Chapter Summaries

Lucky defeated Biscuit in a secret battle at the Heavenly Arena, after which she chose to leave Keli City and see the world. Later, Yeta Conrad and Chariel met Lucky, and Yeta began explaining his ability and why they had sought him out.

• Lucky fought Biscuit while Netero, Beyond, and fifteen referees watched, and he won without his clothes being damaged.
• Biscuit changed into her loli form to recover, accepted clothes from Lucky, and refused his offer to stay in Keli City.
• Lucky thanked the referees for maintaining the Barrier, which had nearly failed during the battle.
• Lucky received word that members of the Conrad Family and an examinee wanted to meet him, and he went to his office.
• Yeta Conrad introduced himself and Chariel to Lucky, then began explaining his ability and their reason for coming.

Chariel told Lucky how Bessie Copperfield Stacey used the Stacey Family’s Book of Sacrifice, turning a town into a Demon Realm, and asked him to help save her. Lucky accepted after learning more about the Stacey Family and consulting Chairman Netero, but the book’s fate remained unresolved.

• Chariel explained that Bessie Copperfield Stacey had used the Stacey Family’s Book of Sacrifice to protect him, transforming the town into a Demon Realm.
• Chariel said Bessie had sent him out alive and later protected him and several Stacey Family members, but the Demon Realm’s monsters had begun attacking him as her control weakened.
• Chariel asked Lucky to help and offered to sell him his life, and Lucky agreed to investigate the matter.
• Lucky learned from the Hunter Information Website that the Stacey Family was influential and was moving people and supplies to a region he suspected was the site of the Demon Realm.
• Lucky consulted Chairman Netero, who said he had encountered similar objects before, including one connected to Post-Mortem Nen.

Aboard the airship, Lucky studied Hunter Association records about cursed Nen Tools, Dark Sonata, and dangerous Nen-created Demon Realms and Secret Realms, and considered developing an Exorcism ability. Meanwhile, the Stacey Family learned that Chariel had returned with Lucky, the Heavenly Arena’s top-floor Floor Master, and began discussing how to handle the threat.

• Lucky read Hunter Association records about Post-Mortem Nen, cursed Nen Tools, Dark Sonata, and abilities that drew people into Secret Realms.
• Lucky learned that Demon Realms and Secret Realms could be formed by Post-Mortem Nen from other species and often required a powerful Exorcist to resolve.
• The Stacey Family gathered at a military camp and discussed killing Chariel after he fulfilled Regina’s demand.
• Adolf warned the family that Chariel had brought Lucky, whose strength and interest in the Book of Sacrifice made him a serious threat.
• The seven Stacey Family members began discussing how to deal with Lucky.

Lucky, Chariel, and Emma discussed the Stacey Family’s agreement with Bessie and the dangers surrounding the Book of Sacrifice. Emma could not reveal what awaited them in the Secret Realm, and Lucky began investigating the rules binding her.

• Stacey Family members met Lucky and Chariel at the airport and escorted them toward Waterfall Town, where Emma greeted Chariel.
• Lucky sensed surveillance devices in the car and destroyed them with Nen after Emma confirmed the family was testing him.
• Emma told Chariel that Bessie was likely dead and explained that Bessie had negotiated with the Stacey Family to spare Emma and Chariel, with Chariel becoming a Hunter as a crucial condition.
• Emma explained that the Book of Sacrifice allowed sacrifices to fulfill a wish under certain conditions, and that the family could not directly harm Chariel while he remained a non-Hunter.
• Emma tried to describe the Secret Realm’s true danger but lost consciousness before recovering, and Lucky inferred that rules prevented her from revealing more.
• Lucky opened his Sharingan to investigate the rules affecting Emma.

Lucky tried to uncover the cause of Emma’s inability to describe the Secret Realm, but neither his Sharingan nor hypnosis could overcome the strange Nen effect. After learning about the Stacey Family’s power and its Book of Sacrifice, Lucky arrived with Emma, Chariel, and Yatai Conrad at the military stronghold surrounding the Secret Realm.

• Lucky saw a dangerous red mist affect Emma whenever she tried to describe the Secret Realm, but his Nen threads passed through it.
• Lucky hypnotized Emma and tried again, but she still fell into a daze, leaving him to conclude that he needed an Exorcism ability.
• Emma told Lucky that the Stacey Family was a powerful organization whose direct-line members gained abilities through a Book of Sacrifice ceremony and could live only to eighty.
• Emma explained that the family limited the spread of Nen to preserve its power and avoid dangerous abilities emerging among its subordinates.
• After about two hours on the road, Lucky, Emma, Chariel, and Yatai Conrad reached the military camp around the Secret Realm, where Lucky spread En across the grounds.

Lucky arrived at the military camp and used his enormous En to overwhelm the guards and reveal the hidden Nen Beasts accompanying the seven family heads. The Staceys realized he could see their otherwise undetectable abilities, and Polly Stacey began explaining the family’s history with the unprecedented discovery.

• Lucky spread his En across the military camp, frightening ordinary people and knocking the guards unconscious while Nen users gathered to watch.
• Lucky sensed that the Secret Realm was hidden beneath the pond, whose Nen barrier his En could not penetrate.
• Adolf Stacey welcomed Lucky, but Lucky saw a silhouette behind him and revealed that he could see the Seven Deadly Sins Nen Beasts behind all seven family heads.
• The family heads recognized that Lucky had uncovered a secret no one, not even Netero, had previously detected.
• Polly Stacey addressed Lucky and said that his ability to see the Nen Beasts had never occurred in the history of the Stacey Family.

Lucky negotiated with the Stacey Family and agreed to enter their Secret Realm in exchange for compensation and information about Divine Script. The family let him into their camp, while Chariel remained focused on learning what had happened to Regina.

• Allen questioned why Lucky was helping Chariel and warned that the Stacey Family would defend its Book of Sacrifice.
• Lucky said he had accepted Chariel's commission and wanted to explore the Secret Realm, while the family heads offered compensation for retrieving the Book of Sacrifice.
• Polly offered books and knowledge about Divine Script and warned Lucky that forces were destabilizing Keli City and targeting the Heavenly Arena.
• Lucky accepted the Stacey Family's offer and asked to enter the Secret Realm.
• Polly moved her Nen Beast aside and welcomed Lucky into the camp, while Chariel focused on Regina's situation.

Lucky tested the Nen pond with flames and Nen constructs, then sent Phoenix inside to explore the Secret Realm. Phoenix crossed a spatial barrier and encountered Nen-infused water, while Lucky discovered that his Purification Flame could function as exorcism; the realm then began changing around Phoenix.

• Lucky tested the pond with flames, a Nen Rope, and a Nen Thread, but lost contact with anything that entered it.
• Lucky summoned Phoenix to explore the pond and test whether Spatial Teleportation could work inside the Secret Realm.
• Phoenix crossed a spatial barrier and entered real water infused with Nen, while strange Nen affected both Phoenix and Lucky.
• Lucky and Phoenix's Purification Flames resisted the abnormal influence, leading Lucky to realize the flames could serve as exorcism.
• Lucky had Phoenix end the Purification Flame's protection, and memories surged into Lucky's mind as Phoenix's surroundings changed.

Lucky used Purification Flame to pull Phoenix out of the Secret Realm’s illusion, and they emerged in Waterfall Town beneath a black dome. As Phoenix was attacked by strange birds and began to dissipate under an erasing force, a Black Sharp Arrow killed it.

• Phoenix fell into an illusion of the Basen Rainforest, where it found another phoenix and danced with it while Lucky could not reach it.
• Lucky took control of Phoenix and unleashed Purification Flame, breaking the illusion and returning them to the water.
• Phoenix emerged from the Fountain Pool in Waterfall Town, where a black dome covered the silent town and gray particles drifted through the air.
• A skinless strange bird attacked Phoenix, and Lucky’s flames burned it to ash.
• An invisible force began erasing Phoenix, and a Black Sharp Arrow suddenly struck and killed it.

Lucky reentered the Secret Realm and found Waterfall Town apparently restored, with people moving through its streets and homes. After discovering that the town was a Nen-made space constructed from memories rather than a real place, he confirmed that he and Phoenix could still teleport in and out.

• Lucky reviewed the Secret Realm’s dangers, then sent Phoenix back inside while Brooks Stacey and the other family heads discussed dealing with the growing realm.
• Lucky entered Waterfall Town without encountering an Illusion Realm or the earlier Nen suppression, and found it appearing normal beneath the moon with people inside.
• Phoenix flew beyond the town toward the waterfall, but crossed a boundary and reappeared at the fountain, revealing that the surrounding landscape was false.
• Lucky guessed that the Secret Realm had built a physical town from the residents’ memories, then tested whether Phoenix could leave through the fountain and found it could not.
• Lucky refrained from setting the town ablaze in case anyone had survived, and confirmed that he and Phoenix could teleport into and out of the Secret Realm.

Lucky explained how the Book of Sacrifice’s growing Secret Realm worked and agreed to lead the Stacey Family inside to investigate. He prepared to enter with seven teams and Yatai Conrad, whose choice to face the danger impressed Lucky.

• Lucky told Chariel and the seven Stacey Family heads that entrants were dragged into layers of illusion and that the Secret Realm’s power was growing.
• The Stacey Family agreed to enter with Lucky, hoping to investigate the threat posed by the living Secret Realm tied to the Book of Sacrifice.
• The family assembled seven teams of five Nen Ability users, one team for each family head.
• Yatai Conrad asked to join so he could see whether the future he had foreseen would change, and Lucky praised his qualifications as a Hunter.

Lucky and the others entered the Secret Realm and were scattered into different versions of Waterfall Town, each with its own time and circumstances. Chariel reunited with Regina, who revealed that she was dead and that the realm she had created had become impossible to leave.

• The Stacey Family realized Lucky’s flames could exorcise Nen abilities, and Lucky used the Purification Flame to enter the Secret Realm.
• Lucky emerged alone in a daytime Waterfall Town and suspected that the Secret Realm contained different layers or versions.
• Yeta arrived alone in a nighttime Waterfall Town and began exploring it for dangers and opportunities.
• The scattered Stacey Family members encountered different versions of Waterfall Town and responded in different ways.
• Chariel found Regina in an empty park, and she told him that she was dead and existed there with her memories.
• Regina explained that she had built the place for herself and told Chariel that no one could leave because she no longer controlled the Book of Sacrifice.

Regina explained that the Book of Sacrifice had trapped Chariel in a looping Secret Realm built from the memories of Waterfall Town’s dead residents, and said escape was impossible. While Chariel questioned her account, Lucky burned the town and its fountain, exposing cracks that quickly repaired themselves before the town and its inhabitants began to revive.

• Regina told Chariel that she had died and now persisted as a memory in the Secret Realm, which used the town’s residents as sacrifices and might grow into a real world.
• Regina said Chariel could not leave, but gave him her location and invited him to find her after trying to escape; Chariel decided to explore Waterfall Town before trusting her.
• Some members of the Stacey Family began killing townspeople, while Lucky set the town ablaze and destroyed the central fountain.
• The Secret Realm exposed cracks beneath the ruined fountain, rapidly repaired the damage, and summoned heavy rain that weakened Lucky’s flames.
• Lucky waited for the Secret Realm to attack but saw no response; the town then began rebuilding itself, and the dead residents gradually revived.

Lucky tested how the Secret Realm created changing versions of Waterfall Town and discovered that residents’ beliefs could manifest Nen-made entities, though they vanished when taken outside. Meanwhile, Yatai Conrad realized that drinking the realm’s water had marked him for dangerous nighttime encounters, and the Stacey Family’s team suffered casualties.

• Lucky used Spatial Teleportation to leave and reenter the Secret Realm, finding that each visit created a different Waterfall Town and that leaving made the previous version disappear.
• Lucky staged a murder and observed that the residents’ fear gave rise to a black silhouette killer, leading him to suspect that collective belief could materialize beings in the real Waterfall Town.
• Lucky planted rumors about a Phoenix-like bird, but its replica turned into Nen and vanished within seconds of being taken outside the Secret Realm.
• Yatai Conrad, short on supplies, drank water from the Secret Realm and later woke in a dark Waterfall Town where dangers were drawn toward battles elsewhere.
• Yatai concluded that the water had marked him and stayed awake to avoid returning to the dark town, while the Stacey Family’s team suffered casualties.

Lucky discovered that the Secret Realm had begun changing beyond Waterfall Town and teleported to Chariel, where he confronted Regina in her protected world. Regina’s fear of losing Chariel deepened her Grudge, and white flames suddenly appeared around her.

• Lucky noticed changes in places beyond Waterfall Town and newcomers from the Stacey Family, then used his Contract with Chariel to teleport to him.
• Chariel repeatedly slashed the fountain’s edge, trying to destroy his world, while Regina explained that the Book of Sacrifice reset each strike across different virtual towns.
• Lucky appeared in Regina’s special world, startling her because she alone controlled who could enter it.
• Lucky recognized Regina’s unusual Nen and asked if she was Regina, while Chariel welcomed him as Lord Lu Qi.
• Regina realized she had wanted Chariel to remain with her forever, and her Grudge intensified until black Nen enveloped her and white flames appeared.

Lucky used Purification Flame on Regina, exposing the Book of Sacrifice’s control over her, then bound her with a Contract to trace its connection. As the Secret Realm attacked, Lucky sent Chariel and the surviving Stacey Family members away and unleashed flames across Waterfall Town.

• Lucky burned away the Grudge around Regina with Purification Flame, briefly restoring her sanity as the Secret Realm began to change.
• Regina realized she had never escaped the Book of Sacrifice and tried to warn Lucky before static silenced her.
• Lucky used a Contract on Regina, successfully binding her and seeing a thread extend from her body into the distance.
• A black humanoid monster and a hidden attacker emerged, so Lucky teleported Chariel away and summoned Phoenix amid an eruption of flames.
• The Secret Realm expelled the surviving Stacey Family members, including Yeta, into the real Waterfall Town as Lucky’s flames engulfed the town.

Lucky fought the Secret Realm’s seemingly unkillable monsters as he searched for the realm’s core, then summoned Susanoo to confront a gigantic creature that resisted his strongest ordinary attacks. Outside, the Stacey Family learned that Lucky had sent survivors out of the Secret Realm, while Regina watched the battle from inside.

• The Stacey Family heads questioned the survivors Lucky had teleported out and learned that the Secret Realm’s power could corrupt those who entered it.
• Lucky discovered that the Secret Realm’s monsters regenerated after being destroyed and that its power protected Waterfall Town from his flames.
• A giant, animal-stitched monster struck Lucky and grew larger as black dust gathered around it; Lucky spotted a person fused into its head holding a book.
• Lucky’s attacks failed to seriously damage the monster, while Regina lost the will to resist as she watched.
• Lucky formed a gigantic Susanoo from golden Nen, which blocked the monster’s attack and unleashed a fierce gust of wind.

Lucky shattered the Book of Sacrifice’s Secret Realm with Susanoo and discovered that Waterfall Town had been an illusion created by one of the book’s pages. The survivors were scattered outside the town, Regina died, and Lucky took the damaged Book Page while leaving the dangerous book untouched.

• Lucky revealed Susanoo, cut apart the giant monster, and saw that the Book of Sacrifice was projecting the false world from a page held by Regina’s true body.
• Regina and the residents of Waterfall Town burned into the Book of Sacrifice, but the gathered power could not stop Lucky from destroying the Secret Realm.
• The Secret Realm shattered, scattering everyone outside Waterfall Town as Lucky’s golden giant appeared and then dissipated.
• Lucky reached the fountain, protected the damaged Book Page from Firelight, and heard Regina’s final thanks from a pile of ashes.
• Lucky let the Book of Sacrifice fall without touching it, and dozens of figures approached from the distance.

Lucky returned the Book of Sacrifice to the Stacey Family after investigating its unusual properties and keeping the damaged page he had obtained. He began studying the page in Waterfall Town while the Stacey Family searched the devastated town and found no survivors.

• Adolf and the other six Stacey Family heads approached Lucky, but his flames kept them at a distance as he tested the Book of Sacrifice.
• Lucky used Susanoo to try to open the Book of Sacrifice, sensed Nen protecting its pages, and returned it to Adolf when he could not open it.
• Lucky suspected the Book of Sacrifice, or a being within it, had been watching him, while Regina remained alive within the page bound to his Contract.
• Chariel arrived searching for Regina, and Lucky did not tell him that she was still alive.
• The Stacey Family thanked Lucky, took the Book of Sacrifice away, and searched Waterfall Town, where they found no survivors or bodies.
• Lucky settled in Waterfall Town to study the damaged page he had kept.

Yatai returned to Keli City with Chariel while Lucky went back to the Heavenly Arena, where he focused on researching the Book Page. Keli City had fallen into turmoil as Mafia families and political and commercial forces competed for influence, leaving the Conrad Family and the city’s martial arts community waiting to see whether Lucky would intervene.

• Yatai returned to Keli City with Chariel, reflected on his gains from the adventure, and offered to help Chariel with his plans to open an Odd Jobs Agency.
• Lucky used Spatial Teleportation to return to the Heavenly Arena and resumed researching the Book Page without addressing the unrest in Keli City.
• Yatai’s butler-driver told him that rival Mafia families, including groups backed by the Ten Dons, had arrived to fight for territory while political and commercial pressure weakened the Conrad Family’s influence.
• Mafia violence and recruitment spread through Keli City, while rising prices and disrupted supplies affected the Heavenly Arena’s businesses and cultivation medicines.
• The Conrad Family struggled to contain the conflict without causing widespread destruction, and Keli City’s martial arts leaders waited to see what Lucky would do.
• Lucky continued studying the Book Page, hoping to gain control of the Book of Sacrifice’s power and turn the Heavenly Arena or Keli City into a Secret Realm.