Several kilometers away, inside a hollow tree, Nara Dan opened his eyes.
He had evidently just emerged from the state of the Spirit Transformation Technique.
"Nen, huh."
Nara Dan reached out and imagined how Nen was formed, trying to gather the life energy within him and shape it into aura like Kurapika's.
But only a wisp of invisible Gang Qi gathered at his fingertips. It wasn't aura.
Nara Dan shook his head.
He had no way to gather aura, even though he had been exceptionally proficient at using Nen inside Kurapika's body.
That was because of the most fundamental reason.
He had no Shoko.
Or rather, Nara Dan wasn't a human from this world at all. He had neither Shoko nor any of the other bodily traits native to its people.
Likewise, humans in the Hunter World had no Eight Gates within their bodies, or even meridians. Those structures were unique to the people of the Ninja World.
This meant that although aura and Gang Qi were both concentrations of life force, and both were supernatural abilities rooted in the body, they were extremely similar in many respects.
Their enhancement of the body and extension of lifespan were much the same, too.
The one difference was that Nen alone possessed Nen Abilities, which came close to having the properties of rules.
Gang Qi had no such thing. Though Gang Qi was stronger than Nen in terms of balanced attributes, it had no Nen Abilities.
"This must have something to do with the world's rules, or perhaps the physical and spiritual structure of humans in the Hunter World."
Nara Dan analyzed the situation.
"It may also be connected to some rule of the Dark Continent."
"In any case, this is unique to humans in the Hunter World."
"Outsiders can't even learn