"Little Lu, Meng Family Kid, over here, over here," Daoist Buyu had noticed the footsteps of Lu Yang and his companion early on and beckoned them over.

"Master, what are you doing here?" Lu Yang's eye twitched. How should he put it? Encountering his master in the prison didn't feel the least bit surprising.

Even though his master had changed his appearance, Lu Yang recognized at first glance that this was indeed his esteemed master.

"And you, Gold Clan Leader..."

The Gold Clan Leader, on the other hand, hadn't changed his appearance at all.

Lu Yang and his companion were unaware that after the Demon Nation's founding ceremony, the Gold Clan Leader had taken Daoist Buyu as his big brother in order to practice his eloquence.

Lu Yang still remembered how high-spirited the Gold Clan Leader was when they met in the Qiongqi Clan, how he faced Venerate Zhu Tian's oppressive aura without servility or arrogance. How did things come to this so quickly, to be on the same level as his master?

The fall from grace was indeed too rapid.

"I'm here to learn from Daoist Buyu," the Gold Clan Leader chuckled, feeling a little embarrassed to run into an acquaintance in a place like this.

For the life of him, Lu Yang couldn't figure out what was there to learn from his master.

Daoist Buyu laughed heartily, not feeling the slightest embarrassment: "Ah, I'm here teaching Little Gold that those who deceive will eventually be caught. To get him accustomed to life in prison early on, to teach him how to live comfortably and at ease within these walls, I deliberately left a small flaw, allowing the Ye City government office to capture both Little Gold and me."

Daoist Buyu patted the Gold Clan Leader on the shoulder, imparting precious knowledge: "Be confident, the most important thing in our profession is to have confidence. The face is the reflection of the heart, with confidence in your heart, your face will shine, and only then will the other side believe your fabrications!"

Lu Yang held his forehead, wondering why his master hadn't been this serious when teaching him... Oh, there was no need to teach him this sort of thing.

"This is an unexpected gain, running into our ancestor here. I heard that the ancestor was trying to infiltrate the Ruthless Sect and got caught in the process?"

Lu Yang nodded and shared the information he had gathered earlier: "After receiving intelligence on the location of a Ruthless Sect stronghold, the Ye City Government Office collaborated with several nearby cities to eradicate that stronghold, and our ancestor was captured as a result."

"So that's what happened."

"We bought some food from Blessed Tower, but we're not sure if it suits your taste, ancestor."

Meng Jingzhou opened two large food containers; the aroma was enticing. Although a Daoist Xiantian had transcended the desire for gastronomic satisfaction on a mental level, he was currently at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, and his body instinctively reacted.

"It smells so delicious," Daoist Xiantian's nose twitched as he took the chopsticks and dug heartily into the meal.

"What about my chopsticks?" Daoist Buyu pointed at himself. They, as cultivators on the Worldly Path, didn't adhere to abstinence from food; enjoying good cuisine was the Righteous Path of worldly cultivators.

"There's only one pair of chopsticks," Meng Jingzhou thought, How would I know that the Sect Leader would also be locked up here?

Of course, even if he had known Daoist Buyu was here, he wouldn't have planned to prepare an extra pair of chopsticks.

Left with no choice, Daoist Buyu used his spiritual essence to condense a pair of chopsticks and started eating.

Ye City prison was under the influence of an Array Method that restrained both Cultivation Level and spiritual essence. Even for Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou being there, using spiritual essence felt extremely difficult, like being mired in a swamp, unable to move freely.

Ye City was considered a big city, and the City Lord had a Cultivation Level in the Void Refinement Stage, so the Array Method was also of the Void Refinement level. However, this level of Array Method was nothing in front of Daoist Buyu.

Daoist Buyu, being a Half Step past the Transcendance Tribulation Stage cultivator, simply could not be contained by the local prison's Array Method, as he could cast magic skills at will.

Not to mention a Half Step past the Transcendance Tribulation Stage, even the Gold Clan Leader at the Body Integration Realm could freely use magic skills.

Considering that blowing his cover might lead to his old friends gathering to watch the spectacle, Daoist Buyu used a fake identity when he entered the prison, pretending to be at the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The same went for the Gold Clan Leader.

"Speaking of which, it's lucky that our patriarch didn't join the Ruthless Sect. I had mixed with them for a while, and that place really wasn't fit for humans," Daoist Buyu couldn't stop talking even while eating.

"At that time, I happened to encounter the Ruthless Sect recruiting, and without time to inform anyone, I decided I would test the waters first, so I joined them."

"Ah?" nobody expected Daoist Buyu to have such an experience.

"Isn't the test to enter the Ruthless Sect to kill the person closest to you? How did you pass that test?"

"Easy, the person closest to me is myself. I encountered another me in the Array Method, totally identical in strength. You know how we forget the past within the Array Method, so when I saw another me, I thought I had mistakenly entered some Secret Realm, and had to overcome myself to succeed. Then I made an on-the-spot breakthrough and killed myself."

"After passing the challenge, the Ruthless Sect would investigate who the Array Method showed as the person closest to you. You'd need to kill that person in reality to truly become a member of the Ruthless Sect."

"When they investigated and found out the closest person to me was myself, they obviously couldn't ask me to commit suicide, so they let me through."

"After I joined the Ruthless Sect, I discovered they were delving into the doctrine of ruthlessness. And to pursue this doctrine, they would marry and step onto the path of emotions, then kill their wives to prove their ruthlessness, to fortify the mercilessness within their hearts."

"I saw this and thought it unacceptable. If the doctrine of ruthlessness continued this way, how many innocent women would suffer?"

"So, I proposed to the higher-ups of the Ruthless Sect that killing wives to demonstrate ruthlessness as a practice was misguided. After all, if you killed your wife in a moment of impulse, what would you do if you regretted it later?"

"The higher-ups of the Ruthless Sect felt there was some reason to my words and asked if I had a better idea."

"I said that to prove the way of ruthlessness, one must look to the long term, not just kill all the time. After killing all close to you, how would you continue to demonstrate ruthlessness?"

"I recommended instead of falling in love with a wife and then killing her, it would be better to fall in love with her and then let her sleep with another man."

"Common sense says that seeing your wife sleep with another elevates either anger or excitement, yet neither of those emotions should ever surface in a member of the Ruthless Sect."

"Seeing your wife sleep with another can maximize feelings of anger or excitement. Thus, I further suggested that Ruthless Sect disciples should watch the entire process of being cuckolded."

"If your wife is cuckolded and you have no reaction, only then are you a qualified member of the Ruthless Sect!"

"The higher-ups of the Ruthless Sect thought there was some sense in my idea, so they began to experiment with it on a small scale. When the small-scale trials were successful, they let me propagate this theory widely throughout the Ruthless Sect. I was free to sleep with whomever I wanted, and the disciples of the Ruthless Sect were too angry to speak."

"Alas, I later blew my cover." Daoist Buyu sighed in regret, looking back on his actions with a sense of loss. He was too young and inexperienced back then, and before he could successfully locate the headquarters of the Ruthless Sect, he had no choice but to leave.

"How did you blow your cover?"

"While indulging with their wives, I lost control and let out a laugh by accident."