I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Ross is just a pseudonym that "Jing Jack" made up. Of course, Jing Yang knows that he is outside and that he is the one controlling that body.

As Xuanlu looked at Jingyang, her heartbeat, along with that of "Jing Jieke" outside the door, seemed so close to her, so clearly audible.

She hesitated, but ultimately didn't ask.

In the world of Nen, some private information can lead to enmity simply by asking about it.

After all, the strength of some Nen abilities lies in the fact that the enemy is unaware of their existence. Only when the enemy is caught off guard can the Nen ability be effective.

Melody's own ability to evoke sounds is just like that.

If someone knows about your Nen ability beforehand, they only need to plug their ears with earplugs, and your Nen ability will have almost no effect on them...

"Don't be so cautious." Jingyang was amused by Xuanlu's expression. "I'm a good person."

Upon hearing this, the two female bodyguards who were talking by the bed simultaneously looked exasperated.

The melody is silent and speechless.

Jingyang turned his head and asked, "Xiao Di, am I a good person?"

“Of course,” Little Drop said calmly.

“Look,” Jingyang said to Xuanlu with a smile, but the second half of the sentence was only mouthed without being spoken: “Since I’m a good person and you’re a good person, let’s be friends?”

Melody looked surprised. She watched Zhen Yuanzi's moving lips and clearly heard Ross's voice coming from outside the door, saying the exact same words, as if Ross was speaking for Zhen Yuanzi.

Are they the same person?

Could Ross be Zhen Yuanzi's... Nen clone?

Jingyang wasn't so selfless as to reveal all his Nen abilities and melodies, but releasing this small signal of goodwill was enough.

Jingyang and Xiaodi left the guest room, and "Jing Jack" who was waiting at the door had already left.

Since they weren't "living people" to begin with, there was no need for them to make a face and engage in feigned communication.

Jing Yang had already decided to leave, so he directly controlled "Jing Jack" to slip away first. He and Xiao Di strolled leisurely through the villa, heading towards the entrance.

At the same time, the bodyguards in the villa, whether they were Nen users or ordinary bodyguards, as well as the head butler and his assistant, were all simultaneously possessed by Jing Yang's consciousness in an instant, piercing the roughly similar rose-gold pentagram marks on their palms. Once the stars were broken, Jing Yang's consciousness ceased to possess them, and the control naturally dissipated.

For these people, it was just a momentary daze; without prior suspicion, they wouldn't make any further connections.

Since the 15 billion yuan reward for the nun had already been received, Jingyang decided not to leave any spies at the home of the friendly tycoon.

Even if Si Ma Ke goes back on his word and doesn't prepare wedding invitations for Jing Yang and the other two, it doesn't matter. Jing Yang has already memorized the time and place of the wedding, as well as the names and identities of the newlyweds. At worst, he can just go through the trouble of tampering with the invitations and sneaking into the wedding without them.

Speaking of which, Kurapika could have easily continued doing what he used to do, taking on a mission as a civilian hunter to sneak into a wedding... then someone would probably hire bodyguards, right?

Jingyang and Xiaodi walked out of the gate and looked at the starry night sky above.

Thinking of the folk hunters, Jingyang couldn't help but touch his heart.

If it weren't for the worry that hunter missions might result in casualties and him inhaling death energy, Jingyang would actually like to try his hand at being a civilian hunter...

Unfortunately, the risks are too high, and it's best not to do anything reckless without addressing any underlying heart conditions.

As for whether to participate in the Hunter Exam at the end of this year or the beginning of next year, and how to account for the high casualty rate of the Hunter Exam, we can only talk about it when the time comes... At worst, I can just use stars to control all the examinees, making it difficult for them to die even if they want to, and that will solve the problem.

Most of the candidates who participate in the Hunter Exam are ordinary people. When Hisoka participated at the beginning of the manga, he could pass the test with just a playing card. With Jingyang's current strength, he could also crush them with just one finger.

"Ugh!"

Someone nearby sighed.

Jingyang turned his head and said, "The hunter has arrived."

Professional bounty hunter Xi Kuan leaned against the wall by the main entrance, gazing at the starry sky above. He sighed and said, "After seeing your fight with those bodyguards, I realized that the gap between people is even greater than the gap between a person and a dog... As for the male bodyguard, I definitely couldn't beat him in close combat. As for the female, I couldn't even see through the hundreds of weapons she supposedly used to transform her qi, let alone defend against her sneak attacks..."

"Huh, you're still here?" Jingyang said in surprise.

"What do you mean I'm still here!" Xi Kuan said. "Didn't we come together? You haven't completely forgotten about me, have you?"

Jingyang said, "That's really true..."

Xi Kuan was speechless and irritated as he lit a cigarette.

Jingyang asked curiously, "After passing the Hunter Test, won't the Association arrange a master to guide your Nen ability? As long as you train diligently according to the guidance and accumulate strength, it's impossible that even those two civilian hunter bodyguards would find it troublesome, right?"

Especially when you think about this guy in the manga, Hoshihiro, a proper bounty hunter from the Hunter Association, a professional! He led about a hundred underlings to challenge the Kukuroo Mt., only to be wiped out by a 10-year-old girl, an apprentice butler, who killed them all. Hoshihiro himself realized how vast the world was, and after becoming disheartened, he stayed to guard the Zoldyck family's gate...

Shame on you!

Why didn't you think of this earlier? Aren't the experts from the Hunter Association far more powerful than 10-year-old apprentice butler Canaria?

Jing Yang pondered to himself that it wasn't surprising. The Hunter Association was a completely loose organization that basically left its members to their own devices. The Hunter License was even considered by the public as a license to kill, which showed how lawless and unscrupulous those who obtained professional hunter qualifications were. The association didn't have much control over its members and probably didn't want to interfere.

This laissez-faire approach meant that only true elites and geniuses had the opportunity to come into contact with the Hunter Association's elite class and those true masters.

If someone has mediocre talent, like the bounty hunter Hoshihiro in front of us, they will end up with a narrow-minded perspective, just like an ordinary person, even though they have already obtained a hunter's license.

As soon as Gon and Killua passed the test, Yun Gu, the acting master of the Heart Source School, came to teach them about Nen abilities. Later, Bisky, an old lady, even came to personally train them, opening up their Ren and Du meridians and cleansing their marrow to transform them... Such opportunities are something that low-level professional hunters like Hidehiko wouldn't even dare to dream of.

“As long as you diligently cultivate and accumulate strength according to the instructions…” Xi Kuan became increasingly speechless, even helpless. “Cultivation is not as easy as you say.”

Chapter 155 Back to Kukuroo Mountain

Despite the bounty hunter's heartfelt and sincere words, Jing Yang still couldn't truly understand his feelings.

Little Di didn't quite understand either.

In particular, it was only after she met Jingyang that she began to cultivate with him daily, accumulating Nen energy and training her Nen abilities... Before that, when she was alone, the total amount of Nen energy she accumulated had never been specifically used in such a "hard" way as it is now. Instead, in the process of using various Nen abilities in daily life, little by little, she unconsciously felt that the total amount of Nen energy was slightly but constantly increasing.

After persisting in cultivation with Jingyang, the efficiency with which her total mental energy increased in the past six months far exceeded the sum of all her previous years.

It seems that someone like Hoshino belongs to the type of Nen user that Bisky described as needing about a month of hard work to "extend 'hardness' by 10 minutes"...

Jingyang figured it out.

However, without such "hard work," it might take more than a month, or even two or three months, to extend the "hardness" by 10 minutes, or 600 breaths.

600 units of gas.

This level of mental energy growth was something Jingyang used to achieve in less than two days on average. The difference in cultivation efficiency is incomparable.

Jing Yang patted the broad, thin shoulder and said earnestly, "Let's think about something happy. For example, I've already used that Shadow Assassin Jack. Now you can use him to exchange for a bounty, right? How much is he worth again?"

In the darkness, "Jing Jack," who had been manipulated by Jing Yang to leave beforehand, walked outside the villa's wall when a melodious voice suddenly came from the high wall: "Zhen Yuanzi."

"Jing Jieke" turned his head and asked, "Did you need something from me?"

The melody in the night said, "Indeed, this is you too."

"Jing Jieke" laughed: "Little Fatty, aren't you afraid I'll silence you for revealing other people's secrets without permission?"

“If you really wanted to kill us, you would have done it already, and I couldn’t have stopped you.”

"Don't be too modest. Your piece of music is indeed beautiful, and I was indeed influenced by it and became captivated by it."

“But what about that gray bird that flew into the house?” Melody said softly. “It was also controlled by you, wasn’t it? My music might be able to interfere with you, but it’s hard to say that it can really interfere with it… When I took the initiative to attack it, it was only weakened a bit, and it didn’t kill me.”

"Jing Jieke" said thoughtfully, "You make it sound like I'm some great guy, which makes me really want to kill him and see for myself!"

The melody fell silent, then whispered, "You mean no harm."

She paused for a moment, then asked, "Do you really know me? Or did you find out about my past from somewhere?"

"Why do you ask?"

“You’re not at all surprised that I’ve guessed your thoughts several times—and my judgment that you weren’t surprised was also a guess at my thoughts. Clearly, you’re very aware of my abilities,” Melody said. “Besides, it seems that only out of compassion could someone as ugly and strange as me show you such kindness.”

Are all hunters this good at guessing? And they always guess right on the first try.

I genuinely didn't have any ill intentions towards her because I knew about Melody's backstory. After all, this girl was quite unlucky, not a bad person, and quite capable. Apart from her unattractive appearance, she could be considered a tragic heroine, so making friends with her wouldn't be a loss.

"Jing Jieke" commented, "It is indeed a bit ugly."

I don't know what to say about the melody.

"Have you never thought about restoring yourself?" "Jing Jieke" asked with a smile, "to regain your youthful appearance."

The melody was taken aback, and she shook her head sadly, saying, "Don't joke with me..."

Her disfigurement is said to be due to a dark sonata created by the demon king, which is the demon king's curse. How can this be broken?

"The Demon King's Curse? Just listen to it and forget about it. If you're unsure what to do, just categorize it as a special type of Nen ability," Jingjie said. "Since it's a result caused by Nen ability, there's a way to restore it using Nen ability."

Melody grabbed her hair with her two chubby little hands and continued to shake her head, saying, "I don't have any external energy on me worth removing."

Since there is no thought that can be eliminated, how can we talk about erasing or restoring it?

Melody suffered a major change, and as a Nen user, she naturally sought ways to avert the calamity she had encountered, but ultimately to no avail.

"Perhaps," Jing Jieke said indifferently. "If, and I mean if, there were such an opportunity in the future, if someone could help you restore your appearance and cure your body, how much money would you be willing to spend?"

The melody said earnestly, "I am willing to give everything."

"Leave me your phone number."

As "Jing Jack" was speaking, Jing Yang also took out his phone, saved the phone number that Xuanlu had given him into his contacts, and simultaneously controlled "Jing Jack" to reply: "Oh, don't misunderstand, this is to receive mail, three wedding invitations. You're not trying to renege on your promise, are you?"

With a wave of his hand, "Jing Jie" drove away under the watchful gaze of the melody in the night.

Jing Yang put away his phone and said, "Let's go, let's take a trip to Kuku Lu Mountain."

……

However, before heading to Kukuroku Mountain, Jingyang dealt with the Shadow Assassin Jack first.

With the Hunter's License paving the way, the bounty of over 72 million for Jenny went through the procedures smoothly with minimal skimping on intermediaries. Adding to that the 30 million bounty on the other two assassins already dealt with, these three easy targets alone earned Jing Yang a small fortune… well, a small fortune in the Hunter world. Converted to RMB in his previous life, that's roughly one-twentieth of a small fortune.

These were all handled by Xi Kuan, a veteran bounty hunter. Jing Yang wanted to share a portion of his commission, but Xi Kuan waved his hand and declined, since he wasn't the one who captured these three.

"But I'm not without requests." Xi Kuan said seriously, biting his cigarette, "When you go to Kukuroku Mountain to visit the Zoldyck family, could you take me with you?"

Jingyang also said seriously, "Although we are indeed going to Kukuroku Mountain, we are really not going to visit the Zoldyck family."

"Huh?" Xi Kuan was stunned.

"We're really not familiar with each other," Jingyang said sincerely. "We'll be kicked out."

You said you were going to Kukuroku Mountain with such certainty, as if you were going on a trip or shopping.

Xiao Di explained to Jing Yang, "There is a trial gate in Kuku Lu Mountain. I made a promise with him before that we would try it together when we had the chance."