Boom!
The great hall's doors slammed shut.
Ni Shuihan drove both feet into the floor.
Two cultivators hauled and dragged her, leaving two deep furrows in the ground as though they were plowing a field.
"Stop dragging me!"
"The man who just went in is my brother."
"I want to set out with him!"
The two cultivators looked bewildered. "Aren't you single?"
Ni Shuihan said, "I can have a brother."
The two cultivators blinked. "Are you sure you can wait until he comes out?"
Ni Shuihan sighed. "I smelled Stone City on him."
The two cultivators exchanged a glance and quietly moved away from Ni Shuihan. Then they covered their mouths and noses, terrified of catching hysteria.
Before long:
Boom!
The doors opened, and the two cultivators dragged out the cultivator who had just gone in.
The cultivator cried out:
"I don't have hysteria! Everything I said is true!"
"You can gag me, but my primordial spirit will still cry out in defiance."
Hysteria Prison stood in the mountains behind Drowning Water Headquarters.
Though called a prison, it had no cells, only a valley sealed by rituals and restrictions.
Within the valley, the many cultivators moved about freely.
Ni Shuihan wrinkled her nose and caught the scents of seven or eight cultivators who had been to Stone City.
They gathered to discuss it, repeatedly confirming that they had seen a safe zone in the Second-Layer World.
Moreover, they could clearly sense that the safe zone was expanding little by little.
"We don't have hysteria."
"Those old fossils are the ones with hysteria!"
"They live in the old days of the past, unwilling to open their eyes and look at the world, and even more afraid to learn about the world as it is now."
Just then, a cultivator