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

The more the Abyss's Will thought about it, the more convinced it was right to do what it did.

This approach will undoubtedly bind the demons firmly to the chariot of the abyss.

[They both exploited their greed and ambition to expand the frontiers of rules in the Abyss, and ensured that the fruits of this expansion would ultimately benefit the Abyss itself.]

Individual demon gods, on the other hand, can never accumulate enough independent resources to break free from the abyss's shackles through pure power of rules.

[However, the Abyss's Will also knows what kind of creatures its demons are, so such a large-scale plan must be implemented gradually, not hastily.]

[If things go wrong, that troublemaker, the Inner Demon God, will definitely cause trouble again.]

In March of the 742nd year of the Extraordinary Calendar, after a long and secretive period of observation, deduction, and system reconstruction, the Will of the Abyss finally put its new control philosophy into practice.

He began to make cautious and subtle adjustments to the authority held by his demonic subordinates.

This adjustment is not a sweeping reclaiming of power or structural reshaping, as that would inevitably trigger a violent backlash.

It's more like embedding extremely secretive call verification protocols and traffic monitoring nodes at the deepest level of its rule interface, without changing the appearance of the authority or its basic functions.

When a demon attempts to invoke the power of authority, its request will first be silently recorded through this new protocol before being granted permission.

The entire process was perceived as having almost no delay, yet it faithfully relayed the timing, intensity, purpose, and even accompanying mental fluctuations of each invocation to the Will of the Abyss.

[At the same time, the valves controlling the flow of authority have been made more precise. The limit of power that a demon can instantly access has been subtly reduced, and any amount exceeding the limit requires an extremely brief but real application-approval process.]

This adjustment did not alert the demons.

On one hand, the Abyss's methods were extremely sophisticated, concealing the changes within the lingering effects of the repeated losses on its own rules, as if they were subtle alterations resulting from natural healing.

On the other hand, just as the will of the abyss had predicted.

[Recently, the Abyss's will has become enraged by successive losses, leading to increased surveillance and occasional reprimands of those within it—all of which are considered normal by the surviving demons.]

Even the demons considered this to be perfectly reasonable.

[I've been attacked five times, and each time by top-tier demons standing at the very pinnacle of the pyramid.]

Who could stand this?

[Putting themselves in the Abyss's shoes, the demons felt that if they were in the position of the Abyss's will, they might do even more extreme and unpredictable things.]

Therefore, regarding all the recent actions of the Abyss's Will...

Whether it's the occasional, chilling scrutiny of will, or the subtle, indescribable stagnation in their perception of authority, the demons generally hold a resigned and understanding attitude.

Therefore, no matter what the will of the abyss does, as long as they don't directly strip them of their authority or destroy their divine kingdom, they choose to listen and accept it, remaining unmoved.

[Anyway, there's no way to resist, is there?] [Faced with an absolute power and the controller of the very source of existence, individual resistance often means a faster demise.]

This pervasive, fear-based mentality of submission paved the initial path for the will of the abyss to implement its far-reaching and insidious new system.

[In January of the 800th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, after hundreds of years of silence, contemplation, and countless dangerous experiments colliding with the rules, you finally gained a deeper understanding and application of your own ultimate rules.]

This insight is not a simple accumulation of quantity, but rather touches upon a completely new dimension in the essence of the ultimate path: the concepts of control, transformation, and the unification of all things into one.

[Through this groundbreaking application, and teetering on the brink of countless failures and rule backlash, you have successfully developed the first prototype of an ultimate divine technique belonging to the ultimate true god.]

Although it is not perfect, its structure is still crude, and its energy loss is enormous.

However, its very existence signifies that you have begun to move from passively possessing the rules of the ultimate path to actively shaping and utilizing them—a qualitative leap.

In your vision, the ultimate divine arts wielded by the ultimate true god should not derive their power from the strength of a single or a few rules, but rather embody the essence of the term "ultimate."

[That is, every attack, defense, or support should be a coordinated operation of the three thousand rules, a strike that transcends simple addition and is formed by integrating the characteristics of all rules.]

In your divine magic model, not all of the three thousand rules are directly used for attack.

[Among them are offensive rules that excel at destruction and disintegration, defensive rules that form absolute barriers and neutralize impacts, and auxiliary rules used for acceleration, concealment, prophecy, disruption, recovery, and various other situations.]

[Your divine art is centered on a specific target, ingeniously arranging these three thousand rules, using offensive rules as the spearhead, defensive rules to stabilize the structure, and auxiliary rules to optimize the process, patch up weaknesses, or create illusions.]

This creates a set of rules that forms a perfect internal loop and is impeccable externally.

The applications and combinations of any single rule are virtually endless; even a lifetime would not be enough to explore all its possibilities.

Even those who specialize in a single, transcendent path, such as the Heart Demon God's mastery of the rules of the mind, or the Star Demon God's mastery of the rules of the stars, may not be able to fully develop a single rule. There will always be unexplored depths and unimaginable variations.

[As a supreme god, your advantage lies not in the depth of your understanding of a single rule, but in your unparalleled breadth and power of control.]

Even if you currently only have a very basic understanding and development of the three thousand rules, when you forcibly integrate and condense them together using the ultimate principles, the resulting rudimentary form of divine art possesses extremely strong explosive power.

Regardless, looking at the slowly rotating ball of chaotic light before you, which seemed to contain the birth and death of miniature universes and emitted a chilling fluctuation, you were quite satisfied with the killing move you had developed.

This is not only a powerful attack method, but also a crucial step in proving the feasibility of your path to ultimate power.

It lays the foundation for developing more complex and sophisticated ultimate techniques in the future, and also gives you a more intuitive understanding of the necessity of devouring the origin of the great world to advance the ultimate path.

Only a more expansive source can support you in deepening your understanding of these three thousand rules more quickly, thereby perfecting and creating a truly worthy ultimate divine art, one that can destroy the world and defy the heavens.

【this!】

[This is your future path!] (End of Chapter)