The young Soul Masters Chen Ping had first seen locked in the Water Prisons on either side had half their bodies submerged, but at least the cells were reasonably tall, allowing them to stand and rest for a while.
But the Heavenly Dragon Sect's Vice Sect Master and the other older teachers and sect elders, whose cultivation clearly could not have been below rank seventy, were locked in the Water Prisons at the corners, where the ceilings were barely a meter and a half high!
With water a meter deep and a ceiling a meter and a half high, there was simply no room to rest. They could neither stand nor sit.
By now, these people had endured this torture for more than half a month.
Even with the Soul Masters' powerful physiques, their lower backs ached so badly that they were almost numb, and all their vigor had withered away.
Not only that, but after being submerged for over ten days, their legs had swollen, their skin soaked deathly pale and itchy. With the filthy water here, they might not have been far from developing maggots.
The tormenting design of these Water Prisons was truly excessive. As if ceilings a meter and a half high that prevented anyone from standing or sitting were not enough, every Soul Master had a short iron chain fastened to their feet, making even floating on the surface impossible.
It could be said that these peculiarly designed little Water Prisons at the corners had been built specifically to torture high-ranking Soul Masters who might escape. Calling such methods inhuman would have been no exaggeration.
Yet even so, neither the Heavenly Dragon Sect's Vice Sect Master nor any of the sect elders and academy teachers suffering in those small cells asked Chen Ping to move