I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Following that, Xiaoyao continued with a tone of appreciation and praise:

"The way you refused to cooperate with me just now is the reason I agreed. You reminded me of myself back then. Of course, I know you might not believe such words.

"But in reality, we have more in common than you think. For example, your physique is called the 'Heretical Celestial Demon Body,' and the cultivation method I created is called the 'Xiaoyao Celestial Demon Art.'"

Ma En looked at him, puzzled. Du Jin and the others' memories made him aware of this, but having just completed the fusion, he couldn't yet effectively utilize and readily 'recall' the specific knowledge.

Xiaoyao didn't wait for him to remember before saying:

"Many people think that my calling my technique 'Xiaoyao Celestial Demon' is just a metaphor. Many techniques and spells have the words 'Celestial Demon' in their names to describe their power.

"But that's not my personality. I call my technique that simply because I am a Celestial Demon.

"Just like you."

Ma En blinked. His body seemed to already understand what this meant, conveying a sense of worry and surprise, but his actual mind hadn't reacted yet.

"What is a Celestial Demon?" Ma En didn't wait for his body to recall.

Xiaoyao revealed a look of reminiscence and said:

"Celestial Demons are naturally demons from beyond the heavens. In ancient times, cultivators used this term to refer to various evil demons in the vast universe, and now they also use it to refer to any fiends outside the cultivation world.

"You might still not understand why I so firmly oppose the Heavenly Court. After all, they have treated me quite well. Under normal circumstances, I would indeed indulge in the beautiful dreams and illusions they weave, constantly convincing myself to ignore the inconsistencies. But there is one thing I can never accept.

"That is their concentrating all the spiritual energy in the cultivation world. Knowing this was the trigger for me to leave the Heavenly Court and turn to the Xiaoyao Dao. It made me deeply aware of the Heavenly Court's shortcomings and prevented me from continuing to deceive myself as I had in the past. I can't find any reason to justify constantly plundering the spiritual energy of the Barren World to nourish myself...

"Because I myself am a person of the Barren World."

Ma En revealed a surprised expression.

Xiaoyao looked at Ma En with a smile:

"That's right, that's why I chose to leave the cultivation world and come here. I'm not running away, but returning to my true home. That's also why I can't accept what they're doing to us.

"If I were a person of the cultivation world, I could find countless reasons to explain the rationality of their choices, telling myself that the mortals of the cultivation world are indeed more worthy of the blessings of spiritual energy because of their morality, but unfortunately...

"I am not."

This finally explained Ma En's feeling of strangeness. He had been somewhat puzzled when talking to Xiaoyao. At the time, he found it particularly difficult to accept the plundering of spiritual energy from the Barren World, which felt somewhat unreal to Ma En.

After all, he saw himself as a person of the cultivation world at the time. A cultivator enjoying spirit-gathering formations shouldn't say such things, and if he had been born in the cultivation world, he might have really thought that the mortals of the cultivation world were truly worthy of more spiritual energy because they were morally superior.

But if he was also born in the Barren World, then everything could be explained.

No matter how many explanations the cultivation world has for spirit-gathering formations, this one reason is enough for Xiaoyao.

He was one of those who were 'sacrificed' in the selection.

"When I learned that the world I lived in in my previous life was being plundered by them," Xiaoyao said with a deep expression, "I could no longer accept and understand the conditions under which they made their choices.

"When you are on the sidelines, you can use various methods to deceive yourself in order to enjoy the benefits you get from it, but it is completely different if you are the part that is abandoned in their choices.

"You will truly realize how serious the problem is."

After a pause, Xiaoyao continued:

"I think you should be able to imagine now that many of the things I do are because of my identity. If I were a normal cultivator, I would never have ventured deep into the Barren World.

"But I'm not here to cultivate the desert. Let's put it this way, even if I hadn't comprehended the Xiaoyao Dao and hadn't been forced into this situation, I would still return here at some point, because..."

Ma En said:

"Because you want to bring the knowledge and power of the cultivation world back to your hometown?"

Xiaoyao smiled and nodded:

"That's right, I want you to be the first to obtain and feel the path I created, and I also want to bring back what originally belonged to 'us'.

"Even if someone kills me in the process and stops me, it's not an unacceptable ending.

"Because no matter what, the truth will remain here, and the cultivation methods will be left behind by me. You should also have noticed that I sometimes say things that I don't need to tell you.

"For example, I don't need to tell you any of this right now. The purpose of telling you this is not to get you to help me complete the Xiaoyao Dao, but to prevent me from dying here.

"Achieving the Dao is the most important thing in my heart, but if I really die, I don't want to die as an invader from the cultivation world, and I don't want there to be no ripples after my death.

"If I really die here for the sake of seeking the Dao, then at least I must leave behind the path of cultivation and the truth, so that you can know why our world has changed so much, and what kind of magical and great abnormal system they monopolized.

"I want to bring the path of cultivation back to the Barren World."

These words made Ma En truly show a surprised expression, because Xiaoyao's words sounded true. He did say a lot of unnecessary things when he was 'scheming' against him—words that had no meaning to the Xiaoyao Dao itself.

But knowing these things did indeed sow the seeds of cultivation and truth as he said.

In fact, Xiaoyao was certainly not worried that Ma En would kill him, but being born here, he knew very well how dangerous and terrifying the Barren World was. Therefore, he was not entirely confident that he could successfully seek the Dao.

But no matter how difficult it is to achieve the Dao, one must move forward.

And beyond that, he naturally also considered the possibility of dying halfway. This was actually the real reason why he had not allowed Du Jin or other disciples to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. In fact, he could have done it long ago.

Because he cultivated these disciples to be wedding dresses for his new disciple.

What he originally wanted to take in was a Barren World disciple, and to tell him the truth, so that even if he died unexpectedly on the road to seeking the Dao, he could leave behind the inheritance and truth of the cultivation world.

He did not expect that anyone would follow his path after his death, but that didn't matter, because he believed that someone would definitely embark on the path of resisting the rules of the cultivation world, which was enough for him.