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

The lava demon pondered for a long time, but ultimately couldn't come up with a better solution.

Regardless, the priority is to get through this chaotic situation and avoid the omnipresent surveillance of the abyss's will.

Therefore, He began to consolidate His power, strengthen control and information blockade within His territory, and try to erase any traces of the overly unusual activities of those reincarnated geniuses, while simultaneously displaying more subservience and ignorance to the will of the abyss.

They even went so far as to find a secluded spot deep within the abyss to retreat into seclusion, attempting to disguise themselves and their people as unsuspecting victims and innocent bystanders, desperately seeking a glimmer of hope in the oppressive calm before the storm.

In December of the 286th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, just as the major powers were rife with undercurrents over the Path of Rules, exciting news once again came from within the Crimson Heart Society.

[Lin Xue, the Minister of the Interior known for her calmness, wisdom, and perseverance, successfully completed her final leap to become a Rule God in a meticulously prepared secret realm of the Red Heart Society.]

The rules governing souls that she wields are not merely about energy manipulation; they also contain a profound understanding of organization, order, information flow, and the cohesion of civilized spirit. Her divine authority is naturally highly compatible with the management system of the Red Heart Society.

[At the moment of advancement, there were no earth-shattering battle phenomena; instead, countless pale golden runes, representing the orderly development of civilization, fell like snowflakes.]

The illusory network of rules, symbolizing efficient connections and harmonious operation, intertwined and shimmered within the secret realm, emanating a reassuring, stable, and vibrant sacred aura.

[The moment Lin Xue completed her promotion, you, the founder of the Red Heart Society, did not hesitate for a moment and immediately returned all the Red Heart Society's administrative duties that had been placed upon you.]

For you, the experience of temporarily taking charge of administrative affairs was more like a practical opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the organization's structure and to validate your own management philosophy.

Now that the core of the organization is stable and the professional talent is in place, it's time to return it to its rightful owner.

Lin Xue's spiritual status, combined with her years of management experience and unparalleled familiarity with the Red Heart Society, undoubtedly makes her the most suitable and efficient helmsman to steer this ever-growing behemoth of civilization.

[Although handling government affairs is not difficult for you, given your supreme god-level cultivation and vast divine sense, you can even say you handle it with ease.]

[Leave professional tasks to professionals; this has always been the core principle of Chixin Club, and it's also a reflection of maximizing efficiency.]

Your gaze has already been set on something much farther away.

[Your task, or rather, your primary goal at this stage, is to take another step forward from the pinnacle of True Godhood, without relying on any extreme means.]

Take that first step forward.

[As you know, the advancement of the Heart Demon God and the Star Demon God solved the problem of whether the Crimson Heart Society had high-end combat power.]

However, to truly defy global pressure and even realize your vision, you need to achieve a qualitative breakthrough based on your current foundation.

[Normally speaking, according to the definition of combat power in the third tier of True Gods, even someone as strong as you, an Extreme True God, is still exploring many deeper rules and mysteries because you have only recently ascended to True God status.]

[Especially since one has not yet forged a unique divine art that is entirely one's own, incorporating all insights and fundamental characteristics.]

This situation is characteristic of the third tier, which is still in the exploration and accumulation phase.

[Although you know in your heart that with your combat strength, relying on the essence of an Ultimate True God, experience from multiple timelines, and some trump cards unknown to outsiders, the actual power you unleash is indeed slightly beyond your limits.] [However, this matter is not important!]

[You know very well that the real enemy is not those true gods, but the will of those three great worlds that hang overhead like an eternal nightmare.]

Individual advantages, however slight, still seem insignificant when confronting an enemy of global scale.

Having witnessed countless future observations and the rise and fall of dynasties, you harbor a different kind of conviction and goal than ever before.

[In this timeline, your greatest dream is to rely solely on the power accumulated through your continuous cultivation and normal growth, and to unleash your full potential to accomplish something that even the Demon God of the previous timeline, at the cost of his life, failed to achieve.]

[Smash the will of hell to pieces!]

You must personally end the life of one of the culprits that led to the destruction of the original, pure world, and in the most direct and domineering way, seek belated justice for the departed pioneers and the suffering civilization.

Of course, your ambitions don't stop there.

You are well aware of the brutal reality of global dominance; going it alone is unsustainable.

[If we could crush the combined power of the three great worlds, even if it's only temporarily united, and shatter the myth of the invincibility of their wills, that would be perfect.]

In August of the 300th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, within the Red Heart Society's core research hub deep within the Star Abyss, heavily protected by multi-dimensional barriers and mental techniques, a decades-long technological breakthrough reached its milestone.

The Red Heart Society Research Institute, a superb think tank comprised of top rule scholars, formation masters, soul studies experts, and future technology specialists, which brings together the wisdom accumulated across multiple timelines, has once again achieved groundbreaking results.

[Based on the construction of a data model of faith under various combinations within the Heavenly pantheon, coupled with information generated from over a century of observation, data collection, and even some collaborative experiments.]

After countless simulations, risk assessments, and extreme tests, a revolutionary improvement has finally been completed on the divine rune system originating from the previous timeline that had caused distortions and tragedies.

This improvement is not a simple patch, but a complete reconstruction and sublimation from concept to structure, from energy flow to the anchor of the soul.

The most core and revolutionary breakthrough of the newly created divine rune system, building upon the existing foundation, lies in the fundamental shift in its design philosophy.

[The focus has shifted from efficiently transforming and utilizing the power of faith to absolutely guaranteeing and strengthening the subjectivity of the bearer.]

The new divine rune array is endowed with an unprecedented and extremely complex psionic filtering and will resonance structure, which enhances and strengthens the individual's free will.

This means that when a member activates the divine runes, their thinking speed, judgment, logical clarity, and control over their own desires and beliefs will be positively enhanced and protected by the divine runes.

[Unlike the old version, which efficiently absorbed faith while subtly making users' minds more susceptible to the erosion of the faith's collective unconscious or divine concepts.]

In other words, with the rules of the divine path completely restricting talent and comprehension, the path of faith might truly be the catalyst for a golden age of universal true divinity. (End of Chapter)