Baptism and Brainwashing

After hearing Ding Moluo speak of his origins, Ye Chen's face was instantly filled with disbelief.

Due to the unique nature of their supernatural power system, hunters could not naturally possess pious convictions and lofty faith like knights or priests. Thus, Ye Chen did not find the phenomenon of hunters betraying the Holy Light Pure Land particularly strange in itself; at most, he found their motives difficult to understand. After all, independent thought had always come hand in hand with the perils of freedom.

However, once the betrayer in question became a member of the Church, Ye Chen could not help but stare in astonishment.

Because before this, he had never heard of any similar case in the Holy Light Pure Land of "clergy betraying the Holy Light Church."

At least in this day and age, it had always been unheard of to Ye Chen.

Thus, brimming with shock and confusion, Ye Chen immediately voiced his doubts to Ding Moluo.

"Within the Church, whether knight or priest, so long as their body and mind have undergone the baptismal rite of Holy Light power, everyone becomes detached from worldly desires and united as one. It should be completely impossible for them to betray the Holy Light. What exactly happened to you?"

Upon hearing this, the smile on Ding Moluo's face immediately diminished by several degrees.

He did not answer at once. Instead, he lowered his head, casting an eerie shadow across his pale face.

Then, after a full ten seconds of silence and deathly stillness, the core clown's body began to tremble violently.

"Ha."

"Hahahaha."

"HAHAHAHAHA—!"

A shrill, crazed peal of laughter crashed into Ye Chen's ears.

Then, Ding Moluo raised his pale face again.

His once calm and leisurely expression had become as ferocious as an evil ghost, while his