Recaps

Bai Zhu analyzed Zhang Ye’s citywide seal while Ging fought Hecatos and its imitative Black Crow Guanyin. As the analysis reached 91 percent, the weakened chains beneath the altar triggered Hecatos to turn its attacks on Bai Zhu.

• Bai Zhu entered the sealing groove and used the system to analyze the city’s sealing routes while Hecatos attacked him with a giant feather and a mirror-crow.
• Ging saved Bai Zhu with his 100-Type Guanyin and fought the Black Crow Guanyin, which copied his Nen techniques.
• Bai Zhu’s analysis progressed as his available Reiatsu dwindled, while Ging was wounded and struggled against Hecatos’s attacks.
• The Gatekeeper stopped ramming the Stone Gate and displayed an inscription matching the palm-shaped seal; Piyu reported the change to Ging.
• When the analysis reached 91 percent, the chains behind Hecatos went slack, and it abandoned Ging to attack Bai Zhu with hundreds of corrosive palms.

A giant owl arrived from Ring Island as Bai Zhu and Ging struggled to complete the seal on Hecatos in the Chimera Ruins. The seal reached 99 percent, but an unseen bird claw began pressing toward the final route.

• The owl left Ring Island, and Netero recognized it as Bai Zhu's Landlord and ordered the fleet not to attack.
• The owl appeared over the Caspian Sea and focused on the seabed, causing the golden particles to retreat while Netero and Morel contained the monster.
• Ging placed the metal ring into the altar's groove, activating twelve cables that restrained Hecatos's broken wing.
• Bai Zhu continued analyzing the seal routes as Ging fought Hecatos's attacks and the remaining locks began to fail.
• The owl's power spread through the Gatekeeper's seal pathways, and Bai Zhu's analysis reached 99 percent.
• A silvery-white bird claw appeared at the edge of Bai Zhu's system screen and pressed toward the final one percent.

Bai Zhu failed to activate the sealing system with his own power, but Ging’s sabotaged Nen routes disrupted Hecatos and the ancient city rose from the seabed. The Silver-White Owl restored Bai Zhu’s energy, leaving him ready to confront Hecatos again.

• Bai Zhu learned that activating the main locks required 100,000 Reiatsu and tried to retreat, but Hecatos’s hands blocked his escape.
• Ging joined Bai Zhu and revealed that the fake routes they had fed Hecatos caused the Black Crow Guanyin’s arms to attack one another.
• The ancient city began rising from the seabed as its main locks revived, and the Gatekeeper carried Milluki and Piyu toward the surface.
• The city broke through the sea, and the Silver-White Owl connected its patterns to the ruins, enclosing the Chimera Ruins.
• The Silver-White Owl replenished Bai Zhu’s energy to 100,000 Reiatsu, and Bai Zhu advanced toward the retreating Hecatos with his rekindled Asauchi.

Bai Zhu used the incoming Reiatsu to heal Ging and unleash increasingly powerful Bankai forms against Hecatos. The chapter ended as Hecatos attacked with hundreds of golden wings and Bai Zhu swung Ryūmon Hōzukimaru at them.

• Bai Zhu ignored the system’s warnings and kept accepting the silver-white energy while Hecatos tried to destroy the maintainer slot.
• Ging redirected most of Hecatos’s giant palms, and Bai Zhu healed Ging and expelled the corrosive Nen from his wound.
• Ging disrupted Hecatos’s imitation of Kaidō, then struck its wing while the sealing locks dragged its body down.
• Bai Zhu transformed his Asauchi into Ryūmon Hōzukimaru and then wielded Zanka no Tachi, causing the gathered seawater to vanish.
• Hecatos attacked the low platform with hundreds of golden wings, and Bai Zhu swung Ryūmon Hōzukimaru at them.

Bai Zhu used Ryūmon Hōzukimaru and Zanka no Tachi to counter Hecatos’s attacks, then summoned the dead preserved in the city’s seals to restrain it. Hecatos was overwhelmed by waves of skeletons as Bai Zhu taunted it about fear.

• Bai Zhu’s instinctive slash with Ryūmon Hōzukimaru severed Hecatos’s wings and sent the giant skeleton crashing through the city wall.
• Hecatos reformed from golden particles and used black mist to obscure Bai Zhu’s vision before charging at him.
• Bai Zhu’s Zanjitsu Gokui burned away Hecatos’s face, chest, and wings, leaving its beak damaged as it reassembled.
• Bai Zhu unleashed Zanka no Tachi: Minami and Kaka Jūmanokushi Daisōjin, raising the preserved traces of tens of thousands of dead from the city.
• Hecatos’s Black Crow Guanyin crushed many skeletons, but the black flames kept them moving as the remains swarmed its arms and the main locks dragged them toward the altar.

Bai Zhu used the seal's memories to expose that Hecatos had devoured its own people, then prepared to face its fully reunited Black Crow Guanyin. Hecatos cut off Bai Zhu's energy supply, but Ging routed the seal's power through a metal ring into Bai Zhu, giving him a temporary chance to fight.

• Bai Zhu learned from the seal's memories that the city's residents had worn metal rings to restrain Hecatos, and that Hecatos had consumed them while trying to seize control.
• Bai Zhu confronted Hecatos with the truth, prompting it to abandon its scattered avatars and reunite its powers in Black Crow Guanyin.
• Bai Zhu dismissed Nan's skeleton army and prepared to attack Hecatos with Zanka no Tachi and Ryūmon Hōzukimaru as Hecatos charged the low platform.
• Hecatos divided its abilities among Black Crow Guanyin's avatars, damaged the sealing grooves, and trapped Bai Zhu in an encirclement that forced him away from the energy source.
• Ging sent a sealing metal ring to the low platform, allowing the seal's power to flow into Bai Zhu and restore his usable Reiatsu temporarily.

Bai Zhu used his dual Bankai to defeat Hecatos and restart the forty-eight primary locks, restoring the seal and stopping the monsters and infected outside. As Bai Zhu and Ging headed back to the harbor, they discovered that someone was still watching them through a hidden detector.

• Bai Zhu trapped Hecatos's scattered golden crows with the Ten Trillion Dead Funeral Array of Fire, then unleashed Dual Blade Style: Blissful Repose and Ashes Between Heaven and Earth to destroy the Black Crow Guanyin's imitation structures and pin Hecatos to the altar.
• Bai Zhu restarted all forty-eight primary locks, which restrained Hecatos and restored the blockade lines while a silver-white power source shared the seal's burden.
• Hecatos's golden particles stopped spreading, and the monsters at sea and infected in the harbor collapsed as their support vanished.
• Bai Zhu and Ging left for the harbor to assess the contamination and address compensation with Unma.
• Pariston watched the battle footage and decided to lie low, while Bai Zhu noticed a hidden detector and drew his Asauchi.

Bai Zhu and Ging left the sealed inner city after stopping Hecatos, and Bai Zhu discovered a coordinate for a Soul King's Pen component. The Silver-Roost Ancient Tree and the Gatekeeper vanished, leaving Bai Zhu with six months to bring the Pen components and unpaid rent back before the entrance closed permanently.

• Bai Zhu found Pariston's surveillance detector, threatened to charge him for the footage, and left without investigating; Pariston then ordered his people to suspend their evacuation and avoid the false leads.
• Bai Zhu and Ging sealed Hecatos back into the altar, and the system's external energy interface closed as they left the inner city.
• The system awarded Bai Zhu 500 achievement points and revealed a special coordinate for a Soul King's Pen component, which he concealed from Ging.
• Bai Zhu reunited with the Silver-Roost Ancient Tree, but it dissolved into silver-white motes, and the Gatekeeper shrank and returned to its cave.
• The system gave Bai Zhu a six-month mission to deliver the Soul King's Pen components and unpaid rent to the Silver-Roost Ancient Tree before its entrance closed permanently.

After the harbor disaster, Bai Zhu ordered the survivors rescued and the contaminated facilities sealed, then faced a growing stack of bills for his rescue and the operation. He headed for the temporary embassy to confront Unma and seek compensation, despite the Kakin Royal Family’s diplomatic immunity.

• Bai Zhu, Piyu, and Ging left the ruins as the Black Gold monster and its golden particles fell inert and rescue teams tended to the harbor’s wounded.
• Bai Zhu instructed Morel to prioritize survivors, separate corpses from infected people, and secure the underground samples and coastal water pipes.
• Piyu demanded fifty billion Jenny for saving and carrying Bai Zhu, while Bai Zhu agreed to the charges but tried to make Unma pay and resisted signing a contract with three percent daily interest.
• Milluki presented Bai Zhu with additional bills for repairs, treatment, lost equipment, and the Zoldyck rescue; Bai Zhu proposed finding Unma and raising the compensation target to one hundred billion.
• Bai Zhu asked Netero where Unma was and learned she was in a temporary embassy controlled by her personal troops, whose guards invoked diplomatic immunity.
• Bai Zhu set out to ask whether diplomatic immunity exempted Unma from paying compensation.

Bai Zhu tried to force Princess Consort Unma to pay for taking his blood and attacking people, while Milluki broadcast evidence of her experiments. Morel intervened as a negotiator, and after Kakin guards brought him a metal case, he asked to enter the embassy.

• Bai Zhu and Milluki connected evidence of Unma's experiments and Tserriednich's calls to a temporary broadcast channel, but Unma cut the signal with a Silent Boundary Marker.
• Unma sent unmanned vehicles and Nen Beast armor against Bai Zhu, Piyu, and Milluki, until Morel and Shuto arrived and Morel separated the groups with a Smoke Wall.
• Morel asked Bai Zhu how much he wanted, and Bai Zhu demanded three hundred billion in compensation, with Piyu and Milluki claiming separate bills.
• Morel spoke privately with the Royal Family guard captain, who lowered his weapon as the soldiers put theirs away.
• A Kakin guard brought Morel a silver metal case, and Morel asked whether he could enter the embassy.

Morel confronted Unma at the Kakin embassy and demanded payment and protection for Bai Zhu and the others, threatening to expose evidence of the Royal Family’s experiments. The negotiations stalled, leaving Morel ready to contact the international press while Bai Zhu and his companions held copies of the evidence outside.

• Unma allowed only Morel into the embassy, while Bai Zhu and Piyu waited outside under the royal guards’ guns.
• Morel told Unma he could stop Bai Zhu from causing trouble, but demanded a price and revealed evidence of Kakin’s human experiments and contaminated-sample transports.
• Unma threatened to blame Bai Zhu for the disaster, but Morel argued that witnesses and the Hunter Association could undermine her account.
• Unma’s armor dragged Morel’s memory card off the table, but it dispersed into smoke; outside, Milluki received the real card and said there were seventeen backups.
• Morel threatened to contact an international newspaper, accusing Unma of nearly getting Bai Zhu and Piyu killed and leaving others to clean up Kakin’s mess.

Morel forced Unma to pay Bai Zhu 250 billion Jenny and sign an agreement, but the group discovered that the Kakin Royal Family had hidden a modified Rose Detonator beneath the harbor. They left the device under joint Association and military supervision while the investigation into Unma's Creation Society continued.

• Morel negotiated with Unma for compensation, the remaining blood-purchase balance, destruction of samples, and the relinquishing of research rights, securing a 250-billion-Jenny settlement and an agreement.
• Bai Zhu received the money, signed the contract, and agreed not to pursue Unma's actions if the Royal Family honored its terms.
• Morel revealed that the silver case contained a Rose Detonator, and Milluki used sonar to locate a modified tactical device nineteen meters below the embassy.
• Bai Zhu wanted to confront Unma, but Morel warned that she could portray the device as a defensive measure and accuse the Association of extortion.
• Piyu sent the scan map to Netero, and the Association and Kakin Military began evacuating the area and arranging joint supervision of the device while the Creation Society investigation continued.

Bai Zhu and his allies traced Pariston’s signals to a trapped safe house, where they found a recording and a memory card. With the harbor cleanup underway and Greed Island testing postponed, Bai Zhu accepted Milluki’s invitation to visit the Zoldyck family and meet Killua.

• Milluki traced Pariston’s transmissions to three locations, and Morel sent smoke soldiers to watch two while the group checked the hillside safe house.
• Pariston’s recording teased Bai Zhu and Milluki with a hidden gift, and Morel found a booby-trapped compartment containing a videotape and memory card.
• Bai Zhu let Milluki watch footage of his fight in the ruins, then kept Pariston’s memory card unopened after the others declined to inspect it.
• Bai Zhu asked Ging about testing Greed Island, but Ging postponed it to add more cards.
• Milluki invited Bai Zhu to the Zoldyck family home to meet Killua, and Bai Zhu eagerly asked when their airship would leave.

Bai Zhu traveled with Milluki to the Zoldyck family home and opened all seven layers of the Testing Gate after his first attempt failed. He entered the woods, where Mike stopped to assess him, and Killua appeared overhead to question how he had opened the doors.

• Milluki warned Bai Zhu about the dangers and rules of staying at the Zoldyck home, while they argued over an unsigned lodging and expenses contract.
• The airship landed at Kukuroo Mountain, and Milluki brought Bai Zhu to the Testing Gate in front of a group of tourists.
• Bai Zhu failed to move the first gate using ordinary strength, then used Reiatsu to push open all seven layers at once.
• Bai Zhu and Milluki entered the woods, where Mike blocked their path without attacking.
• Killua appeared upside down on a branch and asked whether Bai Zhu had cheated to open the seven doors.

Bai Zhu fought Killua at the Zoldyck family’s mountain gate, using Kidō ropes and a blast to trap him before Killua escaped and counterattacked. Their confrontation ended with Illumi arriving and demanding to know where Bai Zhu had flicked Killua.

• Killua questioned how Bai Zhu had opened the Testing Gate, and Bai Zhu claimed he had used pure physical strength.
• Milluki introduced Bai Zhu to Killua and urged him to discipline his younger brother, so Bai Zhu and Killua began fighting.
• Bai Zhu used Light Ropes and Hado #1: Sho to catch Killua, but Killua escaped his clothes and kicked Bai Zhu with his weighted boot.
• Killua pinned Bai Zhu and declared victory, but Bai Zhu flicked him, prompting Killua to retreat and threaten him.
• Illumi appeared, saw Killua holding up his waistband, and asked Bai Zhu where he had flicked Killua.

Bai Zhu fought Illumi in a sparring match at the Zoldyck estate and won by trapping him with his Kidō. Illumi then told Bai Zhu that Maha wanted to see him, and Bai Zhu followed him toward the Zoldyck family’s main residence.

• Illumi arrived and Killua accused Bai Zhu and Milluki of bullying him, prompting Illumi to challenge Bai Zhu.
• Bai Zhu evaded Illumi’s Nen Needles with Fushibi and used Hainawa and Sekienton to trap him.
• Illumi conceded the sparring match and praised Bai Zhu for growing stronger.
• Illumi revealed that Maha was interested in Bai Zhu’s unusual power and wanted to meet him.
• Milluki and Killua fought in the grass while Bai Zhu followed Illumi to the Zoldyck family’s main residence.

Illumi brought Bai Zhu into the Zoldyck estate, where Bai Zhu nervously navigated its traps and strict servants before being sent to meet Maha alone. Maha silently examined the Red-Black Core and Bai Zhu, leaving Bai Zhu unsure whether he was in danger as he offered to answer questions, excluding any refund.

• Illumi led Bai Zhu through the estate and warned him that traps lay beneath the stone slabs.
• Bai Zhu copied Illumi’s confident stride through a corridor of butlers, and Illumi sent Amane away for laughing on duty.
• Illumi told Bai Zhu that Maha had heard about his strength and received the Red-Black Core, then brought him to the old man’s room.
• Bai Zhu sat on a fruit stand after moving its fruit to the tea table and tried to persuade Maha to take care of his knees.
• Maha examined the Red-Black Core and stared at Bai Zhu without speaking, so Bai Zhu offered to tell him anything except discuss a refund.

Bai Zhu spoke with Maha, who questioned him about his power before revealing that he wanted him to meet Alluka, a child carrying a dangerous power from the Dark Continent. Bai Zhu agreed to meet her but warned Maha not to make him test her abilities, leaving the two set to meet and assess whether their powers could communicate.

• Bai Zhu answered Maha's questions about his origins, training, travels, and business with Illumi and Milluki.
• Bai Zhu realized Maha was investigating whether his power could control him or harm his body and mind.
• The Red-Black Core began vibrating, and Maha stopped it with a precise touch.
• Maha revealed that his son had brought something back from the Dark Continent and that it later appeared inside Alluka.
• Bai Zhu agreed to meet Alluka and see whether their powers could communicate, but refused to test her abilities.

Maha told Bai Zhu to look for his missing son if Bai Zhu ever went to the Dark Continent, then briefly overwhelmed him with killing intent. Bai Zhu left with Illumi after discovering that the fruit tray he had used as a seat had been destroyed, and Illumi asked what Maha had told him.

• Maha asked Bai Zhu to find out whether his son was dead or still trapped in the Dark Continent if Bai Zhu ever went there.
• Maha unleashed killing intent that sealed Bai Zhu's senses and Reiatsu, then released him and told him to leave with Illumi and Milluki.
• Bai Zhu left Maha's room and saw the fruit tray he had sat on reduced to gray dust.
• Illumi questioned Bai Zhu about the broken tray, and Bai Zhu admitted he had used it as a chair.
• Bai Zhu and Illumi walked deeper into the residence, and Illumi asked what Maha had discussed with him.

Bai Zhu learned that Illumi wanted Alluka’s power to protect the siblings from a suspected Zoldyck succession rule, then realized his own advice may have inspired the needle in Killua’s head. As a warning appeared about an approaching unknown will, Illumi opened the way to meet Alluka, with Killua and Milluki possibly inside.

• Bai Zhu warned Illumi that Alluka’s power was too dangerous to control and might be sentient.
• Illumi told Bai Zhu he suspected the Zoldyck family hid the existence of siblings who were not chosen as heirs, and he wanted to protect Killua, Milluki, Kalluto, and Alluka.
• Illumi admitted he had been harsh on Killua partly to make him a qualified heir and keep him reliant on Illumi.
• Bai Zhu jokingly suggested implanting a command in Killua’s brain, and Illumi produced a Nen Needle, prompting Bai Zhu to suspect his idea had inspired Killua’s needle.
• A system warning alerted Bai Zhu to a high-risk unknown will as footsteps approached, and Illumi opened the door to take him to Alluka, where Killua and Milluki might be waiting.

Bai Zhu entered the Zoldyck family’s heavily monitored sunroom and found Killua, Milluki, Kalluto, and Alluka playing together. When Alluka focused on him, the system warned that she was trying to establish a dangerous request connection, and Illumi told Bai Zhu not to answer her.

• Illumi brought Bai Zhu into the vast sunroom, where butlers, hidden cameras, and retractable partitions monitored the space.
• A butler told Illumi that Killua, Milluki, Kalluto, and Alluka were in the central greenhouse, and Illumi refused to enter the Vine House.
• Bai Zhu found Killua playing with a robot model while Milluki carried Kalluto on his back, and he noticed that both Milluki and Illumi kept their distance from Alluka.
• The system warned Bai Zhu about an unknown high-risk will and cautioned him not to accept requests from the other party.
• Alluka looked at Bai Zhu, set down her model, and asked what he wanted, while Illumi warned him not to answer.

Bai Zhu met Nanika and refused her offer to grant a wish, then persuaded her to talk with him. When he asked her to remove the surveillance as a small favor, Nanika destroyed every camera and monitoring system in Vine House, triggering a lockdown.

• Illumi and Milluki fled Vine House with Kalluto and Milluki’s treasured models as Alluka changed, while Killua stayed beside her.
• Bai Zhu approached Nanika despite Killua’s warning, greeted her by name, and refused to make a wish.
• Bai Zhu told Nanika they were alike and convinced her to sit and talk with him.
• Bai Zhu asked Nanika to remove the listening devices without hurting anyone, and she agreed.
• Nanika destroyed the surveillance equipment and backup systems throughout Vine House, setting off alarms and a security lockdown.
• Killua demanded to know what Bai Zhu wanted to discuss with Nanika, and Bai Zhu told him to be quiet.

Bai Zhu tried to reassure Killua that he had not come to exploit Nanika, then asked whether Nanika could see the system inside him. Nanika found the system and confirmed it had been watching Bai Zhu all along, leaving the system’s presence exposed as the family’s people approached.

• After the surveillance cameras went dark, Killua grabbed Nanika and confronted Bai Zhu about how he knew Nanika’s name and why it had listened to him.
• Bai Zhu told Killua he had come to get acquainted with Nanika, not to make wishes or control it, but Killua remained suspicious.
• Bai Zhu asked Nanika whether it could see the “it” inside his body, and Nanika’s gaze settled on the system’s location.
• The system warned that a high-risk unknown will was observing it and urged Bai Zhu not to accept its requests.
• Nanika nodded when Killua asked whether it could see something, then said it had been watching Bai Zhu all along.

Bai Zhu learned from Nanika that the system inside him had power opposite to hers and might resemble something Nanika had encountered before. Nanika and Bai Zhu became friends, but recalling the past hurt her, and Illumi arrived with recording equipment.

• Nanika told Bai Zhu that a bird-like presence was watching him, and Bai Zhu suspected the system might have come from the Dark Continent.
• Bai Zhu explained friendship to Nanika, and she agreed that they were friends.
• Nanika said the system had power opposite to hers and recalled seeing something similar follow a person long ago.
• Nanika struggled to remember and developed a headache, so Bai Zhu stopped questioning her; Killua caught Alluka when she slumped against him.
• Illumi arrived with several butlers carrying recording equipment and asked Bai Zhu what he had said.

Bai Zhu hid his conversation with Alluka from Illumi by inventing a childhood story about founding the Evil-Eyed Demon King Gang. Killua, Alluka, Milluki, and Kalluto joined the farcical gang as Illumi left without learning what Bai Zhu and Nanika had discussed; Milluki then said a special dinner with Father and Mother was nearly ready.

• Illumi confronted Bai Zhu about the destroyed surveillance equipment and demanded to know what he had discussed with Alluka, but Bai Zhu refused to explain.
• Killua claimed Bai Zhu had told Alluka about wanting to become the Evil-Eyed Demon King, so Bai Zhu improvised an elaborate story about forming a childhood gang to confront the Dog King Gang.
• Bai Zhu appointed Killua deputy leader and Alluka Third Seat, and Killua agreed to protect the gang leader.
• Bai Zhu recruited Milluki to fund the gang, while Kalluto volunteered to look after its toys; Milluki refused to lend his collection money.
• Illumi left after realizing he would get no answers, and Milluki said a special dinner with Father and Mother was almost ready.