Chapter Summaries

Pairo decided to have a child to help continue the Kurta Clan, prompting Kevin to explain how strength and life evolution affected the chances of having offspring. After Pakunoda and Pons returned with materials from the Dark Continent, Kevin began preparing to use the S-Rank Space Vein in a new medicine.

• Pairo told Kurapika that he planned to have a child, saying the town was safe and that continuing the Kurta Clan was their duty.
• Kevin explained that reproductive chances fell as people crossed life-evolution thresholds, and that beings above one million would need a partner of the same level to have children.
• Gon and Qishou discussed what they hoped their future parents would be like, then turned back after seeing Three-Tails with Nanika.
• Pakunoda and Pons returned on the Unicorn Horn with materials, and Biscuit praised their successful expedition despite some serious injuries.
• Kevin explained that Longevity Rice could greatly extend lifespans and warned Biscuit that people needed to adjust their mindset to long lives.
• Kevin identified the S-Rank Space Vein as material from a space-related Lord Level creature, selected six compatible materials, and asked Slash Ghost and Netero to guard the medicine-making process.

Kevin completed an S-Rank potion that distorted the surrounding space, then injected it into himself when he could not store it. He survived the potion’s bodily changes by redirecting them to his fingernails, but struggled to control his new spatial power as he left the iron chest.

• Kevin began brewing an S-Rank potion inside a heavily protected iron chest while the assembled Hunters guarded the area.
• The brewing drew in immense amounts of Nen Aura, and Kevin used more potions to keep going through the night.
• At dawn, the potion formed as a transparent liquid that warped space, flattening and twisting the iron chest and surrounding area.
• Kevin injected the liquid into himself and used Cocoon of Rebirth to confine its bodily modifications to his ten fingernails.
• Kevin emerged from the chest and accidentally distorted the people and space around him when he waved, knocking some of them to the ground.

Kevin gained a space-related Nen ability after making an S-Rank potion, then recovered and demonstrated how he could pull, fold, and distort space. The ability could displace people and fool their senses, though it could not redirect a direct physical attack, and Kevin ended the chapter exploring its potential.

• Kevin accidentally twisted space with his hands, drawing a distant chair closer before it returned to its place, while Netero and Biscuit assessed the new ability.
• Nobu explained that Kevin’s influence on space seemed limited to a radius of two to three hundred meters, and Kevin practiced until he could stop affecting space unintentionally.
• After Kevin rested overnight, Melusina accompanied him to the Training Ground, where he told Netero and Biscuit that he had made five S-Rank potion doses and used Cocoon of Rebirth to shift the potion’s bodily transformation to his fingernails.
• Kevin demonstrated that he could pull people closer by folding space, but a pebble still struck him when he tried to use the distortion against a direct attack.
• Kevin folded the space around Biscuit so that her punch missed him, showing that the ability could alter how people perceived their positions and surroundings.

A year after landing, Kevin continued mastering Between the Unreachable as the settlement expanded and exploration casualties mounted. Berolete prepared to search for surviving Machine Lifeforms, while Kevin visited the injured Qishou and asked what had taken his leg.

• Melusina suggested naming Kevin’s new ability Between the Unreachable, and Kevin agreed that mastering it would take time because it altered his body.
• Netero recovered his peak condition as Biscuit and Netero discussed the rising death toll among the expanded exploration teams.
• Berolete asked Kevin’s permission to search nearby for surviving Machine Lifeforms, and Kevin gave him a Lord’s personal mark before he left to prepare.
• Kevin visited Qishou in the hospital and refused to use the Cocoon of Rebirth to regrow his missing leg, explaining that ordinary treatment would take about a year for full recovery.
• Kevin asked Qishou to describe the enemy who had taken his leg, saying a Knight could not have done it.

Kevin prepared a long-distance expedition inland with Biscuit, Gowen, Men Qi, and Buhara after learning that an unrecognized Lord had attacked Qima. Meanwhile, Jin’s team continued its hazardous journey along a frozen boundary, where unseen creatures watched their camp at night.

• Gon, Qima, Three-Tails, and the others told Kevin how an unknown attacker severed Qima’s leg, and Kevin considered whether to confront the hostile Lord.
• Kevin decided to continue along the route the advance team had explored and formed a long expedition team, leaving Melusina in charge of the camp and promising to take her on a future trip.
• Melusina stopped Three-Tails from secretly joining Kevin’s expedition, and Kevin led Biscuit, Gowen, Men Qi, and Buhara out of camp.
• Jin and his team discussed their year-long journey along the icy edge of the Sky Overlord’s territory, while Jin planned to write a detailed book about their exploration.
• Aimeme cooked frozen steaks using Little Flame’s heat, and the team settled into their RV for the night.
• Pairs of eyes watched Jin’s RV from the dark woodland beyond the snowfield.

Kevin and his companions explored beyond the Folded Zone, crossed into a rocky desert, and encountered a gemstone-backed scorpion. Gowen defeated the creature by piercing its shell with his Armor-Piercing Bow, leaving the group poised to claim the gemstones.

• Biscuit asked why the group was leaving new explorers behind, and Kevin explained that future expeditions would be smaller and would wait for results from the first wave.
• Kevin used Dragon Turtle's information to guide the group toward an intelligent community east of its territory, then led them into unexplored land.
• After crossing woodland, the group entered a hot, rocky desert, where Biscuit and Kevin argued about her appearance and strength.
• Biscuit spotted a scorpion with gemstones embedded in its back and sent Gowen to fight it after Kevin confirmed it was not a Lord.
• Gowen evaded the scorpion's attacks, switched from his sword to his Armor-Piercing Bow, and shot through its shell at its vital points.

Kevin's team crossed the Gobi after defeating a Long-Tailed Scorpion, harvesting its gemstones, meat, and venom while discussing Gowen's Nen ability and the group's talents. As the terrain grew greener, Kevin revealed that they had entered the World Tree's domain, with a canopy above the clouds.

• Men Qi examined the Long-Tailed Scorpion's reflective gemstones, while Biscuit cut out their valuable centers and the group salvaged uncontaminated meat and bottled venom for Illumi.
• Kevin praised Gowen's progress and explained how his knightly vows shaped his Nen ability, while Biscuit compared his talents with those of Gon and Qima.
• Men Qi said she would not add the venomous scorpion to her collection, and Biscuit remarked that the Dark Continent made Men Qi's creature-summoning ability especially useful.
• The team traveled across the Gobi and sheltered overnight from a fierce gale inside a conjured giant beast, then continued as wildlife and vegetation became more common.
• Kevin pointed out a canopy overhead and told the group they had entered the World Tree's domain.

Kevin and his companions followed the World Tree's canopy through the Gobi, where its reach divided barren desert from increasingly lush forest. After Kevin fought off three giant Beasts, a friendly unknown Lord arrived and greeted them in a way they could understand.

• Kevin sensed that the World Tree's aura was spreading life into the Gobi, and the group followed the boundary between the barren wasteland and the greenery.
• As the group traveled for a week beneath the canopy, more Beasts watched them, and Biscuit suggested their small size made Kevin's Lord presence less intimidating to the creatures.
• Three giant Beasts attacked Kevin; he knocked two into a fatal collision and let the third flee after it surrendered.
• The group gathered some valuable parts from the dead Beasts and made camp, where Men Qi noticed that nearby creatures had stopped harassing her scouts.
• Kevin sensed a Lord approaching from dozens of kilometers away and told the others the visitor seemed friendly.
• A six- or seven-meter-tall, humanlike Beast emerged from the darkness and greeted Kevin as an unknown Lord in a way the group understood.

Kevin met Leckka, a recognized Lord who sensed his group’s fighting spirit and invited them to the Glorious Grand Arena. They traveled through the Gobi toward the arena, where Leckka introduced Kevin to its unusual inhabitants.

• Leckka introduced himself as a recognized Lord and explained that he had come to investigate Kevin and the others’ fighting spirit.
• Leckka invited Kevin’s group to the Glorious Grand Arena, and Kevin agreed after consulting Biscuit and the others.
• Leckka led the group across the Gobi and told Kevin about his people, the arena’s Weavers, and the other intelligent peoples gathered there.
• The group encountered a giant carrying a black-wood Club, whom Leckka dismissed as strong but lacking any will to fight.

Kevin and his companions reached the Sky Overlord’s oasis, where they met a powerful feline and learned about the gathering of races and Lord-level creatures. A Weaver arrived to explain the competition and its rules, leaving Kevin ready to learn more about the Arena.

• Leckka led Kevin and his companions into the oasis and explained the common language used by powerful life-forms.
• A white feline Lord met Kevin, asked to fight him, and told him about other Overlords and the Possessed Spirits, including the Red Spirits.
• Kevin and his companions set up camp by the lake, and Men Qi prepared a meal that Leckka and the feline enjoyed.
• Leckka said the oasis held the greatest concentration of Lord-level creatures in the Sky Overlord’s territory, especially during competitions.
• A Weaver descended into the oasis, welcomed Kevin as an apostle acknowledged by the god, and offered to explain the competition.

Kevin and his companions visited the Grand Tournament Arena, where they watched a battle between a human and a member of the Winged Race. A hostile humanlike Lord challenged Kevin, and Kevin jumped into the arena to fight as spectators gathered.

• The Weaver explained that the Arena hosted competitions and wagered duels, including matches used to settle disputes, and that the Grand Tournament offered prizes from the Overlord.
• Leckka and the cat led Kevin and the others from the Oasis to the enormous Grand Tournament Arena the next day.
• Kevin's group watched a human fight a member of the Winged Race, whose bow, blades, and wind attacks clashed with the human's sword and blood-mist transformation.
• A humanlike spiritual Lord approached Kevin with malice, and their auras collided, disrupting nearby floating platforms and stopping the ongoing battle.
• Kevin jumped into the arena to face the challenger as the cat and Leckka watched and a crowd of beings gathered for the duel.

Kevin studied the Possessed Spirits’ ability to possess matter and endured their spiritual attacks while gathering information about their nature. After identifying them as human-like mental constructs, he declared that his probing was over.

• Kevin endured attacks from the Possessed Spirits and realized their spirits could possess and control substances throughout the blood-red field.
• Kevin countered a possessed fire-form with Phoenix’s flames, then endured a psychic shriek that pierced his defenses and wounded his arm.
• Kevin severed his injured arm, regrew it with Syringe, and used the flying device to dissolve the creature formed from his severed limb.
• The cat judged Kevin to be outmatched, while Biscuit, Gowen, and Bianluoke believed he was gathering information and holding back.
• Kevin analyzed the Possessed Spirits’ spiritual structure and concluded that they were unlike resentment, then announced that his probing was over.

Kevin fought a Red Spirit in the Arena and discovered that human-shaped Red Spirits arose from humanity’s violent emotions and could manipulate humans by possessing their flesh and blood. After she controlled the body parts Kevin had shed, he remained calm and had not used his Mental Image, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Kevin recognized the Red Spirit’s hostility as an innate connection to humanity and prepared to fight as she condensed from mist into her original form.
• Kevin and the Red Spirit battled violently, while potions helped him heal and replenish his power.
• The Red Spirit used Kevin’s discarded flesh and blood to create a body, then drew red particles from him and revealed her ability to possess his remains.
• Kevin concluded that Possessed Spirits formed from gathered emotions and wills, and that human-shaped Red Spirits were born from humanity’s violent impulses.
• The Red Spirit controlled Kevin through the flesh and blood she possessed, making him mirror her movements, while Leckka insisted Kevin’s earlier fighting spirit had been his own.

Kevin defeated Red Spirits by severing her control over his body and trapping her with the spatial abilities of his Medicine Tripod and mental image. After Red Spirits conceded, the spectators rushed into the repaired Arena to fight, while she recovered in pain and Kevin ended the chapter exhausted and facing her renewed hostility.

• Kevin explained that Red Spirits could control his movements but could not command his Nen Aura or abilities, then summoned his Cauldron-Carrying Giant and enclosed himself inside the Medicine Tripod.
• Biscuit recognized that the Tripod's new spatial separation came from Kevin's S-Rank potion, and Kevin used the connection to control his mental image from inside the barrier.
• Kevin's mental image struck Red Spirits with spiritual attacks and trapped her in a distorted sphere of space until she conceded.
• Kevin released Red Spirits and dispersed his ability, then carried her to a floating platform as the Arena repaired itself and spectators began fighting below.
• Leckka and the cat explained that Kevin's spiritual attack had left painful foreign substances in Red Spirits' form, and Red Spirits eventually stood up with malice radiating toward Kevin again.

Kevin learned how the Possessed Spirits were born from spirit-birthing flowers and why human-looking Red Spirits radiated malice toward humans. He also discovered that the Possessed Spirits and Winged Race fought over the spread of the Undying disease, leaving their uneasy cycle of infection and slaughter exposed.

• Kevin asked the mermaid-like Red Spirit how Possessed Spirits were born, and she explained that spirit-birthing flowers absorbed living beings’ emotions and gave birth to spirits whose colors and appearances reflected their sources.
• The mermaid Red Spirit told Kevin and his companions that human-looking spirits ranked roughly fourth in number, and Kevin concluded that emotions’ targets shaped the spirits’ attitudes toward their source races.
• Kevin asked why the Possessed Spirits fought the Winged Race, and the gargoyle-like Red Spirit said the Winged Race wanted to curb their growing population to prevent the Undying disease.
• Featherwing greeted Kevin and explained that the Winged Race had once been devastated by the Undying disease and now hunted infected beings to prevent further outbreaks.
• Kevin learned that infected Possessed Spirits fled by possessing other bodies and passing on the disease, while the Winged Race pursued them, fueling mutual hatred and repeated clashes.
• Men Qi called the resulting cycle of infection and conflict weird.

Jin and his companions learned that frogs had rescued them after they were overwhelmed by creatures near the boundary between realms, and that their captors wanted them to enter a Grand Tournament. Jin accepted the task, which could also help Zaharut wake, and the group left their confinement to meet the frog leader.

• Jin explained that the group had been trapped for about sixty-three days inside a dead World Tree, where a flower's nectar had kept them alive while Zaharut remained unconscious.
• A jadeite-like frog Lord arrived with two other frogs, told Jin that his people had saved them, and opened the membrane confining them.
• Jin agreed to help the frogs in exchange for the group's freedom, and the Lord said Zaharut might wake if they succeeded.
• The frogs led Jin and his companions through their settlement and offered them maggots and Thornflower Honey; Jin tried both while Aimeme declined the maggot.
• The frog Lord explained that he had been impressed by their fighting spirit and wanted them to enter the Grand Tournament and win prizes for the frogs.

Kevin discovered that his potions had no effect on Cat, then joined his companions to claim rewards woven by a Weaver from humanity’s Arena battles. The cloth’s golden portion came from humanity’s meritorious defense against the Frost Overlord’s encroachment, which Biscuit recognized as Jin’s deed.

• Kevin gave Cat a potion, but it only seemed nourishing, confirming that his potions could not affect wholly nonhuman beings.
• Kevin explained that battle aura reflected combat ability, experience, and will, not simply a desire to fight.
• Biscuit showed Kevin a gemstone she had received as an Arena tip, and a Weaver offered the group their accumulated rewards.
• The Weaver wove orange-red cloth from the group’s accumulated energy, and Kevin compared its golden section to golden thread from the Sky Overlord.
• The Weaver explained that the golden energy came from meritorious assistance against another God’s encroachment, and Biscuit recognized Jin as the one responsible.