I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

……

Once the sea had calmed down, Jingyang, wearing only a pair of shorts, lay on the nearly falling-off raft.

Little Di sat diagonally across the raft, carrying the bulging-eyed fish. Seawater jets kept spraying from the vacuum cleaner head; she had been vomiting for a full ten minutes...

Jing Yang himself didn't come away empty-handed. After navigating the chaotic and dangerous stormy sea, he emerged disoriented and only then did he notice a change in his heart. He opened the Death Aura panel to take a look.

Yo?

At some point, two fresh, hazy auras began to swirl around the gray figure! It was probably because some sea creatures or fish had died during the storm and happened to be within a kilometer's radius, resulting in two warm death auras entering the figure.

This isn't my fault!

Jingyang patted his chest, thinking to himself, "It seems that from now on, I should try to go to dangerous places as much as possible!"

The more dangerous the place, the more likely someone is to die.

I'm just passing by, so it shouldn't be a problem, right?

He suddenly frowned and muttered to himself, "Strange... I always feel like there's something important I can't quite remember right now."

"What?" Not far away, by the materialized boat, Kite was still okay, but Kurapika was hanging on the side of the boat. He wasn't vomiting or having diarrhea, but he was indeed a little dizzy and tired and needed to rest. He didn't hear what Jingyang was muttering for a moment.

Jingyang waved his hand, then suddenly sat up and turned to look behind him.

Just now, another satellite signal appeared in the far distance.

Wu Er!

Such a strong star signal could only mean one thing: Wu Er's injury activated the star's self-healing ability. If I remember correctly, I did give it a command before, instructing it to pierce its skin and activate the star to notify me under certain circumstances.

It happened when they discovered a blonde little girl.

……

Hunter Association Headquarters, President's Office.

Niterlo squatted on one leg, with the other leg stretched out straight, his big toe holding a volleyball, maintaining a superb balance.

In front of the computer on the side table squatted a creature that looked like a giant, sentient green pea—Nitello's personal secretary, the Bean Man.

He casually asked, "How many people signed up this year?"

Beanman tapped a few times on the keyboard, "The 284th Hunter Exam has received a total of 1880 applications..."

……

"Damn, right, I haven't even registered for the Hunter Exam yet!"

Jing Yang suddenly remembered, gasped, and slapped his thigh. "What was the deadline again? Never mind, I'll think about it later..."

Anyway, they're adrift at sea now, who knows when they'll get a cell phone signal or when they'll see land... Jing Yang turned his attention to Can Yuehu Wu Er on the other side of the ocean.

He projected his consciousness and possessed the area, finding himself lurking in the woods. Parting the bushes, he could see in the distance at the entrance of the Elf Amusement Park on Ghost Island. In the crowd, there was a beautiful blonde girl, as delicate and pretty as a little princess, smiling as she pinned a jewelry vendor to the ground with one hand...

……

"Why isn't it working?"

Deep in the mountains, Kuroro, after several fruitless attempts, stared at the divine rune array hidden in a corner of the cliff face, lost in thought. Not far away, Machi yawned, completely losing interest in the so-called True Martial King's treasure.

(End of Volume 1)

I recommend the book "The Gods Among Us," a Marvel comic book novel with a Homelander theme. Those interested can check it out.

Chapter 204 Resurrection with a Sliver of Health

"Xiao Nian, are you really going to jump?"

On the steep shoreline, about twenty meters high, a girl with short purple hair looked down at the seemingly calm sea, her eyes filled with worry.

Beside her, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, stripped down to only his shorts, was stretching his legs with a bucket of cold water poured over his head several times. "Purple, if I don't even dare to jump like this, I won't be able to challenge 'Death Eye.' If I can't challenge 'Death Eye,' I'll be even less able to participate in the Hunter Exam."

"So where exactly is the connection between these three things?!" the girl with short purple hair complained.

The boy finished warming up, took several deep breaths, and stepped onto the edge of the sea cliff. Pebbles tumbled down, drifting in the wind. He couldn't help but pull his foot back, complaining, "Zi, it's all your fault! You kept talking and talking! I wasn't even nervous anymore!"

"Where did I—ah!" The girl with short purple hair was about to retort when the boy leaped down, startling her.

She quickly peered down, and in the blink of an eye, the free-falling boy was already nearly twenty meters below the calm sea. But what filled her eyes with horror was that directly below where the boy had fallen, a dark shadow was rapidly growing larger. This sign was all too familiar to her, having grown up in a small seaside town. It meant that a huge fish or sea monster was surfacing, and it was right where her childhood sweetheart, Xiao Nian, had jumped into the water.

The boy, who also grew up by the sea, naturally recognized him.

Everything rushing past him seemed to slow down, every detail becoming both slow and rapid, blurry yet clear. The sea rushing towards him, the slowly rising surface, the growing dark shadow underwater, the breaking waves… He seemed to smell the stench of the sea monster underwater, and see several heads glaring at him menacingly from the monster's mouth… Wait, why are there so many heads near its mouth?

boom!

A wave crashed onto the surface of the sea. The girl on the sea cliff saw a sea monster leap out of the water, its head nearly eight or nine meters wide. Her face turned deathly pale, and tears welled up in her eyes. "Xiao Nian... I told you not to think about any hunters... Huh?"

In her blurred vision, she didn't see the sea monster emerging from the sea, the water around it stained red with blood. Instead, she saw four figures clinging to the monster's gaping mouth as it floated in the sea. She quickly wiped away her tears and recognized them as three men and one woman. The monster didn't dare to close its blood-red maw until they let go, as if afraid of biting any of them.

Among them, the best-looking older boy was waving and shouting something while waving in the water. A black-haired girl next to him was retrieving a pair of broken black-rimmed glasses from the water, looking a little dazed. The other two blond boys, one tall and one short, worked together to pull Xiao Nian out of the sea monster's open mouth, which it had just swallowed whole along with seawater.

"Cough! Ugh..." Xiao Nian was pulled out, seemingly injured and frightened, covered in mucus and seawater, and vomited several times in shock.

He cried out as Kurapika swam over and touched him. Kate touched him a couple of times and said, "His arm is broken, and he has several broken ribs."

"You, you guys..." Xiao Nian stared blankly at the people who had emerged with the sea monster.

“It seems like she still has a slight concussion,” Kate said.

"Jumping into the sea for fun when you have nothing better to do is a bit reckless." Jing Yang splashed some water, patted the dazed Xiao Nian's arm, and the latter almost fainted from the pain. "What are you doing?!"

"What's the date today?" Jingyang asked.

Xiao Nian was in so much pain that he struggled in the sea, unable to hear what he was asking, and kept choking on water.

Kurapika sighed, "Let's get ashore first."

Kate glanced at the pentagram symbol left on the diver's broken arm, where Jing Yang had taken a picture.

Jingyang laughed, "I've seen yours, and you've seen mine, so we're even. Little Di, let's go!"

"Mmm," Xiao Di responded, and together they dived into the water, shooting towards the land like a torpedo.

"I didn't ask for anything to be even..." Kate tried to tug at her hat, only to realize that it had been lost during the days of its miserable drift at sea.

Shaking his head, he supported the injured diving boy with one hand and swam towards the shore with the other.

With two loud bangs, Jingyang and Xiaodi leaped out of the water like cannonballs, like two humanoid sea monsters, and nailed side by side to the slippery sea cliff several meters above the sea surface, and then quickly and tacitly climbed upwards.

The water around Kurapika surged, and the sea monster that had carried them back to land had quietly swum away. He guessed that Jingyang would control it to move away and then let it destroy the star mark on its body. During these days adrift at sea, without Jingyang's star mark, his ability to control the schools of fish swimming around, without the convenience of Little Drop's bulging-eyed fish, and the various supplies stored inside... whether they would have been able to return to land alive was uncertain.

Human strength has its limits. In the face of the boundless ocean and nature, even Nen users appear insignificant.

After passing through the storm, the four people's phones were completely destroyed. Even if they weren't destroyed, their batteries would have been almost dead...

call!

Jingyang and Xiaodi jumped ashore one on the left and one on the right, like two dark shadows attacking, startling the girl with short purple hair on the high bank who fell backward onto the ground with a thud.

"So, what's the date today?" Jingyang looked around. "What time is it now?"

With a flick of her wrist, Xiao Di released a wisp of air that materialized into a bulging-eyed fish. Holding a vacuum cleaner, she sucked up all the seawater from her and Jing Yang's clothes and bodies, then looked at the purple-haired girl—she stared dumbfounded at the bulging-eyed fish until Jing Yang repeated it, then hurriedly looked down into the sea and saw Kite and Kurapika carrying Xiao Nian as they climbed upwards, only then did she feel relieved.

定了定神，紫发女孩道：“1号。1996年1月1号。呃，现在是早上……”她低头看了眼电子腕表，“5点55分。”

Then she saw Jingyang's face show an expression of utter disbelief, as if he had just eaten shit.

"Damn it!" Jing Yang punched the air and muttered, "It's too late! -- It should be too late, right?" He turned around and asked.

Kate, carrying the boy who had jumped into the sea, climbed back up. "As far as I know, yes."

“The Hunter Exam registration opens in December and closes on the last day of the month.” Kate put the boy down, then lifted his shirt and took it off. “The official competition starts in January of the following year. So,” he wrung out a splash of seawater from his shirt, “you’re definitely too late.”

"Are you sure today is the 1st?" Jing Yang turned to ask the boy who was diving and the purple-haired girl, "Where can I register for the Hunter Exam the latest... roadside machines, internet cafes, inns, whatever, where is it?"

In the manga, even in Gon's hometown, Whale Island, a sparsely populated ghost town, there are self-service machines on the roadside that can be operated like newsstands, where you can send out application documents to participate in the Hunter Exam. This shows that these machines are as common in this world as Hunter License Registration Devices.

The diving boy looked at the four of them, then at the sea below the cliff, and said, "Uh, I'll take you there. But registration for this year, no, for last year, has really already closed."

"Talking as we walk."

Jingyang patted the boy's arm, "And, where the hell is this...?"

He had the boys and girls lead the way, and called for Shizuku and the others to follow. Kite remained silent, and Kurapika, with his coat tied around his waist, followed behind without saying a word. Recalling the literal hardships of the past few days at sea, he couldn't help but sigh... Above the four of them, if there were an air bubble, it would probably show the same scene: not a computer machine for registering for the Hunter Exam, but a steaming hot meal.

On the way, Jingyang and the others learned that the coast they had finally drifted to was a small seaside town in the middle of the western coastline of the Sangsamei Continent, within the territory of the ancient Ganyu Kingdom.

The continent of Sansame is the second one from the left in the third to the right of the six continents on the Hunter World map. The ancient Ganyu Kingdom, one of the V5, is the country where the Hunter Association headquarters is located. In other words, if they wanted, they could cross the entire continent and spend several months to reach the Hunter Association headquarters.

...Since I can't make it to this year's hunting test anyway, I might as well take a spontaneous trip. It'll be December of this year, and I definitely won't forget to register this time.

Jingyang rolled his eyes inwardly.

Participating in the Hunter Exam is, in a way, useful to him, but in a way, not very useful either.

Jingyang didn't care much about the Hunter's License "diploma," but he understood that although he had some talent in Nen cultivation, it was still a self-taught method. For a long time, he had been stuck in a bottleneck in Nen cultivation, with slow growth, remaining at just over 2 Qi. He undoubtedly needed a master to enlighten him.

Passing the Hunter Test grants entry into the Hunter Association. There are probably no such things as "sect lineage," "inner sect," "outer sect," or "true disciple" here, but getting in on the Hunter Association's heels, getting to know a few high-level hunters, and gaining practical experience from professionals is probably more valuable than anything else.

However, after unintentionally resolving the hidden danger of death energy in his heart, the urgency he felt about participating in the Hunter Exam significantly diminished.

With the Nen ability to "reach the highest heavens and the deepest hells," there's no longer any need to worry about the upper limit of Nen growth.

If we really can't improve, then we can just add some points!

Jing Yang glanced at the deathly aura panel.

These past few days have been rough and miserable at sea, but it hasn't all been without its good things.

We need to eat something, right?

Although the bulging-eyed fish has plenty of food reserves, when it occasionally encounters a passing school of fish, Little Drop will raise its hand and unleash a chainsaw with its Nen, and it always manages to catch something.

Jingyang not only enjoyed a delicious seafood feast, but also reaped a great harvest.

The gray figure sitting inside the hexagonal panel of death energy is surrounded by 11 streams of gray mist.

Jingyang thought for a moment, then threw 8 "points" into the "Enhancement" type at one corner of the hexagon, and added 1 point to the "Emission" and "Transformation" types on both sides.

强化系旁边的数字，飞速地从原本的60.6%，提升到了68.6%；放出系与变化系则分别是80.4%→81.4%，61%→62%。

Furthermore, since the six major systems of psychic power are mutually supportive, their prosperity is intertwined, and a change in one affects the whole system, after the enhancement system increased by 8 points, the emission and transformation systems on the left and right also saw sporadic increases. When each of these two systems received a 1-point boost, the enhancement system also benefited from the growth of the emission and transformation systems once each.