I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Ma En stepped out of the shadows and into the misty mountain, walking a few steps towards the "cave" where Xiaoyao was, sending a signal into the surrounding fog that he wanted to see Xiaoyao.

"You dare to come back here," Xiaoyao said from behind him. "The Federation is searching for you all over the world. As soon as you show up anywhere, they can be here in half a minute. Fortunately, I have cast a spell to shield this place from divination."

"You have ten minutes."

Ma En turned around and looked at the cultivator, saying:

"Thank you, Master."

Xiaoyao smiled:

"Master? I didn't know I had a Nascent Soul disciple. I'm not qualified to be your master."

Ma En replied gently:

"I remember there's a saying in the cultivation world that there's always something to learn from others, and cultivation level has nothing to do with seniority. Master, you are a pioneer of the 'Dao,' and I sincerely want to learn from you."

Xiaoyao sneered:

"That sounds nice. You had ulterior motives from the beginning when you joined my sect, didn't you? You probably just see me as a furnace for refining treasures, wanting to take the spiritual treasure and leave immediately.

"Anyway, you can leave whenever you want."

He pointed out the most serious problem. Ma En's hidden strength meant that their previous exchange of benefits was meaningless. Xiaoyao had originally planned to give him the spiritual treasure because he thought he could control him with a combination of kindness and authority.

But if Ma En was a Tier V esper, his plan would become a joke.

Ma En retorted:

"Did Master accept me as a disciple without any ulterior motives either?"

This made Xiaoyao smile:

"You have a point. Then tell me, what exactly gave you the courage to come back here?"

As he spoke, Xiaoyao also responded to Ma En's gaze with apparent kindness, but in reality, he was secretly controlling the surrounding mist to slowly set up a formation, and was ready to leave Ma En's life here at any time.

Although his calculations were less reliable because Ma En was a Tier V esper, he could still see that Ma En's current situation was precarious. In that case, he might as well "clean up the sect" first.

He could also extract Ma En's understanding of cultivation before the Federation did, and give it to his last disciple as soon as possible.

Ma En said:

"That's right, my purpose is actually very simple, it's for the spiritual treasure forged from anti-mind metal, and I'm back here now for the spiritual treasure, and I didn't tell the truth before.

"But we can forget about the past. I know what you want to achieve in the Federation, and you have what I want. From this perspective, we are almost perfect trading partners."

Xiaoyao looked curious:

"Oh, then how do you want to trade with me?"

Ma En said:

"I can guarantee to reach the Golden Core stage…"

Before he could finish, Xiaoyao interrupted with a sneer:

"Do you think I'm a fool? I know you have Tier V abilities, how could I think I can control you just by relying on the methods I teach you? If that's really what you think, you can leave."

He showed a gesture of chasing away a guest, while secretly manipulating his natal flying sword to stand by in the distance, ready to cross the tens of miles and take Ma En's head directly at any time.

But Ma En did not retreat because of this, in fact, he was not surprised by this.

He had originally wanted to use the characteristics of the Control Bureau to exploit the Golden Core characteristics on Guan Yi's body to deceive Xiaoyao and obtain the spiritual treasure. Although Xiaoyao would definitely not have thought of the existence of the Control Bureau, he no longer believed Ma En.

Ma En directly took out the Hell Contract that Zhang Youyue had obtained from his arms and handed it to Xiaoyao:

"What you want is a subordinate who can help you deal with things when you are focused on research. Just as you promised, you don't plan to kill me, so what constrains my behavior shouldn't matter.

"Even to be honest, I am definitely more suitable than any other collaborator you can find. Even if you can cultivate Guan Yi or someone else, they can't do it better than me.

"And you can't find other Tier V espers, it just so happens that I need your help, and I'm in a particularly bad situation recently, otherwise I wouldn't agree to this kind of thing.

"If you agree, I can also provide you with disciples from other places, and I can also help you coordinate things in the Federation again. I haven't fully exerted my strength in this regard."

Xiaoyao did not take the contract, but looked at him and said:

"Coordinate with the Federation for me? You can't even protect yourself now. Even if you can survive, the Federation will definitely not calm down and listen to you. How can you help me establish a sect?"

Ma En said confidently:

"I don't care about the Federation at all. If they hadn't found something I care about, I wouldn't have come here to find you.

"And as long as you give me the spiritual treasure, I can guarantee that I will solve the Federation's problem.

"This is also written in the contract, you can take a look."

Only then did Xiaoyao take the contract and examine it carefully.

It must be said that this contract was very professional, like an important commercial contract now, with many details that could answer various doubts in his mind, and in general, it was also very fair.

As long as Ma En could escape safely as he said, then signing this contract would be a sure profit for him, he could get a Tier V labor force for free, and the bottom line was also clearly defined.

"If you want," Ma En said casually while he was reading the contract, "I can also cultivate to the Golden Core stage and take out my understanding to give to Guan Yi, then you will have two collaborators."

Xiaoyao looked up at him, with a hint of appreciation in his eyes:

"Not bad, I have no reason to refuse.

"Then you will be my deputy sect master from now on."

Ma En also smiled:

"Deal."

Very good, this way he wouldn't have to use the final plan of completely breaking ties—threatening Xiaoyao by irreversibly destroying his understanding of cultivation and taking Guan Yi away as bargaining chips.

He paid a considerable price in this matter. The contract clearly stated that he had to help Xiaoyao, strictly speaking, he was already an accomplice. If the mastermind hadn't forced him to this point, he would never have signed such restrictive terms with Xiaoyao.

Since things had come to this, he could only adopt some more radical methods. Ma En no longer thought about being able to retreat cleanly and completely, solving the immediate problem was already very lucky.

Moreover, although there were so many terms, there was still one beneficial aspect to him, that was when Xiaoyao really created the sect and cultivated Nascent Soul cultivators…

He would become one of the few people who could help them get rid of Xiaoyao's restraints.