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

They looked up in utter horror, trying to find the source of this terrifying pressure, but saw only a gray-white expanse that filled the heavens and earth, swallowing everything.

They don't understand, nor do they need to understand.

Ye Lingtian's will had already made its decision. He didn't need to know why these Transcendent Gods rebelled, didn't need to understand their foolish motives, and didn't need to listen to any of their weak and feeble explanations.

All he needed to know was that this group of cultivators intended to overthrow the Red Heart Society!

That's enough!

With Ye Lingtian's arrival, the battlefield above the Red Heart Society, which had stalled due to the inability to completely annihilate the enemy, instantly entered a moment of reckoning.

All the colliding divine energy streams, shattered spatial fragments, and roaring shockwaves of rules came to a standstill.

[Those second-tier, or even first-tier, true gods who once wielded power in the spirit world or the abyss, controlling the rise and fall, glory and disgrace of billions of beings.]

Those beings who consider themselves masters of the universe are, under Ye Lingtian's utterly indifferent gaze, no different in essence from ants struggling in the dust of the Star Abyss.

[A super being who has completed the ultimate transformation and still maintains the extraordinary power amplification of the self-igniting path, whose power level has long exceeded the comprehension of these transformed true gods.]

Their united defense?

[A dying struggle to burn its very essence?]

Before that seemingly thin, yet symbolizing the end of all things, grayish-white hue, it appears as fragile and laughable as morning dew under the sunlight.

There was no earth-shattering energy clash, no tragic and heroic collision of divine power.

Ye Lingtian's movements were concise and efficient, like the Grim Reaper wielding his scythe to harvest ripe wheat.

He simply raised his hand calmly, his fingers, shrouded in the aura of the gray end, seemingly slow yet transcending the boundaries of time and space, gently tapping towards the marked rebellious true gods on the battlefield.

Each point landed precisely on the core of the divine essence of a rebellious true god.

There was no resistance, no screams, not even a burst of brilliant energy.

The chosen true god, with his immense divine body, radiant divine essence, and even the ripples of rules arising from his very existence, silently vanished into nothingness in absolute grayness.

The traces of their existence, their struggling will, and the strength they were so proud of.

Everything was completely erased by those fingertips that symbolized the end.

Compared to the tragic fall of the true god of the Red Heart Society, the earth-shattering Ragnarok depicted in past legends of the Abyss, the Spirit Realm, and even Hell seem remarkably naive.

In February of 1647 in the Extraordinary Calendar, this internal rebellion that had once put the Red Heart Society on the defensive was brought to a ruthless and thorough end by Ye Lingtian's absolute power, which defied description.

The rebels were wiped out, leaving behind not corpses, but the purest, most exquisite treasures of the universe, stripped of all traces of individual will.

[That was the essence of over forty powerful true gods after their fall, their fundamental rules, their lifelong understanding of the laws of the universe, and a vast amount of divine essence.]

These unclaimed treasures, like nourishment generously bestowed upon the Red Heart Society by the universe itself, instantly became the highest quality fuel for the organization's renewed rapid growth.

The Red Heart Society's resource allocation system is operating at maximum efficiency.

Based on the attributes, purity, and potential value of the loot, and combined with the list of rule-breaking demigods within the Red Heart Society who were about to break through their bottlenecks, the think tank began the most precise matching and allocation.

[One after another, primordial observation chambers constructed from high-intensity rule-based force fields were activated in the Red Heart Society's core laboratory.] [The true god primordial entities, shimmering with different rule-based radiances, were carefully placed inside, like the most intuitive textbooks of cosmic rules.]

The demigods who had gained access, filled with excitement and awe, observed and comprehended, under tight security, the supreme mysteries contained within the origin that resonated with their own paths.

The leadership of the Red Heart Society also demonstrated astonishing decisiveness and efficiency in this matter.

[As long as the observer experiences a clear sense of urgency for advancement, reaches the threshold of rule resonance, and passes the rigorous evaluation of the Tenth Generation of the Red Heart based on multiple dimensions such as soul fluctuations, rule compatibility, and potential assessment.]

[The observer then has the right to apply to directly refine and absorb this source of rules, a spoils of war that is highly compatible with their path.]

This kind of thing, no matter what organization it happens to, or even a large pantheon, would be a revolutionary event.

After all, the divine resources left behind after the fall of a true god are usually divided and refined by other true gods within the pantheon.

[When did it become the turn of a demigod to absorb and refine it?]

However, from the Red Heart Society's strategic perspective, exchanging the priceless core essence left behind by a fallen true god for the birth of a new true god directly descended from the Red Heart Society is a strategic move.

This is a great deal!

A loyal, infinitely potential-filled, and devoted believer in the true God is far more valuable in the long run than a dead person's spoils of war.

This is not merely a reuse of resources, but a strategic investment in the future fighting strength of the Red Heart Society.

[And the Red Heart Society was equally generous in rewarding those who made outstanding contributions during the suppression of the rebellion.]

Whether it's a commander like Aglios who turned the tide, or those transformed true gods who chose to stand with the Red Heart Society at crucial moments, even at the cost of turning their swords against their former comrades.

The massive merit-based reward system operates at high speed, precisely awarding merit points to each participant based on their contribution in the battle.

In the process of awarding merits, the recipient's status and position are not considered.

These merit points can be exchanged for almost anything imaginable in the Red Heart Society's resource vault.

[From massive amounts of pure primordial energy and rare artifacts of the rules, to higher-level cultivation privileges, and even the opportunity to apply for observation or obtain fragments of secondary primordial rules.]

[You know in your heart that among those who participated in suppressing the rebellion, many of them may have harbored ulterior motives on the eve of the uprising.]

[They only chose the loyalist camp because of the circumstances or by weighing the pros and cons.]

But so what?

Judge by actions, not intentions!

This cold, pragmatic principle is the cornerstone upon which the Red Heart Society's merit-based military system operates efficiently and attracts countless strong individuals to serve it.

Meritful actions are rewarded, while betrayal leads to destruction.

[As long as the other party makes a choice that aligns with the interests of the Chixin Society at a crucial moment and puts it into action, then regardless of whether they internally agree with the Chixin ideology, they will receive the full reward they are entitled to.]

It is precisely this absolute adherence to rules and clear distinction between rewards and punishments that endows the Red Heart Society, this war machine, with unparalleled cohesion and execution power. (End of Chapter)