I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Shang Mingxin stood expressionlessly in front of the sink, silently staring at the water washing over his hands.

After Mann killed Hong Yuan, Qin Lan rightfully became the temporary leader of the Southern Federation Salvation Alliance group, obtaining the position Hong Yuan originally wanted, while Li Xiuyu and Nason became the two Rank IV ability users closest to her.

They re-deliberated the negotiation, and ultimately everyone agreed with Qin Lan's decision—to cease hostilities with the Federation, and dispatched their most trusted individuals to handle the matter.

If everything goes smoothly, this matter will soon come to an end, and they can all have a safe and free future, although this also means they will no longer have the opportunity to rescue the Divine Firmament Walker, but the current result is already very good.

Especially for him.

Although Qin Lan didn't mention it, everyone remembered that Hong Yuan had said why he was able to deceive them, because Kaya, who verified the authenticity of the prophecies, had been bribed by him.

After the banquet ended, Li Xiuyu and Nason didn't let Kaya leave smoothly.

In the end, they decided to deal with this traitor.

And he was responsible for doing it.

Shang Mingxin reached out and turned off the faucet, casually wiped his hands with a towel, and then walked out of the bathroom.

He stopped in his tracks.

Because a man with a cane was sitting on the sofa in his living room.

He swallowed.

The man leaned on his cane and stood up with some difficulty, turning around to smile at Shang Mingxin:

"Surprise?"

Shang Mingxin looked at him in horror:

"Are you dead or alive..."

Hong Yuan said with a smile:

"You're an ability user, how can you be afraid of ghosts?

"Of course I'm still alive, do you think normal people turn into statues after death?"

Shang Mingxin's eyes were still full of vigilance as he looked at him:

"Then what are you doing here?"

As he spoke, he subtly observed Hong Yuan.

Hong Yuan's skin looked much paler than last time, and his body was half a size thinner, looking like he had shed a layer of skin, and his center of gravity was also obviously tilting towards the cane, making him look like he was about to fall.

Shang Mingxin also noticed that the shape of this cane was very unique, the theme looked like tangled dark gray tree roots, and at the top it slowly formed an almost human-like face, with three holes representing the eyes and mouth, and it looked like a wailing resentful spirit.

Hong Yuan looked at him and smiled:

"What am I doing here? Of course, I'm here to find my most steadfast follower.

"Didn't you personally deal with our other companion and hide your identity while waiting for me?"

Of course not.

He personally dealt with Kaya just because he was afraid she would reveal his identity.

After Shang Mingxin personally saw Hong Yuan being defeated by Mann in the blink of an eye, he had already "forgotten" about having followed Hong Yuan, and decided to follow Qin Lan's complete ceasefire negotiations as if nothing had happened.

Even now that Hong Yuan had been resurrected in front of him, Shang Mingxin still hadn't changed his mind.

"You don't look very good," he said to the man with the cane.

Hong Yuan followed his gaze and looked over, then said with a somewhat exaggerated expression:

"Oh, you mean this…

"No, it's just a minor problem, at least for the price of being resurrected, it's within the range I can accept.

"You don't have to worry at all, although I look a little weak, like I just crawled out of the grave.

"And in fact, I did suffer heavy losses, a large amount of resources accumulated over the years were consumed in this resurrection, of course, that's also why I stored them…

"But no matter what, I'm still a reality warper."

After saying that, he looked at Shang Mingxin with a smile, waiting for his answer.

Shang Mingxin of course understood what he meant.

No matter what, he was still a reality warper who could kill him.

This was also the reason why Shang Mingxin betrayed the Salvation Alliance, he couldn't see any possibility of survival in this war, and after Hong Yuan came to him, he didn't hesitate for too long before making a decision.

Now it seemed that the basis he used to judge at that time was not reliable.

Shang Mingxin took half a step back and said:

"I don't understand why you're looking for me.

Mann has already exposed your conspiracy, even if you go back now, you won't be able to act according to the original plan.

"Since you're a reality warper, and in their eyes you might already be dead, you can completely stay away from here, you can live well no matter where you go, I don't see any reason for you to look for me."

Hong Yuan laughed twice:

"Plan? It seems you really believed it."

Shang Mingxin said in confusion:

"Didn't you agree with us…"

"There was no plan at all," Hong Yuan said with a slightly sarcastic smile on his face, "I made it up to tell you, of course, now I admit it wasn't very good to do so, but there was never any plan.

"My will is the plan, is the reality that is about to come."

Shang Mingxin asked in confusion:

"Then what do you want to do now, take revenge on Mann and the Salvation Alliance?"

There must be a reason why the other party appeared in front of him, if he no longer wanted to be involved in the Salvation Alliance's affairs, he would have taken the opportunity to disappear from their sight forever, no one would look for him again.

Hong Yuan shrugged indifferently:

"I don't like to use the word revenge, I don't hate Mann.

"He's a member of the Salvation Alliance, since he detected my conspiracy, it's only natural that he would try to kill me, so I can't say I have any bad feelings about him, on the contrary, I think he's quite interesting.

"It's just that he happened to stand in my way, let me explain it simply, reality warpers have their own way of looking at the world, and in most cases, reality warpers don't have any ability overlap with each other.

"This isn't our characteristic, it's just a matter of probability.

"And I just happen to be an exception, I'm a very strong reality warper, so much so that sometimes I can turn my will into reality more easily than them, although in your eyes my ability is just to create some kind of so-called chaos, but this is actually a misunderstanding.

"It's a misunderstanding of us by ordinary people.

"My ability is simply to turn will into reality, almost the closest to omnipotence among its kind.

"As for the God of Chaos, it's just a self-deprecating term, because in your eyes, my actions are naturally chaotic, this is just because I am above order.

"For example, you would think that thirty-seven percent after the number fifty-six is chaos, the front is the back is also chaos, space that doesn't conform to your understanding of distance is still chaos, death equals life is still chaos, a duck is red is also chaos…

"But we are chaos to you, I am actually just taking shortcuts you can't see.

"It's just that the performance forms of others happen to be within your understanding, but our essence is something you can't understand, it's a complete destruction of order and logic in your eyes, you lack too much imagination for the word omnipotence.

"My thoughts are reality, the container you are in is not.

"Of course, you will definitely think when you hear this, then why was I defeated by Mann."

No, what Shang Mingxin is thinking now is that he definitely won't be able to leave easily.

"Hmm…" Hong Yuan thought for a while and said, "Actually, the situation is quite complicated, but it can be explained simply with a few reasons.

"First of all, it's definitely because I underestimated the enemy, but even if I had really treated Mann cautiously at the time, I might not have been able to win, because this Mann is actually a very rare strong person among you. Secondly, it's because he came prepared for this battle, but that's not important…

"The main reason is actually because I am still restricted.

"After all, if I were really omnipotent, I would have ruled your world long ago.

"I still have various restrictions for the time being, for example, my physical body is very fragile, like that person who is destined to return.

"And I have to consume power to change reality, the more it deviates from reality, the more difficult it is, for example, I am still far from being able to modify the laws of mathematics, and I have no way to produce power myself.

"This is why I want to be involved in this matter."

Shang Mingxin had vaguely guessed what was going on:

"You originally wanted to absorb power?"

Hong Yuan agreed:

"That's right, I guess you've already thought of it, not just any energy can satisfy my needs, I stayed in the Salvation Alliance because there is something I need here, what I originally wanted to do might be this or that.

"But essentially, I just planned to absorb the power she left here."

Shang Mingxin asked in confusion:

"But isn't she already imprisoned, how can there be her power here?"

Hong Yuan said with a smile:

"Of course there is, what form do you think the Divine Firmament's power exists in, is it some kind of energy you can measure, no, the 'prophecies' she left here are power.

"And I originally planned to use this identity to steal her remaining power, to be honest, it's actually a very rich meal for me, but unfortunately it's all been destroyed by Mann."

These were the parts that Hong Yuan planned to tell the other party.

About seventy percent of the content in this conversation was true, and the remaining thirty percent was nonsense to cover up the facts.

Hong Yuan did need to obtain power in this way, if there were no other reality warpers, he would not be able to have any impact on reality, but he was not as omnipotent as he said.

At least if he wanted to achieve something with his will alone, it would be quite difficult for him.

Even creating an ordinary item was difficult for him, because a huge amount of power would be wasted in the process.

Hong Yuan chose the chaotic "space" to fight Mann at the time just because it was easier for him.

This was because one of the reality warpers he had come into contact with in the past could do the same thing, and he could replicate the "miracles" of other reality warpers with a fairly low consumption of the power he collected, as long as he accepted the constraints on them.

This was also why he could be resurrected and why his body needed to remain fragile all year round, he had also served in the Holy Church for a period of time in the past, and had gained a lot of power.

And he used all the power from Him to build that church.

Although the former Red Empress was arrogant, she still had a instinctive fear of death.

It's just that the resurrection church was not very perfect yet, so Rossett had to represent the angel and enter the church on time to complete the ritual content he had instructed, if he missed the time he would die forever.

If it hadn't been for the Nightmare's reminder, he would never have thought that he might die at the banquet.

In addition to this, he could also convert the collected power into other reality warping forms that he was familiar with at a cost of at least three to one, which was also how he dealt with the power of the Divine Firmament.

This was a seemingly wasteful approach.

The power of the Divine Firmament itself was actually quite powerful, not only could it neutralize the shortcomings of his fragile body, but it could also provide the ability to foresee the future, but despite this, he still did not directly use the power of the Divine Firmament.

Because he was also restricted by the Divine Firmament.

If he wanted to become the Divine Firmament, then he would have to embark on the path of salvation.

Obviously, he was walking on a path that was quite detrimental to salvation, if he went too far, he himself might become an object that the Divine Firmament wanted to solve, so no matter how much power of the Divine Firmament he collected, he could only use it through other methods.

This was also why the Divine Firmament allowed him to join the Salvation Alliance in the first place.

Perhaps she had some other arrangements for him before her defeat, but now these were all meaningless.

Hong Yuan looked at Shang Mingxin and said:

"This is the answer to that question, the purpose of my coming to you is naturally to get your help.

"And you will get more rewards than before."

What he had to do now was to seriously collect the power left here by the Divine Firmament Walker.

In fact, his claim of omnipotence just now was not entirely false either.

Theoretically, as long as he kept familiarizing himself with the operating methods of other reality warpers' powers, he could steadily move towards true omnipotence, there was only a small problem that needed to be solved.

That was that he had seen very few reality warpers.

Shang Mingxin said somewhat unwillingly:

"But we can now cease hostilities with the Federation…"

Hong Yuan said:

"Think clearly, it's they who can cease hostilities with the Federation.

"You have already betrayed the Salvation Alliance, even if you want to return now, you can't make up for the mistakes you have made, you stopped betraying them just because you thought I was dead, how could they believe you?

"You once followed a reality warper, this was the right decision.

"Now it's time to make a new decision."

Shang Mingxin was silent for a moment, but finally lowered his head:

"What should I do?"

Hong Yuan showed a satisfied smile:

"Very good, what we have to do now is to destroy the ceasefire between the Salvation Alliance and the Federation, because what happened at that banquet made me realize that this is actually also part of the Divine Firmament's plan, and what we have to do is to destroy it.

"By the way, we also have to kill Mann."

Shang Mingxin looked at him in surprise:

"Didn't you say…"

Hong Yuan repeated:

"I want to kill Mann, and it's not because I want to kill him incidentally to complete the original plan, killing him is my purpose."

But I assure you, this isn't revenge. This decision isn't driven by personal grudges or emotions at all. I have no desire to see him dead.

It's simply a matter of reciprocity. If he can survive, I won't target him again.

Just like him.

I'm asking to be sure, considering the earlier instructions to the servant, can everyone see that Hong Yuan's final thought in chapter 219 was to express that this isn't a dead end?