Since no spells could be used here to burrow deep underground and escape the pouring rain, and entering this wilderness truly carried a potentially fatal danger, people naturally sought ways to deal with it.
As long as they found a cave within the wilderness, or the remnants of some former faction's site, cultivators could enter and use it to shelter from wind and snow while recovering their depleted strength.
There was something deeply sinister about this place: shelters built by cultivators themselves were utterly useless. The laws of heaven and earth here treated anything that suddenly appeared just as they treated cultivators entering the area, regarding it as an outsider...
When Dim Heaven Dark Earth was in its outer regions, there were still quite a few mountains. But once one ventured deep inside, mountains became exceedingly rare.
According to the conjectures recorded in ancient texts, this was because when that world-forbidden technique had been unleashed, the destructive power had spread outward from the center and destroyed nearly every obstruction in its path.
As a result, only certain areas in the interior retained some architectural ruins. The reason those buildings had not been completely destroyed was that those places had once been the foundations of sects or cultivation clans.
Naturally, they had been protected by powerful formations. Weak formations, along with the people and objects within them, had long since ceased to exist.
Yet some exceptionally powerful factions had defensive formations that played a certain role, leaving at least some buildings within the formations more or less intact.
After venturing this deep like Li Yan had, and encountering his current situation, the best thing for him to do was find a ruin to enter and wait for the rain to stop before continuing onward...
He had been searching while determining his