The City of Joy was the heart of the Joyful Empire, the main state body that the Boundless Joy Sect established and controlled. It was an empire that spanned the entire region, the four provinces being its main territories while the Huxian Province was naturally the center of it all.
Unlike the sect, the empire did not practice the matriarchal system, rather surprisingly opting to adopt the typical patriarchal system. The only thing was that the general morality of the Joyful Empire completely embraced the kind of extreme modern progressiveness that Li Ling saw in his past life in terms of sexual freedom.
From what Li Ling had experienced personally when he passed here the first time, it was completely normal for a woman to be promiscuous if she wanted and most men here did not care about it. In fact, the majority took it as a point of pride to be superior to their partner's previous lovers, basing their masculinity around pure sexual performance rather than strength and value.