I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Jingyang activated the star icon behind his neck, controlling his hand to hold the pen, and quickly redrawn a picture on the paper as if printing a photograph, based on the scene in his memory.

Hart looked down and was immediately struck by the scene before him: the black skeleton clinging to his senior brother Yun Gu, and the dark eye sockets absorbing energy from Yun Gu's sleeping face. His scalp tingled, his short hair stood on end, and he jumped back in fright, exclaiming, "What kind of monster is this?!"

Jingyang pulled him back.

"Little Di, did you see that?"

Jingyang pressed down on the little guy's head, brushed aside his short hair, and examined the top of his head.

Xiao Di focused his energy in his eyes and looked closely at the top of Hart's head. He saw a white petal with a hint of red, seemingly real, falling on Hart's head.

Peach petals!

Jingyang and Xiaodi exchanged a glance, both recalling the towering peach tree, dozens of meters tall, that was the most unforgettable feature of their dream, and the peach petals that always seemed to drift everywhere.

Jingyang reached out and touched Hart's head, but couldn't touch the petals, and the petals didn't move. It was more like a mark than a thing.

Jingyang reached out his hand to Xiaodi, and Xiaodi lowered her head.

Jingyang brushed aside the hair on Xiaodi's head, but didn't find any flower petals on it.

He lowered his head, and Xiao Di checked him over as well, but found nothing.

"Is there something on my head?" Hart asked, completely bewildered, while Yun Gu was also examining the top of his head.

Yun Gu muttered to himself in confusion, "There's nothing there..."

He looked up at Zhen Yuanzi and Xiao Di, immediately understood, and lowered his head to let Zhen Yuanzi check them.

Jingyang and Xiaodi both saw that above Yungu's head, there was also a peach petal that looked both real and unreal.

“This must be some kind of mark, it could very well be a manipulation system.” Jing Yang let go and pointed at Hart, who was full of question marks, and asked Yun Gu, “Can’t you really see what’s on his head? It’s a peach petal.”

"Is it the peach tree from your dream?"

Yun Gu understood, but still shook his head, "No, I can't see it."

“In other words, targets marked by peach petals cannot see each other’s marks,” Jingyang pondered. “But Xiaodi and I were not marked, so we can see them. Of course, Muggles who don’t know how to read can’t see them either.”

He was naturally referring to the large group of ordinary people from the front of the mountain who came to participate in the art exhibition.

Hart was bewildered, but he keenly noticed the blind spot and asked in confusion, "Why weren't you... why weren't you marked?"

Yun Gu understood that Zhen Yuanzi and Xiao Di were probably controlled by Zhen Yuanzi's manipulation abilities beforehand, which was why they were able to avoid the peach petal mark.

Jingyang said, "Yun Gu, you said you participated in the Immortal Water Mountain Tournament before, but I asked you several times before, and you were always vague. Did something like this happen last time, where you were 'marked' by a similar Nen ability, and then gradually forgot what happened on the mountain after you left?"

“Some conditional abilities do indeed have a memory-correcting effect.” Yun Gu sat on the sofa, deep in thought. “But precisely because my memory of the last time is not very clear, I can’t be sure if this situation is the same as last time…” He crossed his arms and muttered to himself in distress, “But since you said there was someone resembling Chairman Netero in the dream, I think there shouldn’t be any too serious consequences…”

Xiao Di turned her finger to the side of her head and looked at Jing Yang with a puzzled expression.

Clearly, she didn't understand Yun Gu's thought process at all. You've already been marked by unknown abilities, and you're still saying "there won't be any serious consequences"—aren't you being a bit too carefree?

Jingyang said, "Sitting here racking your brains won't get you anywhere. Why don't you call someone familiar with the Xianshui Mountain Gathering and ask them?"

"Do you have your president's phone number?" he asked sincerely, knowing that Netero was the most likely person to provide the most comprehensive answer at this point.

Yun Gu shook his head, took out his phone, hesitated for a long time, and then dialed a number.

beep, beep, beep...

beep.

The call connected. Yun Gu held the phone up to mid-air, a little distance from his ear.

"Do you even know what time it is? Don't I need my beauty sleep?!"

A strong, youthful voice blared from the phone's speaker, barely containing her anger as she snapped, "Give me a reasonable explanation within one minute..."

Master?

A big question mark appeared above Xiao Di's head: Why does Master Yun Gu's voice sound so young?

Master?!

Hart almost had a heart attack. Why does Senior Brother Yun Gu's master have this kind of voice?

Yun Gu quickly explained, then switched his phone to speakerphone and gestured to Jing Yang and Xiao Di, "This is my master, the gem hunter Bisky Kuruja. Master, this is Zhen Yuanzi and his companion Xiao Di. They came specifically to remind me about the dream and discovered the marks that were placed on me and Hart..."

"Hello." Jing Yang couldn't help but laugh and waved to the phone.

Xiao Di remained silent, calmly watching the phone Yun Gu was holding up.

Bisky's calm voice quickly came through the phone, though her tone still sounded like a little girl's: "The situation you encountered, Cloud Valley, with this peach petal-like mark, is probably a Manipulation-type Nen ability. But I must remind you that the ability to leave a mark is not necessarily a Manipulation-type Nen ability. Sometimes, even Enhancement-type Nen can leave a mark—for example, leaving a mark can enhance teammates or provide healing, and so on."

“Since this Zhen Yuanzi is a Manipulation type and has skillfully applied manipulation to himself beforehand, thus becoming immune to interference from the enemy’s Manipulation abilities, then of course, your so-called dream is definitely not the result of Manipulation abilities…” Bisky calmly analyzed, “If I were to speculate, I would guess that it is a Conjuration type.”

“The other party materialized a dream world, and then made it ethereal through the method of ‘concealment’.”

……

"Manifesting an entire dream? This is an entire mountaintop, and everyone was pulled into it... What kind of Nen user could do something like this?"

"At the Qianshan Hotel," said Gailu's clone with suspicion.

Biyou remained expressionless, tapped a few keys on the keyboard, brought up another window, and a three-dimensional model of Xianshui Mountain appeared on the screen.

"What if the entire mountain, inside and out, was covered with the word 'God'?"

Click, she pressed the button.

Chapter 126 Cooperative?

The divine characters, resembling a talisman array, rapidly appeared on the mountaintop, underground, various caves, and corners of the three-dimensional model of Immortal Water Mountain on the screen, covering a full third of the mountain's interior and exterior surface area.

Gai Lu waited a moment, but the screen still didn't refresh. She asked, "Didn't you say the whole mountain?"

“I’ve only been here for half a day.” Biyou pointed to the screen. “The president disappeared as soon as he arrived at Xianshui Mountain. I was bored, so I investigated on my own and have only found this little bit so far… The situation in the other places that I haven’t been involved in should be about the same.”

Gailu nodded, then shook her head. "The scope of the word 'god' is too broad. Bringing everyone on the mountaintop into a materialized dream world would be more than enough, a waste of its potential..."

"I don't know about that. These divine characters are too complex, and it would take some time to fully decipher them."

Gai Lu expressed her understanding. Bi You was already the most outstanding expert in ancient writing, and things like the character for "god" were also within the scope of his research.

"And you? The president specifically called you here, there must be a reason he needs you." Mao Tu tapped the keyboard and switched the screen back. "Is it to deal with some kind of troublesome poison?"

After a moment's thought, Gai Lu said, "I wasn't summoned by the president, but after hearing about certain things, I asked the president to bring me along."

Biyou thought for a moment and then understood, "It seems I misunderstood the cause and effect. You are a poison hunter, and you heard that there is some kind of troublesome poison here, so you came here."

Gail nodded slightly, "It seems to be related to the Dark Continent..."

Biyou was somewhat surprised, but then she thought about it. The Dark Continent was mysterious and dangerous, and it also exuded an ancient and ancient aura—V5 had signed a treaty prohibiting the invasion of the Dark Continent almost 200 years ago! This sounded like something Chairman Netero liked to meddle in. This martial artist and professional hunter, who had probably lived for over a hundred years, had experienced countless unknown adventures throughout his life; no one could say for sure.

The video, created by analyzing a "dream," shows flower petals falling from the night sky to form the image of a Bodhisattva, and a stone Buddha under a peach tree cracking and disintegrating...

“This is the president,” Gai Lu said.

“Obviously.” Biyou closed her laptop. “Since the president is still in the mood to play and hasn’t contacted us yet, then he should be fine.”

……

"About 40 years ago, I accompanied Chairman Netero to a conference at Xianshui Mountain..."

In the hotel behind the mountain, several people listened to Bisky's clear, girlish voice playing on the phone.

Jingyang knew that this woman was actually fifty years old, but she still had a girlish heart and pretended to be young all the time.

Yun Gu knew his master's age perfectly well, which is why he repeated "40 years ago?" in surprise, eliciting a deathly silence from Bisky on the other end of the phone. Bisky then gave a nasal "Huh?!" and questioned, "Yun Gu, is there a problem?"

Yun Gu quickly said, "No, I just—Master, if I remember correctly, you passed the Hunter Exam more than thirty years ago..."

"and then?"

"Master, when you participated in the Immortal Water Mountain Gathering, exactly how much...?"

"I remember I was 12 years old."

Bisky's answer left Jingyang puzzled.

Why is it that everyone is so obsessed with being 12 years old?

Menchi won the World Culinary Championship at the age of 12, Jin passed the Hunter Test at the age of 12, and Jin's future son, Xiao Jie, also became a professional hunter at the age of 12. Speaking of which, the physical age I set for myself before seems to be 12 years old as well... Oh well, never mind.

Yun Gu exclaimed in surprise, "Then Master, back then..."

Bisky on the other end of the phone understood what Cloud Valley was surprised about and calmly replied, "That's right. Back then, I was just an ordinary disciple of the Shingen-ryu Dojo, still learning martial arts step by step, and had not yet mastered the use of 'ki'. Although there are some inaccuracies in the details, I did formally learn 'Nen' after I obtained my Hunter License at the age of 17."

Good guy!

Jing Yang thought to himself, "Netero personally brought a 12-year-old girl from Xianshui Mountain to the tournament, and you call her 'ordinary'?"

Hart was so shocked he was numb.

Yun Gu's master has a voice that sounds like a little sister, but she's actually 50 years old... Let's not even get into that... This senior of the Heart Source School actually passed the Ascension Steps at the age of 12 without having mastered Qi?!

Biskey continued, "Because I didn't know how to chant when I attended the Fairy Water Mountain Assembly back then, I'm not sure if a situation similar to yours today ever happened. Looking back at that assembly 40 years ago, it seems to be a watershed moment."

"Watershed?"

Xiao Di and Jing Yang exchanged a glance, both recalling the information they had specifically researched beforehand. "The Xian Shui Shan Art Exhibition began to appear about 40 years ago..."

“That’s right. Forty years ago, and even earlier, up to a hundred years ago, the Sensui Mountain Tournament was just a small-scale martial arts exchange. Although the organizer was Master Sky, Chairman Netero would sometimes spar with the younger generation from different schools.” Bisgi paused for a moment, “Chairman Netero and Master Sky seem to be close friends.”

"seem?"

“I didn’t specifically ask!” Bisky’s voice practically conjured up the image of a tic-tac-toe grid on her forehead. “She just seems like an old friend.”

Chairman Netero is an old monster who is probably over a hundred years old. How could I possibly know what friends he had when he was young?

Bisky continued on the phone, "Since that time, as far as I know, Chairman Netero hasn't attended the Sensui Mountain Tournament again. Perhaps because of this, the Sensui Mountain Tournament has become increasingly less popular in the martial arts world, with fewer and fewer participants… Zhen Yuanzi, according to your description, the so-called dream contained a stone Buddha that appeared to be Chairman Netero's incarnation, and the final scene was a Bodhisattva made of flower petals clapping its hands to shatter the dream. Since that's the case, Chairman Netero must not be completely unaware of this so-called dream. If there are truly dangerous consequences, I think the Chairman will contact you—at least contact Yun Gu. Yun Gu, are you listening?!"

Hart was startled by the increased volume.

Yun Gu wiped away his cold sweat and laughed, "Of course I'm listening..." He looked at Jing Yang, "But Master, I'm wondering, since that dream might be a materialization ability, why could it pull Zhen Yuanzi, who had already manipulated himself beforehand, into it?"

"Are you asking this on behalf of your friend?"

Bisky, unperturbed, patiently explained, "There are very few Nen users who are 100% proficient in any one type. Furthermore, many Nen abilities aren't entirely conjuration-based or any other single system. For example, some emission-type Nen bullets often have the characteristic of being manipulable, which clearly incorporates Manipulation-type traits. And some Transmutation-type abilities, which change the shape and properties of aura, usually come with enhancement-type traits..."

"In other words, even if this dream is a materialization ability, it doesn't prevent it from having some characteristics of the Manipulation type. The 'conditional' characteristic is often an application of the Manipulation type, and this kind of 'conditional' ability is not limited to the Manipulation type's Nen abilities. The fact that the dream could pull Zhen Yuanzi into it only means that the 'condition' part of it was met, not that it 'manipulated' Zhen Yuanzi."

"But the most significant and core characteristic of true Manipulation Nen abilities is the ability to effectively control the target. Whether this control is complete and direct or indirect and conditional, it must at least be able to exert actual control over the target. For Manipulation Nen users, this is the situation they strive to avoid when applying manipulation to themselves in advance, and this can also be regarded as a bottom line and standard for whether they are affected by other Manipulation abilities."