I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

"Uncle, if someone wants to play, just let them play, make room for them, okay?" Jing Yang said. The muscular man glared at him and stormed off.

Xiao Di quickly sat down in front of Jing Yang.

"Stop looking," Jingyang waved his hand, but Xiaodi's eyes never left the Blue Moon Pearl. It was clear she really wanted it. "If you win the arm wrestling match, it's yours."

He braced his arms, flexed his fingers, and laughed, "You can use your abilities too."

A wisp of energy, invisible to the surrounding Muggles, coiled around Jingyang's palm like an unyielding stream.

Xiao Di then raised her eyes, her pale purple eyes looking at Jing Yang, and asked, "Can we change the bet?"

"Change what?" Jingyang asked.

Xiao Di reached out, wrapped her hand in a layer of air, and held Jing Yang's hand tightly.

“Change it to your hunter’s license,” she said.

“Sure,” Jingyang readily agreed. “However, a hunter’s license isn’t something you can gamble on for a mere 1800 Jenny entrance fee! What if you lose?”

Chapter 32 The Ten Heavenly Stems

Upon hearing this, Xiao Di stopped and thought for a moment, then stared intently at Jing Yang and asked, "What do you want?"

Jing Yang laughed and said, "If I win, you'll acknowledge me as your boss and follow me from now on, how about it?"

Xiao Di thought about it for a moment, but not for too long. Looking at the strong breath coming from the boy's hand she was holding, she nodded and said, "Okay."

"Then one, two, three—" Jingyang counted, "Begin!"

Instantly, a thick layer of energy enveloped their arms and hands.

Ki, or life energy, also known as spiritual power, is inherently intertwined with and inseparable from the human body and mind. A beginner Nen user, unless there's a specific reason, will no longer engage in inefficient, purely physical training. The most efficient path is to directly cultivate Ki, strengthening the body's Ki to nourish it.

Jing Yang hadn't really exercised since he transmigrated, but his Nen ability was like a cheat code for training. He painstakingly increased his total Ki to 6000, and his physical fitness was greatly enhanced as a result.

His physique is incomparable to Killua's, who has been eating poison since childhood and treating electric shocks like massages, but it's clear that Jingyang's arm strength cannot be judged by his physique.

The same applies to small drops.

She wasn't muscular, but by gathering a large amount of energy in her arms, she unleashed a tremendous force of unknown magnitude... Even so, she couldn't immediately take down the boy opposite her; instead, she felt the pressure growing stronger and stronger.

"Is he stronger than me?"

In the fierce contest of brute force, Xiao Di could even feel the arms and breath of both sides trembling... Gradually, an increasingly stronger force came from Jing Yang's side, becoming more and more difficult to resist.

Xiao Di frowned, and her arm slowly pressed down onto the table...

boom!

Finally, she couldn't hold on any longer, and her right hand was helplessly pressed down, the back of her hand hitting the table.

"I lost..."

Xiao Di said regretfully, gently shaking her sore arm.

In fact, at this moment, the onlookers were stunned—it was the first time they had ever seen someone who could withstand this super-strong boy for almost a minute!

"That's outrageous... I think I just saw the table almost crack! No, it already cracked..."

What an incredibly strong girl!

The unscrupulous merchant in the crowd tearfully handed over money to the person next to him.

"..." Xiao Di rubbed her sore right arm.

Only then could she spare some energy to focus her qi on her eyes, and she saw that Jingyang's left hand had indeed been covering the surface of the table with a portion of his qi from the middle of the journey.

Jingyang laughed and said, "If the table is broken, we won't be able to arm wrestle."

Little Drop said, "You're really amazing."

She asked curiously, "I think I should be better than you, so why am I not as good as you?"

“Basic skills.” Jing Yang raised his hand.

Xiao Di focused his energy into his eyes and saw the energy that was originally evenly wrapped around him suddenly surge towards his right arm and palm like flowing water.

Jingyang said, "Your total recitation volume should be a bit higher than mine, but my basic skill in freely distributing qi is better than yours, so I will be the one to win!"

He is a manipulator, while Shizuku is a materializer. Both of them are equally far from the Berserker's enhancement type, so neither has an advantage or disadvantage in this respect.

Jingyang estimated that Xiaodi's total energy was a little over seven thousand, which was stronger than his own, but certainly not her final strength when she became a full member of the Phantom Troupe four years later. However, Jingyang's basic skills were solid. If he didn't have to divert some of his energy to protect the tabletop with "Zhou", he could even win this arm-wrestling match by sheer force.

"Hardness" means concentrating 100% of the body's energy into a single point, where the offensive and defensive capabilities are maximized. However, the drawback is also obvious—the rest of the body will no longer have any energy to protect it, and if hit, it will result in either death or serious injury.

Arm wrestling doesn't require physical defense. If Jingyang uses "hard" tactics, he's guaranteed to win.

"Oh..." Little Drop nodded as if she understood, and said, "I lost the bet."

Jingyang laughed and said, "Then, from now on I'll be your boss?"

Xiao Di said, "Mm."

"You have to listen to the boss."

"Ah."

"Alright, let's go!" Jing Yang stood up and said to the onlookers, "We're packing up, everyone can go home now!"

……

"Here, this is a gift from the boss."

Side by side... well, not side by side yet. Walking together in the neon-lit amusement park at night, amidst the comings and goings of people, Jingyang handed the Blue Moon Pearl to Xiaodi.

Xiao Di didn't refuse. She really liked jewelry. After taking it, she examined it carefully. Behind the glasses, her pale purple eyes, which had never shown any emotion, seemed to have a different look.

Jing Yang said, "I'm planning to start a small organization for fun, and we'll call it 'Akatsuki'. The Hunter Association has twelve Earthly Branches, so let's use ten Heavenly Stems. As the leader, I'll be the 'A' (甲) character, and since you're the first member we recruited, you'll be the 'B' (乙) character!"

Xiao Di then shifted her gaze from the glittering blue moonstone, looked at Jing Yang, and asked curiously, "Aren't you a member of the Hunter Association? Are you going to establish another organization?"

“What does it matter?” Jing Yang said as they walked. “Being a professional hunter is just one identity. Many professional hunters also have other real professions. Elite lawyers, top judges of a country, top doctors, and so on... We’re just a small group, it won’t interfere with anything.”

"Oh." Little Drop nodded in realization.

Jingyang smiled knowingly and asked, "What do you want to do by betting my hunter's license?"

Shizuku said, "I saw a Ferris wheel over there, and they said only people with hunter licenses can go in..."

She came here to stroll around because of the two crows controlled by Jingyang, and Jingyang certainly knew why she wanted a hunter's license.

Is it there?

Jingyang pointed to the Ferris wheel not far ahead. In the amusement park at night, only that Ferris wheel appeared dark and gloomy, and since no one was riding it, it was not in operation.

"I've never ridden in one before either, so let's take a look together."

Little Drop carefully put away the Blue Moon Pearl and followed after him with light steps.

……

"This is... a hunter's license, that's right..."

At the Ferris wheel entrance, two Blanchett Company employees carefully examined the hunter's license that Jing Yang handed them, somewhat unable to believe their eyes.

Are there really professional hunters this young?

The founder of Blanchett & Co., a top-ranking billionaire in the world, has only his name and his identity as a professional hunter as publicly available information. These two ordinary employees, while unaware of the details of their boss, knew that professional hunters were generally eccentric and unusual individuals, and that nothing that happened to them would be surprising…

Therefore, after confirming the authenticity of the hunter's license, which could not possibly be forged, the staff allowed Jingyang and Xiaodi inside.

One led the way, while the other started the Ferris wheel.

hum...

In the darkness, the giant Ferris wheel, like a windmill in the dark, suddenly came to life from stillness.

Little Di looked up curiously, only to see that after the giant Ferris wheel started to turn, only one of the approximately 30 cabins lit up.

Jingyang looked at the staff member next to him, who explained, "Due to some reasons, only that one cabin is available for tourists."

He paused for a moment, then chuckled, "Not many people usually come with a hunter's license to ride this."

“That makes sense.” Jing Yang nodded.

He and Xiao Di waited together until the Ferris wheel cabin with the lights on came down and swayed to a stop in front of them. After the staff opened the cabin door, they went in one after the other.

hum...

The Ferris wheel continued to turn, and after stepping into the cabin and closing the door, Jingyang and Xiaodi both exclaimed "Eh!"

The cabin carrying the two people slowly rotated and ascended into the night...

In the light, you can see Xiao Di looking at her hands and body with a puzzled expression.

Jing Yang, who was next to her, looked around the cabin, then suddenly took a few steps back, looked down, and looked as if he had just realized something.

……

Jing Yang felt his Qi recovering rapidly, as if it were being nourished. He looked down at the strange black characters drawn on the floor of the cockpit, which resembled a peculiar array of runes.

In the manga, when Shizuku and Gon are arm wrestling, there's a close-up of their aura naturally rising upwards... so let's assume that neither of them used aura to enhance their strength, and it was purely a contest of muscle and wrist power. Jingyang and Shizuku, on the other hand, did incorporate aura.

Chapter 33 Smile

"what is this?"

Xiao Di squatted down next to Jing Yang, observing the dense black symbols carved on the ground with curiosity.

Jingyang said, "It is the character '神' (shen, meaning god)."

Xiao Di turned to look at him, quietly waiting for what would happen next.

Jing Yang gathered more energy in his hands and pressed them against the "God" characters that had been drawn on the ground by someone. Soon, he received a very clear response: the speed at which his energy recovered suddenly accelerated, and he felt as if he were enjoying an invisible energy massage, which was very comfortable...

"I'm not entirely sure about the specifics, but in short, some Nen users can infuse Nen into these divine characters as a kind of auxiliary tool for Nen."

Jing Yang paused for a moment. This kind of special divine character doesn't appear often in the comics: the strap that Yun Gu used to bind Xiao Jie's fingers; the box that Jin left for Xiao Jie; and on Greed Island, one of Lei Zha's subordinates carved the divine character that helped him release his teleportation fist on the arena...

In general, the "god" symbol in the Hunter x Hunter world is somewhat similar to the sealing scrolls in the Ninja world.