Chapter Summaries

Joey and his companions opened the sealed laboratory and crossed into a dark space that drained their Nen and life energy, where they were followed by hidden monsters. Beyond’s Team entered the same darkness while fleeing Nurarihyon, who caught up with them at the closing gate.

• Joey and the others used the melted key to open the Sealed Gate, then followed Ging into the darkness as the gate began to close.
• The doorway drained their life energy and disabled their Nen, forcing them to rely on flashlights, weapons, and supplies from Dwun.
• Joey’s group discovered a deserted town and noticed strange monsters following them, but Ging told them not to attack because the creatures had shown no hostility.
• Beyond’s Team opened another Sealed Gate and rushed through to escape Nurarihyon, who appeared at the closing entrance.

Beyond's team reached the Sealed Gate while Nurarihyon tried to break in, and Cheadle's group found Bartholomew rice in the paddies near Small Town. As Zigg and the others prepared to leave, they witnessed Nurarihyon confront the Town Mayor, and the two sides erupted into battle.

• Beyond's team survived the impact at the Sealed Gate, entered Zetsu as their Life Energy drained, and began recovering and exploring while Nurarihyon's forces battered the gate.
• Cluck identified the rice in the paddies as Bartholomew, the plant that produced Longevity Rice, and Cheadle's group began researching and guarding it as the encroaching Blue Fields threatened to contaminate it.
• Zigg, Illumi, Kalluto, and Hisoka left Cheadle's group, intending to explore other Stone Gates rather than pursue the difficult assassination of Brion, whom they believed to be the Wood Wraith.
• At the shattered Stone Gate, Zigg and the others saw the Hundred Ghosts surround the people of Small Town and wait for Nurarihyon to arrive.
• Nurarihyon confronted the Town Mayor, and after their argument escalated, both sides attacked each other.

Nurarihyon fought the Town Chief until the Town Chief bargained to lead him to the Sealed Gate, which he opened with a key. Meanwhile, Ging followed a newly reappeared key deeper into the Sealed Land with Joey and the others, leaving them still exploring its dark interior.

• Nurarihyon's Hundred Ghosts overwhelmed the townspeople with their numbers, while God Script shields and talismans let the Town Chief's side defend themselves and recover from injuries.
• Nurarihyon refused to cooperate with the Town Chief at first, but agreed to go with him after the Town Chief warned that breaking the Sealed Gate might not lead to the place Nurarihyon sought.
• The Town Chief used a key to open the Sealed Gate, and he and Nurarihyon rushed inside.
• Ging found that a key had reappeared and was pointing in a direction, so he led Joey and the others onward instead of investigating the distant impacts.
• Joey and the others followed the key through the gloomy area, with the strange creatures still trailing behind them.

Joey and his group followed the key through the ruins while Nurarihyon and the Town Chief confronted Beyond’s Team near another Sealed Gate. The Town Chief used his knowledge of the Challenger rules to escape toward a hidden treasure, but the Puppet Girl brought Beyond back and pulled Nurarihyon into another Duel Space.

• Joey’s group sensed Nurarihyon’s En, changed course, and later returned to the ruins as the monsters trailing them gathered.
• The Town Chief explained that entering through the No. 3 Sealed Gate marked intruders as Challengers, allowing nearby monsters to drag them into one-on-one fights.
• Monsters ambushed Nurarihyon and Beyond’s Team, pulling them into unknown spaces before the two sides could clash.
• The Town Chief destroyed the monster that dragged him into a challenge, escaped a second attacker, and hurried toward the treasure using his knowledge of the area.
• The Puppet Girl appeared and used her threads to bind a monster and bring Beyond back from the challenge space.
• Nurarihyon emerged after Beyond, but the Puppet Girl sent a captured monster at him and dragged him into the Duel Space again.

Beyond, Puppet Girl, and Mikhail escaped while the mercenaries sacrificed themselves to delay Nurarihyon. As Nurarihyon pursued them and the Town Chief headed toward Joey’s group, the Town Chief’s schemes advanced—but he failed to notice that someone had exposed him.

• Beyond ordered a retreat, and Puppet Girl left a miniature puppet to keep Nurarihyon trapped while the group fled in the direction the Town Chief had taken.
• Mikhail signaled the remaining mercenaries to hold the rear; Nurarihyon escaped their traps, killed them, and lost a considerable amount of aura.
• Beyond’s group changed course and concealed themselves from Nurarihyon’s En, while Puppet Girl controlled monsters and they learned that clashes could send opponents into Duel Space.
• The Town Chief followed the glowing key toward Joey’s group, believing Nurarihyon’s strength and intelligence were limited and that the town’s residents could handle the monsters.
• The Town Chief reached the area he sought, unaware that he had been exposed while passing through an ordinary-looking place.

Joey and his companions reached a wish-transformed amusement park in the Ruins Land, where its attractions compelled them to separate and play. Meanwhile, the Town Chief approached the park, Beyond's Team found a field of skeletons, and Nurarihyon turned back to attack the Sealed Gate.

• Dwun detected a powerful intruder, and Ging led the group onward through sudden tornadoes that nearly cost Razor an arm.
• The ruins transformed into an amusement park, and the Deputy Director warned that finding the wish-granting being could make death a luxury.
• Joey and his companions entered the park, where strange performers and cheerful attractions drew them apart and overcame their preparations.
• The Town Chief arrived in the tornado zone and continued toward the amusement park.
• Beyond's Team reached a field planted with dried skeletons while Nurarihyon abandoned his search for them and headed toward the Sealed Gate.
• Nurarihyon found Gyuki still pounding on the Sealed Gate and struck it with a powerful fist.

Nurarihyon regrouped with his Hundred Ghosts as Joey and his companions were caught in the Amusement Park’s sudden transformation into a nightmare. Joey fought off the ride-born children, sensed a powerful unknown figure entering Paradise, and hurried toward the Giant Tree where Ging had summoned them.

• Nurarihyon discovered that his Hundred Ghosts could contact him again and ordered them to explore the space once they broke through the Sealed Gate.
• Killer Queen destroyed the drop tower while rescuing Joey, and the Amusement Park transformed into a fractured hellscape as terrifying children emerged from its rides.
• Joey used his En and the Weather Nen Beast to hold back and destroy the child chasing him from the drop tower.
• Joey sensed an immensely powerful unknown person entering Paradise, but the stranger calmly continued into the park without confronting him.
• Joey sensed that his companions were heading toward Ging at the Giant Tree, found that the tree repelled his En, and rushed to help them.

Joey and the others climbed the Giant Tree to meet Ging, finding a wooden house at its treetop and learning that the being inside was asleep. As they considered how to awaken and accept it, the Town Chief approached the tree and an unknown attacker rushed at Ging.

• The Town Chief entered the amusement park and blended into its celebration, while Joey hurried toward the Giant Tree after sensing the watcher disappear inside the park.
• Joey regrouped with Razor, List, and the others, and they identified the Giant Tree as a smaller likeness of the Wood Wraith before passing through a barrier that absorbed Nen and life energy.
• The group climbed the tree, spotted the Town Chief secretly heading toward them, and continued upward after finding Ging's message and photographing a God Script tablet.
• At the treetop, they found Ging beside a flower-surrounded wooden house and felt an enormous, seemingly unconscious En coming from inside.
• Ging explained through Nen writing that the being in the house was asleep and that they needed to awaken and accept it; as he suggested calling it out, a figure charged at him and a voice shouted, “Shut up!”

Joey challenged the strange child, Jingshu, to a game of gouging out eyes and used his ability to win while protecting his companions. He then proposed a new wager: if he won another game, Jingshu would leave the mountaintop with him.

• A black-eyed child emerged from the cabin and offered to grant a wish to anyone who played a game with it.
• Ging asked what games it would play, and Joey chose gouging out eyes before the Town Chief could speak.
• Joey gouged out his eyes and regenerated them with help from his companions, while the child’s linked game tore out the eyes of everyone else on the mountaintop.
• The Town Chief tried to escape, but the child restrained him and removed his eyes; Joey declared that the child had lost, and it agreed to grant a wish.
• Joey declined the child’s offer to play finger-cutting and body-dismantling games for three wishes, and instead wagered that it would leave with him if he won.

Joey won Kentaiga’s deadly games, and Kentaiga entered his body as the Town Chief attacked the group. Ging, Razor, List, Ida, and Elena killed the Town Chief, and Joey began speaking with Kentaiga inside his mind.

• The child agreed to play only with Joey, and Joey won the finger-cutting game by replacing his fingers with Gold Experience.
• The child challenged Joey to remove his heart, and Joey produced a new heart while keeping another one beating in his chest.
• The child conceded and transformed into black threads that entered Joey, then Joey’s appearance returned to normal as the oppressive aura vanished.
• Razor and List attacked the Town Chief, and Killer Queen blocked his counterattack while Joey pulled List to safety.
• Ging cut the Town Chief in two after suppressing his Nen, and lightning and Nen Bullets from the group destroyed the remains.
• Joey heard the child identify himself as Kentaiga and learned that he could sense certain moods in Joey’s thoughts.

Joey learned that Kentaiga had used games to find someone who would take him away, then stopped a Compulsion from targeting Ging and confronted Kentaiga in his soul world. Joey destroyed Kentaiga’s consciousness and discovered he could control Kentaiga’s black Nen through Killer Queen, leaving him to investigate whether its wish-granting abilities remained.

• Joey questioned Kentaiga about wishes and learned that Kentaiga had been trapped on the treetop and had tested visitors to find someone who would invite him away.
• Joey began to involuntarily make a request to Ging, but used his willpower to stop himself before Ging could become the one who paid the price.
• Joey entered his soul world with Killer Queen and realized his soul could overpower Kentaiga and that Compulsion could be stopped.
• Joey decided Kentaiga’s consciousness was too dangerous and used Killer Queen to destroy it.
• Joey found that the black Nen remained stable and that Killer Queen could control it, though he still needed to test whether it could grant wishes.

Joey discovered an exit as the space began to collapse and used Weather Report to unleash lightning and a tornado against Nurarihyon’s Hundred Ghosts. He confirmed Compulsion still activated when List approached, then faced Nurarihyon as the two drew near.

• Ging pointed out that the sky was tearing apart, and Joey’s En revealed an exit where Nurarihyon’s Hundred Ghosts were entering.
• Joey expanded his En to 3,700 meters and used Weather Report to create a tornado and lightning storm that devastated the Hundred Ghosts.
• Nurarihyon sensed Joey’s Nen, recognized that the space’s restrictions had vanished, and charged toward him.
• Joey stopped List from approaching after sensing Compulsion’s urge, confirming that the ability still worked.
• Joey and Nurarihyon closed the distance as Joey’s group ran toward the exit.

Joey fought Nurarihyon while using Killer Queen to test his defenses and Weather Report to manipulate the atmosphere around them. He trapped Nurarihyon in an icy enclosure, removed its atmosphere, and prepared to use the Weather Nen Beast to create an opening for First Bomb.

• Joey had Killer Queen block Nurarihyon's attacks and asked him to give up his heart, then his head, while Nurarihyon stayed silent and counterattacked.
• Joey kept Nurarihyon occupied as the temperature fell, the atmosphere pressed against him, and ice began forming around them.
• Nurarihyon recognized Joey's ability as Atmosphere Manipulation, but Joey sealed them both inside ice and withdrew with Killer Queen.
• Joey put on a Spacesuit and removed the atmosphere from the enclosure, leaving Nurarihyon in severe distress.
• The Weather Nen Beast rose behind Joey, free to move in the vacuum, as Joey prepared to use First Bomb against Nurarihyon.

Joey used Weather Report and Killer Queen to twist and freeze Nurarihyon, then struck him with a coin as Nurarihyon revived in a stronger form. Joey escaped the collapsing space and flew toward Ging and the others, as the sky shattered and chaotic spatial energy flooded in.

• Joey used Weather Report to control Nurarihyon's blood and forcibly twist his body, but post-mortem Nen revived him in a monstrous form.
• Nurarihyon emerged from the corpse and attacked Joey, but Weather Report's ice blades, freezing rain, and white Nen Beast slowed and trapped him.
• Joey froze Nurarihyon and flicked a coin at him; Nurarihyon sank into darkness, leaving only ash and a coin behind.
• Joey escaped through melting ice as the cavern froze over, then flew toward Ging and the others at the exit.
• The sky shattered around Joey, Ging, and the others, exposing the true Chaotic Space and unleashing raging spatial energy.

Joey escaped the collapsing space with his companions and used Killer Queen’s request-granting power to leave the Ancient City. After confirming that the Herb had removed the soul mark and that they were no longer in danger of erosion, the group prepared to explore the Dark Continent on their own.

• Joey escaped as the stone gate space collapsed, and the Hundred Ghosts scattered after Nurarihyon’s defeat.
• Joey asked Ging to leave the Ancient City, and Ging agreed despite considering whether to seek more Longevity Rice.
• Ging wished for Killer Queen to send the group near the Giant Tree outside the Forest Sea, and they arrived there safely.
• Joey found that some black threads had vanished from Killer Queen after granting the request, while his soul and Ming’s power showed no signs of danger.
• Ging and List confirmed that the Herb had removed their soul marks, and Joey accepted that those still in the Ancient City would have to find the Herb themselves.
• Joey told Ging that he wanted to travel east and see the World Tree.

Nurarihyon was dragged back into the abyss as black threads sealed away its light, while Joey briefly regained control of his body and fell asleep. Outside the cave, monsters gathered and attacked as pillars of light began teleporting people and marking intruders with God Script.

• Nurarihyon reached for a black thread, but it transformed into hands that crushed him and sealed the opening above the abyss.
• Black threads entered Joey, Killer Queen withdrew, and Joey rested again after recalling what had happened.
• The Hundred Ghosts and other monsters fled the Ancient City as Giant Whale, Black Dragon, and Wood Wraith waited outside the cave for what they sought.
• A pillar of light teleported a group of humans away, prompting Black Dragon, Giant Whale, and Wood Wraith to search for them.
• Wood Wraith’s Brion, Black Dragon’s seventeen descendants, and Giant Whale’s seven mechanical dragons entered the cave, where pillars of light pierced and branded the invading monsters with God Script.
• More pillars appeared deeper in the cave, transporting the Phantom Troupe, Hunter Association members, Beyond’s Team, Zoldyck Family members, and Hisoka; no one from Kakin was among them.

After escaping the Labyrinth City, Joey realized that using Gold Experience let his wallet erode his soul, so he put it away despite its usefulness. The group set out east for the World Tree, traveling with Weather Report while List watched for danger.

• The Black Dragon and Giant Whale left the ruined Labyrinth City to pursue the people carried away by pillars of light, while the Wood Wraith sensed a faint connection to them.
• Joey and the others watched pillars of light cross the sky and saw the Black Dragon fly over their camp, but chose not to return to the Labyrinth City.
• Joey recognized that the wallet siphoned away his soul whenever he used Gold Experience and that the Herb had only temporarily severed their connection.
• Joey put the wallet away and considered relying on Weather Report and the Unknown Object instead of risking further soul erosion.
• Ging woke the group, and they traveled east toward the World Tree with Weather Report carrying them while List used a Special Device to detect danger.

Joey and his companions debated why they could not get closer to a distant mountain as they crossed the eastern forest, then continued onward without resolving whether the forest or mountain was changing. At the Dark Gate, Cheadle’s group discovered that everyone who had entered the Ancient City was infected by a force that could eventually transform them like Brion, and they considered how to find a cure.

• After three days crossing the eastern forest without nearing the mountain, Joey, Ging, and the others considered whether the mountain was moving or they had been shrunk.
• Dwun argued that the group could escape a shrinking effect by continuing forward, while Joey questioned the explanation and preferred to proceed cautiously.
• The group resumed traveling through the forest with greater purpose despite reaching no conclusion.
• Cheadle’s Hunter Association group returned to the Dark Gate, where examinations revealed that everyone who had entered the Ancient City had been infected by a peculiar force.
• Piyon suggested that Herb from beyond the Stone Gate might cure the infection, but Cheadle said they had no way to find the people who had left.
• Piyon proposed consulting Virus Hunter Sambika or using God Script to slow the infection, and she hoped to find Joey and Ging for help.

After leaving the Ancient City, Joey’s group encountered the enormous monster whose footprints caused rapid plant growth and concealed petrifying eyes. Joey discovered that the eyes and their power came from experiments involving god script, leaving the group facing another artificial life-form on the Dark Continent.

• Beyond continued exploring the western Dark Continent with his remaining teammates, while Chrollo sought a way to stop his body from turning to gold and refused Illumi’s proposal to return to the Ancient City.
• On their twelfth day out, Joey, Dwun, Ging, and the others confirmed that the distant mountain was an enormous monster and examined the vast footprints it had left behind.
• When Joey entered a footprint, rapidly growing plants attacked him with a shock wave and vines, while eyes in the ground fixed their gaze on him.
• Razor’s Nen Beasts tested the eyes’ power and were petrified, revealing that the effect spread until its targets turned to stone.
• After Joey withdrew and the attack subsided, he saw an eye under Ging’s shovel and recognized the god script within it as evidence that the eye had been created through experiments.

Joey and his companions discovered that the forest might grow on the body of a colossal underground creature, while a giant in the distance planted forests with its bloody footprints. They investigated the strange blood and tested the dangers in the sky, but Joey’s En remained blocked at the creature’s boundary, leaving them to continue exploring its body.

• Ging and Joey uncovered more eye stalks beneath the ground, and Ging’s digging drew blood from what seemed to be an enormous creature.
• Joey and Razor sent a Nen Beast into the sky, where a giant raptor seized and crushed it before flying away and shrinking with altitude.
• A distant monster took a step and left a footprint that filled with blood, then rapidly grew into a forest; Joey and Ging also found plants sprouting where their collected blood had spilled.
• List and Dwun gathered samples and began researching the blood and nearby plants while Joey and Razor tested the sky and Ging explored the new footprint with the Twin Sisters.
• Joey’s En reached an invisible boundary about three thousand five hundred meters away, and the distant mountain-like creature proved to be a frog-like beast lying prone on the ground.