Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ye uncovered the remains of a Nen-using bounty hunter buried beneath the container chamber, along with a fortune and a Hunter License. As he prepared to rebury the body, an antique ring slipped from the dead man’s finger.

• Jiang Ye let Yi Er live and sent him back to Grey Elder with a warning that he would visit in three days.
• Jiang Ye used his shadow perception to discover something buried beneath the chamber and ordered Nue to dig up the ground.
• Jiang Ye found the remains of a long-dead Nen user and uncovered gemstones, gold, and Jenny worth tens of millions.
• Jiang Ye discovered a Hunter License among the buried belongings and stored it and the treasure in his Shadow Space.
• Jiang Ye decided to rebury the bounty hunter’s remains with a marker, but an antique ring fell from the body into the pit.

Jiang Ye discovered a Greed Island entry ring among the dead bounty hunter’s belongings, buried the man, and left with the ring and his other finds. At the Dawn Society headquarters, Nubia concluded that Bo Tong had died in District 13 and ordered his forces to prepare for an attack on the Rust Remains Alliance.

• Jiang Ye found a Greed Island entry ring in the pit and stored it with the gems, gold bars, and Hunter License in Shadow Space.
• Jiang Ye buried the bounty hunter and marked the grave with a piece of scrap steel, saying he had accepted the opportunity the man had sought.
• Nubia learned that Bo Tong and his party had vanished in District 13 and concluded they were dead.
• Nubia ordered his subordinates to gather their people, ready weapons and ammunition, and follow him to District 13.

After Jiang Ye buried the bounty hunter and claimed the Hunter License, Grey Elder learned that the Dawn Society was advancing on the Rust Remains Alliance and decided to exploit the attack. Shattered Eye warned Jiang Ye that Nubia and Grey Elder were both coming for him, and Jiang Ye chose to fight.

• Yi Er told Grey Elder that Jiang Ye had defeated his men, buried the bounty hunter elsewhere, and promised to come in person in three days.
• A scout reported that Nubia of the Dawn Society was leading a large force toward District 13 to attack Jiang Ye.
• Grey Elder ordered his forces to join the Dawn Society and told Yi Er to contact the Ten Dons to borrow a final weapon.
• Shattered Eye learned that Nubia and Grey Elder had both mobilized forces against the Rust Remains Alliance and rushed to warn Jiang Ye.
• Jiang Ye stored the Hunter License and Greed Island entry ring in the Shadow Space and declared that the alliance would fight.

The Rust Remains Alliance prepared its defenses as the Dawn Society arrived with Nubia leading the assault. Just as the two sides faced off, Grey Elder’s force appeared behind the camp, putting the Alliance between both enemy forces.

• Jiang Ye and the Rust Remains Alliance mobilized their members, set defenses, and prepared for attacks from two factions.
• The sentries spotted the Dawn Society approaching with two hundred fighters, three standard-bearers, and Nubia.
• Nubia locked eyes with Jiang Ye and silently vowed to annihilate the Rust Remains Alliance.
• The Alliance’s fighters took their positions as the Dawn Society faced them across the open ground.
• Grey Elder arrived with a second massive force from the road beside and behind the camp.

Grey Elder and Nubia allied to attack Jiang Ye and the Rust Remains Alliance, surrounding their camp with more than 350 fighters. Jiang Ye refused Grey Elder’s offer to surrender, triggered the perimeter traps, and the Dawn Society launched its assault as Grey Elder’s forces held back.

• Nubia and Grey Elder formed a temporary alliance to eliminate Jiang Ye and attack the Rust Remains Alliance.
• Iron Wall rallied the defenders while Gray Beak and Shattered Eye prepared the camp’s defenses.
• Jiang Ye summoned his shadow-controlled abilities and rallied the Rust Remains Alliance fighters.
• Grey Elder offered Jiang Ye a chance to surrender, but Jiang Ye triggered explosives around the camp instead.
• Nubia ordered an all-out attack, and the Dawn Society charged while Grey Elder’s gangsters advanced cautiously and waited.

Jiang Ye rallied the Rust Remains Alliance to defend District 13 as Nubia's Dawn Society attacked and Grey Elder held back his forces. The battle began, leaving Iron Wall locked in combat with the strongest of the Dawn Society's three standard-bearers.

• Nubia led the Dawn Society and Grey Elder's 150 deathsworn surrounded the Rust Remains Alliance camp.
• Jiang Ye urged his warriors to defend their home, and they answered with a united battle cry.
• Jiang Ye ordered the Alliance to attack, and its warriors hurled incendiary bottles, spears, rubble, and other weapons at the advancing Dawn Society.
• Grey Elder watched the fighting without committing his men, while Nubia ordered his forces to charge and take Jiang Ye's head.
• The Dawn Society and Rust Remains Alliance collided, and Iron Wall engaged the strongest of the three standard-bearers.

Jiang Ye's Rust Remains Alliance struggled against the Dawn Society until Gray Beak revealed the firearms Jiang Ye had acquired with a bounty hunter's treasure. The guns turned the battle in the Alliance's favor, but Grey Elder then ordered his own forces to attack.

• Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago fought Dawn Society standard-bearers while Jiang Ye used Rabbit Escape and Nue to support the Rust Remains Alliance's defense.
• As Dawn Society soldiers pressed forward and the Alliance's frontline faltered, Gray Beak reported that the preparations were complete.
• Jiang Ye ordered the cargo-container fortifications opened, revealing firearms and ammunition bought through black-market channels in Central City.
• Jiang Ye ordered the Alliance to open fire, and the barrage devastated the Dawn Society's formation and halted its advance.
• Jiang Ye ordered the Alliance to push forward, and its fighters charged while Rabbit Escape and Nue attacked the disrupted enemy.
• Grey Elder saw the Dawn Society's impending defeat and ordered his guards and armed men to attack.

Grey Elder’s armed forces turned the battle against the Rust Remains Alliance, forcing Jiang Ye to abandon his exhausted tactics and launch a direct attack on Nubia. Jiang Ye charged through the gunfire with Divine Dog: Totality as Nue moved to hold Grey Elder and his guard at bay.

• Grey Elder ordered his 150 mafia deathsworn to fire on the Rust Remains Alliance’s flank, halting their advance and restoring the Dawn Society’s morale.
• Nubia rallied his surviving Dawn Society soldiers and joined Grey Elder’s gunmen in a two-sided barrage that inflicted heavy casualties on Jiang Ye’s forces.
• Jiang Ye withdrew Rabbit Escape and recalled Nue, then summoned Divine Dog: Totality after deciding that defeating Nubia could break the enemy’s resolve.
• Jiang Ye ordered Gray Beak to have the front line retreat behind the fortifications and conserve ammunition while Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago kept the standard-bearers occupied.
• Jiang Ye sent Nue to distract Grey Elder and his Elders’ Guard, then charged Nubia with Divine Dog: Totality, drawing Nubia’s attention.

Jiang Ye and Divine Dog: Totality fought Nubia while Nue battled Grey Elder’s forces, but Nubia’s relentless attacks drained Jiang Ye’s Aura and left him gravely injured. Nubia strode toward the fallen Jiang Ye, declaring the fight over.

• Nubia charged Jiang Ye, but Jiang Ye used Shadow Stealth and Shadow Spikes while Divine Dog: Totality joined the fight.
• Nue attacked Grey Elder’s formation as Grey Beak ordered Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago to retreat behind their shield wall.
• As Jiang Ye’s Aura dwindled, Nubia ignored Divine Dog: Totality’s claws and rushed him with a killing punch.
• Jiang Ye blocked Nubia’s punch with his arms but was hurled across the battlefield and seriously injured.
• Divine Dog: Totality attacked Nubia in fury, but Nubia shook it off and approached the fallen Jiang Ye.

Jiang Ye used shadows cast by the battlefield’s corpses to bind Nubia, then had Divine Dog: Totality mortally wound him and called on the Dawn Society to surrender. As Grey Elder ordered his armored guard to kill Jiang Ye, Toad appeared from the Shadow Space and blocked the descending blade.

• Jiang Ye revealed that he had baited Nubia into striking close and used the corpses’ shadows to bind him.
• Divine Dog: Totality attacked the trapped Nubia, tearing through his Nen Aura and leaving him mortally wounded.
• Jiang Ye announced Nubia’s defeat and offered the Dawn Society’s soldiers a chance to surrender, causing their morale to collapse.
• Grey Elder ordered the armored guard to abandon his fight with Nue and attack Jiang Ye.
• Toad emerged from the Shadow Space, blocked the guard’s blade with his back, and lashed out with his tongue.

Jiang Ye was surrounded by five Nen users after Nubia unleashed his life-consuming secret art, while Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago were pinned down by gunfire. As Chrollo Lucilfer, Shalnark, and Illumi Zoldyck watched, Jiang Ye began a hand sign and summoned Max Elephant.

• Toad blocked the Elder Guard’s attack on Jiang Ye, though a blade aura cut Jiang Ye’s cheek.
• Nubia activated Dawn’s Blessing, and Grey Elder ordered the Elder Guard and three flag bearers to join him.
• Nubia and four other Nen users encircled Jiang Ye as gunmen kept Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago from reaching him.
• Chrollo Lucilfer and Shalnark watched the battle from a scrap-metal framework, and Illumi Zoldyck appeared nearby.
• Jiang Ye formed an elephant-shaped hand sign and shouted, “Max Elephant!!”

Jiang Ye summoned the untamed Max Elephant, whose indiscriminate killing intent turned the battlefield into a danger for both sides. As it attacked Dawn Society soldiers, Nubia ordered the three flagbearers to stop the beast.

• Max Elephant emerged from the shadows, and Nubia realized Jiang Ye had summoned another enormous Nen Beast.
• Jiang Ye warned everyone not to move because Max Elephant attacked whoever moved, while Iron Wall, Shattered Eye, and Bago froze behind cover.
• Max Elephant struck down several Dawn Society soldiers and charged after the survivors.
• Nubia ordered the three flagbearers to stop Max Elephant instead of attacking Jiang Ye.
• The wind-blade flagbearer launched dozens of blades at Max Elephant, but the beast did not dodge.

Jiang Ye’s untamed Max Elephant scattered Nubia and the three flag bearers, but its indiscriminate attacks left Jiang Ye in danger as his Aura ran low. Chrollo Lucilfer intervened just in time to divert the elephant’s charge, then asked how Jiang Ye planned to stop it.

• Max Elephant broke through the Conjuration flag bearer’s wall and snapped the Manipulation flag bearer’s Nen threads, scattering the three flag bearers.
• Nubia tried to bypass Max Elephant and attack Jiang Ye, but the elephant targeted him and sent him flying with a trunk strike.
• Iron Wall realized Jiang Ye was retreating because maintaining Max Elephant, Nue, and Toad was rapidly draining his Aura.
• Max Elephant turned on Jiang Ye and stomped toward him, batting away Toad’s tongue and enduring Nue’s lightning strike.
• Chrollo Lucilfer dropped between Max Elephant and Jiang Ye and flicked a coin into the elephant’s trunk, diverting its charge.
• Chrollo told Jiang Ye his Aura was nearly depleted and asked how he planned to deal with Max Elephant.

Jiang Ye used his remaining Aura to return the rampaging Max Elephant to its cage, then provoked Nubia and asked Chrollo to protect him in exchange for a reason. The chapter ended with Nubia charging at Jiang Ye and Chrollo facing Jiang Ye’s choice.

• Chrollo’s coin struck Max Elephant’s trunk, and he asked Jiang Ye how he planned to stop the beast with his Aura nearly gone.
• Jiang Ye abandoned the impossible exorcism attempt and summoned his shikigami to restrain Max Elephant while he poured Aura into his hand shadow.
• Jiang Ye used Totality and Toad to hold Max Elephant in place, then pulled the Nen Beast back into its cage.
• Jiang Ye taunted Nubia about the Dawn Society’s losses and declared that it had lost face.
• Nubia charged at Jiang Ye, who asked Chrollo to block him in exchange for a reason.

Chrollo Lucilfer intervened to save Jiang Ye from Nubia, then agreed to take half of District 13 in exchange for stopping him. After Nubia and Grey Elder’s forces withdrew, Jiang Ye learned Grey Elder was moving to involve the Ten Dons, while Chrollo and Grey Elder each headed toward Central City.

• Chrollo Lucilfer blocked Nubia’s punch with a coin, and Nubia recognized him as the Phantom Troupe’s leader.
• Jiang Ye and Chrollo agreed that Chrollo would receive half of District 13, and Nubia withdrew with the flag bearers and Grey Elder’s gunmen.
• Jiang Ye collapsed from exhaustion, confirmed he had sealed Max Elephant back into his shadow, and warned Iron Wall that he would have to subdue it alone when it emerged again.
• Shattered Eye told Jiang Ye that Grey Elder’s armored guard had gone to Central City, and Jiang Ye prepared to face the Ten Dons.
• Chrollo told Machi he had helped Jiang Ye because he wanted to see how far he could grow, and said he would take back his investment if Jiang Ye failed to survive.
• Grey Elder sent his armored guard toward Central City, expected the Ten Dons to have received word, and ordered a car so he could go there himself.

Jiang Ye recovered from his battle wounds and arranged to tame Max Elephant while using his deal with Chrollo to deter the Ten Dons. Illumi Zoldyck arrived at the camp on orders from his family head and revealed that the head knew about the deal.

• Jiang Ye woke after nearly a day, drank Gray Beak's medicine, and ordered him to find a remote, spacious place for taming Max Elephant.
• Gray Beak told Jiang Ye that rumors in Central City linked the Rust Remains Alliance with the Phantom Troupe and claimed Jiang Ye had handed Chrollo half of District 13.
• Jiang Ye admitted he had agreed to give Chrollo half the territory and said the Phantom Troupe's name would buy him time against Grey Elder and the Ten Dons.
• Shattered Eye reported that Illumi Zoldyck had entered District 13 alone, and Jiang Ye went to meet him at the camp entrance despite his injury.
• Illumi told Jiang Ye that the Zoldyck family head knew about the deal.

Jiang Ye accepted the Zoldyck Family’s proxy position in District 13, gaining a measure of protection from the Ten Dons as pressure mounted around him. Illumi offered to clear a Dawn Society reconnaissance outpost, while Jiang Ye prepared a site to tame Max Elephant.

• Illumi told Jiang Ye that Grey Elder had reported District 13’s conflict to the Ten Dons, who were angry and might send the Shadow Beasts.
• Illumi offered Zoldyck protection in exchange for Jiang Ye providing access, intelligence, and cover for the family’s commissions, and Jiang Ye accepted.
• Illumi gave Jiang Ye a black case containing proof of his proxy status and revealed that Dawn Society scouts were camped north of the old industrial zone.
• Illumi offered to clear the outpost as a gift, and Jiang Ye accepted the help after Gray Beak confirmed the camp’s presence.
• Jiang Ye ordered Gray Beak to prepare an abandoned steel foundry within three days so he could tame Max Elephant.
• Illumi approached the Dawn Society camp and readied a Nen Needle to attack.

Illumi silently eliminated all seventeen members of the Dawn Society’s northern outpost, and Jiang Ye received the report while training. Jiang Ye continued his Zoldyck Family conditioning and began practicing projectile dodges with Bago, who found a way to make the exercise harder.

• Illumi infiltrated the Dawn Society’s northern camp and killed all seventeen people with Nen Needles in under three minutes.
• Gray Beak reported the deaths to Jiang Ye, including that Illumi had pierced the Ten of a Nen-using captain and killed him with one strike.
• Jiang Ye ordered Gray Beak to finish clearing the steel foundry workshop by the following night so he could use it within three days.
• Jiang Ye asked Bago to throw rocks at him so he could practice dodging projectiles without relying on Shadow Stealth.
• Bago struck a thrown rock with a wooden stick to make it faster and less predictable, and Jiang Ye told him to add another projectile.

Jiang Ye prepared to exorcise Max Elephant by buying protective gear, securing the casting workshop, and restoring his aura. Just before the ritual, Gray Beak reported that Nubia was leading at least three hundred members of the Dawn Society toward District 13.

• Jiang Ye trained with Bago and told him to focus on dodging projectiles and close-combat reactions.
• Jiang Ye bought alloy arm guards, combat gloves, and a stab-resistant vest at Central City's black market.
• Jiang Ye reviewed his plan to exorcise Max Elephant and considered how to manage its strength and his limited aura.
• Shattered Eye reported that Gray Beak had fortified the steel casting workshop and established a guarded perimeter.
• Jiang Ye prepared his equipment and used Ten and Ren breathing exercises to recover his aura before the exorcism.
• Gray Beak told Jiang Ye that Nubia and at least three hundred Dawn Society members were heading toward District 13.

Jiang Ye prepared for Grey Elder’s approach and suspected a Shadow Beast named Worm was moving underground. He entered the steel foundry alone and summoned Max Elephant, leaving the story with him struggling to suppress the untamed Shikigami.

• Gray Beak reported that Grey Elder’s convoy was heading toward District 13 and that Shattered Eye sensed something moving underground.
• Jiang Ye suspected Grey Elder had brought Worm and ordered Gray Beak to buy three red signal flares.
• Jiang Ye inspected the reinforced, cleared steel foundry and ordered Iron Wall to lock him inside until daybreak.
• Jiang Ye prepared to summon Max Elephant, and Iron Wall left after hearing instructions to take the others north if Jiang Ye did not emerge.
• Jiang Ye summoned Max Elephant, whose immense Aura began draining him as it fixed its crimson eyes on him.