I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Xiao Yao led Ma En slowly to the wooden house, and into a room slightly inside. The wooden decorations inside, although they looked quite remarkable, were not particularly surprising, like old-fashioned wooden houses that could be seen in some suburbs of the Eastern Federation.

Xiao Yao sat down casually at the low wooden table in the middle of the room, then gestured for Ma En to sit opposite him.

"You said I have a talent for cultivation." Ma En sat down cross-legged as well. "Actually, I've always had some doubts about this, because I'm already a fairly decent ability user, and I don't think I'd be lucky enough to have the talent to learn the techniques of other civilizations."

Xiao Yao nodded slightly:

"I can understand your doubts, but that's just the way it is. It's not as unbelievable as you think. We call your place the Barren Realm, and these three words represent barrenness and chaos in our place, which is why there are no cultivators here.

"But that doesn't mean that ordinary people born in the Barren Realm don't have the talent for cultivation. Although the number of children with low to medium cultivation talent among you is decreasing over time, the bloodlines and physiques of true geniuses have never been cut off.

"There are even often people with strange physiques and talents like you.

"And do you know why this is?"

Faced with such a question, Ma En immediately cooperated and said:

"I don't know."

Xiao Yao showed a look of reminiscence:

"So-called aptitude is a very complicated thing, which depends on various complex factors. The most important of these is naturally bloodline and immortal techniques. The earliest newborns with outstanding aptitude were descendants of immortals, because in the very beginning, apart from a very few special individuals, most ordinary people were not essentially different. But some half-immortals who valued emotions and bloodlines researched spells that would allow their descendants to easily embark on the path of cultivation, and directly buried them in the bone marrow of all their descendants through bloodlines.

"Only after that were opportunities, Taoism, and other factors added. In other words, aptitude was originally like dragons begetting dragons and tigers begetting tigers. Moreover, the aptitude that was initially improved through immortal techniques and bloodlines would quickly dissipate to almost non-existence after a few generations. Except for the children of the most half-immortals, the aptitude of those ordinary people who received blessings did not even reach the average level of today's common cultivators.

"But as the long years flowed by, the immortal techniques performed by countless half-immortals converged, diluted, spread, and blended in the bloodlines of ordinary descendants, and then encountered various other factors, spiritual energy, Taoist traces, natural treasures, demon blood, and slowly became the aptitude that everyone has.

"And the stabilization of aptitude was actually a long time ago. I think you should have guessed what I'm going to say next. The reason why you have the aptitude and physique to cultivate is naturally because your ancestors were also half-immortals and were once immersed in spiritual energy.

"In fact, we used to live here too."

What he said was something Ma En had never heard of, and it was likely that the Federation didn't know much about it either. Ma En could feel that Xiao Yao was also revealing this information to show the benefits of becoming his disciple.

Ma En showed genuine curiosity:

"So you left here."

Xiao Yao thought for a few seconds and said:

"You could say that, but it's not entirely accurate. Let's put it this way, in ancient times, cultivators used to be all over almost the entire planet. We once established a great immortal dynasty here in considerable prosperity and harmony. That was a glorious time that I never had the honor to see, but nothing in this world is eternal and immortal, and nothing is perfect.

"A long time ago, the immortal dynasty at that time, although strong, also faced the most dangerous enemy in history, that is, the terrifying demons behind the mountains. They were more dangerous than any demons we had ever seen. Even newly born pure-blooded infants had the power of the Golden Core stage, and the most powerful and terrifying of them had even killed immortals.

"You need to know that all immortals are beyond the Three Realms and not within the Five Elements, neither born nor dying, neither increasing nor decreasing. You may not be able to understand the meaning of this sentence very well, and it is difficult to describe it using your familiar words, but you should know those Southern Gods."

Ma En nodded slightly:

"The Southern Gods, also the culprits of the destruction of Atlantis."

Xiao Yao nodded:

"Although they are actually somewhat different from the gods we usually talk about, these things do have some of their own abilities. They can live in your bodies and souls to achieve a state close to eternity, but you also know that their eternity is not real.

"True eternity is what we call immortals. The cultivation of immortality and enlightenment of the Tao is actually the cultivation of longevity and immortality. Only by achieving these two realms at the same time can one seek the true Great Tao.

"If you still can't understand it, then I can tell you that immortals are what you now call VII-level anomalous entities, while those four-legged, two-winged demons can kill immortal immortals."

Ma En asked curiously:

"What exactly are those demons? Are they no longer here now?"

Xiao Yao explained:

"They may have become extinct, but there are still some remaining descendants here. They also appear in your legends. These things are called 'dragons' in your vocabulary, but the dragon in this Eastern Federation language originally refers to a kind of auspicious spiritual beast.

"When we first saw those demons hiding behind the mountains, we once mistook them for the descendants of true dragons, but later we were shocked to realize that they were not the auspicious beasts we were familiar with at all, but more evil demons.

"And the ancient immortals once had a protracted war with these demons, but the result was a lose-lose situation. In the end, we decided to divide this world equally with those ancient demons and divided it into two halves.

"The place where those ancient demons are located is the land where you are now."

Hearing this, Ma En said with some surprise:

"You mean, your cultivators at that time fought a bloody battle with the demons on the land of today's Federation, and finally chose to divide the planet under our feet equally. Then, are you hiding underground or somewhere?"

Xiao Yao smiled, then raised his hand and waved it gently.

Mist filled the air, slowly turning into a sphere, and Ma En could clearly see that due to the changes in the density of the mist, the darker parts were the continents and islands in his memory, and the lighter parts were the oceans.

The sphere formed by the mist perfectly matched Ma En's understanding, the four interconnected main continents, as well as the inland sea in the middle, the archipelago, the land where the Central Federation was located, and the large and small islands in the distant sea.

But as Xiao Yao gently flipped his wrist, the mist instantly expanded outward into a large circle, and the relative positions of the four almost connected lands and the central inland sea of the Federation had some subtle changes, and at the same time...

On the surface of this sphere facing the Federation, there were also areas with denser mist.

"No, we are on your back." Xiao Yao said with a smile.