Chapter Summaries

Amon chose Soul-Solidifying Grass to strengthen his soul and used a Worm of Time to parasitize Lovesick Heartbreak Red. After Dugu Bo confirmed he had taken only one herb, he weighed whether to kill Amon, but Amon offered him another deal.

• Dugu Bo realized Amon’s method could help Dugu Yan use a Spirit Bone to contain her poison and allowed Amon to choose an herb.
• Amon searched the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and selected Soul-Solidifying Grass to help him create more avatars.
• Amon touched Lovesick Heartbreak Red without being rejected and parasitized it with a Worm of Time.
• Amon pulled up the Soul-Solidifying Grass and told Dugu Bo he had made his selection.
• Dugu Bo confirmed Amon had taken only one herb but hesitated over whether to kill him.
• Amon asked Dugu Bo if he wanted to make another deal.

Amon persuaded Dugu Bo to trade an herb for a promised tournament soul bone, then took the Earth Dragon Golden Melon for Yan Jin. He left the valley while anticipating the arrival of others and plotting to preserve Tang San’s path toward godhood.

• Amon offered Dugu Bo a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone from the tournament prize in exchange for an herb and agreed to take a poison that would kill him without an antidote.
• Dugu Bo gave Amon Seven Insect Seven Star Grass and its antidote, then warned him to keep the herb garden secret.
• Amon chose the Earth Dragon Golden Melon for Yan Jin and reserved the Infernal Delicate Apricot for Tang San, whom he considered a potential target for his future godhood ritual.
• Amon shielded and wrapped the Earth Dragon Golden Melon, said goodbye to Dugu Bo, and left the valley.
• Amon looked back toward the valley and anticipated that others would soon arrive to receive his gift of fate.

Amon delivered the immortal herbs and left several avatars to monitor the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. In Sunset Forest, Yan Jin fought Teostra, the soul beast whose heat-controlling flames Amon wanted her to study for her next soul ring.

• An Aggregated Amon received the immortal herbs and assigned four avatars to watch the valley, while the poisoned Amon stayed to supervise them.
• Yan Jin spotted Teostra by a stream and attacked it with Great Eruption.
• Teostra resisted Yan Jin's magma and retaliated with cherry-red flames, forcing her to flee and dodge.
• Amon explained that Teostra could direct its flames to burn only chosen targets, preserving their heat and energy.
• Yan Jin concluded that she should absorb Teostra's soul ring to gain control over heat loss.

Yan Jin killed Teostra and absorbed its ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, gaining control over which targets her magma burned. Meanwhile, Amon considered how to use the Soul-Solidifying Grass, and Count Rhodes visited the Northland City Lord's Mansion but left without meeting the City Lord.

• Walter restrained Teostra with invisible threads, allowing Yan Jin to kill it and claim its Soul Ring.
• Yan Jin successfully absorbed the Soul Ring with the Worm of Time's help and gained the ability to choose what her magma burned.
• Yan Jin tested her new ability on Walter, and Amon found that her magma still gave off a small amount of heat.
• Amon decided he needed three kilograms of Soul-Refining Grass to safely use the Soul-Solidifying Grass.
• Count Rhodes tried to see Cubero at the Northland City Lord's Mansion, but Holmes told him the City Lord was away.

Amon traded Yan Jin an Earth Dragon Golden Melon for her saved Soul-Refining Grass, and she reached Soul Power Level 49 after absorbing it. They tested their abilities in the training ground, where Amon stole her First Soul Skill before telling her to keep her sudden progress secret from Walter.

• Yan Jin admitted she had injured two Soul Masters, and Amon asked how much Soul-Refining Grass she had saved.
• Yan Jin traded roughly four kilograms of Soul-Refining Grass for Amon's Earth Dragon Golden Melon and ate it while Amon concealed the soul power fluctuations.
• After absorbing the melon, Yan Jin reached level 49 and challenged Amon to a fight.
• Amon used Skill Theft to suppress Yan Jin's First Soul Skill, then kicked her across the training ground when she stopped attacking.
• Yan Jin surrendered, Amon returned her skill, and he told her not to tell Walter about the melon or her level for a week.
• Vidal saw Yan Jin's four soul rings, including a black one, and felt inadequate beside her.

Amon swallowed the Soul-Solidifying Grass, transforming his soul and affecting his many clones, while an unlucky clone died in a fall. After learning Marquis Fekris had been assassinated, Amon took interest as the Heaven Dou court arranged a response and Xue Qinghe said the decisive move would come in Heaven Dou City.

• Amon swallowed the Soul-Solidifying Grass and Soul-Refining Grass, enduring three hours of severe pain as his soul transformed and his connected clones were affected.
• Three days later, Amon found that his soul had grown more resilient, though one clone had died after falling from a rooftop, and he considered the risks of maintaining connections between clones.
• Amon learned that Marquis Fekris had been assassinated and severely wounded, then reacted with interest.
• Xue Qinghe advised Xue Ye to send Missia and three Soul Saint-level Offering Elders to Northland City to stabilize the situation while investigating the assassination.
• After leaving the palace, Xue Qinghe told Chi Xue that the northern arrangements were complete and the decisive move would take place in Heaven Dou City.

Golan discovered that Walter had secretly impersonated the city lord for two years and learned that Walter was working to bring Northland Province into the Crown Prince's faction through Aria. After Walter and Golan discussed the plan and Golan left, a man in a Classical Robe emerged from the roof and entered the room.

• Golan confronted Cubero and discovered that Cubero was a false body controlled by Walter, one of Spirit Hall's four Platinum Bishops.
• Walter admitted that he had secretly handled Northland City's government affairs in place of the city lord for two years.
• Walter explained that the Crown Prince wanted Northland Province's nobles to join his faction and that Aria's prospects in the Soul Master Tournament could help secure an alliance.
• Golan realized that Aria, Vidal, Brandy, and their noble families could form the alliance Walter envisioned, and Walter asked him to support Aria.
• Golan asked whether Amon belonged to Walter, and Walter said Golan had acted foolishly by interfering with the team.
• After Golan left, Walter addressed a man hiding on the roof, who entered through a window wearing a Classical Robe, a Pointed Soft Hat, and a Monocle.

Amon negotiated with Walter over the Soul Master Tournament prizes, revealing Yan Jin’s rapid cultivation and proposing a Soul Bone in exchange for help hunting a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast. Walter agreed to hear his target, and Amon asked whether he knew of the Mermaid clan.

• Amon asked Walter to introduce him to the Crown Prince, and Walter agreed while urging him to let Aria shine in the tournament.
• Amon revealed that Yan Jin had reached level 49 after eating an Earth Dragon Golden Melon, while he had reached level 45 after consuming another rare treasure.
• Amon and Walter discussed distributing the champion’s prizes, agreeing that Yan Jin should receive one and that Amon would take first pick of another.
• Amon offered Walter the remaining Soul Bone in exchange for help hunting a difficult fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast, and Walter accepted the proposal in principle.
• Amon asked Walter whether he had heard of the Mermaid clan.

Amon arranged for Walter to hunt a Mermaid, while Northland Academy added its top three individual competitors as reserve team members. Yan Jin revealed her strength by defeating all three at once, explaining afterward that she wanted to keep anyone from making Amon unhappy.

• Amon explained the Mermaid race to Walter and arranged to select a target for him to hunt.
• Sun Boyuan introduced Brady, Yang Feipeng, and Gong Chengyun as reserve members of Northland Academy's competition team.
• Yan Jin challenged the three new reserves to fight her together and announced that she was a level 49 Soul Ancestor.
• Yan Jin quickly knocked Brady and Gong Chengyun off the arena, then shot Yang Feipeng down with a Volcanic Bomb.
• Yan Jin told Lei Yin that she had beaten the reserves to keep others from making Amon unhappy.

After the Northland settled into an uneasy balance, Dugu Bo abducted Tang San to investigate how he could identify and treat poison. Tang San offered to detoxify Dugu Bo but negotiated to preserve his value, leaving their discussion unresolved.

• Missia temporarily acted as lord of Northland City while the royal family declared Cubero missing, and the Northland remained strangely calm.
• Amons departed from the Northland with a merchant caravan, hiding most of its members’ Soul Master abilities as they traveled toward Vast Sea City.
• Dugu Bo learned from Dugu Yan that Tang San had neutralized snake venom, then abducted Tang San after the Shrek group’s merger talks with Heaven Dou Royal Academy failed.
• Tang San identified Dugu Bo’s poisoning symptoms, prompting Dugu Bo to question him about Amons before threatening him with poisonous mist.
• After enduring Dugu Bo’s torture, Tang San offered to detoxify him but demanded that Dugu Bo first hear his method and judge whether it was feasible.

Tang San offered to study Dugu Bo’s poison in exchange for access to the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and regained confidence when Dugu Bo accepted the bargain. Outside the valley, Amon’s divided selves discussed how their interference might affect the story, while Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender headed for Sunset Forest to find Tang San.

• Tang San explained that a Spirit Bone might store Dugu Bo’s toxins, then deduced that Amon had suggested the idea and that Dugu Bo still needed help applying it.
• Tang San claimed he had a twenty to thirty percent chance of curing Dugu Bo, and Dugu Bo poisoned him before taking him to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to test his skill.
• Tang San eagerly examined the valley’s medicinal herbs, while the poisoned Amon and three other Amons discussed Tang San’s fate and their plans around a campfire.
• Yu Xiaogang told Meng Shenji that Tang San had disappeared and was likely with Dugu Bo, but Meng Shenji declined to help confront the Title Douluo.
• Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender left Heaven Dou Royal Academy and rushed toward Sunset Forest.

Amon watched the Golden Iron Triangle fight Dugu Bo, then Tang San arrived and negotiated for access to the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dugu Bo agreed to let Tang San choose seven plants, while growing suspicious of Amon’s earlier bargain.

• Amon concealed himself near the valley as the Golden Iron Triangle approached Dugu Bo and began fighting him.
• Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to transform Luo Sanpao into a Golden Giant Dragon that battled Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.
• Dugu Bo defeated the Golden Iron Triangle with his eighth soul skill and prepared to kill them, but Tang San arrived and stopped him.
• Tang San offered a fifty-percent chance of curing Dugu Bo’s poison and demanded permission to take herbs from the valley.
• Tang San suggested Amon had manipulated Dugu Bo, making Dugu Bo reconsider the value of the herbs and grow suspicious of Amon.
• Tang San and Dugu Bo bargained over how many plants Tang San could take, and Dugu Bo agreed to seven.

Tang San negotiated terms with Dugu Bo and arranged for Yu Xiaogang and the others to leave safely, while Amon learned that events were following the expected course. In Vast Sea City, Amon’s clones began searching for the Mermaid clan, and the disguised Amon entered Spirit Hall as “Adam” to meet Hall Master Pierce.

• Tang San persuaded Dugu Bo to release his teachers and promise not to initiate attacks on the current Shrek Seven Devils, though Tang San was excluded from that protection.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang and the others that Dugu Bo wanted to keep him for discussions about poison, and Dugu Bo allowed them to visit occasionally.
• An Amon received a Worm of Time message about Tang San saving the others and sent another clone to inform the Main Body.
• A caravan led by an Amon arrived in Vast Sea City, bribed a gate guard, and split up to search for clues about the Mermaid clan.
• Amon disguised himself to conceal his independent clones, entered Spirit Hall with Walter’s Token, and introduced himself to Pierce as Adam.

Over half a year, Tang San treated Dugu Bo and took several rare herbs, while Northland City and the Shrek group changed around him. Amon learned that his avatars in Vast Sea City had found a target for his Fifth Soul Ring and prepared to act.

• Vidal, Brady, and Franco visited Aria after Marquis Fekris's assassination, and the four pledged to support one another.
• Tang San spent half a year treating Dugu Bo, taking the Dew of Autumn Vision and Aromatic Silk Beauty as treatment supplies, and left the valley coveting its treasures.
• Missia became Northland City's lord and removed noble spies, while Walter trained Yan Jin until she reached level 53.
• Aria, Vidal, Brady, and Franco grew close, while Sun Boyuan struggled to organize the Northland Team for practical training.
• Amon learned from a Worm of Time avatar that the Amons in Vast Sea City had found a target for his Fifth Soul Ring.

Amon and Walter arrived in Vast Sea City and met Adam, who laid out a plan to hunt Hai Yun, a mermaid with Mind Reading. The chapter ended with Walter questioning whether Adam’s straightforward scheme would work, as it risked drawing the Sea Maiden Douluo into the conflict.

• Amon and Walter reached Vast Sea City, where Amon used his avatars to learn what had happened during the past six months.
• Adam met Amon and Walter at Spirit Hall, then led them aboard a fishing vessel bound for the mermaid settlement.
• Adam explained that Hai Yun was the only mermaid who met their requirements and could use Mind Reading, so they would need to control their thoughts around her.
• Adam planned to steal the mermaid clan’s treasured gemstone and lure Hai Yun to an island where Walter could ambush and kill her.
• Walter learned that Hai Yun’s sister was the Sea Maiden Douluo and questioned whether Adam’s simple plan could reliably draw her out.

Amon and Walter prepared an island ambush to steal the Mermaid Clan’s gem and hunt Hai Yun, while “Adam” brought a merchant ship to the Mermaid settlement to trade. The chapter leaves the trade underway as Amon watches the Sea God’s altar at the center of the lake.

• Amon planned to use his avatars to create trouble in the settlement and draw Hai Yun away while the clan leader stayed to protect it.
• “Adam” gave Amon a Space Ring containing a speedboat, and Amon entrusted Walter with their escape route after the ambush.
• Amon and Walter landed on an uninhabited island and found cabins prepared for them.
• “Adam” arrived at the Mermaid settlement, where Hai Yun inspected the ship and arranged the usual trade.
• Hai Yun maintained order as the sailors unloaded goods, while “Adam” surveyed the Sea God’s altar in the lake.

At a village bonfire, “Adam” and his disguised Amon allies launched a raid to steal the Sea Pearl, setting fires and killing mermaids. Hai Yun raced to the altar, while her guards slaughtered the merchant ship’s sleeping sailors, and she confronted the thieves without knowing what they wanted.

• Hai Yun celebrated with the villagers and asked “Adam” about the human kingdom, while he warned her that leaving the sea risked everything and admitted the sailors came for profit.
• After the celebration, “Adam” and his Amon allies killed the ship’s guards, disguised themselves in robes and pointed hats, and began their operation around the village.
• “Adam” reached the altar, fought two mermaid guards with summoned Amons, stole the Sea Pearl, and triggered an alarm before signaling his allies to attack.
• Hai Yun woke to the village under attack and, after the Mermaid Patriarch told her to protect the altar, ordered guards to kill everyone aboard the merchant ship.
• Hai Yun reached the altar, found two clansmen dead, and demanded the Sea Pearl from the Amon thieves, who taunted her.

Hai Yun chased Adam to a deserted island, where Walter and Amon had prepared an ambush to capture her. Walter pierced her with his Ferocious Rope Spear, leaving her defeated and trapped.

• Two Amon avatars told Hai Yun that Adam had stolen the Sea Pearl, and she killed them before pursuing him.
• Hai Yun alerted the Sea Witch, who left the Sea Maiden Sacred Pillar, while four Amon avatars signaled her departure by killing themselves in a set sequence.
• Adam and Amon realized the Sea Witch was on her way, and Amon told Walter to prepare for battle.
• Hai Yun chased Adam to the deserted island, where Walter's threads restrained her and Amon stole her corrosive ability and disrupted her thoughts.
• Walter seized the opening and pierced Hai Yun through the front and back with his Ferocious Rope Spear.

Amon killed Hai Yun and absorbed her Spirit Ring, defeating her soul in his Soul Space before fleeing the approaching Sea Witch with Walter. They left an avatar behind to mislead her, while Walter questioned whether the Amon escaping with him was the real one.

• Amon and Walter killed Hai Yun after Amon revealed that he had planned the attack for half a year.
• Amon absorbed Hai Yun's Spirit Ring, and her soul entered his Soul Space but was consumed by the corruption within it.
• As the Sea Witch approached, Walter carried Amon toward shore and used an avatar disguised as Tang San's father to distract her on the island.
• The Sea Witch went to Hai Yun's corpse and the decoy, allowing Walter and Amon to escape aboard a Soul Tool.
• Walter asked whether he had taken Amon's Main Body, and Amon confirmed that he had.

Sea Witch pursued Walter's Thread Avatar and “Adam” after Hai Yun's death, unleashing a devastating spiritual attack when “Adam” escaped on the Sea-Breaking Shuttle. The attack destroyed an Amon Avatar and weakened “Adam,” but Sea Witch caught him and killed him.

• Sea Witch recognized Walter as an avatar and tried to attack the group, but “Adam” used Hai Yun's corpse and the Sea Pearl to stop her from using a wide-area attack.
• “Adam” fled on the Sea-Breaking Shuttle as Sea Witch transformed and unleashed her Ninth Soul Skill, Sea-Suppressing Divine Melody.
• The spiritual attack made the Amon Avatar vanish and left “Adam” badly injured, while Walter severed the Thread Avatar's sensory links.
• Sea Witch dispersed Walter's stunned avatar, recovered the Sea Pearl, and pursued “Adam” across the sea.
• Sea Witch caught the Sea-Breaking Shuttle and shattered “Adam's” head with a palm strike.