alongside her.

• Kevin recognized the feather as belonging to the Sky Overlord and told Jin that he had delayed the Sand Worm until the Sky Overlord arrived and killed it.
• Kevin learned from the Resentful Eater Snake that the Sand Worm had attacked her for revenge after she left the Snake Nest, and that their battle had caused the Impact waves.
• Ximo and Kevin concluded that the Sand Worm had fed longer because it was injured, while Jin compared the Sky Overlord’s territory to a house protected from pests.
• The Resentful Eater Snake gave Kevin a Black Stone Orb, which he identified as an S-rank material and an important organ from the Sand Worm.
• Kevin explained that the Sand Worm had separate storage organs for spiritual beings and flesh-and-blood creatures, and that Soul-Heart Unity had made Jin and the others seem like the Resentful Eater Snake’s kind of prey.

Kevin activated the Sky Overlord’s feather and gained an Ability Seal that let him dominate bodies and accelerate plant growth. The seal revealed that the Sky Overlord ruled its territory and subtly shaped events there, while Kevin’s new status as a Lord came from its recognition.

• Kevin and the others rested in camp while Men Qi and Koala reported that the surrounding area was nearly devoid of living creatures.
• Kevin wrapped the Sky Overlord’s feather in Nen Aura, causing it to transform into an eye-shaped seal that fused with his palm.
• Kevin used the seal to freeze Jin’s body, then made a shoot grow into a fruit-bearing tree.
• Kevin explained that the seal granted Domination and that the Sky Overlord acknowledged him as a Lord within its territory.
• Kevin told the group that the Sky Overlord’s subtle influence had shaped events around them, including the encounters with the Sand Worm and the Resentful Eater Snakes.

Kevin learned that the Sky Overlord had recognized him as a Lord, granting him powers to dominate creatures, establish territorial laws, and deter wildlife while requiring him to protect the surrounding ecosystem. The group entered the Unmanned Stone Range, where Kevin revealed that Papu the Nurturing Beast's parasitism could not affect anyone with more than a million Nen.

• Kevin explained that his Lord authority let him dominate creatures, impose territorial laws, and create a deterrent zone, but required him to maintain the ecosystem there.
• After a week of rest, Kevin tested the Eye of Domination and worked out its limits and the Sky Overlord's patrol duties.
• Jin reasoned that Papu the Nurturing Beast might be damaging the Unmanned Stone Range's environment, making it a possible threat Kevin had to handle as a Lord.
• Kevin's group traveled to the Unmanned Stone Range and found that his Lord status deterred most creatures along the way.
• Kevin told the group that Papu the Nurturing Beast's parasitic ability could not affect people with more than a million Nen, and Jin resolved to reach that level before exploring again.

Kevin explained that Papu the Nurturing Beast was Mental Bacteria confined to the region, then led the group to Thunder Pool, where they found and mined Unmanned Stone. He identified the stones as coagulated blood from a colossal dead creature whose remains might form the surrounding mountain range.

• Kevin explained that Mental Bacteria accumulated in the region, entered living creatures, and could leave only when carried out by a living host.
• Men Qi discussed the group's need for Unmanned Stone and Thick White Milk, while Koala pointed out that Kevin's authority made him uniquely able to handle many tasks.
• Kevin led the group through the valley to Thunder Pool, split the electrified water, and revealed Unmanned Stone covering the lake bottom.
• Tewashi dug into the ground, and Kiy retrieved several Unmanned Stones from a deep deposit beneath their path.
• Kevin identified an Unmanned Stone as biological material resembling blood and suggested the mountain range might be the remains of a gigantic dead creature.

Kevin and his team finished exploring the Unmanned Stone Range, tested their resistance to its Mental Bacteria, and returned safely to the Snake Nest with a supply of Unmanned Stones. As the group discussed their findings and the dangers they had survived, they began planning a Forward Base and the search for a safe route into the Dark Continent.

• Kiy demonstrated that his Nen ability could draw electricity directly from an Unmanned Stone, while Jin and Illumi discussed the stones and the range’s possible nature as a colossal beast.
• Kevin stopped the team from excavating more stones, and Jin, Illumi, and Tewashi stayed inside the range for a day to test whether they remained vulnerable to the Mental Bacteria; Kevin found they had developed resistance.
• Kevin led the team back to the Snake Nest, where Qiduo examined them and Melusina prepared a welcoming feast.
• The team recounted their expedition, including their near-disaster with the Sand Worm, and discussed Kevin’s lordship and plans to find a suitable Forward Base.
• Jin and the others explained what they had learned about the Unmanned Stone Range, prompting Qiduo and Illumi to consider how its Mental Bacteria worked.

Kevin’s group celebrated their progress in finding two kinds of hope and decided to suspend exploration while everyone trained for a future search for a Forward Base. Kevin also examined the S-rank Black Orb and considered how its spatial properties might help the team.

• Kiy demonstrated using an Unmanned Stone to charge himself and develop an Overload skill, while Berolete described how the stones could power major mechanical upgrades.
• Kevin announced that the group would pause outward exploration and focus on training until they were strong enough to explore safely, with Knight Rank as their near-term goal.
• Kevin showed Melusina the Black Orb, an S-rank Sand Worm organ with spatial capacity and Spirit Dissolution properties that he could not yet turn into a potion.
• Kevin proposed giving part of the Black Orb to Jin so he could study the material for a Nen tool with spatial storage.
• Kevin and Melusina discussed settling down to train and refine their abilities, while Kevin planned a major overhaul of his existing potions.

Kevin explained how reaching a million aura had changed his body and produced a Mental Image that resonated with his movements. He demonstrated the Mental Image’s Medicine Tripod, revealing its power to capture and refine living things, while Melusina asked how his true Nen ability, Blank Meteor, appeared in the Mental Image.

• Kevin described reaching a million aura as an evolution and showed Jin, Biscuit, Melusina, and Qiduo how his Four-Armed Tripod-Carrying Giant moved in resonance with his body.
• Kevin used the Giant Tripod’s upper arms to open its lid, causing Jin, Biscuit, and Qiduo to recoil from a sensation of being about to be eaten.
• Kevin explained that the Medicine Tripod amplified his Nen ability, then demonstrated its Mental Image absorbing a giant tree and refining it into pungent green liquid that he buried in the ground.
• Kevin told Melusina that the Mental Image’s tripod could capture living targets and refine them at the cost of substantial Nen Aura, but that it could trap him if he could not finish refining a powerful target.
• Melusina asked how Kevin’s true Nen ability, Blank Meteor, appeared in his Mental Image, and Kevin said that the Mental Image had never opened its eyes.

Kevin used Insight of the Mind's Eye to capture a Mosquito Fly and harvest its wings, then spent ten hours brewing a top-tier A-Rank potion from five materials. The chapter ended with Kevin confirming the potion was finished.

• Kevin used Mental Image's enhanced eyes to track and capture a fast Mosquito Fly inside a Barrier Orb.
• Kevin explained that the Mosquito Fly could shatter into particles and recombine, and chose its wings for the potion.
• Kevin returned to find Gon and Kiy sparring while Jin studied the Black Orb in the New Laboratory.
• Kevin harvested the Mosquito Fly's wings, blood, and stinger, then combined five materials in the Medicine Tripod.
• Kevin spent ten hours brewing the potion with Melusina guarding him, then confirmed it was finished.