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

In the 740th year of the Extraordinary Era, the Star Demon God's majestic divine body, constructed from the projections of countless stars and cold rules, stood like a world-destroying behemoth atop the crumbling holy sky of the Heavenly Pantheon.

His cold gaze locked onto the magnificent complex on the far left of Heaven's realm, a structure built from countless crystals of holy light that once symbolized the cornerstone of Heaven's glory and order.

That is the temple of enlightenment for saints!

It is an eternal library of sacred texts!

[It is the final resting place for the souls of billions of supplicants!]

The next moment, the Star Demon God's remaining will drove its connection with the fundamental laws of all the stars in this star field, issuing the purest command of destruction.

In an instant, the light of the countless stars suddenly became blinding and violent.

Countless illusory stars twisted and stretched across the starry sky, converging into an annihilating torrent composed entirely of stellar rules.

This torrent disregarded spatial barriers, like a lash of judgment from the Creator, carrying the absolute power to crush the fundamental structure of matter and energy, and fiercely bombarded the core node of that architectural complex.

[Silent destruction descended in an instant!]

The magnificent halls, the pillars inscribed with sacred words, the spaces filled with eternal hymns, and even the spirits of the supplicants huddled in the corners, yet to dissipate, were all reduced to dust under the absolute crushing force of the laws of the stars.

This destructive shockwave spread like ripples, tearing jagged gaps in the barriers of neighboring faith-based worlds.

The complete collapse and disappearance of this architectural complex, which embodies the history and spirit of paradise, carries a symbolic significance far exceeding its physical destruction.

The Lord of Light, the de facto ruler of Heaven, upon witnessing the irreversible collapse of Heaven, turned and vanished from his spot in an instant.

He ran away!

Moreover, the manner of their escape bore a striking resemblance to the Red Heart Society's signature, troublesome "true god escape" strategy.

[At this critical juncture of life and death, the de facto ruler of Heaven began to imitate the enemy's life-saving techniques.]

But before this final reckoning battle even erupted, how could the Red Heart Society's leadership, already tempered by hatred and rage into a sophisticated war machine, be so naive as to overlook the basic tactical calculation that the enemy's leader might escape?

[This escape strategy for true gods, pioneered, developed, and perfected to its peak through countless bloody battles, is something the Red Heart Society, as its originator, could not possibly lack corresponding, or even more lethal, preventative and tracking measures against.]

[What's more, the mastermind behind destroying the Red Heart Society's headquarters world and burying countless Red Heart Society heroes and founders was none other than the Radiant Lord himself, wielding a forbidden artifact of Heaven!]

This blood debt must be repaid by Himself with His divine blood and soul!

[Of the other monarchs on the list of those who perished in the Heavenly Pantheon, there might be a sliver of hope for survival, but for the Lord of Radiance, there is absolutely no chance.]

He must die!

Thus, a relentless, galactic, god-level manhunt targeting the Lord of Radiance was instantly launched by several True Gods of the Red Heart Society, specializing in tracking and spatial containment, the very moment His figure vanished.

[A series of tracking marks, imprinted like maggots on the path of the Lord of Radiance's escape, bore the cost of burning his very essence and ignoring spatial barriers.]

A vast net, woven from the power of divine rules, has quietly been unfurled, covering all known star systems!

In the year 752 of the Extraordinary Era, the Lord of Radiance, like a stray dog, constantly traversed dangerous cosmic rifts and chaotic depths of star abysses, attempting to shake off the relentless, death-like aura that clung to him like a grim reaper.

Just as He was briefly catching His breath in a desolate starfield filled with turbulent energy currents, attempting to repair some of the wounds on His divine body, an unexpected change occurred.

The void before Him distorted violently like a molten wax figure, and a terrifying pressure, hot enough to incinerate stars and filled with abyssal sulfur and the aura of destruction, suddenly descended.

【Lava Demon God!】

This ancient being, born from the endless abyss and whose body was composed of flowing lava and hard obsidian, fiercely tore through space, blocking the escape path of the Lord of Radiance.

His enormous eyes, burning with hellfire, were fixed on the Lord of Light, and he roared deafeningly, declaring war on the grounds of atonement for Agrelius.

[Aglaus, His descendant!]

Although Agris betrayed the Redhearts, the Redhearts maintained an extremely friendly relationship with the Abyss. Therefore, as Agris's elder, He needed to atone for Agris's sins.

This sudden interception shook the Lord of Light to his core, and he hastily conjured a shield of holy light to withstand the scorching flames.

[And in the instant the Lava Demon God made his move, as if receiving a silent command, six demon god figures, each radiating a terrifying abyssal aura and in various forms, manifested simultaneously.]

They were bound by chains of destructive rules, their greedy gazes undisguisedly fixed on the Lord of Light's broken yet still powerful divine body, which brimmed with immense faith.

[Following the dispatch of true gods by the will of Hell to join the battle, the will of the Endless Abyss, symbolizing the ultimate chaos of the multiverse, could not hold back any longer and officially dispatched its demon gods to join this hunting feast against the remnants of the Heavenly pantheon.]

The addition of six Abyss Demons is significant far beyond a simple increase in quantity.

They represent the direct intervention of the will of the abyss, signifying the formal entry of the forces that are the source of chaos and destruction.

The intervention of these six violent forces was like pouring scalding hot fuel onto a dying fire, instantly turning the already one-sided pursuit into a complete and irreversible final reversal. The last embers of the remaining forces of the Heavenly Pantheon were extinguished!

The vast pantheon of Heaven, once a boundless realm of faith encompassing countless galaxies and trillions of believers, has begun to descend into turmoil.

[Under the terrifying divine power of the three true gods—the Abyss, Hell, and the Crimson Heart Society—powerful enough to rewrite the galactic map, they were utterly annihilated in a very short time.]

The brilliant holy light was shrouded in the filthy abyssal demonic energy and hellfire; the sacred temple was torn to shreds by the raging power of the rules; and the cornerstone of faith was reduced to cosmic dust.

All glory, all achievements, vanished into nothingness, leaving only desolate ruins and the silent lament of the utter annihilation of the Heavenly Pantheon, echoing in the turbulent currents of time!

[Heavenly Pantheon!]

[Complete annihilation!]

In the year 774 of the Extraordinary Era, under the relentless pursuit and encirclement of the Red Heart Society gods, the Hellish True Gods, and the Abyss Demon Gods, the Lord of Radiance was forced into a cosmic wasteland composed of raging spacetime turbulence and the remains of desolate stars.

The holy light on His broken divine body was almost extinguished, the divine fire flickered and was about to go out, and all escape routes were cut off.

Faced with the overwhelming, murderous aura of gods and demons slowly closing in from all directions like an iron wall, the divine face of the Lord of Radiance, built upon pure faith, revealed for the first time the despair and madness of someone at the end of their rope.

He let out a piercing scream that shook the void, a scream imbued with boundless grief and a will to destroy.

"You want my life?"

Let us all return to eternal nothingness!

Before he finished speaking, the power of faith within him, accumulated over countless eons and arguably the most vast and boundless among all the gods of faith, along with the incredibly resilient essence of his divine body, was ignited by his final will.

Immediately afterwards, a destructive torrent of energy, exceeding all limits and capable of instantly vaporizing an ordinary true god, surged forth from His shattered body.

Their target was clearly the two most dangerous and relatively healthy True Gods in the pursuit team.

The Lord of Glory, this heavenly monarch renowned for his defense and accumulation of faith, chose the most tragic form of mutual destruction at the very end of his life.

He will drag, at least two great enemies, into eternal darkness!

At this critical moment, an aged yet incredibly resolute figure, like a moth drawn to a flame, instantly transcended the limitations of time and space, standing at the forefront of the destructive torrent.

It's the former principal!

This veteran True God of the Red Heart Society, having endured countless divine wars, had his inner essence depleted like a dried-up riverbed, his divine fire flickering weakly like a candle in the wind.

He uttered no words, but in the instant he charged forward, he detonated his last remaining, faint yet supremely pure core of origin and his crumbling divine soul.

He used himself as a shield, and his last breath as a guide.

He transformed all his power into a sacrificial light, far smaller in scale than that of the Lord of Light, yet imbued with his lifelong beliefs and final strength.

And so, this terrifying energy crashed headlong into the center of the destructive torrent.

【boom--! ! ! 】

Two vastly different, yet equally resolute, self-destructive energies collided violently in the void.

The old headmaster's final self-destruction, like a stubborn rock thrown into a raging torrent, while failing to completely negate the Lord of Light's ultimate destruction, successfully deflected the terrifying power capable of annihilating two true gods.

The Lord of Light's final wish to take down two formidable enemies was utterly thwarted by the Old Headmaster's resolute self-sacrifice.

As the aftershocks of destruction swept over him, the old headmaster's already ethereal figure vanished completely into the cosmic background radiation, leaving no trace.

But perhaps a sliver of relief flickered in his final moments as his consciousness faded.

【fortunately!】

At the end of his life, he made one last contribution, however small, to the Red Heart Society and to the ideal that ignited the spark.

Even though the true headquarters of the Red Heart Society in his heart had long been destroyed, as long as the flame of Star Abyss remained, and Aglios and the others were still alive, the banner of the Red Heart Society would still stand.

There is still hope!

[This version of myself in this timeline probably won't have time to observe the future development of the Red Heart Society.]

[Then I hope that in the next timeline, I will see the Red Heart Society standing at the pinnacle of the universe!]

He sincerely hoped that the future Red Heart Society would possess immense power and never again suffer such hardship! (End of Chapter)