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

In August of the 172nd year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Red Heart Society's meticulously planned involution strategy continued to operate efficiently like precise gears across the vast Spirit Realm, yielding remarkable results.

The elite members of the Red Heart Society, who are lurking in the core of various religious sects, continue to produce groundbreaking and revolutionary results in their respective fields.

[This could be the "Holy Light Resonance Meditation Method," which can greatly improve the cultivation efficiency of believers, or the "Elemental Compression Array Diagram," which can multiply the power of low-level divine spells.]

[Or a revolutionary technological solution to optimize resource gathering, forging, and even the divine kingdom's defense system.]

[For these outstanding contributions that were enough to change the very foundation of the sect, they received generous rewards from the sect's higher-ups.]

That is the path to becoming a demigod with the authority of a god!

[The advancement of demigods in the various sects of the spirit realm has its own channels.]

After all, the authority of a demigod ultimately stems from the blessing of the spirit world's will.

[However, the attitudes towards this sacred ritual varied drastically among the different religious sects due to their respective strengths and foundations.]

Top-tier sects with profound foundations and long-standing traditions often possess intimate knowledge of the key areas where the will of the spirit world might bestow blessings.

They might even begin meticulous planning decades or even centuries in advance, investing massive resources in land conservation and guidance, all to maximize the use of this bounty from the very source of the world at crucial moments.

In these sects, those who truly achieve extraordinary feats, regardless of the method by which they do so, will receive rewards simply for their meritorious service.

[Especially the direct descendants of some high-ranking members of certain sects, often with the tacit approval or even direct arrangement of the true God, parachute into the core area at the last moment before the blessing arrives, easily reaping the fruits of authority created by the will of the spirit world.]

[And then, they rose to the top in one fell swoop!]

In contrast, smaller and medium-sized sects that are slightly weaker or have recently exhausted a large number of spiritual blessing slots for various reasons have had to painfully choose to sacrifice their own resources.

[He personally and carefully separated a secondary authority from the original authority he held, and bestowed it upon those members who had made outstanding contributions.]

However, for the true god, this is also a means of controlling troublemakers or important figures within the sect.

If the other person is very important, then one can bestow blessings and authority, thereby gaining control over everything about them, ensuring that they can never change their faith and can only become one's own believer.

But for the recipient, this divine gift signifies a clearly visible dead end.

Once one accepts this authority bound to a specific pantheon of true gods, their future path to divinity will be completely severed, and they will never again have the possibility of independently igniting the divine fire or ascending to the position of a true god.

The only compensation or solace was the promise from the true God that after death, His soul would be guided to His own divine kingdom, and He would grant Him eternal bliss.

This kind of trade, which sacrifices future potential for immediate power, is often extremely rejected and even deeply abhorred by non-fanatics, because it essentially involves permanently pledging one's soul to God.

But to the astonishment and even bewilderment of all the gods who were secretly observing, the behavior of these mysterious and exceptionally accomplished masters was completely unexpected.

When faced with the choice of being granted authority by the true God—a choice tantamount to a contract of servitude—they showed no resistance or hesitation whatsoever; instead, they all displayed an almost fanatical acceptance and heartfelt joy.

The loyalty that shone in their eyes was even more fervent and pure than that of some saints who had grown up in the temple.

This extremely unusual, yet perfectly harmonious emotional outpouring caused the gods to begin to ponder.

Could these suddenly emerging geniuses truly be chosen ones, born from the inspiration of my sect's devout faith?

Is this a gift from the spirit world to our devout faith?

Could it be that all of this isn't some behind-the-scenes conspiracy by a mastermind, but rather a sign of the spirit world's fortunes surging, ushering in a golden age of emerging masters?

[In an instant, a multitude of thoughts, some self-comforting, others cautiously doubting, clashed fiercely within the core of the gods' will.]

However, this idea became clear after the Mad God Cult began its large-scale persecution of masters.

[Because the newly emerged master seems to have a special understanding of the Mad God Cult, and his actions deliberately avoid this Mad God Cult, which has massacred past masters on a large scale.]

This change was instantly understood by the gods.

It seems that the masters are indeed backed by large-scale, planned projects.

Otherwise, how could a newly emerged master understand all of this so well?

[Knowing is one thing, but if they need to use it, they still have to.]

After all, the achievements these masters made after joining their sect were truly useful!

Forget about all the other details, as long as it's useful.

The true gods have also inspected them many times; those cultivation techniques, secret arts, and various refined products are absolutely safe and without any problems.

There is absolutely no possibility that the masters could have tampered with it.

If the other party can truly remain undetected by divine power and unaffected by authority, then it can only mean that their power far surpasses that of the gods.

Thus, fueled by the invisible hand of the Red Heart Society's involution plan, the entire spirit world seemed to have been thrown into a boiling oil pot.

[The various sects, witnessing their rivals' power surge due to the arrival of the master, all felt unprecedented pressure and anxiety.]

An invisible panic spread like a plague, and a fierce arms race centered on the competition for master resources, sweeping across the entire spirit world, has begun. Every sect is desperately searching for, recruiting, and even resorting to unscrupulous means to compete for any talent who appears to be a master, with the resources invested escalating and the promised benefits astonishing.

The atmosphere in the entire spirit world began to grow increasingly oppressive.

[In May of the 175th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Will of Hell descended once more upon the headquarters of the Red Heart Society.]

This time, the tone of Hell's Will revealed an undisguised urgency and greed.

On one hand, He came to keep His promise, delivering the massive amount of Dark Divinity resources that had been agreed upon beforehand to Yu Xiao, the Lord of the Night.

On the other hand, it seeks deeper strategic cooperation.

[A seductive whisper, captivating and mesmerizing, emanated from the crimson projection of the Will of Hell.]

My dear ally, I have witnessed the changes in the spirit world.

The changes brought about by those masters were nothing short of miraculous!

Even hell yearns to embrace such change.

The inhabitants of hell also need more powerful cultivation techniques, more exquisite secret arts, and more efficient ways to utilize resources.

[I hope that the Red Heart Society can send a group of equally outstanding masters to reside in the core territory of Hell, helping Hell ignite the flame of wisdom, so that my territory, like the Spirit Realm, can be renewed and become even stronger.]

This time, without any hints, He directly and openly laid out this blatant demand to poach talent.

Yu Xiao, seated atop the Throne of Eternal Night, remained expressionless, as if he had foreseen this all along.

His profound gaze seemed to pierce through the ornate rhetoric of the will of hell, reaching its core anxiety.

He knew perfectly well why this street urchin was so eager to shed his disguise.

[In just a few short years, the spiritual realm's various cults, under the catalysis of the Red Heart Society master, have demonstrated an astonishing leap in power.]

[That's not just superficial data growth like increased average believer level or enhanced divine spell power; it's a fundamental explosion of potential.]

The new cultivation system optimizes the foundation, the efficient resource utilization method accumulates a more solid foundation, and the exquisite combat techniques and secret arts greatly enhance the upper limit of actual combat.

These changes are like carving out bottomless springs beneath parched earth, accumulating terrifying potential energy for a future eruption of power!

Most importantly, everyone understands that the increase in strength we're seeing now is just the tip of the iceberg.

[When this group of believers, transformed by the masters, completes a generational shift, when the core force fully transforms its potential into strength, and when a new generation of geniuses emerges like bamboo shoots after a spring rain within a superior system.]

To what extent would the overall power of the various cults of the spirit realm have expanded at that time?

While it may not be able to shake the absolute power of the True God level in the short term, the quantity and quality of lower-level extraordinary individuals are overwhelming, and the birth rate of demigod-level powerhouses is increasing exponentially due to foundational optimization.

Will the number of newly ascended true gods in the future spirit world be small?

Does the spirit world lack authority?

【Do not! 】

What the spirit realm truly lacks are demigods who are worthy of its attention, qualified to bear authority, and powerful enough.

The Red Heart Society's involution plan is precisely designed to efficiently and continuously create and select such demigod candidates for the will of the spirit world.

This is what truly terrifies the will of Hell: the spirit realm is consolidating its foundation for future global domination at an unprecedented pace!

The high and mighty gods in the spirit world may still be unaware, still debating whether the master's origins are divine grace or a product of the times.

However, as the central authority controlling the world's largest intelligence network and conspiratorial transactions, the Will of Hell had already accurately pinpointed the Red Heart Society through countless clues, resource flows, and unusual events.

Although He cannot yet fully comprehend the ultimate purpose of the Red Heart Society's large-scale distribution of masters and its instigation of infighting within the spiritual realm.

Is it to overthrow the spirit world?

Or is there another motive?

But one thing He was absolutely certain of: He could no longer stand idly by and watch Chixin continue to unilaterally nurse the spirit world.

This terrifying potential enhancer—even hell must get a piece of it!

However, just because Hell's Will said that doesn't mean Yu Xiao can easily respond to its words.

The next moment, he spoke.

Hell, my best friend.

【what are you saying? 】

[Why don't I understand?] (End of Chapter)