Chapter Summaries

Netero turned Lucky’s ball game into a demanding chase that showcased Phoenix’s spatial abilities, then agreed to begin teaching him. As the Fighting Tournament began, Lucky watched the battles and studied Divine Script while training under Netero, leaving him steadily developing his body and knowledge.

• Netero chased Phoenix for seven or eight minutes, using techniques resembling the Hundred-Type Guanyin, before finally catching it and winning the game.
• Netero praised Lucky and promised to teach him, while Biscuit pointed out that he wanted to play with them every day; Lucky accepted the game as a form of training.
• The Fighting Tournament opened in Keli City, drawing more than three hundred participants and crowds of visitors, and Lucky noticed Divine Script reinforcing the arenas.
• Lucky hosted one match a day and watched other fights to learn from the competitors.
• Lucky spent his evenings training with Netero, who taught him Heart Source Body-Forging Fist techniques and secret medicines that improved his strength and stamina.

Biscuit lost her tournament match and stayed at the Heavenly Arena to train while Lucky continued developing his abilities. After Julia completed the road between Keli City and Luo Lan City, she proposed cooperating with Lucky to expand her influence at the Heavenly Arena, and he reviewed her plans.

• Biscuit lost to a more experienced martial artist, finished among the tournament's top eighty, and vowed to win the championship someday.
• Lucky received a month of training from Netero, learned the basic Hundred-Type Guanyin, and copied fighting abilities from tournament contestants.
• Biscuit stayed at the Heavenly Arena to train with Lucky, while Lucky left the bookstore in Piccolo's care.
• Julia oversaw the construction of a road connecting Keli City and Luo Lan City, and dedicated public buses began operating after it was completed.
• Julia asked Lucky to explain Nen, and he gave her an overview and demonstrated Phoenix and his flame control.
• Julia proposed trading resources for a greater share of the Heavenly Arena's benefits, and Lucky reviewed her plans to recruit martial artists and fund treatment, orphanages, and public facilities.

After two years of training alongside Lucky, Biscuit decided to leave Keli City and pursue the Hunter Exam and her goal of becoming a Gem Hunter. Lucky stayed at the Heavenly Arena, where he was a leading candidate to become its next chief referee.

• Biscuit complained that her medicinal baths had become less effective and asked Lucky for money to buy more ingredients, but he refused because she already owed him 370 million Jenie.
• Biscuit told Lucky she planned to leave after the Fighting Tournament and invited him to take the Hunter Exam with her, but he said he intended to remain at the Heavenly Arena.
• Lucky suggested Biscuit could earn money by letting Martial Artists use Miss Cookie's ability, but Biscuit declined because it would interfere with her training.
• Julia used the Heavenly Arena's profits and her connections to make the Conrad Family a legitimate, charitable force in Keli City, with its main income from the arena and its second-largest from real estate.
• Lucky continued working as a referee and waited for a chief referee's position to open, while Biscuit ultimately left Keli City.

Retiring chief referee Harrington Malediz replaced direct combat with a secret ballot to choose his successor, leaving Lucky with little chance of winning. Lucky sought to reform Heavenly Arena’s chief referee system with Netero’s support, but the vote still elected a referee from the Wind-Riding Sword School.

• Harrington Malediz announced that the next chief referee would be chosen by secret ballot, scheduled for three days later.
• Barn warned Lucky that Harrington had likely secured support for a Wind-Riding Sword School candidate, while Lucky doubted he could win many votes.
• Lucky proposed changing the chief referee system and holding a discussion meeting to address Heavenly Arena’s stagnation and corruption.
• Lucky contacted Netero, who said he understood and would send someone to handle the matter; Barn agreed to sound out the other chief referees.
• On the day of the vote, chief referees received notice of a directors’ meeting, but the election continued and a Wind-Riding Sword School referee won.

Lucky picked up Beyond Netero for a Heavenly Arena board meeting and showed him proposals to reform the arena. Beyond was impressed and offered to help Lucky win support for the changes.

• The Heavenly Arena Directors gathered in Keli City for a meeting called by Heart Source School, while the other schools waited for its representative.
• Lucky met Beyond Netero at the airport and drove him to Heavenly Arena.
• Beyond read Lucky’s proposals to address corruption and outdated rules, then asked whether Lucky had prepared them.
• Lucky explained that he expected only some proposals to pass and had also contacted other Martial Arts Schools to broaden support.
• Beyond praised Lucky’s plans and offered to help by connecting him with large corporations instead of the weaker Mafia forces Lucky had approached.

Barn Frank convened a martial arts conference to address corruption and structural problems at the Heavenly Arena. After presenting evidence of misconduct, he handed the stage to his son Lucky Phoenix, who began outlining the need for reform.

• Barn Frank hosted a conference attended by more than seven hundred martial arts leaders and representatives.
• Barn presented documents detailing corruption, match-fixing, and the Heavenly Arena’s large revenues.
• A Director objected when Barn criticized the Arena’s leadership, but Beyond Netero used his Nen Ability to quiet the hall.
• Barn announced that the conference would pursue comprehensive reforms and introduced Lucky Phoenix.
• Lucky explained that the investigation had uncovered only a fraction of the problems and began discussing the Arena’s administrative failures before starting a projection.

Lucky presented a sweeping reform plan for the Heavenly Arena, proposing professional administration, a new Floor Master system, and modernization to support martial arts. The plan excited the gathered martial artists, though its many projects remained ambitions for the future.

• Lucky proposed separating refereeing from martial artists’ arena privileges and creating fifty-one paid Floor Master positions from the 200th floor upward.
• Lucky explained that Floor Masters could host restricted competitions to earn money, build reputations, and recruit disciples for their martial arts schools.
• Lucky outlined rules for Floor Master appointments and challenges, emphasizing that strong fighters could hold the positions regardless of their schools’ existing director seats.
• Lucky proposed renovating the Heavenly Arena with modern equipment, including televisions, video recorders, and signal base stations in Keli City.
• Lucky described new services and revenue sources, including paid training grounds, private instruction, training supplies, and broader research into resources for martial artists.

Lucky led a month-long effort to reform Heavenly Arena and promote martial arts, gaining support from Netero, Beyond, and martial arts schools across the world. Years later, Heavenly Arena had undergone major changes, the Conrad Family dominated Keli City, and Lucky continued growing stronger while preparing for a future Martial Arts Alliance.

• Lucky presented his reform plan for Heavenly Arena, and Beyond publicly supported it.
• Netero backed Lucky, while martial arts leaders gathered in Keli City to discuss the plan and address corruption at Heavenly Arena.
• Lucky encouraged schools to share cultivation-assisting formulas for sale, and the meeting settled on hiring experts and managers to develop a detailed reform proposal.
• Lucky handed his new authority to the twenty chief referees, while Keli City began expanding and Heavenly Arena started renovations.
• Beyond tested Lucky's ability before leaving, and Lucky resolved to establish a Martial Arts Alliance after Heavenly Arena was complete and he had grown stronger.
• Over the following years, Heavenly Arena transformed, Lucky continued cultivating there, and the Conrad Family drove the other Mafia families out of Keli City.

Biscuit returned to Keli City to test her strength and found that the city had grown dramatically, with new industries and a popular Martial Arts Challenge Road. After learning about the activity from a guide, she began touring the city before deciding what to do next.

• Biscuit arrived in Keli City in her little-girl form, maintained by her Rejuvenation Technique, which limited her strength but helped her train and slow her aging.
• An independent tour guide approached Biscuit and told her that the Divine Wind Style tournament was accepting registrations, but it was for competitors under twenty.
• Biscuit hired the guide to show her around Keli City before visiting Heavenly Arena.
• The guide explained that Lucky had proposed the popular Martial Arts Challenge Road, where competitors challenged certified Martial Arts Halls and collected stamps.

Biscuit visited Infinite Martial Arts Hall in Keli City and learned how its public Road of Challenges worked. After choosing to challenge the strongest available disciple, she waited for her match to begin.

• The guide brought Biscuit to Infinite Martial Arts Hall and explained that Heavenly Arena approved Keli City's martial arts halls and that the Road of Challenges drew visitors into martial arts.
• Biscuit registered for the Road of Challenges and learned that Keli City had sixty-eight halls, each represented in a booklet where challengers could collect stamps.
• Biscuit chose to challenge Infinite Martial Arts Hall's strongest representative, who had reached the 160th Floor, and paid the 500 Jenie fee.
• Biscuit watched ordinary challengers lose to hall disciples who gave them chances to show their abilities, and she appreciated how the events encouraged people to try martial arts.
• Biscuit's turn came, and she prepared to enter the arena.

Biscuit challenged Hopli at the Heavenly Arena’s Road of Challenges and decisively defeated him, revealing that she belonged to the renowned Heart Source School. After learning the rules governing the 200th Floor, Biscuit continued her plan to collect stamps by challenging more martial arts halls.

• Biscuit faced Hopli in the ring and sent him flying with a controlled punch, prompting him to recognize her strength.
• Hopli introduced himself as a disciple of the Infinite School and Biscuit identified herself as a disciple of the Heart Source School, drawing surprise from the audience.
• Hopli attacked with his staff, but Biscuit endured his techniques without using Nen and knocked him down with one palm strike.
• Hopli explained that fighters now needed to master Nen before registering for the 200th Floor, and that they could learn it through a martial arts hall or the Hunter Exam.
• Hopli stamped Biscuit’s booklet, and Biscuit agreed that he could tell other martial arts halls about her so stronger challengers might appear.

Biscuit completed a month of challenges in Keli City, drawing crowds and gaining experience before meeting Lucky at the Heavenly Arena. Lucky revealed his strength had grown enough to overwhelm her for now, while he planned to become a Hunter and explore the wider world.

• Biscuit challenged four Martial Arts Halls each day, defeated their fighters, and gained experience while her matches drew widespread attention.
• Biscuit learned how Keli City had changed and grew fond of its thriving martial arts culture.
• After Biscuit filled her challenge booklet, Lucky met her at the Heavenly Arena and asked whether she had come to train.
• Biscuit challenged Lucky to a match, but he released his Nen to show how much stronger he had become and told her to return after reaching the 250th Floor.
• Lucky planned to take the Hunter Exam after his twenty-fourth birthday and travel to places including Yorknew, the Zoldyck Family's Testing Gate, and Whale Island.

Biscuit explored the Heavenly Arena’s expanded martial arts facilities and found secret medicines that helped her body develop again. On his twenty-fourth birthday, Lucky received the Marine Six Styles as Nen application techniques and discovered that Iron Body could protect and reveal the inside of his body.

• Biscuit registered to climb from the 200th Floor, where advancing required ten consecutive wins on each floor and challenging a Floor Master required ten wins on the 251st Floor.
• Biscuit visited Lucky’s expanded library and the Heavenly Arena’s Martial Arts Shop, then bought several secret medicines for training.
• Biscuit felt her body beginning to grow again after using the medicines and became more eager to compete for the position of Floor Master.
• Lucky received knowledge of the Marine Six Styles at midnight on his twenty-fourth birthday, with each technique adapted into an application of Nen.
• Lucky mastered the six techniques and found that Iron Body let him send Nen deep into his body to protect and perceive his flesh, bones, blood vessels, and organs.

Lucky arrived in Vita City for the first Hunter Exam and learned about the dangers of the Vita Desert while preparing for the test. As 359 candidates gathered, he drove to the examination site, leaving examiner Tina to wonder whether she should add a rule about using a car.

• Lucky reached Vita City, received Number Plate 1 from examiner Tina Megan, and learned that the exam would begin in more than three hours.
• Lucky explored the city, gathered information about the Vita Desert and Bahari Oasis, and inferred that the exam would be a desert marathon.
• Lucky met Wesley, a Heavenly Arena contestant who had passed the 190th Floor, and advised him to look around the city for useful information.
• Lucky bought a car and supplies, then drove to the examination site as 359 candidates gathered.
• The candidates and Tina were surprised to see Lucky arrive by car, and Tina considered adding a rule.

Tina began the first Hunter Exam by leading the examinees across a vast desert, while Lucky followed in his car. After he killed four would-be carjackers with a command, Lucky learned from Tina that the endpoint was not necessarily Bahali Oasis, and the desert's heat began to wear down the examinees.

• Tina introduced herself as the examiner and ran into the desert, followed by the examinees.
• Four armed men tried to take Lucky's car, but Lucky ordered them to kill themselves and drove on.
• Tonpa saw the four dead men and chased after the group.
• Lucky caught up with Tina and asked whether Bahali Oasis was the endpoint; Tina told him Vita Desert had multiple oases.
• After an hour of running, examinees began falling behind, leaving 328 still in the exam.

Lucky and the other candidates crossed the dangerous Vita Desert during Tina’s running exam, and Lucky survived a Sand Worm attack before reaching the Oasis of God first. Tina announced that the second exam would take place the next day, leaving the candidates free to rest and explore the oasis.

• Lucky’s car left the hard road, and a Sand Worm swallowed it and Lucky in one bite.
• Lucky cut his way out of the Sand Worm unharmed and continued after the group.
• Candidates fell to quicksand and attacks from Sand Snakes and Giant Lizards, reducing their number to 274, while Lucky’s aura kept the creatures away from him.
• Tina and the candidates ran for more than two hours before reaching the Oasis of God, where 227 candidates remained.
• Tina announced that the second exam would be held the next day and that the Hunter Association airship would arrive then.

Lucky reached the Oasis of God’s hidden island and discovered that its Divine Oak Tree’s aura slowly activated his Aura Nodes when he touched it. The chapter ended with Lucky realizing the tree might offer a gentle third way to unlock Nen.

• Lucky explored the oasis and found a lake with an island and a towering Oak Tree radiating green aura.
• Lucky walked across the lake toward the island, surprising the candidates and examiner Tina with his control of Nen and Moonwalk.
• Tina explained that the oasis was a shifting Secret Realm tied to the Green Spirit Tribe, whose descendants alone had been able to see the Divine Tree.
• Lucky entered the mist-hidden island, approached the Oak Tree, and touched its trunk.
• The tree’s aura connected to Lucky and began activating his Aura Nodes at an unusually slow, harmless pace.

Lucky learned from Tina that the moving oasis and its protective Acorns came from the Green Spirit Tribe’s Divine Tree, which might be a Nen creation or a manifestation of an ancestor’s ability. After Phoenix ate an Acorn, it stirred the tree’s aura and drew the oasis’s birds toward it, leaving Lucky to watch Tina’s reaction.

• Tina explained that the Divine Tree could be seen only by people with Green Spirit Tribe blood, though Lucky suspected his Sharingan let him see it.
• Tina said explorers and Hunters had studied the oasis, and described the tree’s ability to move the oasis and protect Acorn carriers from desert creatures.
• Lucky revealed that he sensed the tree could help people awaken Nen, alarming Tina, who had discovered the ability herself.
• Lucky summoned Phoenix, which ate an Acorn and released crimson aura as the tree’s aura grew denser.
• Phoenix flew around the tree and bit off branches while birds from across the oasis gathered with materials, and Lucky watched Tina’s reaction.

Phoenix began a nirvana ritual in the Oak Tree’s nest, drawing on the tree’s aura and weakening it as the transformation progressed. Lucky and Tina realized the oasis and the ritual were in danger when the desert’s creatures began gathering, and Tina used her aura to protect Lord God.

• Phoenix gathered birds to build a nest in the Oak Tree while Lucky and Tina watched.
• Lucky learned that Phoenix planned to undergo nirvana and be reborn with power from the Oak Tree.
• Phoenix set the nest ablaze, and the Oak Tree’s aura fed the ritual as the sky darkened.
• As the Oak Tree weakened, the lake’s mist dispersed and the oasis’s creatures grew restless.
• Lucky spread his En and warned Tina that the transformation could not be disturbed.
• Tina sensed that desert creatures were coming for Lord God and sent green light across the oasis to protect its animals.

Desert creatures were drawn to the oasis in overwhelming numbers, forcing Tina and the examinees to defend themselves. As the invasion threatened to overwhelm them, Lucky used an Oak Tree branch to unleash a Vacuum Slash that cut through the lake and everything in its path.

• Tina sensed the approaching creatures and rushed to hold them back, ordering the examinees to flee to the island.
• The examinees saw swarms of desert creatures attacking the oasis, and some fought their way toward the island while Tina defended the shore.
• A giant lizard charged toward the lake, but Tina killed it and continued battling the invading creatures.
• With Tina struggling against the growing swarm, Lucky stayed by the Oak Tree and noticed examinees eyeing the bird's nest.
• Lucky infused an Oak Tree branch with Nen and swung it, sending a Vacuum Slash through the lake that split creatures and trees in its path.