I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Yun Gu naturally had his reasons. According to Zhen Yuanzi, Guild Master Netero brought the twelve Si Snakes with him, and the front mountain had also suffered from a large-scale contamination by the gray fog and poisonous gas. Presumably, the Si Snakes, as top-tier poison hunters, would have a way to detoxify. In that case, it was best to avoid inquiring about Zhen Yuanzi and his group's detoxification methods.

Jingyang had similar thoughts. If it were his own ability, he wouldn't care; if the Yun Gu brothers found out, so be it. But the detoxification relied on Xiao Di's "bulging-eyed fish."

Unlike Kurapika, Yun Gu didn't join the Akatsuki organization or accept Jing Yang as their leader...

……

Front mountain.

Kurapika nodded. "Thank you."

Two snake fangs left his hand, leaving two shallow bloody holes. The long black snake hissed and flicked its tongue, its tail connected to the arm of "Si" of the Hunter Association's Zodiac.

Kurapika also didn't think there was anything seriously wrong with his body.

Unlike the others, he was not affected by the materialized dream, nor did he fall into a deep sleep after the dream ended. He was fully conscious throughout the entire process, witnessing the gray poisonous fog seeping into the room through the cracks in the doors and windows, and he was well aware of his situation of being forced to inhale this suspicious gray fog.

Gail walked around their room, using the snakes formed from her arms to neutralize the poison from all the unconscious people, and then prepared to leave.

Just as Kurapika was about to close the door and see the customer out, Jingyang's voice echoed in his mind: "Why are you only thinking about yourself? There are still people here who haven't received the antidote!"

"Don't you have Shizuku helping you?" Kurapika asked, puzzled. He turned around and saw the little gray bird chirping and glaring at him with its bird eyes.

It turns out that Jingyang had regained control of Yanque at some point, and the one he was referring to as needing an antidote was Yanque.

Kurapika felt embarrassed and quickly called out to Gal, asking her for help again.

Gailu nodded to indicate that she didn't mind; she herself loved small animals. The little gray bird flew over and fluttered in front of her. Gailu reached out her hand, and the little gray bird landed on her raised index finger, turning its head to look at her. In a flash, Gailu's other arm transformed into a lifelike long snake once more.

Conjuration type... Jingyan Que thought to herself, letting Gelu's long snake arm open its blood-red mouth and bite at her.

I almost swallowed him whole.

Two serpentine fangs, like hoes, pierced the skin beneath the bird's feathers with just the right amount of force.

"Jingyan Que" clearly felt something being injected into its own, uh, into the flesh and blood beneath the skin of the rock sparrow, from the tips of its two snake fangs.

How to detoxify?

Not long after, when Gai Lu arrived at Yun Gu's room in the hotel behind the mountain and used the same method to detoxify Yun Gu and his fellow disciples, he and Xiao Di watched from the sidelines, secretly thinking to themselves.

Gailu's graceful figure was like that of a beautiful serpent. Jing Yang suspected that, as a materialization type, she had transformed her body into a humanoid pharmaceutical laboratory, allowing her to create poisons and antidotes at any time, which would then be delivered through the snake materialized in her arm…

When the snake released its grip, leaving two small bloody holes, Yun Gu asked, "What will be the ultimate consequences of this poison?"

"From what I can see, it's more like a hallucinogen." Gai Lu simply glossed over it. In fact, according to her analysis, the gray poisonous mist left behind by "Lonely Shadow of Heaven and Earth, Drunken Dream" was clearly influenced by the strange poison from the Dark Continent that Master Sky himself had been poisoned with, and it had similar characteristics.

Fortunately, the exotic poisons of the Dark Continent are not so easy to imitate. Even a top poison master like Gail was helpless for a time. The Gray Mist Poison imitated by "Lonely Shadow of Heaven and Earth" was only a mere imitation.

Gail swallowed some of the gray fog toxin with the venomous snake that had transformed from her arm, and quickly created the corresponding antidote.

Gai Lu came here specifically to remove the poison from Yun Gu and his fellow disciples, but upon arriving, she discovered that they hadn't yet done anything after the poison removal. Gai Lu specifically sought them out for Zhen Yuanzi and Xiao Di.

“President Netero needs your help,” Galo asked. “Could you come with me?”

She couldn't help but glance at Xiao Di, a quiet, black-haired girl with glasses who looked adorably innocent. Especially her figure; her chest bulged out of her black sweater, creating a contrast with her face.

Xiao Di felt strange about her gaze, a question mark popped into her head, and she couldn't help but turn to look at Jing Yang.

Jingyang quickly grabbed her hand to stop her from circling her fingers around her head again, a gesture that looked like she was openly mocking him for having a problem with his head...

"Okay," Jingyang agreed.

Gail nodded. She certainly didn't have any particular fetish; she was simply naturally curious about cute and beautiful things.

……

Jingyang and Xiaodi were walking along the road with Gai Lu when a small gray bird flew over, fluttered its wings, and landed on Jingyang's head. Jingyang plucked it down, held it in his hand, and flicked the bird's head.

"Chirp!" the rock sparrow chirped in dissatisfaction.

Gai Lu glanced at the little gray bird in Zhen Yuanzi's hand.

Pretending not to know the bird at this point seemed too late. Jingyang quickly stopped worrying about it and tossed the rock sparrow onto his shoulder.

Soon, Jingyang, the two people, and the bird followed Gai Lu into a mountain cave, and went deeper and deeper into the winding tunnel.

Fortunately, Jingyang and Xiaodi were also quite skilled, and they followed Gai Lu's footsteps smoothly all the way.

With a flashlight in hand, Gai Lu led the way. Before long, Jing Yang and Xiao Di, inside the complex mountain interior, finally found themselves in a bright and open space, revealing an even more secluded cave.

Xiao Di poked Jing Yang's arm with her finger.

Jing Yang nodded. He had also noticed that there were traces of the character "神" (god) on the stone walls inside and outside the cave.

It's absolutely terrifying. Could it be that the entire interior of this mountain is filled with similar divine characters?

Jingyang immediately thought of the dream ability that could affect the entire Xian Shui Mountain. If it was amplified by the word "God," then it would make sense that this ghost ability had such a strong effect.

Inside the cave, Netero and another figure familiar to Jingyang were standing with their backs to them. The latter was the same bunny girl they had also encountered in the cave.

Biyou turned around and, upon seeing the person who had arrived, her gaze quickly fell on the little gray bird on Jingyang's shoulder.

Netero's gaze swept over Taliyah, then he said to Jingyang, "Let me introduce you. This is the Sky Master, and also the former Emperor Kakin. Gro = Gray Flesh..."

After he stepped aside, Jingyang finally saw the frail old man, covered in gray cracks, who was huddled in front of the cave wall.

“...the remains,” Netero said.

Although Jingyang's expression did not change, he could feel the hairs on the back of his head standing on end.

If this is indeed a gray-horned king, and a former emperor at that, then clearly he was the victor in the succession war in the Kingdom of Kakin.

Therefore, this Gro = Gray Guo Meat, Sky Master, should also have a Nen Beast obtained through the Egg in the Pot ritual...

Chapter 136 The Mind Beast Regent

"He was actually already dead, but because of this strange poison in his body, he ended up in this half-dead state."

Inside the cave, Netero looked at the frail old man covered in gray cracks, who was making "ho...ho..." sounds, his eyes cloudy and lifeless.

Netero slowly said, "Back then, I made a pact with him solely to help his special avatar, 'Lone Shadow of Heaven and Earth, Drunken Dream of Death,' survive for a hundred years. He believed he could abandon his original body and be reborn through this avatar of his Daoist consciousness, but..."

The president of the Hunter Association shook his head. "But after a few years, I began to realize that it wasn't that he was reborn in his Nen clones, but rather that his Nen clones gradually became him."

"Chirp?" The little gray bird on Jingyang's shoulder tilted its head and yawned.

"For the first thirty years, the behavior of 'Lone Shadow of Heaven and Earth, Drunk and Dreaming' became more and more like that of the former Sky Master. But for the next thirty years, it was as if the first thirty years had been reversed. The consciousness of this clone gradually became rigid and alienated. It was not like a human, not like a living person, and naturally even less like Gro = Gray Flesh."

Netero stroked his beard and said, "So, after some tricks, forty years later, things have come to this. Finally, the hundred-year period has ended, the oath has been broken, and I can finally put my mind at ease. My old friend's body can also be freed."

Jing Yang inwardly scoffed. So you just break this "Lone Shadow of Heaven and Earth" thing down into five parts: the Eastern Heretic, the Western Poison, the Southern Emperor, the Northern Beggar, and the Central Divine, right? And you even hold an art exhibition to gather a bunch of wildly imaginative artists? What is this? Using the inspiration from this dream as an anchor point to maintain your Nen clones? The martial artists participating in the Immortal Water Mountain Tournament are only responsible for providing a tiny bit of Nen energy as a power source…

Although no one has died in the past forty years, judging from Yun Gu's experience, there were no aftereffects and he doesn't even remember what happened, but what Nitero did was still considered somewhat unethical by others.

However, this had nothing to do with Jing Yang. He was more interested in the matter of Gro = Gray Guo Meat, so he gave Xiao Di a look.

Seeing that Little Drop was about to make a move, Biyou and Gail politely withdrew from the cave.

Gail has obtained a sample of the exotic poison from Gro, enough for her to take back and continue her research and analysis.

hum!

The tiny droplet materialized into a large-mouthed vacuum cleaner.

Netero did not leave; he had already seen the little girl use this ability to remove the poison from the boy.

As Xiao Di was carrying the vacuum cleaner, preparing to disinfect, Jing Yang reached out and stopped her, asking Netero, "This Gro = Gray Flesh, should have had a spirit beast that he couldn't see while he was alive, right?"

“Oh?” Netero was extremely surprised. After a moment’s recollection, he shook his head and said, “I have never seen it before.”

"Huh?" Jingyang was immediately puzzled. "This Gro, who claims to be the Kakin Emperor, could it be just bragging?"

Could he be an illegitimate child?

Or is it similar to my own situation?

Even more remarkably, over a hundred years ago, there was a case of a substitution of a prince by a raccoon dog in the Kakin Palace, and this Gro is that raccoon dog?

Stop talking nonsense...

Kakin never appointed a crown prince.

The winner of the succession battle will be directly crowned. Moreover, before the succession ceremony, a parasitic spirit beast will be obtained through a blood-dripping ritual from an egg in a pot. That thing clearly possesses the function of verifying the bloodline of the Grey Flesh royal family. Trying to switch the prince with a fox spirit, or pass off a fake as the real one, is simply impossible…

Unless, of course, this Gro is indeed a member of a collateral branch of the royal family, a bastard? But then, while traveling the world, he boasted that he was the Emperor of Kakin?

That doesn't seem to make sense either.

Kakin is a world superpower. Even a century ago, before the internet age, it's unlikely that the emperor of such a powerful nation could be so easily impersonated, especially in front of Netero…

So, the remaining possibility is...

Looking at the decrepit old man, who was dazed and confused and chained to the stone wall, Jing Yang thought to himself, "Could this parasitic spirit beast of the Gray Flesh Emperor be the kind that only appears when the main body leaves the country, manifesting as the main body to govern the country on its behalf? If I remember correctly, the spirit beasts in the pots of the Kakin princes are essentially assistants to the king, not chicken-eating helpers in the succession war."

The beast overseeing the kingdom is...

If that's the case, then Gro = Gray Guo Rou, who was still a prince back then, managed to survive to the final round and win the inheritance battle even though he obtained a Nen Beast that was useless in the inheritance battle. He must have been a ruthless person.

So he's the Sky Master?

Jing Yang couldn't help but think of this man's martial arts skills. It's likely that when Gro participated in the succession war, he was already a formidable Nen user and a martial arts master. He's practically a super-high-end version of the current First Prince Benjamin, although a bit late, it really makes one want to light candles for all the princes of his generation.

“I’ve never met him, but I’ve heard him talk about it,” Netero said. “We had only known each other for a short time then. I’d seen him in the newspapers and asked him how he managed to be emperor while simultaneously developing such martial skills…”

"He didn't say it explicitly at the time, but I could roughly guess that someone was acting as emperor for him in the Kingdom of Kakin. There was no related news in the newspapers. Now, based on what you just said, the one acting as emperor for him is the Nen Beast that he himself cannot see?"

The old man stroked his barbed beard, looked at Jing Yang, and asked with amusement, "So, Zhen Yuanzi, you know a lot about the Grey Guo Meat incident?"

I'm very familiar with twice-cooked pork...

Jing Yang laughed and said, "I am a Nen user after all. It's not surprising that I know some unknown information."

Netero said, "That's true. Shouldn't such a talented young man consider becoming a professional hunter? Otherwise, it would be a real shame."

"If the chairman could issue me a license right now, that wouldn't be impossible."

"No, no, the rules still need to be followed. Only those who pass the Hunter Exam can get a Hunter License. Even a little guy like you with your strength is no exception. If you want to get a license, go and take the exam."

“Netero, you don’t look like the kind of old man who likes to follow the rules.”

“Hehehe…” Netero chuckled and stroked his barbed beard. “These rules are troublesome for you, not me.”

Jingyang's eyes immediately went blank. If he weren't outmatched, he would have given this infuriating old man a couple of punches.