“Looks like you’ve found quite a few things these past few days.” Catherine smiled, Tongtian Jiaozhu's accurate grasp of the Hunter Guild's schemes making her admire him even more.

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

He withdrew his gaze and looked at Catherine's snowy and graceful back, saying calmly, "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 Heavenly Punishment. Does the Hunter Guild belong to the evil faction?"

“Want to know?” Catherine turned her head, a smile 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 said coldly, "I don't have a habit of being naked under the gaze of others."

Catherine’s eyes were charming as she followed his gaze to the surveillance cameras, and she said with a smile, “The people behind the surveillance are the president of the Hunter Guild and two vice-presidents. We are very strict with the review of new members. Tonight is the final test for you to join the Hunter Guild, and they are responsible for the audit.”

One president and three vice-presidents, Zhang Yuanqing felt somewhat resistant, but Tongtian Jiaozhu was an eccentric and perverse illusionist, how could he be intimidated by such small scenes? So, he expressionlessly took off his white T-shirt and black casual jacket, then pulled off his boxer briefs and threw them aside. Under Catherine's shining gaze, he walked bare-assed to the edge of the pool and stepped into the water.

The moment his body was immersed in the warm water, Zhang Yuanqing felt a tremor in his heart. The various emotions in his mind quickly dissipated, leaving behind only upright and serious thoughts, as if he had become the impartial Bao Qingtian.

“This is…” Zhang Yuanqing looked down at the pool.

Catherine smiled and said, "This is called the Sacred Pool, one of the three great sacred objects of the Holy See, a prop for the Knight profession, managed by the Holy See Knight Order in the past. Its function is to cleanse the inner evil thoughts and hostility. Whenever the Knight Order returns to the Holy See after purging heretics, they must soak in the Sacred Pool for an hour.”

"Good stuff. If I have the opportunity, I'll snatch it and send it back to the country, and let 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 Demon Eye must like this prop very much. At the same time, he understood the reason why Catherine invited him to take a mandarin duck bath. This was the final test.

As his thoughts flashed, he saw the item attributes while immersed in the Sacred Pool.

[Name: Holy Knight's Bath Pool]

[Type: Bathtub]

[Function: Cleansing Contract]

[Introduction: One of the three great sacred objects of the Holy See. In the chaotic Middle Ages, witches' curses and vampire contamination were the greatest threats to the Holy See's 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 bare-assed]

Contracts and oaths were both regular skills of the Knight profession, but "cleansing" made Zhang Yuanqing a little curious. He guessed that it was a skill attached to the prop, and it contained the characteristics of a knight.

The skills of advanced props did not 100% replicate the Spirit Realm profession, but evolved into new skills based on their own characteristics and the integration of professional abilities.

For example, the abilities of the Rogue Disc did not belong to any profession.

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

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

Zhang Yuanqing smiled and said, "I think Donna is more beautiful than you."

Catherine's pretty face sank, and she put away her charming attitude, saying coldly, "Tongtian Jiaozhu, I am representing the Hunter Guild to conduct the final round of assessment on you. Now, please swear to honestly answer my questions."

After she finished speaking, she raised her snowy lotus arms and swept across the water surface. Pure and bright golden light lit up from the bottom of the pool, turning the pool into a golden soup.

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

She's angry? She has a strong sense of jealousy towards Donna. This is a clue.

Zhang Yuanqing's expression remained unchanged as he took the oath and said, "You don't need ten seconds. Ask."

"26 years old, born in Songhai, China, Spirit Realm ID is Tongtian Jiaozhu, profession is Illusionist!" Zhang Yuanqing replied frankly.

At the New York County Bank headquarters building, in the bedroom, the Yin corpse that looked exactly like the real "Tongtian Jiaozhu" suddenly had a sword mark crack open between its eyebrows. The sword mark expanded and quickly traveled along the body. With a *puff*, the entire body was torn in half.

The skin on the surface of the corpse melted, and the venom-like substance gathered to become a piece of human skin as thin as a cicada's wing. Zhang Yuanqing's clone held the Yata no Kagami in one hand and picked up the human skin with the other. Mission complete!

"I hope the main body can pass the test smoothly."

From the computer speaker came the sound of a man and woman indulging in excessive pleasure, involuntarily uttering obscenities: "Oh! Oh!"

Catherine scrutinized him. Seeing that Tongtian Jiaozhu was safe and sound, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She continued to ask, "We have investigated you. You are very low-key in the Second District. The Five Elements Alliance has no more than three criminal records about you. The people you killed were all officials."

"I have killed many people: the powerful, the greedy, the lustful, the rich second generation who rely on the power of their ancestors to do evil. There are too many." Zhang Yuanqing said indifferently, "How could those idiots in the officialdom find out that an illusionist killed someone?"

Catherine nodded slightly. "You seem to have a strong aversion to these 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 slaughter instance and come to the Free Federation to hunt the Daoists of the First District and increase my chances of being promoted to Ruler."

"What is your assessment of the Five Elements Alliance?"

"Trash."

"What about Heavenly Punishment?"

"Trash among trash."

"What about the Hunter Guild?"

"Still trash."

Catherine had met all kinds of men, but she had never met one so arrogant and conceited.

She put aside her distracting thoughts and continued, "If you find that someone in the Hunter Guild has violated your taboo, what would you do?"

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

Catherine smiled. This was the norm for an evil profession with deep obsessions, wishing to destroy the world, including themselves. In the eyes of evil professions, there were no companions. The so-called companions were just people who temporarily shared common interests and could be betrayed and abandoned at any time, even within an evil organization.

At this moment, her phone placed by the pool rang with a "ding-dong" sound.

"Of course, this is temporary. There is no skill in the world that can eliminate evil professions. The souls of evil professions are sources of evil pollution. Cleansing can only remove thoughts, and the dissipated filth will gradually breed evil thoughts over time and return to their original state."

Zhang Yuanqing did not respond.

Zhang Yuanqing frowned suddenly.

"Skills can be disguised through props. As long as you prepare well enough, you can disguise yourself as any profession, but evil professions have one thing in common - the higher the level, the stronger the evil."

"Of course, if your soul is full of evil thoughts, we will gladly accept even an orderly profession."

During her speech, Zhang Yuanqing was in a brainstorm the entire time. He understood the role of "cleansing." This was how the Hunter Guild confirmed evil professions. The Free Covenant was indeed very careful. Even recruiting a Saint Realm member who was not even a core manager was so cautious.

No wonder the major orderly organizations had not been able to find the enemies lurking within the organization for a century.

Evil thoughts, I should not lack this thing. Although Zhang Yuanqing was unwilling to admit it, after experiencing Master Wuhen's lectures, he deeply understood the problems within his own Spirit Ghost.

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 to cleanse?"

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

Catherine smiled and said, "In the Saint Realm, I have seen an evil profession with the deepest evil thoughts, turning the water into a latte color."

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

The next second, dazzling golden light burst out from the bottom of the pool. The golden light then converged and condensed into a stream of light, entering the body along Zhang Yuanqing's ankles, drilling into the calves, thighs, waist, abdomen, chest, and finally gathering at the center of his eyebrows.

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

Then, a scene that made Catherine's face lose color appeared. A layer of pitch black quickly dyed around Tongtian Jiaozhu and spread rapidly. In the blink of an eye, nearly half of the pool was polluted.

Catherine's face changed drastically, and she quickly jumped out of the pool, as if it were something terrible.

"This..." She stood naked by the pool, her beautiful eyes filled with astonishment. A Saint Realm peak illusionist actually had such terrible and deep evil thoughts.

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

Previously, she was nonchalant because she claimed to be a Ruler and was not afraid of mere pollution, but Tongtian Jiaozhu's evil thoughts were no less than those of a Ruler in an evil profession. If she were contaminated by these filth, as an orderly profession, she might become mentally disturbed.

Ding ding!!

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

"You have passed the assessment. The president asked me to warn you to come here every ten months to cleanse your evil thoughts. We need rational, effectively communicative companions."

Even evil professions are afraid of me going crazy, Zhang Yuanqing's mouth twitched.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Yuanqing, wearing a bath towel, sat cross-legged by the coffee table, with a cup of coffee in front of him. Opposite him was Catherine, also wearing a bath towel, revealing her snowy cleavage.

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

Catherine took a sip of coffee and said, "A monthly salary of 500,000 Federal Coins, one free bounty opportunity per month. From now on, all 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 reward money, materials, dungeon guides, props, etc., 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 information about the Holy See and papal relics."

Zhang Yuanqing shook his head.

"The oldest Spirit Realm Walker organization in the world is the Holy See and the Free Covenant. The Free Covenant belongs to the free profession of the free faction and a group of orderly professions who yearn for freedom. The destruction of the Holy See is the merit of our organization's predecessors."

"I see. In the words of the orderly faction, you are a Fallen one in the orderly profession."

"Fallen one?" Catherine chuckled and said, "I am not a Fallen one. I have only glimpsed the ultimate order of the essence of the universe. Without order, the ultimate chaos is destruction, and destruction is the only unchanging order. This is the revelation of God!"

"The revelation of God!" Zhang Yuanqing raised his eyebrows.

"You said God?"