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

In August of the 611th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, after hundreds of years of quiet yet extremely efficient collection and development, the Red Heart Society's accumulated resources reached a new critical point.

[Especially with the help of the thousands of avatars of the Heart Demon God, who have been lurking in the three worlds and even throughout the Star Abyss for a long time, constantly transmitting back key intelligence, resource coordinates, and even fragments of secret technology, the Red Heart Society has developed rapidly.]

Under various positive cycles, the efficiency of Chixin Society's expansion and acquisition of Xingyuan will increase exponentially.

[Advanced exploration technology from the future, combined with the rule perception of a transcendent being, allows the Red Heart Society to accurately locate high-energy mineral veins, rule singularities, and ancient relics hidden deep within dimensional rifts and spacetime folds, and to safely mine them at minimal cost.]

The massive engineering fleet, like worker ants, weaves an efficient and covert resource-gathering network deep within the Star Abyss, transporting vast quantities of rare materials, divine energy, and fragments of rules back to the Red Heart Society's core industrial system.

Finally, thanks to centuries of continuous resource support, the Red Heart Society's increasingly complex core territory defense system has achieved a qualitative leap.

[Along the long defensive line surrounding the Crimson Heart World and key colony star systems, after the most rigorous calculations and deployments, over a thousand state-of-the-art divine military weapons, the latest versions of which have undergone countless iterations and embody the pinnacle of technology from the previous era and the essence of current understanding of rules, have been deployed.]

These behemoths are not warships or gun emplacements in the traditional sense; each one is a mobile, highly intelligent, rule-based fortress.

Its core is forged from a specially refined divine alloy and inscribed with a composite array of god-slaying runes; its energy core is a highly compressed, rule-based fusion device.

The attack system can switch between various modes, including physical impact, rule annihilation, energy decomposition, and even causal strikes, depending on the target's characteristics. Its full-force attack is powerful enough to kill an ordinary true god.

[It possesses devastating power against true god legions or small to medium-sized divine kingdoms.]

[This three-dimensional defensive fire network, composed of a thousand powerful military vehicles, theoretically possesses an instantaneous firepower projection intensity sufficient to inflict unbearable costs on any force attempting a direct assault on the Red Heart Society's core area.]

However, Chi Xin deeply understands the principle that "the tallest tree in the forest is the first to be felled by the wind."

[And the outermost layer of these divine military weapons was shielded by an extremely complex composite divine spell personally cast by you and the Heart Demon God, the two strongest members of the Red Heart Society.]

This shielding is not a simple optical or energy-based invisibility, but rather a combination of cognitive interference based on mental rules, a weakening of the existence of spacetime rules, and information encryption based on ultimate principles.

This makes these thousand strategic weapons appear to blend into the background void under most observation methods. Even if a true god were to fly by at close range, their existence and threat would be difficult to detect without deliberate, top-level targeted reconnaissance.

[With the current tense global situation, the three worlds' suspicion and surveillance of their top true gods have reached their peak. Their open and covert struggles have also intensified due to the spread of sacrificial practices, while external pressures have been relatively dispersed.]

This is the golden time for the Red Heart Society to avoid the limelight, rapidly accumulate strength, and perfect its own system.

Therefore, it's best to keep these powerful military weapons—capable of altering the balance of power in a local area and even defeating top-tier true gods—hidden.

It is far wiser to treat this as an unrevealed trump card, a trump card that could turn the tide of battle or deter a powerful enemy at a crucial moment, than to expose it prematurely and invite joint vigilance and targeting from all sides.

The Red Heart Society is like a craftsman silently honing his weapon on the edge of a noisy arena, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to unleash its power.

Meanwhile, having achieved a leap forward in material defense capabilities, the Red Heart Society turned its technological research focus to more revolutionary areas, namely, the systematic enhancement of individual combat power. After completely replicating and mass-producing the large-scale divine military technology from the previous era, the Red Heart Research Institute did not stop there. Instead, it began to shift its research focus to miniaturization and personalization.

That is, to conduct revolutionary research and development on the armor worn by demigods.

[An exciting yet challenging concept, and a thrilling conjecture, have been proposed within the research institute.]

[If there were a suit of armor that, when worn by a demigod of the rules, could provide all-around enhancements, granting the wearer power comparable to or even capable of crushing ordinary true gods, it would be an unprecedented advancement for the Red Heart Society.]

This means that a massive number of rule-based demigods can be transformed into near-god units with the threat of true gods in a short period of time, completely overturning the existing true god-deterministic warfare model and achieving a true dual advantage in quality and quantity.

However, this theory currently exists only as conjecture.

The engineering and technical challenges and regulatory conflicts it faces are numerous.

How can a power source be miniaturized to the point of being able to drive the power of a true god without instantly draining the wearer's energy or causing an explosion?

How can the rule amplification circuit be compatible with the personal rules of different demigods to avoid conflicts that could lead to the wearer's self-destruction?

How do the materials used in the armor withstand the flow of true god-level energy and the clash of rules without disintegrating?

How can the control system keep up with the ever-changing nature of a true god-level battle without overpowering the wearer and depriving them of their autonomy in combat?

Every problem is like an insurmountable chasm.

[Although someone mentioned a seemingly simple and crude approach during the discussion.]

That is to directly wear miniaturized divine weapons onto battle armor, using the battle armor as a platform to integrate a complete miniaturized god-slaying weapon system.

However, the violent yet precise aura of rules flowing through the Divine Power Military Entity, and the immense aura contained in the special rule materials required to forge its body, are far beyond the control of the relatively fragile soul and body of an ordinary rule demigod.

[Forcibly wearing it might cause the demigod to lose their mind before even harming the enemy, or be corroded by the radiation from the material itself.]

This is not merely a matter of difficulty in control; it is a difference in the level of life and the essence of power.

The gap arising from different levels of life can sometimes be so despairing.

[The Crimson Heart possesses the most advanced armor technology and divine military technology, but due to the influence of materials, the aura of the rules, and the level of life, it simply cannot allow a demigod to successfully wear it.]

This incident left the members of the Red Heart Research Institute deeply saddened. (End of Chapter)