“I was in a very difficult situation when you first banished me to this space disruption zone,” Yuan Jiuchuan explained. “No matter what I did, I couldn’t find a way back, so I could only recover my spiritual power from time to time with the spiritual materials in my ring of holding.

“However, as time passed, I eventually ran out.

“I wasn’t sure how long I had drifted in this place when I finally came to the verge of giving up. But that was when I met ...