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

Chapter 120 Emergency Rescue of the Sunset Empire Using Special Military Weapons (5k)

Terrifying demonic energy erupted from the four pillars of demonic light, sweeping across the entire world at an unstoppable speed.

The abyss lords of the demonic lair, the abyss monsters roaming the wilderness, have become even more powerful and ferocious under the baptism of such dense abyssal demonic energy.

Furthermore, a large number of abyssal monsters, due to the exponential increase in abyssal demonic energy, resonated with the abyssal power within them, forcibly evolving into powerful abyssal lords.

[In an instant, the world suffered heavy losses.]

Meanwhile, from the abyssal portals leading to the eastern border defenses, a steady stream of abyssal monsters level 60 and above began to emerge, including a large number of abyssal lords.

However, the pillars of abyss light within the Sunset Empire clearly hold a special attraction for these abyss lords.

Thus, these massive numbers of abyssal monsters began their rampage towards the heart of the Sunset Empire.

Accompanied by a powerful figure emerging from the pillar of light in the abyss, a nation-destroying abyssal demonic tide formed within the Sunset Empire.

Upon receiving the news, you personally went to the eastern front.

Looking at this tide of abyssal demons that surpassed the previous era from the very beginning, you couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

[It's one thing for the Peacock Empire and the Sunset Empire to be researching abyssal experiments, but it's understandable that the Winter Empire, due to its large army returning to defend its territory, wants to conduct abyssal experiments to expand its military strength.]

What is the United States doing?

Can this war here affect the United States, which is located just across the ocean?

Even the United States made a fortune selling weapons during this multinational war.

[Now that you have money, you've started conducting abyss experiments, right?]

Sure enough, having a useless teammate, especially one who comes up with a brilliant idea, can be incredibly frustrating.

Your only consolation is that the White Eagle Empire didn't secretly conduct abyssal experiments.

Soon, a private message from the White Eagle Emperor arrived, revealing why the White Eagle Empire hadn't conducted any research.

[Within the White Eagle Empire, there are also ideas for conducting Abyss Experiments and developing an Abyss Army.]

[However, considering your ability to accurately harvest wealth from around the world, and the suspicious fact that you inexplicably knew about his private communications from the beginning, the White Eagle Emperor suspects that you may possess the ability to predict the future or some kind of secret technique or tool.]

Even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance, he felt he should believe it just once.

Ultimately, after so many years of leading the White Eagle Emperor to conquer the world, the White Eagle Empire now boasts a powerful military and no irreconcilable economic conflicts within its borders.

Given this thriving national situation, the boost provided by the so-called Abyss Army becomes less important.

Since the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, why bother with the research?

[In March of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, you broke the seal on the Abyss Battlefield, leading the Crimson Heart Legion and three million Crimson Heart soldiers into the Abyss.]

The Abyss invasion is currently in its early stages, and the resulting Abyss Lords are not yet powerful enough.

Therefore, for the Red Heart Society today, the benefits of confronting the Abyss invasion far outweigh the risks.

As for the five defense zones established by the Federation?

You've already experienced that kind of shoddy construction once.

Therefore, this time, you will be responsible for both fighting off the invasion of the Abyss Demon Tide and organizing the Red Heart Society members to build defensive lines and fortresses in the rear.

[In your plans, you even intend to form a matrix link between the defensive line and the fortress, utilizing the Red Heart Society's latest matrix linkage technology to launch a ferocious attack on the Abyssal Demon Tide while maintaining integrated offense and defense.]

[That same month, after receiving your approval, Lin Xue abandoned the dozen or so cities outside the Winter Defense Line and relocated the millions of Winterfolk who had joined the Red Heart Society to the newly built fortress behind the Winter Fortress.]

Based on the fact that the Winter Empire was conducting abyssal experiments and attracting the pillars of abyssal light, she knew that the Winter Empire wouldn't last long.

The defenses of those dozen or so border towns were practically negligible when facing a high-level Abyss Lord.

Moreover, the winter defense line is not far away, so under the current circumstances of the abyss invasion, these dozen or so border towns have no need for defense at all.

This winter migration went surprisingly smoothly.

Before the Red Heart Society could even shout their slogans, the Winter Soldiers had already packed their bags.

After all, the pillar of demonic energy piercing the heavens and earth in the Winter Capital was so conspicuous, and coupled with the Red Heart Society's emergency mobilization order and relocation activities, everyone wasn't stupid.

This is absolutely terrible!

[Compared to staying and waiting to die, they would rather live happily with the Red Heart Society than go there to survive.]

[In May of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, you frowned as you looked at the army casualty report submitted by the Red Heart Society.]

The number of Red Heart Army soldiers killed or wounded on the Abyss Battlefield far exceeds the number of Red Heart Army soldiers stationed in various locations.

Even though the Red Heart Army soldiers possessed cultivation techniques and were far stronger than soldiers from other countries, the sheer power of their formation was severely suppressed by the overwhelming onslaught of the high-level abyssal demon tide, due to the absolute level difference.

Therefore, you changed your strategy, withdrawing the Red Heart Army from the Abyss Battlefield and transferring the Guardian Corps guarding the outside world into the Abyss Battlefield.

[During this process, you deeply felt the scarcity of the escorting forces.]

Therefore, you continued to expand your escort force.

[You could even, based on your understanding of the future high-end battlefield, draw high-level combat power from all the escort battle groups to form another super battle group, weaker than the Red Heart Battle Group, capable of completely overwhelming the escort battle groups.]

[You name this super battle group the Demon-Sealing Battle Group.]

The demonic energy in the abyss is surging ever stronger, and you have extremely high expectations for the Demon-Sealing Warband.

In June of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the capital of the Sunset Empire was besieged. Even though they used forbidden weapons to fight back, the mutated Abyss Lords that emerged afterward possessed even greater power.

[The enraged members of the warband then destroyed all the forbidden weapon launch pads.]

[Even during this process, members of the combat group stormed the home of the official who formulated the forbidden military strike plan and wiped out his entire family.]

In this situation, the Sunset Emperor urgently appealed to the world for help.

[As a world-renowned philanthropist, and the Red Heart Society, a world-famous benevolent organization, after unanimous deliberation at the highest levels, you have decided to support the Sunset Empire.]

Most importantly, the Sunset Empire's forbidden military interception system was destroyed by the surging abyssal demonic tide.

In such a time of crisis, the Red Heart Society, being fellow human beings, must provide strong support.

Soon, two special military weapons, personally inscribed with three super array patterns—breaking seal, explosive enhancement, and seal breaking—by the array master Jun Lao, arrived with the mission of supporting Sunset, bringing justice from the heavens and successfully reducing the demonic tide near Sunset's capital by more than half.

Of course, special military weapons are extremely powerful, and will inevitably cause some kind of ripple effect.

Unfortunately, the Sunset Royal Family is within the affected area.

Even though the Sunset Emperor activated the protective barrier in time, the powerful array, enhanced by the Nine Revolutions, crumbled instantly under the attack of the special military weapon, as if it were made of paper.

The Sunset Royal Family, annihilated!

The culprit who initiated the Abyss Experiments, formed the Abyss Army, and triggered such chaos throughout the world, has finally met a gruesome end.

The following day, the Red Heart Society announced to the world that the launch and command tracking system for forbidden weapons had been completed, reaching the world's most advanced technological level.

[Soon, the hellish joke that the Sunset Emperor's oath was absolutely accurate began to circulate worldwide.]

In July of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the Sunset Empire was destroyed by the Abyss Army, and the terrifying projection of the Abyss's will descended.

The intensity of the demonic tide worldwide has increased by another level.

That same month, the former headmaster brought good news.

[After a long period of hard work, the members of the Red Heart Society's cultivation technique research team have drawn inspiration from the Life-Burning Secret Technique and combined it with cultivation techniques that can enhance the efficiency of refining divinely bestowed crystals to build a relevant model.]

[Furthermore, this is combined with the various insights and experiences gained by numerous members of the Red Heart Army and the battle group during their cultivation practices at each cultivation method discussion conference.]

Finally, they developed a technique that increased the refining speed of divinely bestowed crystals by consuming life force.

In other words, the more natural lifespan is consumed, the faster the divinely bestowed crystals can be refined.

In peacetime, this might be considered a purely evil martial art.

However, in this dangerous era of invasion from the Abyss, the emergence of this technique can rapidly increase the overall strength of the Red Heart Society in the shortest possible time.

Most importantly, this technique is much more stable than the Life-Burning Secret Technique.

After all, each time a professional's life rank increases, their lifespan naturally increases as well.

But if one dies in the abyss's demonic tide, then no amount of lifespan will be of any use.

[In this situation, wouldn't it be wonderful to convert lifespan into the speed of absorbing divinely bestowed crystals, making oneself stronger in a short period of time?]

[It can be said that the new cultivation method is an excellent one that emerged after eliminating the irreconcilable drawbacks of the Life-Burning Secret Technique.]

After careful consideration, you named it the "Red Heart Refining Method."

[But just as you were extending the Crimson Heart Refining Method to the entire army and all battle groups, you encountered opposition from the aristocratic scions who remained in the guard battle groups.]

They believed that natural lifespan was a precious treasure bestowed upon professionals by heaven, so how could it be used to improve the negligible refining efficiency?

When you heard that, you laughed in anger.

[A negligible refining efficiency?] [Hopefully, when the abyss army devours their souls, they'll utter the same words.]

Fortunately, your prestige within the entire army is high enough, and the members of the Red Heart Society have unwavering faith in you.

However, this incident has also made you aware that keeping these aristocratic scions who have not pledged loyalty to you in the army is entirely detrimental.

[The reason for this was that the Federation-numbered warbands had just joined, and killing these aristocratic scions immediately after their defection might have instilled fear in the newly joined warband professionals.]

Moreover, the other party is very obedient and never contradicts you.

But now!

[An opportunity to clean up internally and maintain the purity of the team has arrived!]

Since these scions of noble families are oblivious to reality and are willingly offering their lives, he wouldn't mind cleaning up the internal environment of the battle group.

You absolutely cannot allow this rotten apple from the aristocratic family to spoil the whole thing for the Guardian Corps.

If they dare to openly protest this matter today, they will dare to rebel in the future!

[In August of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, at your instruction, the Surveillance Brigade and the Shadow Division began investigating the aristocratic scions within the Guardian Corps.]

Anyone with problems, arrest them all!

Of course, if there are truly no problems, you won't forcibly detain and try them.

[While the scions of wealthy families cultivated in the corrupt environment of the Federation may possess high moral standards, the majority are morally depraved and have committed all sorts of unsavory and disgusting acts.]

The scions of wealthy families who had been taken away by the inspection team began searching for their friends they had made during their drinking and socializing, begging and pleading with them to intercede on their behalf.

[Under these circumstances, a number of core members of the Chixin Society actually wrote a letter to plead on their behalf.]

[Young masters of aristocratic families, they are masters of entertainment and enjoyment, well-traveled and knowledgeable in all things.]

Although they toned down their behavior after joining the Red Heart Society, they considered themselves meritorious after the Red Heart Society defeated the Second Allied Forces and recaptured the central cities of the Federation.

[If they hadn't led their faction to join the Red Heart Society midway, would the Red Heart Society have won so easily?]

Most importantly, the Red Heart Society has never been known to murder meritorious officials.

[Furthermore, they believe that although the Red Heart Society is currently very strictly managed, its founders held themselves and its senior members to extremely high standards.]

However, once the federation is overthrown and a new regime is established, enjoying support from all sides, it will become another federation within a few years.

[By consulting historical records, we can see that this has been the practice since ancient times.]

They began befriending each other within the group using sweet talk, even tailoring their words to the individual's personality.

Therefore, most of them had three to five close friends within the Red Heart Society.

[After calming down and carefully perceiving the situation, you discovered that those who submitted the petitions all harbored immense loyalty towards you.]

It's simply normal to speak up for someone you consider a close friend.

[For these Red Heart Society members who are so susceptible to sweet-talking tactics, you issue a transfer order to remove them from their current positions and send them all back to the Red Heart Society headquarters.]

They need to be here to receive your re-education.

The world's most fortified fortresses often collapse from within.

Fortunately, your awakened talent is related to detecting loyalty; otherwise, to purge the Red Heart Society's internal corruption, you would have had to unleash a massacre.

In this situation, it's better to kill the innocent than to let the guilty go free!

[In September of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, following your instructions in issuing a document entitled "Guidelines for the Application of the Red Heart Refining Technique" to all members of the Red Heart Society, the vast majority of Red Heart Society members began practicing this technique.]

[In an instant, the cultivation speed of the Red Heart Society members increased dramatically.]

The escalating demonic tide on the Abyss battlefield was brought under control by the increasingly powerful Crimson Heart Legion and Guardian Legion.

In October of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the capital of the Peacock Empire was captured. The Peacock royal family, relying on their connections through purchasing military equipment from the White Eagle Empire, applied for refuge there.

[The White Eagle Emperor, taking into account the Peacock Royal Family's abundant reserves, readily agreed.]

[In the same month, you sensed that this Abyss invasion would be more difficult than the last one.]

[Therefore, you established a militia within the Red Heart Society and called upon all members of the Red Heart Society to become militiamen, receiving daily training in the militia.]

The first step in resisting the abyss's invasion: the entire population must be mobilized!

From now on, the militia will also serve as a reserve force for recruiting soldiers for the Red Heart Army.

Outstanding talents within the Red Heart Army will be recommended to join the Guardian Battle Group, and those who excel in the Guardian Battle Group will then join the Demon Sealing Battle Group.

Ultimately, the most outstanding and powerful Redheart Society professionals will gather within the Redheart Warband.

In November of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, the first colossal fortress built by the Crimson Heart Society on the Abyss Battlefield was completed. Deep within this fortress lay a large number of high-energy bombs and amplifying explosive array cores.

[If it falls in the future, the moment the surging demonic tide reaches the giant fortress, it will erupt in a world-shaking explosion.]

[That same month, you signed another loan agreement with a powerful family in the United States, and at this critical moment of the Abyss invasion, the interest rate on this loan was extremely high.]

[As required by the United States, the final step of this agreement requires you to use control of the Red Hearts, the most powerful Red Hearts Chapter, as collateral.]

Furthermore, you can only use this massive loan amount for consumption within the United States.

To avoid arousing suspicion, you initially refused.

You only reluctantly agreed after the opposing general lowered the interest rate slightly and gave you two puppet armies.

Based on your response, the United States judges that you are willing to repay the loan.

On the one hand, you and the Red Heart Society have a glorious and righteous image in the international community, which is the complete opposite of the defaulter.

On the other hand, Chi Xin could easily afford it if he gritted his teeth, so there was absolutely no need for him to become a deadbeat.

This will only anger the United States and shatter the credibility the Red Heart Society has built up in the world; there will be no other outcome.

The United States has considered every single point.

[But you had no intention of repaying this small amount; the United States guessed wrong.]

The Red Heart Society is not yet in such dire straits that it needs to rely on loans to survive.

The reason you went to the United States to borrow money was entirely due to the influence of that abyssal pillar of light within the United States.

If you don't lend now, you might not be able to in two years!

After all, the Sunset Empire and the Peacock Empire have both been destroyed. Even if the United States has a stronger military than other countries, it still needs its special military weapons as a powerful weapon. How many more years can it sustain this?

In other words, if you miss this opportunity, you might never get another chance.

[You made your fortune by taking out high-interest and unethical loans, becoming a deadbeat. Now, with the Red Heart Society's power, you can simply refuse to pay. What will the United States do to you in a few years?]

[It can only be said that the United States doesn't understand you enough.]

[The White Eagle Emperor and you have such a good relationship, and the White Eagle Empire's lending business spans the world, yet you dare not lend to the Red Heart Society.]

After all, over the years you've been friends, just as you understand the White Eagle Emperor, the other party understands you very well.

[In December of the 138th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, you purchased a massive amount of large-scale military production equipment, a top-tier war puppet army, and a batch of Glory-quality Divine-given crystal aids from the United States.]

[Under normal circumstances, the Glory Version of the Divine Crystal Auxiliary Device developed by the United States is not for sale to the public.]

But there's no way around it; Chixin has given too much.

The nearly fifty-fold profit margin, coupled with the large-scale purchases, shook these powerful families.

Even if the United States government doesn't sell them, they'll still sell them secretly.

The United States' long-standing trading principle has always been: if you pay the right price, they'll sell even if it costs them their lives!

If you are unable to repay the loan in one lump sum three years later, the United States will take the Red Hearts Chapter away.

[After the request was made by the powerful families of the United States, you made no further demands other than having the United States send members of a special military research and development team for exchange and learning.]

[For a time, the powerful families and the Grand Secretary of the United States thought you were very easy to talk to, truly worthy of being the founder of the glorious and righteous Red Heart Society.]

[If I have time in the future, I should trade with the Red Heart Society more often to sell off the supernatural products that have accumulated in China.]

[In January of the 139th year of the Extraordinary Calendar, a colossal demonic hand emerged from the pillar of demonic energy in the Winter Capital, then transformed into thousands upon thousands of enormous demonic hands, flying towards the locations of various countries around the world.]

In an instant, the evil forces erupted across the globe like rain.

Even though the Red Heart Society immediately erected a protective barrier, the demonic hand seemed to possess the ability to penetrate it, landing directly in the area where the Red Heart Society was located.

Your expression changed when you saw this scene.

This is an abyssal upheaval unlike anything seen in previous timelines!

(End of this chapter)