Chapter Summaries

Netero and the others left the NGL after the Chimera Ant battle, and Odin agreed to accompany him to Hunter Association headquarters for a reward. There, the Zodiacs gathered, and Ging studied Odin’s unusual energy as the meeting began.

• Beans scolded Netero for risking his leg, but Netero insisted he was fine and ordered the group to return to headquarters.
• Netero persuaded Odin to come with him to collect a reward, and Odin, Ponzu, Morel, Knov, and Kirkia left the outpost.
• Hunter Association members entered the Chimera Ant nest and found many ants killed with a single blow; some reported their discoveries to their superiors, including Pariston.
• Odin and Ponzu traveled with Netero to Hunter Association headquarters, where the twelve Zodiacs had gathered for an urgent meeting.
• Pariston scrutinized Odin and Ponzu, while Ging sensed the strange energy coming from Odin.

Netero announced he was stepping down and nominated Odin to succeed him, but Odin refused the position. Netero arranged a Hunter-wide vote for the following week anyway, while Odin planned to leave after the election and pursue the Dark Continent.

• Netero announced his resignation and proposed Odin as the next chairman, but Odin rejected the nomination.
• Netero ordered a chairman election in one week, telling the Hunters they could vote by mail, and Odin protested that he did not want the job.
• Pariston questioned Odin about the Chimera Ant incident, and Odin hinted that he planned to go to the Dark Continent.
• Cheadle asked Odin whether he would accept the chairmanship if elected, and Odin said he would not.
• Ging asked Odin about Greed Island and the Dark Continent, but Odin kept his plans private and left with Ponzu.
• Odin told Ponzu they would find somewhere to stay and leave after the vote, making sure he was not elected chairman.

Odin went to the Hunter Association headquarters as voting began for the chairman election, where his name appeared among the candidates. Gon, Killua, and Biscuit voted for him as a joke, and Odin learned that Gon had met Ging and that Ging had cast the first vote for him.

• Beans told Odin that chairman voting had begun and brought him and Ponzu to the Hunter Association headquarters.
• Odin found his name and Hunter Exam photo at the bottom of the candidate list, then watched Hunters cast ballots for other candidates.
• Gon, Killua, and Biscuit recognized Odin on the screen and voted for him.
• Gon and Killua greeted Odin, and Killua complained about Ging after confirming that Gon had met his father.
• Odin explained that Ging, not Gon and the others, had cast the first vote for him.

Odin was nominated for Hunter Association chairman, but the first vote gave him only eighteen votes. After Cheadle, Pariston, and Mizaistom persuaded their supporters to back him, Odin received 629 votes in the next round and realized he had been set up; he still refused the position and considered leaving for the Dark Continent on his own.

• Hunters voted in the first round, with Botobai receiving the most votes and Odin getting only eighteen; Cheadle announced a new vote in three days because no candidate met Netero’s approval requirement.
• Odin told Killua that Netero was trying to make him chairman, while Gon and Killua decided to investigate why Netero had chosen him.
• Cheadle, Pariston, and Mizaistom each persuaded their supporters to vote for Odin, hoping to keep Pariston from becoming chairman and resolve Netero’s seal issue.
• Biscuit and other Hunters voted for Odin in the second round, while Odin’s rivals received almost no votes.
• Cheadle announced that Odin had won 629 votes, and Odin realized the candidates had conspired to force the position on him.
• Ponzu congratulated Odin, but he insisted he would not take the job and considered training until he could leave for the Dark Continent.

Odin agreed to become chairman for a few days after Netero promised him a reward, then attended the inauguration and demanded that everything else remain unchanged. He ended the ceremony with a display of Reiatsu that left the audience stunned, and the story left the others hurrying after him.

• Netero persuaded Odin to accept the chairmanship temporarily and promised him a reward after the inauguration.
• Odin told Cheadle and Ponzu he would take the job for a few days, while Pariston congratulated him.
• The next morning, Netero announced Odin’s appointment at the Hunter Association inauguration.
• Odin told the audience he would serve as chairman for now and that everything else would stay as it was.
• Odin used Reiatsu to overwhelm the audience, declared the meeting adjourned, and left with Ponzu.
• Netero and the Zodiacs recovered and followed Odin, while Netero left the chairmanship behind.

Odin accepted the Association chairmanship but left its management to the Zodiacs, then learned that Netero’s mysterious coin came from an unknown kingdom on the Dark Continent. After Odin removed the seal Netero had placed on himself, Netero said Beyond’s expedition could begin, and Odin agreed to join when it was ready.

• Odin told the Zodiacs he intended to travel to the Dark Continent and adjourned the meeting.
• Netero gave Odin a wooden box that only the chairman could open, and Odin found an unfamiliar copper coin inside.
• Odin stored the coin in his Spell Book, while Netero explained it might have come from a kingdom on the Dark Continent.
• Netero said his son Beyond had visited the Dark Continent but was sealed, and Odin discovered the seal was on Netero himself.
• Odin used his Dragon Qi Blast to transfer Netero’s seal to a death-row prisoner, allowing Netero to lift the seal on Beyond.
• Odin told Netero to get the expedition underway and asked to be contacted when it began.

Odin received the Hunter Association’s materials on the Dark Continent and studied the Five Great Calamities. He remained the chairman for now, though he had said he wanted to resign.

• Netero urged Odin to try serving as chairman for a few days, but Odin left with Ponzu after saying he wanted to resign.
• Netero reassured Beans that Odin would return and asked whether Odin had requested anything from him.
• Odin and Ponzu returned to their inn, where Odin examined a copper coin from the Dark Continent.
• Beans delivered the Dark Continent documents Odin had requested, and Ponzu teased him about acting like a chairman.
• Odin read about the Five Great Calamities: Pap, Brion, Hellbell, Gas Lifeform Ai, and Zobae Disease.

Odin and Ponzu learned that their voyage to the New Continent would be delayed, so they decided to wait and attack the Reheated Pork Kingdom first. Odin also discovered that Beans was a defective specimen of the botanical weapon Brion.

• Odin reviewed information about useful resources on the Dark Continent while he and Ponzu cultivated.
• Beans told Odin that the voyage to the New Continent would be delayed by at least a month, and Odin decided to wait for it.
• Odin told Ponzu that he wanted to attack the Reheated Pork Kingdom, and she agreed after reading about the royal family's crimes, claiming the fourth prince as her target.
• Odin suspected Beans was a Brion and used a Dragon Qi Blast to confirm that Beans was a defective specimen of the botanical weapon.
• Ponzu was startled to learn that Beans was connected to the Dark Continent.

Odin continued serving as Hunter Association chairman while refining his Nen techniques and creating the Four-Dimensional World, a small world that could hold a city. As the Dark Continent expedition prepared to depart, several familiar Hunters joined the team, and Odin chose to travel on his own ship rather than Kakin’s vessel.

• Odin told Beans to let Beyond join the expedition without surveillance, dismissed Pariston’s resignation as unimportant, and instructed Saiyu to resign from the Zodiacs.
• Odin trained in immortal cultivation crafts, combining talisman techniques with his cards and formations with his Nen Script structures.
• Beans brought Odin to inspect the expedition supplies, and Odin had them packed for transport.
• Odin used insights from Knov’s Hide and Seek to create the Four-Dimensional World, a small world containing a Daoist temple and the creatures he and Ponzu had gathered.
• Kurapika and Leorio joined the expedition, while Kurapika became the Rat and Ging remained the Boar; Gon and Killua returned home to study.
• As the expedition’s departure date arrived, Beans tried to persuade Odin to board Kakin’s giant vessel, but Odin planned to sail on his own ship.

Odin set sail for the Dark Continent with Netero, Ging, and the others, while a separate whale-shaped ship carrying the Kakin Empire’s expedition departed from another harbor. As his group began its long voyage, Odin decided to strengthen his companions.

• Odin refused to board the royal family’s ship and set off on his own vessel with Netero, Ging, Morel, Knov, Kite, and their companions.
• Odin explained that his cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul Realm, his lifespan had grown to around two hundred thousand years, and he had sensed all twelve Talismans.
• Odin’s ship departed, and he watched the harbor recede as Ponzu’s five Chinchillas transformed into seagulls and flew around the vessel.
• A gigantic black whale-shaped ship carrying the Kakin Empire’s heavily supplied expedition left another harbor.
• Odin gathered everyone aboard and decided to make adjustments because he thought his group was too weak for the journey ahead.

Odin offered the hunters and Hunter Association staff a way to grow stronger by using cards that inscribed Nen Script Meridians or a demon core onto their bodies. The inscriptions began on deck, leaving Knov and the others screaming in pain as Odin warned everyone not to interfere.

• Odin gathered everyone aboard the cruise ship and explained that he would give them a chance to become stronger before the dangerous journey to the Dark Continent.
• Odin described how he combined Internal Energy with heaven and earth essence to create True Qi, then used Nen Script to develop cards that could store and refine it.
• Netero, Ging, Morel, and the other hunters chose the Nen Script Meridian card, while the Hunter Association staff chose the demon core card on Odin's recommendation.
• The staff used their cards first, prompting Morel and the other hunters to pause and watch; Knov chose to use his Nen Script Meridian card immediately.
• Nen Script structures burrowed into Knov and the others, causing them to scream as Palm tried to help Knov and Morel stopped her.
• Odin warned that outside interference would make the inscription process more painful, and he left the group to endure it without healing them.

After a month at sea, Odin used his powers to fight a giant sea beast that approached the cruise ship. He destroyed it in the depths, leaving the voyage undisturbed.

• The crew grew stronger after a month of activating their demon cores, and Odin discovered they could store true qi and might reach Foundation Establishment.
• Odin continued cultivating and researching, while he helped Ponzu approach a breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm.
• Odin sensed a massive sea beast rising toward the cruise ship and sent a Kyogre-shaped Aura Bullet underwater to confront it.
• The Kyogre Aura Bullet fought the sea beast as the churning water rocked the ship.
• When the sea beast tried to flee, Odin made the Aura Bullet let itself be swallowed, then detonated it and destroyed the beast.

Odin left an automatically controlled Kyogre Aura Bullet behind, and it attacked a giant whale-shaped ship before retreating. Later, sea beasts gathered around Odin’s cruise ship, where the crew prepared to face a massive swarm.

• Odin programmed a strand of Manipulation Nen to control the Kyogre Aura Bullet and left it beneath the cruise ship.
• The Kyogre Aura Bullet attacked a giant whale-shaped ship, broke its teeth against the vessel, and retreated into the sea.
• Ponzu, Netero, Ging, Morel, and the others noticed sea beasts gathering beneath the cruise ship, while Ging realized Odin had intercepted some of them earlier.
• Odin told the crew to get ready as countless strange sea beasts surged out of the water and covered the lake’s surface.

Odin and his crew fought off a swarm of sea beasts attacking their cruise ship while Odin sent the Kyogre Aura Bullet after the creature commanding them. The Aura Bullet battered the enormous octopus below the lake, disrupting its control and ending the siege.

• Morel, Ponzu, Ging, Knov, Knuckle, Shoot, Palm, Kite, and Netero fought the sea beasts as they swarmed onto the cruise ship.
• Odin sensed a much larger wave approaching and used a ring-shaped Aura Bullet to knock the sea beasts away from the ship without harming his allies.
• Morel formed a smoke wall around the cruise ship while Ging and Netero realized that something was directing the sea beasts.
• Odin located the enormous octopus controlling the swarm and sent the Kyogre Aura Bullet to attack it.
• The Kyogre Aura Bullet slapped the octopus with powerful blows, disrupting its control and causing the sea beasts to retreat.

After the crew survived the sea beast attack, Odin revealed that he had never intended to let most of them reach the Dark Continent. During the long voyage, he continued his research and created a Ruyi Jingu Bang, while the others cultivated and grew stronger.

• Odin said the crew would not all be allowed to reach the Dark Continent, and Ging recognized that Odin also expected some of them to die along the way.
• Kyogre subdued the giant octopus beneath the ship, which left it alone so the travelers could eventually see the New Continent.
• As the voyage stretched to seventy days, Netero and the Hunters advanced through Foundation Establishment while the crew continued practicing Qi Refining.
• Odin made a metal staff that could change size and weight, named it the Ruyi Jingu Bang, and considered how different forms of energy might share a common root.

Odin led Ponzu, Netero, Ging, and Knov inland to explore the enormous island near the Dark Continent. They encountered strange moving plants and fought off attacking vines, which began retreating underground.

• Odin confirmed that the distant island was the enormous new continent Kakin had discussed, and the group waited for the others before going ashore.
• Odin, Ponzu, Netero, Ging, and Knov headed inland to examine the unusual vegetation and collect samples.
• Knov collected a purple umbrella-shaped plant after Ponzu noticed that its white spots were moving.
• Vines erupted from the ground, trees, and rocks and attacked Knov, but Ponzu's dragonflies and Ging fought them off.
• After several minutes, the vines retreated underground, and Knov realized that something was controlling them.

Odin and the others explored the island, prepared shelter, and waited for the Giant Whale Ship to arrive. After Odin learned that Ging and Netero had secretly arranged the deaths of targeted Kakin royals, the ship's passengers began disembarking so the newcomers could build a city and prepare for the Dark Continent.

• Ponzu recalled Dragonfly, returned the five Chinchillas to their original forms, and put them in her bag as Netero and Odin's group explored the island.
• Knov reported that the island's aggressive plants would make clearing land difficult, so Odin used villa cards to provide shelter for the group.
• Odin asked Ging when he had made his plan after learning that Ging's assigned people had killed Odin's targets in the Kakin Royal Family; Ging asked about Odin's detection range instead.
• Odin ordered the Kyogre Aura Bullet to claim Lake Mobius, and it grew to over a thousand meters after merging with the Aura Bullet he had thrown into the sea.
• When the Giant Whale Ship arrived, Odin told Morel to direct people bound for the Dark Continent onward and have the others stay to build a city.
• Morel formed a white smoke pier, the passengers disembarked and spread inland, and Morel later brought a group to the cruise ship.

Odin led Netero, Ging, and the expedition to the Dark Continent in a single day, then guided the group inland to explore its unfamiliar terrain. At the forest’s edge, the team prepared to face creatures nearby while Netero and Ging’s latent aura capacities had grown to over a million.

• Odin brought the cruise ship to the Dark Continent, astonishing Netero and the others with the unusually quick journey.
• Odin landed the group on the shore, put away the ship, and led everyone inland while the Hunters and Zodiacs kept the expedition organized and protected.
• Ponzu studied the local insects as the group collected materials and researched the unfamiliar plants.
• After walking about five kilometers, the expedition reached a dense forest where Kite sensed many small creatures and Ging identified their fresh tracks.
• Netero and Ging had each raised their latent aura capacity to over a million in just a few days.

Odin's group explored a dark forest, where Leorio detected hidden creatures beneath a bone-strewn clearing before anyone else. The group retreated as swarms of Carrion Bugs emerged from the soil.

• Odin led the group through the damp forest, choosing firm footing as they encountered a six-legged, two-tailed magical beast and sensed others nearby.
• Ging stopped Knov from using his Nen Ability, and the magical beasts soon withdrew without attacking.
• The group found a clearing scattered with gnawed bones, and Morel, Kurapika, and Ging examined the remains as signs of a recent feeding ground.
• Leorio sensed movement underground and warned the group before Kite or the others detected it.
• Small black Carrion Bugs poured from the soil, forcing everyone to retreat, while Odin pulled Ponzu back from approaching them.

Odin’s group explored the unfamiliar environment, collected insect and water samples, and discovered that the river fish were edible. Odin stored the fish in his Pool of Sighs, then the team continued along the river and found human-carved marks on a massive tree.

• Ponzu collected an insect specimen, and Knov arranged for the group to store more samples.
• Morel used a smoke rope to collect river water after stopping a staff member from approaching; a researcher confirmed the water was safe to drink after boiling.
• Netero said the aggressive river fish were delicious, so Odin caught several and stored them in his Pool of Sighs, surprising Kite by turning the pool back into a card.
• Odin led the group along the riverbank until they reached tall grass and an enormous tree bearing marks carved by human hands.