Chapter Summaries

Ging, Cow Brother, and Chopper ate poisonous cuisine alongside Enel, who revealed the Human Reform League’s confidence that it would defeat V5 despite its self-destruct devices. Enel left Ging shaken after overpowering him with Conqueror’s Haki and warning him not to underestimate the League.

• Enel ate poison-laden kiwi juice and Torture Salad without fear, while Ging, Cow Brother, and Chopper cautiously tried detoxified dishes and discovered their unusual deliciousness.
• Ging asked the chef about ingredients from the Outer World, and the chef said the New World was not impossible to enter.
• Ging introduced himself as a Hunter, and Enel recognized him as one of the Hunter Association’s Twelve Earthly Branches before pressing him with Conqueror’s Haki.
• Enel warned Ging that the Human Reform League might act against V5 and dismissed Ging’s ability to judge its strength; Ging resisted but was overpowered.
• Cow Brother warned that V5 had planted self-destruct devices worldwide, but Enel said the League had already prevented one chance to use them and would defeat V5 anyway.

After Enel told Ging and his companions that the Human Reform League intended to unify the Human World, V5 and the Hunter Association debated whether to resist, surrender, or trigger their nuclear self-destruction devices. The meeting ended with Netero warning that the League’s confidence might be justified, while V5’s threats could devastate the world without seriously harming the League’s domed cities.

• Enel told Ging, Cow Brother, and Chopper that the Human Reform League had no need to fear V5, then left through a Space Gate.
• Cow Brother and Chopper reported the League’s unification plans to Netero, who called an urgent virtual meeting with V5 representatives and Hoover.
• Kaikoniku declared that Kakin would detonate its self-destruction devices rather than surrender, while the other V5 powers hesitated and debated their options.
• Netero argued that the League’s decision to reveal its intentions showed confidence that it could neutralize V5’s devices.
• Beyond warned that V5’s nuclear devastation would not greatly harm the League because its cities were protected by domes.

Pariston told Beyond that he had resigned from the Hunter Association and would leave for the New World in three days. Wang Gao’s group invaded the Zoldyck estate and killed the family’s patriarchs and nearby servants with Enel’s Gamma Rays.

• Pariston told Beyond that V5 would not stand against the Human Reform League and revealed he planned to leave the Human World in three days.
• On January 15, 1999, Wang Gao, Vegapunk, Enel, Wulong Tea, and Violet arrived at the Zoldyck Family’s Gate of the Underworld.
• Gotoh tried to stop the group, but Enel electrocuted him, and he and Shiba’s Nen attacks failed to harm Enel.
• Zeno attacked Enel with Death Aura Meteor, but Enel swallowed the Aura and challenged him to attack again.
• Maha and Jeter confronted Wang Gao, who ordered Enel to deal with them; Enel unleashed Gamma Rays that killed the Zoldyck patriarchs, servants, and nearby living things.

Wang Gao seized Alluka Zoldyck to test the power of Nanika, surviving its lethal requests before wishing for the destruction of the universe. Nanika gave no response, leaving Wang Gao and the others waiting to see whether the wish had worked.

• Enel stopped attacking after sensing the nearby Zoldyck Family members had died, while Mishka fled through an underground passage and died from his own neurotoxin after Enel turned it against him.
• Wang Gao and the others confronted Kikyo Zoldyck, Kalluto Zoldyck, and the servants, then Wang Gao broke into the vault and took Alluka Zoldyck.
• Wang Gao asked Alluka to grant his wish, survived being twisted, drained of blood, and having his heart removed, and fulfilled three requests.
• Nanika appeared, and Wang Gao wished for the entire universe to be destroyed, but neither Nanika nor the Hunter Universe showed any immediate response.

Wang Gao tested Nanika by wishing to destroy the universe, and Nanika granted him a dangerous black-hole Nen ability with severe limitations. After Nanika refused further requests from Wang Gao, Alluka asked to see Killua, prompting Wulong Tea to abduct him from the airship and bring him to Kukuroo Mountain.

• Wang Gao wished to destroy the universe, and Nanika granted him the ability to turn into a black hole at the cost of never returning to human form.
• Wang Gao and Vegapunk analyzed the ability’s limits, including the risk that the black hole would evaporate before it gained enough mass.
• Nanika refused Wang Gao another request even after he removed the mark used to identify wish-makers, and Vegapunk offered to make a request instead.
• Alluka asked to see Killua, so Wulong Tea located the airship and transported it to the skies above Kukuroo Mountain.
• Wulong Tea seized Killua from the airship and escaped through a Space Gate despite Netero’s attack, leaving Gon furious and Illumi distraught.

Netero explained the Zoldyck family’s Vengeful Death Pact as Maha, Jeter, and Zeno returned from death to hunt their killer. Illumi fled on Shiba’s orders, while Wang Gao confronted the four Zoldycks near the mountainside, with battle about to begin.

• Illumi and the others found four charred corpses whose Deathly Nen possessed Zoldyck servants, revealing Jeter, Shiba, Zeno, and Maha had returned as Vengeful Ghosts.
• Netero explained the Death Pact’s rules and warned that the ghosts had to kill their murderer before their deadline or their souls would be destroyed.
• Shiba ordered Illumi to leave Kukuroo Mountain, inherit the next patriarch’s position, and protect Killua; Illumi obeyed despite learning Killua had been captured.
• Wang Gao left Vegapunk studying Alluka and went with Enel and Violet to confront Maha, Jeter, and Zeno, while Shiba and the Hunters arrived afterward.
• Gon tried to rush toward the confrontation, but Kurapika and Hisoka warned him that the Zoldycks were far stronger than he was.

Enel defeated the Zoldyck elders despite their Vengeful Death Pact, and Wang Gao announced that the Human Reform League would begin its unification war in one month. The group left after Wang Gao struck Gon down for demanding to know what would happen to Killua.

• Zeno, Jeter, Shiba, and Maha attacked Enel with their boosted Aura and coordinated Nen abilities, but Enel survived their assault.
• Enel used Absolute Death Pact to kill Jeter, then regenerated his own head after their Nen thread destroyed it.
• Maha, Zeno, and Shiba offered their lives in exchange for the survival of their family line, but Enel annihilated them with Positron Plasma Balls.
• Netero asked Wang Gao to spare the Zoldyck bloodline, and Wang Gao told him to return to arranging the Hunter Exam and the Human World Unification War planned for one month later.
• Gon shouted at Wang Gao about Killua, so Wang Gao struck him in the abdomen before leaving through a Space Gate.

Wang Gao and Vegapunk studied Nanika’s wish-granting rules while Killua tried to escape with his family. Wang Gao eventually separated Nanika from Alluka and captured him, then took the Zoldyck family back to Meteor City for further study.

• Wang Gao returned to the residential area and found that Wulong Tea had killed Mishka and removed Killua’s Nen needles.
• Vegapunk wished to know all knowledge in the universe, and Nanika gave him the True Eye ability to analyze what he saw.
• Wulong Tea released Killua, who used Nanika to teleport Killua, Kalluto, Kikyo, and Illumi to Safe House No. 13.
• Enel and Wulong Tea resisted Nanika’s rule-based attacks while Illumi, Kikyo, and Kalluto tried to free Killua from Wulong Tea’s vines.
• Wang Gao and Vegapunk analyzed Nanika’s nature and helped refine Enel and Wulong Tea’s defenses until Nanika’s attacks stopped working.
• Wang Gao removed Nanika from Alluka and sealed him away, then Wulong Tea took Killua and the others back to Meteor City while Wang Gao and Vegapunk continued their research.

Wang Gao declared war on the nations of the Human World, prompting Kakin to launch its New World Plan and prepare nuclear defenses. The Human Reform League’s attacks and unexplained failures disabled Kakin’s weapons and Whale Ships, leaving Kaikoniku unable to flee.

• Wang Gao announced that the Human Reform League was at war with Kakin and the other nations of the Human World.
• Kaikoniku ordered Yakuren to execute the New World Plan, and Kakin’s three Whale Ships began preparing to sail.
• After the Human Reform League attacked territories in Euroubia, Kaikoniku ordered Bov to activate the Death Isolation Belt Plan.
• A malfunction crippled the Persian Cat’s power system, and Captain Hufu revealed Kakin’s self-destruct order before the submarine’s self-destruct system failed and the first officer shot him.
• Kakin’s military reported that its self-destruction devices, nuclear submarines, and nuclear warheads had malfunctioned.
• Yakuren told Kaikoniku that all eight Whale Ship nuclear reactors had stopped working, preventing the ships from departing for the New World.

Beyond and Kaikoniku learned that the Human Reform League had altered the world’s physical rules, making nuclear reactors and weapons unusable. The League’s forces rapidly overran several regions, leaving Kakin as the final major challenge because of its powerful internal factions.

• Engineers and scientists discovered that the reactors’ fuel rods had stopped producing heat or radiation, and Dr. Aristotle concluded that the Human Reform League had rewritten the laws of physics.
• Beyond questioned the guards and Dr. Aristotle, who explained that nuclear reactions had become impossible and urged the rulers to surrender.
• Kaikoniku slapped Benjamin for threatening Dr. Aristotle, while Beyond recognized that nuclear weapons across the world had been rendered useless.
• The Human Reform League’s forces arrived across the continents, and local collaborators helped them overrun the Begroce United Nations and several other regions.
• The Human Reform League occupied Begrose, Gugantyu, Minbo, and Oukima within five hours, leaving Kakin as the main obstacle because of its many factions and Nen users.

The Human Reform League launched a ruthless spring cleaning across the Gasol Mountains and other occupied territories, destroying religious and feudal powers and sending captured resisters to the New World. Wang Gao ordered the Whale Ship refugees sorted for acceptance or exile as the stranded passengers faced despair.

• Golden Ring executed the Ximu Tribe's envoy and ordered Legion 506 to attack, capture nobles and priests, and kill resisters.
• Human Reform League robots invaded Ximu City, where Nen abilities failed, and Golden Ring annihilated the High Priest, the priests, and the temple.
• Golden Ring led six legions in a sweeping purge of the Gasol Mountains, while the Human Reform League cleared other occupied regions and prepared surviving resisters for transfer to the New World.
• Wang Gao ordered that only scientists and children among the V5 refugees be accepted, with everyone else assigned to the New World Pioneer Team, and arranged to retrieve the Kakin Royal House's Pot of Eggs.
• The Whale Ship and its escort fleet were stranded at sea after their nuclear reactions stopped, leaving most refugees trapped aboard.

Dongpo captured Kakin's fleeing royal family and ministers, exposed Kaikoniku's reincarnation scheme, and destroyed the souls of both Kaikoniku and Beyond. With Kakin's last resistance subdued, the Human Reform League faced the prospect of entering the New World and confronting its unknown peoples and civilizations.

• Dongpo's forces boarded Kakin's Whale Ship and arrested Kaikoniku, Beyond, the princes, and the ministers.
• Dongpo pulled Kaikoniku's soul from his corpse, read its memories, discovered the Reincarnation Technique, and annihilated the soul.
• Dongpo rejected Beyond's offer to guide the Human Reform League through the New World, read his memories, and destroyed his soul.
• Dongpo sent the captured Kakin royals and ministers to Impel Down, completing the pacification of the Human World's last resistance zone.
• The chapter established that the Human Reform League's future New World expedition would encounter the Gatekeepers, unknown creatures, another human branch, and possible nonhuman civilizations.

After the Human Reform League swiftly defeated V5, Pariston’s submarine continued toward the Imaginary New Continent with its Nen-user mercenaries trapped by the League’s laws. Pariston and Ging Freecss suspected the League came from a powerful civilization in the New World, while Pariston revealed he had left a disruptive gift behind.

• Pariston learned that the Human Reform League had defeated V5 in under ten hours and captured its fleeing leaders, leaving Beyond unable to fulfill their agreement.
• Pariston told the mercenaries they could not return to the Human World without facing imprisonment or death, so they had to continue with him toward the New World.
• The bowl-cut man reported that V5’s self-destruct devices, the Whale Ship’s reactor, and V5’s nuclear plants had all failed to operate.
• Pariston deduced that the Human Reform League might have modified local physics rules and possibly come from the New World.
• Ging Freecss agreed that the League came from the Outer World, and he and Pariston considered whether it was an advance force or a group that had fled the New World.
• Pariston said he had left a gift in the Human World that had begun taking effect, while Ging reconsidered their New World exploration plans.

Three groups of V5-era fugitives traveled toward the Imaginary New Continent while the Human Reform League consolidated control of the Human World. In East Gorteau, the League discovered Pariston’s hidden Chimera Ant Queen and sent a Bio-Defense Special Task Force to capture the ants and approach her nest.

• Netero, Pariston, and Hoover’s groups continued toward the Imaginary New Continent, each pursuing its own goals after V5’s collapse.
• Wang Gao knew the groups’ movements through Skynet but allowed them to test the New World while the Human Reform League focused on unifying the Human World.
• In the Saluba Archipelago, patrol robots detected giant, animal-like ants near a village, and the Captain recognized them as Chimera Ants and ordered the villagers gathered.
• A Bio-Defense Special Task Force arrived, traced the ants to an underground burrow, and began capturing the mutated Chimera Ants.
• The task force subdued a wild Ultraman-type Chimera Ant and closed in on the Queen’s cave as she sensed danger outside.

The Bio-Defense Special Task Force captured the Chimera Ant Queen and eliminated outbreaks across the Human World, uncovering Pariston’s role in spreading their eggs. At Crow Cliff Base, Wang Gao explained how Chimera Ants fit into the New World’s ecosystem and why they became invasive threats in the Human World.

• The Bio-Defense Special Task Force trapped the fleeing Queen and elite soldier ants, imprisoned them, and disabled them with infrasound and Nen abilities.
• The chapter revealed that Beyond had captured the Queen, while Pariston had frozen and scattered thousands of Chimera Ant eggs before ordering them released during the Human Reform League’s war.
• The Bio-Defense Special Task Force cleared Chimera Ants from inhabited areas and moved on to search remote regions with airships, Nanobots, and Ecological Mother Trees.
• At Crow Cliff Base, Wang Gao, Wulong Tea, Vegapunk, and others studied captured Chimera Ants and discussed their ability to acquire genes by devouring other organisms.
• Wang Gao concluded that Nen originated in humanity’s ancestors’ encounters with New World creatures, while Chimera Ants occupied a middle ecological niche there and lacked natural predators in the Human World.

The Human Reform League reviewed what was known about New World expeditions and the rare lifeforms and materials they had brought back. Wang Gao and Vegapunk tested Nanika, then suspected she was an unusual, possibly solitary Ai whose traits differed from the rest.

• The Human Reform League cataloged the recorded expeditions, their casualties, and the New World resources and creatures brought back, including Nanika, Pot of Eggs, and Endless Stone.
• Wang Gao and Vegapunk released Nanika inside a rule barrier, where she could not escape or reverse its restrictions.
• Nanika examined a soldier and enveloped him in black mist, but afterward she did not parasitize him.
• Vegapunk proposed that Nanika might be an unusual Ai, and Wang Gao considered how her traits resembled both Ai and Pap.
• Wang Gao reasoned that Nanika may have been alone because she differed from other members of her social species.

Wang Gao and the Human Reform League analyzed Nanika’s memories, learning about its origins, its bond with Alluka, and the Ai species. They also traced the Immortal Disease to mushrooms eaten by a lost expedition, while investigations into the New World’s other mysteries remained ongoing.

• Wang Gao retrieved Nanika’s memories, and the League’s experts organized them for analysis.
• The analysis revealed that Nanika was a 187-year-old mutated Ai, rejected by its kind and later brought to the Zoldyck greenhouse by Jeter.
• Nanika had parasitized Alluka before her birth, forming a peaceful symbiosis that protected its host.
• Wang Gao and the others discussed possible links between Ai and Human-Raising Beasts, concluding that field investigations were still needed.
• The League determined that the Immortal Disease came from mushrooms eaten by a lost Gugantyu Kingdom expedition, which turned those who ate them into vegetative patients.

The Human Reform League completed its cleanup of the Human World and broadcast the repeated execution of a notorious criminal, terrifying the factions hiding on the Imaginary New Continent. Hoover urged the gathered survivors to flee to the New World before the League reached them.

• The Human Reform League publicly tried former elites and criminals in Hot Stove City, sentencing Earl Fernando to 723 deaths among other punishments.
• The executioners repeatedly revived Fernando and subjected him to successive torturous deaths, shocking viewers across the Hunter World and Imaginary New Continent.
• Pariston, the Fourth Prince, Ging, and Ging’s former Greed Island team watched the broadcast at a Kakin base, while the Fourth Prince acknowledged he would have faced hundreds of death sentences.
• At a V5 base, Netero, Kurapika, Chrollo, and the other gathered factions watched the executions, and Kurapika eyed the Phantom Troupe with killing intent.
• Hoover warned the gathered survivors that the Human Reform League would eventually reach the Imaginary New Continent and said their only escape was the New World.

Halkenburg helped the younger Kakin princes and their mothers leave the fallen kingdom, while the Human Reform League detained the rest of the royal family. He then joined Skynet’s preparations to advance into the Imaginary New Continent, where the League expected to encounter the Gatekeepers clan.

• Halkenburg gave Wabull, Oito, the younger princes, and their mothers money and documents so they could leave the Kaikoniku Clan behind.
• Halkenburg rejected the chances of pardon for several royal relatives, including Luzlus, while telling Camilla that the Federation would give her a fair judgment.
• Halkenburg left Impel Down and reported to Skynet headquarters as the Human Reform League prepared its New World operation.
• The Human Reform League assembled 150 Star-class warships and an elite vanguard to seize the Imaginary New Continent as a forward base.
• Wang Gao joined the expedition to study the Human World’s boundary with Vegapunk and the others, as the League anticipated contact with the Gatekeepers clan.

Wang Gao and the Vanguard Legion prepared to travel to the Imaginary New Continent, while the V5 remnants and the Kakin-Beyond Team departed ahead of them for the New World. The V5 group entered Lake Mobius under the Gatekeepers’ guides, and the chapter left the Human Reform League’s fleet discussing the route and the continent’s geography.

• Wang Gao discussed the New World with Vegapunk and Dr. Darwin aboard the Scientific Dialectics as the Vanguard Legion planned nine spatial jumps to reach the Imaginary New Continent.
• The Gatekeepers approved the V5 remnants’ travel permits after assessing the expedition and planning a safe route through Lake Mobius.
• Netero and Chrollo used Neon’s stolen precognitive ability to help the V5 remnants avoid dangers as 43,000 people departed United Port under the guides’ lead.
• The Kakin-Beyond Team evacuated New Kakin Port with about 18,000 people before the V5 remnants left.
• The chapter explained that Pariston and Ging led the Kakin-Beyond Team because they had previously traveled safely to the New World, and that Ging had used his knowledge and technology from it to create Greed Island.