In the Teleportation Hall, an enormous teleportation vortex turned, and with every breath, large numbers of cultivators emerged from it.
As soon as the cultivators came out, they saw all kinds of lantern spirit monsters guiding the way.
Under the lantern spirit monsters' guidance, the many cultivators, spirit monsters, and others quickly integrated into Stone City and became part of it.
Among the many cultivators was a middle-aged female cultivator.
Her looks were unremarkable, and she seemed ordinary.
In reality, however, she had been specially dispatched by the Drowning Dao Headquarters to observe Stone City.
That was because, just over half a year earlier, the Drowning Dao Headquarters had received news in the Second-Layer Inner Landscape that Stone City was opening up a safe zone and had hope of succeeding.
Many Dao Seal Cultivators had dismissed this outright.
They thought the cultivators of Stone City had gone mad and become delusional, or had been infected by some unusual anomalous climate, so no one paid it any attention.
But as time passed, some people at the Drowning Dao Headquarters discovered something:
Stone City's Dao Seal Cultivators were still enthusiastically boasting about their safe zone in the Second-Layer World.
But the boasts of these few people did not even amount to a single grain in the vast ocean of the Second-Layer Inner Landscape. Aside from some people at the Drowning Water Headquarters who noticed them, no one else cared.
The Drowning Water Headquarters paid attention to this matter not because they believed them, but because:
Some cultivators at headquarters believed they had been silently affected by an anomalous climate and developed hysteria.
They had encountered many cases of this kind of hysteria, and it was extremely troublesome and difficult to deal with.
Moreover, even the weakest cultivators who developed hysteria were at