“It seems you've uncovered quite a bit these past few days.” Catherine smiled, increasingly admiring Tongtian Jiaozhu’s precise grasp of the Hunter Guild's schemes.

Zhang Yuanqing pulled a chair and sat down, scanning the spacious and luxurious suite, noticing surveillance cameras installed in the four corners of the ceiling.

He withdrew his gaze, looking at Catherine’s snow-white, curvaceous back and said faintly, “I originally thought the Hunter Guild was just doing things for money, but the tone of your voice on the phone and your current emotions tell me that your goal is to assassinate Julian and provoke infighting within the Tribunal. Does the Hunter Guild belong to the evil faction?”

“Want to know?” Catherine turned her head, a smirk playing on her lips. “Take off your clothes and come down!”

Zhang Yuanqing glanced again at the surveillance cameras in the four corners of the ceiling, and coldly said, “I have no interest in being naked under the gaze of others.”

Catherine’s eyes were charming and captivating, and she followed his gaze around the surveillance cameras, smiling and saying, “The people behind the cameras are the Chairman of the Hunter Guild and two Vice-Chairmen. Our screening of new members is very strict. Tonight is the final test for you to join the Hunters. They are responsible for the review.”

One Chairman and three Vice-Chairmen, Zhang Yuanqing felt somewhat resistant in his heart, but Tongtian Jiaozhu was an eccentric and solitary illusionist, how could he be intimidated by such small scenes? So he expressionlessly took off his white short-sleeved shirt and black casual jacket, then pulled off his boxer briefs, casually tossing them aside. Under Catherine’s gleaming gaze, he walked to the edge of the pool, stark naked, and stepped into the water.

The moment his body was immersed in the warm water, Zhang Yuanqing felt a tremor in his heart, and all kinds of emotions in his mind quickly dissipated, leaving behind upright and solemn thoughts, as if he had become the impartial and selfless Bao Zheng.

“This is…” Zhang Yuanqing lowered his head, looking at the pool.

Catherine smiled. “This is called the Holy Pool, one of the three sacred objects of the Vatican, a prop for the Knight profession, managed by the original Vatican Knights. Its function is to cleanse the inner evil thoughts and hostility. Every time the Knights return to the Vatican after purging heretics, they must soak in the Holy Pool for an hour.”

“Good stuff, if I get the chance, I’ll snatch it and send it back to the country, and make that group of corrupt officials soak in it for an hour every day, and the world will become a better place.”

Zhang Yuanqing's first reaction was: The Devil Eye would definitely like this prop. At the same time, he understood the reason why Catherine invited him to take a lovers' bath. This was the final test.

Thoughts flickered, immersed in the Holy Pool, he saw the item attributes:

[Name: Holy Knight’s Bathing Pool]

[Type: Bathtub]

[Function: Cleanse, Covenant]

[Introduction: One of the three sacred objects of the Vatican. In the chaotic Middle Ages, witches' curses and vampire contamination were the greatest threats to the Vatican clergy. In order to save the fallen knights, and to prevent knights from being contaminated, the third generation of Holy Knights created this sacred artifact.]

[Note: A real man should meet frankly and openly!]

Covenant and Oath are both standard skills of the Knight profession, but “Cleanse” made Zhang Yuanqing a little curious, guessing it was a skill attached to the prop, and contained the characteristics of a Knight.

The skills of high-level props do not 100% replicate the Spirit Realm profession, but evolve into new skills by integrating professional abilities according to their own characteristics.

For example, the Rogue Plate's abilities do not belong to any profession.

It was a pity that he couldn’t put this prop into his item bar, so Zhang Yuanqing couldn’t figure out the specific effects of Cleansing. If it was just to eliminate “impurities” in emotions, he felt the strength was too low to match the title of “Three Sacred Objects.”

Catherine gently played with the water, her fair and delicate oval face dotted with water droplets. Seeing Tongtian Jiaozhu’s gaze deep and calm, she pouted, and said resentfully, “Am I not beautiful?”

Zhang Yuanqing sneered. “I think Donna is more beautiful than you.”

Catherine’s pretty face sank, and she put away her charming attitude, coldly saying, “Tongtian Jiaozhu, I represent the Hunter Guild to conduct the final round of investigation on you. Now, please swear an oath to answer my questions honestly.”

After speaking, she raised her snow-white lotus arm, sweeping across the water surface, and pure, bright golden light lit up from the bottom of the pool, reflecting the pool of spring water into a golden soup.

Catherine’s pure white jade body became even more beautiful and alluring, like a celestial maiden bathing in the Jade Pool.

Is she angry? She has a very strong jealousy towards Donna. This is a clue.

Zhang Yuanqing’s expression remained unchanged as he swore an oath, saying, “No need for ten seconds, ask away.”

“26 years old, born in Songhai, China, Spirit Realm ID Tongtian Jiaozhu, profession Illusionist!” Zhang Yuanqing responded frankly.

In the New York County Bank headquarters building, inside a bedroom, the Yin corpse with the exact same appearance as the real “Tongtian Jiaozhu” suddenly had a sword mark split open on its glabella. The sword mark expanded and quickly moved along the body, and with a "poof," the entire body split into two halves.

The skin on the surface of the corpse melted, and the venom-like liquid gathered into a human skin as thin as cicada wings. Zhang Yuanqing's doppelganger held the Yata no Kagami in one hand and picked up the human skin in the other – mission complete!

“I hope the main body passes the test smoothly.”

From the computer speakers came sounds of intense pleasure and unconsciously uttered profanities from a man and a woman: “Oh! Oh!”

Catherine scrutinized him, and seeing Tongtian Jiaozhu was safe and sound, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She continued to ask, “We’ve investigated you. You’re very low-key in the Second District. The Five Elements Alliance has no more than three criminal records about you, and those you killed were all people in official positions.”

“I’ve killed a lot of people: the powerful, the greedy, the lustful, and the rich second generations who abuse their ancestral power. Too many,” Zhang Yuanqing said faintly. “How could those idiots in the official system find out about the killings of an Illusionist?”

Catherine nodded slightly. “You seem to have a strong resentment towards these privileged groups!”

“My house was forcibly demolished, and my parents died because of it.”

“Why did you come to the Free Federation?”

“I want to participate in the year-end Killing Instance in the Free Federation, hunting the Taoist Masters of the First District to increase my chances of advancing to the Ruler level.”

“What is your evaluation of the Five Elements Alliance?”

“Trash.”

“What about the Tribunal?”

“Trash among trash.”

“What about the Hunter Guild?”

“Still trash.”

Catherine had seen all kinds of men, but had never encountered such an arrogant and conceited one.

She put aside her distracting thoughts and continued, “If you find that someone in the Hunter Guild has violated your taboos, what will you do?”

“I have no companions. No one in this world is unkillable, including myself.”

Catherine revealed a smile. This was the norm for evil professions with deep obsessions, wanting to destroy the world, including themselves. In the eyes of evil professions, there are no companions; the so-called companions are just fellow travelers whose temporary interests align, and they are always ready to betray and abandon each other, even within evil organizations.

At this moment, her phone placed beside the pool rang.

“Of course, this is temporary. There is no skill in the world that can eliminate evil professions. The soul of an evil profession is a source of evil pollution. Cleansing at most removes the thoughts, and the dissipated filth will gradually breed evil thoughts and return to the original state over time.”

Zhang Yuanqing did not respond.

Zhang Yuanqing frowned slightly.

“Skills can be disguised with props. As long as you are well prepared, you can disguise yourself as any profession, but evil professions all have one thing in common – the higher the level, the stronger the evil.”

“Of course, if your soul is filled with evil thoughts, we will gladly accept you even if you are an orderly profession.”

During her speech, Zhang Yuanqing was brainstorming. He understood the function of "Cleansing." This was used by the Hunter Guild to confirm evil professions. The Free Alliance was indeed very careful, even recruiting a member in the Saint realm who was not even in the core management, they were so cautious.

No wonder the major orderly organizations had not been able to find the enemies lurking in their ranks for a century.

Evil thoughts, I shouldn't lack that. Although Zhang Yuanqing was unwilling to admit it, after experiencing Master Wuhen’s sermons, he deeply understood the problems within his Spirit Body.

Within this body, there was a soul that even evil professions would pity and be surprised by.

Zhang Yuanqing glanced at the surveillance camera above his head and said, “How do I cleanse?”

“The water in the pool will dilute the evil thoughts in your soul. Imagine yourself as a pool of ink. The deeper the evil thoughts, the darker the pool will become.”

Catherine smiled and said, "In the Saint realm, I've seen an evil profession with the deepest evil thoughts make the water turn latte-colored."

She put away her smile and stared deeply at Tongtian Jiaozhu.

The next second, a dazzling golden light erupted from the bottom of the pool. The golden light then converged, condensing into a stream of light, which entered Zhang Yuanqing's body along his ankle, drilling into his calves, thighs, waist, abdomen, chest, and finally converging at his glabella.

Zhang Yuanqing raised his head, revealing a twisted expression of pain and pleasure.

Then, a scene that made Catherine turn pale appeared. A layer of pitch-black quickly stained the area around Tongtian Jiaozhu and spread rapidly. In the blink of an eye, almost half of the pool was polluted.

Catherine’s face changed drastically, and she flew out of the pool as if she had encountered something terrifying.

“This…” She stood naked by the pool, her beautiful eyes filled with astonishment. A Saint realm peak Illusionist actually had such terrifying and deep evil thoughts.

According to the law that the higher the level, the deeper the evil thoughts, with such terrifying evil thoughts, Tongtian Jiaozhu’s level could not be a Saint, but at least a Ruler.

Earlier, she was nonchalant, self-proclaimed as a Ruler, not afraid of mere pollution, but Tongtian Jiaozhu’s evil thoughts were no less than that of an evil profession’s Ruler. If she were to be contaminated by these filth, as an orderly profession, she might suffer mental breakdown.

Ding ding!!

The phone beside the bathtub rang. The caller was the Chairman of the Hunter Guild. Catherine calmed herself down, answered the phone, and after listening for a few seconds, she put down the phone and looked at Zhang Yuanqing with a complex expression.

“You have passed the test. The Chairman asked me to tell you that you need to come here every ten months to cleanse your evil thoughts. We need partners who are rational and can communicate effectively.”

Even evil professions are afraid that I will suffer a mental breakdown, Zhang Yuanqing's mouth twitched slightly.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Yuanqing was wearing a bathrobe, sitting cross-legged by the coffee table, with a cup of coffee in front of him. Opposite him was Catherine, also wearing a bathrobe, revealing her snow-white cleavage.

“Congratulations on joining the Hunter Guild. From today onwards, you are our internal member. Let me explain the benefits first.”

Catherine took a sip of coffee and said, “A monthly salary of 500,000 federal dollars, one free bounty opportunity per month. From now on, all the rewards for the tasks you do belong to you, and the Guild will no longer take a cut. The Guild will regularly arrange tasks for you, which you cannot refuse. After completing the tasks, there will be rewards such as bonuses, materials, dungeon guides, and props, depending on the difficulty of the task.”

Zhang Yuanqing listened silently and said, “No problem.”

He also took a sip of coffee and then asked, “I want to know the true background of the Hunter Guild and the related information about the Vatican and the Pope's relics.”

Zhang Yuanqing shook his head.

“The oldest Spirit Realm walker organizations in the world are the Vatican and the Free Alliance. The Free Alliance belongs to the Free professions of the Free camp and a group of orderly professions who yearn for freedom. The fall of the Vatican is the credit of our organization's predecessors.”

“I see. To describe it in the words of the orderly camp, you are a fallen from the orderly profession.”

“A fallen?” Catherine chuckled. “I am not a fallen. I have only glimpsed the ultimate order of the essence of the universe. Without order, the ultimate of chaos is destruction, and what is destroyed is the only eternal order. This is the revelation of God!”

"The revelation of God!" Zhang Yuanqing raised an eyebrow.

"You said God?"