The midday sun beat down on Wuling City’s main thoroughfare, casting sharp shadows across the cobblestones. Xuan Fa strode through the eastern gate with the unhurried confidence of a man who owned the very ground beneath his feet. In his left hand, he held two leather leashes, each attached to a collar of polished black iron. At the other ends of those leashes, crawling on hands and knees, were Lin Qiaoxin and Li Que.
Both women were utterly naked.
Lin Qiaoxin’s twin ponytails bounced with each crawling step, her youthful body glistening with a thin sheen of sweat. Her small breasts swayed, nipples pebbled against the warm air. Behind her, Li Que moved with a warrior’s disciplined grace despite the humiliation, her athletic frame tensed, red hair brushing against her shoulders. Their buttocks—still bearing the faded pink remnants of previous punishments—rose and fell with every crawl.
Pedestrians halted mid-stride. Merchants abandoned their stalls. Children were pulled behind mothers’ skirts, then swiftly turned away. A murmur rippled through the crowd like wind through wheat.
“Is that… the Vermilion Bird deputy leader?”
“And the rogue cultivator prodigy? The one who broke through to Nascent Soul last month?”
“Naked. Both of them. Crawling like dogs.”
Xuan Fa’s face remained impassive, but a faint curl of satisfaction tugged at the corner of his lips. He tugged the leashes gently, and both women quickened their pace. Lin Qiaoxin looked up at the crowd with a bright, playful smile, her tongue darting out to moisten her lips. She seemed almost proud to be seen this way.
Li Que kept her eyes forward, jaw tight, but she did not slow. She had accepted her place after her defeat. The strong commanded. The weak obeyed. She was no longer weak.
But neither woman could fully mask the tremors that wracked their bodies. Every few steps, a shudder passed through them, visible in the twitch of a thigh or the clench of a buttock. The reason was hidden from the onlookers, but inside their anal canals, their intestines were packed with fresh ginger juice. The spicy, burning liquid had been injected that morning, and it had not stopped working since.
Lin Qiaoxin’s grin faltered as another wave of heat shot up her spine. She pressed her forehead to the ground for a moment, breathing hard. “Master… that’s… that’s really intense today…”
Xuan Fa glanced down without breaking stride. “Endure.”
“Yes, Master,” she gasped, and crawled on.
Li Que said nothing, but her knuckles were white against the cobblestones. The ginger burned deep, a relentless fire that made every muscle in her core clench. She ground her teeth and kept moving.
The crowd parted before them. Whispers grew louder. Some men smirked, others turned away in discomfort. A few women covered their mouths, faces flushed. Xuan Fa led his two slaves through the market square, past the fountain, toward the raised platform at the city’s center.
And then the murmurs shifted. Heads turned toward a side street.
Shen Mengyue crawled out from between two buildings.
Her disciple, a young woman in Immortal Cloud Sect robes, held her leash with trembling hands. The disciple’s face was pale, her eyes red-rimmed. She did not dare look at her sect leader. Shen Mengyue was naked—completely and utterly bare before the hundreds of eyes now fixed upon her. Her waist-length black hair dragged through the dust, tangled and dirty. Her fair skin, once the envy of cultivation maidens, was smudged with grime.
She did not raise her head.
She could not.
Humiliation drowned her like a tidal wave, crushing, suffocating. Every step on her hands and knees scraped her pride raw. She had been the Immortal Cloud Sect’s leader, a woman of dignity and power, respected across the cultivation world. Now she crawled through the streets of Wuling City, her breasts hanging, her buttocks exposed, her most private places on display for anyone who cared to stare.
They stared. Oh, how they stared.
A merchant spat. “Look at the great sect leader now.”
A young cultivator laughed. “I heard she got spanked bare in front of her own disciples.”
Shen Mengyue’s face burned. Tears threatened, but she forced them back. Crying would only make it worse. She focused on the cobblestones, on the cracks between them, on anything but the faces around her. Her hands were raw. Her knees were scraped. But the worst pain was not physical.
*This is worse than death*, she thought. *I should have died in battle. I should have let the demon kill me.*
But she had not died. She had been humiliated, stripped, and now she crawled like an animal. The disciple leading her was one she had trained herself, a girl she had taught sword forms and meditation techniques. Now that girl guided her leash, eyes averted, shame radiating from her every movement.
Shen Mengyue reached the square. She saw the platform ahead, and on it, Xuan Fa standing tall. Lin Qiaoxin and Li Que were already there, kneeling on either side of him. They glanced at her with expressions she could not read—Lin Qiaoxin’s gaze was curious, Li Que’s was coldly acknowledging.
Shen Mengyue crawled up the platform steps. Her bare thighs scraped against the wood. She reached the top and knelt, head bowed, waiting.
Xuan Fa surveyed the crowd. The square was packed now, hundreds of cultivators and mortals alike, pressing close to witness the spectacle. He raised a hand, and silence fell.
“These three women,” he said, his voice carrying effortlessly, “have committed crimes against me. They have been judged. They have been sentenced.” He paused, letting the words sink in. “Today, I will carry out that sentence in public.”
A murmur rippled. Some cheered. Others gasped.
Xuan Fa gestured. “Kneel in a row. Upper bodies prostrate. Buttocks raised high.”
Lin Qiaoxin moved first, eagerly positioning herself. She lay flat on her stomach, arms stretched forward, and arched her back, lifting her plump, round buttocks high into the air. Her cheeks were still tender from previous spankings, pale pink fading to white. She wiggled them slightly, a playful gesture that made Xuan Fa’s eye twitch.
Li Que followed without hesitation. She prostrated herself beside Lin Qiaoxin, her athletic buttocks rising higher, the muscles in her thighs and back tight. She did not wiggle. She held still, a statue of submission.
Shen Mengyue’s heart hammered. She could not do this. Not here. Not in front of everyone.
“Shen Mengyue,” Xuan Fa said, his tone flat. “Do not make me repeat myself.”
Her body moved before her mind consented. She lowered herself to the platform, the rough wood scraping her breasts and stomach. She stretched her arms forward, pressed her forehead to the wood, and arched her back. Her buttocks rose—softer, fuller than the other two, a creamy curve that had never been displayed to anyone before. Now it was bared to a thousand eyes.
Xuan Fa stepped back. He raised both hands, palms open, and summoned his technique. Golden light gathered around his fingers, then shot upward. Three planks of wood materialized from the air—Heavenly Dao Planks, inscribed with runes that glowed with celestial law. They hovered above each woman’s raised buttocks.
“The punishment begins,” Xuan Fa announced. “One hundred strikes each. Automatic. Unrelenting.”
The first plank descended.
*CRACK*.
Lin Qiaoxin gasped, her body jerking forward. A bright red handprint bloomed on her left buttock. Before she could recover, the plank rose and fell again.
*CRACK*.
Her right cheek. She bit her lip, but a small whimper escaped.
*CRACK. CRACK. CRACK*.
The planks struck in rhythm, thudding against flesh with merciless precision. Lin Qiaoxin’s buttocks bounced with each impact, the skin reddening, darkening. She gripped the wood with her fingers, tears gathering in her eyes, but she did not cry out. Instead, a strange warmth spread through her chest. *This is for Master. I am serving Master.* The thought made the pain almost pleasurable.
Beside her, Li Que took her strokes in silence. The plank slammed into her athletic cheeks, leaving deep red stripes. Her body rocked forward with each blow, but she made no sound. Her jaw was clenched so tight her teeth ached. She counted the strikes in her head. *Thirty-seven. Thirty-eight.* She would endure. She had endured worse in battle.
Shen Mengyue screamed on the first strike.
The plank hit her soft, untouched buttock with a force that sent shockwaves through her entire body. A loud, wet *SMACK* echoed across the square, followed by her cry of pain. She clawed at the wood, trying to crawl away, but her body would not obey. The second strike fell, and she sobbed.
*CRACK*.
“Please—please, no—”
*CRACK*.
Her protests were drowned by the rhythmic pounding. Her buttocks turned from pale to pink to red to a deep, angry crimson. Each strike left a new welt, overlapping, merging. The pain was a living thing, a fire that spread from her cheeks down her thighs and up her spine. She wept openly, her tears pooling on the wood beneath her face.
The crowd watched in silence. Some winced. Others grinned. A few recorded the scene with memory stones, preserving it for posterity.
Forty strikes. Fifty. Seventy.
Lin Qiaoxin’s buttocks were now a uniform, mottled purple. The skin had split in a few places, thin lines of blood trickling down her thighs. She was crying, but her lips were curved in a strange smile. *Eighty-two. Eight-three.* She could feel the end approaching, and with it, a sense of accomplishment.
Li Que’s athletic cheeks were black and blue, swollen twice their normal size. Blood dripped from the deepest welts, pooling on the platform. Her breath came in controlled huffs. She had stopped counting at ninety. Her mind was a blank wall of endurance.
Shen Mengyue had stopped screaming. Her voice was gone, worn raw. Her buttocks were unrecognizable—a mass of purple, black, and red, covered in open wounds. The planks continued their relentless assault, each strike sending fresh agony through her shattered nerves. She trembled violently, her sobs reduced to hoarse gasps.
One hundred.
The planks stopped. They hovered for a moment, then dissolved into golden light.
Xuan Fa stepped forward. He inspected each woman’s buttocks with clinical detachment. “Good. The first stage is complete.” He turned to the crowd. “You see the marks of justice. But they are not yet finished.”
He raised his hand again, and a whip materialized—a long, black cord tipped with barbed metal. It hummed with power.
“Legs. Spread them wide.”
Lin Qiaoxin complied immediately, pushing her knees apart until her thighs formed a wide V. Her swollen buttocks spread, revealing her anus and vulva, both puckered and red from the ginger juice’s lingering burn.
Li Que followed, her movements mechanical, her legs parting to expose her most intimate places.
Shen Mengyue hesitated. Her legs trembled. She could not—she could not—
“Spread them,” Xuan Fa repeated, his voice hardening.
Slowly, sobbing, she pushed her knees apart. Her crushed buttocks separated, revealing her anus, tight and untouched, and her vulva, pink and swollen with stress.
Xuan Fa raised the whip.
“Twenty lashes to the butt crack. Each of you.”
He brought the whip down.
The first lash caught Lin Qiaoxin’s anus dead center. The barbed tip bit into the sensitive flesh, tearing a thin line. She shrieked, her entire body convulsing. The whip rose and fell again, catching her vulva this time, splitting the delicate skin. Blood welled up.
Li Que took her lashes in silence, but her eyes were squeezed shut. The barbed cord cut into her anus, slicing through the tender ring. Her legs twitched with each impact, but she did not scream. She bit her tongue until she tasted copper.
Shen Mengyue’s screams returned. The whip struck her anus, ripping through the untouched flesh. She felt it tear, felt the blood flow. The next lash caught her vulva, slicing through the inner labia. Pain beyond anyt
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