Vol. 4Beyond the Succession War

Joey and his allies ended Nasubi’s Succession War and crossed onto the Dark Continent, surviving its forests and monsters to reach the Ancient City. Their exploration of the Nochi Holy Land Research Institute uncovered manufactured monsters and left them following Brion after the Cat of Reincarnation and Tuk Shale disappeared.

  • Joey rewound time twice as he and his allies fought Nasubi’s forces and uncovered his manipulation of the Princes.
  • Mizaistom restrained the Twelfth Prince while Joey, Hisoka, and Kurapika fought her Guardian Nen Beast, but the Fifth Prince’s beast forced a Black Pill on her.
  • Joey and Ging destroyed Nasubi’s Urn, ending the black aura and the Succession War.
  • Joey crossed the Dark Gate with the expedition, rewound time to warn Ging and Cheadle about Pap, and discovered that the forest mist drained life energy.
  • Joey and his allies crossed the Forest Sea and lake, fought Brion, and reached the Ancient City ruins.
  • Benjamin cleared a path through the forest, and Cheadle let Kakin scout ahead rather than attack them.
  • Joey and Ging explored the Nochi Holy Land Research Institute and discovered life-energy stock solution and tanks that manufactured the Hundred Ghosts.
  • Ging identified Tuk Shale, and Joey’s group followed Brion after Tuk Shale and the Cat of Reincarnation disappeared.
Chapters 306–405 Read from Ch. 306

Arc 13The Rewinding Succession War

Joey joined the fight against Nasubi Hui Guo Rou and the deadly forces aboard Black Whale 1, using his abilities to battle the King’s forces and protect the Princes. After time rewound twice, Joey and his allies uncovered Nasubi’s manipulation of the Princes, but the conflict left the Twelfth Prince apparently dead and Woble in Kurapika’s arms.

  • Ging explained that Nasubi had created the organs and body parts tied to the Princes, then gave Joey five hundred million Jenny as compensation for testing him.
  • Joey and Ging gathered allies against Nasubi, while the Hunter Association, Mafia, and private forces fought through the ship as fires, toxic smoke, and a skeletal monster threatened everyone aboard.
  • Joey reached the Upper Tier with the United Army, destroyed Brain’s connected body parts, and helped the Eighth Queen purify the spreading black aura with her post-mortem Nen.
  • Joey found Fugetsu carrying Woble, but she died as he tried to save her, and his Bites the Dust ability rewound time and returned him to the Lower Level without Woble.
  • Joey told Ging that he had turned time back an hour, and they joined forces to investigate the First Queen and prepare for the battle as the King’s Area rose to the Upper Tier.
  • Joey and his allies fought Nasubi’s forces, destroyed the giant eyes, and discovered that Mumuzawa had fled with Fugetsu, Kacho, and Woble through Fugetsu’s portal.
  • Joey realized that Nasubi had controlled Momoze and that her attack had triggered another rewind, then he and Kurapika set out to restrain her.
  • Mizaistom restrained the Twelfth Prince as Joey, Hisoka, and Kurapika fought her Guardian Nen Beast, but the Fifth Prince’s beast forced a Black Pill on her and a Nen Beast Clone appeared on Joey’s shoulder.
Chapters 306–33025 summaries Read

Arc 14Across the Dark Continent

Joey helped end the Succession War by destroying the Urn, then joined the expedition across the Imaginary Continent and through the Dark Gate. On the Dark Continent, the party encountered Pap and a life-draining mist as Joey searched for ways to understand and survive the threats.

  • Joey used Bites the Dust to expose the black aura’s weakness, and Ging helped him destroy Nasubi’s Urn, ending the aura and the Succession War.
  • Joey learned that Izunavi and the others had survived, then explored the Unexplored Waters with Ging and Morel while scouting ahead of Black Whale 1.
  • Joey joined the Hunter Association’s inland expedition, studied life-energy-absorbing scales, and fought Monster Insects and a Fire Dragon alongside Cluck and Leorio.
  • Joey’s group crossed the Imaginary Continent and reached the Dark Gate, where the Gatekeeper tested the expedition before allowing it onto the Dark Continent.
  • Beyond joined Cheadle’s expedition, and Joey traveled with Zigg as the groups headed toward the Ancient Labyrinth City through a dangerous forest.
  • Pap attacked the expedition at night, causing people to shrivel and smile, and Joey used Bites the Dust to return to camp and warn Ging and Cheadle.
  • Joey and the team investigated Pap with camera-bearing hummingbirds and Nen Beasts, then avoided Kakin’s route and continued cautiously through the forest.
  • After a thick fog covered the Forest Sea, Joey found that mist in a bottle drained ants’ life energy and turned their bodies into mist.
Chapters 331–35525 summaries Read

Arc 15The Root Beneath the Forest

Joey and his allies crossed the Forest Sea and lake, then fought through Brion and the living forest while searching for a way to the Ancient City. The group regrouped above the ruins as Kakin’s forces cleared a path, and Cheadle chose to let them scout ahead.

  • Joey survived the Forest Sea’s trial, learned how its recognition protected travelers, and reached the Giant Tree with Beyond and Zigg.
  • Kakin’s survivors emerged from the Forest Sea, and Joey’s group crossed the lake in a concealed ship while battling shelled monsters, bloody threads, and the Black Dragon.
  • Joey and Ging led a separate team against Brion, using Heartbreaker Attack chariots and other attacks to clear a route toward the forest.
  • Joey and Ging discovered that ancient statues attacked when unobserved, then crossed the statues’ territory as the Brion vanished.
  • Beyond’s airship crashed in a storm, while Joey’s team endured timed monster attacks and Joey discovered divine patterns and creatures among the poplars.
  • Joey rescued List in a robot, and he and List found Dwun before joining Ging to uncover Kakin’s team beneath an energy barrier in the Ancient City ruins.
  • Joey healed the reunited team, and Ging proposed taming a flying dragon while List studied the machinery that stopped him from copying one.
  • Benjamin cleared a path through the forest with a Nen-charged sphere, while Cheadle refused Beyond’s suggestion to attack Kakin and let them scout ahead.
Chapters 356–38025 summaries Read

Arc 16The Nochi Institute

Joey’s group explored the Ancient City’s trains and the Nochi Holy Land Research Institute, uncovering its life-energy systems and manufactured monsters. After identifying Tuk Shale and entering the chamber where the Hundred Ghosts were made, Joey and the others followed Brion toward the vanished Cat of Reincarnation.

  • Joey’s group investigated the underground trains, fought their guards and monsters, and discovered a chained Brion before escaping the train as it departed.
  • Joey’s group joined Cheadle’s Hunter Association team and pursued Kakin and Beyond’s Team to the Iron Tower, where the institute’s passage opened and the Brion began growing again.
  • Inside the institute, Joey and Ging explored its workshops and learned that the monsters carried life-energy stock solution that could increase aura capacity.
  • Joey’s companions used the nutrient tubs to increase their Aura Capacity while Ging identified the concealed old man as Tuk Shale, deputy director of the institute.
  • Beyond’s Team and the Hunter Association fought the Red-Skinned Monster and Great Tengu, while Benjamin and Shizuku stopped Amenosagume and the chamber door began to open.
  • Joey followed the Cat of Reincarnation through an invisible barrier with Tuk Shale, then broke open a tank and found an Akaname inside.
  • Ging identified the tanks as a place where the Hundred Ghosts were manufactured and suggested Brion might be one of them, so Joey’s group followed Brion after the Cat and Tuk Shale disappeared.
Chapters 381–40525 summaries Read
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