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Chapter 356 This simulation has ended (combined into one)

Your actions have silenced the gods.

At that moment, whether it was the enraged Heavenly Lord, the scheming Abyssal Demon, the indifferent Spirit Gods, or the Titans who had entrusted a portion of their embers to the stars, their minds inevitably experienced a brief period of lapse.

[This behavior is understandable, even quite normal.]

But when such behavior appears in you, the selfless founder of the Chixin Society, it is still utterly absurd, no matter how reasonable or normal it may seem.

[No one could have predicted that you would shoulder the hot potato of embodying the last essence of the Red Heart Society, and even igniting the wrath of Heaven, and then turn and run without any hesitation?]

[That crumbling world and the Red Heart Society's centuries of accumulation, just abandoned?]

[Not even a little bit heartache?]

[The Mad Dog's Final Choice?]

Or will they use themselves as a focal point, drawing fire for the Chixin Society?

A spirit hidden nearby was somewhat surprised. If He didn't know you, the founder of the Pure Heart Society, He would think this was blatant, tyrannical selfishness.

However, all your actions suggest that you shouldn't have done such a thing.

Meanwhile, the pantheon of gods instantly analyzed your actions in the most logical way possible.

First, there's the possibility of a cicada shedding its skin.

[You, the founder of the Red Heart Society, began your deepest disguise from the very moment you established it.]

[Finally, after obtaining what they desired, they sacrificed the entire Red Heart Society as a massive decoy to draw enemy fire, all to ensure their own safe escape with the most crucial intelligence!]

Secondly, it is a rational way of life that maximizes value.

For a system of absolute order like the Red Heart Society, the survival of the individual, especially the survival of the founder and other crucial figures, is absolutely more important than the destruction of the collective!

[Under extreme rationality, this is also the optimal survival strategy!]

As long as the pioneers are still alive, the flame of their unwavering dedication will never be extinguished.

【Finally, and most importantly. 】

That means if you escape alone, without taking anyone with you, you inherently possess the advantage of being able to hide.

Deities, especially those with a divine kingdom as their foundation, make great movements, and their approximate location is easily predicted.

[They are not gods, but rather anchored in a godless realm. Moreover, the opponent's aura is a pseudo-god constructed with the power of faith, making it difficult to lock onto them permanently.]

[As long as you, the founder of the Red Heart Society, are determined to escape, and the Heavenly Pantheon has lost its ability to lock onto you by your aura, searching for you will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.]

[In this light, it is indeed a perfect disguise to escape the ultimate reckoning of Heaven's sacred laws!]

The gods of the Heavenly Pantheon, regardless of their thoughts, reacted to this matter immediately under their absolutely rational divine will.

After all, from a purely rational perspective, the world is vast and full of wonders; anything is possible, and there's a probability of it happening.

Most importantly, all the information contained within the avatar of the Lord of Light is now in your hands.

[Originally, according to the Heavenly Pantheon's plan, the death of you alone, or even the entire upper echelons of the Red Heart Society, would not be enough to quell their anger.]

But now, even if we pack the entire Red Heart Society together, it's not as important as you, the founder who's been running around everywhere!

Therefore, the true gods of the Heavenly pantheon, such as the Lord of Radiance, the Lord of Holy Light, and the Lord of Judgment, immediately began their highest-level pursuit of you.

[And to prevent you from drawing all the firepower to yourself, the situation regarding the Red Heart Society's sparks still needs to be addressed.]

[Especially the Red Heart World, which gave birth to the Red Heart Society, must be thoroughly eradicated and destroyed.]

[If there were no world of pure hearts, then the Pure Heart Society would never have been born!]

Without the Red Heart Society, Agrelius might just be an ordinary lava demon in the endless abyss.

If Agris wasn't the true god of rules, how could the Heavenly pantheon have suffered such devastating losses?

Therefore, the root of everything lies with the world of pure hearts!

Some worlds, simply by existing, are inherently sinful!

But this world, which the Red Heart Society has managed for hundreds of years, still contains some precious things.

For example, the origin of the world.

Under the command of the will of the Heavenly Pantheon, the most elite legion of Holy Law Enforcers surged into the shattered Crimson Heart World like a tidal wave.

This time, it wasn't a charge, but a ruthless advance.

They used standardized, purifying holy light to burn away all traces of life along their path, even though there are no longer any members of the Red Heart Society in the current Red Heart World.

But the trial that is due must still take place.

Under the operation of Heaven's order, the lands of the Pure Heart World are all filled with heinous crimes!

Meanwhile, silver metal stakes, inscribed with powerful holy law binding runes, were driven into the center of the Crimson Heart World by the power of the angelic legion!

[The colossal Holy Light Energy Absorber, like a greedy leech, has deeply embedded itself in the core node of the world's earth's pulse, preparing to forcibly drain the world's primal power.]

Destruction was replaced by efficient procedures; capture and plunder proceeded methodically.

【However! 】

Just as the vast net of sacred laws sealing the heavens was about to close, and the extraction of the world's essence from the Heavenly Pantheon was about to begin, an anomaly occurred.

[Buzz—!!!!]

The whole world stood still at that moment!

[Time hasn't frozen!]

Rather, it is a deathly silence, originating from the level of world consciousness, a silence to which all things converge!

The wind howls!

[The roar of energy flow!]

[The roar of collapsing ruins!]

[The lament of the dying!]

At this moment, all sounds emanating from the Crimson Heart World fell into an ineffable stillness.

As knowledgeable angels, they understood what had happened in an instant.

But how is that possible?

How could this world be so resolute?

This contradicts the common understanding of the Heavenly Pantheon regarding the will of the world!

[The world self-destructing, and triggered by the very will of the world, is even more absurd than having a perfectly normal person, living a peaceful and happy life, personally kill all their relatives.]

After all, the instinct of the world's will is to maintain the world's operation and protect it from destruction.

The destruction of the world will not be altered by the enemy's subjective intentions.

At least, no emotion below the level of a true god can affect the Pure Heart World.

And so, a self-destruction originating from the world of pure hearts occurred!

[The World Will of the Crimson Heart, this world will that used to only weep, has, as always, displayed unimaginable fortitude and intensity upon the arrival of a mortal enemy!]

[Upon sensing all this, Agris, far away in the heavenly pantheon, couldn't help but feel a moment of silence for this great world that gave birth to the Red Heart Society.]

The pain and sorrow in my heart, the despair of the previous time, all surged up into my mind.

[The former headquarters of the Red Heart Society, the roars of warriors who fought side by side on the Wailing Wall, the warm aroma of tea wafting from the old headmaster's soul research room, and various familiar scenes emanating from the core of the Red Heart World's origin.]

These images, which had left a deep imprint on His heart, are now completely gone!

【because!】

【Home!】

It's been burned!

[My home. The first warm and welcoming home I, Agris, acknowledged, is destroyed!]

A low, guttural whisper, seemingly originating from the solidified magma at the very bottom of the lava field, spilled from Agrelius's massive, broken mouth.

The sorrow contained in that voice was enough to freeze flowing lava.

The dark gold battle runes on the surface of His lava god body instantly dimmed, like extinguished stars flickering with their last light.

After a brief silence, a new crimson halo radiating an eerie light appeared on the divine mark behind Agrelius.

[Now, Agrus, this true god of battle who should be exuding a majestic and awe-inspiring aura, is emanating an aura more destructive than hell itself.]

The next moment, Agrus's chilling laughter echoed around them.

【Heh——】

【Hehehe—! ...

A low growl, suppressed to its absolute limit, burst forth from Aglios's throat.

The mournful cry and howl, like those squeezed from the throat of a dying star beast, about to tear apart the galaxy, instantly amplified the fighting aura erupting from Agrus to an even higher level.

【Om! 】

An extremely subtle aura echoed in Agris's mind.

[The Painful Cultivation Package developed by the Red Heart Society Research Institute is a universally applicable cultivation method that uses the power of personal suffering to increase cultivation efficiency and even combat ability.]

Even at the level of a true god, and at their current combat level, they are still playing a role.

[Perhaps compared to Agris's power, the improvement brought by the Pain Package is not much.]

Even a mere ten percent, or even a few percent, increase is still an incredibly astonishing improvement for a true god of rules capable of destroying worlds.

When Agrelius opened his eyes again, the depths of his molten lava gaze held no more calmness, no more calculation, only a pure, destructive grief and a frenzied rage of mutual destruction.

In Agris's view, the destruction of the Crimson Heart World deserves a grand funeral!

【Red Heart Burial Song! 】

How can there be no sacrifice?

To vent his inner pain, Agrelius, in a fit of rage, used the destruction of five worlds under the rule of the Heavenly Pantheon as a tribute to the world of Red Heart.

He can guarantee that the destruction of the Pure Heart World will not be a solitary event!

[At least He is not dead yet, and most of the true gods of the Heavenly pantheon have been diverted to hunt down you, the founder of the Red Heart Society.]

[And He was not merely a madman or a fool; in the process of destroying the world, He would also use violent means to forcibly seize the world's essence to heal His own wounds.]

[To live longer and have greater endurance, not doing so would be pure foolishness.]

[Aglaus now understands that the more chaos He causes here, the greater the losses to the Heavenly pantheon, the safer you and the Red Heart Society's spark will be.]

Every world destroyed buys a chance for the fleeing sparks of life to survive.

Every second they hold on is another step in damaging the foundations of Heaven's order, and also a step in accelerating the schemes of the Abyss and Hell.

This time, He may seem to be fighting alone, but in reality, He has reinforcements helping Him from behind!

[In March of the 290th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, you are like a ghost fish, hunted by a group of sharks, yet deeply versed in the dark currents!]

[Spatial folding is your springboard for leaps!]

Void Storm is your eraser that wipes away traces!

[You narrowly avoided those nodes of the sacred law hunting network that Heaven painstakingly laid out with immense divine power, at an extremely tricky angle.]

[Or, in a form surpassing even the face of a true god, they might risk detonating an unstable void fold as cover, or even deliberately lure wandering void debris into a critical node to create chaos.]

You have a very clear understanding of your escape route.

[When pursued by the true gods of the Heavenly Pantheon, you'd rather take a detour than go straight, and slip through void rifts than take the proper roads.]

[And the pursuit of you by the Heavenly Pantheon is extremely fierce.]

You understand that the escape and pursuit will be a long-term process.

In this protracted battle, the longer it drags on, the greater your and the Red Heart Society's advantage will be. Therefore, you are not afraid of stalling for time at all.

[In June of the 291st year of the Extraordinary Calendar, you understood the disparity in strength between the two sides, so you never wasted your faith power on bombarding the gods of Heaven.]

[Aside from wasting the faith power you've accumulated, there's no benefit whatsoever.]

[While you were in hiding, you primarily used your faith power to bombard various unstable spatial nodes in the void.]

Even if we bombard it and create a void storm, posing a significant risk, so what?

Are you really safe in your current situation?

If you don't take a gamble on a life-or-death level, then you truly only have one path: death.

But during your frantic escape, you became even more adept at using the power of faith.

[Under your command, the Red Heart Society's bases scattered throughout the abyss, hell, and even the spirit world continue to provide you with the power of faith through that mysterious causal connection.]

[However, you discover that every time you use the second-generation divine runes to receive and store the power of faith, the gods of the Heavenly Pantheon instantly lock onto you.]

Therefore, gradually, unless hiding in an extremely dangerous location, you will actively sever your faith connection with the Red Heart Society.

[In February of the 292nd year of the Extraordinary Calendar, a sudden and wonderful event will leave you slightly stunned.]

[A peak ninth-level professional from the Red Heart Society in the Spirit Realm, after comprehending a new rule, can still have that new rule applied to the Extreme Path Domain, even if the distance between them is vast, thanks to the other party's faith in him.]

After the number of attached rules exceeded 90, you clearly felt that the Extreme Realm began to change due to the attachment of these rules.

[It seems, in some mysterious way, that a deep self-deduction is taking place.]

[Simply attaching new rules to the Extreme Path Domain creates a greater commotion than absorbing the power of faith.]

However, in order to implement the new rules and to allow for deeper deductions within the Extreme Realm, you have no choice but to risk exposing your own location.

Of course, at times, you might even choose to hide directly in the endless abyss.

[The will of the abyss may disregard you, a false god, but can it disregard the many true gods of the Heavenly pantheon?]

Do those true gods of Heaven really dare to wield their sacred artifacts and charge headlong into the abyss?

However, each time you enter the endless abyss, you will be mercilessly thrown out by the will of the abyss shortly afterward.

The Abyss's Will is not afraid of the Heavenly Pantheon, but it has absolutely no need to be your shield.

Most importantly, you led the Red Heart Society to trap the Endless Abyss countless times.

Therefore, how could the endless abyss offer you protection?

In July of the 294th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Heavenly God System discovered sixty-two fire-seed bases of the Crimson Heart Society within the Endless Abyss.

Since all the true gods of the Heavenly Pantheon are unavailable, the Heavenly Pantheon can only ask other demon races in the Endless Abyss for help through a deal involving mutual benefits.

Given sufficient incentives, the Cloud Demon Clan, the Gold Demon Clan, and the War Demon Clan, based on coordinates provided by the Heavenly Pantheon, all launched attacks on the Crimson Heart Society's Fire Seed Base.

Moreover, their attacks were all-out, devastating blows, utilizing various divine scrolls and phantom images of demons.

Despite the Heart Demon Clan's efforts to stop them, and the Lava Demon Clan's voice supporting the Crimson Heart Society, the Heart Demon Clan posed virtually no threat due to the absence of the Heart Demon God and the temporary loss of the Abyss's spiritual authority.

Even the Star Demon race, which had returned to the Abyss, suffered heavy casualties under attacks from all sides.

The survival rule of the endless abyss is that any large demon race must first have a powerful demon god to support it.

If the Demon God is lost, everything else we possess will have to be sacrificed.

[What the Heavenly Pantheon didn't expect was that when they asked the Hellish True God to take action to investigate fifty-one Red Heart Society bases in Hell, they were refused.]

[The Will of Hell has once again taken a completely different approach from the Will of the Abyss.]

[In October of the 295th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Heavenly Pantheon, based on the Great Prophecy, discovered that the high-ranking members and leading forces of the Red Heart Society were living in the ancestral land of the Titan Pantheon.]

[Therefore, the Lord of Judgment led a legion of holy angels, following the diplomatic protocol of the spirit realm, to the outskirts of the Titan pantheon.]

The Heavenly Pantheon demands that the Titan Pantheon hand over the remnants of the Red Heart Society!

We must not allow the relationship between the two pantheons to be affected by these insignificant remnants.

Of course, if the Titan pantheon has any requests, they can also make them.

[Anything the Heavenly Pantheon can provide is acceptable!]

The Titans burst out laughing upon hearing this!

[One Titan god directly stated that they want to see the gods of Heaven stage their own self-destruction. Is the Heavenly pantheon capable of doing that?]

Upon hearing this, the Judge flew into a rage.

[But the Titan pantheon doesn't bother with the Heavenly pantheon; others may give Heaven face, but they won't!]

Most importantly, given that the relationship between the two sides has long been irreconcilable, is there any need for repair?

Amidst this intense conflict, the Titan gods, hurling insults and profanities, utterly annihilated this avatar of the Lord of Judgment.

[In March of the 297th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Heavenly Gods, seeing that they had been unable to capture you for so long, were starting to get impatient.]

If things continue like this, where will the majesty of Heaven be?

[Won't it be that from now on, any Tom, Dick, or Harry will dare to stand up and provoke the pantheon of Heaven?]

[Therefore, the Heavenly Pantheon unleashed a supreme sacred artifact used for sealing and locating, which was also a sacred artifact of the Heavenly Pantheon's ruler.]

[Under the location and control of this powerful holy artifact, you are confined to a void region not far from the Will of Hell.]

[After the arrival of several true gods from the Heavenly Pantheon, they didn't waste any words and immediately launched a fierce attack on you.]

Since you can't hide it anymore, then you might as well not hide it at all.

[You begin absorbing and releasing the power of faith at maximum power, and fully activate the Extreme Path Domain, allowing it to undergo super-powerful self-expansion.]

[Perhaps it's due to the collision of divine forces around you, or perhaps it's the critical moment when you're facing life and death, but the self-deduction speed of the Extreme Dao Domain has increased dramatically.]

[The progress made in just one day is almost equivalent to ten days' worth of progress in the past!]

Fortunately, wars between gods are always protracted; even sieges cannot be resolved quickly, especially when one side is fully committed to defense.

You can only burn with all your might to buy these last moments for the Red Heart Society.

[In September of the 299th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the 98th rule was installed into the Extreme Path Domain. This seemed to be a breakthrough opportunity, causing the Extreme Path Domain to undergo earth-shattering changes from the inside out.]

[And the nascent artifact, Lava Radiance, that you wear is also beginning to change under the influence of the Ultimate Domain.]

Your transformation was naturally noticed by the true gods of heaven around you.

They understood the principle that delay could lead to unforeseen changes, and felt they could no longer allow you to continue developing this situation.

[You haven't become a god, or even a demigod, yet you've become so difficult to deal with simply because of your understanding of faith through the Red Heart Society.]

[If this made you a demigod, wouldn't that be incredible?]

Ultimately, the Lord of Glory, as the direct victim of this event, gritted his teeth and drew out a wisp of divine fire from within his own body.

The next moment, under the supreme illumination of the Lord of Light and infused with the power of the surrounding heavenly deities, the light emanating from this wisp of divine fire instantly overwhelmed all surrounding power.

[And just as you are about to be destroyed by the terrifying force, the voice of the will of hell enters your mind with pinpoint accuracy.]

At this critical juncture of life and death, the will of hell once again extends an invitation to you.

He invites you to join Hell!

[The moment you join, He will immediately use His crimson essence to personally baptize you.]

At that time, you will instantly become a god, and with the power of faith from the Red Heart Society, you will no longer fear the siege of these true gods of heaven.

You refused such a tempting offer.

[A true god of hell, that's really tempting!]

[But you know very well that once you become a true god of hell, your ego will will likely be crushed by divine will in an instant.]

[At that time, the situation you hoped to see with the Red Heart Society will no longer exist.]

[I fear that the future of the Red Heart Society will be filled with devils and all sorts of conspiracies and schemes.]

The pure ideals and principles you personally established and finalized will all crumble the moment you become a true god of hell.

Most importantly, this Red Heart Society across time and space is absolutely the pinnacle of all previous Red Heart Societies.

If my past self were to summon future warriors, those warriors would undoubtedly be incredibly powerful.

[But if you become a true god of hell, and cause the entire Red Heart Society to fall into the Red Heart Society, what kind of things would you have summoned in the past?]

When that future warrior, transformed into a hellish being, appears, will he first pledge allegiance to you, the Red Heart Society, or the will of hell that controls everything in hell?

【this!】

This is a very serious issue!

Therefore, without any hesitation, you rejected the will of hell.

Your refusal was unexpected by the will of hell.

If your life is not threatened during peacetime, then your refusal to go to hell is understandable.

But now, you're about to die!

【died! 】

【Then everything will be gone!】

Under such circumstances, how were you able to maintain such rationality?

Don't you have any fear of death?

In the prime of youth, death may seem insignificant; one might even die on impulse, for others, or for one's own ideals and aspirations.

However, as people age, gain more experience, and especially those in high positions of power, they become increasingly afraid of death.

Because they hold great power, and because a vast number of beings serve their every whim.

This world, for them, is a place of pleasure.

Of course, they also want to see their ideals realized.

Neither of them wants to die.

【You, the founder of the Red Heart Society, are nearly three hundred years old now. You're no longer a child, are you?】

[If this were in a mortal world without supernatural powers, you'd probably have been reincarnated several times over by now.]

At such an age, with such experience, wielding such great power, and ruling over the common people in such a way.

Why are you not afraid of death?

[The Will of Hell really wants to ask you, has your Red Heart's ambition been realized?]

Have the various ideas within the core principles of our "Sincere Heart" philosophy been implemented?

Are you really sure your sincerity won't change after you leave?

How could you so easily choose to die?

Aren't you really afraid?

What gives you the right to be so self-righteous?

[Furthermore, the Will of Hell poses no threat; even in your perilous situation, they still speak softly and gently, seeking cooperation with you.]

But your attitude will completely confuse the will of hell.

[That is, the moment you rejected the will of hell, the Lord of Radiance unleashed a precious essence from himself, combined with a dazzling attack from the surrounding Heavenly Gods, which crashed down.]

The power of judgment, capable of annihilating everything, has breached your defenses.

The surrounding power of faith was also rapidly evaporated under the influence of this terrifying force.

When your physical body and soul come into contact with the furious attack of a true god, in an instant, everything about you will be evaporated, leaving no trace of you within the area you were guarding.

【you are dead. 】

(End of this chapter)