Chapter Summaries

Chariel challenged Lily Pachi, whose copied Earth Elemental puppets overwhelmed him despite his sword ability. As Chariel struggled to maintain Ken, he asked Lily how she had such an enormous amount of Nen.

• Chariel revealed his Conjuration ability, using conjured weapons whose repeated strikes weakened the same spot, and defeated another Pachi Tribe member.
• Lily Pachi summoned a powerful Earth Elemental and told Chariel he would need to defeat her and pass two more challenges before attempting the Ultimate Challenge.
• Lily created seven humanoid puppets using copied Earth Elemental cores, a tactic that countered Chariel's repeated-strike ability.
• Chariel repeatedly shattered Lily's Mud Puppets, but she summoned them again while his Nen dwindled.
• Chariel asked Lily whether she had another way to replenish her enormous amount of Nen.

Chariel used his Seal Sword to disable Lily Pachi’s Mud Puppets and sever her connection to the Earth Elemental. He learned that the elemental had another controller, won Lily’s challenge, and collapsed from exhaustion.

• Chariel guessed that Lily’s War Mark was connected to her ability and explained that his Seal Sword sealed abilities after he met its conditions.
• Chariel sealed Lily’s ability to control the Mud Puppets, causing one to collapse into mud.
• Chariel fought the Earth Elemental for more than half an hour despite being badly injured and exhausted.
• Chariel’s Seal Sword stopped the Earth Elemental and severed Lily’s connection to it, revealing that the elemental had another controller.
• Lily declared Chariel the winner of the challenge, and Chariel collapsed from exhaustion.

Ging navigated the Basen Rainforest alone and befriended a Nen-awakened Woodpecker, which led him toward the Fire Spirit Land. There, Lester blocked his path and asked for Ging’s Number Plate.

• Baal left the unconscious Chariel in the Earth Spirit Land after he completed its challenge.
• Olivan led the martial artists in tracking candidates with Nen-scent marks, hoping to find cores and enter the Spirit Lands.
• Ging avoided rainforest creatures while searching for other Spirit Lands instead of attempting another challenge.
• Ging encountered a Nen-awakened Woodpecker, taught it Zetsu, and followed it toward the Fire Spirit Land.
• Lester stopped Ging and asked for his Number Plate, even though Ging was not his target.

Lester tracked down Ging and defeated him, but Ging’s Woodpecker friend Xiao Fei drew the Pachi Tribe’s attention. Carter revealed herself as the Fire Spirit Land’s priest and took Lester and Ging to the Spirit Land.

• Lester used Olivan’s Scent Mark to find Ging despite his Zetsu, then defeated him and reached for his backpack.
• Xiao Fei swallowed the Scent-Seeking Bug and attacked Lester, prompting a flock of birds to gather around them.
• Carter appeared and asked Lester to release Xiao Fei, who flew to her shoulder.
• Lester confirmed that he had found a Spirit Land, and Carter identified herself as the Fire Spirit Land’s priest.
• Carter said Lester and Ging would accompany her to the Fire Spirit Land, and Lester let Ging go after learning he had Xiao Fei’s approval.

Ging explored the Fire Spirit Land with Natsu while Lester learned about the Basen Challenge and its rewards. As Lester prepared to begin his challenge, Biscuit arrived at the Fire Spirit Land in a surge of Nen.

• Carter led Lester through the Fire Spirit Land and explained that its challenge differed from those at the other Spirit Lands.
• Natsu introduced himself to Ging, showed him around the Fire Spirit Land, and explained that Ging could explore while preparing for his exam.
• Carter brought Lester to Pascal, the young High Priest, who explained the challenge routes, War Marks, and the rewards, including the title of Basen Champion.
• Lester asked to challenge Pascal immediately, but Pascal said he first had to defeat the other challengers and wait his turn.
• Biscuit descended from the sky and released a surge of Nen over the Fire Spirit Land.

Biscuit arrived at the Fire Spirit Land and challenged High Priest Pascal, while Ging watched with the Pachi Tribe. Phoenix appeared and ordered Pascal to fight Biscuit with Whistling Kite’s help, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Biscuit defeated the other four spirit lands’ High Priests, then arrived and refused Pascal’s request to surrender.
• Pascal gathered the Fire Spirit Land’s people at the arena, where Ging watched Biscuit prepare to fight him.
• Phoenix appeared in the sky with thirteen Nen-awakened birds, and the Pachi Tribe knelt in worship.
• Phoenix told Pascal to fight Biscuit with Whistling Kite’s assistance, and the eagle landed on Pascal’s head.

Pascal demonstrated his Fusion and Combination abilities in a battle against Biscuit, merging with Whistling Kite to take on a Phoenix-like form. The battle began with Pascal unleashing a storm of flames, which Biscuit blew back with sheer physical force.

• Phoenix arrived in the Basen Rainforest to watch Pascal fight and recalled how its influence had awakened flame abilities in birds such as Whistling Kite.
• Pascal revealed that his Specialization ability, Fusion, let him merge with the Fire Spirit's core, and that Combination let him join with Whistling Kite.
• Pascal and Whistling Kite slowly combined, transforming Whistling Kite into a fiery, Phoenix-like form.
• Pascal began the battle by soaring overhead and covering the battlefield with spiraling flames.
• Biscuit answered Pascal's flames with a punch and palm strike that sent them flying back, leaving Lester astonished by her physical strength.

Biscuit tested Pascal and Whistling Kite in battle, resisting their flames and close-range attacks until Pascal conceded. She then returned beneath the Divine Tree in Pachi Village and wondered whether it had already become this strong.

• Biscuit waited for Pascal to attack and used Nen-infused movements to fend off his flames while secretly shielding herself from the heat.
• Pascal transformed into a Phoenix and fired a powerful Flame Ray, scorching Biscuit's hands but failing to seriously injure her.
• Pascal attacked Biscuit at close range, damaging her sleeve, while Ging struggled to follow the fast battle.
• Natsu predicted Pascal would lose because his accelerated Fusion consumed too much Nen and stamina.
• Pascal and Whistling Kite separated and conceded after about twenty minutes, admitting Biscuit's defenses were too strong.
• Biscuit used Gyo to study Pascal and Whistling Kite, then vanished to Pachi Village and questioned how strong the Divine Tree had become.

Lucky explained that his teleportation depended on his control of the Basen Rainforest, while Biscuit declined to learn his Five Great Spirits and chose to follow her own martial arts path. They watched the Hunter Exam unfold, where the Pachi Tribe’s strength helped keep the examinees alive.

• Biscuit praised Lucky’s Five Great Spirits as powerful abilities that others could replicate, and Lucky explained that his teleportation worked so well because the Divine Tree’s roots controlled much of the Basen Rainforest.
• Biscuit refused Lucky’s offer to teach her the Five Great Spirits, saying she wanted to pursue her own martial arts cultivation rather than shape her training around defeating him.
• Lucky and Biscuit watched the examinees and Martial Artists on a light screen as the Pachi Tribe captured some contestants, while no examinees had died.
• Several examinees and Martial Artists pursued Blood Jade Honey, were chased by Blood Jade Bees into a river of Forest Anacondas, and survived after the Pachi Tribe rescued them.
• Ging used Little Fat Bird’s help to collect five cores and had extras left to trade.

After passing the Basen Challenge, the candidates and Martial Artists traveled to Pachi Village to witness the Pachi Tribe’s secret. Lucky used the Divine Tree to safely awaken Nen in twenty-seven newcomers and asked them to keep the method confidential, though Biscuit suspected he wanted the secret to spread.

• Thirteen candidates and thirty-one Martial Artists passed the challenges and followed the Five High Priests through the mist to Pachi Village.
• The visitors saw the Pachi Tribe’s Nen and were led through the forest to the Divine Tree, where Lucky welcomed them.
• Nineteen Martial Artists and eight candidates who had not awakened Nen stepped forward and touched the Divine Tree.
• The Divine Tree guided the newcomers to sense their Aura Nodes and maintain Ten, allowing each to master aura safely within twenty minutes.
• Lucky asked the newly awakened group to keep the method confidential, while Biscuit privately suspected he wanted the knowledge to spread.

Lucky explained the Divine Tree’s Contract War Marks to the qualified challengers, who chose to form Contracts and test their borrowed Nen. He then refined plans for the Basen Challenge and experimented with making the Divine Tree bear Nen-nourished acorns, leaving him with a new direction for developing its abilities.

• The Pachi Tribe explained the Contract War Marks, and every qualified challenger chose to form a Contract with the Divine Tree.
• The challengers tested their borrowed Nen and grew excited about the advantages of the Contracts and the Basen Challenge.
• Lucky left Biscuit to lead the challengers back to Heavenly Arena while he stayed to discuss the challenge with the Pachi Tribe.
• The Pachi Tribe told Lucky that the Basen Challenge was too easy for many participants and too focused on combat, so he proposed that they select participants in Keli City.
• Lucky used the Divine Tree’s Nen to grow thirty-six acorns, tasted one, and began considering ways to develop the tree’s abilities.

After studying enhanced acorns, Lucky became absorbed in researching how Wood Elementals and Nen could cultivate and transform special plants. When his experiments stalled, he contacted Beyond to discuss a new research subject, while the Hunter Exam concluded with only one failure.

• Lucky learned that enhanced acorns had medicinal benefits and healing power, and concluded that Wood Elemental abilities could be developed beyond combat.
• Lucky began planning research into mutating and hybridizing plants with Nen, Divine Script, and technology, but struggled to create a controllable living Wood Elemental core.
• Biscuit found Lucky immersed in his research and invited him to watch the Hunter Exam's final stage, but Lucky declined.
• Lucky called Beyond to propose a research subject, prompting Beyond to travel to the Heavenly Arena to meet him.
• The Hunter Exam ended with only one examinee failing, marking the largest group of successful applicants since the exam began.

After passing the Hunter Exam, Russell and Ging sought information about upcoming matches at the Heavenly Arena so they could learn more about Nen combat. As they prepared to leave, an imposing aura spread through the upper floors, and its source stepped out of an elevator on the 200th Floor.

• Russell told Ging that money could secure Nen training in Keli City and suggested watching matches above the 200th Floor.
• Russell and Ging learned that only 200th Floor competitors could normally inquire about match schedules, but their Hunter Licenses let them pass a Nen test and receive details about a match the day after tomorrow.
• People at the Heavenly Arena discussed rumors linking Lucky, the Pachi Tribe, and the Divine Tree, while Russell reflected on what he had learned about the Conrad Family's relationship with Lord Lu Qi.
• Russell invited Ging to visit the Conrad Family, and Ging accepted.
• An imposing aura swept through the floors above the 200th Floor, and an unidentified person emerged from an elevator.

Beyond Netero visited the Heavenly Arena to see Lucky, stirring up the Fighters with his martial aura before Eriko summoned him through her spatial ability. After learning the visitors’ identities, Ging and Russell recognized Beyond as a powerful figure who was not to be provoked.

• Beyond Netero descended from the VIP elevator and released a martial aura that pressured the Fighters and reached toward the upper floors.
• Ging and Russell recognized a resemblance between Beyond and Chairman Netero, while Ging felt the same fluttering sensation he had felt around Lucky.
• Eriko appeared through a conjured door, asked Beyond to stop provoking people, and told him that Lord Lu Qi was waiting.
• Beyond invited Eriko to join his team, but she declined and led him through the door before it vanished.
• The Fighters learned that Eriko was Lucky’s secretary and that her Nen ability, Anywhere Door, connected spaces for travel.
• Russell recognized Beyond’s name from his aunt’s warning about people not to provoke in Keli City and judged him to be exceptionally powerful.

Lucky asked Beyond to provide Nen Ability users for his Spirit Root research, and demonstrated how Spirit Roots could create Nen Tools. Beyond recognized the potential of Lucky’s technique and wondered whether Lucky was trying to cultivate a Divine Tree.

• Lucky asked Beyond about the progress of the Nen Ability users under his command and whether any had abilities suited to his research.
• Beyond asked whether Lucky planned to join his team, but Lucky said he had no interest in exploring the Dark Continent for now.
• Lucky explained that he wanted to cooperate with Beyond and use his Nen Ability users to help create Spirit Roots.
• Lucky demonstrated his Spirit Root plan, and Beyond connected it to rumors about the Basen Challenge, the Pachi Tribe’s Five Great Spirits, and the Divine Tree.
• Beyond recognized Lucky as a Nen Tool Smith and considered how Spirit Roots could aid his Dark Continent expeditions.
• Beyond asked Lucky whether he was trying to cultivate a Divine Tree.

Lucky proposed researching Nen abilities that could cultivate or create medicinal plants, then argued that discovering other intelligent humans on the Dark Continent could make it less dangerous to explore. Beyond laughed after understanding Lucky’s reasoning, while Lucky realized he may have misled him and only wanted to try cultivation.

• Lucky showed Beyond a report on the Divine Tree’s Acorn and suggested using Nen abilities to create plants with special properties.
• Beyond asked how Lucky was connected to the Divine Tree, and Lucky called it a research product and explained that he wanted Nen users to develop related abilities.
• Beyond questioned how the research would advance his goal of exploring the Dark Continent and indicated that he might refuse to participate.
• Lucky argued that humans could still live on the Dark Continent, pointing to evidence of intelligent life and suggesting that human weakness made the region especially dangerous.
• Beyond laughed after hearing Lucky’s argument, and Lucky suspected that he had led Beyond astray while seeking only to try cultivation.

Beyond understood that Lucky sought power on a scale that could challenge nations and eventually the Dark Continent, and that his work at the Heavenly Arena supported that ambition. They agreed to collaborate on developing a Nen Ability plant, with Lucky sharing some of his Divine Script research, and left the question of solving spatial logistics unresolved.

• Beyond realized that Lucky pursued power through many fields, not just martial arts or Nen, and might only travel to the Dark Continent after growing strong enough to conquer part of it.
• Beyond recognized that Lucky's proposed Nen Ability plant could strengthen Martial Artists and potentially contribute to humanity's evolution, though powerful nations would oppose the Heavenly Arena's growth.
• Lucky told Beyond that Keli City was crowded with spies, factions, Mafia families, and major companies, and asked whether the plant could ease the logistical pressure of Dark Continent exploration.
• Beyond offered to help in exchange for the results of Lucky's Five Great Spirits research, and Lucky agreed to share some of it while withholding research based on the Pachi Tribe's Divine Script.
• Beyond asked about Divine Script research into spatial abilities, but Lucky had found ways to teleport and transmit rather than create independent or storage spaces.

At the Conrad Family headquarters, Julia faced pressure from visitors representing the Republic of Padokea and the Five Great Nations over Heavenly Arena’s spread of Nen. Meanwhile, Russell hosted a banquet to recruit Hunter Exam candidates and build relationships, leaving Heavenly Arena’s plans to expand Nen unchanged.

• Russell brought Ging and other Hunter Exam candidates to the Conrad Family headquarters for a recruitment banquet, and Ging admired the vast estate.
• Julia learned that visitors from the Republic of Padokea had come to warn Heavenly Arena against spreading Nen, and an official told her that her tenure as mayor was over.
• Julia gathered the Conrad Family’s forces and prepared for the banquet, which she supported as a public show of Russell’s standing as an heir.
• Hunter Exam candidates, Conrad Family members, and Mafia representatives attended the banquet, where Russell welcomed them and encouraged them to join the family, offering each guest two hundred thousand Jenie.

At the Conrad Family banquet, Chariel considered how to find help with the commission that had led him to take the Hunter Exam, while Yatai Conrad took an interest in him. After the banquet, Yatai stopped Chariel and asked whether his trouble involved a book, prompting both men to release Nen.

• Yatai Conrad listened as other young Conrad Family members complained about Russell and considered Russell's Nen and Ging's place in the family.
• Chariel thought about his commission involving a runaway girl, her family's important item, and his need for powerful Nen users to help him.
• Chariel noticed Yatai and suspected the thirteen-year-old might be a Nen user, while Yatai reacted with surprise and delight.
• Chariel declined the offer to stay at the Conrad Family banquet and left the family's territory.
• Yatai had a butler stop Chariel's car and invited him inside to talk.
• Yatai asked whether Chariel's trouble was related to a book, and both men released Nen inside the car.

Yatai Conrad revealed that he was a Nen user whose rare ability let him glimpse possible futures, and he offered to help Chariel resolve his troubles. Chariel remained uncertain about Yatai’s claims but decided to pursue a meeting with Examiner Lucky, hoping to save Ruijin.

• Chariel confronted Yatai with malicious Nen after suspecting he knew a dangerous secret, and Yatai answered with Nen of his own.
• Yatai explained that his ability was uncontrolled future sight and described seeing Chariel fighting near an ominous book and another figure.
• Yatai claimed that Chariel would eventually seek out Lord Lu Qi because of the book, though he privately believed the future could change and wanted to meet Lucky for his own reasons.
• Yatai secretly hoped to attract Lucky’s attention and eventually surpass Russell in the contest to become family head.
• Chariel weighed the risks of involving Lucky and the family connected to the book, then asked Yatai whether he could arrange a meeting with Examiner Lucky.