In the Slanted Tower World, every slanted tower was built at an incline precisely because this medium-sized world was influenced by the gravitational laws of the Earth Vein World.
Not only were the towers tilted, but growing trees, burning flames, and even some people's hair were affected by the Earth Vein World's gravitational laws, becoming severely inclined.
In other words, the slanted towers themselves had been constructed according to the world's rules.
The blazing desert was devoid of life. Three gaunt ascetics, clad in the simplest burlap robes, trudged onward in silence. Only the vajra rings upon their bodies chimed incessantly, using sound waves to probe for dark wizards that might be lurking nearby.
Their lips were cracked and dry. The ascetics had cultivated in this desert, a place utterly hostile to life, for several months, drinking water only two or three times during that period. Yet amid such harsh and grueling conditions, they used immense willpower to challenge the limits of life itself, walking barefoot across the scalding, boiling sands.
Come to think of it, these ascetics, who roamed recklessly through cities, villages, and even sparsely populated regions, truly were the nemesis of hidden dark wizards.
"Junior Brother."
One ascetic was about to collapse when the other two flashed forward and caught him. The fire of karma flowed into his meridians and blood vessels, channeling into his body.
"Senior Brothers, my cultivation is still too shallow and my will too weak. I fear I can no longer continue cultivating alongside you."
This ascetic was already at death's door.
The only ascetic among the three who had cultivated the ascetic's light said, "For me, this is itself part of my cultivation. Night will soon fall, and the temperature will plummet. Let us dig a shelter."
Desert shelters were not merely