Chapter Summaries

Amon and Walter discussed Yan Jin’s future training and resources, while Walter explained why joining Spirit Hall’s tournament team would be difficult. The chapter ended with Zhu Youzhi visiting Yu Xinxue, who suspected he had come to place another noble student in her class.

• Vidal revealed that Zhu Youzhi was a level fifty-nine Soul King, and Yan Jin admitted she intended to keep acting as she pleased because Amon could handle most situations.
• Amon met Walter privately, reported Yan Jin’s attitude toward him, and agreed to keep teaching her as his tournament teammate.
• Walter asked Amon to prioritize Yan Jin’s long-term potential when choosing Spirit Rings and offered to help him obtain his fourth and fifth Spirit Rings as compensation.
• Walter explained that Spirit Hall’s tournament roster was already tied to powerful factions, making it difficult for Amon’s group to replace its members; he declined to take Lei Yin as a disciple.
• Zhu Youzhi visited Yu Xinxue’s office, and she suspected he had come to ask her to accept another young master into her class.

Zhu Youzhi arranged for Amon, Yan Jin, and a third student to be assessed for entry into Yu Xinxue’s class, emphasizing that a Soul Douluo had personally asked for their placement. Yu Xinxue selected three students from her class to test them, and the assessment was about to begin.

• Zhu Youzhi asked Yu Xinxue to place three students in her class and said a Soul Douluo had personally requested it.
• Yu Xinxue agreed to assess the students, and Zhu Youzhi sent Vidal to take Amon and Yan Jin to the training ground.
• Yu Xinxue learned that Vidal had brought the three students and decided to test their capabilities seriously.
• Yu Xinxue asked her class for volunteers to examine the newcomers and chose Niu Shaopeng.
• Brady declined to fight the newcomers himself and assigned Roy to test them.
• Bing Lan volunteered to face the girl, and Yu Xinxue selected her as the third examiner.

Brady and Vidal renewed their rivalry over Northland Academy’s future tournament teams as Yu Xinxue began an assessment of the three newcomers. Lei Yin faced Niu Shaopeng in the first arena match, and the chapter ended as Niu Shaopeng activated his defensive Soul Skill against Lei Yin’s lightning attack.

• Brady led the class to the training grounds, where he and Vidal challenged each other over the academy’s upcoming selection tournament.
• Yu Xinxue started the newcomers’ assessment, and Niu Shaopeng volunteered to fight one of them.
• Lei Yin accepted Niu Shaopeng’s challenge and introduced himself as a level twenty-three Agility-Attack-System Battle Soul Master.
• Niu Shaopeng summoned the Green-Veined Water Buffalo and activated his First Soul Skill as Lei Yin fired a bolt of lightning at him.

Lei Yin defeated Niu Shaopeng in an assessment by outlasting his defenses and unleashing a Thunder Spear after Amon ordered him to finish the fight. Niu Shaopeng was treated and taken to the infirmary, while Lei Yin’s victory showcased the team’s strength to potential recruits.

• Niu Shaopeng stacked his defensive soul skills, but Lei Yin kept his distance and used lightning to slow and wear him down.
• Niu Shaopeng activated Berserk, increasing his speed and making it harder for Lei Yin to evade his charges.
• Amon told Lei Yin to end the fight quickly, and Lei Yin formed a Thunder Spear from condensed lightning.
• Lei Yin hurled the spear and blasted Niu Shaopeng across the arena, leaving him badly injured and unconscious.
• Alana treated Niu Shaopeng’s external wounds and warned that he would need at least half a month to recover; Tian Honghai carried him to the infirmary.

Bing Lan and Yan Jin fought a fierce ice-versus-magma duel that ended with Bing Lan injured and sent to the infirmary. Amon then used his Deception skill to make Roy concede, and Yu Xinxue declared Roy defeated.

• Bing Lan and Yan Jin introduced themselves as Level 30 and Level 28 Battle Soul Masters, then fought with ice and magma Soul Skills.
• Yan Jin overwhelmed Bing Lan in close combat, fractured her calf, and forced her to leave the arena for the infirmary.
• Yu Xinxue worried about more students being injured as Amon accepted Roy's challenge.
• Amon used his Deception skill to slow Roy's thinking and persuade him to concede.
• Roy snapped out of the influence, but Yu Xinxue ruled that he had already lost, leaving him wary of Amon.

Amon and his teammates passed Northland Academy’s promotion assessment and joined Class One, drawing Brady’s attention as a threat. Amon proposed breaking up rival teams and negotiating over the remaining tournament slots, but said they would wait until Yan Jin and Lei Yin grew stronger.

• Amon used his strange mental ability to make Roy concede, and Yu Xinxue announced that Amon’s team had passed the promotion assessment.
• Brady tried to recruit Amon, but Amon declined, and Brady left after warning Vidal that their relationship would remain unfriendly.
• Vidal explained the academy’s limits on student rivalries and how teams could withdraw from the tournament selection.
• Yan Jin suggested defeating every rival team, and Amon proposed combining that approach with deals to share the remaining team slots.
• Vidal worried that other teams would unite against them, but Amon said they would act after Yan Jin and Lei Yin grew stronger.

Amon visited Northland Advanced Soul Master Academy’s Library, where he met Aria Fekris, a fellow student who would compete in the Internal Selection Tournament. Meanwhile, Yan Jin and Lei Yin skipped their first class to eat barbecue, and Yan Jin revealed that Amon knew about their plan.

• Yu Xinxue noticed Amon, Yan Jin, and Lei Yin were absent, and Vidal gave excuses for them.
• Amon used his External Soul Bone to reach a high shelf in the Library, then met Aria Fekris.
• Aria offered Amon book recommendations and invited him to seek her help if he ran into trouble.
• Amon recalled Aria’s noble family, limited political power, and ambition as he watched her leave.
• Yan Jin took Lei Yin to a barbecue restaurant, explaining that her supposedly upset stomach was hungry.
• Yan Jin told Lei Yin that Amon already knew they had sneaked out.

Lei Yin and Yan Jin met Romier, a sharp-tongued Northland Academy student who tricked them with a fabricated story before provoking Yan Jin into chasing him. The two reached an open area near the academy, where a thin figure dressed like a merchant watched them from a hillside.

• Romier told Lei Yin and the other patrons a tale about losing his teacher, then admitted he had made up most of it after Lei Yin paid for his wine.
• Yan Jin attacked Romier for tricking her younger brother, but Romier blocked her magma-covered fist with a Barrier and mocked her.
• Romier revealed that he attended Northland Academy, then accepted Yan Jin's challenge to spar outside.
• Romier taunted Yan Jin and ran away, while Lei Yin stayed behind to pay the tavern bill.
• Yan Jin chased Romier across the city to an open area near Northland Academy, where he stopped and continued provoking her.
• A thin, merchant-dressed figure watched Yan Jin and Romier from a nearby hillside and touched the socket of his right eye.

Amon watched Yan Jin clash with Romier, a defensive soul master whose Barrier stopped her attacks, then learned more about Romier while discussing tournament team planning with Vidal. Romier remained undecided about joining a team because others wanted his fourth Soul Ring to serve their needs rather than his own.

• Amon used a disguised clone to observe Yan Jin challenge Romier, whose Barrier blocked her attacks until she left to find a way past his defense.
• Amon watched the fight through his clone and asked Vidal about building a team for the Soul Master Tournament.
• Vidal explained that Romier was talented and had been courted by several people, but his Barrier could only defend him from one direction and could not restrain opponents.
• Vidal said Romier hesitated to join because recruiters wanted his fourth Soul Ring to benefit their teams, contrary to his own plans.

Amon met with Vidal, who revealed that Aria wanted to learn about Amon and possibly join his team. Amon then confronted Romier by the lake, used his ability to make Romier repeatedly fall into the water, and left Romier eager to cooperate.

• Amon and Vidal discussed Romier's prospects and his poor fit for team unity.
• Aria asked Vidal about Amon and proposed that Amon might become the captain of her team as well.
• Vidal agreed to introduce Aria to his captain, Amon.
• Amon found Romier tormenting a family of Black Swans and tricked him into walking into the lake.
• Amon repeatedly made Romier fall back into the lake until Romier surrendered and praised Amon's monocle.

Amon invited Romier to join his team, promising a chance to pursue the Soul Master Tournament championship without forcing him to sacrifice his own goals. Romier withheld his decision, then agreed to test his defense against Amon and was startled when Amon copied his shield and found ways around its defenses.

• Amon asked Romier about Yan Jin and described the team he hoped to assemble, then invited him to join.
• Romier questioned why he should choose Amon, and Amon offered victory, freedom to leave, and the chance to pursue suitable Spirit Rings.
• Amon proposed a fight without mental-type skills, and Romier revealed his Barrier Martial Soul.
• Amon tested the Barrier with an Air Bullet, then used a Soul Bone Skill to create a shield and sword.
• Amon identified how the Barrier handled fast and slow force, then curved his sword around it and cut Romier's face.

Amon demonstrated a growing sword-and-shield approach to Romier and pointed him toward Yan Jin for advice on a Soul Beast. Meanwhile, Lei Yin pursued Yan Jin and Romier, dealt brutally with an extortion gang, and left before soldiers arrived to find the gang dead.

• Amon showed Romier how a balanced sword-and-shield soul skill could develop, then said Romier was only a candidate for his team and suggested he ask Yan Jin about a suitable Soul Beast.
• Lei Yin lost Yan Jin and Romier’s trail, then encountered an extortionist pretending that Lei Yin had injured his leg.
• Lei Yin broke the extortionist’s leg, knocked down the gang leader and two accomplices with lightning, and interrogated the leader about who had sent them.
• Lei Yin killed all four gang members with lightning and escaped by climbing over a wall.
• A squad of soldiers found the charred bodies, and their captain hurried away after giving instructions.

Holmes refused Abbott’s request to use the City Guard against Amon’s companions, then reported the incident to City Lord Cubero. After Holmes left, Cubero’s body dissolved into threads that returned to a cloaked figure, who reflected on how disrupting the nobles’ shared interests could break their unity.

• Abbott pressed Captain Holmes to arrest a student after the extortion ring’s members were killed, but Holmes refused to risk a feud with a powerful Soul Master.
• Holmes left Abbott after warning him that his targets would not follow the nobles’ rules, and Abbott shattered his wineglass in anger.
• Lei Yin told Amon what had happened, and Amon explained that Brady had tried to create trouble for Vidal and urged Lei Yin to focus on raising his Soul Power Level.
• Holmes reported to City Lord Cubero that he had rejected Brady’s request to use the City Guard against students at Northland Academy.
• Cubero criticized the Northland nobles’ control of students’ opportunities and reminded Holmes that he served the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• After Holmes departed, Cubero transformed into threads that gathered in a cloaked figure’s hand, and the figure remarked that disrupting shared benefits could leave the nobles divided.

Amon and his companions settled into training at The Academy, while Yan Jin’s fights caused heavy damage and medical expenses. Walter confronted Yan Jin about the compensation, gave her and her brothers precious medicinal ingredients, and heard her insist that Amon would lead them to victory at the Soul Master Tournament.

• Amon cultivated at his new house while his clone studied in The Academy’s Library, and Lei Yin trained in the Mimicry Training Ground.
• Yan Jin fought students across The Academy, damaging buildings and grounds and sending many people to the hospital.
• Zhu Youzhi presented Walter with a large bill for repairs and medical expenses caused mostly by Yan Jin.
• Walter told Yan Jin to weigh the costs of her fights and gave her, Amon, and Lei Yin medicinal ingredients that could speed Soul Power circulation.
• Yan Jin thanked Walter and promised that she and her companions would not lose at the Soul Master Tournament because Amon had promised victory.

Yan Jin advised Romier to hunt a Carbon Slime for a defensive fourth soul ring, while Amon accepted Aria into his team after she offered noble status and financial support. Aria later secretly entered Spirit Hall, and Amon learned of her movements through his clones.

• Romier asked Yan Jin for advice about a fourth soul ring that could help his Barrier martial soul gain offensive and all-around defensive forms.
• Yan Jin recommended a defense-attribute Slime and described Carbon Slimes that could form a diamond-hard surface when attacked.
• Aria explained that her noble status, talent, and resources would benefit Amon's team, and Amon welcomed her.
• Amon asked whether Marquis Fekris supported the imperial family, and Aria gave a guardedly loyal answer.
• Aria changed into ordinary clothes and secretly entered Spirit Hall with help from a middle-aged man, while Amon's clones relayed her movements to him.

Walter took Yan Jin, Amon, and Lei Yin on a secluded-training trip to a sanctuary suited to Yan Jin, leading them into the dangerous Meteor Mountain Range. The group reached the mountains and began traveling deeper inside, with the sanctuary still ahead.

• Yan Jin told Amon that Walter had invited him and Lei Yin to join her secluded-training trip, and Amon agreed to send a clone along.
• Amon, Lei Yin, and Yan Jin met Walter at Spirit Hall and set off in two luxurious carriages guarded by Soul Emperor drivers.
• During the two-day journey, Yan Jin explored the carriage, while Amon enjoyed the scenery from its roof.
• At the foot of the Meteor Mountain Range, Walter left one Soul Emperor with the carriages and led the others into the mountains.
• Walter warned the group about powerful Soul Beasts and told them to stay close as they advanced through the outer forest.

Walter brought Yan Jin and Amon to a volcanic crater so Yan Jin could train in the unusually active fire elements and prepare for her third Soul Ring. Meanwhile, Aria agreed to help Romier search for a Carbon Slime, and Amon learned that Northland's City Lord had entered secluded cultivation.

• Walter led Amon, Yan Jin, and Corea to a lava lake in the Meteor Mountain Range and explained that it was a dangerous fire-attribute cultivation site he had prepared for Yan Jin.
• Amon used Soul Power to shield himself and Lei Yin's Time Clone from the heat, then told Walter that the protection came from a fully fused External Soul Bone.
• Walter ordered Yan Jin to raise her Soul Power to level 30 in the limited time they had, and Yan Jin jumped into the lava to begin training.
• At Northland Advanced Soul Master Academy, Aria told Romier that she had promised Amon to help the team obtain Soul Rings, and Romier asked her to search for a Carbon Slime.
• Amon's Main Body emerged from cultivation, considered whether he could trade Walter for more of Yan Jin's medicine, and learned that the City Lord had entered secluded cultivation.

Yan Jin reached level 30 and absorbed a risky third Spirit Ring from a mutated Flowing Flame Lizard. She chose to remain by the volcano to cultivate, while Amon left a Time Clone behind to support her.

• Yan Jin reached level 30, and Amon recommended a Flowing Flame Lizard for a Third Soul Skill that could adjust her martial soul's temperature.
• Corea defeated the roughly three-thousand-year-old Flowing Flame Lizard, and Yan Jin absorbed its Spirit Ring with help from Amon's Time Clone.
• Yan Jin considered challenging the others after absorbing the ring, but calmed herself and accepted Walter's congratulations.
• Yan Jin decided to stay near the volcano and cultivate, while Walter agreed to have Corea bring her supplies and Amon left a Time Clone behind.
• Lei Yin returned with Walter and the others, and Yan Jin confirmed that she could still borrow Amon's power from far away.

After reaching level forty, Amon chose a Soul-Stealing Ghost as his target for a fourth Soul Ring while his avatars set out to raise their own soul power. A Time Clone reunited with Yan Jin in the mountains, and the chapter left Amon preparing to hunt his chosen Soul Beast before the academy tournament.

• Amon's Main Body broke through to level forty, prompting his avatars to hunt Soul Beasts and raise their levels before he advanced further.
• A young guard and a storyteller who were Amon's avatars took leave and headed with other avatars toward Soul Beast habitats.
• Amon's Time Clone found Yan Jin in the Meteor Mountain Range, told her to stay safe, and reminded her about the approaching Internal Selection Tournament.
• Amon reviewed candidate Soul Beasts and chose the group-dwelling Soul-Stealing Ghost, whose ability could steal Soul Skills.
• Most of the reachable serious Amons agreed that the Soul-Stealing Ghost was the best target, while a few fun-loving Amons suggested impossible alternatives.

Amon asked Walter to help him obtain a twenty-to-thirty-thousand-year Soul-Stealing Ghost Spirit Ring, and Walter agreed in exchange for Amon’s promise to treat Yan Jin well. Amon arranged to meet Walter in a month and told Aria that Yan Jin’s place on the tournament team could not be taken by anyone.

• Amon told Walter he had reached level forty and needed a Spirit Ring, then requested a twenty-to-thirty-thousand-year Soul-Stealing Ghost.
• Amon explained that his split-capable martial soul let him absorb unusually powerful Spirit Rings, though their quality would decline, and Walter accepted the explanation.
• Walter agreed to personally help Amon hunt the Soul-Stealing Ghost after Amon promised not to betray or hurt Yan Jin for profit.
• Amon and Walter set the hunt for one month later so Amon could settle his affairs and adjust to his strength.
• Aria told Amon that registration for the Internal Selection Tournament had begun and warned that Yan Jin’s absence might invite attempts to replace her.
• Amon told Aria that no one could replace Yan Jin, then continued on while Aria watched him leave.