The Wilderness was blanketed in ancient trees and stout timber, littered with disarrayed skeletal remains among which one could discern those of beasts and humans alike. The region teemed with exotic flora and menacing beasts, although those gaining two stars in the Blood Refining Realm were scarcely seen within the Giant Stone Valley. The even more formidable three star beasts, whose strengths matched those of the human Towering Realm Martial Artists, took to absorbing the Solar True Qi within the ancient mountains and vast marshes and hardly made their presence known.