Just south of Oborezuki castle lies a small grove of trees simply known as 'New Grove' where those Scorpion who betray their Clan are brought for punishment. Soshi shugenja bind the traitor to a tree and prepare their body and soul for the painful ritual to come. After hours of prayers and dousing the traitor with pungent incense, a long knife is pressed to their chest while a magistrate reads out the traitor’s crimes. As the crimes are read, the priests press the knife slowly through the convicted traitor’s chest. The magic invoked keeps them alive throughout this part of the ritual, feeling the knife sink through their heart and into the tree, transferring their soul into the tree for all eternity. The body is cremated and buried beneath the tree, while the traitor's mask and belongings are hung from the branches. The warped and gnarly trees growing in the grove produce continual, unearthly creaking and moaning sounds, as if they are forever in pain.
The Scorpion make no effort to hide the New Grove and, while the location is not marked on the official maps, the curious who do wander into the haunted woods are allowed to witness the price of betraying the Scorpion first hand. While it is impossible to be absolutely certain that this punishment is actually eternal, the Scorpion believe that the souls bound to the trees will suffer eternal agony without a chance of rebirth - a punishment most of the other Clans find barbaric and borderline blasphemous.