Chapter Summaries

The expedition encountered Brion’s parasitic vines in the ruins, which turned three mercenaries into flower-headed puppets. Brion targeted Luo Ye as ideal fertilizer, and he let its main vine strike his chest.

• Ging warned the group as violent tremors shook the maze, but Brion’s vines burst from underground and parasitized three mercenaries.
• The parasitized mercenaries attacked the expedition, and Kurapika and the others learned they had to destroy the metallic flowers on their heads to stop them.
• Botobai and the other Hunters fought the puppets as more vines erupted and Brion’s enormous dark-gold main vine targeted Luo Ye.
• Luo Ye complained about Brion trying to put a green hat on him and lowered his defenses, allowing the main vine’s barb to strike his chest.

Luo Ye devoured the Plant Weapon vines and their underground parent, turning a deadly maze encounter into a one-sided feast. After charging the mercenary captain five billion Jenny and having Shizuku collect the metal fragments, he led the expedition deeper into the maze.

• The Plant Weapon pierced Luo Ye with its vine and parasitic seeds, but his Combat Adaptive Evolution destroyed the seeds and he seized the vine.
• Luo Ye drained the main vine and the underground parent body, withering every Plant Weapon in the maze passage and leaving the expedition members stunned.
• Beyond laughed from his cage and hailed Luo Ye as a monster, while Ging Freecss and the others watched in disbelief.
• Luo Ye charged the mercenary captain five billion Jenny for the damage and told Shizuku to collect the metal petal fragments with Blinky.
• Luo Ye urged the expedition onward toward the maze's next dangers, and the others followed with a renewed sense of security.

Luo Ye led the expedition through the Death Maze, but the group entered Hellbell’s absolute silent zone, where a mental ringing drove the hunters and mercenaries into a murderous frenzy. Unaffected by ordinary soundproofing, Luo Ye headed deeper into the zone to silence Hellbell by force.

• Luo Ye guided the expedition through the maze while Beyond and Ging reacted to his ability to overcome the Dark Continent’s dangers.
• After walking roughly twenty kilometers, the group entered a zone that suppressed all sound, and Kanzai and Cheadle tried to respond to the sudden silence.
• Hellbell’s ringing began inside the expedition members’ minds, driving a bald mercenary to kill his companion and sending others into a frenzy.
• Kanzai and Botobai fought to contain the attackers while Kurapika struggled to preserve his sanity.
• Luo Ye tried stuffing toilet paper into his ears, realized the ringing bypassed physical soundproofing, and marched toward its source to silence it.

Luo Ye adapted to the Two-Tailed Snake’s mental attack, knocked the maddened mercenaries unconscious with a psychic roar, and destroyed and absorbed the calamity’s projections. With the labyrinth passage quiet again, he ordered the group to resume work and looked for another target to vent his anger on.

• Luo Ye adapted to the Hellbell ringing, filtering it into a plaza-dancing soundtrack.
• Luo Ye unleashed a psychic roar that shattered the mercenaries’ violent compulsions and knocked them unconscious.
• The Two-Tailed Snake manifested two enormous bell-bearing projections and attacked Luo Ye with overwhelming sound waves.
• Luo Ye charged the Two-Tailed Snake a ten-billion-Jenny noise fine, then grabbed both projections and absorbed their psychic energy.
• Luo Ye tore apart and devoured the projections, silencing the passage, then ordered the newcomers to move the unconscious mercenaries and told the others to get back to work.

After surviving the Two-Tailed Snake’s mental attack, the expedition entered a canyon filled with lethal gas lifeforms known as Ai. The gas overwhelmed the team and engulfed Luo Ye, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Luo Ye collected the shattered bell’s purple powder and planned to sell it as a hallucination-inducing product.
• Ging warned the expedition that the environment beyond the Black Stone Maze would grow stranger, and the group entered a deep canyon.
• Cheadle warned that the canyon’s white mist was dangerous, but a support worker inhaled it and was twisted to death.
• Beyond identified the mist as Ai, a gas lifeform among the Five Great Calamities that could grind apart anyone it touched or entered.
• Botobai ordered everyone to hold their breath and cover themselves with Ken, but the gas penetrated their defenses and began twisting Kanzai’s arm.
• Luo Ye let the gas surround him, and it enveloped him in a huge white cocoon as Leorio shouted that he had been swallowed.

Luo Ye survived the Gas Lifeform’s attack, then devoured and bottled the canyon’s lethal gas as high-energy fuel. With the calamity driven underground, he tried to sell the fifty canisters to the Hunter Association, leaving Mizaistom facing Luo Ye’s outrageous business demands.

• Luo Ye resisted the Gas Lifeform’s twisting attack through his Combat Adaptive Evolution and Black Hole Nen, then ate the gas creatures.
• Luo Ye ordered Shizuku to bring out steel canisters and sucked the canyon’s gas into his lungs before compressing it into the cylinders.
• Luo Ye filled fifty canisters, frightening the Gas Lifeform into fleeing underground and leaving the Zodiac members stunned.
• Luo Ye valued the canisters at a hundred billion Jenny each and demanded a handling fee from the Extermination Team.
• Luo Ye offered Mizaistom an exclusive deal on the fuel, leaving the Zodiac member helpless before his sales pitch.

Luo Ye forced the Hunter Association to buy fifty cylinders of compressed Gas Lifeforms for one hundred billion Jenny before the expedition entered a flower-filled valley. The valley’s soothing atmosphere made several mercenaries blissfully surrender themselves, and they quickly died as Ging warned that the apparent safety was a deadly trap.

• Luo Ye demanded one hundred billion Jenny for the gas cylinders, and Cheadle signed the bill after Pariston endorsed the purchase.
• Cheadle ordered the logistics staff to secure the cylinders and transport them to the expedition ship.
• The expedition left the black-rock canyon and discovered a sunlit valley filled with flowers, where the air made the group feel calm and relaxed.
• Ging examined the soil, sensed danger, and warned that the valley’s overwhelming feeling of safety was a trap.
• Several mercenaries abandoned their weapons, acted blissful among the flowers, and shriveled into smiling corpses within seconds.

Pap attacked the expedition with blissful mental contamination, but Luo Ye adapted to its effects and reversed its life-draining tubes to drain Pap instead. He subdued the remaining creatures and turned the deadly flower sea into his private stress-relief club.

• Cheadle warned the expedition to retreat and cover their faces, but the hunters' masks could not block Pap's mental attack.
• Beyond identified Pap as a calamity that kept humans captive with pleasure while draining their life force.
• Kurapika, Killua, and the others fought the contamination, while Luo Ye lay down and let a Pap tube pierce his head.
• Luo Ye adapted to Pap's mental waves, used Black Hole to reverse the tube's suction, and drained the creature's psychic energy.
• Luo Ye ordered the remaining Pap to work off their debts, turning the flower sea into his private stress-relief club.

Luo Ye and the Zodiacs reached the final disaster zone, where they encountered the Zobae disease and a horde of undead explorers. As the Hunters struggled against the regenerating, infectious monsters, Luo Ye approached them with plans to exploit their unusual biology.

• Luo Ye dragged the captured Pap behind the group as Ging announced they had reached the final disaster zone.
• Gon sensed numerous living things in the black mire, and an undead explorer emerged and attacked the mercenaries.
• The Zobae-infected explorer infected a mercenary, and Kurapika found that his Healing Chain could not cure the disease.
• Kanzai tore apart an undead attacker, but hundreds more infected explorers rose from the swamp and surrounded the Hunters.
• Luo Ye tied the Pap to a stone pillar, walked toward the undead horde, and declared that their endless regeneration represented a path to immortality.

Luo Ye purified the Zobae Disease virus in the Black Basin, turning its life-restoring properties into a tonic and destroying the Undead. He left with bottles of the tonic and a signed bill for the Zodiac expedition team.

• Two Undead bit Luo Ye, but his Combat Adaptive Evolution purified the virus in his arm into rapid healing and infinite life without its harmful effects.
• Luo Ye drained the pathogens from the two Undead and thousands more in the mire, reducing them to ash and finally clearing the Black Basin.
• Luo Ye collected the purified life-regenerating energy and bottled it as a tonic with Shizuku’s help.
• Luo Ye offered the Zodiac team the tonic for thirty billion Jenny per dose and pointed out that he had treated one of their mercenaries for free.
• Cheadle signed Luo Ye’s bill after he threatened to take the tonic to Yorknew City and auction it.

Luo Ye cleared and flattened a site in the Dark Continent for the expedition’s first outpost, then claimed the ground as his private property and charged Cheadle an exorbitant rental fee. Cheadle signed the bill, and the expedition began setting up camp on Luo Ye’s land.

• Cheadle chose a stone forest as the expedition’s first outpost site, but the mercenaries’ drills and Kanzai’s Nen could not break its hardened ground.
• Luo Ye stomped the stone forest flat, crushing the rocks and killing creatures hidden underground.
• Luo Ye fenced off the flattened site as his VIP Studio safe zone and demanded fifty billion Jenny in rent from Cheadle.
• Beyond ordered his mercenary captain to sign Luo Ye’s bill, and Cheadle reluctantly signed it herself.
• Luo Ye told everyone to pitch their tents and went to catch up on his beauty sleep.

A midnight stampede of Ancient Rhinoceros Beasts nearly overwhelmed the expedition camp before Luo Ye woke and charged at the herd in fury. The chapter ended with him plunging alone into the advancing beasts.

• Botobai sensed danger as a massive stampede approached the camp in the darkness.
• Cheadle ordered the team to intercept the herd, but Botobai, Kanzai, and the mercenaries could barely slow the Ancient Rhinoceros Beasts.
• Ging ordered the defensive line to fall back as the stampede threatened to crush the camp.
• The shaking bed woke Luo Ye, who stormed from his tent and unleashed his black Specialization Nen.
• Luo Ye charged headfirst into the stampede, threatening to kill the beasts for disturbing his sleep.

Luo Ye stopped the Ancient Rhinoceros Beasts’ charge and slaughtered the herd by combining explosive Nen with the vitality-draining power of Zobae. After the survivors fled, he ordered Shizuku to salvage the beasts’ bones and horns, then returned to bed.

• Luo Ye charged into the beast tide and stopped its enormous leader with one hand.
• Luo Ye killed the leader with a fused blast of explosive Nen and high-pressure gas.
• Luo Ye used Zobae’s black mist alongside his attacks to kill hundreds of beasts and drive the rest into retreat.
• Luo Ye ordered Shizuku to collect the beasts’ bones and horns for building materials.
• Luo Ye returned to his tent while the Zodiacs and mercenaries stared in shock.

The expedition found an ancient metal pyramid ruin, but its entrance was protected by a deadly gravity trap and an undecipherable script. Luo Ye survived the trap and punched through the door, urging the Hunters to enter so he could collect his payday.

• Ging led the expedition to a buried metal pyramid and helped uncover its entrance.
• A mercenary touched the door's symbols and was crushed to death by a powerful gravity trap.
• Kurapika said deciphering the script would take at least three months, leaving the expedition unsure how to proceed.
• Luo Ye touched the symbols, endured the gravity, and punched a hole through the metal door.
• Luo Ye called the entrance open and told the Hunters to hurry inside.

Luo Ye and the Zodiacs entered an ancient biological laboratory, where the Ruins’ gravekeeper stripped away their senses with an invisible curse. As the others succumbed, Luo Ye resisted the enormous phantom eye and charged at it.

• Luo Ye blasted a hole through the indestructible alloy gate and led the Zodiacs into the Ruins.
• Kurapika identified the eerie laboratory as an ancient civilization’s site of forbidden life-fusion experiments.
• In the Circular Atrium, the gravekeeper’s curse began taking away the expedition’s sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
• The gravekeeper appeared as an enormous blue eye and declared that mortals could not enter the Divine Realm.
• Luo Ye unleashed his black Nen, vowed to make the gravekeeper pay, and charged toward the phantom eye as it intensified its curse.

Luo Ye resisted an ancient eye’s sensory-deprivation curse, evolved a new way to perceive his surroundings, and devoured the eye and its laws. After the expedition recovered, Luo Ye ordered the group to treat Kanzai and continue deeper into the ruins.

• The phantom eye deprived everyone in the atrium of their senses, driving mercenaries mad and leaving the Zodiacs struggling to endure.
• Luo Ye adapted by evolving a supersensory membrane that let him perceive the eye and the space around him.
• Luo Ye used his black Nen aura to devour the curse laws and shatter the phantom eye, ending the deprivation curse.
• Gon, Killua, Kurapika, Kanzai, Botobai, and the others recovered their senses, while the Zodiacs regarded Luo Ye with awe.
• Luo Ye told Shizuku to bandage Kanzai, and after resting, the expedition continued deeper into the ruins, leaving several maddened mercenaries behind.

Luo Ye smashed open an ancient power room, then had Shizuku vacuum up its life-energy crystals while claiming them as payment. When a desperate message revealed the Black Whale was under attack, he offered to take the expedition back by a shortcut and immediately planned to sell supplies to the survivors.

• Ging identified the bronze door as an ancient Nen lock that could trigger the ruins’ self-destruct system, but Luo Ye kicked it apart before it activated.
• Ging discovered that the blue crystals could restore Nen and might revolutionize energy supplies, but Shizuku vacuumed up nearly all of them for Luo Ye.
• Luo Ye argued with Cheadle and the Zodiacs that the crystals were payment for his services, leaving them only a few scraps.
• Kurapika received a distress call saying the Black Whale’s lower reservoir had been destroyed, monsters were loose, and Benjamin was slaughtering people.
• Luo Ye told Shizuku to prepare water, sausages, and crystals for sale, then promised Kurapika he would take the group back by a shortcut.

Kurapika received a distress call reporting that Benjamin’s forces had trapped the Black Whale and were massacring its passengers. With the expedition too far away to return quickly, Luo Ye proposed using the stolen blue crystals to rush back and sell supplies aboard the dying ship.

• Kurapika answered an emergency call from the Black Whale, where a crewman reported that Benjamin had sealed the upper decks, cut off water and power, and attacked the Fourteenth Prince’s defensive line.
• The call ended amid sounds of violence, and Kurapika tried to charge out while Leorio and the others warned that the ship was a month away by their current route.
• Ging said they could return within two days by overloading Morel’s expedition airship or activating the ancient teleportation array, but both options required energy from the blue crystals Luo Ye had taken.
• Luo Ye dismissed the others’ pleas and declared that the Black Whale’s desperate passengers offered a chance to sell water and food at enormous prices.
• Luo Ye ordered Shizuku to prepare supplies and told Morel to overload the airship’s power furnace with a blue crystal, then the expedition members rushed toward the ruins’ exit.

Morel raced the expedition airship to the Black Whale, where Luo Ye broke through its sealed deck to reach starving nobles and royal bodyguards. He arrived with survival supplies and began auctioning them at outrageous prices.

• Morel pushed the airship to five times its design speed using a blue stone while Luo Ye prepared to sell supplies and Nen-restoring crystals at exorbitant prices.
• After two days of nonstop flight, Morel brought the airship out of the fog and spotted the smoke-filled, damaged Black Whale with its upper decks sealed shut.
• Luo Ye jumped from the airship and smashed through the Black Whale’s reinforced deck, crushing several mutant Nen Beasts as he landed in the hall.
• Luo Ye presented ice-cold cola and other survival supplies to the desperate nobles and bodyguards, then announced that bidding would begin.

Luo Ye broke into the sealed first deck during Benjamin’s final assault on the Fourteenth Prince’s safe room and defeated Benjamin’s mutated Nen Beasts and Benjamin himself. He turned his attention to the door protecting King Huiguorou, hoping to sell him water.

• Benjamin killed a royal guard and advanced on the Fourteenth Prince’s safe room with his remaining Nen Beasts.
• Luo Ye kicked through the alloy fire door, crushing one Nen Beast and interrupting Benjamin’s attack.
• Luo Ye destroyed Benjamin’s two remaining Nen Beasts and offered the desperate nobles chilled mineral water for one hundred million Jenny per bottle.
• Benjamin charged Luo Ye, but Luo Ye absorbed the force of his punch and slapped him into a ceiling pillar.
• Luo Ye turned toward King Huiguorou’s door and prepared to approach his next potential customer.