One after another, he found more camps.
Lü Zhong uncovered a hidden clue: the deeper he went into the underground world, the fewer signs of destruction he found at the camps. Instead, it looked more like they had been deliberately abandoned. Considering the barrenness of the underground world, this seemed entirely possible.
Based on this information, he grew more certain that there were surviving cultivators below.
So, he had his Incarnation continue its exploration.
...
The underground world was far more magnificent than Lü Zhong had imagined.
There were worlds of dazzling, multicolored phosphorescent moss, a vast subterranean sea of molten rock that flowed like the Great River, and even forests of mushrooms and ferns. However, just as his Incarnation had seen in the underworld of his past life, everything edible or useful in the forests had been picked clean by the migrating Western Border Cultivators.
