Chapter 678: How to Join the Joyous Union Sect

"Despicable villain!"

Lady Hongshao's complexion turned green all of a sudden.

As an evil cultivator of the Joyous Union Sect, she had never imagined in her life that the words "despicable villain" would one day come out of her own mouth.

The brat before her was too wicked—so wicked that Lady Hongshao felt she wasn't even fit to be called an evil cultivator herself.

Kneeling down to beg for mercy, only to stab you with a flying sword the next second, and putting explosive talismans in love potions—are these even tricks a human could come up with?

"Thanks for the compliment~"

Ye Lin grinned.

He had two types of explosive talismans; one was soaked in the love potion he refined himself, which he called ordinary explosive talismans.

And the one he had just thrown was the second type: powerful explosive talismans.

Powerful explosive talismans were soaked in the love potion refined by Danyangzi, the Peak Master of the Pill Peak.

Although Ye Lin didn't know exactly how high Danyangzi's cultivation was, he figured it should be no problem to knock out someone in the Hidden Mystery Realm.

Sure enough, before Lady Hongshao could finish cursing, she rolled her eyes and collapsed.

Poor Lady Hongshao, a dignified cultivator of the Hidden Mystery Realm, had been tricked into unconsciousness without ever getting to display her true strength from start to finish.

Sang Yankai condensed a blood sword and wanted to finish Lady Hongshao off right then and there.

But at this moment, Ye Lin stopped him.

"Not killing her?" Sang Yankai asked in confusion.

"Kill, but not now."

Ye Lin looked at Sang Yankai and asked.

"The Joyous Union Sect has screwed you over so badly; don't you want to take revenge on them?"

"I do!"

Sang Yankai nodded.

"But even a branch hall master of the Joyous Union Sect stationed in the outside world is in the Hidden Mystery Realm. There must be even more experts inside the sect. With our strength, how can we take revenge on the Joyous Union Sect?"

"Well, obviously we won't attack them head-on. We can't beat them, so why don't we just join the Joyous Union Sect, pull off something big, and then run?"

Ye Lin suddenly realized one thing.

Instead of bitterly chasing after those scattered evil cultivators in the Bone-Wither Wasteland, it would be better to go straight into the Joyous Union Sect and stir up some trouble.

Whether it was the human cauldrons captured by the Joyous Union Sect or the disciples of the sect, the numbers were certainly higher than these evil cultivators in the Bone-Wither Wasteland.

"Wouldn't we be exposed? Although the Joyous Union Sect has male disciples, their numbers are extremely small, and they are basically all born to the sect's higher-ups. For an outsider man to want to join the Joyous Union Sect, he's basically just delivering himself as a human cauldron."

Sang Yankai frowned.

"That's why we need to use her."

Ye Lin looked at Lady Hongshao and revealed a meaningful smile.

When Lady Hongshao regained consciousness, she found herself submerged in a pool of blood.

Sang Yankai was standing right next to the blood pool, staring at her coldly.

Clearly, in this situation, Sang Yankai only needed a single thought to take her life.

"Awake?"

Ye Lin asked with a smile.

"What exactly do you want to do? I warn you, if you dare to mess around, the Joyous Union Sect won't let you off!" Lady Hongshao shouted, her voice fierce but her heart trembling.

"Don't misunderstand. I have actually admired the Joyous Union Sect for a long time, but I didn't know where to learn about it, so I had no choice but to capture you."

Ye Lin sighed, putting on a look of being forced by circumstances.

"So, can you tell me what the situation is with the Joyous Union Sect?"

As soon as Lady Hongshao heard this, she regained her confidence. Just as she was about to stand up from the blood pool, a large cauldron smashed down onto her head.

Clang!

A crisp sound rang out; one could tell just by listening that it was a sturdy head.

"I told you to talk, not to stand up," Ye Lin said indifferently, holding the Bronze Dragon Pulse Cauldron.

Lady Hongshao covered her head with both hands, tears almost coming out from the pain.

To avoid further beatings, she had to endure the pain and explain the basic structure of the Joyous Union Sect to Ye Lin.

The Joyous Union Sect was mainly divided into four great halls: the Hall of Greed, the Hall of Bone-Erosion, the Hall of Evil Mirrors, and the Hall of No-Thought.

The Hall of Greed was the place with the most people, specializing in cultivating the Joyous Union Essence-Seizing Great Art, luring cultivators to engage in 'boom-boom-boom' and then draining them dry.

The Hall of Bone-Erosion was where various love-gu were refined. For some cultivators with extremely high talent and strength who refused to be obedient human cauldrons, they would use love-gu to control them and force them to engage in 'boom-boom-boom'.

The Hall of Evil Mirrors was specifically for creating puppet cauldrons. Before Lady Hongshao came out to be a hall master, she was a disciple of the Hall of Evil Mirrors. The disciples of this hall were afraid of trouble and mainly engaged in 'boom-boom-boom' with human puppets.

As for the final Hall of No-Thought, it was where disciples who had seen through the mortal world, severed their ties to emotion, and were single-mindedly pursuing the supreme Dao stayed. They did not engage in 'boom-boom-boom'.

The disciples of the Hall of No-Thought appeared to be indifferent to the world, but in reality, they were the most terrifying existences within the Joyous Union Sect.

Because every disciple who could enter the Hall of No-Thought had personally killed their own closest kin...

In terms of strength and the cruelty of their methods, the disciples of the other three halls combined could not compare to a single Hall of No-Thought.

As for the hierarchy within the Joyous Union Sect, the very top of the pyramid was naturally the Sect Master.

Below the Sect Master were the four Hall Masters, and below the four Hall Masters were the seven Seven-Emotion Elders and one Law-Enforcement Elder. These were all the higher-ups of the Joyous Union Sect; the rest were inner-sect and outer-sect disciples.

As for hall masters like Lady Hongshao and Pearl-Gathering Envoys like Shanshan, their status was actually not much higher than that of disciples; to put it bluntly, they were just laborers.

"Oh, I see."

Ye Lin nodded in sudden realization.

"Then let me ask you again, if we want to join the Joyous Union Sect, what should we do?" Ye Lin asked.

"You can't get in; the Joyous Union Sect basically only takes female disciples."

Lady Hongshao shook her head.

"Unless..."

"Unless what?" Ye Lin raised an eyebrow.

Lady Hongshao didn't continue, but gave Ye Lin a resentful look and said something that sounded incomplete.

"Do you know? I actually wasn't called Lady Hongshao before; I was called Immortal Elder Hongshao."

Ye Lin: "..."

Sang Yankai: "..."

They seemed to know what Lady Hongshao meant by "unless."

"If you have the courage to remove your roots of trouble and your talent isn't bad, there is indeed a chance to join the Joyous Union Sect."

A look of reminiscence appeared in Lady Hongshao's eyes.

Once upon a time, she was still a Xiao Chunan, and now she was already a mother of three children.