"Looks like you've found quite a bit these past few days." Katherine smiled, Tongtian Jiaozhu's precise grasp of the Hunter Guild's schemes making 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, looking at Katherine's snow-white and graceful back, and said faintly, "I originally thought the Hunter Guild was just doing things for money, but the tone of your phone call, and your current emotions, tell me that your goal is to assassinate Julian and provoke internal strife within the Heavenly Punishment. The Hunter Guild belongs to the evil camp."
"Want to know?" Katherine turned her head, the corner of her mouth curling up. "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 in front of others."
Katherine's eyes were charming, following his gaze to the surveillance cameras, and she said with a smile, "The people behind the monitoring are the Guild Leader of the Hunter Guild and two Vice Guild Leaders. We are very strict with the review of new members. Tonight is the last layer of testing for you to join the Hunters, and they are responsible for the review."
One Guild Leader, three Vice Guild Leaders, Zhang Yuanqing felt somewhat resistant in his heart, but Tongtian Jiaozhu was an eccentric illusionist. How could he be intimidated by these small scenes? So, he expressionlessly took off his white short-sleeved shirt and black casual jacket, then pulled off his boxer briefs and threw them aside, walking to the edge of the bath with bare genitals, and stepping into the water under Katherine’s glowing gaze.
As soon as his body was immersed in the warm water, Zhang Yuanqing felt a tremor in his heart, and the various emotions in his mind quickly dissipated, leaving behind upright and solemn thoughts, as if he had become the impartial Bao Zheng.
"This is..." Zhang Yuanqing lowered his head and looked at the pool.
Katherine smiled, "This is called the Holy Pool, one of the three holy objects of the Vatican. It's a Knight-class item, originally managed by the Vatican Knights. Its function is to wash away evil thoughts and戾气 from the heart. Whenever the Knights returned to the Vatican after purging heretics, they had to soak in the Holy Pool for an hour."
"What a great item. If I have the opportunity, I'll snatch it and send it back to the country. Let those 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 must really like this item. At the same time, he understood the reason why Katherine invited him for a romantic bath. This was the final layer of testing.
Thoughts flashed through his mind, and while immersed in the Holy Pool, he saw the item attributes.
Contracts and Oaths were both standard Knight-class skills, but "Washing" made Zhang Yuanqing a little curious, guessing that it was a skill attached to the item, and contained the characteristics of a Knight.
The skills of high-level items don't completely copy the skills of Spirit Realm classes, but evolve into new skills based on their own characteristics and combined with class abilities.
For example, the Rogue Disc's abilities don't belong to any class.
Unfortunately, he couldn't put this item in his inventory, so Zhang Yuanqing couldn't figure out the specific effect of Washing. If it only eliminated "impurities" in emotions, he felt that the strength was too low to match the "Three Great Holy Objects" title.
Katherine gently splashed 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 smiled lightly, "I think Donna is more beautiful than you."
Katherine's pretty face sank, she put away her charm, and said coldly, "Tongtian Jiaozhu, I represent the Hunter Guild in conducting the final round of assessment. Now, I ask you to swear an oath to answer my questions honestly."
"If you lie after taking the oath, you will return to the Spirit Realm on the spot. Remember that. Alright, you have ten seconds to prepare."
After speaking, she raised her snow-white arms and swept across the water surface. Pure and bright golden light lit up from the bottom of the pool, reflecting the pool of spring water into a golden broth.
Katherine's fair body became more and more beautiful and alluring, like a fairy bathing in the Yao Pool.
She is getting angry, she has a very strong jealousy towards Donna, this is a clue.
Zhang Yuanqing's expression remained unchanged as he took the oath, saying, "I don't need ten seconds, ask away."
Katherine did not speak, strictly following the procedure. After ten seconds had passed, she said, "Tell me your age, birthplace, Spirit Realm ID, and class!"
"26 years old, born in Songhai, China. Spirit Realm ID is Tongtian Jiaozhu. Class is Illusionist!" Zhang Yuanqing replied frankly.
New York County Bank Headquarters, in a bedroom, the Yin corpse with the same appearance as the real "Tongtian Jiaozhu" suddenly had a sword mark appear on its forehead. The sword mark expanded and quickly traveled along the body. With a "poof," the entire body was torn in half.
The skin on the surface of the corpse melted, and the venom-like liquid gathered to form a human skin as thin as a cicada's wing. Zhang Yuanqing's clone played with the Yata Mirror in one hand and picked up the human skin with the other. Task completed!
"I hope the main body passes smoothly."
After folding the perfect human skin and placing it on the bedside table, he picked up the little red hat from the table, put the damaged Yin corpse into the hat's space, and then turned to look at Silver Yao, who was sitting at the desk watching European and American pornographic movies. "Princess, are you in heat?"
"No!" Princess Silver Yao raised a small horn, and patted the Cat King speaker in her waist bag with the other hand, saying, "I need to record some audio of conversations with the enemy. I can't speak foreign languages."
From the computer's speakers came the sound of men and women over-enjoying themselves, unconsciously uttering obscenities: "Oh! Oh!"
Katherine scrutinized him. Seeing that Tongtian Jiaozhu was safe and sound, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she continued, "We 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 generations who rely on the power of their ancestors to do evil. Too many." Zhang Yuanqing said indifferently, "How could those stupid officials find out about Illusionist killings?"
Katherine 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 come to the Free Federation?"
"I want to participate in the slaughter dungeon at the end of the year, come to the Free Federation to hunt the saints of the First District, and increase my chances of being promoted to Dominator."
"What is your evaluation of the Five Elements Alliance?"
"Trash."
"What about Heavenly Punishment?"
"Trash among trash."
"What about the Hunter Guild?"
"Still trash."
Katherine was stunned for a moment, and looked at the young man three meters away in surprise. When he said the word trash, his tone, eyes, and micro-expressions were like those of a unique monarch dominating the world.
Katherine had seen all kinds of men, but she had never met such an arrogant and conceited one.
She put aside her distracting thoughts and continued, "If you find someone in the Hunter Guild who has violated your taboo, what will you do?"
"I have no companions. No one in this world is unspeakable, including myself."
Katherine smiled. This was the norm for an evil class with deep obsessions, wanting to destroy the world, including oneself. In the eyes of evil classes, there are no companions. So-called companions are just temporary allies who are temporarily aligned, and are always ready to betray and abandon each other. Even within evil organizations, this is the same.
At this moment, her phone placed by the pool "dinged".
Katherine turned and picked up the phone. After reading the message, she smiled and said, "Your answers have been approved by the reviewers. Next is the washing of evil thoughts. Tongtian Jiaozhu, if you really have experienced tragic and unfair events as you said, then the pool can wash away the evil thoughts in your heart, allowing you to be purified and release the shackles on your soul."
"Of course, this is temporary. In this world, there is no skill that can eliminate evil classes. The soul of an evil class is a source of evil pollution. Washing can only clear away thoughts, and the dissipated turbidity will gradually breed evil thoughts over time, returning to its original state."
Zhang Yuanqing did not respond.
She continued, "The premise is that you are really an evil class!"
Zhang Yuanqing frowned immediately.
"Skills can be disguised with items. As long as you prepare well enough, you can disguise yourself as any class, but evil classes have one thing in common - the higher the level, the stronger the evil."
"Evil thoughts on the soul are difficult to disguise." At this point, Katherine revealed a meaningful smile.
"Of course, if the soul is full of evil thoughts, we will gladly accept even an Orderly class."
During her speech, Zhang Yuanqing was brainstorming the entire time. He understood the effect of "Washing". This was what the Hunter Guild used to confirm evil classes. The Freedom Covenant was indeed very careful, just recruiting a saint-level member, not even a core management member, and they were still so cautious.
No wonder major Orderly organizations have not been able to find enemies lurking within them for a century.
Evil thoughts, I shouldn't lack this stuff. Although Zhang Yuanqing was unwilling to admit it, after experiencing the lecture of Master Wuhen, he deeply understood the problems inside his own spirit.
Within this body, lurks a soul that even evil classes would pity and be amazed by.
Zhang Yuanqing glanced at the surveillance cameras above his head and said, "How to wash?"
"The water in the pool will dilute the evil thoughts in your soul. Imagine yourself as a mass of ink. The deeper the evil thoughts, the darker the pool will become."
Katherine smiled, "In the Saint Realm, I have seen the evil thoughts of the deepest evil class, making the water a milky coffee color."
She put away her smile and stared deeply at Tongtian Jiaozhu.
"This is the last process, don't disappoint me." As she spoke, her lips moved slightly, seemingly activating some kind of spell.
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, entering the body along Zhang Yuanqing's ankle, drilling into his calves, thighs, waist, abdomen, chest, and finally gathering in his forehead.
Zhang Yuanqing raised his head, revealing a twisted expression of pain and pleasure intertwined.
Then, a scene that made Katherine pale appeared. A layer of pitch black quickly dyed the water around Tongtian Jiaozhu, and spread quickly. In the blink of an eye, the pool was almost half-contaminated.
Katherine's face changed drastically, and she quickly jumped out of the pool, as if it was something terrible.
"This..." She stood naked by the pool, her beautiful eyes filled with shock. A saint-level peak Illusionist actually had such terrible and deep evil thoughts.
According to the rule that the higher the level, the deeper the evil thoughts, with such terrifying evil thoughts, Tongtian Jiaozhu's level couldn't possibly be Saint. At least Dominator.
Before, she didn't care, boasting that she was a Dominator and not afraid of mere pollution, but Tongtian Jiaozhu's evil thoughts were already comparable to a Dominator of an evil class. If she were contaminated by these filth, as an Orderly class, she might suffer a mental breakdown.
Ding ding!
The phone by the bathtub rang. The caller was the Guild Leader of the Hunter Guild. Katherine calmed herself down, 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 warn you to come here every ten months to wash away your evil thoughts. What we need are rational and effective teammates."
Even the evil classes are afraid that I will have a mental breakdown, the corner of 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 Katherine, 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 tell you about the benefits first."
Katherine took a sip of coffee and said, "A monthly salary of 500,000 Free Federation dollars, one free bounty opportunity per month. From now on, all the rewards for the tasks you do will be yours, and the guild will no longer take a cut. The guild will arrange tasks for you regularly, which cannot be refused. After completing the tasks, there will be rewards such as gold, material dungeon guides, and items, depending on the difficulty of the task."
Zhang Yuanqing listened silently and said, "No problem."
He also took a sip of coffee and asked, "I want to know the real background of the Hunter Guild and information related to the Vatican and the Pope's relics."
Katherine smiled, "Have you heard of the Freedom Covenant?"
Zhang Yuanqing shook his head.
"The oldest Spirit Realm organization in the world is the Vatican and the Freedom Covenant. The Freedom Covenant consists of free professionals of the Freedom camp and a group of Orderly professionals who yearn for freedom. The destruction of the Vatican was the achievement of our organization's predecessors."
"I understand. To use the words of the Orderly camp, you are a fallen one among Orderly professionals."
"Fallen one?" Katherine chuckled, "I am not a fallen one. I have only glimpsed the ultimate order of the universe. Without order, the extreme of chaos is destruction, and what is destroyed is the eternal and unchanging order. This is the revelation of God!"
"The revelation of God!" Zhang Yuanqing raised an eyebrow.
"You said God?"
These words of Katherine's, former elder Shanhe Yongcun of the Taiyi Gate, and Grand Protector Teng of the Dark Night Rose had said similar things.