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

Every true master of the rules has undergone rigorous cultural education from the Red Heart Society.

They had a clear understanding of the various changes and shifts in the historical landscape, and were able to draw upon a wealth of experience.

Therefore, even with just a change in the law, they keenly sensed a strong undercurrent of pushing their luck in what appeared to be merely a modification to the definition of human rights.

This is absolutely just the first step, a signal to test the limits and pave the way for more blatant exploitation and oppression to follow.

They sensed that soon the sword would be turned inward.

Today, we can deprive external human beings of their human rights and define them as provisions.

[So tomorrow, when those who believe in the true God need more and better resources for their faith, or need to further consolidate their privileges, the relative freedom, benefits, and dignity enjoyed by ordinary members of the Red Heart Society will certainly be gradually stripped away.]

The new law is like a slowly rising curtain, foreshadowing the complete transformation of the Red Heart Society from a civilized union that champions equality and progress into a theocratic empire with faith in a true God at its core.

In the year 223477 of the Extraordinary Calendar, after a relatively brief period of peace, the "Red Heart Laws" underwent a new round of revisions that were larger in scale and more thorough.

[As the rule-making group on the fringes predicted, this revision covers a vast range of areas and is far more disruptive than the last one.]

[Except for some basic clauses that are insignificant, vaguely worded, and lack practical binding force, which were retained in their original form, almost everything else was overturned.]

The original laws, which contained most of the core values ​​and specific legal guarantees upheld by the Red Heart Society since its inception regarding individual freedom, equal rights, fair opportunities, and the restraint of power, have all been deleted or replaced.

This rewriting is tantamount to a legal coup, almost overturning all the legal achievements of the Red Heart Society in upholding free values ​​since its inception, and clearing away all institutional obstacles for the absolute rule of faith in the true God.

The very first article of the new law establishes the new sacred order with its unquestionable, cold text.

In the current Red Heart Society, faith in the true God is supreme!

This is not merely a slogan, but an absolute privilege granted to those who believe in a true God, placing them above all laws, morals, and even organizational structures.

The subsequent clauses concretize and brutalize this supreme authority.

All other beings who do not believe in the true god, including demigods, ninth-level professionals, and even ordinary members, must bow down before the true god!

The law meticulously stipulates the elaborate rituals, titles, and postures that must be observed when people of different social classes encounter a true God. Any disrespect, even unintentional, could result in severe punishment.

[It even explicitly states that if a demigod fails to pay homage to a true god, then being killed by the true god is entirely their own fault.]

This is tantamount to legally granting those who believe in a true god the power of life and death over lower-ranking members, thus legitimizing blatant force and violence.

Even more fatally, the new law institutionally dismantled the centralized power and unified government system upon which the Red Heart Society relied for its strength, openly allowing believers in the true God to carve out their own territories within the vast Red Heart Society domain and divide and rule!

Each believer in the true god can, based on their strength and merit, legally claim one or more star systems, or even several quasi-great worlds, as their own divine kingdom or fiefdom.

Those who believe in the true God enjoy near-independent legislative, executive, military, and taxation powers, and are only symbolically accountable to the Supreme Council of the True God.

This clause, like the sharpest wedge, shattered the unified state that the Red Heart Society had maintained for hundreds of thousands of years, turning the entire civilization into a loose alliance of powerful warlords in legal terms. Central authority became a mere formality, and internal competition and barriers intensified dramatically.

When this drastically altered version of the "Red Heart Law" reached the frontier, the surviving true gods of the rules, after an initial period of deathly silence, erupted in uncontrollable rage.

This is no longer merely a clash of ideologies or a power struggle; it is an attempt to bury everything forged by the blood and ideals of the Chixin Society's predecessors, plunging civilization into an abyss of no return.

The true gods of the rules may have lost in power struggles and been exiled to the margins, but the flame of their unwavering commitment to their original ideals has never been extinguished. Faced with this utter betrayal of the law, they realized that mild protests and passive resistance were futile.

Thus, a tragic yet resolute counterattack was brewing in despair.

The remaining true gods of the rules, regardless of past disagreements, are united like never before by a shared sense of justice and a crisis of survival.

No longer content with remaining in their isolated corner and barely surviving, they decided to launch a proactive attack on the Red Heart Society from within.

They knew full well that, in terms of sheer numbers, the true god of rules was far inferior to the now-formed, group-based true god of faith.

A head-on confrontation would be futile; there's no chance of victory.

However, the true god of rules is what makes him a true god of rules; his power lies not only in his physical strength, but also in his mode of existence and his wisdom in combat.

Normally, out of consideration for fellow citizens, the true God always leaves room for maneuver in all rules.

If the struggle is lost, then it is lost.

My arrival in this remote region can be seen as a kind of power transition.

The Red Heart Society must always grow through constant change, must it?

Should we allow our own selfish desires to hinder the growth of the Red Heart Society?

But now!

They saw it clearly!

This is not innovation and growth; it's clearly a distortion of the fruits of sincere efforts!

Therefore, they no longer need to regard this group of people who believe in the true God as their compatriots, or as one of their own within a framework.

[As long as they regard their faith in the true god as an irreconcilable mortal enemy, then the true god of rules has too many unconventional, insidious, and efficient ways to make the seemingly powerful true god of faith feel uncomfortable.]

[Even in a sense, it came at the cost of its downfall.]

Their core tactics directly target the fundamental weakness and fatal flaw of the belief-based God power system.

The power of the True Gods of Rules stems from their understanding and integration with the rules of the universe. Their power is intrinsic, enabling them to survive and fight independently in any environment, and even slowly regenerate.

[Possesses exceptional independence and adaptability, and excels in protracted warfare, guerrilla warfare, and unrestricted warfare.]

[The foundation of faith in the true God lies in the absorption and transformation of external faith power.]

Their power and endurance depend heavily on the scale, quality, and stability of the sources of faith they control.

Once the source of faith is severed, polluted, or significantly weakened, the power of faith in the true God will quickly dry up like water without a source, and the divine kingdom may become unstable or even collapse as a result.

【this!】

[That's the difference between the two!] (End of Chapter)