Chapter Summaries

Su Chen fought Mo Yuan and two Void Sect members while their forces attacked the students. As more enemies approached and the students weakened, Su Chen decided he had to end the battle quickly.

• Mo Yuan confronted Su Chen over his senior brother’s death and defended the Void Sect’s belief that death brought salvation.
• Mo Yuan revealed his Black Python Martial Soul and claimed a hundred-thousand-year Frost Giant Python had sacrificed itself willingly to the Void.
• Su Chen used his Nine-Tailed Silver Fox’s spatial abilities to counter Mo Yuan’s black mist and wound him, discovering that Mo Yuan’s blood had turned black from Void Power.
• Mo Yuan joined forces with a Black Crow and a Black Spider, whose coordinated attacks pressed Su Chen despite his higher Soul Power level.
• Su Chen sensed that five students were injured, the others were tiring, and forty or fifty more enemies were approaching, so he resolved to finish the fight quickly.

Su Chen used the Nine-Tailed Silver Fox’s nine-attribute Martial Soul Avatar to defeat Mo Yuan and the other black-robed attackers, then led the survivors north. At camp, he learned Li Yang and Zhang Wan were suffering from Void Power and searched the ice plain for a rare herb that could save them.

• Su Chen transformed into the Nine-Tailed Silver Fox and overwhelmed Mo Yuan and his two companions with a fused attack of nine attributes.
• Ares and the students defeated the remaining black-robed men, then retreated north with their wounded while Su Chen left Mo Yuan alive to carry a message to the Void Sect.
• After four hours, the group camped in an ice cave, where Ares reported five wounded and warned that Li Yang had only three days to live.
• Su Chen promised Li Yang he would not die, then used his Mental Power to search for an ice-attribute treasure that could suppress Void Power.

Su Chen found a five-thousand-year-old Snow Ginseng and fought off a hundred-thousand-year Ice Bear to bring it back to the Ice Cave. The medic gave its medicinal liquid to Li Yang and Zhang Wan, and Li Yang’s complexion began to recover.

• Su Chen found the Snow Ginseng’s location and went alone to retrieve it while Ares guarded the students.
• Su Chen collected the Snow Ginseng at an Ice Cliff and discovered a hundred-thousand-year Ice Bear there.
• Su Chen fought the Ice Bear, escaped its Ice Domain with his Tail of Fire, and flew back toward the Ice Cave.
• Su Chen gave the Snow Ginseng to the medic, who prepared medicinal liquid and fed it to Li Yang and Zhang Wan.
• Li Yang’s complexion visibly recovered after drinking the Snow Ginseng liquid.

After rescuing Li Yang and Zhang Wan, Su Chen led the students to the Void Sect’s iceberg base and devised a plan to infiltrate it. Chen Hao and Lin Xue crawled through a ventilation duct and bypassed a sensor, leaving them to continue toward the base’s core.

• Li Yang thanked Su Chen, who credited Lady Qian Renxue, Commander Zhao Feng, and Lord Lin Mo for teaching him to protect others.
• The next morning, Su Chen led the recovered students to the Void Sect’s iceberg base and explained its defenses and layout.
• Su Chen chose Lin Xue and Chen Hao to infiltrate through a ventilation duct and destroy the core research while the others waited to attack.
• Chen Hao and Lin Xue crawled through the duct until a Soul Tool sensor blocked their way.
• Chen Hao used the Sword of Light to evade the sensor’s detection, then pushed it aside so he and Lin Xue could pass.

Chen Hao and Lin Xue infiltrated the Void Sect’s Far North base and discovered its horrific experiments and central research hub, a mind-affecting Black Sphere. They prepared to destroy it with a Heaven Dou Empire potion while the Void High Priest stood guard nearby.

• Chen Hao saw a black-robed man drain a civilian’s life force with a dagger, but Lin Xue stopped him from interrupting their mission.
• Lin Xue and Chen Hao left the ventilation shaft and used a black stone to open the door to the core research area.
• Chen Hao resisted the Black Sphere’s pull on his mind while Lin Xue recorded the hall and identified the Void High Priest as a Titled Douluo.
• Lin Xue explained that the Black Sphere powered the research and showed Chen Hao a potion that could destroy it.
• Chen Hao reached for the potion and volunteered to destroy the Black Sphere.

Chen Hao used Lin Xue’s potion to weaken the Black Sphere, but the Void High Priest captured him and prepared to extract his soul. Su Chen and Ares arrived just as the High Priest was about to act.

• Lin Xue threw four Flash Bombs to blind the Void Sect members while Chen Hao rushed toward the Black Sphere.
• Chen Hao splashed the potion onto the Black Sphere, weakening its mist, runes, and dark-red light.
• Chen Hao looked back and was seized by the Void High Priest, who froze his body and injured him.
• Lin Xue attacked the High Priest, but he blasted her into a wall and left her motionless.
• The Void High Priest discovered Chen Hao’s powerful Light Power and prepared to extract his soul for the Heart of the Void.
• Su Chen and Ares burst into the hall after the black-robed people were sent flying through the doors.

Su Chen and the students confronted the Void High Priest, but the Titled Douluo overwhelmed their attacks and badly wounded Su Chen. As the Void High Priest explained that Su Chen’s attachments made him weak, Su Chen prepared for one final struggle.

• Su Chen ordered the Void High Priest to release Chen Hao, and the students rescued Chen Hao and Lin Xue.
• The Void High Priest unleashed his Titled Douluo pressure, forcing most of the students to their knees while Su Chen and Ares resisted.
• Su Chen used Spatial Lockdown to immobilize the Void High Priest briefly, allowing Ares to attack, but the Void High Priest broke Ares’s arm with a single tap.
• Su Chen attacked with Fire Dragon Breath, but the Void High Priest blocked the flames and slashed Su Chen’s chest with a black blade.
• The Void High Priest told Su Chen that his care for others made him weak, while Su Chen gathered strength for another fight.

Chen Hao awakened the Sword of Light’s Will of the Sun and helped repel the Void High Priest as the Black Sphere destabilized. The students escaped the collapsing iceberg, destroying the Void Sect’s base, while the High Priest fled and vowed revenge.

• Chen Hao rose with the Sword of Light’s Will of the Sun and matched the Void High Priest’s Black Vortex with Judgment of Light.
• The Black Sphere burst apart, killing the black-robed men, while the Void High Priest escaped through a ventilation shaft and threatened revenge.
• Su Chen protected the students from flying fragments with a Spatial Barrier and urged them to flee the hall.
• Ares carried the unconscious Lin Xue as the students escaped, and Su Chen followed just before the iceberg collapsed over the base.
• Su Chen confirmed that they had destroyed the Void Sect’s base, and the students honored the heroic martyrs.
• Lin Xue woke and told Chen Hao she forgave him for looking back because he had survived.

Su Chen returned to Heaven Dou City with the students after destroying the Void Sect’s Far North base and reported what the Void High Priest had said about the Lord of the Void. Qian Renxue explained the danger of the Void Sect’s plans and the purpose of Martyr Academy, then began a victory banquet where Su Chen thanked Lin Xue.

• Su Chen checked Li Yang and Zhang Wan’s injuries before leading the team south from the Land of the Far North.
• Qian Renxue welcomed the returning students, and Su Chen presented her with the remaining Snow Ginseng and a Recording Soul Tool containing the team’s research materials.
• Su Chen told Qian Renxue that the Void High Priest had threatened the Heaven Dou Empire and proposed that the Lord of the Void might be a force formed from the resentments of the dead.
• Qian Renxue said intelligence suggested the Void Sect was creating a powerful existence and explained that Martyr Academy trained students rapidly through dangerous combat.
• At the victory banquet, Qian Renxue toasted the returning heroes, and Su Chen approached Lin Xue to thank her for her help on the mission.

After the team’s victory in the Land of the Far North, Su Chen encouraged Lin Xue to seek the deeper power of her Shadow Cat Martial Soul. Qian Renxue announced a mission to destroy the Void Sect’s Sunset Forest base and its Void Soul Beasts, leaving Su Chen, Chen Hao, Lin Xue, Li Yang, and Zhang Wan selected to depart with her in three days.

• Su Chen praised Lin Xue for suppressing the Seal guards’ soul attacks and urged her to explore the Shadow Cat Martial Soul’s potential.
• Qian Renxue revealed that the Void Sect was creating powerful Void Soul Beasts at a base in Sunset Forest, including one that may have reached Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast strength.
• Qian Renxue decided to lead the mission herself, chose Su Chen to accompany her, and ordered the injured Ares to remain at the academy.
• Chen Hao volunteered, convinced Qian Renxue he could return alive, and joined the mission.
• Lin Xue, Li Yang, and Zhang Wan volunteered, completing the five-person team that would set out in three days.

Su Chen learned that the Void Sect had been experimenting on humans and accepted that the team might have to kill subjects who could not be saved. Three days later, Qian Renxue led a six-person squad toward the Sunset Forest base and revealed that she was a Rank 93 Titled Douluo.

• Qian Renxue confirmed that the Void Sect had surgically modified humans and repeatedly injected them with Void Power until one test subject died.
• Su Chen agreed that they might have to end the suffering of modified people who could no longer be saved, and Qian Renxue told him to rest before their mission.
• Three days later, Qian Renxue led Su Chen, Chen Hao, Lin Xue, Li Yang, and Zhang Wan out of Heaven Dou City toward Sunset Forest.
• Qian Renxue showed the team a map of the base and explained that three Titled Douluo guarded its deepest level.
• Qian Renxue revealed that she was Snow Lotus Douluo, a Rank 93 control system Titled Douluo, and assigned herself the guards while the others were to destroy the research and deal with the Void Soul Beasts.

Qian Renxue led the squad to the hidden base and launched an attack to give Su Chen and the others time to infiltrate it. The group entered the underground facility and found people horribly transformed in its cells as they continued toward their mission.

• Su Chen assigned the squad their roles, and Zhang Wan revealed that her Self-Destruct Array needed ten uninterrupted minutes to activate.
• The squad crossed the forest, and Qian Renxue froze a thousand-year Wind Wolf before they reached the valley marked on the map.
• Lin Xue scouted the waterfall and found the base entrance, two Soul Saint guards, and a fourth guard with at least Titled Douluo-level strength above the waterfall.
• Qian Renxue attacked the four powerful guards at night while Su Chen led the others through the waterfall and into the base.
• Lin Xue helped the group evade a patrol, and they entered a corridor where they saw people transformed by experiments inside sealed chambers.

Su Chen's group uncovered a Void Sect laboratory and fought the last Titled Douluo guarding it. After Qian Renxue defeated the man and Zhang Wan activated the array to destroy the base, the survivors headed toward Heaven Dou City, with Su Chen resolving to protect them.

• Su Chen ordered Zhang Wan to set up the array while the others collected the laboratory's research and samples.
• A Titled Douluo ambushed the group, blasted Su Chen into a wall, and forced Chen Hao to attack with the Will of the Sun, leaving Chen Hao unconscious but burning the man's hand.
• Qian Renxue arrived and killed the Titled Douluo after three exchanges, then asked whether Zhang Wan had finished the array.
• Zhang Wan activated the array, and the group escaped as the underground base and much of the mountain collapsed, destroying the three Void Soul Beasts.
• Qian Renxue confirmed that Chen Hao would recover, and the group set off toward Heaven Dou City as Su Chen vowed to protect them.

After returning to Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue brought the exhausted team to Spirit Hall's Branch Hall for treatment and rest. Lin Xue kept the cavern’s experimental records safe, while Su Chen fell asleep before reporting their findings to headquarters.

• Qian Renxue led the battered team through Heaven Dou City and straight to Spirit Hall's Branch Hall.
• Zhang Wan examined Chen Hao and said his coma came from exhausting the Will of the Sun; he needed several days to recover.
• Qian Renxue examined Su Chen’s arms, found five bone cracks, and arranged a brace and medicine for him.
• Lin Xue kept the Jade Talisman containing the experimental records, and Zhang Wan comforted her as Su Chen urged her to preserve the materials.
• Qian Renxue assigned everyone rooms, and Su Chen returned to his room without contacting headquarters and fell into a deep sleep.

Su Chen and Qian Renxue examined materials recovered from the Void Sect and uncovered the scale of its research network and its experiments on humans. They sent the intelligence toward Spirit City and left a sealed black jade talisman for headquarters to investigate.

• Li Yang told Su Chen that Qian Renxue had called a meeting because the team had made a discovery.
• Qian Renxue showed Su Chen, Li Yang, and Lin Xue a map identifying at least twenty-seven active Void Sect bases, including seven core-level bases staffed by Titled Douluo.
• Su Chen read records revealing that the Void Sect had implanted modified Soul Beast Embryos into living people to create third-generation Void Soul Beasts.
• Qian Renxue told Su Chen that she had sent three messenger groups toward Spirit City to deliver the intelligence.
• Su Chen examined a sealed black jade talisman found on the Titled Douluo and decided to leave it for headquarters to handle.

After the squad uncovered the human experiments at Clear Wind Valley Base, Su Chen reflected on their losses and checked on the recovering Chen Hao. A schedule marking a “migration” two months away gave Su Chen a new clue to investigate with Qian Renxue.

• Qian Renxue reminded Su Chen to change the medicine on his fractured hand and left the meeting room, while Li Yang questioned why the victims had been treated as materials.
• Su Chen told Li Yang that the enemy saw humans and Soul Beasts alike as resources, and Lin Xue continued copying the victims’ names.
• Chen Hao woke after a day and a night of sleep, and Su Chen checked his condition as Chen Hao recovered enough to drink porridge.
• Zhang Wan assured Su Chen that Chen Hao would recover without lasting effects, and Su Chen admitted he feared losing the people around him.
• Lin Xue showed Su Chen a Clear Wind Valley Base schedule marked for “migration” two months later, and Su Chen decided to look for related information with Qian Renxue.

Su Chen and Qian Renxue discovered that the Void Sect planned to transfer experimental results from its core-level bases and devised a way to search for them using energy-monitoring data. They began repairs and scouting efforts, but the narrowing timetable left them racing to find the transfer destination.

• Lin Xue told Su Chen she wanted to join the next attack and destroy the corpses herself, and Su Chen agreed.
• Qian Renxue compared Lin Xue's notes with a sealed report and concluded that the Void Sect planned to transfer experimental results from core-level bases within two months.
• Su Chen proposed comparing energy fluctuations near known bases to identify likely locations of other bases, and Qian Renxue agreed to pursue the search.
• Qian Renxue explained that eleven monitoring nodes had gone offline and that repairing them would take at least ten days, so Su Chen ordered repairs and scouting to begin in parallel.
• Su Chen identified a disabled node west of Clear Wind Valley as a useful target, and Qian Renxue said a team was already on its way to repair it.

Qian Renxue and Su Chen assessed a suspected Void Sect base and planned a search for the surviving experimental subjects. They identified the Saint Soul Mountain Range as the likeliest location and divided the teams, with Qian Renxue leading Su Chen, Chen Hao, and Zhang Wan into the mountains.

• Qian Renxue coordinated three days of reconnaissance and repairs, while scouts discovered a concealed underground entrance northeast of Clear Wind Valley.
• Qian Renxue delayed an assault on the suspected base until the Seal master returned with intelligence from the Black Jade Talisman.
• Su Chen proposed locating the twelve experimental subjects still listed as alive so they could be rescued and provide firsthand information.
• Qian Renxue combined the West District records with the base's relocation schedule and identified the Saint Soul Mountain Range as the likely location of another base.
• Qian Renxue assigned herself, Su Chen, Chen Hao, and Zhang Wan to search the mountains, while Li Yang and Lin Xue stayed behind to coordinate intelligence and support.

Su Chen and Qian Renxue’s team set out from Heaven Dou City to search the Saint Soul Mountain Range for a suspected Void Sect base and twelve missing survivors. At a roadside tea stall, Qian Renxue described the dangers and the search area, then revealed a small Soul Tool as they prepared to continue.

• Su Chen packed supplies and worried about his injured arm and the choice between rescuing captives and destroying a Void Sect base.
• Su Chen, Chen Hao, Zhang Wan, and Qian Renxue left Spirit Hall's Branch Hall by carriage and traveled west toward the Saint Soul Mountain Range.
• At a roadside tea stall, Qian Renxue explained that the team planned to reach the outer perimeter before nightfall and search deeper the next day.
• Qian Renxue reported strange black lights, rumbling sounds, and a returning explorer whose Soul Power had been drained and who raved about eyes.
• Qian Renxue estimated that a suspected holding base would lie in the Transition Zone and took out a small Soul Tool containing a drifting silver thread.

Su Chen, Qian Renxue, Chen Hao, and Zhang Wan traveled toward the Saint Soul Mountain Range, using a Tracking Soul Tool to search for an experimental subject. After crossing a canyon, they made camp in a mountain basin and prepared to continue their search.

• Qian Renxue explained that the Tracking Soul Tool could locate an experimental subject whose Soul Power traces she had collected, and Su Chen agreed to rely on it.
• Qian Renxue showed the Map and told the group they would have to leave the carriage and walk through a canyon into the Saint Soul Mountain Range.
• The group reached the canyon, and Qian Renxue told the coachman to return to the Branch Hall and alert Li Yang to activate the contingency plan if they did not return within half a month.
• Zhang Wan checked for high-energy reactions, and the four walked through the canyon into a mountain basin as night fell.
• Qian Renxue chose a campsite, Chen Hao and Zhang Wan set up tents, and Su Chen checked the area and scattered Beast Repellent Powder before they ate by a Bonfire.