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

Chapter 347 The Holy Spirit Legion Strikes, Rubbing Salt into Agrelius's Wounds
The threatening divine warning from the Radiant Lord Ophelia failed to stir even the slightest ripple deep within the core of your will.

【as a result of?】

From the moment you ordered the severing of His divine incarnation and initiated the Star Cage Project, all the consequences in the world unfolded in your heart like a star map.

If a few words of holy light and divine pronouncements could distort your will and shake the path the Red Heart Society had forged in blood and fire, then the Red Heart Society could not have risen from the ashes of the Federation, much less have stood firm on the edge of this chaotic war of gods!

The path you've forged is one of holding a torch against the wind, a path leading step by step into the abyss!

[Looking back and forth?]

[These are weak words that have long been discarded by the "Sincere Heart" movement and are now relegated to the dustbin of history!]

[Can the grand formation be maintained indefinitely?]

Will the cage of stars eventually be breached by the tides of time?

【so what? 】

The Red Heart Society's very essence is that it never hopes to steal an eternal ray of external light!

Most importantly, the Red Heart Society is currently caught in the storm of the gods' war, and it's uncertain when it will be able to withstand the onslaught. Therefore, your most important task right now is to focus on the present.

Let's talk about the future when it comes!

[Considering the current predicament of the Red Heart Society, you have expanded upon the society's existing plans for preserving its remaining sparks.]

The worlds that the Red Heart Society now connects to can all be seen as the places where the Red Heart Society is reborn from the ashes.

However, these measures are not foolproof. The extermination order issued by the spirit realm's will is to eradicate all thoughts of the Red Heart Society and to kill all its members.

Therefore, these schemes and plans in the ordinary world are not safe.

If possible, you'd prefer the Red Heart Society to change its identity and settle down in the Abyss.

However, this matter still needs to be discussed.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

[The Lord of Radiance sensed that the link between himself and his avatar had been suddenly severed, and his divine eyes flickered.]

That bond of consciousness, bearing the mark of His holy law and containing His profound understanding of the laws of faith, was forcibly severed in that instant by an indescribable force!

[This is not censorship!]

This is not suppression!

It's a direct severance, like cutting off the river of cause and effect!

This sudden disconnection left Ophelia slightly puzzled.

[At this moment, how could the Red Heart Society have the resources to unleash such power?]

The next moment, His divine sense analyzed the possibility closest to the truth.

Has the Star Demon God made his move?

Or perhaps it's a demon within one's heart?

[The Demon God is well-versed in the arts of will prison and mental severance. If he escaped by faking his death and now still holds his own power and authority, this is not impossible.]

As He pondered, His gaze seemed to pierce through endless dimensions, landing on the chaotic yet tenacious aura of order in the Crimson Heart World, a look imbued with an unprecedented solemnity and regret.

[The flame of a pure heart has chosen to completely merge with the filthy abyss?]

It's such a pity that such a budding seed of order would willingly sink into eternal darkness and filth!

[If one's heart is truly sincere, one will willingly convert to Heaven and receive its holy light and divine law.]

We may well be able to offer you a true haven of order.

This fleeting, sigh-like thought vanished in an instant, returning to the cold, absolute order.

[In August of the 260th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Star Demon God's hand shimmered with starlight, like a surgical scalpel of unparalleled precision. Combined with the sixth generation of the Crimson Heart's computational power, which surpassed the limits of the material world, it was conducting an unprecedentedly brutal information extraction on the avatar of the Lord of Radiance!]

This process involved no elegant inquiry, no tender dialogue, only a stark deconstruction of the rules of faith.

[Buzz——!!!]

A tsunami of information surged forth from the core of the prison, relentlessly bombarding the information extraction devices of the Red Heart Society Research Institute.

That's a vast amount of knowledge about the power of faith!

[This is a system of knowledge on the application of divine power, refined and perfected over billions of years by the Heavenly Pantheon!]

From the superficial application of the power of faith to its various transformations and enhancements in conjunction with the power of the world's origin, and even the construction of the Holy Pool of Faith, the Red Heart Society has gained a deeper understanding.

After all, the other party is the embodiment of the will of the Lord of Light. Such a result, obtained through great risk, is absolutely gratifying.

In response, the Red Heart Society Research Institute immediately mobilized a large number of people to begin updating and replacing the faith runes currently in the Red Heart Society's possession.

Meanwhile, after discussions among the high-ranking members of the Red Heart Society, a plan called the Red Heart Sacred Pool was proposed.

The energy generated by the fusion of the power of faith and the power of the world's origin has an extremely strong effect on refining and tempering the bodies of extraordinary individuals.

Once the construction is successful, the combined warriors, after being baptized, will undoubtedly reach a new level of strength, and will possess an extremely pure level of control and acceptance of the power of faith.

Of course, baptism at the sacred pool also has significant drawbacks.

After all, one of the main forces that temper the body and soul is the power of faith.

Therefore, the body that has been baptized in the sacred pool will be branded with the power of faith, from its physical form to its soul. From then on, it can only achieve demigodhood through faith.

What's needed on the path to rules is a direct understanding of the origin of the universe, a gateway to pure rule-based transcendence that transcends the consensus of any particular group.

This heavy chain of faith and order will permanently seal off the individual's perception of rules after baptism! There will be no more possibilities!

In other words, their future is completely cut off from the broad road of the divine path of rules.

Of course, from the memories related to the avatar of the Lord of Radiance, Chixin can see that the Heavenly Pantheon also attaches great importance to the Divine Path of Rules.

Even the Lord of Radiance once explored and attempted to deduce the path of the True God of Rules.

Perhaps once one reaches the level of believing in a true God, the limitations imposed by faith will disappear.

But the key question is, how many people truly believe in God?

Most importantly, once they've become believers in the true god and possess the power of the true god, from a power perspective, would they really still care so much about the rules and the path to divinity?

However, this drawback of the Holy Pool baptism is a drawback for geniuses, but for those with dull talents, it's not a drawback at all.

Although the Red Heart Society is developing rapidly, it has provided comprehensive assistance to its members in all extraordinary fields, including equipment, divine crystals, cultivation techniques, secret arts, and skills.

But just as some people are born intelligent, others are born dull-witted, especially when it comes to understanding rules.

At a meeting of legion commanders of the Red Heart Society, one of the commanders of the Demon Suppression Alliance stated directly that such drawbacks could not be considered drawbacks at all for the Red Heart Society in its current state!

[Or rather, this has unprecedented benefits for enhancing the demigod combat power of the Red Heart Society.]

[This legion commander even used himself as an example to show that he wasn't a genius!]

[His potential, reaching the pinnacle of the Ninth Revolution, was only achieved through the Red Heart Society's intensive training, the cultivation of various extraordinary resources, and the repeated guidance from the old principal—a breakthrough achievement indeed.]

[All of my potential was nearly exhausted the moment I stepped into the peak of the ninth level!]

If there truly is such a sacred pool, it could harden his body, make his spirit more resilient to the wailing and howling of the spirit realm legion, and increase his combat power by three points, allowing him to kill even more enemies.

Everywhere you look, there are good things!

What are the downsides?

As for that elusive, one-in-a-million rule-based path to godhood?

He admitted that he didn't have that ability.

The Red Heart Society laid out the path to demigodhood before him, and even dozens of his comrades-in-arms, after becoming demigods, repeatedly guided and quoted him, yet he still couldn't understand those rules.

Not to mention, resonating with the rules.

He's not suited to the path of rules and regulations!

Therefore, if there is another path, even one that is cut off by the divine path, a path with no hope ahead, as long as it allows him to cross the threshold from mortal to demigod, then it is a good path!

Furthermore, who among those possessing the talent to become a demigod of the rules isn't already a demigod of the rules?

Now that we're all in this position, is it really that hard to admit our ordinariness?

The legion commander's words struck the hearts of the hesitant like a hammer blow.

【Yes! 】

At this moment, for the Red Heart Society, this is not a romantic choice about the future path to godhood, but a cold-blooded decision made in a desperate situation regarding survival in the present and maximizing combat power.

For countless warriors whose talents are stuck at a bottleneck, and for the entire civilization constantly struggling against divine punishment, the Sacred Pool brings tangible power for survival!

[It is a real gun that pushes the flames of war into enemy territory!]

However, after saying these words, the legion commander suddenly realized that you are still stuck at the threshold of becoming a demigod.

Realizing he had misspoke, he quickly tried to cover it up, explaining that he hadn't included the great founder of the Red Heart Society among those he had mentioned; he was referring to other Red Heart Society members who, like himself, were of duller intelligence.

Before he could finish speaking, he realized he might have said something wrong again.

[Wang Meng, sitting nearby, saw his subordinate still trying to patch things up, so he immediately covered the other person's mouth with his hand.]

What an idiot!

At times like this, don't bother explaining; the more you explain, the more confused things become!

Of course, you're not the petty type; you just laugh it off and let it go.

The construction of the Sacred Pool requires the world's essence to supplement its construction.

This matter still needs your handling.

After all, the Red Heart World has been controlled and ideologically transformed by you for so many years, and it has long since taken on the shape of the Red Heart Society.

However, just as the Red Heart Society was developing rapidly, the Heavenly Pantheon dispatched a massive Holy Spirit Legion, launching a self-destruct attack on the Red Heart World's barrier by burning the power of faith.

Since the Crimson Heart Society has severed the link with the Lord of Light, it means that the two sides have fallen out.

There's nothing more to say then!

【Just fight!】

[First, use the power of faith to activate the Holy Spirit Legion and destroy the faith defenses of the Red Heart World. Then, drag you, the founder of the Red Heart Society who controls the power of faith, into a situation where you and the Heavenly pantheon are fighting against the power of faith.]

The Heavenly Pantheon can be considered the power with the largest repository of faith in the entire universe.

Therefore, they are not afraid of the burning power of faith.

But the anomaly of the Heavenly Pantheon instantly caught Agris's attention.

[Aglaus was slightly taken aback after witnessing the Heavenly Pantheon's method of destroying the Red Heart Society from the previous timeline.]

The next moment, His brain was flooded with blood, and His eyes turned bloodshot.

(End of this chapter)