I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

"Try using 'circle'," Little Drop suggested. "Maybe we can see some details."

“Let’s go, let’s get right to it.” Jingyang immediately stood up.

……

When the two returned to the hospital, they saw Kurapika sitting on the bed as soon as they opened the ward door. His hands were loosely clasped and hanging down on his crossed legs. He was meditating with his eyes closed, and his Nen energy was continuously released and then bound together at its maximum extent, like a white light shield that was invisible to the naked eye.

"You're very hardworking," Jingyang said. "But this 'firmness' is much smaller than before."

Kurapika opened his eyes. "Because I'm still recovering. Why did I release it again?"

After the two entered, Jingyang closed the door, and Xiaodi immediately materialized a bulging-eyed fish, releasing the cracked black jade Buddha statue and placing it on the floor of the ward.

"With the Buddha's supervision, one can be more focused in spiritual practice."

Jingyang spoke in a serious tone, and he and Xiaodi sat down on the ground, one on the left and one on the right of the black jade Buddha statue.

Kurapika was initially puzzled, but soon saw the aura around Shizuku rapidly dissipate, vaguely forming a domain with a radius of about four meters centered on her.

Immediately afterwards, the domain released from Jingyang covered the 'circle' on Xiaodi's body, eventually completely enveloping the entire ward.

"The Buddha you mentioned who oversees spiritual practice, are you referring to yourself?" Kurapika asked, closing his eyes.

"Shh!" Jing Yang didn't turn around. "Don't even think about slacking off."

Kurapika smiled and continued to focus on his training.

The entire black jade Buddha statue is incorporated into Jingyang and Xiaodi's "circle".

Its outline, the jade-like texture of the stone, and every crack that covered the entire statue were clearly imprinted in the minds of the two of them...

Its features resembled those of the True Martial King Hugo, with black jade cracks spreading like a spiderweb, and white energy seeping into its interior in wisps...

The black lines that were dismembered inside the crack gradually emerged in the 'circle' as if in a three-dimensional model.

[Little Di, did you see the word "God" inside?]

【Yes. I saw it.】

[This seems incomplete.]

【Yes……】

Jingyang tried to piece together the black runes he had sensed little by little in his mind, but no matter how he tried, it didn't quite match up.

Either a part of the character "神" (god) was completely damaged, worn away, or disappeared, making it impossible to piece together completely.

Or perhaps it's because of these cracks that the black lines in certain parts make it impossible to distinguish front from back, left from right, or even top from bottom from inside... This thing is very likely embedded in the Buddha's head. Once it cracks, becomes misaligned, or wears down, it's extremely difficult to restore it in a three-dimensional space.

Ultimately, to no avail, Xiao Di had no choice but to give up. Turning her head, she saw Jing Yang with his eyes tightly closed, sweat pouring down his forehead, and most frighteningly, it seemed as if smoke was billowing from his ears!

"Ah, no way." Jing Yang opened his eyes, propped himself up on the ground, and sighed, "My brain is overloaded..."

He and Shizuku exchanged a glance, then turned to look at Kurapika on the hospital bed.

After recounting what they had just done, Kurapika said, "I'd be happy to use my brain to do a little bit of a favor, but unfortunately, I don't know how to 'round' yet."

Jing Yang wasn't disappointed. He suddenly realized that Sister Rabbit, Bi You, was probably on her way.

Back then, Sister Rabbit was in Xian Shui Mountain with a notebook in one hand and a circle that looked like a code symbol in the other, looking as dashing as if she had run out of the Matrix movie set... Deciphering and reconstructing the character "神" (god) in the Buddha statue's head shouldn't be too difficult, right?

So Jingyang asked Xiaodi to put away the Buddha statue, and this time they really did meditate together in the ward.

The three maintained similar postures, sitting cross-legged with their energy supporting a firm foundation. As their mental energy circulated and dissipated, their hearts became increasingly resilient.

The nurse knocked on the door and entered. Seeing the three people in this pose, she couldn't help but wonder if they were practicing some kind of yoga.

……

The next morning, the door to the ward was pushed open with a bang. Beyo, still dressed as a bunny girl, looked into the room. Kurapika had just been looking out the window, and Jingyang was lying on the bed with his mouth open as Xiaodi broke open an apple with her bare hands and fed it to him... Beyo ignored them and asked, "Where's the Buddha statue?"

Xiao Di looked at her.

Biyou immediately understood and reminded him, "Don't release it here. Let's find another place. This thing might be Kakin's national treasure."

Jingyang clicked his tongue. "Sister Rabbit, isn't your reminder a little late?"

Chapter 173 Twenty-Nine Divine Statues

Back on Xian Shui Mountain, Xiao Di had used her ability to detoxify the bulging-eyed fish, so Bi You could easily guess that the Buddha statue Jing Yang had photographed was stored in that strange vacuum cleaner by this little girl.

"national treasure?"

In the ward, Jingyang, Xiaodi, and Kurapika all looked at Biyou as she entered after the door closed. To be able to run around in the streets wearing bunny ear headbands with such composure was truly extraordinary.

Biyou flipped her hand and took out her phone. Her slender fingers deftly pressed the keys quickly, and she said, "Currently, the official name given by Kajin is 'Kakin Kingdom National Special-Grade Cultural Relic - Twenty-Nine Divine Statues,' and this is one of them." As she spoke, she turned the phone screen towards Jingyang and the other two.

On the screen is a picture.

Inside the glass display case, there is a stone statue about one meter tall.

With six wings on his back, clad in armor, wielding a long sword, and with an unapproachable and dignified gaze, he was like an angel descended to earth, wielding a divine sword to punish all directions.

Most importantly... the face of this six-winged angel statue is exactly the same as the face of the multi-armed Buddha statue that Xiaodi took from the temple!

Furthermore, it is also made of a material similar to black jade. However, this one is clearly better preserved; the black jade is perfectly smooth and without any cracks.

On the hospital bed behind, Kurapika suddenly said, "This is not a photograph."

With his eyesight, even without focusing his spiritual energy on his eyes, he could see clearly what was on the phone screen from several meters away.

“Of course not photos,” Biyou said. “Kakin’s national treasures are only occasionally exhibited in their national museum, and absolutely no photography or other recording activities are allowed. I went with a friend a few years ago when they held an exhibition, and I drew some pictures of them as souvenirs afterward.”

Jingyang couldn't help but ask, "Since you've seen stone statues with the exact same face, why were you so slow to react when I texted you about it yesterday?"

"First, the photos you posted weren't clear enough. Second, the stone statues you photographed were all cracked. Third, I'm not very familiar with this face. My main job is translation and interpreting ancient documents; I only have a superficial understanding of architecture and sculpture. Why would I recognize it so quickly?"

“That makes sense.” Jing Yang nodded first, then asked, “You’re one of the twelve members of the Hunter Association, won’t you let us take pictures?”

Biyou calmly said, "In the Hunter Association, star rating and position are more about honor and duty, and there is not much difference in status. The privileges granted to the twelve earthly branch hunter licenses and those of ordinary members are equal - basically, all the privileges that can be given are given."

She paused, then added, "A hunter's license allows unrestricted access to 90% of countries that are generally off-limits and 75% of restricted areas in the world, but unfortunately, the Kingdom of Kakin falls into that 10% and 25% category."

“Kakin is so big on the map, it takes up more than half of the Ezhen Continent, how come it’s only 10%?” Jingyang asked.

“The statistics are based on the number of countries, not the area of ​​the land,” Biyou said. “Moreover, Kakin does not reject the Hunter Association throughout its territory. Most of its public facilities are willing to make it easier for hunters to obtain licenses. Only in a small number of areas and buildings in Kakin is anyone prohibited from entering without the approval of the King of Kakin.”

In other words, Kakin won't openly disrespect V5, but in certain aspects, even V5's face won't make a difference.

After all, the privileges of the Hunter License are generally backed by the five strongest nations, namely V5.

Disrespecting the Hunter License is disrespecting the V5 Alliance. No one cares about the opinions of the world's smaller nations, but the Kakin Kingdom, with its size and power, certainly has the right to treat V5 with disrespect.

"So this national-level special-grade... that is, national treasure cultural relic, the Twenty-Nine Divine Statues, is one of the 25% of restricted areas that are off-limits to contact."

"Yes."

“Since it’s called the Twenty-Nine Divine Statues, then I guess,” Jingyang asked, “there are a total of twenty-nine such statues?”

The Great Elder of the Black Mist Lions did indeed say that Vihugo had carved many stone statues from the reefs on the beach.

Jingyang thought that most of the sculptures he had made were abandoned, but it turned out that the man only left one Buddha statue in the Kamawor Mountains and took the rest back to Kajin.

Kajin is as far away as the ends of the earth from Mount Kamavor. This True Martial King is really in high spirits. He carved a statue at the ends of the earth and then filled another cart to be taken back to the ends of the earth.

The Buddha statue left in Kamal has an unknown divine character inside its head and possesses spirituality, meaning it was imbued with the power of thought by the True Martial King.

What about the other statues?

Do they all have the same Nen ability, or do they each have different uses?

What was the purpose of Zhenwu Wang Wei Hugo (also known as Hui Guo Rou) in creating these idols?

Biyou put away her phone and said, "Twenty-nine, thirty-three, thirty-six, forty-nine, seventy-two... There has been much debate in academia about the exact number of these national treasure statues of the Kakin Kingdom. At first, the Kakin Empire maintained an ambiguous attitude, seemingly trying to obscure the specific number. It wasn't until more than twenty years ago that the Kakin Kingdom officially announced that the total number of statues was twenty-nine, and since then, it has held exhibitions of cultural relics in the national museum in its capital from time to time."

Xiao Di asked curiously, "The Buddha statue we found shouldn't be one of these twenty-nine, right?"

“If it really is a national treasure of Kakin.” Biyou nodded, looking at Jingyang and Xiaodi. “Yes, it’s not one of them. Among the twenty-nine statues that were once exhibited in the Kakin National Museum, there were gods, angels, saints, and even demons, but I’m quite certain that there were no statues of Buddha or Bodhisattvas—the absence of Buddhist statues is the fundamental reason why everyone has been skeptical about the total number of twenty-nine.”

Why did they only bring back the Buddha statue and not the gold?

Why?

The Buddha statues are left outside, specifically for the purpose of saving all sentient beings?

Jingyang asked, "One last question: when you went to the Kakin National Museum, could you see 'thought' on those statues?"

Biyou looked at him and said, "No."

“Then I have reason to suspect that those statues you saw on display were all high-quality counterfeits made by Kakin,” Jing Yang said with a smile. “At least the one we have in our hands has the power of thought.”

Xiao Di added from the side, "There used to be."

The Buddha statue is damaged and covered with cracks. It has now lost its spirituality, and the spiritual energy contained within it can no longer be seen.

Biyou seemed to be deep in thought, then said, "Now can I see your Buddha statue?"

"Here?" Jingyang asked.

“Of course we need to find a safer place.” Biyou took out her phone, as if checking a map. “Come on, follow me.”

Jingyang and Xiaodi were about to follow when they suddenly remembered that Kurapika was also there.

Looking back, Kurapika had already gotten out of bed, put on a coat, and said, still a little pale, "I want to go see too."

"Do you need a wheelchair?" Jingyang asked.

Kurapika's eyes immediately went blank. "No need. Actually, I'm pretty much ready to be discharged."

The four of them quickly left the hospital. On the way, Jingyang briefly recounted to Biyou how they found the Buddha statue in the Kamwal Mountains, emphasizing the old lion's memories of the True Martial King.

However, Jing Yang omitted the detail that this was the old lion's personal experience, since the old lion's longevity inevitably involved Nitromomi.

Although for now, that pile of rice can only lie in Xiao Di's vacuum cleaner as a collectible, it is still a longevity treasure that can prolong life. Jing Yang is not so selfless as to share it with everyone he meets.

The reason I explained to Ou Si and was willing to split the profits equally was because Ou Si was also a participant. Let's keep things separate.

Of course, Jingyang did not discuss anything related to his own Nen abilities, such as the star markers.

……

Another city in the Republic of Minbo, a place known locally as the so-called "gangster capital".

The reason it has such a nickname is that this city is home to the largest number of gangs on the entire continent, especially the leading gang family, which is one of the Ten Elders, who stand at the pinnacle of the world's underground criminal forces.