Xi Li's eyes had gone blind during the Great Purge of New Calendar Year 986.
At the time, she had faced several Void Return Beast God Race members alone to cover a group of the Human Race as they fled.
Though she had inherited the [Yin] and [Sword] Daos left behind by Xu Xing, and her combat prowess surpassed that of an ordinary Void Return cultivator,
she had ultimately been outnumbered, especially with one of the Beast God Race's Void Return cultivators at a higher realm than her.
She had fallen completely onto the back foot after only a few exchanges.
Had the Beast God Race's legendary Grand Supreme Elder, Fu, not suddenly made a conspicuous appearance, drawing the Void Return cultivators' attention away for a split second, she would surely have died in that Great Purge.
Though she had been lucky enough to escape, she had still been left blind in both eyes, with an injured soul. Even two fingers on her sword-wielding right hand had been severed.
She had spent the past few years recuperating, but she was still far from a full recovery.
Because her wounds were so difficult to heal, her cultivation had remained stuck at the middle stage of Void Return, without the slightest progress.
So she had taken to leaving her secluded retreat every so often to guide the cultivators still in the Inheritor Holy Land.
But today...
As the scene before her grew clearer and clearer, the power coiled around her soul like a parasite eating into her bones began to dissipate, bit by bit.
The smooth cut surfaces where her right index finger and little finger had been severed began to tingle.
Before long, her vision had fully returned. Light reappeared in her ice-blue eyes, and the severed index finger and thumb