I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Ma En and Du Jin stood on opposite sides of the training ground. Shadow had already retreated, watching the fight with other concerned politicians through comprehensive monitoring equipment in a separate room.

"Please be merciful, fellow Daoist," Du Jin said, raising his hand in a salute.

Ma En nodded to him:

"I will be careful."

The instant the words left his mouth, Ma En saw white mist erupting from Du Jin's collar and cuffs, spreading outwards at an extremely high speed. In just a few breaths, it had occupied half of the training ground, leaving only empty cloth clothes where he had been standing.

However, the scene occupying half the room was only what Du Jin allowed to be seen. In reality, sparse white mist in his form had already surrounded Ma En, but the barbarians, unable to sense spiritual energy, couldn't detect it. Then, it surged directly towards Ma En's mouth, nose, and pores.

The reason he had emphasized that this was just a friendly exchange was to lower Ma En's guard. Neither the Federation nor he himself believed that he would resort to lethal moves, so he wanted to seize the opportunity to kill him before they could react. His first move was the Xiaoyao Dao's ultimate technique, Mortal Body Transformation into Mist.

Although it lacked the effect of devouring spiritual energy when used against fellow Daoists, it was still effective against those without protective techniques. He could always infiltrate his opponents' internal organs before they could react, directly turning their organs into blood.

Moreover, this move excelled in its concealment and speed. Even if it failed, it would be difficult to expose his intentions.

But he hadn't expected that his consideration would actually be meaningful, because he felt resistance before his dense mist could enter Ma En's body, as if Ma En also possessed some kind of protective technique.

As expected of a genius among barbarians, he wasn't so easy to deal with.

While he was trying to attack, Ma En was also trying to use telepathy to figure out the form of the mist he had transformed into. If this move had no restrictions or countermeasures, it could probably defeat most Tier 4 ability users who weren't good at non-physical attacks.

However, his move wasn't perfect yet. In Ma En's telepathic vision, he could see Du Jin's mental power constantly flowing in the mist, eventually flowing through a spherical object that he couldn't directly see with his naked eye.

Du Jin had hidden his golden core behind the mist. Before entering the Nascent Soul stage, this technique couldn't truly integrate his soul into the mist, so it could only remain in his golden core, controlling the mist to fight the enemy.

Then, Ma En used his telepathy to approach Du Jin's golden core, trying to directly attack his soul, but as his consciousness approached the spherical object, he could keenly sense a strong mental defense on its surface.

This reminded Ma En of Alice's warning that this thing was very dangerous. Perhaps attacking it mentally wasn't so safe, and they weren't really in a life-or-death battle. Mental damage wasn't easy to recover from, and it wouldn't be good if he accidentally hurt the other party.

So, with this in mind, Ma En changed his mind. He suddenly jumped towards the location of the golden core, and then used telekinesis and air currents to tear the densest mist to both sides, creating a path for him to pass through.

When Du Jin saw this, he was first surprised, and then delighted. He didn't expect Ma En to find the location of his golden core so quickly, but after careful consideration, he realized it wasn't a bad thing.

Now, his biggest advantage was that Ma En hadn't realized that he intended to kill him, so Ma En dared to directly attack the location of his golden core. The mist that could be clearly seen with the naked eye was no longer as "gentle" as before, and was enough to corrode the strong body of a demon.

As Ma En cut through the mist and advanced, Du Jin also shifted the location of his golden core. At the same time, the white mist surged towards Ma En like sharp claws. Just as he was about to reach the middle of the path, some mist finally collided with his body.

But Du Jin had never considered why Ma En dared to rush into the mist so recklessly.

The white mist gently landed on Ma En's body, and immediately tried to find pores to penetrate, but he felt unusual resistance, as if this body had also been refined like theirs, and couldn't be directly penetrated.

Seeing this, Du Jin immediately changed his offensive, condensing the mist with術法, and then directly slamming it towards Ma En's chest, intending to forcibly melt a passage to his heart and a hole of blood.

Then he understood what Ma En was relying on.

Just as he had melted away Ma En's skin, Ma En had arrived in front of his golden core.

Ma En reached out and gently touched the floating sphere in front of him:

"I concede..."

Before he could finish speaking, a sharp, cold light suddenly appeared in front of Ma En's eyes. As the golden core flickered, the surrounding mist was instantly swallowed by it. Then, it spat out a white sword energy towards Ma En's face.

Immortal Mist Transformation Sword, this was Du Jin's true killing move.

This sword captured the artistic conception between reality and illusion, using the visible and intangible mist as a carrier, bearing his years of understanding of the Dao of Truth and Falsehood, Existence and Non-existence. Anything directly injured by it would irreversibly turn into mist, and then rapidly fall towards nothingness itself.

Moreover, this move used his own body as a sword, imitating a spirit of unyielding advance.

When he used this move, both Ma En and Shadow felt that something was wrong.

The latter, ignoring the politicians' surprise, instantly transformed his body into a shadow and surged towards the direction of their battle, but he slowed down just as he was about to rush into the training ground to stop them, because he heard the question Ma En transmitted through telepathy.

Inside the training ground, the remaining mist vaguely formed a human figure around the golden core, and held the hilt of the sword with its right hand, but in reality, this mist was more like being dragged forward by the sword. In the shroud of his sword intent, even the flow of time seemed to become both existent and nonexistent.

Du Jin could see the confusion and incomprehension on the barbarian's face. He often saw the same expression on the faces of the righteous disciples who died at his hands. They always thought they were the chosen ones.

Bang!

The sword blade flashed like white light, directly turning the wall behind Ma En and the architectural structure behind it into mist, which then quickly dissipated completely. Ma En was no longer in his original position.

He was holding the golden core with one hand, enduring the severe pain, and asked Du Jin, who couldn't see his flicker at all:

"Are you doing this on purpose?"

Du Jin asked in disbelief:

"How did you disappear just now?"

Ma En, who already knew the answer, didn't say anything, just slowly tightened his grip on the golden core.

The reacted Du Jin fully operated the defensive technique, while shouting in horror at Ma En:

"What are you doing! We are the Federation's honored guest..."

Pa.