I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

After introducing his fellow disciples, Xiaoyao turned his gaze to the black tiger in the distance. The black tiger glared back fiercely. Although its face was that of a beast, Ma En could feel the intense hatred in its eyes, almost overflowing.

From the fight during their “practice” earlier, it was clear that the relationship between Xiaoyao's disciples and this tiger wasn't harmonious. Otherwise, Yu Weijie could have simply tied the chains around its body instead of using hooks to pierce its flesh.

Judging from the earlier situation, if it had truly managed to pounce on Zhong Ruixue, it would have undoubtedly torn her throat apart.

“This is Ji Minru, the youngest daughter of the Hollow Heart Sect Leader,” Xiaoyao said with the same tone he used to introduce his other disciples. “The body of this black tiger that she’s imprisoned in used to be her favorite pet, and it was also the murderer of my wife and children.”

This sudden statement surprised Ma En. Not only him, but the other three disciples were also quite astonished by Xiaoyao's “confession.” This matter was practically a taboo in the Xiaoyao Sect, and no one was allowed to discuss it. Their master hadn't mentioned it for many years.

They never expected their master to talk about this matter so calmly in front of this disciple.

“This is your revenge?” Realizing that Xiaoyao wanted to discuss this, Ma En proactively asked him.

Xiaoyao revealed a look of reminiscing about the past:

“That’s right, this is my revenge.

“Do you know, I was only thirty-seven years old back then, just a Golden Core cultivator. But I had no other desires at the time, because I had already found my true love when I joined the sect. Only two years after joining, I fell in love with my master's daughter.

“She was the person I was destined to meet. Therefore, I withdrew from the mainstream cultivation world early on and hid with her, living a peaceful but lively and happy life, while focusing on slowly cultivating, until this孽畜 broke into our home.

“It brutally killed my seven-year-old daughter, eleven-year-old son, and my wife, who was about to break through to the Golden Core stage.

“But do you know what the most ridiculous thing is when I think about it now?

“I never thought about taking revenge on Ji Minru. To be honest, I didn't dare to. Her father was a highly respected Nascent Soul cultivator. I had heard of his reputation before then, and I admired the old gentleman very much.

“I just wanted a simple explanation, but that was the problem.

“Ji Minru loved her pet very much.”

Saying this, Xiaoyao glanced indifferently at the black tiger:

“Now she can be with it forever.

“But back then, she simply refused my proposal to personally avenge my family and offered me generous compensation instead. To be honest, I was somewhat wavering in the face of that compensation. After all, it was just a wild beast. So, my answer to her at the time wasn't acceptance or rejection, but that I needed some time to consider.

“But after returning to that empty house, I tossed and turned and couldn't make a decision. In the end, I went back to her and said that I still insisted on killing her beloved pet, but her answer was still no.

“I think maybe because my answer of needing time gave her hope, she mistakenly thought there was still a way to protect her pet. She directly threw the generous gifts in front of me and took the black tiger back to the sect, pretending that I had already agreed.

“Her attitude towards me was always quite good, she just didn't want her pet to pay with its life.

“And there was no way I could break into that heavily guarded place, so I went to the Heavenly Court, hoping they could uphold justice for me. But they just casually dealt with me at the time. I could tell they were very impatient with my case. Cases involving demonic beasts and Nascent Soul cultivators were inherently troublesome.

“And they had more urgent problems to deal with. Back then, demonic cultivators were much more active than in the previous few centuries.

“So, in the end, I spent half a year changing my name and finally infiltrated the Hollow Heart Sect. Taking advantage of Ji Minru's absence, I quietly found the black tiger and began to torture it in the most cruel ways I could imagine.

“Now I have to admit that I was blinded by hatred at the time, which led me to make a terrible mistake. I was too focused on torturing the black tiger and didn't kill it immediately.

“The following events began to spiral out of control. Ji Minru returned at the most inopportune moment and saw me harming her beloved pet. She went crazy and attacked me.

“She was a disciple of a prestigious sect, and her magical treasures were ten times better than mine. So, she directly severed my left arm. I took advantage of her concern for the black tiger and blinded her eyes, and then fled the Hollow Heart Sect in a panic.

“But the damage I inflicted on her didn't affect her soul. After finding a Nascent Soul cultivator, she easily healed her eyes. I became a criminal who broke into the Hollow Heart Sect and was wanted by the entire cultivation world, and became a heretic in their eyes.

“Actually, if the Heavenly Court had judged this matter, I wouldn't have ended up like this. In fact, both Ji Minru and I should have been demoted back to the Foundation Establishment stage and thrown into the dungeon for decades. But her father was a Nascent Soul cultivator.

“He knew how to deceive the Heavenly Court's inspection, lied to them, and fabricated the scene to make it look like I was there to assassinate his daughter, saving his useless daughter's life, because normally, people thrown into the dungeon and whose cultivation is abolished can't break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

“And Ji Minru was his most beloved child, so he played a little trick.

“But do you know what the worst thing is?”

Ma En asked in confusion:

“What?”

Xiaoyao shook his head with amusement:

“I was too young and weak back then. I didn't kill the black tiger immediately when I attacked it. And after Ji Minru came back, I had to use it to escape the Hollow Heart Sect alive, so I only hastily slit its throat at the end, failing to shatter its soul.

“So, after spending a huge amount of resources, Ji Minru revived it.

“After that, I naturally had no chance to take revenge. And because I was slandered as a heretic, I was hunted down by righteous cultivators and Heavenly Soldiers. I had to change my name again and again. In the following decades, I killed many innocent people who found me. I knew that if I was caught by them, I would never have a chance to turn over, and I gradually got closer and closer to real heretics.

“Finally, Ji Minru slowly relaxed her vigilance as time passed, and I seized the opportunity. After decades of ups and downs, I was no longer as naive as I was back then. When I met her, I instantly destroyed the black tiger with one palm, and shattered Ji Minru's body into pieces. But before I could act, her soul escaped into the black tiger's body.

“At this time, Ji Minru's father appeared. I could feel that he wanted to kill me directly after being filled with grief and anger, but since there were other cultivators following him at the time, he could only hand me over to the Heavenly Court for punishment.

“How do you think I survived?”

Ma En asked curiously:

“Because you broke through to the Nascent Soul stage?”

Xiaoyao smiled:

“That's why I say you're from the Federation.

“No, having already taken revenge, I had actually let go of everything. Although I didn't kill Ji Minru, her ending was enough in my eyes at the time. According to the Heavenly Court's standards, I had already gone too far.

“So, I was actually prepared to accept my fate. But the Heavenly Court noticed my previous records of asking them to uphold justice, and then realized that something seemed fishy, and then launched an investigation into the whole matter.

“Then Ji Minru and her father were both thrown into the Heavenly Prison, and I was thrown into the dungeon for three years. But their judgment of me was actually quite fair. Of course, this was because they didn't know what I had actually done.

“And on the eve of leaving the cultivation world, I took the opportunity to find her again.

“Because in the eyes of the Heavenly Court, she had already paid for her crimes, but I didn't think she had really suffered enough.”

Ma En said in surprise:

“So, in the end, it was actually the organization called the Heavenly Court in the cultivation world that upheld justice for you.”

Xiaoyao nodded:

“That's right, this is what I want you to realize before you start cultivating. Your master is not a good person in the secular sense, and the morality of the cultivation world probably doesn't have any problems in your eyes. If other cultivators were to take revenge, they might also insist on revenge, but they wouldn't want to kill Ji Minru like I did when I attacked the black tiger.

“They would think of making her pay for what she did, but they wouldn't directly make her pay with her life. After all, she only protected the demonic beast that killed my family, and didn't actually kill anyone herself.

“On the contrary, my hands are stained with the lives of several innocent people.”

Ma En asked:

“So, you actually think the Heavenly Court's approach is right?”

Xiaoyao replied:

“Yes, what they did was right.”

Ma En asked:

“Then why do you still…”

Xiaoyao said with a smile:

“Why do I still try to break something that I also agree with? This goes back to the question I asked you at the beginning…

“Why didn't they return the spiritual energy to you?”

Ma En asked in confusion:

“What do you mean?”

Xiaoyao said:

“The purpose of me saying this is to make you clearly aware of what the Heavenly Court is. They are completely different rulers from your Federation here, and they are not even completely equivalent to your rulers here.

“They are good people like the Divine Firmament you understand, and I am actually the guy standing on the opposite side of the righteous path.

“In the decades before I left the dungeon, I was actually very grateful for and agreed with the Heavenly Court's approach. I even joined the Heavenly Court, and that's how I was able to learn a lot of inside information. But in the end, I still raised objections to their way of governing the world with morality.

“Because we have some fundamental differences, but you don't need to know these for now.

“Alright, now that you've met your fellow disciples, it's time to come with me to do the most basic body tempering cultivation.”

After talking about the origins of the three fellow disciples and the black tiger, Xiaoyao took Ma En and walked towards the practice area in the distance.

After Xiaoyao and Ma En's figures disappeared, Yu Weijie and Zhong Ruixue exchanged glances. They both felt that it was strange for their master to bring Ma En here to say these things, but they didn't dare to express any opinions about their master while standing in the fog.

On the other hand, junior sister Guan Yi didn't seem to have fully noticed anything strange and directly asked her senior brothers and sisters:

“So, he's our eldest senior brother now, but didn't he just kill Senior Brother Du?”

Yu Weijie replied quite smoothly:

“Since Master has accepted Ma En as a disciple, it means that his killing of Senior Brother Du doesn't matter at all. I think maybe Senior Brother Du has done something disgraceful behind Master's back…”

Zhong Ruixue interrupted him with disdain:

“Du Jin is already dead, so don't try to pin the blame on him. Master naturally has his own ideas, but we disciples don't need to explain anything for Master. This has nothing to do with us.”

Guan Yi still said with some worry:

“But why did Master accept Ma En as a disciple?”

“That naturally has a reason.” These words made the three of them tremble, because it was their master's voice. Then, the drifting clouds slowly condensed into a brand new body in front of them.

Xiaoyao stood in front of them and asked:

“What do you think of this new senior brother?”

Yu Weijie opened his mouth with a natural expression and said:

“I think there must be a reason why Master accepted him as a disciple, but I think it's extremely difficult for these mortals from the Barren World to really embark on the path of cultivation. I've seen that the other disciples from the Barren World that you accepted seem to encounter all sorts of problems.”

Zhong Ruixue also nodded in agreement and said:

“And some of them are also very intelligent, but they are inherently inferior to us in cultivation. I'm worried that he will repeat the mistakes of the other junior brothers and sisters from the Barren World.”

Guan Yi was still in a state of being frightened by Xiaoyao and didn't know what to say.

Xiaoyao said with a smile:

“That's right, it's almost impossible for mortals from the Barren World to embark on the path of cultivation.

“Even the geniuses from the Barren World who have the opportunity to achieve the Nascent Soul stage will find it difficult to break through to the Golden Core stage here, and that is already their limit. If they want to go further, they must return to the cultivation world with me, unless…

“He is an unparalleled genius with more than just that kind of talent.”

The others revealed surprised expressions. Yu Weijie asked with some worry:

“So, Senior Brother Ma En is…”

Xiaoyao replied:

“That's right, this Ma En has the Extraterrestrial Demon Body.”

These words shocked the other three cultivators. The Extraterrestrial Demon Body can already be considered one of the best physiques in the cultivation world, but it is not as famous because there are fewer suitable cultivation techniques.

But they are practicing the Xiaoyao Heavenly Demon Technique.

This means that Ma En is very likely to see the opportunity to break through to the Nascent Soul stage before them, and they all know very well that Master's resources in the Barren World only allow one disciple to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Originally, Yu Weijie and Zhong Ruixue were a little eager to make a move after Du Jin died, feeling that they would replace Du Jin and obtain the position to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, but now it seems that they will all become stepping stones for this new senior brother.

Moreover, for a long time to come, they would still have to work hard to guide this competitor.

Xiao Yao looked at them and smiled, then took out three small boxes:

"These are the spiritual pills for your cultivation in the future. If you still don't cultivate properly...

"The opportunity to attain Dao will be snatched away."