"Drip...drip..."..."Drip...drip..."

  The lawn is moist with dew, flowing down along the air holes, and every twenty breaths a drop will fall and hit the stone seams.

  Hua Rou watched as the light coming in from the air vent grew weaker and eventually disappeared, watching as day turned into night. She also saw that the dozen or so people in this damp cell were all huddled together in a corner, looking like they were on the verge of death - if she hadn't occasionally heard faint whispers, she would have thought they had stopped breathing altogether.

  The woman who had a conversation with Huā Róu, after saying those words in a fierce tone, did not make another sound and curled up in the darkness. Huā Róu also tried to talk to her, wanting to understand more about the prison and the people here, but she didn't get any response again.

  Hua Rou leaned against the stone wall, lost in thought.

  She wanted to spend carefree days in that small farmhouse; she wanted to meet Mu Junwu while escaping; she thought of the various bullying by Zi Qi and Zi Hua, and thought of Tang Jiuer's cold and ruthless face.

  Gradually, she gathered her thoughts, began to sit cross-legged with eyes closed, regulating her breath and calming her mind; slowly, her ears could no longer hear the whispers around her, only focusing silently on the growth of her own vital energy.

  She carefully felt the surging of the air in her body, and with each turn, her blood vessels had a bit of comfort, that feeling was warm and cozy like being wrapped in a warm quilt, making her more immersed in it...

  Time slips away like flowing sand, and the night becomes increasingly quiet and profound.

  The woman crouched in the corner slowly crawled out of the darkness, staring at Hua Rou, staring at her focused and devoted appearance, a thick sarcastic color overflowing from her eyebrows.

  She turned her head disdainfully and glanced at the air vent, then looked at the cage opposite, starting to back away into the darkness.

  But she had only retreated two steps when her body suddenly stiffened, a wave of pain twisting her face and shattering her mocking expression. She gritted her teeth against the agony gnawing at her internal organs, and began to laboriously inch herself into the shadows.

  "Hmm..."

  "Ah..."

  She didn't make a sound, but the other cages started to have moans.

  When she thoroughly retreated into the shadows, hiding in that patch of darkness to wail and tremble with convulsions, the surroundings of several cages were filled with various heart-wrenching and lung-splitting moans.

  Hua Rongben was focused on sensing the changes in her body due to the accumulation of Qi, ignoring the commotion around her, but the mournful and piercing wails finally disturbed her.

  The flower gently retracted its momentum and had just let out a breath when it opened its eyes, only to be startled by the dull impact sounds.

  Across from me in the cell, someone was banging their head against the door, while the wailing sounds all around were like a chorus of ghosts and wolves.

  This... this is...

  Hua Rou was momentarily stunned and couldn't react in time. At this moment, a muffled groan suddenly came from the darkness nearby, the tone of which had already changed due to pain.

  Without hesitation, Hua Rou immediately crawled into the darkness.

  "What's wrong?"

  Hua Rou finally saw the woman clearly, she was using both hands to climb up the stone wall and propping up her body with great effort.

  Hua Rou immediately supported her, and in that instant when she grabbed onto the woman's arm, she was stunned.

  Why is this arm so slender... and... why am I feeling so nervous?

  Just as Hua Rou was stunned, the woman raised her hand and pressed several major acupoints on herself, then she pinched the tiger's mouth with both hands...

  "You've been poisoned!" Hua Rou's words only elicited a slight glance from the woman, but that was all she could muster. The intense pain wracking her body required all her energy to counteract, leaving her no strength to spare for Hua Rou's belated reaction.

  The painful moans echoed all around, those wailing and howling like the actions of a madman, made Hua Rou realize that these people in the prison were all poisoned...

  "How detestable!" she muttered under her breath, and began to rummage through her sleeves and pockets. She wanted to find something to detoxify them and relieve their suffering a bit, but all she had on her was the token of an inner disciple of the Tang Sect.

  Love is helpless.

  This made Hua Rou feel distressed and anxious, she wanted to help, wanting the groans here to disappear, but she was helpless, unable to do anything, and could only watch them suffer here.

  The woman in front of her bit her lips, holding back the pain tightly in her mouth. She didn't cry out or moan again, but blood was flowing from the corner of her mouth.

  Tears, uncontrollably surged into her eye sockets.

  Hua Rou looked at the woman and saw the distorted faces of those in pain in the dim light, and she wrapped her arms around her own shoulders...

  At this moment, the prison is a hell on earth, and she is filled with anger in her heart.

  ……

  "Huh..." Zihua stretched and yawned, his eyes scanning to see that Linlin's bed was empty. He immediately muttered: "Getting up so early to study, is it even useful?"

  At this time, Zi Qi, who had finished washing up, brought in a basin of water and Zi Hua immediately turned over and got out of bed, excitedly going over to her: "Sister, do you want to go take a look at the Suffering Lock...?"

  Zi Qi gave her a stern look: "Calm down."

  "I'm worried about this, what if that person is unreliable..."

  "It won't hurt." Ziqi confidently put down the water basin: "I promised that as long as she helps me solve my troubles, I won't give her pain. Smart people know how to choose."

  The child pouted: "Then we'll wait till noon to collect the body with Master?"

  "Nature."

  The two sisters looked at each other and smiled, both feeling a kind of joyful relief that they were about to be freed.

  At this time, Linlin didn't go to practice her skills, but instead sneaked into the prison.

  The disciples who had suffered for a night, exhausted and lying in the prison cell, fell into a deep sleep, occasionally letting out one or two faint moans.

  Ling Ling furrowed her brow, anxiously arriving at the cage where Hua Rou was being held. She saw Hua Rou shrinking in the corner, her head buried in her knees, with both hands tightly embracing herself.

  "Flower soft!"

  Hua Rou heard the sound and raised her head, getting up in surprise to come to the cage: "Ling Ling? How did you get here?"

  "I want to see how you're doing, is everything okay..."

  "I'm fine, but they're in trouble, they've been poisoned, they need an antidote..." Hua Rou grasped at a lifeline: "Ling Ling, do you have an antidote? Anything that can relieve the pain will do."

  "I have." Linlin pulled out three small porcelain bottles from her sleeve pocket and stuffed them into Huajun's hands: "I came just to give you this, you must hold on, don't...don't be like me."

  Ling Ling finished speaking and was about to leave, but as she turned around, her eyes fell on the dagger in the cell: "How did this end up here..."

  Hua Rou frowned with difficulty and didn't want to tell Linlin about the viciousness behind the dagger at all.

  Linlin saw Hua Rou's distressed appearance and mistakenly thought she had the intention of taking her own life, so she rushed over to stretch out her hand into the cell and handed the dagger out.

  "Hua Rou, you can't have thoughts of giving up on life, believe me, if we persevere, everything will be alright!"

  "I don't take life lightly."

  "This one..."

  "Not mine."

  Ling Ling was taken aback by what she heard and immediately looked behind Hua Rou - in the dark corner, there was a foot sticking out.

  "It's not hers either."

  Ling Ling was taken aback, but she immediately understood: "Is it Zi Qi and the others?"

  Hua Rou bit her lip and didn't speak.

  Zi Qi and Zi Hua were overbearing, they usually bullied and enslaved Linlin, she saw it clearly, she didn't want to drag Linlin in.

  "I'll tell Master about this, they're going too far!" Linlin said, putting away her dagger and heading out.

  "Ling Ling!" Hua Rou was even more surprised: "Aren't you afraid they'll cause trouble for you?"

  Linlin turned her head and glanced at Hua Rou, bitterly smiling: "Now, I'm not afraid!"

  Linlin left, she walked out of the bitter prison, but Hua Rou was stunned by Linlin's answer.

  Behind her, in the darkness, the woman who seemed to be sleeping opened her eyes.

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