Chapter 697

"Where is senior sister Lin Qingqing? I haven't seen her for a long time. I remember she used to be very active! Could it be that she is in closed-door cultivation?"

"I don't know. Senior sister Zhang Biru had an appointment with me to go pick a new furnace cauldron today, but I waited for a day and didn't see her. I went to her cave dwelling to find her, and no one paid attention to me."

"Don't worry about those for now; you guys help me find where senior sister Chen Shulian is first? Elder Kong is giving a lecture today, and she actually skipped it; Elder Kong is angry!"

The Joyous Union Sect disciples were chattering, their faces full of confusion.

The number of disciples who suddenly couldn't be contacted was simply too large, which also caused large-scale discussions within the Joyous Union Sect.

After all, these disciples were all alive but unseen, dead but unburied; they couldn't even find a hair.

Some people even started to guess whether there was something dirty in the Joyous Union Sect.

And this situation soon attracted the attention of the Joyous Union Sect's high-level officials.

The Punishment Elder, Blood-Hand Human Butcher Pei Jiuye, personally led the Punishment Hall to start the investigation.

It didn't matter if they didn't investigate; the results of the investigation scared everyone to death!

Pei Jiuye soon determined that all those missing disciples had died unexpectedly!

Although there were no corpses or bloodstains, traces of fighting could be seen in their cave dwellings.

This also meant that they were likely killed by someone, and their corpses were also destroyed.

More importantly, according to the incomplete statistics of the Punishment Hall, the number of dead disciples had already exceeded five hundred...

Now, even the Seven Emotions Elders were all alarmed!

The seven elders of Joy, Anger, Worry, Thought, Sorrow, Fear, and Surprise all put down their work and started assisting the Punishment Hall in investigating the cause of the mysterious deaths of the disciples.

You know, for a demonic sect like the Joyous Union Sect, recruiting disciples is a very difficult thing.

Although the death of more than five hundred disciples was not a bone-breaking injury, it was enough to make the high-level officials of the Joyous Union Sect feel very distressed.

Moreover, among the dead disciples, many had good talent and were very likely to become great demonic powerhouses in the future.

The elders immediately decided that no matter what the cost, they must get to the bottom of this matter!

Inside Lin Qingqing's cave dwelling, the Seven Emotions Elders and the Punishment Elder Pei Jiuye joined forces to restore what had happened in this cave dwelling before with great cultivation.

Such a method, even for the eight of them joining forces, was extremely terrifying in consumption.

If it weren't for the death of more than five hundred disciples, they would never have used such a body-damaging method.

Fragments of karmic lines were reconnected and smoothed out, and a figure as dusty as an immortal slowly appeared in front of the eight elders.

"Grass! It's this brat again! I said he was an evil heretic; he actually dared to take action against a fellow disciple!"

Enemies are especially jealous when they meet; as soon as he saw Ye Lin, Elder Nu instantly switched to a state of rage.

After locking onto the suspect, the subsequent work was much simpler.

A little investigation revealed that Ye Lin had been running to the Greedy Pleasure Hall every night for the past few days.

A disciple of the No-Thought Hall running to the Greedy Pleasure Hall at night—is this reasonable?

The eight elders almost instantly determined that even if those disciples weren't killed by Ye Lin, Ye Lin must have an inseparable connection!

They continued to investigate, and the more they investigated, the more panicked they became.

Because all the evidence pointed to Ye Lin!

"I'm going to catch that brat!"

Elder Nu didn't say a word and rushed directly toward the cave dwelling where Ye Lin was.

Before he arrived, a finger came out first.

A huge hand fell from the sky, directly crushing Ye Lin's cave dwelling into powder.

If Ye Lin hadn't dodged fast enough, he would probably have been crushed along with the cave dwelling.

"Elder Nu, what is the meaning of this? Are you targeting me again?" Ye Lin's eyes turned red.

"Stop pretending in front of me! Today I will expose your true face!"

Elder Nu's voice was loud and spread throughout the entire Joyous Union Sect instantly.

Last time he was set up by Ye Lin, and his reputation was ruined; now that he had caught the opportunity, he had to restore his image well, right?

"Bold thief Ye Xiehong, you have done all kinds of evil, and heaven cannot tolerate it! You actually secretly killed more than five hundred disciples of the Greedy Pleasure Hall; do you know your crime?"

Hearing Elder Nu's voice, many Joyous Union Sect disciples in closed-door cultivation were alarmed and broke out of cultivation one after another.

Killed more than five hundred people inside the Joyous Union Sect? What kind of killing maniac is this?

Soon Pei Jiuye and the other six of the Seven Emotions Elders all arrived, and the watching disciples surrounded the area tightly.

It had been many years since such a level of warrior had appeared.

"Know my crime? What crime do I have? I am just practicing the 'No-Thought No-Emotion Record' passed on to me by the Hall Master; if you have something to say, go talk to the Hall Master of the No-Thought Hall."

Ye Lin looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.

"Fart! When does the 'No-Thought No-Emotion Record' need to kill so many people?" Elder Nu questioned.

"Why? Is it a mistake to fall in love with someone faster?"

Ye Lin looked at Elder Nu righteously.

"Then let me ask you, can love for a person be measured by time? Can it?"

"If I fall deeply in love with someone, and I am a cultivator of the 'No-Thought No-Emotion Record,' do I have to cut her off to prove the Dao? Answer me!"

Listening to Ye Lin's crooked logic, Elder Nu was sweating profusely; he clearly knew that Ye Lin was sophistry, but he was not good with words and couldn't figure out how to refute Ye Lin for a while.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration appeared in his mind, as if he had grabbed a straw, and he immediately questioned.

"Then why were there male disciples?"

However, Ye Lin's one sentence directly silenced Elder Nu again.

"Does true love distinguish gender?"

Elder Nu widened his eyes, his mouth slightly open, his expression dull; after holding it for a long time, he squeezed out a sentence.

"Ye Xiehong, stop arguing! You are not the only one in the Joyous Union Sect practicing the 'No-Thought No-Emotion Record'; have they ever killed so many people?"

"Their talent is high, my talent is poor!"

Ye Lin was righteous and spread his hands.

"Those with high talent succeed after killing their beloved once to prove the Dao; my talent is poor, so naturally I have to find a few more beloved ones to kill. If it doesn't work once, then do it again."

"This way, even if my luck is bad, there will always be a bottom line. Others are single-draw gold; if I can't compare in quality, I can compare in quantity. Is there any problem with causing qualitative change through quantitative change?"