Five Heart Living Lotus

The Xuantian Dao Sect's number one punishment was called the Five Heart Living Lotus (五心生莲). It sounded like a very refined name, but those who knew what it meant all got chills upon hearing it.
Normally, one would think the five hearts referred to the two palms, two feet, and heart. But the Xuantian Dao Sect's five hearts didn't include the real heart. Instead, the fifth heart referred to the heart of the head, or the space between a person's eyebrows.
A Heart Piercing Lotus's seed was planted in each of those five spots. It was said that this lotus seed originated from hell. It was only able to survive off other people's bodies. During that process, it would extract a person's soul and blood to nourish itself.
Furthermore, the person infected with the lotus would feel endless pain during this process. The lotus would take root within the body, and the pain was indescribable.
This kind of pain was enough to cause a person to die. But because a seed would be planted in the head as well, it would cause a strange cycle. It made it so a person could die, but they would still feel every little bit of the pain.
The most terrifying thing was that the lotus would feed the energy back to the heart. It allowed a person to live three times longer than normal.
This was the Xuantian Dao Sect's cruelest punishment. It had only been used a few times in all of history. Unless a person was completely evil, it wouldn't be used. Even those who betrayed the sect were normally just killed instead of being inflicted with this punishment. But today, Ouyang Qiuyu was truly infuriated.
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Category:Xuantian Dao Sect
Category:Lotus