I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Milluki couldn't help but laugh, but his laugh was a little mischievous. "What you're really concerned about is whether Killua will remember Alluka after he comes back, right? Hehe... If Big Brother's boasting comes out, see how I laugh at him."

“Michiki-nii, you wouldn’t dare laugh at Illumi-nii,” Kaldor said calmly.

Milluki was immediately annoyed, but couldn't find a reason to refute it. The younger brothers were all so unlovable; his two-dimensional sister was much more interesting.

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On the other side, Jingyang was running on the mountain road at a speed comparable to that of a long-distance runner, but he looked relaxed and carefree. After running for dozens of kilometers and leaving the forest surrounding Kukulu Mountain, he didn't even shed a drop of sweat.

He was on the phone while taking a walk, laughing as he said, "Yeah, it's really heavy. Little Di, you should try it next time. Let's see how many doors you can open... By the way, have you arrived yet?"

Chapter 76: Is this even possible?

"Okay. But I probably don't have as much strength as Jingyang right now," Xiaodi said on the phone. "I haven't arrived yet."

Xiao Di seemed to have taken the phone away from her ear and pointed it at her surroundings, so Jing Yang could hear the ambient sounds from inside the train more clearly. Xiao Di was still on the train heading to the Sky Arena.

"Be careful." Jing Yang had already returned to town. "I should probably leave soon too."

A soft "hmm" came from the other end of the phone.

……

Jingyang walked through the town, found a small restaurant to have lunch, and then headed straight for the train station.

I made several maps and compared them with the afternoon's travel schedule to choose the appropriate route to Sky Arena.

The straight-line distance is almost 8000 kilometers. If you take the train the whole way, I don’t know how many days it would take to get there… Jingyang was thinking in the waiting room when he suddenly noticed that many eyes were secretly observing him. After paying a little attention, he realized that they were all pale faces with anxiety. They seemed to be the bus tourists who went to Kukuro Mountain together that morning.

Jingyang's phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and saw a text message from Xiaodi: "I'm almost there."

"Received." Jingyang replied, put away the maps, and got up to buy tickets, causing the young tourist who had just mustered the courage to say hello to sigh.

……

"Sky Arena, (photo), it's so high!"

The train sped along the tracks, and Jingyang received another text message from Xiaodi. Jingyang smiled and typed back, "There's a prize for winning each level of the arena. You can hold back and fight your way up one level at a time, don't skip levels, that way you can earn more."

*Buzz*, her phone vibrated. Xiao Di replied, "I'll wait for Jing Yang to arrive before we go in together."

"Doraemon, I'm so touched."

"why?"

"I'm not moved anymore..."

"Oh. Okay."

"The boss orders you to call."

There were no new text messages to reply to, because Xiao Di called directly. Jing Yang answered with a smile, leaned back in his seat, and chatted with Xiao Di on the phone while watching the scenery rushing past the window.

After Xiao Di found a place to stay near the Sky Arena, Jing Yang's phone was almost out of battery.

"What are you planning to do this afternoon?" Jingyang asked.

"Shopping," Xiao Di replied, then added, "And cultivation. What about Jing Yang?"

"Traveling on trains, and cultivating..."

The call, which lasted over two hours, ended. Jingyang put his phone aside to charge and continued to silently practice his basic Nen abilities.

Perhaps because he has become accustomed to spiritual practice, Jingyang can now complete his arduous daily practice without any difficulty, even without the star mark behind his neck.

Through repeated trials and tribulations, Jingyang truly felt his heart grow. Like a new seedling, he sprouted strong under the nourishment of adversity.

People came and went in the carriage, but Jingyang remained unmoved, as still as a mountain, immersed in his thoughts.

……

As night fell, Jing Yang had already left the Republic of Batocia and arrived at a border city of one of the V5... uh, the Republic of Minbo.

The fatigue of the journey was nothing to Jing Yang at the moment. He quickly changed trains at the station, and when the train arrived, he went straight through the ticket check and boarded the train, continuing to speed across the continent from west to east under the cover of night... Jing Yang took off his shoes, sat cross-legged in the small compartment of the train, spread his five fingers and looked at the Jia character ring. With a thought, he sensed the existence of another moon mark through the moon mark inside the Jia character ring.

The night outside the car window was as dark as ink as the car sped by.

"It seems that the determination of nighttime is based on my personal perception. Just like Kurapika's oath to the Phantom Troupe, his determination of the members' identities is also based on Kurapika's judgment," Jingyang thought silently. "The subconscious can't lie to oneself, but what if I'm in a situation where I can't distinguish between day and night? Would the Moon Mark become ineffective, or would it be like Kurapika's judgment after activating the Scarlet Eyes, where the standard transcends personal rational cognition...? In that case, it could be explained that although I can't see day or night, the Moon Mark can still function based on my internal biological clock or something..."

[Jingyang, what are you thinking about?] After noticing Jingyang's telepathic message, Xiaodi's voice appeared in Jingyang's mind for a long time without saying anything.

Jingyang came to his senses and shared his thoughts, which Xiaodi found quite agreeable.

Jingyang added, "However, there is another problem."

【What is it? 】

【What if we're in different time zones?】 Jing Yang tossed out a ball of Nen, which spun like a globe under his fingertips. 【If I'm in the day hemisphere and you're in the night hemisphere, it's nighttime for your lunar marker, but daytime for mine. Would we even be able to sense each other's markers?】

There was a moment of silence on Xiaodi's end, then she replied: "That's unlikely."

Why did Doraemon say that?

"Because it's impossible for one of us to be in the daytime and the other in the nighttime," Little Drop said. "Besides, this is the first time I've ever heard of the concept of a day hemisphere and a night hemisphere..."

Jingyang suddenly realized something.

"[Jingyang said this, right? The world we know so far is located within a huge Lake Möbius on the Dark Continent.]" Xiaodi continued, "[If the entire Dark Continent, or even the wider outside world, is considered a planet, then the area where our six known continents are located would hardly experience a situation where it's half day and half night...]"

This world is so small, so small that there's almost no time difference. Jing Yang gazed out the dark car window. Or perhaps, this world is truly too vast, so vast that they have no way of knowing what the scenery is like under the bright daylight on the other side of the planet, while the human world is plunged into darkness…

Dark Continent!

It's not that dark. Why isn't it called the Continent of Light?

Jingyang pulled himself out of his jumbled thoughts and casually asked, "Xiaodi, how was your shopping this afternoon? Was it fun over there?"

"I don't know," Xiao Di said. "I think we should wait until Jing Yang arrives before we go shopping together. Jing Yang will be bored after sitting on the train for several days."

Jingyang smiled and said, "So thoughtful! Then wait for me."

【it is good. 】

Get some rest.

【Um……】

After losing contact with Yuebiao, Jingyang twirled the ring on his index finger in the quiet train compartment, finally taking it off, placing it aside, and pulling the blanket over his head.

"Tch, you've disturbed my Daoist mind! Time to sleep!"

……

Minbo Republic is very large, so this train journey was extremely long, and Jingyang was still on the train when it was almost noon the next day.

He spent the entire morning practicing his Nen abilities, and the entire private room was filled with the flying star bubbles he created.

Jingyang then used each of his spiritual bullets to precisely shatter all the flying star bubbles.

These flying star bubbles, having forsaken offensive power, naturally offer little defensive capability. Their ability to control the target upon impact also means that once detected by the target, their effectiveness is greatly limited… Conversely, the flying star bubbles themselves are silent and lack any sense of threat, thus possessing high stealth capabilities…

While Jingyang was cultivating, he suddenly sensed an activated star.

"What's wrong with this girl? Did she stab herself again?" Jing Yang's heart skipped a beat, and he projected his consciousness onto the carrier of the star that had been activated in the distance. "Xiao Di, what's wrong with you—" Before he could finish speaking, the scene before him startled him.

"Myself" was sitting on the toilet without pants on, holding a freshly opened package in his hand...

Huh? There's such a thing?

Chapter 77 Recovery

Jingdi looked at the pack of sanitary napkins she had just opened in her hand. This situation was truly unexpected.

I never imagined I'd experience menstruation myself in my lifetime... It's incredible...

Jingyang?

The voice of Xiaodi herself echoed deep within my mind.

Jingdi snapped out of her daze and coughed lightly. "Well, drink more hot water!"

A fleeting sense of doubt seemed to rise in my mind.

"I thought you were injured, but when I came over, I didn't expect it to be like this." "Jingdi" smiled. "I don't know how to use this thing, so I won't bother you. Talk to you on the phone when you're done."

Okay... Xiao Di replied. Soon, as if Jing Yang's consciousness had been squeezed into the depths of her mind, she seemed to surface and regain control of her body, and all her senses returned to normal.

She remained seated on the toilet, her movements barely changing. Jing Yang had already left her body.

Xiao Di quickly finished dealing with her personal matters, changed her pants, went back to her room, put on her "Yi" ring, picked up her phone, sat on the edge of the bed, and called Jing Yang.

……

"Speaking of which, Nen users have stronger recovery abilities than ordinary people. If you think about it that way, female Nen users would naturally be in better condition during their menstrual periods than ordinary women, right?"

In the train compartment, Jingyang answered Xiaodi's call, and they continued chatting about this topic.

"I don't know," Little Drop said.

“You don’t…” Jing Yang quickly understood what Xiao Di meant. She was already a Nen user when she had her first period, so she naturally didn’t know what it was like for other ordinary women.

On the other hand, the reason why women bleed during menstruation is simply because the body's preparations for pregnancy ultimately fail, and the lining naturally sheds and flows out. If this physiological phenomenon ends prematurely, will there be any consequences? Jingyang is not a doctor, but he thinks that the standard by which his star rating is measured doesn't seem to be entirely based on simple "healing injuries."

Because it's obvious that starred items come with the effects of restoring stamina and dispelling fatigue.

Jingyang has been cultivating for more than two months and has been benefiting from the effects of this ability. Otherwise, with such high-intensity cultivation and without the care of Auntie Cookie, he might have broken himself, not to mention that his cultivation efficiency would definitely not be as good as his.

While the effect of star-marked items in restoring stamina and dispelling fatigue isn't very strong, it does have some effect, and it's definitely much stronger than the recovery effect of a Nen user in their natural state, or even when they're in the "Zetsu" state.

But can this really be considered "treatment"? It seems a bit far-fetched.

Therefore, Jing Yang had a vague feeling that the healing effect of his star mark might be described in another way: it essentially "restores" the star mark holder's body to a healthy state...

"Jingyang?" Xiaodi noticed that Jingyang had been silent for a while.

Jingyang laughed and said, "Oh, I was just thinking, maybe I can have another nickname, like 'Friend of Women,' haha."

"And, I think it's necessary to thoroughly study the healing abilities of the Star." He said slowly, "Is there a limit to the extent of healing? Can it cure poisoning? What about mental disorders? Where does the healing power come from, and what is the cost? Is it really entirely from the carrier's energy? Will there be any side effects from having the Star intervene in your menstrual cycle recovery?"

Everything was fine until the last sentence, which almost made Xiaodi throw up her back. She sat on the edge of the bed and thought for a moment before saying, "There shouldn't be any aftereffects, right?"