Footsteps came from behind him. It was Qian Renxue.
"What are you thinking about?" She walked up beside Su Chen and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.
"Void Soul Beasts," Su Chen said. "I was thinking—if Void Power can be injected into a soul beast's body, could it also be injected into a human body? Those corpses with their souls extracted in the Void Sect's base in the Land of the Far North might have been failed products of their human experiments."
Qian Renxue fell silent for a long time, so long that Su Chen thought she would not answer.
"You're right," she finally said, her voice very soft. "The Void Sect has indeed been experimenting on humans. And they've already had some initial success."
Su Chen whipped his head around to look at her. "What?"
"Half a year ago, a corpse was found on the outskirts of Heaven Dou City. The cause of death was unknown. After our coroners performed an autopsy, they discovered that a kind of energy we had never seen before remained in that corpse's meridian system. It was completely different from Soul Power, and it was highly corrosive and destructive. We found many people to analyze that energy, and in the end, we confirmed that it was Void Power."
"That person... was injected with Void Power?"
"More than that," Qian Renxue said. "There were dozens of suture marks on the corpse, which means he had undergone multiple surgeries while he was alive. His internal organs had been replaced, his bones had been reinforced, and his meridians had been artificially widened. He was like a test subject, repeatedly modified, repeatedly injected with Void Power, until his body could no longer endure it and completely collapsed."
Su Chen's fists clenched, his nails digging deep into his palms.