Normally, a destroyed bane-ring would leave nothing more than a scar behind once it recovered. However, her destroyed bane-ring was changing and pulsing, as if it was reconstructing itself. It still seemed capable of converting astralforce that gathered there into new totem ki.

"Aaah... aaaah!" Li Wushuang screamed uncontrollably in pain, her voice reverberating throughout the cave. If it weren’t for the fact that nothing else lived on the island, she would have alerted everyone on it. The spectacle lasted a full two hours before her groans gradually trailed off.

She laid softly against the wall, sweating as if she was badly sick. Her right hand weakly slumped down, no longer clutching the destroyed bane-ring and revealing a bloody light that illuminated the cavern. The moon-shaped bane-ring was nowhere to be seen, replaced by a...