As they spoke of the Joyful Union Sect, Chi Mei looked at Jiang Hao and said, "Master, the Joyful Union Sect is mostly made up of female cultivators, with beauties everywhere. If they refuse to submit, could you bear to kill them?"
Jiang Hao replied indifferently, "There is nothing I could not bear. Men and women are equal."
He had spoken a famous saying from a later age.
Chi Mei was somewhat surprised. Men and women were equal? The Demon Lord's words were truly contrary to common sense. How could men and women possibly be equal? But then she thought that, since he was a Demon Lord, he naturally had no need to follow worldly customs and laws.
"What else do you know about the Joyful Union Sect?" Jiang Hao asked his subordinates.
The others did not know much, but Killing Monk stepped forward and said, "The Joyful Union Sect's cultivators are all human, and they only accept female disciples. The cultivation technique they practice is called the Six Desires Heart Sutra."
"The so-called six desires are the eyes, ears, body, mind, life, and death. By breaking through these six desires, one may cultivate into an immortal. The eyes refer to craving beauty and rare treasures; the ears refer to craving beautiful sounds and praise; the body refers to indulging in the pleasures of the flesh; the mind refers to sensual pleasures, fame and profit, love and hatred, gratitude and vengeance."
"Life means seeing through the suffering of life, while death means seeing through the terror of death. The six desires are also six tribulations. Once one overcomes those six tribulations, one may attain the Great Dao."
Jiang Hao possessed profound understanding of both Daoist and Buddhist teachings, so he naturally understood the six desires Killing Monk described. He frowned