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

The Red Heart Research Institute is working tirelessly towards this goal.

This time, the research institute's report outlines a warm and welcoming goal.

This system of divine runes ensures the user's humanity, self, and independent judgment, and instead of being diluted during the growth of power, it becomes increasingly solid and brilliant.

The direct strategic value of this design lies in addressing the nightmare of the previous timeline that led to the annihilation of civilization—the tragedy of the dual-god status.

[If, in the future, some members again, by chance or by choice, embark on that dangerous yet powerful path of dual godhood, then the new divine rune system can effectively guarantee the subjectivity of free will.]

At least, during the most dangerous phase of conflict between the two divine powers and the attempt by divine will to seize control, it provides a solid firewall and refuge for individual free will.

The most fundamental principle is to ensure that, within a century, the core consciousness and autonomous decision-making power of individuals are not completely controlled, extinguished, or replaced.

This century-long window of opportunity is sufficient for the Red Heart Society to mobilize resources to intervene and guide the situation, or to buy those involved a chance to detach themselves from dangerous forces and return to the right path.

This is the ultimate insurance policy, technically preventing the uncontrolled creation of a man-made god and protecting civilization from being taken over from within.

The Red Heart Society's immense investment of effort in researching these matters is not, at its core, an attempt to encourage or promote the notion of dual divine status, a path proven to be fraught with uncontrollable risks.

The true strategic focus has shifted to the Heavenly Pantheon, a ready-made and massive testing ground for faith.

[The research institute leverages the vast number of deities, the mature faith network, and the continuous generation of faith power within the Heavenly Pantheon to study a more fundamental and universally valuable matter.]

That is, the essential transformation and general application of the power of faith.

From the research institute's disruptive perspective, the power of faith, in essence, strips away its associated spiritual attributes and informational entanglements, and sheds the emotional veneer of piety, worship, fear, or hope.

Its core essence is a highly condensed, high-quality energy with specific rule-based biases.

[That which arises from the spiritual activities of intelligent beings, and is collected and purified through specific rituals or connections, possesses an energy density and quality that far surpasses many high-energy crystals existing in nature.]

Since it is high-quality energy, why, throughout the long history of the universe and the practices of the gods, has it only been transformed into divine power for the gods to absorb, used to shape their divine kingdoms, cast divine spells, or to benefit believers—a relatively singular and closed path?

Isn't this a bit too wasteful?

The elites at the research institute have proposed an ambitious plan: to transform the power of faith into a resource similar to energy crystals through a more universal, stable, and quantifiable storage technology.

Such a massive amount of faith power could become an unprecedented, renewable, and super strategic resource!

That would definitely give the Red Heart Society a shot in the arm, adding decisive brilliance to all aspects of its development, including energy, materials, rule research, and even social operations.

Imagine faith-derived energy crystals powering starships, supplying energy to cities, aiding cultivation, and even serving as fuel for certain top-level rule experiments—their potential is limitless. This is tantamount to opening up a new energy acquisition path for all intelligent civilizations from the backyard of the gods.

Furthermore, the research institute's report did not completely negate the belief system because of the tragedy in the previous timeline.

The rebellion of those who believe in a true God and the emergence of individuals with dual divine positions cannot be simply attributed to the belief in a divine path being wrong.

The problem may stem from specific application methods, control measures, and related issues arising from a lack of understanding of the true nature of the power of faith.

[If these key aspects are handled properly from both technical and socio-ethical perspectives, then the rigorously selected, modified, and controlled system of faith in a true God can be viewed as an efficient and controllable transitional strategy for the Chixin Society during a specific historical period.]

[That is, while ensuring the independence of individual will and the purity of ideology, the organization leverages the relatively efficient production of true gods through the path of faith to rapidly expand its elite combat force, accumulating capital and buying time for a subsequent shift to a more stable path based on rules.]

The ultimate aim of this strategic thinking remains the supreme ideal of the Red Heart Society.

After all, the grand strategy of "True God for All" is the ultimate vision deeply rooted in the soul of every loyal and devoted person.

[If it could be achieved in this timeline, allowing the vast majority of the Red Heart Society members to reach the level of true gods through their own efforts or through safe and reliable assistance, thereby obtaining near-eternal life and the power to change the world, that would be perfect.]

[The path of faith may be an important, but not the only, piece in realizing this grand blueprint.]

It is not the end, but it can be a valuable bridge.

The Red Heart Society Research Institute's final improvements to the divine rune system and its research into the essence of faith power are precisely aimed at building this bridge safely and controllably, and exploring the potential resource deposits along the way.

[You believe that with the existence of divine rune improvement technology, the vision of everyone becoming like a dragon is not too far away.]

In August of the 426th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, in a forgotten, desolate void deep within the universe, a long-brewing qualitative change finally reached its tipping point.

The previously deep and restrained stellar aura surrounding the Star Demon God suddenly surged forth, like molten lava from the Earth's core that had been suppressed for billions of years finding an outlet.

This is not a gentle fluctuation, but a violent boiling full of struggle, rebirth, and infinite possibilities.

[Billions of pure silver starlight burst forth from His body, intertwining, colliding, and evolving in the void into magnificent phenomena of star birth and death, and the movement of galaxies.]

The next moment, a stellar rhythm far more powerful and closer to the origin of the universe than when the Heart Demon God ascended, like the light radiation before a supernova explosion, uncontrollably proclaimed to the entire universe's rule-based order that a true star ruler was about to be born.

Its power was so immense that it even faintly resonated with the ancient stars in the distant Star Abyss, and a faint stellar praise echoed from the depths of the void.

Such obvious, massive, and clearly targeted agitation of the rules was nothing short of a direct provocation and mockery to the Abyss Will, which had just suffered a great loss at the hands of the Heart Demon God and was in a state of high sensitivity and rage. (End of Chapter)