Dragon Ball, simultaneously traversing countless worlds

Bai Ye spotted an opening in Men Qi's defenses and slashed down with the Dragon Slayer Blade without hesitation, knocking away the kitchen knife Men Qi was using to parry with a single blow, and then slashing a hideous wound from her chest to her abdomen.

Men Qi was bleeding profusely and collapsed weakly to her knees. The Dragon Slayer Blade was pressed against her throat. If Men Qi tried to resist again, Bai Ye would kill her without hesitation.

"Menqi!" Buhala exclaimed in alarm. His companion was in danger. He instantly unleashed tremendous brute force, broke through Zhengzha, and smashed him, breaking his bones and sending him flying backward.

Buhara tried to rescue Menqi, but ended up being exposed to Luo Yan's attack from behind.

"Vajra Subdues Demons, Tathagata's Empowerment."

Luo Yan leaped high into the air, stepping on Buhara's massive body, and flew to his head. Then, with his own weight, he slammed his palm down hard on Buhara's skull.

Luo Yan's palm strike was imbued with mental power; with a single blow, Buhara's brain matter sloshed around inside his skull.

Buhara was struck as if by an electric shock; his hands and feet trembled, his eyes rolled back, and his massive body crashed to the ground like a collapsing mountain.

Buhara was physically strong. After falling to the ground, he regained consciousness in less than a second and struggled to get up.

Luo Yan was ruthless and merciless. He stepped on the back of Buhara's head and used a heavy weight to press him firmly into the mud.

Seeing Buhara's state, Menqi screamed, "We surrender! Let Buhara go! Stop torturing him!"

Weston asked, "So, are we officially hunters now?"

Menchi replied dejectedly, "Yes, you are now official hunters."

After saying this, Menqi seemed to have all her energy drained away, and her eyes dimmed.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief; the murderous aura dissipated, and the situation eased.

However, at that moment a black dot fell from the sky.

At the same time, a deep, aged voice reached everyone's ears.

"Menchi's word is not enough; only I, as the chairman, have the authority to decide who can become a formal hunter."

A blimp floated in the sky, hovering about 500 meters above the ground. An old man wearing wooden clogs jumped off the blimp.

He landed with a thud, without any rolling motion to offset the impact; he simply bent his legs slightly to transfer all the force of his fall to the ground beneath his feet.

Click!

The ground cracked open with a spiderweb-like fissure five meters in diameter, and rubble and dust exploded out like bullets.

The newcomer was dressed in a blue and white traditional kimono, with a white beard, earlobes reaching his shoulders, and only a single wisp of hair resembling a ponytail on his head.

He appeared to be around eighty or ninety years old, yet his eyes were sharp and his spirit vigorous; he didn't look like a decaying old man at all.

This person is none other than Netero, the chairman of the Hunter Association, the world's most recognized Nen user, and he is not in his eighties or nineties, but close to one hundred and twenty years old.

At the age of 100, he jumped from a height of 500 meters without any injury, which shows his formidable strength.

When Netero arrived, he glanced at the pitiful Mencius and Buhara, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.

"President" x2

Menchi and Buhara lowered their heads, completely avoiding Nitero's gaze.

Netero ignored the two men and instead looked at Weston, Feng Wujue, Bai Ye, Luo Yan, Zheng Zha, and Bruce. There was no anger in his eyes, only indifference.

"Six Nen users who have already awakened their abilities, plus those two guys over there, this year's exam is really lively, with a total of eight Nen users participating."

Netero said in a deep voice, "The three of you ganged up on a little girl, and that guy over there killed too many examinees. You are all unqualified and will not be granted a hunter's license."

Netero pointed to Weston, White Night, Feng Wujue, and Hisoka.

As for whether Luo Yan, Zheng Zha, and Bruce passed, Nitero did not specify.

The group's expressions remained unchanged. Feng Wujue smiled faintly and said, "President, we are completing the examiner's test questions, not bullying her."

Feng Wujue took out a voice recorder, pressed the play button, and played the conversation he had made when he used rhetoric to provoke Men Qi.

“Listen, these are all words spoken by examiner Menchi himself.”

Netero was completely unfazed by Feng Wujue's threats. He calmly said, "As I have already said, Menchi is only an examiner for the second exam and has no authority to directly appoint anyone as a formal hunter. Only I can."

“If you want to get a hunter’s license through trickery, go ahead, fight me. If you beat me, you can get the license,” Netero added.

His tone was resolute, as if he was determined not to let them become hunters.

Nitero's performance was somewhat different from what was expected, but it was still under Feng Wujue's control.

Feng Wujue smiled and said, "Is the Hunter Association just a one-man show by Chairman Netero?"

The examiner, Menqi, acted recklessly, threatening to cancel all the candidates' scores and making a bet with us. She represents the association, so how could she easily go back on her word and break the rules she set?

"Does the association only abide by the rules if examiner Menqi wins? She starts cheating when she loses."

Netero said calmly, "It is my right to judge who is not suitable to become a hunter. I am also handling it according to the rules. How can you say that I have the final say?"

"As for whether Menqi cheated, that's her personal matter and doesn't represent the Hunter Association's reputation."

"Sigh, since the president wants to use his power to suppress us, we have no choice but to rely on public opinion to challenge him."

"If I were to make everything that happened during the Hunter Exam public, or submit it to the V5 department that oversees the Hunter Association, do you think they would overturn your decision and support us instead?"

Netero's expression changed slightly.

He is indeed recognized as the strongest in the world, but in the Hunter world, Nen users are nothing more than ants in the face of the state apparatus.

The Hunter Association is not truly controlled by Chairman Netero, but by the United Nations V5, a group comprised of the world's five major powers.

V5 wants as many hunters as possible because the Hunter Association is their lackey; they send hunters to handle things that the official organization can't.

For example, some countries prohibit foreign forces from entering, and in such cases, hunters can be sent to gather intelligence.

In recent years, fewer and fewer people have passed the exam to become hunters, and V5 has felt that it is short-handed. Of course, it will not refuse Luo Yan and others to become hunters.

So what if someone beats up the examiner? Even if someone like Hisoka, who kills without hesitation, wanted to become a Hunter, V5 wouldn't care about the stain on his record and would accept him with a smile.

If Feng Wujue really manages to steer public opinion in the direction that Netero has manipulated the exam, the Hunter Association's oversight will undoubtedly favor the examinees, and Netero will be punished to protect the association's reputation.

In recent years, Netero has become increasingly irrelevant to the association's affairs, and the higher-ups have begun to feel dissatisfied with his hands-off approach.

If Feng Wujue really escalates the matter and makes it public knowledge, then the association might really use this incident to punish him severely.

After thinking it over, Netero sighed slightly: "Sigh, young people these days are really good at scheming. They're brave, resourceful, and have enough strength. Fine, I'll approve of you as official hunters."

Netero is like a child; this old man makes a decision one second and then immediately overturns it the next.

He looked at Menqi and Buhara with a stern gaze: "The matter here is over. You two should go to the spaceship to heal your wounds."

Menqi looked up and asked, "President, are we just going to let them become hunters?"

Netero glared and said, "Isn't this the rule you and they set yourself? If you lost, you have to admit defeat."

Menqi wanted to say something more, but Netero exuded a powerful aura that immediately intimidated Menqi, silencing him from further words.

Netero is a martial artist who believes in the supremacy of strength. When Luo Yan and his companions defeated the two examiners with their strength, Netero had already begun to acknowledge them to some extent.

Saying a few more words is merely to save face for the association.

After all, Menqi and Buhara were both examiners. If the examiners were beaten, the chairman had to step in and save face!

Seeing that Feng Wujue was using public opinion to suppress him and prevent him from regaining face, Netero gave up on the idea of ​​saving face.

He's 120 years old, only a few days left to live. He's already abandoned the association, so he doesn't have time to deal with these trivial matters.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that this year's examinees included Gon, the son of Ginger, Killua from the Zoldyck family, and Hisoka, Netero wouldn't have paid any attention to the exam.

Chapter 142 Everyone Passes

After Netero compromised and conceded, he glanced at Luo Yan and the others present, then at Xiao Jie and his group, and said:

"You've all already obtained your Hunter qualifications, and only these four are left among the other candidates. Eliminating them like this wouldn't be fair to them!"

Feng Wujue waved his hand and said, "It's up to you, Chairman, to decide about those few people."

Kurapika and Leorio looked nervously at Netero.

They both had reasons for becoming hunters, and neither wanted to give up as long as there was a glimmer of hope.

Netero pondered for a moment and said, "If it's just the four of you, then I'll test you myself."

Netero pulled out a balloon from somewhere, blew it up, and held it in his hand, saying, "I won't use my right hand or right foot. As long as any one of you touches the balloon in my hand, I'll consider all four of you to have passed the test. How about that?"

Gon and Hanzo naturally had no objections. Netero was the world's strongest Nen user, and touching the balloon in his hand was no simple test.

The four of them tried their best and spent three hours trying to grab the balloon, but even with Nitero having filled a lake with water, they still couldn't reach it.

In the end, it was Xiao Jie who had a flash of inspiration, forcing Netero to use his left foot, which resulted in Netero committing a foul, and only then were they considered to have succeeded.

Finally, the 287th Hunter Exam concluded, with eleven people passing the exam: Gon, Kurapika, Leorio, Hisoka, Hanzo, Luo Yan, Weston, Zheng Zha, Bruce, Bai Ye, and Feng Wujue. This was the highest number of successful candidates in the exam's history.

On the day the exam ended, Luo Yan saw Saji, who had been beaten unconscious by Illumi in the forest.

As for Illumi, after dealing with Sasuke, he chased after Killua and left.

Saci later returned to the association in a sorry state with Menchi and Buhara, all three examiners having been killed by the examinees.

This also led to them replacing the examiners who had been severely injured by Hisoka in the previous session, making them the biggest laughing stock in the association.

A few days later, Luo Yan and the others obtained their hunter licenses.

The Nightmare Space also notified them that they had completed the first main mission and each of them received a points reward.

However, these points are negligible compared to the resources their team has consumed.

The food items used to replenish health and mana in Weston alone could fetch several hundred points if sold in the space.

Not to mention Bruce's trump cards, Fear Gas and Luo Yan's Scroll.

"What are our plans next?" Luo Yan asked everyone.

With Hisoka, a powerful weapon in his grasp, Weston pondered, "Naturally, we should maximize Hisoka's value and use him to eliminate the Phantom Troupe."

The main mission rewards are too meager; they need to uncover more side missions and hidden missions so that this mission world won't lose money.

Destroying the Phantom Troupe will definitely uncover a side quest with substantial rewards.

Zheng Zha asked, "When dealing with the Phantom Troupe, should we also bring Kurapika into the team? His Nen ability, which he developed specifically for the Troupe, is a powerful weapon!"

Kurapika's chains, once they bind a member of the Phantom Troupe, can directly seal their Nen, rendering them unable to resist.

Even Uvogin, the Phantom Troupe member with unparalleled strength, and Chrollo, the leader, could not break free from Kurapika's chains.