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

When this happened, some members of the Abyss Alliance naively attempted to invoke the long-abolished laws of the Red Heart Society to accuse the demigod officials of corruption.

If this had happened during the Red Heart Society headquarters period, it would have undoubtedly resulted in the most severe punishment.

During the Star Abyss branch phase, these demigods will also be imprisoned and punished according to relevant laws.

But now?

The laws of the Abyss Alliance, though not explicitly stated.

But everyone knows that it is perfectly legal for the demigod official to do such a thing!

As long as it's not prohibited, it can be done.

When the Star Abyss branch split, the privileged faction, inciting the masses, engaged in a frenzy of division, believing that the Star Abyss branch's Red Heart Law was too harsh.

The so-called equality for all is simply impossible to achieve in reality!

So what's wrong with making privileges public?

However, when this actually happened, the ordinary members were surprised to find that things didn't go as they expected.

Something's not right here!

How could they do this?

At this point, the members who supported the Yuan Alliance finally realized that the so-called privileges and enjoyment were achieved by sacrificing their interests and extracting their blood and sweat.

[Aglius protected them so well that they forgot the history of the Red Heart Society's early days, and even more so, the miserable lives of ordinary people under the old Federation.]

Even if all members now possess the cultivation level of the ninth rank, the fact that everyone reaches the ninth rank means that ordinary people at that level are merely ordinary individuals.

Ordinary people, regardless of the era, background, or social system, are always powerless to resist.

Of course, being a ninth-level expert, he could also resist by self-destructing when pushed to his limit.

However, the Abyss Alliance's defensive technology has already reached an extremely high level.

Even newborn children in the privileged class are equipped with various precious artifacts capable of easily withstanding attacks from ninth-level demigods or even demigods.

Therefore, in this deeply entrenched alliance of loyal but ultimately destitute individuals, to seek justice for oneself using the laws of loyalty is utterly foolish!

Do those who did all this still think this is the era of the Red Heart Society, which championed equality for all beings and allowed ordinary members to sue high-ranking powerful figures?

Even worse, some people actually fantasize about using the worthless paper money of the Red Heart Society to sue the lofty and supreme god of rules?

[Has your brain been damaged by the Star Abyss Storm?]

Who should be chosen to uphold justice?

[Should we let those "true gods" who create new rules, enjoy new privileges, and are themselves the biggest beneficiaries examine themselves?]

Are you judging yourself?

Is it possible?

The establishment of the Yuan Alliance was, in essence, a grand celebration dominated by egoists.

[And the privileged faction is not ignorant of power politics; they understand it better than anyone else.]

Therefore, in areas where public opinion may react too strongly and potentially trigger large-scale unrest, they will flexibly adopt some buffer strategies.

[For example, temporarily retaining a basic subsidy policy that exists in name only, with quotas compressed to the limit.]

[Or, launch a talent development program with extremely high entry barriers and very few actual beneficiaries.]

Under the psychological influence of the broken windows theory, those who had already been deprived of most of their welfare benefits felt a distorted sense of gratitude and acceptance towards these meager concessions.

The will to resist is further weakened by the gradual, insidious process of being boiled like a frog in slowly heating water.

The privileged revelry and the lament of the lower classes unfolding within the Abyss Alliance's territory were observed by the Star Society, led by Agrus, the God of Pain of Rules, and Yu Xiao.

However, Agris expressed respect for the voluntary choice made by these descendants of the Red Heart Society.

Since they think the privileged faction's argument makes a lot of sense and they also want privileges, let them experience it for themselves.

The Red Heart Law still protects ordinary people too well, making them believe that they will be the beneficiaries of privileges in this era of privilege.

The word "privilege" itself represents exploitation!

How can we ensure that those who benefit from the status quo enjoy privileges without exploitation?

[The Star Society, however, maintained its original pace, choosing a path completely opposite to that of the Abyss Alliance.]

After thoroughly purging the corrupt officials within the organization who had been tainted by power and attempted to emulate the privileges of the Abyss Alliance, the Star Society was as if it had been unshackled from heavy shackles, regaining the vitality it had possessed in the early days of the Red Heart Society.

Policies aimed at benefiting all members and ensuring fairness and justice have been implemented efficiently, the administrative system is functioning smoothly, and resource allocation has returned to a merit-based and contribution-oriented approach.

Most importantly, the Star Society's long-standing and uninterrupted research project on divine military weapons, undertaken under extremely difficult conditions, has finally achieved a breakthrough after countless generations of researchers' painstaking efforts. Compared to its predecessor, the first-generation military weapon, the second-generation model represents a qualitative leap in its devastating strike effectiveness against high-dimensional targets.

[The energy emitted from its core energy-concentrating array is no longer a discrete torrent of energy, but a superstring annihilation beam compressed by multiple rules and containing spatial tearing properties.]

[Test data shows that although its single-shot power has not yet reached the standard of a full-force attack from a second-tier true god, its terrifying penetrating power can effectively tear apart the defensive barriers composed of divine power around most second-tier true gods.]

【what does that mean?】

This means that even when facing the core forces among the true gods of the rules, the Star Society possesses strategic deterrent weapons sufficient to threaten the very foundation of their existence.

Even more exciting is that the energy core and operating circuits of the second-generation military weapon have undergone a revolutionary reconstruction, resulting in an explosive increase in its sustained combat capability.

It can unleash an astonishing saturation attack of a hundred consecutive shots within an extremely short, almost instantaneous unit of time.

Imagine hundreds of annihilation beams, powerful enough to tear apart the defenses of a true god, raining down like a storm. Their combined destructive force would be enough to turn an entire star field into a wasteland of rules.

From a somewhat harsh and realistic strategic perspective, a fully-equipped second-generation divine weapon, in certain situations, surpasses the conventional combat power of a third-tier rule-based true god in terms of destructive effectiveness on the battlefield.

This is undoubtedly a sharp weapon forged by the Star Society in dire straits, capable of turning the tide of battle.

However, Aglios was not blinded by this brilliant achievement; in a sense, developing such a result after so long was a failure!

Furthermore, He personally studied every aspect of the second-generation divine military power and memorized all the innovative technologies and theories.

Therefore, He knew better than anyone that the second-generation Divine Power Army was far from perfect.

Its large size limits its mobility, demands an almost demanding level of familiarity with rules from the operator, its enormous energy consumption makes it unsuitable as a personal weapon, and its complex maintenance system places a huge logistical burden on it.

These various technical flaws are like a deeply ingrained sore, urgently needing to be addressed.

The great founder accomplished the miraculous feat of creating divine military power from nothing in just a few hundred years, while He, Agrippa, spent many times that amount of time to painstakingly achieve even the initial sublimation.

What pained Him even more was that, precisely at this crucial time when resources were being concentrated on developing the second-generation military weaponry, the long-simmering ideological conflicts within the Star Abyss branch finally erupted.

Ultimately, this led to an irreparable rift.

【really! 】

[I simply lack the ability to guide the Chixin Society to glory!]

In the year 3199 of the Extraordinary Calendar, the faith-based deification project undertaken by the three major theological authorities of the Abyss Alliance was a great success.

Within the core direct lineage of the three major theocratic families, a new true god of faith has been born in each of them.

Under the influence of the state apparatus and the propaganda campaign to create a god-like image within the upper echelons of the Yuan Alliance, the concentration of faith was swiftly achieved.

Even though the lives of the lower classes, oppressed by privilege, are increasingly impoverished and far worse off than those of the members under the Star Society's rule, a distorted, fear-filled, and blindly worshipful wave of faith still sweeps through the entire Abyss Alliance.

Despite the pressures of survival and the confinement of informational cocoons, countless people still devoutly offer their faith to the symbols of the three major theocratic families, providing a continuous source of energy for these three new gods.

The arrival of the three newly ordained true gods of faith filled the Rule Spirit God, the Rule Light God, and the newly ascended Rule War God with pride, believing that the path they had meticulously designed was absolutely correct.

【look! 】

[A seemingly simple act of creating a god through faith doubled the number of true god-level combat forces controlled by the Abyss Alliance.]

[And what about the Xingyuan branch period?]

So much faith accumulated, all wasted!

[Aglaus, once a fighter of the Red Heart Society and the creator of the Star Abyss branch, seems to be getting old!]

[Your thinking is outdated!]

【It's useless now!】

But the power to expand did not bring the courage to expand.

Faced with the Star Society, which was so close yet held diametrically opposed ideologies, the three Rule Gods of the Abyss Alliance, along with their allies, still dared not easily initiate war.

[Agorius's terrifying combat power, as unfathomable as the abyss itself, stood like an insurmountable ancient mountain in their hearts.]

Furthermore, with seasoned True Gods of Rules like the God of Pain and Yu Xiao among the Star Assembly, a rash attack would be tantamount to suicide.

What they feared even more was their ally, the Star Demon God, whose strength remained a mystery since the founding of the Red Heart Society.

This ancient abyssal demon has always remained a colossal shadow shrouded in the mists of the starry abyss, never truly revealing the limits of its power.

His silence itself is a form of invisible deterrence.

No one knows what kind of world-destroying power this being will unleash when the Star Society faces an existential crisis.

At the same time, the disastrous consequences of the oppressive rule within the Yuan Alliance began to manifest themselves in their most devastating form.

[And these members of the Abyss Alliance who had studied the history of the Red Heart Society couldn't help but reminisce about their time at the Star Abyss branch, and began to regret not being born during the Red Heart Society headquarters era.] (End of Chapter)