One day later, in Heaven Dou City's royal prison.
At the end of a dark, damp passage stood several specially reinforced cells.
The air was thick with the smell of mildew and a faint trace of blood.
Flender, Zhao Wuji, Li Yusong, and several other teachers were held together in a relatively spacious cell.
Although they had become prisoners, their status as Soul Saints and Soul Emperors gave the guards pause. The officers in charge of interrogating them had ultimately not dared to use the harsher forms of torture, merely asking them a few routine questions about the clash with Xue Beng. Their attitude had even been "courteous."
The food was rough, but there was enough of it, and they were even given clean water.
Aside from losing their freedom, they had suffered little physical pain. They were simply worried, unsure of what was happening outside, and even more concerned about their students.
In stark contrast to the teachers' "preferential treatment" was what Tang San, Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun had endured.
Dai Mubai especially.
At that moment, his identity as a prince of the Star Luo Empire was no protection. It was a death warrant.
In his fury, Prince Xue Xing decided that someone must be pulling the strings behind this group of "lawless commoners," and that Dai Mubai, a prince from a foreign empire, was the prime suspect!
He also had the strongest motive!
Xue Xing even dreamed up an entire plot in which the Star Luo Empire had schemed to assassinate a Heaven Dou prince and provoke a conflict!
And so Dai Mubai received "special treatment."
A succession of cruel instruments was brought out: whips, branding irons, leg clamps, water torture...
In just one day, the once-handsome Star Luo Prince was covered in wounds, his flesh