I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Chapter 157 The original poster

Before they knew it, it was October 1995, and a light snow began to fall in this bustling city with the Sky Arena towering high.

It's so cool!

The rock finch shook its feathers on the hotel rooftop and spread its wings contentedly.

Not long after, a black-haired girl wearing glasses walked out from the crowd at the entrance of the bustling breakfast shop, and Yanzhu quietly flew over to follow her.

Xiao Di carried two large bags of breakfast and walked along the bustling street. In the blink of an eye, the two large bags disappeared from her hands, and she walked back to her rented apartment with a calm expression.

She and Jingyang rented an apartment on the 4th floor.

As soon as Xiao Di stepped downstairs, she felt herself entering a subtle realm of energy.

This is Jingyang's "circle".

Xiao Di looked up and saw that the apartment on the 4th floor was about 20 meters above the ground.

Throughout the ascent, Xiao Shi was constantly enveloped by Jing Yang's "circle," and the feeling of being watched by a certain eye was something that Xiao Shi, a Nen user with considerable strength, could not ignore.

Even the little gray bird flying nearby seemed to sense the 'circle' and chirped nervously.

Click! Little Drop walked up to the 4th floor, opened the door and entered. At the same time, a ball of air in her hand materialized into a "Bulging-Eyed Fish" vacuum cleaner, sucking away the snowflakes on herself and Rock Sparrow, and releasing two large bags of breakfast.

Every box of breakfast was still piping hot, just as it had been packed and packaged from the store.

The 'circle' in the room dissipated like the wind, finally shrinking to the bedroom.

The bedroom door opened, and Jingyang, dressed only in a tank top and shorts despite the cold weather, came out. "Why are there two portions?"

"Let's eat together." Xiao Di took out two large bags of breakfast.

“Then let’s eat!” Jingyang nodded, took a pair of chopsticks, and sat down with Xiaodi to eat.

A steaming hot breakfast, and a sweet, cozy girl.

With daily practice, his strength gradually increased.

In the past two or three months, Jingyang has not focused all his energy on accumulating mental energy, but half a month ago, his total mental energy finally broke through the 2 mark.

To date, his total recitation volume has reached approximately 22000 breaths!

It's even slightly better than Gon's Nen after Bisky's second training in the Chimera Ant arc of the manga.

If 22,000 units of Qi were completely exhausted through the entire process of "firm" cultivation, it would take a full 6 hours and 6 minutes.

Because of this, Jingyang can only practice the complete "firm" form once a day at most.

How many six-hour days are there in a day?

Eating, drinking, and relieving oneself all take time, and the fundamental skills of Nen ability—"Entanglement," "Absolute," "Practice," and "Ignition"—also require daily practice. The derived techniques—"Condensation," "Flow," "Hardness," "Circle," and even "Circle"—all require diligent practice. As the saying goes, "Practice makes perfect," and while a solid foundation in Nen is important, these basic skills that enable Nen to be fully utilized are even more crucial and should not be neglected.

Therefore, at this stage, Jingyang's spiritual energy growth has begun to slow down.

This is largely similar to the stage Yun Gu initially described.

For talented Nen users, the initial growth of Nen will be very smooth.

As the amount of mental energy increases, approximately every 1 breaths, or the duration of maintaining "firmness," every 3 hours, is equivalent to a step or a threshold.

No matter how talented Jingyang is, at this stage, his growth in strength is not as significant as it was at the beginning.

Or to put it another way, Jingyang's current level has reached a rather remarkable level.

With a Nen capacity of 2, even among all Nen users in the world, he is definitely someone to be proud of.

His mastery and solid foundation in basic skills such as Entangling Technique, Hair Condensation, and Hardening Technique are so high that even the Hunter Association Chairman Netero takes notice of him.

If such comprehensive strength could still surge every three days or skyrocket every five days as before, that would be truly strange.

Jingyang could sense that if he wanted to continue to improve, especially if he wanted to continue to increase his total mental capacity, the ordinary practice of "firmness" might no longer be enough.

The cultivation methods are no longer keeping up with the current level of one's own strength.

Since mental ability resides in the mind, if Jingyang himself has begun to doubt the current efficiency of his "perseverance" practice, then there is no need to pretend to persist; he needs to find another way.

Mo Laowu's total energy is at least 7. I wonder if a master like him has ever been at a stage like I am now.

How did they get through it?

Are there more efficient methods of spiritual practice?

If you use 7 units of Qi to "firm" it all once, it will take about 19 and a half hours!

You can't just stand there all day without sleeping, eating, or working and still be exhausted, can you? Who could stand that? And if you can't practice every day, but only occasionally come here, how much can you gain from your practice?

No matter how you look at it, a master of Mo Laowu's level of mental capacity could never have accumulated mental capacity simply by using Jingyang's previous cultivation methods.

...Of course, it's also possible that someone was born with good health and, upon reaching that age, their mental capacity naturally increased to 7.

After eating and drinking his fill, Jingyang leaned back in his chair and patted his belly.

Xiao Di raised her hand and summoned the bulging-eyed fish, which sucked away a pile of lunch boxes on the table.

Jingyang suddenly laughed and said, "Practicing the 'circle' too extensively isn't necessarily a good thing."

A small doubt.

“Some people are already doing morning exercises at home early in the morning…” Jingyang complained.

Although the apartment building is not full, there are quite a few residents.

As Jingyang's basic skills became more solid and proficient, the range of his energy dispersion continued to expand, and today he can form a field with a radius of about 30 meters.

This also meant that whenever he practiced "circles" in his apartment bedroom, he would always be forced to see what was happening in the homes of other residents in the building.

It's a pity I'm really not good at transformation techniques, otherwise I would have at least changed the path of the 'circle', leaving a few gaps in the 'circle's' domain or something. Otherwise, every time I practice, I'm forced to meticulously monitor the situation in other people's homes, making me feel like a voyeur...

“Oh right,” Xiao Di rummaged in her pocket and took out a cell phone, “I got a notification from Sky Arena.”

This is Jingyang's phone. When Jingyang is cultivating, he usually lets Xiaodi watch his phone so he doesn't miss any messages.

Jingyang opened his phone and saw, "Finally, someone's here."

This notification from Sky Arena was naturally for the challenge match that Jingyang had applied for as the host.

October 20th, 1 PM, 244th floor!

“Meng Linqi = Zhuo Luo…” Jing Yang looked at the name of the person who accepted his challenge in the notification, “I wonder which one is stronger, this one or the one who beat Zhe Hao?”

Two months ago, Zhehao's landlord challenge started, and Jingyang naturally went to watch it.

Zhehao, who was determined to abandon his Nen manipulation ability that forced a 50/50 split in the arena, ultimately lost to his opponent. However, judging from Zhehao's appearance at the time, he probably hadn't given up on continuing the challenge.

Jingyang wanted to directly challenge the poster who had defeated Zhehao, which would save him from waiting for two more months. However, after defeating Zhehao, the poster simply disappeared and had long since flown off to some corner of the world to enjoy himself.

Just like the 200-floor contestants have a rest period, each floor owner who wins a match can refrain from accepting challenge applications for at least a year. This also gives challenged floor owners time to rest and recover.

As for losing? Losing means losing the title of host and being replaced by a challenger, which is nothing to say.

"If we miss this, who knows when we'll be able to apply again!" Jingyang walked to the window and stretched.

He made up his mind that if he lost this time, he wouldn't bother to apply to challenge the host again. Who could stand waiting for another few months or half a year?

……

"There's no other way. I've already put it off for so long. If I cancel this time, they'll probably strip me of my hosting privileges. Who can stand that?"

Sky Arena, floor 244, the entire floor belongs to the floor owner.

Meanwhile, in a luxurious room on this floor, a dark-skinned young man with thick lips, wrapped in a bath towel, was talking to someone casually, laughing heartily: "Anyway, it won't take much effort. I happen to have a few days of vacation left, so I'll let the sick dog cover for me for a few days. I'm coming to the Sky Arena to relax and show the younger generation what it means to be outmatched!"

If Jingyang were here, he would probably recognize this person.

This was a shadow beast he unexpectedly encountered on his way to the Sky Arena to reunite with Shizuku.

The person on the other end of the call said speechlessly, "I really don't understand you. Why would a dignified Yin Beast care about this position of Lord of the Tower..."

The Yin Beast Purple Ape's expression turned serious. "You're wrong about that. Don't underestimate the Tower Masters on the top floor just because most of the people in the Sky Arena are trash. The Tower Masters are usually elusive, so who knows if there are any true experts among them?"

"Like you?" the other person asked.

“That’s right, just like me!” the Yin Beast Purple Ape said frankly, “and Alpha = Edward.”

"Don't mention that idiot!" the other person snapped. "We thought he was the most promising candidate to fill the vacancy of the Ten Yin Beasts, but who knew he would inexplicably jump off the Sky Arena and commit suicide..."

Purple Ape said, "Didn't they say he really went to the tomb of the True Martial King? He went mad because he was cursed in the tomb."

The other side fell into silence.

Purple Ape pressed on, "Is it true? Since Edward went to the True Martial King's Tomb, did he bring back any treasure? Since he's already been there, does the gang have the tomb's address? Or a treasure map or something?"

Demonic realm, secret realm...

Treasure, secret treasure...

Rare birds, exotic animals...

These aren't things that only hunters are interested in.

Once powerful Nen users obtain a clue or smell the scent of treasure, who would be willing to give it up?

"That's not something you should be thinking about," the other person said coldly.

"Hey, be nicer to me," Purple Ape laughed. "Or I might take another vacation next month for the wedding!"

beep, beep, beep...

The person on the other end hung up the phone immediately.

Purple Ape pursed his thick lips, picked up a few videotapes from the coffee table, put them into the DVD player, turned on the widescreen TV, and leaned back comfortably on the sofa to watch.

These are video recordings of matches by a contestant named Zhen Yuanzi.

Purple Ape watched casually, occasionally focusing his gaze to observe the changes in Zhen Yuanzi's aura in the video.

"Your foundation is quite good! You're not one of those idiots who only know how to 'entangle' but don't even understand 'practice' and think they can challenge the host."

"What are they doing? Throwing a baseball?"

"wrong……"

Purple Ape stared at the recording of the match between Jingyang and Yun Gu, and soon frowned.