Passing through the mountain wall conjured by the Illusion Array...
The sight before him instantly opened up, an immense, boundless valley came into view, its terrain flat and level, with Spirit Energy several times denser than outside, and the air suffused with a faint medicinal fragrance mingled with Spirit Energy.
At the very center of the valley stood an ancient, weathered palace, built from black stone, with soaring eaves and upturned corners, carved beams and painted rafters, exuding an air of majesty and weight.
Around the palace stood rings of neatly arranged stone houses, each one forged from hard rock, with thick walls and simple talismans inscribed above the doors.
What drew the eye even more was...
above every stone house rippled a Formation Light Screen of a different hue. The screens undulated steadily, giving off Spirit Energy auras that ranged from strong to weak—
clearly, these were protective formations laid down by the owners of the stone houses, capable of fending off invading enemies, as well as shutting out outside disturbances and safeguarding their cultivation environment.
After all, the path of cultivation was a defiance of heaven, and every cultivation session required absolute concentration, with no room for the slightest interruption.
Even the tiniest disturbance could cause one to suffer qi deviation and see all previous efforts go down the drain.
What was more, cultivators were mostly meticulous and placed immense importance on their privacy.
Their cave abodes were their safest harbors, the crucial places where they stored treasures and cultivated in closed-door meditation.
Therefore, in the Cultivation World, so long as cultivators had sufficient means, they would not hesitate to raise the security level of their cave abodes.
Even if their wealth was modest, they would still set up low-grade formations to protect their own cave abodes.
Such