I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Chapter 42 Sword Sect Qi Sect

Menqi said, "He left on his own. He wasn't with Oqima's people anyway."

“That’s true.” Jing Yang waved his hand and left.

Watching the three figures disappear into the distance, Da Gao stood there for a long time before turning back towards West Town.

……

"Xiao Di, don't you live in West Town?"

As Jingyang walked towards the amusement park outside Dongzhen, he glanced at Xiaodi.

Xiao Shi said, "The mission is over. Is there anything else planned?"

Menqi chuckled and said, "As the boss, you'll have to take care of arranging your underlings!"

"Hehe, you want to be one too?" Jing Yang said, "I've arranged for you to be one as well."

Menqi glared at him, baring his teeth.

"Why don't we go into town?" Little Di asked curiously, pointing in the direction of East Town.

Men Qi laughed and said, "There's a slaughterhouse over at the dock. Jing Yang said he couldn't stand the strong smell of blood... He must have a dog's nose, even better than mine as a chef!"

Seeing that Jingyang's eyes were not right, Menqi quickly said, "That's all for now, I'll be going now. See you at Xizhen Port the day after tomorrow morning!"

"What do you mean, the day after tomorrow morning? You're not going to cultivate for the next two days?"

"Then let's meet at the usual place this afternoon." Menqi smiled and waved to Xiaodi. "Xiaodi will be coming too, right? I've prepared your meal in advance."

Watching Menqi's departing figure, Xiaodi looked at Jingyang with a puzzled expression.

Jingyang said, "Menqi is a food hunter; she cooks very well."

"Oh." Little Drop nodded.

They hadn't gone far when they saw a moon-white tiger strolling towards them from afar; it was Wu Er.

"Haha, it feels like it's been a long time!" Jing Yang laughed and went over to rub the tiger's head.

He looked towards the nearby woods, where many birds were perched on the branches—green birds, white birds, all sorts of birds, and even two crows…

"Jiji!"

The little gray rock finches darted over and landed on Jingyang's shoulder, chirping away, making noises that were hard to understand.

"quack……"

Two crows also left the treetops and flew over.

Seeing the curiosity in Xiao Di's eyes, Jing Yang asked, "Don't you remember them?"

He pointed to the crows, and also to Wu Er, who had once "attacked" Xiao Di.

"Why do you remember them?" Little Drop asked, puzzled. "I've never seen them before."

Jingyang laughed and said, "But why do they seem to think they've seen you before?"

Xiao Di said, "Impossible."

What incredible confidence! Jing Yang was filled with awe. "Anyway, let's go get something to eat first."

"Oh, okay." Xiao Di had only taken two steps when she suddenly wondered, if they were going to eat, why did they let Men Qi, who was said to be a great cook, go?

……

Menqi's cooking is indeed very good.

Xiao Di confirmed this during their afternoon meditation session in a clearing in the woods outside the city.

Men Qi was a little melancholy.

I never expected that Xiao Di's strength was so much greater than mine.

Although, the most powerful one is still Jing Yang... Men Qi looked at Jing Yang standing there, releasing his 'firmness' as always, silently honing his total mental strength and basic skills, and thought that if everyone could persevere in their cultivation like him, even without his exaggerated talent, they would definitely be able to continuously become stronger.

"My strength has been restored." Xiao Di had only finished eating a dozen minutes ago and was surprised to feel the change in the amount of energy remaining in her body. "No wonder Jing Yang invited you to join before."

Menqi swung his chopsticks, saying smugly, "As long as the food I make satisfies me, my abilities will work—I didn't say it has to be hot or freshly made! Cold dishes, bento boxes, or even things that are easy to store and carry, like cookies and cakes, might work too!"

"Maybe it's possible?" Little Drop asked curiously.

"Because I haven't tried it yet..." Menqi held back for a while, but finally couldn't help asking, "Xiao Di, what is your ability?"

Xiao Di didn't say anything, and her expression didn't change much either, but she remained silent.

"call!"

Over there, Jingyang finally couldn't maintain his "firmness" any longer and collapsed to the ground, muttering, "It only extended the time by a little over a minute, and I estimate that the total amount only increased by less than 100... If I had used these two or three days for cultivation, my total Qi should have increased to at least 6500 or 6600 now? But now I only have less than 6100... It seems that balancing work and cultivation is a skill!"

It's manageable now, but if the total amount of recitation increases to tens of thousands of breaths in the future, then maintaining that "firmness" until the recitation amount is depleted will take at least several hours, and it's very likely that maintaining that "firmness" will take half a day.

Is it inefficient?

Morel, the Hunter Association's Nen master, has a total Nen capacity of 7, which is enough to be considered top-tier... and there seems to be a reason for that. There are exactly 24 hours in a day, no more, no less. If spending half a day just practicing "Solid" Nen without much success is wasteful, it would be better to invest that time in improving the precision, proficiency, and breadth of "Shoot" Nen, or even developing other types of abilities to enrich one's tactical reserves. If one were to develop an unbeatable ability, wouldn't that be far more worthwhile than laboriously honing one's total Nen capacity?

The Nen ability is indeed unsolvable; as long as the total Nen amount is sufficient to support it, that's enough.

But when you think of the terrifying Nen power of those Chimera Ants, which can reach tens or hundreds of millions of units... Nen abilities may be unstoppable, but those monsters with such terrifying Nen power can terrify you with just a glare, or someone could just fire a simple Nen bullet and pulverize your body... What's the use of having an unstoppable ability if you can't use it?

"Sword Sect, Qi Sect?"

Jingyang suddenly thought of this, then glanced at Menqi, who was awkwardly stunned by Xiaodi's silence, and couldn't help but find it amusing.

Menqi was furious when he saw that he was actually watching the show.

Jingyang smiled and asked, "Little Di, what is your ability?"

Little Drop said, "It's a 'bulging-eyed fish'."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and conjured a large-mouthed vacuum cleaner out of thin air.

"You're a materialization type too!" Menqi exclaimed in surprise.

“‘Bulging-Eyed Fish’s’ ability is…” Little Drop was still demonstrating when Menchi quickly stopped her, “That’s enough, knowing what type you are is enough! You don’t need to tell me everything, I haven’t told you all my abilities either.”

Xiao Di looked at Jing Yang. Jing Yang shrugged.

Menqi retorted angrily, "And you, Jingyang? I still don't know what department you're in!"

Jingyang rolled his eyes. "I'm a history major! It's your turn to 'stand firm'."

Menqi stood up angrily, took a deep breath, released the 'training' and seized the opportunity to maintain it with the 'entanglement' technique, forming 'firmness'.

Little Di also followed suit.

Jingyang began to eat the remaining food, and it wasn't until after a while that he realized he was using their chopsticks.

After eating the delicious food with green seasoning, the energy that had been depleted was slowly being restored. And because of the star mark on the back of Jingyang's neck, the recovery effect was significantly better than that of Menqi and Xiaodi.

As Jingyang ate, he observed that Xiao Di's "firmness" was much larger in size and shape than Men Qi's, but Xiao Di's "firmness" was not as stable as Men Qi's.

Jingyang estimated that Xiaodi could last for about 2 hours at most, which is a total of 7200 breaths; while Menqi could only last for 5 minutes at most, less than 300 breaths.

A little over 5 minutes later, Menqi lay on the ground like a dead dog, panting as she looked at Xiaodi, who was still maintaining her "firm" state without blushing or panting, looking quite unwilling.

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Meanwhile, on the ship crossing the sea, Babima Inna hung up the phone with the First Prince, ending the brief report on the mission.

Upon returning to Kakin, he would meticulously prepare a written report detailing every aspect of the mission.

Chapter 43 Subconscious

Early the next morning, people from Blanchett's company came to the small hotel where Jingyang was staying and delivered the latest model of the Phantom Phone.

Local insiders really know their stuff. Jing Yang weighed the package in his hand, watched the staff go next door, and quickly knocked on the door.

"What phone?" came Xiao Di's voice from the door next door. "Impossible, there's no such thing."

“That’s true.” Jing Yang walked over, tossed the brand-new packaging box in his hand, and gestured to Xiao Di.

Little Di then took the box from the deliveryman from Blanchett's company, looking puzzled.

Jingyang found it amusing. "Even if you've forgotten, why not accept a phone given to you for free?"

Holding the box, Xiao Di asked doubtfully, "What if there's a bomb inside?"

That makes sense!

Jing Yang had to admit it. Although they were all decent Nen users, if they were caught off guard and at such close range, and couldn't release their ki in time to defend themselves, even a small bomb with low explosive power would likely injure them.

Jingyang walked into Xiaodi's room and asked with interest, "Then let's assume there might be a bomb in here. How can we confirm it?"

Xiao Di closed the door and followed, then after thinking for a moment, tore a hole in the plastic film on the packaging box of the latest Elf phone, so that it was no longer sealed.

Then, with a wave of her hand, the ball of air materialized into a strange vacuum cleaner with a wide-open mouth and a long tongue, its style quite edgy.

"'Bulging-Eyed Fish,' suck in the bomb." Little Drop gripped the vacuum cleaner handle, gave the command, and then switched it on.

The vacuum cleaner's "head" is wide open, ready to suck!

Chi Chi Chi!

After inhaling for a while, there was no change. The phone box, with its plastic wrapping torn off, remained motionless on the bed sheet.

Little Drop exclaimed, "Ah! Looks like it's not a bomb."

"You can use your abilities like that? You could work as a security guard!"

Jing Yang was somewhat surprised, really. He only knew that Xiao Di's ability could absorb things and use them as a transport container, but he didn't know it could be used like this.

Little Drop, holding a vacuum cleaner, said, "The 'Bulging-Eyed Fish' can suck up anything that I don't consider to be a living thing."

"What do you think?" Jing Yang sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed. "Is it based on subjective judgment? If you think a living person isn't a living being, then can't it also be sucked into the 'Bulging-Eyed Fish'?"

Little Drop asked in confusion, "How can a person not be a living being?"

"I see." Jingyang nodded.

If I remember correctly, after the Hunter Association president election arc ended and before the Dark Continent arc began, "Ushio," one of the twelve members of the Hunter Association, invited Kurapika, the second-in-command of a yakuza gang, for help. When Kurapika used the lie-detecting function of his ring finger's Soul Chain to help catch the mole, he mentioned a concept called "subconsciousness"...