Chapter Summaries

Lin Yan used Neon’s Lovely Ghostwriter to obtain clues to the treasures he sought, then prepared to leave for Meteor City. He promised to return before the Yorknew City auction and help Kurapika settle a karmic debt.

• Neon agreed to tell Lin Yan’s fortune, and Lin Yan guided her Nen ability to write a prophecy without his birth data.
• The prophecy pointed Lin Yan toward the Yorknew City auction for a clue to Li Fire and toward Meteor City for the essence of Yi Wood.
• Lin Yan confirmed his deal with Light Nostrade but declined to stay as Neon’s personal bodyguard, giving her a protective jade pendant instead.
• Lin Yan warned Neon not to use Lovely Ghostwriter again until he returned, then left the villa to meet Kurapika.
• Lin Yan told Kurapika he was going to Meteor City and would return on September 1 to claim the fire and help settle Kurapika’s karmic debt.

Lin Yan traveled into Meteor City to find the essence of Yi Wood, a vital ingredient for advancing his cultivation, and effortlessly defeated scavengers who tried to rob him. He located the life-filled essence beneath a radioactive metal mountain, where powerful Nen users were guarding it.

• Lin Yan entered Meteor City and sensed a spark of life within its overwhelming deathly energy.
• A gang of scavengers tried to rob Lin Yan, but his Protective Astral Aura blasted them away.
• Lin Yan continued deeper into Meteor City, reaching a radioactive mountain of discarded metal.
• Lin Yan used his Qi Observation Technique to locate the essence of Yi Wood beneath the metal ruins.
• Lin Yan sensed Nen users guarding the essence and decided to take it from them.

Lin Yan reached Metal Mountain seeking the Ghost-Faced Withered Vine, whose Essence of Yi Wood he needed to form his golden core. After Meteor City's Heretic Inquisition Squad attacked him with its Garbage Requiem, Lin Yan prepared to demonstrate how metal could overcome wood.

• Lin Yan approached Metal Mountain, and his protective true qi dispersed the radiation and deathly aura around him.
• The Heretic Inquisition Squad surrounded Lin Yan and demanded that he leave, but he said he had come for the plant at the summit.
• The masked leader declared the Ghost-Faced Withered Vine Meteor City's Sacred Relic and recounted its origins in the Phantom Troupe's birthplace.
• Lin Yan refused to abandon the vine, and the squad summoned hundreds of Garbage Puppets with the masked man's Garbage Requiem.
• Lin Yan criticized the masked man's control of the dead and sent a faint reddish-gold light from his sleeve.

Lin Yan used the Gengjin Sword Pellet to destroy the Heretic Inquisition Squad’s puppet army and forced the bird-beak-masked man to submit. He continued toward the summit of the metal mountain, leaving the survivors shaken and questioning the nature of his power.

• The Gengjin Sword Pellet sliced through the puppet army and dismantled hundreds of machines in seconds.
• The sword pellet stopped before the bird-beak-masked man’s forehead, terrifying him and the Heretic Inquisition Squad.
• Lin Yan asked if he could pass, and the masked man prostrated himself in submission.
• Lin Yan walked toward the summit, recalled the sword pellet into his sleeve, and left the squad behind.
• The masked man watched Lin Yan go and concluded that his power was not Nen but something more transcendent.

Lin Yan reached the summit of the metal mountain and found the Ghost-Faced Withered Vine, whose fruit contained the essence of yi wood. As he approached the fruit, the vine awakened the souls of dead Phantom Troupe members to attack him.

• The Heretic Inquisition Squad's captain admitted they could not stop Lin Yan and ordered his squad to report the encounter to the Elders' Council.
• Lin Yan reached the summit and identified the emerald fruit on the Ghost-Faced Withered Vine as the essence of yi wood.
• Lin Yan approached the vine, which Meteor City revered as a sacred relic but he regarded as a source of nourishment for its fruit.
• The Ghost-Faced Withered Vine erupted with resentment and summoned more than a dozen souls of dead Phantom Troupe members to attack Lin Yan.

Lin Yan tested a new way to fuse Taoist talismanic arts with Nen by using the Golden Light Divine Mantra against the Sacred Vine’s guardian spirits. He purified them all, leaving the Heretic Inquisition Squad in awe and shaking the bird-beak-masked man’s faith in the Sacred Vine.

• More than a dozen resentment-born guardian spirits attacked Lin Yan, alarming the Heretic Inquisition Squad watching from the foot of the mountain.
• Lin Yan recognized the spirits as Nen-driven constructs and decided to use them to test his new method of combining Dao and Nen.
• Lin Yan traced a talisman with his Sword Finger and cast the Golden Light Divine Mantra.
• Lin Yan’s golden light purified and vaporized all the guardian spirits.
• The Heretic Inquisition Squad stared in disbelief, and the bird-beak-masked man began to doubt his faith in the Sacred Vine.

Lin Yan purified the Ghost-Faced Withered Vine, transforming it into a living tree, and took its Essence of Yi Wood. As he prepared to leave Meteor City, an overwhelmingly powerful Nen user challenged him for taking the city's hope.

• Lin Yan concentrated his pure yang true qi into a strand and sent it into the Ghost-Faced Withered Vine, purifying its resentment and restoring it to life.
• The Heretic Inquisition Squad witnessed the transformation, and the captain declared that a true god had come to Meteor City.
• Lin Yan plucked the Essence of Yi Wood from the vine, which then withered into green powder that caused grass to sprout across the polluted land.
• Lin Yan secured the Essence of Yi Wood inside his robe and turned to leave.
• An immense surge of Nen rose from within Meteor City, and an aged voice accused Lin Yan of taking the city's hope and demanded to know whether he would simply leave.

Lin Yan told the Elders' Council that Meteor City’s land had begun to change, and residents celebrated the first green shoots. The Council sent three Executioners to kill him, and they launched a coordinated attack.

• Lin Yan faced the Grand Elder’s anger and said he had settled Meteor City’s karmic entanglements without taking away its hope.
• Meteor City residents discovered green shoots growing from the barren ground and cheered at the apparent change.
• The Grand Elder questioned Lin Yan, while another elder accused him of destroying the Sacred Relic and demanded his life.
• Three Executioners—an enormous Enhancement Nen user, a cloaked dwarf, and Sarah—appeared and surrounded Lin Yan.
• The dwarf spread his Venomous Mire beneath Lin Yan as the giant attacked with a spiked railway-rail club, while Sarah waited for an opening.

Lin Yan effortlessly defeated Meteor City’s executioners, stopping the muscular giant’s weapon with one finger and killing the fleeing dwarf with a sword strike. Sarah was left pale and shaken as Lin Yan’s overwhelming power became clear.

• Lin Yan blocked the muscular giant’s spiked club with one finger, while his True Qi kept the venomous mire from reaching him.
• Lin Yan split the club with Gengjin sword energy and crippled the muscular giant, the strongest of Meteor City’s three executioners.
• The dwarf fled deeper into Meteor City, but Lin Yan cut him in half with a distant sword strike.
• Sarah watched the two executioners fall and turned deathly pale.

Lin Yan killed Meteor City's three great Executioners, using Pure Yang True Qi to destroy Sarah after defeating Bark and Lip. He then addressed the thirteen awakened Elders and proposed discussing the deal.

• Lin Yan shattered Bark's arms and killed Lip in moments, leaving Sarah terrified.
• Sarah attacked Lin Yan with her Bloody Feast technique, but his Geng Metal Sword Pellet stopped her blades.
• Lin Yan condemned Sarah's life-stealing Nen as evil and used Pure Yang: Demon Refinement to burn her to ash.
• Lin Yan faced the thirteen awakened Elders and said they could now discuss the deal.

Lin Yan met Hài, the Grand Elder of Meteor City's Elders' Council, after killing three Executioners and destroying the Sacred Relic. Hài tested Lin Yan with overwhelming Nen pressure, but Lin Yan sliced it apart and demanded a proper conversation.

• The residents of Meteor City felt the three Executioners' presences vanish, while the Elders' Council reacted with fury and alarm.
• The Grand Elder told the other elders to wait and went to meet Lin Yan himself.
• Hài introduced himself to Lin Yan and weighed the deaths of the Executioners and destruction of the Sacred Relic against Lin Yan restoring grass to Meteor City.
• Hài unleashed his refined Nen pressure to test and intimidate Lin Yan.
• Lin Yan cut through the Nen pressure with a sweep of his fingers, leaving Hài shocked, then asked to speak properly.

Lin Yan forced Meteor City’s Elders’ Council to accept a trade for the essence of Yi Wood by demonstrating that he could kill them from afar. As he prepared to leave, Grand Elder Hai begged him to explain how they could bring more greenery to Meteor City.

• Grand Elder Hai acknowledged Lin Yan’s purification of Meteor City but tried to question what he could offer in exchange for destroying the Sacred Vine and killing the Executioners.
• Lin Yan rejected Hai’s attempt to negotiate from a position of authority and demanded that Meteor City appease his displeasure.
• When an elder threatened Lin Yan from the council chamber, Lin Yan struck from kilometers away, piercing the man’s Nen defense and narrowly missing his head.
• Lin Yan explained that he had taken the essence of Yi Wood while repaying Meteor City by cleansing the Spider’s Nest and restoring the land, and Hai accepted the trade.
• As Lin Yan prepared to leave with the essence of Yi Wood, Hai stopped him and pleaded for guidance on growing more greenery in Meteor City.

Lin Yan demanded that Meteor City's Elders' Council bind itself to a soul-and-Nen oath to change the city's way of life and protect its recovering land. Hài accepted, leaving Meteor City poised to begin a new future under the oath.

• Hài and the elders realized Lin Yan's power left them unable to challenge his claim that Meteor City owed him a debt.
• Lin Yan explained that purifying the central area was only a first step and offered a method to heal Meteor City's polluted land in exchange for an oath.
• Lin Yan demanded that all thirteen elders stop treating plunder as Meteor City's sole law, restrain its residents, and protect the land's new life.
• Lin Yan clarified that Meteor City could defend itself against attackers, but must stop indiscriminate killing and cease sacrificing the city to support the Phantom Troupe's choices.
• Lin Yan warned that the oath would link the elders' Nen and survival to the land's fortunes, and that violating it would bring the land's backlash.
• Hài accepted Lin Yan's terms and agreed that the Elders' Council would swear the oath for Meteor City's future.

Hài and the twelve other elders agreed to swear an oath to Lin Yan, who created a Land Deed Talisman that bound their contract to Meteor City itself. The elders hurried to the Spider's Nest summit to swear the oath and begin a new era for the city.

• Hài and the other elders accepted Lin Yan's demand to swear an oath after his display of power stripped away their resistance.
• Lin Yan explained that their oath would be enforced by the land rather than by their own Nen, then formed a golden Land Deed Talisman using Nen.
• Lin Yan sent the talisman into the ground, and the elders felt a connection to Meteor City's pain and need for vitality.
• Lin Yan told the elders that protecting the land would bring rewards, while breaking the oath would cost them their life force and cause endless agony.
• Hài ordered all twelve elders to come to the Spider's Nest summit, and they hurried toward Metal Mountain.

Lin Yan persuaded Hài and twelve other elders to swear a Nen covenant to protect and rebuild Meteor City, promising that its waste could be transformed into valuable resources. After the oath revived the land, Lin Yan left for the coming events in Yorknew City, weakened by the effort.

• Hài questioned how Meteor City would survive if its elders ended their dealings with the mafia, and Lin Yan explained that the formation could turn toxic waste, scrap metal, and plants into valuable resources.
• Convinced by Lin Yan’s promise, Hài and the twelve elders knelt and swore to protect the land, rebuild through creation, and defend Meteor City from invaders.
• The covenant transformed the elders’ Nen and revived Meteor City, bringing sunlight, flowering plants, clean water, and mineral grains.
• Lin Yan recognized that the ritual had drained his divine sense and karmic power, and resolved to keep a lower profile in Yorknew City.
• Lin Yan told the elders to honor their oath and vanished into the sky as the story turned to September 1 in Yorknew City.

Lin Yan secluded himself to refine the Essence of Yi Wood, using its life energy to recover and transform his body. After absorbing one wisp, he gained stronger meridians and vitality-infused true qi, then set off for Yorknew City to confront Hisoka and the Phantom Troupe.

• Lin Yan found a deserted wilderness, concealed a cave with formations, and decided to refine the Essence of Yi Wood gradually rather than swallow it whole.
• Lin Yan opened a tiny slit in the fruit and carefully drew its emerald life energy into his body.
• Lin Yan endured a painful bodily reconstruction as he guided the Yi Wood essence through a complete circulation into his dantian.
• Lin Yan discovered that his meridians had widened, his bones and blood had changed, and his true qi now carried ceaseless vitality.
• Lin Yan put the Essence of Yi Wood away and raced toward Yorknew City, determined to surprise Hisoka and the Phantom Troupe.

Lin Yan reunited with Kurapika in Yorknew City and warned him that maintaining Emperor Time was consuming his life force. He began using the Essence of Yi Wood to stabilize Kurapika’s depleted vitality as the underground auction approached.

• Meteor City flourished after Lin Yan left, as its plants spread, polluted water cleared, and valuable ores formed around Metal Mountain.
• Grand Elder Hài ordered Meteor City to mine and cultivate its new resources and open negotiations with the Ten Dons, who offered thirty billion Jenny for the first shipment.
• Hài told the elders to keep Lin Yan’s identity secret from the Phantom Troupe and declared Meteor City would no longer support their recklessness.
• Lin Yan arrived at the Nostrade family’s Yorknew City base and found Kurapika exhausted from keeping Emperor Time active to gather information.
• Lin Yan warned Kurapika that Emperor Time was burning through his life force, then offered to replenish his vital foundation with the Essence of Yi Wood.
• Kurapika accepted Lin Yan’s help, and Lin Yan began channeling life-giving qi into his body.

Lin Yan used Yi Wood True Qi to heal Kurapika and taught him the Immovable Wisdom King Seal to calm his mind and reduce Emperor Time’s life-force cost. After Kurapika recovered and gained greater control of his Nen, Dalzollene summoned Lin Yan to see Light Nostrade, while Neon also wanted to speak with him.

• Lin Yan channeled Yi Wood True Qi through Kurapika, repairing the damage caused by Emperor Time and steadying his Nen.
• Lin Yan taught Kurapika the Immovable Wisdom King Seal and explained that mastering it could reduce Emperor Time’s consumption by at least seventy percent.
• Kurapika recovered much of his strength, found his Nen control improved, and saw a golden radiance in his chains.
• Kurapika thanked Lin Yan and agreed to protect the Nostrade family while Yorknew City descended into chaos.
• Dalzollene and Melody entered, and Dalzollene told Lin Yan that Light Nostrade wanted to see him and Neon also wanted something from him.
• Lin Yan agreed to go with Dalzollene.

Hisoka sensed Lin Yan’s transformed aura and rushed to seek him out, while Lin Yan visited Neon Nostrade and received Hisoka’s invitation to a duel. Lin Yan left the villa to meet Hisoka at an abandoned cannery.

• Hisoka detected Lin Yan’s profound new aura from Yorknew City and eagerly set out to find him.
• Lin Yan spoke with Light Nostrade about Neon’s safety and the Yorknew underworld, though he remained focused on the Five Elements Object auction.
• Neon clung to Lin Yan, thanked him for the Protective Jade Pendant, and confirmed she had not used her Divination ability.
• Lin Yan warned Neon not to use Divination before September tenth and refused to take her with him when an unknown sender texted him an address signed with a Joker card.
• Lin Yan recognized Hisoka’s invitation, left the villa, and headed for the abandoned cannery to test Hisoka as his whetstone.

Lin Yan used the Qi Observation Technique to find the essence of Li Fire at Yorknew City’s auction house, then headed to the abandoned cannery to meet Hisoka. Hisoka sensed how much Lin Yan had changed and unleashed a powerful wave of Nen, eager to fight him.

• Lin Yan scanned Yorknew City’s auras and spotted Kurapika and Hisoka among the powerful Nen users.
• Lin Yan found a black-dragon-shaped aura above the auction house and identified it as the cursed essence of Li Fire.
• Lin Yan decided to meet Hisoka before returning to claim the treasure when the auction began.
• Lin Yan arrived at the abandoned cannery on Seventh Street, where Hisoka was waiting for him.
• Hisoka described Lin Yan as having become a self-contained world and surged his Nen toward him.