You want me to take out a loan to practice cultivation? I'll just pay off the debt physically.

Chapter 229 The Red Heart Society's Countermeasures
In May of the 166th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, facing this nascent-level erosion originating from the core of the world and directly targeting the very essence of the soul, the Soul-Fixing Mark, upon which the Crimson Heart Society relied to resist the invasion of Hell, underwent an emergency iteration to adapt to the battlefield.

The Soul-Fixing Mark, which once served on the battlefields of Hell's invasion, proved to be overly cumbersome and uneconomical in the face of this low-intensity, wide-ranging, and slow-moving form of primal pollution, due to its complex runic structure and extremely high requirements for soul capacity.

This is like using heavy fortress cannons to bombard ubiquitous microscopic dust and bacteria—costly and with limited effectiveness.

Therefore, the Soul-Fixing Mark has undergone extensive changes based on the current urgent situation.

[Through the combined efforts of everyone at the Soul Research Center, a brand-new defensive plan tailored to the current unique battle situation has been developed: the Spirit Imprint is rapidly taking shape.]

The Spirit Imprint is derived from the underlying logic of the Soul-Stabilizing Imprint, but it is more like a sophisticated energy probe and dynamic filter.

Its rune array has been greatly simplified, and the core material uses a sub-soul resonance alloy that can be mass-produced, significantly lowering the manufacturing threshold.

[It is implanted on the outer edge of the professional's mental consciousness, acting like a layer of intelligent light membrane that provides a certain degree of defense for the professional's soul.]

[At the same time, it will constantly scan the host's soul fluctuations. Once it detects the chaotic pollution frequency or subtle mental manipulation disturbance unique to the second will of the Hell Core, the main body of the imprint will turn from blue to red.]

The intuitive color changes are like a real-time pollution monitor installed on the soul.

More importantly, it suffers from a logical trap: any attempt to bypass imprint monitoring, block detection mechanisms, or even forcibly erase imprints will be considered a highly contaminated signal.

[In the moments before its destruction, the mark will forcibly upload all its recorded soul waveform samples, location coordinates, behavioral logs, and even core fragments of the last energy conflict to the Fifth Generation of the Red Heart.]

[No mercy or room for delay!]

The soul engineers who led the development of the Spirit Imprints had cold eyes, like divine craftsmen fine-tuning a god-slaying weapon.

According to their comprehensive investigation, genetic pollution at the physiological level can be purified, erosion at the energy level can be dispelled, and the shackles of the soul contract can be broken.

However, those beings whose minds are warped by hellish energy, whose soul cores are completely replaced, and who no longer identify with the name 'Pure Heart,' are absolute enemies!

Those who have lost their unwavering faith, or even those who seek to exterminate it, are no longer comrades-in-arms of the Red Heart Society!

They need to be eliminated!

In other words, a new struggle has begun!

[In the same month, a supreme mobilization order for the Red Heart Defense, bearing the imprint of your will as the founder, was issued through five generations of Red Hearts, covering every corner of the Red Heart territory.]

The core of the instruction is very simple, yet it contains a wealth of information.

[All registered professionals belonging to the Red Heart Society, regardless of rank, position, or region.]

[Effective immediately, the Soul Purification Act is being implemented!]

Everyone must have a Spirit Imprint implanted!

Those who disobey orders will be treated as traitors!

This order is not a suggestion, but the ironclad rule for the future survival of the Red Heart Society!

No room for discussion!

The Red Heart Society will use this firewall, implanted in everyone's soul, to keep the seeds of corruption from reaching civilization!

However, the shadow of the hell spores' infiltration is far more sinister than the command center's simulations suggest.

Its true terror lies not in its instantaneous outburst, but in the slow erosion of the foundation of trust.

[Of course, the implantation work proceeded as efficiently as planned in the garrisons of the main forces of the Red Heart Army and the combined forces of the Demon Suppression and Red Heart regiments.]

The deeply ingrained ideological imprint acts as a cornerstone of faith, ensuring that these core members execute top directives with near-absolute precision.

[Zero accidents!]

[Zero resistance!]

【Very smoothly!】

But in the vast, peripheral lands far from the heart of power, a storm is brewing. Undercurrents, fueled by blind panic and malicious instigation by the parasites of hell, are beginning to erupt!

Even worse, some began spreading rumors within the Red Heart Society, claiming that its higher-ups intended to directly control the souls of all professionals through the Spirit Imprint.

From now on, the life and death of all professionals will be under the control of the Red Heart Society's higher-ups.

Of course, there are countless claims that the Spirit Imprint absorbs the souls of professionals, makes everyone stupid, and greatly reduces the combat power of professionals.

After all, the Red Heart Society is now too large, and there are far too many professionals within it.

A large forest naturally has all kinds of birds.

Even though those holding important positions in the Red Heart Society are all possessors of the ideological seal, and are officials in charge of various regions, they have all undergone your guidance and vetting.

[Abilities vary, and especially in this chaotic era of invading hellish energy, it's quite normal for situations to arise that are beyond the control of the local Red Heart branch.]

[Actually, as long as the Red Heart Army doesn't fall into chaos, and as long as everyone in the Joint Regiment has the ideological imprint, then the Red Heart Society won't fall into chaos!]

However, Lin Xue immediately began dealing with the matter.

[I. All units bearing the ideological seal are hereby given immediate command and counterinsurgency authority over their assigned areas, with no security boundaries and no minimum target screening requirements!]

[Any target that refuses to receive the Spirit Imprint or spreads filthy rumors is considered a highly contaminated source! Annihilate them on the spot!]

[II. Shadow Guards and Inner Guards: Locking Down All Key Lost Connections!]

[Authorized use of the Anti-Chaos Purification Matrix!]

[III. The Soul Tribunal has initiated the highest-level internal review procedure, and all individuals responsible for the data breach and members of the contact chain are immediately subject to soul detection!]

[Any instance of a mental gap detected—permanent confinement!]

[IV. Proclamation to the entire realm: This is a battle for the survival of the loyal! It is either enemy or ally! It is either pure or impure!]

[In August of the 167th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, in order to ensure the stability of the Red Heart Society, you also recognized the serious inadequacy of the Red Heart Society's internal forces.]

[Therefore, with a single order, you expanded the scale of the Censorate and the Shadow Guard.]

Meanwhile, the inner guards, tasked with directing operations from within, also began roaming in all directions under Lin Xue's arrangement.

For some extreme interior defenders, if they feel there's a problem in a certain area, their method of judgment is quite simple.

Your statues can be found all over the world.

As high-level professionals, they possess extremely strong soul perception abilities, naturally giving them methods to detect lies.

[Through various clues, if they find anyone suspicious, they make them swear an oath before your sculpture and ask them a bunch of random, irrelevant questions.]

If these people continue to lie to the founders of the Red Heart Society and to its very beliefs, then they deserve to die!

Of course, if during their patrols they discover anyone without a Spiritual Mark, that line of work must be thoroughly investigated from top to bottom.

Anyone found to have problems will be dealt with seriously!

In this chaotic era of Hell's invasion, they have the responsibility and obligation to purge heretics and eradicate Hell's demons!

The perfect world, forged with countless drops of blood and sacrifices by the Red Heart Society, must not be allowed to be destroyed by creatures corrupted by hell!

Even if they bear the infamy, they will use their sharp knives to eradicate it all!

Anyone who stands in their way will be killed!

Even if they are their parents or relatives!

(End of this chapter)