"They're all healed. Rest assured, Elders. Here, they can neither live nor die. There's no third path for them."
The Evil Soul Master in charge of the Water Prison, Yinqin, spoke ingratiatingly. These two were elders of extremely high standing in the Holy Spirit Cult, and both were also quite formidable Soul Engineers.
If he could latch onto these two lofty branches, it would be far better than working under a madwoman. After all, no one could say whether his immediate superior might suddenly vent her anger on them.
This was the problem with mixing too many alignments within the Holy Spirit Cult.
Unlike the Lawful Evil types in a traditional band of villains, who generally gathered out of desire, did not mind harming others, and did everything possible to obtain what they wanted, but at least followed the rules internally.
And unlike the Neutral Evil types, who acted as they pleased but at least judged whether to act based on profit, neither following nor breaking the rules, the Holy Spirit Cult also contained large numbers of Chaotic Evil types.
Among them, Wu Yun, who would whip herself from time to time until she got so high she passed out, was a prime example.
People like her could exist within the Holy Spirit Cult only because Evil Soul Masters faced extermination by the Shrek Inspection Corps, while their top powerhouses also needed to form a faction to contend with Shrek. That was why they had been taken in.
In reality, however, once any camp contained large numbers of people driven to do anything by their desires, hatred, and lust for destruction-people who were irascible, vicious, dictatorial, brutal in their methods and erratic in their behavior, who unscrupulously seized anything they could-it would hasten an organization's collapse.
"Chaotic Evil has no