"It seems you've uncovered quite a bit these past few days." Catherine smiled. Tongtian Jiaozhu's precise grasp of the Hunter Guild's scheme made her increasingly appreciative.

Zhang Yuanqing pulled up 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 snow-white, graceful back, saying softly, "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 internal strife within Tianfa. The Hunter Guild belongs to the evil faction."

"Want to know?" Catherine turned her head, a hook forming at the corner of her lips. "Take off your clothes and come down!"

Zhang Yuanqing swept his gaze across the surveillance cameras in the four corners of the ceiling again, coldly saying, "I have no interest in being naked in front of others."

Catherine's eyes were charming and flirtatious. She followed his gaze around the surveillance cameras and said with a smile, "The people behind the monitors are the Guild Leader of the Hunter Guild, and two Deputy Guild Leaders. Our screening of new members is very strict. Tonight is the final layer of your trial to join the Hunters. They are responsible for the review."

One Guild Leader, three Deputy Guild Leaders... Zhang Yuanqing felt somewhat resistant in his heart, but Tongtian Jiaozhu was an eccentric and reclusive Illusionist, how could he be intimidated by such a small scene? So, he expressionlessly took off his white short-sleeved shirt and black casual jacket, then pulled off his boxer briefs and casually tossed them aside. Under Catherine's gleaming gaze, he walked to the edge of the bathtub, balls swinging, and stepped into the water.

The moment his body was submerged in the warm water, Zhang Yuanqing felt a tremor in his heart. The various emotions in his mind quickly dissipated, leaving behind only righteous and solemn thoughts, as if he had transformed into the impartial and incorruptible Bao Qingtian.

"This is..." Zhang Yuanqing looked down at the pool.

Catherine smiled. "This is called the Sacred Pool, one of the three great sacred objects of the Holy See, a tool for the Knight profession, originally managed by the Holy See's Knights Templar. Its function is to wash away evil thoughts and violent impulses from the heart. Every time the Knights Templar returned to the Holy See after purging heretics, they had to soak in the Sacred Pool for an hour."

"What a treasure. If I have the opportunity, I'll snatch it and send it back to China, and make that group of corrupt officials soak in it for an hour every day. The world would become a better place."

Zhang Yuanqing's first reaction was: the Demon Eye would definitely like this item. At the same time, he understood the reason why Catherine had invited him for a romantic bath. This was the final layer of the trial.

Thoughts flashed through his mind. Immersed in the Sacred Pool, he saw the item's attributes.

[Item Name: Sacred Pool]

[Grade: High Grade]

[Function: Cleansing, Contract, Oath]

Contract and oath were both standard skills of the Knight profession, but "cleansing" made Zhang Yuanqing somewhat curious, guessing it was a skill attached to the item, and then contained the characteristics of a Knight.

The skills of high-level items do not 100% replicate the skills of Lingjing professions, but instead evolve into new skills by integrating professional abilities according to their own characteristics.

For example, the Rogue Disc's ability does not belong to any profession.

Unfortunately, he couldn't put this item into his inventory. Zhang Yuanqing couldn't figure out the specific effect of cleansing. If it was just to eliminate "impurities" in emotions, he felt the intensity was too low to match the "Three Great Sacred Objects" title.

Catherine gently stirred the water, her fair and delicate oval face speckled with water droplets. Seeing Tongtian Jiaozhu's gaze deep and calm, she pouted and complained, "Am I not beautiful?"

Zhang Yuanqing chuckled. "I think Donna is more beautiful than you."

Catherine's pretty face sank, and she put away her charm, coldly saying, "Tongtian Jiaozhu, I represent the Hunter Guild in conducting the final round of investigation on you. Now, please swear an oath to honestly answer my questions."

"If you lie after swearing, you will return to the Lingjing on the spot. Keep that in mind. Alright, you have ten seconds to prepare."

After saying that, she raised her snow-white lotus arm and swept it across the surface of the water. A pure, bright golden light lit up at the bottom of the pool, turning the pool into a golden soup.

Catherine's fair, jade-like body became even more beautiful and alluring, like a bathing celestial maiden in Yao Lake.

She's angry. She has a very strong jealousy towards Donna. This is a clue.

Zhang Yuanqing's expression remained unchanged as he made the oath. "I don't need ten seconds. Ask away."

Catherine didn't speak. Strictly following the procedure, ten seconds had just passed when she said, "Tell me your age, place of origin, Lingjing ID, and profession!"

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

At the New County Bank headquarters building, in the bedroom, the Yin corpse with the exact same appearance as the real "Tongtian Jiaozhu" suddenly had a sword mark appear on its brow. The sword mark widened and rapidly traveled along the body. *Puchi*, the entire body was torn in half.

The skin on the surface of the corpse melted, and the venom-like liquid gathered and turned into a cicada-wing-thin human skin. Zhang Yuanqing's clone, playing with the Eight Mirror in one hand, picked up the human skin with the other. Mission complete!

"Hopefully the original body will pass the test smoothly."

He folded the perfect human skin and placed it on the bedside table. Then, he picked up the Little Red Riding Hood from the table, put the damaged Yin corpse into the hat's space, and turned to the Silver Plume County Princess, who was sitting at the desk watching European and American erotic films. "County Princess, are you feeling amorous, or are you in heat?"

"Neither!" The Silver Plume County Princess raised a small microphone and patted the Cat King speaker in her waist pouch. "I need to record some audio of conversations with enemies. I can't speak foreign languages."

From the computer speakers came the sounds of men and women, excessively joyful, unconsciously uttering dirty words: "Oh! Oh!"

Catherine scrutinized him. Seeing that Tongtian Jiaozhu was safe and sound, a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth. She continued, "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. The people you killed were all officials."

"I've killed a lot of people: powerful people, greedy people, lecherous people, second-generation officials and wealthy people who relied on the power of their ancestors to do whatever they wanted. Too many." Zhang Yuanqing said lightly, "How could those idiots in the government possibly find out that an Illusionist killed them?"

Catherine nodded slightly. "You seem to have a strong aversion to these groups!"

"My home was forcibly demolished, and my parents died as a result."

"Why did you come to the Liberty Federation?"

"I want to participate in the Killing Instance at the end of the year, come to the Liberty Federation to hunt down the Daos of the First District, and increase my chances of advancing to Dominator."

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

"Trash."

"What about Tianfa?"

"Trash among trash."

"What about the Hunter Guild?"

"Still trash."

Catherine was stunned for a moment, looking at the young man three meters away with surprise. When he said the word trash, his tone, eyes, and micro-expressions were like those of a unique monarch overlooking the masses.

Catherine had seen all kinds of men, but had never encountered someone so arrogant and conceited.

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

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

Catherine revealed a smile. This was the norm for an evil profession with deep obsessions, wanting to destroy the world, including themselves. In the eyes of evil professionals, there were no companions. The so-called companions were just fellow travelers whose temporary interests aligned, always ready to betray and abandon, even within evil organizations.

At this moment, her phone placed by the pool "dinged".

Catherine turned and picked up her phone. After reading the message, she smiled charmingly. "Your answers have been recognized by the auditors. Next is the washing away of evil thoughts. Tongtian Jiaozhu, if you really experienced the tragic and unjust past that you described, then the pool can wash away the evil thoughts in your heart, allowing you to be cleansed and release the shackles on your soul."

"Of course, this is temporary. There is no skill in the world that can eliminate an evil profession. The soul of an evil profession is a source of evil pollution. Washing away at most clears away the thoughts. The dissipated turbidity will gradually breed evil thoughts with the passage of time, returning to its original state."

Zhang Yuanqing did not respond.

She continued, "Provided that you are truly an evil professional!"

Zhang Yuanqing's brow furrowed slightly.

"Skills can be disguised with props. As long as you prepare sufficiently, you can disguise yourself as any profession, but evil professions all have one thing in common – the higher the level, the stronger the evil."

"The evil thoughts on the soul are difficult to disguise." Saying this, Catherine revealed a meaningful smile.

"Of course, if the soul is filled with evil thoughts, we will gladly accept even an orderly profession."

During her speech, Zhang Yuanqing was brainstorming the entire time. He understood the function of "Washing Away". This was how the Hunter Guild confirmed evil professions. The Free Covenant was indeed very careful. Even recruiting a Saint-level member, who wasn't even a core member of management, was so cautious and careful.

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

Evil thoughts... I shouldn't lack this stuff. Although Zhang Yuanqing was unwilling to admit it, having experienced the lectures of the Great Master Wuhen, he deeply understood the problems within his own Ling Ghost.

Within this body, there lurked 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 wash away?"

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

Catherine smiled. "In the Saint Realm, I've seen the evilest evil profession turn the water into a milky coffee color."

She put away her smile, deeply gazing at Tongtian Jiaozhu.

"This is the last step. Don't disappoint me." As she spoke, her lips slightly parted, seemingly activating some kind of incantation.

The next second, a dazzling golden light erupted from the bottom of the pool. The golden light then converged, condensing into a flowing light that entered the body along Zhang Yuanqing's ankles, drilling into his calves, thighs, waist, abdomen, chest, and finally gathering in his brow.

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

Then, a scene that made Catherine lose her composure appeared. A layer of pitch-black quickly surrounded Tongtian Jiaozhu and rapidly spread. Very quickly, in the blink of an eye, nearly half of the pool was contaminated.

Catherine's expression changed drastically, and she quickly leaped out of the pool, as if something terrifying.

"This..." She stood naked by the side of the pool, her beautiful eyes filled with astonishment. A Saint-level peak Illusionist actually had such terrifying and deep evil thoughts.

According to the rule that the higher the level, the deeper the evil thoughts, Tongtian Jiaozhu's level could not possibly be Saint, at least Dominator.

Earlier, she hadn't cared because she considered herself a Dominator and wasn't afraid of mere contamination, but Tongtian Jiaozhu's evil thoughts were already comparable to a Dominator of an evil profession. If she were to be contaminated by these filth, as an orderly profession, she might go insane.

*Ding ding!!*

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

"You passed the assessment. The Guild Leader asked me to tell you to come here to wash away your evil thoughts every ten months. We need rational companions who can communicate effectively."

*Evil professionals are afraid I'll go insane*, 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 snow-white cleavage.

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

Catherine took a sip of coffee and said, "A salary of 500,000 Federal Dollars per month. One free bounty opportunity per month. From now on, all the rewards from the tasks you do will belong to you. The guild will no longer take a cut. The guild will regularly assign tasks to you. You cannot refuse. After completing the tasks, there will be rewards such as funds, materials, instance strategies, 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 real background of the Hunter Guild, as well as information about the Holy See and the relics of the Pope."

Catherine smiled. "Have you heard of the Free Covenant?"

Zhang Yuanqing shook his head.

"The oldest Lingjing Traveler organization in the world is the Holy See and the Free Covenant. The Free Covenant consists of free professionals from the Liberty faction and a group of orderly professionals who yearn for freedom. The destruction of the Holy See was the achievement of our organization's predecessors."

"I understand. To describe it in the words of the orderly faction, you are a fallen one among orderly professionals."

"Fallen one?" Catherine giggled and said, "I am not a fallen one. I have simply seen through the ultimate order of the essence of the universe. Without order, the ultimate chaos is destruction. Destruction is the only unchanging order. This is the revelation of God!"

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

"You speak of God?"

These words of Catherine's were similar to what the former elder of the Taiyi Sect, Shanhe Yongcun, and the Dark Rose Great Protector had said.