Building a Shrine of Remembrance

Like the young Soul Masters Chen Ping had seen at the beginning, who were held in Water Prisons on either side, although half their bodies were submerged, the prisons were at least tall enough for them to stand and rest for a while.

However, the Vice Sect Master of the Heavenly Dragon Gate, along with the older teachers and Sect elders whose cultivation clearly could not be below level seventy, were all confined in Water Prisons at the corner. The maximum height of those rooms was barely one and a half meters!

With water one meter deep and the room only one and a half meters high, there was simply no room for anyone to rest. They could neither stand nor sit.

By now, these people had endured this torture for over half a month.

Even with the Soul Masters' formidable physical constitutions, their lumbar spines had become so sore they were nearly numb, and their Essence, Qi, and Spirit had all withered away.

Not only that, their legs had been submerged in water for more than ten days. They were now swollen, their skin soaked pale and itchy. Given how filthy the water was, it would not be long before maggots appeared.

The design of these Water Prisons was excessively cruel. Being only one and a half meters high, they prevented people from standing or sitting. On top of that, each Soul Master had a short iron chain fastened to their feet, so even if someone wanted to float on the surface, they could not.

It could be said that these uniquely designed little Water Prisons at the corners had been built specifically to torture high-level Soul Masters who might attempt a prison break. Calling such methods inhumane would not be an exaggeration.

Yet even so, not a single